What Kids Don't Know

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"The cruelest dream is reality." –The Offspring, The Kids Aren't Alright

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"Oh God, you can get posters of Marco Salazar Laroche now?"

"I know, right?"

"Isn't that, like, I dunno, kind of fame-whorey? I mean, it's not like he's an actor or anything."

"Who cares as long as he's frigging dreamy? Besides, he's kind of an actor now, since there's gonna be that TV show starting."

"God, you would, Lyssie."

"Shut up. You're just into that strong silent depressed type."

"Am not."

"Says the girl who has a Jake Berenson shrine."

"It's not a shrine! It's just paper clippings of Animorphs interviews."

"If Jake Berenson were all the Animorphs."

"Shut up. I just don't have enough time to track down all the Marco interviews, because there's like five million of them."

"Bitch, you don't have any Marco interviews."

"That's because I gave them all to you! And you're not supposed to call me that, mom might hear."

"Your mom? Please, she's practically deaf."

"That's what she wants you to think. Besides, I wouldn't just collect Jake interviews if Tobias would give them."

"Tobias like Tobias Harper?"

"Yeah."

"Oh my God, no way. You want Bird-Boy's interviews?"

"I just think it's kind of romantic, you know? He goes to live like this wild mountain bird because he can never get over the love of his life. That Rachel must've been such a lucky girl."

"Um, Emma? He's a bird."

"Did you see those pictures his uncle put out there? He was actually kind of cute. Really dreamy eyes…I just think it's romantic, is all."

"Yeah, okay, Emma. Whatever you say."

"I mean, when you think about it, the whole thing is kind of romantic. I mean, Tobias and Rachel were like, doomed loves, like Romeo and Juliet and all, but the whole thing was really angsty secret superheroes saving the world. It's kinda like a modern fairytale or something."

"Yeah, if you're sick and twisted."

"I'm just saying. Don't you ever hope that kind of thing could happen to us? Wouldn't it be cool?"

"I guess. It'd be nice to have an excuse for my crappy grades."

"I thought your excuse was that you were too busy staring at the Marco collage in your binder."

"Shut up."

"I just think it'd be cool. It'd make our lives important. Way more cool than a bunch of teenagers growing up in Podunk. Not like many girls get out of here."

"Well, you might not. I'm gonna be an actress."

"I mean, I'm gonna be a writer, but you know what I'm saying."

"Yeah. Kinda sucks. Would be cool to like, fight aliens and not spend every single day in Boredom Town."

"Yeah. You know, every time I see a hawk I wonder if it's Tobias and he's gonna ask me to come save the world with him?"

"Jeez, girl. That's just sad, even for you."

"Shut up and go make out with your Marco poster."