Courtney, Bridgette, and Gwen- School Arrival 8:00 am
The three young girls walked through the school doors, each having a different aspect of being there. Courtney adored it, being there meant success and success meant prestigious college. Bridgette tolerated it, she would rather spend her days at the beach surfing to her heart's content. Gwen absolutely hated it, she didn't want to be stuck in a secluded place with asshole jocks and bitchy chicks who think just because their daddy buys them things, they are entitled.
"Actually I think they broke up," Courtney adds to a conversation she was having with Bridgette.
Gwen rolled her eyes, "Why do you care? It's not your relationship."
Bridgette placed a stray of her blonde hair behind her ear before responding, "It's just something we enjoy following for entertainment is all."
Gwen had enough of the whole gossip talk as she walked ahead of her friends, not that they called her back or anything. The first stop of the day before class started was Courtney's locker. Hers was closest to the front door, so naturally they always went there first. As Courtney turned the combination to her specific locker combo, she was pushed out of the way by someone walking backwards.
Courtney gasped suddenly by the heavy force of contact, and Bridgette quickly crouched down to help her up. "You good, Courtney?" She asks her friend in worry. Courtney slowly nods but her stunned expression turned to anger when she saw who bumped into her.
Duncan Nelson held his stomach tight as he noticed that it was Courtney whom he bumped into. They always had a rough relationship, she hated everything about him, and she was the most obnoxious and annoying person he had ever met.
"You are such an ass!" Courtney shrieked, her face almost as red as a tomato.
Duncan kept laughing, "Oh the look on your face, Princess!" Gwen began to laugh along with him but stops suddenly when she sees DJ, Geoff, and Trent walk over to them, to see what kind of trouble Duncan got into.
Duncan, DJ, Geoff, and Trent- Arrival time 7:50 am
The four boys sat at the courtyard outside of school, waiting for the bell to ring. Duncan placed a cigarette in his mouth, Geoff and DJ were discussing the party last night, and Trent was playing his guitar slowly.
"You think if I pull the fire alarm I could get out of math?" Duncan asks his friends, taking a nice long puff, feeling relieved when he released the smoke out.
Geoff placed a lazy arm around his best buddy, "I'll pull the one on the second floor, I hate history, man. Miss Lewis should just have her fucking baby already."
"C'mon guys. It's senior year, shouldn't you be actually trying?" Trent suggests, stopping his guitar playing for a moment.
DJ nods his head in agreement, "Yeah, I want you guys graduating with me."
Duncan hopped off the table he was sitting on and motioned for his friends to follow, "Okay, okay. Enough of the mushy shit, let's go before I puke." The guys all laughed at each other before following Duncan into school.
Duncan had been walking backwards since he knew the school like the back of his hands, plus what idiot wouldn't see him coming and walk the other way? But he didn't notice that he was too close to the lockers and ended up bumping into Courtney Barlow.
"Why can't you look where you are going, you neanderthal?!" Courtney brushed her outfit, even though there was absolutely nothing on it.
Trent gazed away from the obvious fight that was about to break out and then noticed his friend, Gwen. "Hey Gwen," He greets with a warm smile.
Gwen felt her body freeze up and clutched her sketchbook tight to her chest, "T-Trent, hey." She says in almost a whisper. She didn't know why she became so nervous around him, I mean he was just a guy. A guy she liked, but a regular dude nonetheless.
Geoff embraced his girlfriend as the entire group just watched Courtney and Duncan's bickering.
"Look it's not a big deal. You are such a pain in the ass man." Duncan yelled in her face and Courtney slaps his hand from pointing at her.
She felt Bridgette and Gwen holding her back, "I hate you, you ogre."
Duncan coldly chuckles and glared at her, "The feeling's mutual, Princess."
Sierra and Cody- Arrival Time 8:02 am
Sierra practically jumped on air whenever she was next to Cody, it was of his entire presence just made her enthusiastic.
"I was thinking of signing up for robotics team, what do you think?" Cody asks her, and she stopped bouncing for a moment.
She hummed in response, "You're so good at everything, Codykins. I'm sure it'll be a great thing for you to do."
Cody could feel himself turn pink a little at the nickname she always gave him, but waved it off as just reaction to the hot hallways. He then spots a flash of black hair with teal streaks, and suddenly the world just went away.
He stopped right in the middle to stare at the large group which contained Gwen, she was so beautiful to him. Even if she was scowling, he thought she was gorgeous. But it was who she was with that made his self esteem deflate. Trent, a nice guy who always helped him get away from bullies, and also turns out to have a crush on Gwen as well.
Sierra turned to Gwen in bitterness, what did she deserve to get Cody's undivided attention? It was always Gwen, Gwen, Gwen.
Duncan looked at the exchange and chuckled, "Gwen, your boyfriend's staring at you."
This caused Gwen to turn around and become face to face with Cody, who yelped at the immediate eye contact. He didn't know what to do but suddenly his teeth started to chatter in nervousness.
"Is he okay?" Bridgette wonders aloud.
Sierra instantly went to Cody's rescue, "He's just having a weird morning, too much studying last night." She nervously smiles and pushed Cody down the hallway and away from the group.
Once they stopped, Cody continued his frantic state so Sierra decided to slap it out of him.
"Ow!" He yelled and rubbed the cheek where Sierra's hand had been. "You didn't have to do that."
"And you didn't have to act so strange around Gwen and her friends." Sierra retorted with a hand on her hip, "Estupido."
Cody smiled sheepishly, "I'm sorry, okay? She's just mesmerizing."
The purple haired girl just rolled her eyes, "So you've mentioned."
Lindsay and Heather Arrival Time- 8:15 am
The sound of platform heels were all you heard on the marble floor when Heather and Lindsay walked by. The two most popular girls in school knew all eyes were on them, and they loved it.
"I can't believe Mr. Duke failed me. How can I not be good at English? I speak fluent English and American." Lindsay spat at her latest report card that she hid from her parents. She wasn't exactly the smartest girl in school, but she didn't care. She was pretty, and had such at cheerleading and a good heart, that was all that mattered.
Heather held her temples, "Lindsay, I love you but honestly it hurts to listen to you talk sometimes." The Asian teen hissed and closed her ears. She was the Queen Bee, Lindsay was just her little minion, that's how it was, whatever Heather wanted, Heather got.
She stormed over to her locker and groaned loudly when she saw that Gwen was leaning over it.
"Move, weird goth girl!" Heather shrieked with a stomp of her foot. This caused Gwen to look her straight in the eye, and simply ignore her.
"Do you guys hear something?" Gwen asks her friends who simply shake their heads no, playing along with the game.
"I. Said. Move." Heather repeated with a low growl, but it ended up in the same result.
"Someone missed their caramel macchiato this morning." Duncan jokes at Heather's demeanor, earning giggles from his friends.
Heather simply tapped her finger across her arm, "I suggest you move right now, or your little secret crush will go viral in a few minutes. It's amazing what a quick read of a diary can do."
This made Gwen's entire body freeze, then move swiftly away from the lockers and next to Bridgette. Her friends stopped laughing once Heather's threat was heard.
Courtney had enough, "It really must be a thrill to tear other people down, just because you're jealous." Heather stopped what she was getting from her locker and let out a cold, dark set of laughter.
"Jealous of what? Gwen? You've got to be kidding me, I thought you were smarter than this, Courtney." Heather shakes her head with joking pity then turns back to her locker. "Well it's been honestly a drag talking to you, so ta ta."
"I can't wait 'til I can leave this school and never see Heather Lee again." Gwen grimaced.
Tyler- Gym Class 9:00 am
Tyler was the only one in first period gym grinning due to the announcement on an upcoming mandatory run. He loved gym, it was his favorite period of the day, and his luck it was his first class.
"Jennings, you're on team blue! Let's go, boy! Hustle!," His gym teacher, whom preferred to be called Master Chef Hatchet.
Justin Rogers was called after him to join the blue team, and Tyler just groaned. He knew Justin wouldn't do anything since he's too busy protecting his "gorgeous" face.
"Oh great, we're stuck with the perdedores," A thick Latin accent blurted out. Tyler slowly turned around to see Alejandro Burromuerto glaring over at him, throwing a dodgeball up and down. "If only you were on the other team, I could get you out first."
A big boy behind him chuckled, "Aw lay off him, Al. He at least tries." The boy, known as Owen was one of the nicest boys in school, never having anything bad to say about anyone.
Alejandro's eye twitches, "Don't call me Al!"
DJ suddenly grabs the ball, "Listen fellas, I'm just trying to play some dodgeball so if you can settle this outside of gym class." He gives the ball to Tyler, who flashes a grateful smile.
Alejandro just chuckles, "Fine, nuestro gran amigo tiene razón." He walks over to Tyler, clutching the collar of the young boy's sports jacket, "If you lose this for us, I assure you, there will be consequences."
Trent shook his head at the exchange, "It's just dodgeball."
Duncan, from the other side of the gym since he was on the other team yelled, "Hey! Losers! Let's go, I wanna hit someone before the period ends!"
Master Chef Hatchet blows his whistle, "Play ball, maggots!"
Duncan threw the first ball at one of the smaller kids, Harold McGrady. Poor Harold didn't see the ball coming and was instantly hit in the head.
"He shoots, he scores!" Duncan grins, earning applause from his team.
Trent threw the ball next and tried to aim it at Duncan, but the punk easily caught the ball, making Trent out of the game. Trent have Duncan a thumbs up for getting him out, since that was the plan. Trent hated gym, so this was paradise.
Alejandro watched the game unfold between the two teams and frowned when he saw that Duncan was winning. He always disliked losing, whatever it was, he had to win.
"Hit Duncan." He whispers over to Owen, who flashed a devilish smile and winded up his arm. Once he released it, it went full speed at Duncan, all of a sudden Duncan dropped to the floor, Alejandro cheered once he fell which must've meant that Duncan was out.
But then a flash of green stepped up with the ball tight in his palms, with his signature smirk right on his lips.
"You're out, buddy." Duncan laughs when Owen frowns and slowly walks off of the court.
"Alright, Team Red! All you need is Alejandro, Tyler, and Justin then you win the game!" Master Chef Hatchet yells and blew his whistle yet again.
Duncan looked behind him to see Eva, the only girl in the class period, and happily walked over to her. "You think you can get Pretty Boy, and Jock out?"
Eva squints and crossed her arms, she looked over and studied both Justin and Tyler. Justin was looking in a mirror not even paying attention to the game, it was a surprise he was still in. Tyler on the other hand had so many closeouts, it would be easy to just finally take him out.
"Pass me the ball." Eva mutters, as Duncan gives her one of the dodgeballs. She walks over to the end of the gym and gets a running start to throw the ball heavily toward Justin, the ball hit him in the chest as he let out a huge groan.
"Oh thank you! As long as it wasn't the face!" Justin proclaims happily and walks off to the bench with the rest of his team.
"I'm surrounded by idiots." Alejandro mutters once he sees it's only him and Tyler left.
"Well, well, well. Are you ready to say uncle?" Duncan asks, eyebrow raised.
Eva nods and winds up again, this time hitting Alejandro in the face. The young man practically flew across the floor in pain.
"You! You!" Alejandro growls, holding his face in pain. Master Chef Hatchet notices Al rolling around his pain and rolled his eyes.
"Alright, go see the nurse!" He yells at Alejandro who flips off Duncan and Eva before walking off to the nurse's office.
Tyler quivered in his spot, he was the last one left. Duncan's team had about 6 more people than his did, how the hell could he survive?
Duncan clutched the ball then winked, "Alright, buddy. Lights out."
Then the ball hit Tyler straight in the face.
Beth and Ezekiel, Math Class 10:30 am
"The answer is 17.5" Courtney answers for what seemed to be the twentieth time.
"Correct!" Their math teacher beamed and wrote the answer on the board.
Beth could feel angry that the teacher couldn't see her hand, she always had the answer correct but nonetheless she was invisible.
"It's okay Betty, the teacher will have to see your hand some time." Lindsay assures her with a kind smile, while filing her nails.
Ezekiel sat behind them, trying to figure out what the hell the teacher just wrote on the board. It was a drastic shift from being homeschooled to a regular high school, but his parents had decided it would be good for their son to experience being social. Not like he was anyway.
Like Beth, he felt absolutely invisible, no one even knowing his name.