Pride and Prejudice

"Why when I was your age I imagined doing five impossible things before breakfast"

Through the Looking Glass

"I can't believe this load of shit! Look!" Trenity began to viciously stab the puke pink detention slip she had just received from Coach Brooks while climbing the main staircase with Willow to her locker.

"What about that fucking dumb-ass jock who falls asleep every fucking day? Does he ever get two fucking weeks of detentions? No! This is clearly prejudice bullshit!" Trenity slammed her fist into the nearest locker, making a small dent in the metal.

"I think his problem is the fact he can't catch us cheating on tests and homework. He knows we're doing it, he just can't prove it." Agreed Willow while dropping her books into Trenity's locker and selecting two worn out English books and a thick purple notebook. Trenity's stomach began to growl shamelessly as the smell of hot pizza came up through the vents.

"Come on. I'm hungry. I think I might die!"

"Heaven forbid you should be deprived of one meal."

"It's pizza day! Come on!" Trenity started to walk a little faster than usual, though she refused to go too fast, she was too cool for that. She still had her pride after all. By the time they got to the cafeteria the line seemed to be a mile long. Elbowing their way past a group of stoners and jocks they dropped their books off at the table with their names engraved on the top and went into the main lunch line to get ice cream.

Digging through the freezer box Trenity looked in vain for a jumbo Oreo ice cream bar. Coming up with a jumbo ice cream sneakers bar, a cookie dough blizzard, and an almond covered strawberry bar, Trenity started to swear about greedy bustards stealing all of her food. After paying for the ice cream they sat at their lunch table to wait for the second line to shorten before going to get some pizza.

After Trenity wolfed down her jumbo sneakers bar and cookie dough blizzard they began to discuses their normal lunch topics; downfall missions, stupid teenage behavior, and the daily rant. Somewhere between stupid teenage behavior and the daily rant Mordrid came up for his afternoon kiss and lunch. After twenty minutes of waiting, twenty minutes that seemed like hours to Trenity, the pizza line was down to only a few people.

But surprisingly Trenity didn't go up to get any pizza. While she had reached into her Chinese silk bad for her wallet her fingers brushed against the odd book. The muscles in her stomach clenched and dropped, she never judged a book by its cover, both figuratively and literally, but she was beginning to dislike this one pretty fast.

"Babe, what's wrong? You're paler than a sick dove."

While Mordrid fretted over his lover Willow searched Trenity's bad for something that could have been the problem and started to pull everything out of the bad. Last came out the old book. Nothing seemed odd about it as she flipped through the pages.

As she scanned the pages the smell of burning pine needles started to get stronger, but nothing seemed odd about it. She shot a questioning glance at Trenity, just in time to see Mordrid kiss his pair bond. Making a puking nose, she started to put everything back into its proper place.

After checking for the umpteenth time that Trenity would be okay Mordrid reluctantly left them both for his next class, welding.

"So, what freaked you out back there?" Willow asked when the hallway had cleared out more. Trenity dropped an armful of books into Willow's locker and sighed, "It's odd but that book I bought yesterday is really-"

Whatever she was about to say was lost to a choirs of party shouts from further down the hallway.

Coming down the hallway, rapidly approaching, were a group of Neon East looking people. Leading them was a girl with hot pink hair and neon green eye-shadow that streamed from her eyes and down her temples, ending mid-cheek.

The leading guy next to her had large orange star-shaped sunglasses that obscured half of his face and glow sticks that faintly gave off their last bit of life around his neck.

"And as your blood

Cools on virgin snow

We call our pack

Awwwww Awwwww"

The choirs of howls at the end reached the highest possible pitch to a human voice before echoing down the hall. Trenity grinned at the lead man and saluted him with a series of handshakes. "Z-Z-Z-Ziggy!"