I'm sorry for not updating in forever, but I just wasn't really able to write for a while. I just wasn't up to it. But I think I'm back.
When Jane entered Classroom 412, Remedial Goodness Class, the VKs were muttering to each other. Jane just caught the blue-haired one -Evie?- saying, "That makes so much sense." She hurried between the two desks, involuntarily letting out a squeak of fear, before glancing at Carlos for reassurance. But Jay was staring her down, so she hurried on.
"Hello, dear one," her mother greeted Jane enthusiastically.
"Hi." Jane replied, looking over her shoulder at the VKs. "You need to sign off on early dismissal for the coronation." The purple girl elbowed Evie, who had been previously staring off into space playing with her hair. Now they were both staring her down intimidatingly.
Her mother took the clipboard. "Everyone here remembers my daughter, Jane?"
Jane could have died of terror. Now the purple girl knew her name! "Mom, no!" she whispered.
But her mother, as usual, was completely oblivious. "It's okay. Jane, this is everyone." Duh. Like she didn't know already.
Jane glanced at Carlos, quickly. "Hi." Then she looked over to Mal, who was staring her down. It wasn't very subtle that she was planning something and if Jane could guess, it probably had to do with her. "That's okay," she told Mal. "Don't mind me. As you were." She glanced back at Carlos, hoping maybe, just maybe, Mal would leave her alone. But Jay caught her eye and she let out another squeak of fear, hurrying past, glancing at Mal as she left the room.
"Ahem," she heard her mother say. "Let's continue..."
She headed to the office to return the papers, tucking the clipboard under her arm and pulling out her phone to text Lonnie.
"I just had to go into the Remedial Goodness Class."
Lonnie's reply came a few seconds later. "Really?! How are they up close together!"
"Terrifying. I'm done for the day, though."
"Want to join me? I'm still stretching."
"Uh... sure. What do I need?"
"Something stretchy. Leotard, tights, and a skirt would be best but like sweatpants would work, too."
"Ok. Omw." Jane opened the door to the office as she hit send.
The secretary looked up. "All set?"
"Yep." Jane replied, handing her the clipboard tucked under her arm.
"Thanks!" the secretary replied cheerfully, taking it. She glanced at it quickly before pulling it off the clipboard and putting the paper in a file. "Have a nice day."
"You, too," Jane replied, stepping out of the office.
She headed back to her dorm room. When she got there, she opened the door and looked around. Luckily Audrey wasn't in the room.
"Tights... leotard..." she muttered. Well she didn't have a leotard, but she most definitely had tights. "What about..." she dug in a drawer and came up with a one-piece swimsuit that could probably work as a leotard. "Perfect." She grinned as she pulled out a pair of tights.
Then she walked over to her closet. "A skirt... which one...?" She had one that was mid-thigh and stretchy, so she pulled it out and went into the bathroom to change.
When she had changed, she looked into the mirror and began giggling uncontrollably. She looked hilarious.
After she got over how funny she looked, she exited the bathroom and found some sweatpants and a t-shirt to pull over the top.
"K I'm ready and heading over." Jane texted Lonnie.
Just then, Audrey walked in. Jane inwardly groaned.
"What are you wearing?!" Audrey asked her, looking scandalized.
Jane rolled her eyes. "Sweatpants."
"You look like a trash heap!"
"Thank you," Jane told her, the remark stinging more than it should.
She brushed past Audrey and left the room quickly, but not fast enough to miss Audrey's shriek, "You're going out like that?!"
You guys have no idea how many times I watched the 30 seconds in Remedial Goodness class where Jane is there... I wanted to get every head movement, every shift of eyes correct. I was absolutely thrilled to discover that when Jane first comes in, she glances back at Carlos. How perfect is that?!
Oh and "omw" means "on my way." I don't know if this is commonly-used text talk anymore, but whatever. (Let me know in the reviews!)
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-FlatFox
