A New Direction Part 13B
Stacy was freaking out but trying to keep from showing it. At least she'd slept last night. Her Mom had gone so far as to take the bulb out of her bedside lamp and threatened to give half of her clothes to Goodwill if she didn't drink her cocoa and go straight to sleep. In truth she hadn't any choice, she'd fallen asleep at the meeting in Tiffany's house but Sandi had forgiven her sooner than usual because Stacy's faint had inadvertently gotten them "in" with Quinn Morgendorffer.
No the big thing worrying Stacy this morning was the big pile of paperwork still unsigned on her Mom's desk. 'Be reasonable Stacy.' Her Mom had said. 'I've just started a new job today - I can't take time off to go and consult a lawyer and no I'm not going to ask for favors at work. Wait until Sandi gets her mother to sign and if Linda has no objections then neither will I. That's my final word. Now please Stacy I have enough to worry about, they haven't even told me what my duties will be at the firm yet, just gave me a desk and told me to settle in and get ready for tomorrow, God! You'd swear I was an intern!'
So Stacy was all of a dither, as her Gran used to say. What would Sandi think? She knew Tiffany could get her Dad to sign anything so she had no problem but...
Stacy got organized at her locker then was startled by some raucous laughter from down the corridor. She banged the door and tugged at it a couple of times to make sure it was locked - she didn't want a repeat of last week when she hadn't shut it properly and somebody'd... no, don't think about that, at least that sophomore boy with the red hair had gotten her diary back from those... She finally got close enough to see what was going on. Her jaw dropped but she still had the presence of mind to whip out her phone and start recording video. 'Sandi will have to see this!'
Daria Morgendorffer, Quinn's mysterious sister, was seducing the quarterback, Kevin Thomson. She had taken her glasses off and was standing really close to him walking her fingers up his arm. Stacy could see Kevin's girlfriend, the head cheerleader, approaching from the opposite direction with murder in her eyes. 'Oh my God!' Stacy thought. 'This is bad.'
'Well I bet a big QB like you needs a really big cup for protection, right?' Daria's voice was husky and sexy, a bit like Scarlett Johannsen or maybe Emma Stone but she...
'Sure do! But...' Kevin obviously thought he was doing really well with this new girl.
'Pity.' Daria declared.
Stacy almost dropped her phone when Daria deliberately broke Kevin's nose then swung out her leg and kicked him in the back of the knee knocking him to the floor then grinding her heel into his throat. 'Wow! How'd she do that?'
Daria looked at the students standing around gawking and said. 'For the record I am not a lesbian, I don't normally discuss personal matters in public but because the constant accusations leveled at me have now caused pain to my friend I will speak out on the subject for your benefit and no doubt the entire internet when you upload the video from your cameras. So here it is, I am straight, If I was gay I would admit it. As far as I am concerned there is nothing wrong with being gay and I would not be ashamed to admit it if I were.'
'You should be!' Stacy didn't know the girl who'd shouted from behind her but Daria directed her gaze at Stacy as if she was the one who'd said it. 'Eeeep!'
'Well you're entitled to that opinion of course. Now...' Stacy didn't hear the rest of it because she was suddenly jostled aside by some other students. The Principal! Uh oh!
'Miss Morgendorffer! Would you please release our quarterback, I believe you're strangling him!' The principal shouted from right beside Stacy. That was enough for her, she fled in the direction of her homeroom.
'Can you believe they let someone like that into our school? It's the End-Times, we were warned there'd be signs and this is one of them.'
'Err what?' Stacy asked the girl walking beside her. She didn't know her name but knew she was the one who'd shouted at Daria.
'That lesbian! How can they let her walk around here contaminating real people? Everyone knows that art girl is a lesbian but at least she keeps to herself. Now there's two of them we'll have to put up with them kissing in the corridors. Well I won't put up with it! I'm going to start a petition to have her drummed out! Will you sign? You saw what she did.'
'I don't... she said she wasn't... '
'Ah yes but she said she wouldn't be ashamed to be queer. Why'd she say that? Obviously covering up. We have to make a stand. We need to get rid of her and that whore of a sister she's...'
Stacy wasn't even conscious of clenching her fist and hitting the other girl, just the sudden pain in her knuckles.
The girl got back up clutching her split lip. 'You bitch!' She wailed. 'You're one o' them! DYKE!' Then she ran off down the corridor.
Stacy looked around at the mob that was now looking at her the way they'd looked at Daria earlier - some weird mix of fear, admiration and WTF. She shrugged and headed to class, she'd always thought she'd come out to her Mom first.