It was a bright, humid morning and Craig and Sean were on their way to school once again. They spent the first half of it talking about shit like what they would do to the teachers if they could do it to anyone or anything. The favorite was Sean's that they would strap Mr. Raditch to his chair and tell him the school was on fire. So then the topic of Rae came up. "So Dude," Sean began, "You gonna show me to that girl, or keep her locked up in your basement. Craig gave Sean a small nudge on the shoulder.
"Common man!" He joked back. "Plus she skipped yesterday, I heard Joey yelling at her for it. Probably grounded almost as long as I am for the car thing."
Sean raised his eyebrows " Ditching? Sounds like my kind of girl." Craig and Sean laughed at this and hurried up to school.
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Rae Areostall looked up at the big sign in front of her new Degrassi school and thought- Wow! This is gonna be a big change. She stepped into the double-gage doors and saw girls dressed up in sexy-cute outfits. Maybe I should lay low. Then she heard some girls yelling. "Paige, you are such a slut! I heard you just d i d another guy last weekend." Then the girl who Rae figured must have been Paige broke out into tears, and a pretty, black, preppy, girl stood to her side to comfort her.
She spoke softly through her tears "I didn't do anything, Ashley. If you must know since your so nosy..." then she started crying even heavier without completing the sentence. "He raped...." Tears kept on sliding down her face vigorously, Rae couldn't help but being distracted. "raped..." She mumbled again. "raped me." The words "raped me" hit Rae like a bolder. Poor girl. She thought. She almost has it as bad as me.
The anger of someone having to go through something that might have been worse than what Rae had to go through, swept over her in a rage. That bitch. She thought to herself of the girl who was making fun of this poor Paige for being raped, not getting herself raped. This verb was passive- poor Paige. Rae slammed her book bag to the floor and went off on one of the little rampages she was known for back home. "You... umm what's your name? Ashley?" The girl with a gothic look nodded, with a slight glance of bewilderment in her eyes. "What is your problem?" Rae put on the 'I'm tough, back off' look added with a little bit of a devils glance. "You have no fucking business to make fun of this girl. She went through shit that you will never have to face in your boring, shielded little, gothic life!"
She paused to let this Ashley-girl take in the full effect of Rae's actions. That always worked to make the guilty feel guilty- once she did that, they needed no accuser. Ashley swallowed whole. She finally has some competition. She thought angrily. It didn't seem as if Rae had to say another word. A small tear and a hint of contrition began to arise.
"You're right." She looked for a second at Rae, and moved her focus back to Paige. "Paige, I'm sorry...I had no idea. That guy's a jerk you gotta tell on him."
Paige's face covered in the red sadness of tears welled up some more. "I can't Ashley... I'm afraid."
"Of what?" Ashley asked.
Paige gave Ashley a quick hug and as she began to talk broke out into tears again.
"Of him." Ashley patted her on the shoulder and gave her a little squeeze. Maybe they were friends again. Its seemed like they reached a new understanding- they both had shit they couldn't change.