Disclaimer: I don't own anything mentioned in this story as I'm to cheap to
buy anything.and I couldn't be bothered with he legal jargon!
Lizzie paced back and forth in the hallway, wringing her hands together for about he hundredth time. She approached a panelled wooden door, with frosted glass window, through which she could see a blurry figure moving around exuberantly. She could hear a dull beat of some sort of music but the walls were semi-sound proof so she couldn't hear clearly.
She lifted her hand to knock. She withdrew her hand form the knocking position. She paced. She wrung her hands. "Come on McGuire!" Lizzie took a deep breath and knocked hard on the door. "You go girl!" Just as Lizzie punched her fist into the air the door flew open.
"Miss McGuire! How nice to see you.here.in school.after school. And thank you for coming to my office to bother me what a super instinct! Mr. Kroger was looking at Lizzie the way he always looked at her; with tired disdain. He, as usual, was wearing one of his lurid coloured polyester shirts. In the students opinions he was waiting for a disco revolution.
Now that the door was open, Lizzie could clearly hear the dull beat she was hearing was actually some sort of hip hop music. It resembled the monotonous tones of Cypress Hill which M-Dawg alias Matt insisted on playing. He was going through the "I'm Slim Shady" phase, and speaking such English that William Shakespeare or Jane Austin would surely be rolling in their graves!
Mr. Kroger made his way to his bright red desk chair doing some strange sort of walk in time with the music. Please don't start singing along. It was all getting too much for Lizzie and that might finish her off!
"Insane in the membrane, INSANE IN THE BRAIN! This is a very "dope" sound isn't it Miss McGuire?"
"Oh, yeah. One of my favourites!"
"Now, don't you lie to me young lady! I know for a fact you listen to all that depressing Sarah Mc Lachlan and Sophie B Hawkins stuff don't you?" He was grinning like an idiot and.oh God! He's putting on one of those ridiculous Doo-rags!
"No, really Mr. Kroger I love all this hip hop stuff!"
"Whatever! So what exactly do you want?"
"Well, it's just that earlier, you know at rehearsal."
"Uuuuuugggghhhh! Don't remind me! No, wait.DO remind me!"
"See, you kind of yelled at me and then stormed out, and the last time you did that the person you yelled at lost their part in the play, and I just anted to make sure that wasn't going to happen to me."
"Miss McGuire, even though you are a little goody-two-shoes, brown noser, suck up.you are the best person in this school to play Lady Macbeth. However, I am going to issue you a detention! There now I feel better!"
Lizzie's mouth dropped open. This man really is some sort of an insane psycho! Run Dmc's "Tricky" was now playing and again Mr Kroger was bopping.
"You're giving me a detention just because I said you intimidated me?!"
"No! Miss McGuire, don't be so silly! I yelled at you for that! I'm giving you a detention because you lied to a member of staff! And, let me tell you, it's a felony to with hold evidence from the police so the least you should get is a detention!"
"But.but.I."
"But.but.hurry it up Rita Retardo!"
This man is pure evil!
"I never lied to you"
"YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN! 'Oh, no I love hip hop!' LIAR!"
"Ok, first of all I don not talk like that!" Lizzie was referring to the air head valley girl voice he had used to mock her. He calls himself a drama teacher?!
"And second of all.that's really stupid!"
"Are you challenging my authority?"
"No. I."
"Because it sure sounds like it! Out, GET OUT!"
Lizzie grabbed her back pack and legged it out the door. This man had gone totally American psycho!
"And Miss McGuire the next time a see you in rehearsal you had better sparkle more that Nicole Kidman's costumes from "Moulin Rouge".not that I've seen that movie!"
This bellowing down the hallway intertwined with "Insane in the Membrane" playing in the background, in any other school might have sounded a little strange but at Hillridge High, the fact that Mr. Kroger's office door was open explained everything. Why else was it the only room in the school that had been semi-sound proofed?
Lizzie at on the water fountain in the courtyard, gingerly examining her detention slip that Mr. Kroger had thrust at her face as she was leaving. It said a lot about a man who printed detention slips on pink and purple paper.
It wasn't fair! Lizzie hadn't had a detention since that one time in middle school! She was a good girl! She wasn't like the other girls in school. She didn't have any friends, apart form Danny; she didn't go to parties at the weekend. She stayed in and studied. For God's sake M-Dawg had a more exciting social life that her.
It wasn't even as if she was safe from ridicule at home. Her mother and father were always asking, "What went wrong with Gordo and Miranda?" Lizzie had gotten used to blocking that phrase out. Unfortunately her mother still managed to bother her with; "Why do you wear so much eyeliner?" and "You should try shopping in Top Shop instead of Hot Topic!" and not forgetting "Why wear boots when you can wear sling backs?"
So in short, she was having a shit time at home and a shit time at school, and for Lizzie, there wasn't really much else.
Author's Notes:
Sorry it took a little longer to post this chapter, what with Christmas and all. Thanks once again for the reviews!
The "she was having a shit time at home and a shit time at school" quote was from Nick Hornby's amazing book, now a film "About a Boy".
About the Top Shop reference in this scene.for those of you who don't know it's a trendy high street shop here in the UK and Ireland but I'm not sure they have it in the USA. As for the Hot Topic reference, it and Pac Sun are the only chain shops that I know of in the states, I've only been about three times and usually I stay with my great aunt who lives outside Chicago and would rather go sight seeing that shopping. I know! What a freak! XOXO Lara
Lizzie paced back and forth in the hallway, wringing her hands together for about he hundredth time. She approached a panelled wooden door, with frosted glass window, through which she could see a blurry figure moving around exuberantly. She could hear a dull beat of some sort of music but the walls were semi-sound proof so she couldn't hear clearly.
She lifted her hand to knock. She withdrew her hand form the knocking position. She paced. She wrung her hands. "Come on McGuire!" Lizzie took a deep breath and knocked hard on the door. "You go girl!" Just as Lizzie punched her fist into the air the door flew open.
"Miss McGuire! How nice to see you.here.in school.after school. And thank you for coming to my office to bother me what a super instinct! Mr. Kroger was looking at Lizzie the way he always looked at her; with tired disdain. He, as usual, was wearing one of his lurid coloured polyester shirts. In the students opinions he was waiting for a disco revolution.
Now that the door was open, Lizzie could clearly hear the dull beat she was hearing was actually some sort of hip hop music. It resembled the monotonous tones of Cypress Hill which M-Dawg alias Matt insisted on playing. He was going through the "I'm Slim Shady" phase, and speaking such English that William Shakespeare or Jane Austin would surely be rolling in their graves!
Mr. Kroger made his way to his bright red desk chair doing some strange sort of walk in time with the music. Please don't start singing along. It was all getting too much for Lizzie and that might finish her off!
"Insane in the membrane, INSANE IN THE BRAIN! This is a very "dope" sound isn't it Miss McGuire?"
"Oh, yeah. One of my favourites!"
"Now, don't you lie to me young lady! I know for a fact you listen to all that depressing Sarah Mc Lachlan and Sophie B Hawkins stuff don't you?" He was grinning like an idiot and.oh God! He's putting on one of those ridiculous Doo-rags!
"No, really Mr. Kroger I love all this hip hop stuff!"
"Whatever! So what exactly do you want?"
"Well, it's just that earlier, you know at rehearsal."
"Uuuuuugggghhhh! Don't remind me! No, wait.DO remind me!"
"See, you kind of yelled at me and then stormed out, and the last time you did that the person you yelled at lost their part in the play, and I just anted to make sure that wasn't going to happen to me."
"Miss McGuire, even though you are a little goody-two-shoes, brown noser, suck up.you are the best person in this school to play Lady Macbeth. However, I am going to issue you a detention! There now I feel better!"
Lizzie's mouth dropped open. This man really is some sort of an insane psycho! Run Dmc's "Tricky" was now playing and again Mr Kroger was bopping.
"You're giving me a detention just because I said you intimidated me?!"
"No! Miss McGuire, don't be so silly! I yelled at you for that! I'm giving you a detention because you lied to a member of staff! And, let me tell you, it's a felony to with hold evidence from the police so the least you should get is a detention!"
"But.but.I."
"But.but.hurry it up Rita Retardo!"
This man is pure evil!
"I never lied to you"
"YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN! 'Oh, no I love hip hop!' LIAR!"
"Ok, first of all I don not talk like that!" Lizzie was referring to the air head valley girl voice he had used to mock her. He calls himself a drama teacher?!
"And second of all.that's really stupid!"
"Are you challenging my authority?"
"No. I."
"Because it sure sounds like it! Out, GET OUT!"
Lizzie grabbed her back pack and legged it out the door. This man had gone totally American psycho!
"And Miss McGuire the next time a see you in rehearsal you had better sparkle more that Nicole Kidman's costumes from "Moulin Rouge".not that I've seen that movie!"
This bellowing down the hallway intertwined with "Insane in the Membrane" playing in the background, in any other school might have sounded a little strange but at Hillridge High, the fact that Mr. Kroger's office door was open explained everything. Why else was it the only room in the school that had been semi-sound proofed?
Lizzie at on the water fountain in the courtyard, gingerly examining her detention slip that Mr. Kroger had thrust at her face as she was leaving. It said a lot about a man who printed detention slips on pink and purple paper.
It wasn't fair! Lizzie hadn't had a detention since that one time in middle school! She was a good girl! She wasn't like the other girls in school. She didn't have any friends, apart form Danny; she didn't go to parties at the weekend. She stayed in and studied. For God's sake M-Dawg had a more exciting social life that her.
It wasn't even as if she was safe from ridicule at home. Her mother and father were always asking, "What went wrong with Gordo and Miranda?" Lizzie had gotten used to blocking that phrase out. Unfortunately her mother still managed to bother her with; "Why do you wear so much eyeliner?" and "You should try shopping in Top Shop instead of Hot Topic!" and not forgetting "Why wear boots when you can wear sling backs?"
So in short, she was having a shit time at home and a shit time at school, and for Lizzie, there wasn't really much else.
Author's Notes:
Sorry it took a little longer to post this chapter, what with Christmas and all. Thanks once again for the reviews!
The "she was having a shit time at home and a shit time at school" quote was from Nick Hornby's amazing book, now a film "About a Boy".
About the Top Shop reference in this scene.for those of you who don't know it's a trendy high street shop here in the UK and Ireland but I'm not sure they have it in the USA. As for the Hot Topic reference, it and Pac Sun are the only chain shops that I know of in the states, I've only been about three times and usually I stay with my great aunt who lives outside Chicago and would rather go sight seeing that shopping. I know! What a freak! XOXO Lara