Betsy entered her homeroom on her second day at her new school. She was earlier today and managed to snag the seat next to the two kids that had laughed at her yesterday. The two looked at her for a second and then the boy leaned over and asked her. "Is that your natural hair color?"
"Er yeah it is." She told him with a smile. He smiled back and then a second later he had grabbed hold of her ponytail an pulled it next to his own head and was saying to the girl. "You see this is the color I want my hair."
"This is Bobby" the girl grinned. "He's almost too gay to function!" She told Betsy.
A passing boy sneered to the girl. "Hey Wanda nice wig what's it made of?"
"Your mom's chest hair!" Wanda flung back without missing a beat. She turned back to Betsy. "I'm Wanda." She told her as if that little conversation had never happened.
"Hi I'm Betsy." Betsy smiled back. "Hey do you guys know where room G14 is?" She asked them. Wanda took her schedule and showed it to Bobby.
"Health, Tuesday and Thursday room G14. I think it's in the back building." She said giving Bobby a meaningful look. He nodded along.
"Yeah it's in the back building. We'll take you there." They both smiled sweetly at her.
"Thanks" Betsy smiled back.
Half an hour later Betsy, Bobby and Wanda were milling through the crowded halls.
"New meat coming through!" Bobby hollered making a path for them.
Soon they were outside and had crossed the sports field. Bobby was reading through her schedule. "Health, Spanish, Math……… Your taking twelfth grade calculus?"
"Yeah I like math." Betsy told him.
"Eww why?" He asked looking shocked.
"Because it's the same in every country." She told him. Bobby looked surprised.
"That's beautiful." He turned to Wanda. "Hey this girl is deep."
Wanda nodded as she sat down on the grass followed by Bobby. Betsy looked around.
"So where's the back building?" She asked. Wanda looked up at her.
"It burned down in 1987." She told her matter of factly.
"Won't we get in trouble for this?" Betsy inquired.
"Why would we get you into trouble? We're your friends." Wanda told her. Betsy looked around nervously then sat down next to Wanda.
"So if you've been home schooled all this time why send you here now?" Wanda asked.
"They wanted me to get socialised." Betsy said mournfully.
"Oh you'll get socialised all right a little slice like you." Bobby told her.
"What?" Betsy asked confused.
"You're a regulation hottie." Wanda told her.
"Own it." Bobby advised.
"So how do you spell your name again Betty?" Wanda asked.
"Its Betsy." She reminded her. "It's B-E-T-S-Y." Wanda gave her a loo.
"Yeah I'm gonna call you Bets." She told her.
"For the love of god would you look at Kitty Prydes' gym clothes!" Bobby said pointing to a girl with brown hair wearing very short shorts in the gym class on the field.
"Of course all the plastics are in the same gym class." Wanda griped.
"Who are the plastics?" Betsy asked in amusement.
"They're like teen royalty." Bobby explained. "If Bayville was "US Weekly" They'd always be on the cover."
"That one there is Kitty Pryde. She is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet. Bobby sat next to her in English last year." Wanda explained.
"She asked me how to spell orange!" Bobby told her. In the background Betsy could see Kitty clapping her hands for someone to pass her the ball. Someone threw one and it bounced right off her chest. Kitty went scurrying after it.
"That little one is Amara Aquilla. She's totally rich because her dad is some foreign tribal king or something." Wanda said as a short tanned girl who was talking on a phone got hit in the head by a wayward ball from Kitty who then rushed to help her up.
"Amara Aquilla knows everybody's business. She knows everything about everyone." Wanda said in disgust.
"That's why her hairs so big." Bobby said conspiratorially. "It's full of secrets!"
"And evil takes a human form in Tabitha Smith." Wanda continued as a group of jocks carried a girl with short blonde hair onto the field. Once down she blew them kisses in thanks before turning to her friends.
"She may seem like your typical, selfish, back-stabbing, slut faced ho-bag. But in reality she is so much more then that."
"She's a star!" Bobby told her. "The queen bee those other two are just her little workers."
"Tabitha Smith… how do I even begin to explain Tabitha smith. Everyone is in awe of her and there are countless rumours flying around about her. They usually go along the lines of: she's flawless, she has two fendy purses and a silver Lexus, Her hair is insured for $10,000 and she does car commercials in Japan. As if!"
By now everyone else was traipsing back inside for lunch. Wanda and Bobby continued their little rant.
"She always looks fierce and she always wins spring fling queen."
"Who cares?" Wanda muttered.
"I care!" Bobby cried. "Every year the seniors throw a dance for the underclassmen called the spring fling and whoever are elected spring fling king and queen automatically become head of the student activities committee and seeing as I am an active member of the student activities committee I'd say yes I care!" Bobby blustered.
"Wow." Wanda said in fake awe. " Bobby you truly out gayed yourself."
Bobby gave her a playful shove.
"Here." Wanda handed Betsy a piece of paper. "This is going to be your guide to Bayville. Now where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial because you've got everybody there. You've got your freshmen, ROTC guys, preps, JV jocks, Asian nerds, cool Asians, varsity jocks, unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls that don't eat anything, desperate wannabes, burnouts, sexually active band geeks, the greatest people you will ever meet which is us, and the worst. Beware of the Plastics."