Author's Note:
Okay... haven't been updating much, writer's block has been killing me alot...
Anyway this story is getting very monotonous... or at least I think it is... but then again hey, what do I know?
The week went by as boring as usual and finally it was the weekend again, which meant the senior class of Lenox High was one week closer to their desired destination, graduation... which was in about three more months.
Samantha looked over her shoulder to the bored brunette behind her.
"If you're that bored go home!" the red head snapped as Jenna hummed to herself while idly swinging her feet back and forth as she sat on the counter top.
They were at the veterinary office where Sam worked, Jenna had decided to shadow her on one of their busiest days, Saturday. Sam was working the front desk for a change today instead of assisting the doctors in the back, and Jenna was merely counting the minutes till her friend's shift was over.
The line to the counter was finally moving along a bit quicker then earlier, thank god for that!
"Here!" he said as he kicked the cardboard box by his foot slightly, agitation in his voice.
"What are you doing here?" Sam asked warily as she watched the boy before her.
"I found this... you want it or not?" Jake grumbled with little patience as he pointed to the box, something was moving inside it.
Sam hesitantly leaned over the counter, Jenna getting off of the counter behind them to get a closer look as well. They looked down at the rather large box on the tiled vet lobby floor, suddenly they heard the box rustle again.
The two girls moved from behind the counter, into the waiting room, Samantha stepped closer to the box with caution while Jake just stared at her blankly. She reached down and lifted one of the cardboard flaps covering her view of the inside of the box, as soon as she saw what was inside she gasped.
"Whoa..." Sam uttered as she looked in at the very large white bird inside the box. "Where did you find it?" she then asked curiously.
"One of the fields by my house... I think its hurt or something..." Jake explained, now gazing in at the crane-like bird, Jenna did the same.
"Its so pretty... what is it?" the brunette wondered in a daze as she watched the injure creature hobble about in its small habitat.
"It's a snowy egret..." Sam clarified. "Its an endangered species." She added in awe.
"Yeah, well its about to get even more endangered if ya don't fix it..." Jake suggested, watching the two girls as if they were clueless.
"I'll take it back..." Jenna said, carefully dragging the heavy box back behind the counter to where the doctors were, trying her best not to rattle the bird and scare it.
"Does she work here too?" Jake asked as Samantha stepped behind the counter and began to gather the necessary paperwork.
"Huh? Oh, Jenna? No... she's just bothering me today 'cause she has nothing better to do..." the red head muttered to him, not even looking up from her small stack of papers.
"I see..." he sighed tiredly.
"So... what was its condition when you found the bird?" she then asked.
"Its leg is broke or something..." was all he said in response, shrugging slightly.
She scribbled down the information as the brunette remerged at her side.
"The doctor says it's just a sprain..." Jenna told them, Sam nodded as she continued to write things down.
"So how will you be paying, through your account here?" the red head asked him without looking up.
"What?" Jake questioned a bit confused.
"For the health care of the bird?" she explained, he only stared back with a lost expression on his face.
"I'm not paying for this thing..." he alerted her.
"Then why'd you bring it in?" she asked smartly.
"What do I look like, Jeff Corwin?" he inquired, the two girls only looked him over skeptically. "I'm not paying!" he then announced sterner then before, and with that be turned and stormed out of the lobby, leaving the building.
"He has issues!" Sam stated the obvious.
"Does it cost a lot to take care of the bird?" Jenna wondered, more worried about the bird's well being then Jake's ego.
"It doesn't cost anything... we release injured animals into the wild after we take care of them for free..." Sam replied, as she signed the last of the papers.
"Then why did you say..." Jenna began to ask in confusion.
"I was just trying to piss him off, which isn't a hard thing to do..." the red head answered proudly, gathering up the stack of papers.
"Why?" she asked again.
"Payback for my poor CD..." and with that Sam walked away from the counter to file her paperwork, Jenna only shook her head at her friend's immaturity.
The next day was Sunday and Jenna was spending the night at Sara's for a change, letting Samantha catch up on some much needed rest after her busy day at work.
"I mean this thing was huge! It must have came up to me waist!" the brunette exclaimed, referring to the endangered bird that had been brought into the vet the day before.
"Jakey Jakey..." Sara said in a sad yet sarcastic tone. "Poor Jakey Jakey need freshy freshy..." she then made an odd yet somewhat hilarious musical sound which resembled the music played in porn movies before turning back to the movie they were watching.
"God this movie sucks... what was Jeff Probst licking toads in the Amazon when he wrote this script?" Jenna questioned sorrowfully as she stared at the movie, Finder's Fee, which they had rented earlier.
"Oh Jeffy Jeffy... no freshy freshy for Jeffy Jeffy!" Sara then remarked, Jenna only nodded in agreement.
Suddenly they heard the annoying sound of the Backstreet Boys playing loudly in the next room.
"Goddamnit Suzie!!!" Sara screamed in anger while banging on the wall.
"Your little sister has horrible taste in music..." Jenna muttered as the blonde slowly became furious.
"What do ya want?" the thirteen-year-old blonde girl questioned as she opened the door to Sara's room.
"Turn that shit off before I stuff an apple in your mouth and we roast you in the backyard!!!" Sara snapped hurtfully, Jenna only glanced between the two girls curiously.
"Oh shut up..." Suzie sighed as she made her way back to her room, taking little offense to what her sister had just said.
"Oink, oink, oink!" Sara began to cry as her sister left their sight, they then heard the offending music being turned up even louder then before. "OINK! OINK! OINK!" she continued to taunt louder, even though Jenna doubted Suzie could even hear her anymore.
The next morning...
Sara's mother tiredly scraped the oatmeal into the two girls' bowls as she yawned listlessly as her husband entered the room.
"Please sir, may I have some more?" Sara asked in a childlike British accent, her mother only glared at her with annoyance before turning back towards the stove. "I guess we're supposed to eat our gruel in silence this morning..." the blonde commented to the brunette sitting beside her at the kitchen table. "Quick..." she then whispered to her. "Make it into a hard paste so we can break out this joint!" Sara explained in secret so her parents wouldn't hear, Jenna only laughed quietly at her silly behavior.
After the thick and unsatisfying breakfast the two girls made their way to school, immediately searching for their red haired companion as they traipsed down the crowded halls.
"I really don't want to see Tim today..." Jenna sighed unenthusiastically as she slowly strolled along beside Sara. "It's getting to where everyday he tries to feel me up or something..."
"I can kick him in the junk if ya want..." the blonde quickly suggested with an eager smile, Jenna paused for a moment to think on the proposal.
"Thanks but no thanks... I think I best handle this myself..." the brunette explained, Sara nodded in concurrence.
Just as they spotted Samantha walking towards them the two girls were suddenly distracted, as well as most of the crowded hallway, towards the loud display to their right.
"I saw you with her yesterday!!!" the girl with short black hair screamed angrily at the tall dark blonde haired boy that they quickly identified as Tim's friend, Kenny.
"It was nothing!" he insisted frantically, trying his best to calm his temperamental girlfriend down.
"You were with that slut Sharon! Ask Sandy, she was there, she saw it too!!!" the black haired girl, Jody, hollered so that everyone around them could hear.
"It was a public place, how was I supposed to not be around her, huh?" he asked smartly, all patience gone from his voice now.
"Oh... so I'm just some kinda idiot now?" she questioned in annoyance, he rolled his eyes at her dismissively.
"Well if the after school program fits..." Kenny muttered with spite, Jody glared at him speechlessly.
"Ooh... where did that come from?" she wondered in a slightly stunned voice, mocking his masculinity.
"This is ridiculous..." he said finally after a long pause, deciding to give up their immature spat.
"That's right Kenny... walk away like the scared little boy you are..." Jody taunted, he only shook his head at her nagging as he walked in the opposite direction, away from her.
"What was that all about?" Jenna asked Sara as Sam joined them finally.
"Oh that's just the daily mating rituals on the Serengeti..." Sara stated in a fake Australian accent.
"Huh?" Samantha wondered, confused.
"Kenny and Jody, she kisses him good morning before first period, she slaps him in the face and accuses him of cheating after second period then loves him again by lunch..." the blonde explained simply.
"Sounds dysfunctional..." Sam muttered with boredom as they walked down the hallway together.
"Jody's bipolar or something..." Sara sighed.
"Really, who else do we know who's like that?" Jenna remarked jokingly.
"You mean besides, you, me, Jake, your dad, my music teacher, the president, and over half of this uncivilized world?" Sam said dully, both Jenna and Sara paused and stared at her curiously.
"I was referring to her..." the brunette motioned towards the blonde as her side.
"Oh yeah... her too..." Sam said, she then continued to walk to her classroom.
Jenna sat down beside the red head at the round lunch table, Sara was already scribbling something down on a torn piece of paper.
"This day sucks so far..." the brunette stated, the other two girls remained silent.
Jenna sighed at their reluctance to answer, she glanced across the room at the table where the three boys sat. She watched as Kenny walked up to their table, he nodded to Tim in greeting then glared meanly in Jake's direction as he continued to walk past the boys' table.
"What's that all about?" she then asked her two friends in a lost tone.
"What?" Samantha asked tiredly.
"Kenny and Tim are best friends right?" Jenna wondered, even though she already knew the answer.
"Ever since sixth grade." Sara stated simply, not even looking up from her paper.
"So then why doesn't he sit with him at lunch... why does he have to sit by himself?" the brunette then asked.
"Because Kenny and Jake don't necessarily get along." The blonde explained.
"Why?" both Sam and Jenna questioned.
"Because it's just how it is! Punks beat the shit outa mods, mods beat the shit outa skinheads, skinheads take out the heavy metal guys, and the heavy metal guys beat the living shit outa the new wavers and the new wavers did nothing... they were the new hippies." Sara told them as if her words explained everything.
"I see..." Jenna said slowly, she then got up from her seat and walked away from their table.
"Where the hell is she going?" Samantha mumbled to herself as she watched her walk across the rather large lunchroom.
Tim rubbed the back of his neck tiredly as Jake read silently from the red hardback book titled 'The DaVinci Code'. Simon checked over his biology homework while humming to himself quietly, a tune he was playing in music class no doubt.
"Where the hell is she going?" Jake asked himself more then the other two boys at the round lunch table as he stared ahead at the pages of his book, not even looking up from it.
"What?" Tim muttered as his eyes glanced around the cafeteria, in search of whoever Jake was talking about.
Suddenly his glance fell on the brunette who made her way towards the tables strewn across the left wall of the lunchroom. He glared suspiciously at her as she walked up to the table where Kenny sat alone, she then began to talk to him.
"What the fuck?" Tim murmured in bewilderment as he watched Jenna lead Kenny away from his table, to the one where Samantha and Sara sat.
"Ooh... complications!" Jake joked as he finally looked up from his book at Tim, referring to how his friend had reacted to Jenna inviting Kenny to her table.