Shakespeare.
That's her name.
The name of the girl with whom I am officially infatuated.
Yes, I, Anthony Racetrack Higgins, am in love with a girl who's named Shakespeare.
Shakespeare, known to her mother as Lia Giovanni, is my best friend, so you can somewhat understand my predicament.
Okay, first off, let me introduce you to my group.
Over there, working on his English paper, that's Specs David, our brainiac. He spends all his time doing homework, and every extra credit thing he can find. While a good day for us is when we don't have homework, a good day for Specs is when we have a paper in every class and extra credit, too! Yeah, he's weird. But he also loves U2, and the Matrix movies.
The one who's on the verge of fainting over his best friend's love for schoolwork, that's Dutchy Durecht. He is, like I said, best friends with Specs, and, surprisingly enough, is completely different from Specs. He despises everything about school, and everything within school. Wait, don't start thinking he's normal just yet. He despises all good music whatsoever. He, instead, likes Les Miserables, Oliver!, Forty-Second Street, Wicked, and almost every Disney classic imaginable, especially Anastasia, The Little Mermaid, and Peter Pan.
Then there's Skittseroo, but if you ever call him that, you might as well dig your own grave. Skittery, as he has so adequately been dubbed, suffers from acute paranoia, and therefore jumps at the slightest sounds. He spends his time picking up weird, random hobbies, and then he teaches them to us. Currently, he's teaching us Morse Code.
That's Two-Bits. She's the only girl in our group, other than Shakespeare. She's kind of a little bit of all of us. She loves U2, action movies, musicals, head-banger music, and random hobbies. She and Shakespeare have allied themselves against the boys, "for fear of going insane," according to them.
Oh, and that's Snitch, Two-Bits's brother. (She was adopted.) He's a spaz. There's not much to be said, except that he's a kleptomaniac, and therefore loves all those spy/steals-something-really-heavily-guarded movies.
Anyway, I'm in love with Shakespeare, as I said before.
And the Valentine's Day dance is next week.
Oh, joy.