Not that many reviews this time…Lyra I know you reviewed but it got lost in cyberspace. I hope people are still reading this, I particularly like this and I'm considering going back and re-writing "Her Life in Stories" because I hate Coin and her Mary-Sue-ness. Please read and review and keep me going.
Sapphy— yes, poor Bumlets. AND DORKS RULE! Ha-ha!
Dreamer—thanks for the support. You reviews are very encouraging. GO YOU!
::WARNING:: Theres is mucho amounts of cursing and drugs in this chapter. Whoops. Don't read if you're a little'un or offended by such things.
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I do not like high school. The cafeteria is called the "Nutrition Center," which is strange. There is this one girl in my advanced English class named Susan. In middle school, Susan was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy. To tell you the truth, she doesn't like to admit she's in the advanced English class, and she doesn't like to say "hi" to me in the hall anymore.
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower-
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Jack Kelly was not the only new member of the popular crowd.
Jessica Mirra was a member of the "bad kids" group. You know the kids that started smoking way back in seventh grade. The group who wore concert t-shirts from bands that no one had ever heard of. She was a "badass" writing graffiti on the bathroom walls and smoking pot in basements across NP. Jessica barely got through middle school and was constantly getting grounded. This just made her sneak out and left her parents in an upset heap; frantically calling all of her "friends", trying to find their precious daughter.
The Mirra's couldn't understand why their daughter was acting like that, being so "rebellious and Godless". Their son, Kenny Mirra, was the star of the football team. Their daughter was beautiful, and once had "normal friends", including Jill Greene, who they regarded as a respectable young girl. Jessica had even been a cheerleader once for Pop Warner Football. Her parents were near the breaking point. Mrs. Mirra almost called into the Ricki Lake show, she was that desperate.
The reason for Jessica's streak of rebellion? Peer pressure. Cliché, but that's what it was, plain and simple. She made friends with several of the bad girls, and was mostly close with Samantha Harris and Teri Brown. They introduced Jess, (she was Jess now, they liked that better) to her first love. And she fell hard. His name was Skittery Dilger and he was tall, dark and handsome.
And a "bad seed". Unlike the Mirra's, the Dilger's were known for their bad behavior. Skittery's father was in jail for almost all of his young life, on counts of drug possession. Skittery's mother was a nurse, who kept long hours and made little money. She was sick of hearing from the school, no matter how often they claimed that they may have to kick Skitts out for discipline reasons.
Skittery loved Jessica, no matter how bad of a kid he was he still loved her, but he loved "Jess" the drug-doing, "bad" girl. Skittery didn't know the real Jessica, who was extremely hurt by all the pain she was putting her family through. Jessica also felt great remorse for losing her virginity; she was aware that she definitely was not ready for it when it happened. Jessica was fed up with all the pain that came with her group of friends. Deep down she knew she was faking it. She wasn't a bad ass, she liked some of the people they remarked as weak and "conforming losers". And she hated smelling like pot. So at the end of eighth grade she broke up with Skittery, and tried out for cheerleading…praying that her drug test results would not reveal any illegal behavior.
She was a little rusty but she had always been a natural at gymnastics. She easily made varsity and joined the crew. The crew was large, "The Elitists".
The Elitists were the group chosen for looks and "personality", some weren't that bad, but most were cruel and taunting to anyone different. They included Racetrack Higgins, who was really a star of nothing; he was just an all around hilarious guy. He was best friends with Mush Meyers, star of everything, and Mr. Nice Guy. The two were constantly pulling pranks and being idiots around the halls of NPHS. They became good friends with Jack and nicknamed him "Cowboy" after a night of stupidity and drinking. How no one saw THAT as "gay" behavior was beyond Bumlets Osorio, but he kept that thought to himself.
All the girls fawned over the trio, who gladly accepted the attention. They all went through several girlfriends, charming their way through the school roster. They weren't that bad to "The Dorktastics" they kept their distance and chose to ignore them instead.
The girls did not ignore however. Kim Dish was the worst. She was beautiful and popular and all the other typical Homecoming Queen stuff, but that was on the outside. It was Kim and her boyfriend, Oscar Delancey, who started the trend of calling Lydia Mayer "Bitch Spice", which eventually spread throughout the football team. She hated Lydia, Jill and Maria because she was jealous. The three seemed so sure of themselves, and in Kim's opinion they had no reason to be. They were constantly fighting back and forth, several things written on bathroom walls. They all were a threat to Kim's relationship, and in her mind that wasn't fair. 'I'm queen of the school, how dare they steal MY boyfriend's attention?'
Kim's best "friend" was Jackie Josey. Who not only had an irritating name, but an irritating personality. She was what one would call a ditz, dumber than dirt and not the most colorful crayon in the box. Jackie was known for her large chest, which she often flaunted, and her ridiculous threats to anyone who came out and called her stupid. You see Jackie thought she was tough, but she was anything but. She was sweet and naïve, and extremely slow.
The popular kids were a large and varied group. But they all dressed alike, talked alike, and did EVERYTHING alike. Spec's Voss always thought that they were a weird cult that you enter at your eleventh birthday. They all seemed so flawless, always utterly, and eerily happy. But no one that happy could be fine. If the two groups only knew each other, only listened to each other, they may have been friends. Social stigma stopped any chance of all that though, and the groups stood divided. Theories on both sides of what they were really like, new hurtful words to say, retaliation. It was a stupid and small war, but it raged hard.
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Tony: If you flake around with the weed, you'll end up using the harder stuff.
-High school Confidential-
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Skittery never admitted it but he was really hurt. His ego got in his way of telling her how he really felt.
Skittery's friends took to mocking Jess whenever possible. In fact they down right hated her.
Blink Kenny claimed that: "most girls aren't worth anything. She was always a poser anyway." He tried to get his friend to forget about lost love by pulling him even deeper into drugs and debauchery. They were arrested several times throughout high school, and all the popular kids bought their drugs from the pair. Including some of Jessica's new boyfriends, who were always charged more.
By the end of high school they were both major pot heads, and they experimented with more serious stuff too. They were a big fan of pills, they were easy to hide and sometimes the easiest to get. Skittery took 60 Robitussin pills on the first day of Spring Break Junior year to get a hallucinating high. He passed out on the floor in Samantha Harris' living room, where he stayed for the rest of the break, completely missing Easter.
Samantha Harris had been Jessica's best friend in middle school. Sam's parents didn't care about what their daughter did, just as long as she didn't get caught by the police. On her eighteenth birthday Sam's mom made her special brownies; an interesting gift choice from a mother. Sam was pretty, and shall we say free with herself. She had many boyfriends, all who knew her well. Sam also had her tongue, and nipples pierced along with a tattoo on her lower back. Girls in school came to her about "sexual" advice and she was always completely un-prude in her answers. Sam's house was where the "bad kids" hung out, due to her liberal, once hippie parents.
Spot Conlon drove his dad's old El Camero and constantly smelt of pot. He had what teachers called an "attitude problem" and he really didn't care. "Fuck school, it's only for losers anyway. If you need some fat guy in suspenders to get you to read then you don't deserve to read." Spot was a very intelligent kid, but he felt that learning what the school wanted him to would be the weak thing to do. Spot was sick of "going with the crowd" so he was constantly breaking against that. He felt that rebellion was the only thing that made sense, so he fought to never comply. His parents were done worrying about him and he was another teenager, left to make his own decisions, and face the consequences.
Spot's girlfriend was Teri Brown, another sexually promiscuous member of the group. In fact they all were, but its high school so what do you expect? In any extent Teri was madly in love with Spot Conlon, and he often treated her horribly, breaking her heart on several occasions. She put up with it though, not exactly sure how else to deal with it. Whenever the couple broke up she would go on a tirade of drugs and sex. Hooking up with as many guys as was possible to get her mind off of Spot. She was a violent girl for her small stature and got in a couple fights during her NPHS career.
These were the real outcasts of the school. They only ever talked to each other and The Dorktastics (it was decided that because of their differences they were okay). They spent most of high school across the street on the sidewalk, smoking. The Elitists thought of them as slackers, but what they failed to see was that they themselves were also freeloaders. They were all always talking shit about each other, the three groups slinging mud like it was a Presidential election.
But it was just high school.
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--I think I've seen SLC Punk! one too many times, because everytime I think of modern-day Skitts I see him with a mohawk, saying "how goes it", skanking and driving to Wyoming to buy beer.
--Expect this story to be angst-tastic in the upcoming chapters.
--This next chapter's title is "Expect it to change."
--REVIEW!
Sapphy— yes, poor Bumlets. AND DORKS RULE! Ha-ha!
Dreamer—thanks for the support. You reviews are very encouraging. GO YOU!
::WARNING:: Theres is mucho amounts of cursing and drugs in this chapter. Whoops. Don't read if you're a little'un or offended by such things.
**********************************************************************************
I do not like high school. The cafeteria is called the "Nutrition Center," which is strange. There is this one girl in my advanced English class named Susan. In middle school, Susan was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy. To tell you the truth, she doesn't like to admit she's in the advanced English class, and she doesn't like to say "hi" to me in the hall anymore.
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower-
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Jack Kelly was not the only new member of the popular crowd.
Jessica Mirra was a member of the "bad kids" group. You know the kids that started smoking way back in seventh grade. The group who wore concert t-shirts from bands that no one had ever heard of. She was a "badass" writing graffiti on the bathroom walls and smoking pot in basements across NP. Jessica barely got through middle school and was constantly getting grounded. This just made her sneak out and left her parents in an upset heap; frantically calling all of her "friends", trying to find their precious daughter.
The Mirra's couldn't understand why their daughter was acting like that, being so "rebellious and Godless". Their son, Kenny Mirra, was the star of the football team. Their daughter was beautiful, and once had "normal friends", including Jill Greene, who they regarded as a respectable young girl. Jessica had even been a cheerleader once for Pop Warner Football. Her parents were near the breaking point. Mrs. Mirra almost called into the Ricki Lake show, she was that desperate.
The reason for Jessica's streak of rebellion? Peer pressure. Cliché, but that's what it was, plain and simple. She made friends with several of the bad girls, and was mostly close with Samantha Harris and Teri Brown. They introduced Jess, (she was Jess now, they liked that better) to her first love. And she fell hard. His name was Skittery Dilger and he was tall, dark and handsome.
And a "bad seed". Unlike the Mirra's, the Dilger's were known for their bad behavior. Skittery's father was in jail for almost all of his young life, on counts of drug possession. Skittery's mother was a nurse, who kept long hours and made little money. She was sick of hearing from the school, no matter how often they claimed that they may have to kick Skitts out for discipline reasons.
Skittery loved Jessica, no matter how bad of a kid he was he still loved her, but he loved "Jess" the drug-doing, "bad" girl. Skittery didn't know the real Jessica, who was extremely hurt by all the pain she was putting her family through. Jessica also felt great remorse for losing her virginity; she was aware that she definitely was not ready for it when it happened. Jessica was fed up with all the pain that came with her group of friends. Deep down she knew she was faking it. She wasn't a bad ass, she liked some of the people they remarked as weak and "conforming losers". And she hated smelling like pot. So at the end of eighth grade she broke up with Skittery, and tried out for cheerleading…praying that her drug test results would not reveal any illegal behavior.
She was a little rusty but she had always been a natural at gymnastics. She easily made varsity and joined the crew. The crew was large, "The Elitists".
The Elitists were the group chosen for looks and "personality", some weren't that bad, but most were cruel and taunting to anyone different. They included Racetrack Higgins, who was really a star of nothing; he was just an all around hilarious guy. He was best friends with Mush Meyers, star of everything, and Mr. Nice Guy. The two were constantly pulling pranks and being idiots around the halls of NPHS. They became good friends with Jack and nicknamed him "Cowboy" after a night of stupidity and drinking. How no one saw THAT as "gay" behavior was beyond Bumlets Osorio, but he kept that thought to himself.
All the girls fawned over the trio, who gladly accepted the attention. They all went through several girlfriends, charming their way through the school roster. They weren't that bad to "The Dorktastics" they kept their distance and chose to ignore them instead.
The girls did not ignore however. Kim Dish was the worst. She was beautiful and popular and all the other typical Homecoming Queen stuff, but that was on the outside. It was Kim and her boyfriend, Oscar Delancey, who started the trend of calling Lydia Mayer "Bitch Spice", which eventually spread throughout the football team. She hated Lydia, Jill and Maria because she was jealous. The three seemed so sure of themselves, and in Kim's opinion they had no reason to be. They were constantly fighting back and forth, several things written on bathroom walls. They all were a threat to Kim's relationship, and in her mind that wasn't fair. 'I'm queen of the school, how dare they steal MY boyfriend's attention?'
Kim's best "friend" was Jackie Josey. Who not only had an irritating name, but an irritating personality. She was what one would call a ditz, dumber than dirt and not the most colorful crayon in the box. Jackie was known for her large chest, which she often flaunted, and her ridiculous threats to anyone who came out and called her stupid. You see Jackie thought she was tough, but she was anything but. She was sweet and naïve, and extremely slow.
The popular kids were a large and varied group. But they all dressed alike, talked alike, and did EVERYTHING alike. Spec's Voss always thought that they were a weird cult that you enter at your eleventh birthday. They all seemed so flawless, always utterly, and eerily happy. But no one that happy could be fine. If the two groups only knew each other, only listened to each other, they may have been friends. Social stigma stopped any chance of all that though, and the groups stood divided. Theories on both sides of what they were really like, new hurtful words to say, retaliation. It was a stupid and small war, but it raged hard.
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Tony: If you flake around with the weed, you'll end up using the harder stuff.
-High school Confidential-
******************************************************************************
Skittery never admitted it but he was really hurt. His ego got in his way of telling her how he really felt.
Skittery's friends took to mocking Jess whenever possible. In fact they down right hated her.
Blink Kenny claimed that: "most girls aren't worth anything. She was always a poser anyway." He tried to get his friend to forget about lost love by pulling him even deeper into drugs and debauchery. They were arrested several times throughout high school, and all the popular kids bought their drugs from the pair. Including some of Jessica's new boyfriends, who were always charged more.
By the end of high school they were both major pot heads, and they experimented with more serious stuff too. They were a big fan of pills, they were easy to hide and sometimes the easiest to get. Skittery took 60 Robitussin pills on the first day of Spring Break Junior year to get a hallucinating high. He passed out on the floor in Samantha Harris' living room, where he stayed for the rest of the break, completely missing Easter.
Samantha Harris had been Jessica's best friend in middle school. Sam's parents didn't care about what their daughter did, just as long as she didn't get caught by the police. On her eighteenth birthday Sam's mom made her special brownies; an interesting gift choice from a mother. Sam was pretty, and shall we say free with herself. She had many boyfriends, all who knew her well. Sam also had her tongue, and nipples pierced along with a tattoo on her lower back. Girls in school came to her about "sexual" advice and she was always completely un-prude in her answers. Sam's house was where the "bad kids" hung out, due to her liberal, once hippie parents.
Spot Conlon drove his dad's old El Camero and constantly smelt of pot. He had what teachers called an "attitude problem" and he really didn't care. "Fuck school, it's only for losers anyway. If you need some fat guy in suspenders to get you to read then you don't deserve to read." Spot was a very intelligent kid, but he felt that learning what the school wanted him to would be the weak thing to do. Spot was sick of "going with the crowd" so he was constantly breaking against that. He felt that rebellion was the only thing that made sense, so he fought to never comply. His parents were done worrying about him and he was another teenager, left to make his own decisions, and face the consequences.
Spot's girlfriend was Teri Brown, another sexually promiscuous member of the group. In fact they all were, but its high school so what do you expect? In any extent Teri was madly in love with Spot Conlon, and he often treated her horribly, breaking her heart on several occasions. She put up with it though, not exactly sure how else to deal with it. Whenever the couple broke up she would go on a tirade of drugs and sex. Hooking up with as many guys as was possible to get her mind off of Spot. She was a violent girl for her small stature and got in a couple fights during her NPHS career.
These were the real outcasts of the school. They only ever talked to each other and The Dorktastics (it was decided that because of their differences they were okay). They spent most of high school across the street on the sidewalk, smoking. The Elitists thought of them as slackers, but what they failed to see was that they themselves were also freeloaders. They were all always talking shit about each other, the three groups slinging mud like it was a Presidential election.
But it was just high school.
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--I think I've seen SLC Punk! one too many times, because everytime I think of modern-day Skitts I see him with a mohawk, saying "how goes it", skanking and driving to Wyoming to buy beer.
--Expect this story to be angst-tastic in the upcoming chapters.
--This next chapter's title is "Expect it to change."
--REVIEW!