Ok I'm definitely going to quote myself but it has to be done. "Everybody's free to feel good" is my English project movie. I wrote the script and starred as Juliet bows. Anywho I thought it fitting. It's basically what Juliet and Romeo really think. My friend who played Romeo is actually gay and at the end of the movie he says "Oh FORGET IT! I like Mercutio better anyway!" and Juliet ends up with Balthazar. My English teacher loved it, we got an A.
Juliet- Money, family, religion, nationality…those things are all pre-determined. So is love. So why should we let destiny stop destiny?
-Everybody's Free to Feel Good-
Race was hung-over. That's all he could think about. Oh and that Jill girl was kind of hot. Note to Self: Get to know Jill better. Race didn't really have the type of personality that made him worry about things like girls. He'd rather have fun with life than deal with all the issues that came with being a teenager. Race was "Anti-emo boy!"
Jack was still trying to figure out exactly what was going on. He seriously doubted that his old friends, especially Lydia and David, would forgive him for ditching them. He was starting to regret leaving his friends to play high school football. They had been there for him, stood behind him, and freshman year he had just walked away, with no explanation. It was Bumlets who needed an apology the most. Jack had sunk low enough to call him names along with everyone else. Bumlets had been his friend and Jack had betrayed him.
Kim and Oscar spent all of Homecoming screaming at each other. Someone spilled punch on Kim's pink taffeta dress and Oscar was too drunk to do anything about it. So she spilled punch all over his tuxedo. Apparently it was a rental and Kim was going to have to pay for it but Kim wasn't having that. Then Kim lost Homecoming to the one girl she despised the most. They probably despised each other because they were so much alike.
Jessica was sick of Jack Kelly already. He was far too clingy and he got all pissed at her for getting drunk. Skittery wouldn't have been pissed; he would've provided the alcohol. But Skittery was a long time ago, and Jack was now.
Jill secretly didn't give a crap whether or not Race was honestly interested in her. That was Jill's way of thinking: If that boy doesn't like me then the next one will.
Lydia told everyone that she hoped that Mush Meyers would forget her. Relationships were hard and complicated enough without the whole high school social groups getting in the way. But deep down she wanted everything but that to happen.
Bumlets secretly knew that Skittery was actually interested in him. Something in the way he kissed him made him sure of that.
David was not so secretly excited that he had actually smoked pot and gotten away with it. He was proud of himself for putting down his book and picking up a joint. But he would never do it again.
Maria and Specs were…Maria and Specs. Not much to say about them lately.
Sam's parents were so happy that she had been part of a protest for human rights that they bought her a dime bag.
Blink, Spot, and Teri decided that they wouldn't egg Race and Mush on the last day of school because they weren't all that bad. And because they had provided alcohol.
As for Jackie, well she was in Jackie-land. The magical place where the only thing that matters is shopping and herself.
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At 3:00 Monday morning Lydia woke up to the sound of pebbles at her window."What the fuck?" she called out sleepily. The noise continued gently as they hit against her window. She walked over and pushed the curtains to see Mush Meyers picking up pebbles. She opened the window and watched him for a second. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Oh hey! Good morning! Come outside because I need to talk to you," Mush responded enthusiastically.
"My parents drink every night and they're heavy sleepers, so spill because I'm tired as fuck and I need my beauty sleep," Lydia can be very cranky.
"We…..tomorrow….school…..its gonna be weird,"
"And…….."
"And I just wanted to tell you that I really like you. And I'm glad what happened, happened," Lydia smiled at his undying confession of "like".
"Ditto….night Mush."
"G'night Lydia."
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Monday morning, before anyone had gotten up, Bumlets and Skittery met at the picnic table on the hill above NPHS's track. They immediately went to kissing, filled with the kind of feelings they only ever saw in movies. The kind of kiss that when you saw it you always turned to your friend and said "that is so unrealistic".They broke and sat silently, their arms around each other. Skittery watched their breath turn white as it hit the frost. Bumlets thought of what Jill had always said, hardened by growing up with no father and watching too many episodes of Sex and the City: 'Ending up happy is a 'Suburban Relationship Myth'". The sentence kept replaying in his head. Skittery sensed his apprehension and took his hand.
"We better get going to school," he said softly.
Bumlets pulled Skittery into his arms and kissed him.
"I fucking hate school," Bumlets called out as they strolled towards school hand in hand.
"You've been hanging out with me way too much."
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Monday in school was not a typical Monday, but it wasn't a typical teen movie scenario either.In a teen movie everyone would be talking about how weird it was that Mush and Lydia were together and everyone would want to be her new best friend just because of Homecoming. Mush wouldn't want to date her because of the politics of high school and it would be stupid, contrived, and most of all….
Extremely unrealistic.
But in reality the only people who cared about Homecoming were the popular people. So suddenly Lydia had fifteen new friends. All were clad in mall bought clothes and designer tans. Lydia was clad in a second hand clothes from her brother and anemically pale skin.
Lydia was innocently trying to get to class when she was halted by girls she normally saw in sports uniforms. They had attacked her with 'congratulations' and questions until she was forced to make up an excuse and flee from them.
I'm not exactly sure how people would react to two boys holding hands in a teen movie because I've never seen one where such an event happens. I'm going to assume it went something like this:
Lots of giggles and teasing.
We were all meant to leave that behind in elementary school, right? How come the second that something 'unusual' happens we all go into an uproar, discussing in-depth the private lives of others? In high school everything you say and do is public fodder, open to debate.
Bumlets was used to it, but Skittery was oozing with anger. He had a temper and this wasn't helping him to suppress it.
Jill and David had gym together. Jill's mother wrote her fake notes once a month claiming she had asthma. David really did have it. So in gym they would sit on the sidelines. Jill painting her nails, Davey reading a book.
Most days they went unnoticed. The other kids joined into the mundane games of volleyball as the pair made clever jokes about them. They made up fake sex lives for their teachers, or they just sat in silence.
What Jill didn't know was that the infamous Racetrack Higgins had gym with them too. It was amazing that she hadn't noticed him. What with his constant yelling and screaming and running around like an idiot. Race was destined for two things: becoming a famous comedian, and going to rehab.
"HEY! It's two of my new best friends!" Race yelled at the pair, interrupting their silence.
"Hi Race," they replied in unison.
"Hey what are you guys doing this weekend?"
"Probably hanging out at Lydia's…why?" Jill couldn't believe it. Was Race actually going to ask them to hang out without being forced to by Mush?
"Why do you guys always hang out at Lydia's?"
"Her parents are never home," David replied.
"Oh…well we should do something," a boy from the crowd of jocks playing basketball called Race over to join the "fun" and he jumped up, waving goodbye to his new best friends.
"You do realize that there is going to be a massive party at Lydia's now, don't you?" Jill casually observed.
"Whoops."
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If you got the Harry Potter & the PoA reference then you get newsie filled muffins.
This was really long. Well long for me. GO ME!
I am queen of errors and leaving out words. I try but sometimes I fail…miserably. This is my sorry to all: SORRY! I hope this chapter didn't have too many though.
Erin- ff.net eats up loads of my reviews too. UGH! Thanks for the review though.
Sapphy- YEP! 7th graders. Twas uberly disgusting. Here is what happened on Monday. OH! I got your email. Thankies very much for answering my questions. COOKIES FOR YOU!
Braids-yummy! Skittslets! Kind of looks like Skittles. ANYWHO! Thanks for the review!!!!!
Dreamer- oh yes, one must love The BC. Davey smoking pot=a very funny visual.
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