"Hey Torch." Lisa said as she blocked the girl's view of the TV.
"Hi." She said, not looking up. "Torch" was really known as Polly Clark. She resides at South Bell mostly because of her childish behavior and her constant pessimistic attitude toward her looks.
"You know Torch, that you're in my seat." Lisa smirks and Polly slowly looks up.
"I'm sorry." She says and quietly gets up and walks down the hall to her room. Lisa plops down on the chair.
"The name's Lisa!" She yells at the girl as she enters her room with a tear in her eye. "What a baby." She declares to the room of girls. They all turn to look at her. Lisa smiles and nods toward a blond girl with short hair. "Who are you?"
"Oh, I'm Georgina. Nice to meet you, um...Lisa?"
"That's right. What are you lookin' at Georgie girl?" Lisa indicates the book in Georgina's lap.
"Oh, This is the last book in the Oz series. It's about-" Lisa raises her hand to indicate that she isn't interested. She sees Valerie walking up the hall with yet another new girl. Lisa analyzed this girl. She seemed...different. She was definitely bored with Val's tour of the ward. Lisa smiles.
"Hey Val!" Lisa calls interrupting the new girl's tour. "Val! Come here." Valerie turns around.
"Not right now, Lisa! I'm in the middle of something!" The new girl turns around.
"No Val, really it's ok." She said, almost a little too quickly. So Val and the new girl walked down to the TV room.
"Yes Lisa?" Lisa looks at her, then at the new girl.
"Who's she?"
"This is Jamie. She'll be here for awhile, so why don't you just try to make her feel comfortable. And Jamie," Valerie walks to Georgina, "this will be your new room mate, Georgina. And Georgina, this is Jamie." Georgina looks up form her book and smiles at Jamie.
"Hi Jamie." Georgina says.
"Hey" Jamie responds as Valerie walks off to the Nurse's Station.
"Do you like to read? I love fantasy books, especially ones by -" Lisa cuts her off.
"What the hell are you? Some kind of book whore?" Georgina stiffens. She tenses up, more with emotion than anger.
"No, I just like to read. I just wanted to know if she did too."
"I don't" Jamie answers abruptly. Lisa and Jamie both look toward one another. Lisa could tell Jamie was going to be a lot of fun.
"Susanna...you can't keep acting up like this or you won't be able to graduate." Principal Lone says to a weary-eyed girl.
"Who says I want to graduate?" Susanna says with a smirk of victory. She had been to the principal's office numerous times in the last three months and it was always the same old talks: 'What about your future', 'What about college', 'What kind of husband can you get when you travel down this road'. Susanna didn't care about being a housewife. She would rather be manless forever if that were the case. Sleeping around wasn't entirely bad... "I'm not going to college anyways."
"Susanna, I think it is time you started taking your future more seriously." Susanna smirked, right in his face. She couldn't help it! This guy is so thick. She was taking her future seriously. She seriously didn't want that kind of future. But no matter what she said or did...he would never comprehend the message she was slapping him in the face with.
"So now this is funny? This is a laughing matter?" Principal Lone didn't like to be made fun of, laughed at, or be told that he was losing his hair. Since Susanna, at least once in the four years she has attended Lone's school had managed to make fun of him, hand him a toupee, and now laugh at him, Lone was fed up. "I guess we will have to get your parents involved..." Susanna's face paled.