Ruthie stood in the lunch line waiting for the line to move, how long could it possibly take to decide between crap and crap, she thought. Once Ruthie got her food she joined Erica and Lindsey at their table. As usual Lindsey was sitting on her boyfriends lap making out. Erica was sitting next to some guy flirting with him; Ruthie looked at her best friends and thought about how much the two of them had changed this year, as well as her. Tristan came up behind her and sat down next to her.
"I guess I'll only being seeing you hear then," Tristan said smiling.
"Shut-up," Ruthie rolled her eyes.
"What's he talking about?" Erica asked she gave her that concerned look.
"I'm grounded for like forever," Ruthie said dramatically.
"Dram queen, "Lindsey said between kisses.
"Shut your mouth, oh wait you cant wouldn't want you to bite what's his names tongue off," Ruthie laughed.
"Ha ha, and it's Lance" Lindsey said sliding off his lap, forcing Erica to slide over. Ruthie just laughed at her friend's feeble attempt to prove she wasn't a slut. "Oh, your so much better miss I'm grounded for life! What'd you do?"
"Um, I was sort of a runaway this weekend, and your brother ratted me out!" She glared at Lindsey.
"Yeah I heard about that, I got in trouble but not that much, I'll be going to that huge party on Friday." Lindsey said cocking her head to the side and sighing at Ruthie.
"Anyway, I sort of came home high and then cursed David out the following morning and skipped church," Ruthie said. "Then came home drunk that night and left again and didn't come back till Monday night technically Tuesday morning. So my parents were pretty pissed this morning."
Flashback.
"Where have you been?" Eric screamed as Ruthie came in.
"I've been out, I'm so chill," Ruthie said.
"Chill, You know how much trouble you in!" Annie screamed.
"I don't care," Ruthie said flat out, dropping her bag defiantly in front of her mother. She stood there glaring at her mother in full attitude position, her arms crossed in front of her chest. Annie glared at her, speechless.
"What have you been doing the past twenty four hours?" Annie asked her sarcastically.
"None of you business, cause guess what? My life is none of your business, so I don't have to tell you who I'm out with where I'm going, or even who I'm sleeping with," Ruthie said smiling at her mother. Her mother stood there with her mouth hanging open.
"GO TO YOUR ROOM!" Annie shrieked. Ruthie turned on her heel and ran up the stairs slamming her door so hard she almost broke it.
End.
"You actually said that to her?" Erica said, her jaw hanging open. Ruthie nodded her head.
"I could give a rat's ass what my parents think," Ruthie said sipping her soda. "They think I have some drug problem now, so they won't sending me to buffalo like Mary." Ruthie laughed.
"Yeah right, they'll just send you to some intervention place, like everyone in this grade doesn't need one of those," Lindsey laughed. Erica looked at her wide-eyed. Ruthie started giggling at Erica's expression, Erica was such a goody two shoes and hated whenever they did anything wrong but went along with it anyway. The bell ending lunch rang, sending them all to class, as Ruthie, Erica, and Lindsey headed out of the lunch room they all kissed their respective boys bye.
"I'll see you after school," Ruthie smiled.
"But-"
"But nothing, bye" Ruthie smiled as she walked off laughing with Erica and Lindsey. Tristan could never figure out Ruthie, when he met her she was such a good girl or so he thought but he soon realized she wanted to prove everyone around her that she wasn't a good girl. Tristan felt like her ticket out of the PK spotlight.