Horrible, yet Strangely Familiar
Brooke hated school.
Well, not reallly. She hated school today. She was too nervous about 'coming out' to Harrison to concentrate on anything. Breaking up was one thing, but letting him know that he never had a chance, and that his best friend was now her girlfriend? How would he react?
"...and, of course, he'll be furious!" the teacher told the class. Brooke realized she didn't know what the woman was talking about.
"After all," she went on, "finding out the girl of your dreams, who've you've tried so hard to be nice to even after she dumped your sorry ass..."
Brooke was paying attention now. Why was everyone looking at her?
"...finding out that, not only has being with you turned her into a full-on, carpet-eating lesbo, but that it's your so-called 'best friend,' her own sister, that's she's slipping the fist too? Why wouldn't the boy freak out? Isn't that right, Ms. McQueer – I mean McQueen?"
Everyone was looking at Brooke now. "W...What's going on?" she asked.
"Why we were just discussing your little gay, incestuous, fling. After all..." the teacher said, holding up the textbook, "it's a helluva lot more interesting than this crap!"
"W...Wh.. What?" Brooke stammered.
"Wha... Wha... Wha..." the teacher mocked, "Jesus H. Christ, child! Have you spend so much time with your sister's thighs wrapped around your head that you've gone deaf?"
The entire class chuckled at that one.
"She's not my sister!" Brooke got out of her chair. She didn't know what was going on.
"Of course not, Ms. McQueer – I mean Mc... Ah hell, let's just go with McQueer – True anyway."
"Why are you doing this?" Brooke was in tears. Everyone was looking at her with disgust.
"Because, you pathetic freak," one of the boys shouted at her, "people outside of the backwoods think incest is gross, not to mention that it's two fucking dykes."
"Exactly," added the teacher, "and what do we think should be done about this most unnatural situation? Class?"
The student's hands were all raised, but they didn't wait to be called on to blurt out their answers.
"Lock the freak up," one girl said.
"Try electoshock" another added.
"No, just leave her alone with me for an hour," a mean-looking jock said in a smug tone, "I'll straighten the bitch out."
Brooke was openly weeping now.
"All good ideas class," said the teacher. "And what about the family? Surely such an atrocity will tear them apart. Can you imagine what her parents will feel, finding out they've raised such a deviant?"
"I'm not," Brooke said in-between sobs.
"Oh hush, you know what you are! You stupid girl." The woman circled Brooke like a vulture. "You decided to do whatever the hell you wanted and not give a sweet goddamn what it did your sisters, your parents, your friends. Hell, I don't even think you were using your brain at all – Maybe you were thinking with something else." The woman's hand gestured at Brooke's crotch, smirking at the class, who all laughed at her little joke.
"And what do the parents think? Let's ask them!" She motioned towards her desk where, spinning around, Brooke saw her father sitting.
"What do I think?" Mike said, with the most severe expression Brooke had ever seen him wear. "I think I've never be so disappointed in my daughter."
"Daddy?" Brooke's hand went to the sides of her head as she tried to make sense of it all.
"Don't act upset Brooke – you don't have the right – not after your selfish behavior's torn this family apart! Jane's leaving you know! and taking Mac, just to get Sam away from you."
"Sam! No!" Brooke shouted. Her face was wet with tears, her make-up smeared across her face.
"Yes, you selfish little freak. Gone for good, and it's all your fault, you just couldn't keep your damn mouth shut! I wish you'd died last summer. You'd have saved us all a lot of trouble!"
The words hurt Brooke like a slap.
They were meant to.
Even after the end-of-class bell woke her and she realized she'd been dreaming, those words hurt.
Across the hall, Harrison watched the classroom door. His blackened eyes revealing his true nature.
Snapping out of his self-induced trance as the bell rang, he realized, if the girls were going to tell 'Harrison' about their relationship tonight, that he needed to find Nicole today and step things up a bit. He shoved several people aside as he stormed down the hall to find her.