I hate dress code. Not to sound like a slut or anything, but is it so bad to wear a tank top to school once in a while?
Tori POV
I led Jade to the nurse and noticed that her eyes were wet with held back tears. "You don't always have to be Ms. Tough Girl all of the time, you know," I said with a little chuckle.
Jade scowled at me. "And you don't have to be little Ms. Annoying either." Her voice had fake cheer in it, before she went back to glaring at the ground. I rolled my eyes and we finished our walk to the nurse's office in an awkward silence.
"-you can be here in 10 minutes? Okay, that's good," the nurse said to someone over the phone.
"Vicky T? OMG! Oh my God, that rhymed. Anyway, YOU'RE BACK! I missed you so much!
It took a second for all of it to register, but then I remembered the girl in front of me. "Nat? It is you! I missed you too!" I screamed, and we did a little happy dance.
Jade gave me an annoyed look, her unswollen eye saying, 'hello! Girl with a black eye here!'
"Oh, yeah…" I turned to the nurse. "Um, Jade kind of got a… black eye."
"How?" she asked, sounding bored.
"Stupid bastard asshole jock," Jade muttered.
Nurse Connor raised her eyebrows. "He's turned to beating up girls now? Oh, J.R.," she said. "I'll get him to the office for this… again… and here," she said, and pulled a bag of ice out of the freezer under her desk. "And Ms. Natalie, it appears your 'headache'" she made air quotes, "is gone now. So how about I just call your mom back and tell her she doesn't have to come anymore."
Nat grimaced, her voice was weak. "Um… I guess I do feel better."
"Yeah," Nurse Connor said, and picked up her phone.
"Bye!" Nat screeched, and grabbed my arm, pulling me out of the nurse's office. Jade followed us. "So, what classes do you have when?" she asked excitedly as soon as we got into the empty hallway. Great, first day back and already being tardy. Oh well.
I pulled my schedule out of my backpack, but paused when the speakers crackled to life. "Jerold Regan to the front office please," the secretary announced. I saw Jade's lips twitch into a smile for a split second before she was scowling again.
"Well, we've both got Mr. Pumoso first," I said, and proceded to dig through my backpack for my schedule. "Then I've got Mr. Darren for reading second, theatre with… unknown? after that, fourth I've got Ms. Boylen for chorus, lunch, then geometry with Ms. Cockrell, after that Ms. Leonard for Spanish 2, and last I've got Biology with Ms. Edwards."
"We have almost the exact same schedule! Except for last period I have woodshop with Ms. Reid."
"Awesome!"
"We need to get to class," Jade said impatiently.
The speakers came on again. "Jade West to the front office please."
"Correction," Nat said, "we need to get to class."
Jade rolled her eyes and turned, starting to walk in the opposite direction as us. "Jade?" I called after her, "office is this way!"
Jade marched back. "I don't know this school," she muttered as she stalked past us.
Nat laughed and I smiled as we linked arms and walked to history.
Jade POV
I walked to the office, hoping I wouldn't get a referral on the first day of school. It was all J.R.'s fault anyway.
"Dumb… arrogant… idiot… blockhead… ass…" I said under my breath until I finally made it to the office.
J.R. was sitting in a chair, talking to the principal, and there was a pink scratch going down his face from his eye to his chin. I took pride in knowing that I caused it.
He pointed at me. "It wasn't just me. She did THIS!" his finger moved to the scratch on his face, "to me."
"Principal-" I looked the name plate on her desk… Amy Whitford, "Whitford, look at what he did to my eye!"
"Ms. West, we have no tolerance for fights on school property. Since you are new here, and this is your first offence, you will only have to serve lunch detention for a week. Until Friday, you will go to the auditorium and eat lunch in there. Are you taking physical education this year?"
"Yes," I said, confused.
"Convenient. I will need you to go change into your gym uniform."
"What's wrong with my outfit?" I asked. (Outfit link on profile)
"A shirt that says 'heroin killed the radio star' is inappropriate for school. Now go change. I need to write Jerald's referral."
"Um, excuse me, Amy," her face hardened, "I don't respond well to being told what to do. So I think I'll just leave this outfit on and go to first period."
"No, I think you will go get changed Ms. West. Unless you want after school detention."
I took a step forward.
She glared at me. "And in school suspension."
"You want to go there?" I said angrily.
The door opened and Tori rushed in, grabbing my arm. "She doesn't mean anything she said I'll take her to go change okay bye!" she yelled in one breath and dragged me out of the room.
"Why were you there?" I asked.
"I knew that would happen. I left Natalie at Mr. Pumoso's front door. Don't get in trouble on your first day of school. Oh, and there's his classroom." She pointed to a room across the hall. I started to walk towards it but Tori stopped me. "Where are you going?" she asked.
"Uh, to class, where else?"
"Well you have to go change into your gym shirt first."
I glared at her. "Funny joke," I said, my voice hard.
"Jade, don't get in trouble, just go get changed."
"Yeah, I don't think so." I reached for the doorknob, but Tori grabbed my arm, her phone in the hand. "What are you-"
"Just shhh," she said, pounding on the touchscreen with her thumb.
About a minute later her phone buzzed, and she handed it to me.
Jade, just go get changed
-the Beckster
I growled and clicked reply.
But babe, this is just stupid
-its TORI-ORI-ORI-ORI-ORI
I turned to Tori while waiting for him to text back. "Your signature is stupid."
"Thanks."
The phone vibrated again.
Jade
-the Beckster
FINE!
-its TORI-ORI-ORI-ORI-ORI
I shoved Tori's phone at her and stomped my way to the gym.
"Gym's the other way!" Tori yelled.
I turned around and kept walking, not showing my embarrassment.
Cat POV
André sat down next to me and pulled out his schedule. "Do you have an unknown person for theatre?" I asked.
"Yeah, who do you think-" André started, but was cut off by the bell.
"Hello class. As you have probably noticed, we have new students. Quite a few actually. To them, welcome to Pre-Calculus, I look forward to having all of you in my class. I'm Mr. Watson. Now, everyone, we are going to play a game. All of the Hollywood Arts students' names are in this hat. I will draw their names one at a time, and they will say one thing they like, one thing they don't, their favorite class, and a family member. First up, Sinjin Van Cleef."
He walked up to the front. "Hi," he said.
"Hi!" I yelled back. Everyone turned to look at me and I waved. "Shhh, Sinjin's talking," I whispered.
"Thanks, Cat," he said.
"You're welcome!"
"Yeah… So, one thing I like. Collecting teeth of the relatives of past presidents. One thing I dislike, having my head dunked in the toilet-" I realized that his hair was wet and saw some muscley guys in matching jackets high five in the back, "my favorite class is stage production and one of my family members is my sister Courtney. She likes crickets, wears glasses, and is blonde… I'm done," he said, and ran back to his seat.
"Okay," Mr. Watson said, and swirled the hat. "Caterina Valentine."
I gasped and giggled. "That's me!" I pointed to myself.
He sat there, and I wondered what he was waiting for. "Caterina?"
"People call me Cat."
"Cat, it's your turn."
"Oh… yay!" I quickly walked to the front of the class and heard someone whistle. "Hi, I'm Cat."
"Hi Cat," the people in the back who had high-fived said.
"Hi!" I flipped my hair back. "Um, okay, so, I like to sing, like this, laaa!" I hit a perfect G sharp over middle C and teeheed. "One thing I don't like… cheaters. Like once, when I was at karaoke doakie, a singing club, and then these two girls, Hailey and Terra-"
A guy ooohhhed. "She called you guys out!" he yelled, and pointed to two girls.
"Why would you say that to those two girls?" I asked.
The brunette stood up. "Oh yeah, I remember you. You were that talentless girl on stage. Where's the other one?"
I suddenly recognized her. "OMG! Hailey! Hi! How'd it feel to get beat by Tori?"
One of the guys in the back yelled, "burn!"
Hailey's face turned red and she sat down.
"Where was I? Oh yeah, my favorite class is acting, and one family member is my brother. He likes to make meat and he can get you anything you need. Like once-"
"Thank you Cat," Mr. Watson said, and handed me a slip.
"What's this for?"
"I'm going to need you to go change into your gym uniform."
"Huh?" I asked, and my voice cracked.
"Your outfit is inappropriate for school, and you need to go change." (outfit on profile)
"BOO!" the guys in the back shouted.
"I don't know where the gym is yet."
One of the guys in the back group stepped forward and took my hand. "I will happily show her to the gym," he said to Mr. Watson, then turned to me, "hello. I'm Landon, I'll help you find the gym."
I was a little confused but managed a slow, "okay."
"No Landon, go back to your seat. Cat, take a right when you get through the door and follow the hallway to the end. You'll see some stairs. Go down them and take the door in front of you that has 'girls' written across it. You should have gotten your gym locker number and combination in your packet. Your uniform will be in your locker."
"What's wrong with my outfit?" I asked.
Landon and his friends shouted, "yeah! What's wrong?"
"Tank tops are not allowed, shorts have to reach three inches above your knees, and heels above two inches are against the rules too. Now if you would just follow my instructions and go change."
"Fine," I said, and walked out the door.
André POV
I watched the jocks pat Landon on the back as he sat back down in his seat. "Nice try man," one of them told him.
Landon turned to them. "So I bet I can do her by the end of this month," he said, and I felt my hand tighten around my pencil. How can they say that about Cat? She's so innocent!
I stood up to go tell them off when the teacher called, "André Harris, your turn."
I walked to the front. "I like playing the piano, I don't like jerks, my favorite class is songwriting, one family member is my grandma Charlotte… she's kind of… insane…" I slouched back to my seat, and the door burst open to reveal Cat in exercise garb with… my sister? behind her.
"Hi André!" she said, waving at me. "I found Desiree in the hallway and I thought: Hey! Wouldn't Desiree like to see her brother right about now? So I brought her. Wanna hear a funny joke? It goes: What's the difference between roast beef and pea soup? Anyone can roast beef, but no one can pee soup!" Cat burst out laughing. "Get it, because peaing is not an action, it is a vegetable. Wait… PEEING IS AN ACTION! I get it now! That's even funnier!"
Desiree quickly walked over to me and whispered in my ear. "Was she dropped on her head?"
I shrugged. "No idea," I whispered back.
SO SORRY ABOUT THE LATE UPDATE! :(
RNR?