A/N: Hm…
When Alex walks into science with her brain on autopilot. She walks through the room and takes her usual seat, but two things don't register in her mind as soon as she takes a seat. One; Serena is sitting next to her where usually it's Casey, and two; there is a dead frog in a pan on her table.
"Oh my god, what is this?!" she hisses upon noticing the rather slimy looking amphibian along with several dissection tools.
"That, Miss Cabot, is a frog." Dr. Munch states as he walks to the front of the classroom. "Today class, we will be exploring the anatomy of a frog, for our anatomy unit for the next two weeks. You and your lab partner will be responsible for the dissection of this frog all on your own, using the notes that we have taken over the past several days so I hope all of you have been paying very close attention." He concludes, clearing his throat exaggeratedly as he glares at Abbie who seems to be busying her self with talking to Olivia. "Miss Carmichael, is there something that the two of you would like to share with the rest of the class?"
"Nope…" Abbie responds blankly causing Olivia to snicker uncontrollably.
Munch sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose. There is always that one student…that one student that is just an epic pain in the ass every single day. "Miss Benson, would you please switch chairs with Miss Southerlyn?"
Serena blanches about three shades, and she looks up at her teacher in utters shock. Quickly raising her hand, she shakes her head as she realizes she refuses to be Abbie's lab partner. "Sir, if you don't mind…can I switch seats with Abbie instead? She and I don't work that well together." She explains, nearly melting under the deadly glare she's getting from the girl next to her.
"Very well." The doctor sighs before he wafts his hand in the air, motioning for them to make the switch.
"Sorry Alex…" Serena mumbles before she gathers her things and moves towards her new seat.
Alex groans and covers her eyes as she mentally curses all of the forces in the world that have allowed this to happen. 'I would be much better off doing this by myself.' She thinks indignantly before something clicks in her head again. Glancing over her shoulder, she notices how Casey is seated in the far back table of the room by her self; the same place that she was sitting when Alex first got there. In fact, she even notices that the redhead has converted back to her old conservative self complete with her glasses that she wore at first.
"You, uh, know we're supposed to start right?" Abbie speaks up, slightly startling the blonde out of her deep thoughts.
Alex jumps in her seat and turns back towards the icky looking frog in the pan. "Right…I see. Oh god, this is disgusting. When we were taking those notes, I never thought that we would literally be dissecting a frog…" she groans aloud as she picks up the scalpel.
"If you really don't wanna do it, I can."
"Yeah, and then fail the class for the rest of the school year? I don't think so." Alex huffs before she stares at the frog as if waiting for it to cut itself.
"Make the first incision straight across the throat." Abbie states after a few minutes of silence.
Alex narrows her eyes and fights the urge to roll them. "Wrote the answers on your hand, did you?"
Abbie shakes her head and rolls her eyes at the rather sarcastic statement. "Contrary to popular belief, I'm not an idiot. This school wouldn't have a girl's soccer team if I was."
"Could've fooled me."
"Are you going to sit there and insult me the rest of the class, or are you going to cut open the frog?"
"I've got it." Alex huffs again as she hovers the scalpel over the frogs throat for the first incision. After a moment of resistant hesitation, her hand begins to shake and she finally settles on handing the scalpel over to Abbie. "Here, you do it. I can't do this." she murmurs before glancing over her shoulder at Casey once more. She frowns when she sees that Casey has pretty much almost completed the assignment while the rest of the class has barely even started. 'Man, I really messed up.'
Later
Kim runs into just the person she was looking for as she makes her way to the pool. She hands Kylie Beale her notepad that she had left in their last period class, thankful that she had just caught the tall swimmer on her way out. She turns to leave when she sees about five girls blocking her way out the door. It doesn't take her a while to recognize Courtney Fields, Laura Sumner, Janet Lopez, Kristi Miller, and Morgan Harper from the varsity soccer team. Great, because this is exactly what she needs right now.
"What do the five of you want?" Kim asks exasperatedly as she just wants to move past Abbie's band of road dogs and get to class.
Courtney rolls her eyes and shoves the thin brunette back further into the swim gym where she and the other four surround her. "We've got a bone to pick with you Greyleck."
"I'm sure that it didn't take all of you to come find me to speak with me." Kim states blandly, starting to feel a little bit uncomfortable at being so close to open water. She sighs and shakes her head as she realizes what it is that they probably want. "Does whatever this is have to do with Abbie?"
"It might." Morgan speaks up with a shrug. "What do you think it has to do with? If you even think at all?"
"Cute…" Kim answers blandly with another eye roll.
"We heard about what you did to Abbie at that party." Janet says spitefully. "You're the reason why she had that bruise on her face."
"Yeah well your girl Abbie was molesting my friend. I wasn't about to stand there and let her get away with it." Kim states firmly, still feeling uncomfortable in the situation.
"It's your word, against everyone else's. Everyone knows that Alex willingly had sex with her." Laura says speaking up for the first time.
"You weren't even there, how the hell do you know what happened?"
"Long story short is, you mess with Abbie, you mess with us Greyleck. And you're gonna pay for it."
There isn't a whole lot in society that scares Kim, but seeing as she is definitely out numbered and maybe only five feet away from a pool, she feels a little more than threatened. "Y-you guys need to back off. You weren't even there, so you don't know what happened. Abbie was trying to hurt Alex, and then after I punched her she got shoved in the pool where she came out looking like a wet rat with rabies."
"Oh, we'll show you a wet rat."
Kim's eyes widen briefly as she moves to push her way past the girls but finds her self forcefully pushed back into the circle. She doesn't really know which ones but one of the girls swiftly punches her in the stomach before two of them shove her into the deepest end of the swimming pool. The five girls quickly run from the pool just as the final bell rings, all of them completely oblivious to the fact that the brunette can't swim.
After about a moment of hysterical flapping in the water, Kim holds her breath for about as long as she can until her body gives in to it's natural tendencies and everything slowly fades to black.
Connie exits the swim locker room with her headphones blasting in her ears as she hums to her self. She throws her towel over her shoulder and makes her way over to the bench to wait for the rest of the swim team so they can start practice. She's about halfway there when she swears that she sees something in the pool out of her peripheral vision. Frowning, she takes her headphones out of her ears and her eyes immediately widen when she realizes that it is in fact a person floating at the bottom of the pool.
Not even thinking twice, Connie tosses her phone to the ground and dives under the water to save whomever it is that has fallen in. Upon reaching the person, her heart stops beating and sinks drastically when she realizes that it's her best friend.
She wraps an arm around the unconscious girl's waist and quickly begins to swim towards the top of the pool. Once the two break the surface, Connie takes a deep breath to clear her airways. "COACH CAMPBELL!"
Immediately a woman in her mid to late twenties bursts out of her office upon hearing her name being called in distress. She quickly rushes over to where she can make out two teenaged girls floating in the pool and one of them looks to be unconscious.
"Connie, oh my god, what happened?!" the coach asks as she aids the teen in getting the unconscious girl out of the pool.
"I-I-I don't know! I came out of the locker room, and she was-she was underwater! I don't know how long she was there!" Connie stutters climbing out of the pool just as her swim coach gently lays Kim out on the ground.
The dark haired woman places her fingers over Kim's pulse point and swears in a hiss as she immediately begins doing CPR. "She's not breathing," she mutters quietly. "Connie, your friend isn't breathing; I need you to call 911."
Meanwhile…
"Where in the hell is Kim, she was supposed to meet me here like ten minutes ago. She's my ride home!" Serena exclaims with a sigh.
"Why didn't you get Connie to take you home?" Alex questions as she, Serena, and Amanda are waiting around outside after school has ended.
Amanda shakes her head in the negative at the question. "Connie has swim practice today. It's strange, Kim is usually the first one out here waiting for us and then she's the one complaining about how slow we are. That girl has the patience of a worker bee."
Alex lightly giggles at the comment before turning to Serena. "Well, if need be, I can always drop you off at your house."
"But…you don't drive." Serena points out with narrowed eyes as if that was the most obvious piece of information in the world.
"No, but I do have a motorcade, so I think it relatively balances out about the same. Besides, I used to take Casey home all the time…before she started ignoring me." Alex says quietly, feeling slightly ashamed for all that has gone on lately.
"You should talk to her." Amanda speaks up, noticing the awkwardness between the two lately.
"I don't even know if she wants to talk to me. It's like she's reverted back to her old self. She won't even look at me, she sits by her self in class and at lunch, she doesn't talk to anyone. I had to fucking dissect a frog with Abbie Carmichael today because Casey was sitting by her self and a certain SOMEONE decided to ditch me!" Alex exclaims in response.
Serena blushes and hangs her head in slight shame. "I-I said I was sorry Alex! Gosh, it was either you had to sit with Abbie or I did, and I just couldn't do it. Not after I let her…"
"Swipe your V-Card." Amanda finishes off nonchalantly, flinching when she realizes that she was thinking out loud. "Geez Serena, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say that..."
"It's fine…I'm just one of many I guess." Serena says with a small sigh.
The girls engage themselves into conversation once more but it all comes to an abrupt halt when an ambulance pulls up in front of the school. All of the students part to the side when a team of paramedics rushes out with a gurney.
"What the hell is going on?" Serena questions upon seeing the cops and the fire department pull up as well.
"Someone probably overdosed on ecstasy or heroine or something." Amanda murmurs with a shake of her head wondering just how many overdoses they're going to have.
"I'm not even going to ask how many times this has happened for you to end up saying it like that." Alex says with a dismissive headshake.
"Yeah well, all I can say is that I hope its Abbie and it's because she got trampled by the football team." Serena speaks up, earning a curious look from the other two girls. "What? I'm just saying…"
The quickly forming crowd of students begins to whisper profusely as the police offers make sure that they aren't crowding the door. Amanda, Alex, and Serena pale collectively when they see the paramedics reappear quickly pushing the gurney now carrying an unconscious Kim Greyleck towards the ambulance.
"Oh my god!" Serena screeches, moving to push past the crowd but is stopped by Amanda quickly grabbing her arm.
Moments later, Connie staggers out of the school in her swim tracksuit and her wet hair pulled into a ponytail. She makes it about ten feet before she drops to the ground and begins to cry hysterically.
"C-Connie what happened?" Amanda asks with widened eyes as they reach their hysteric friend.
"I-I don't know! I came out of the locker room after school ended and sh-she was just in the pool ! I had my earphones in so I didn't hear anything but there she was and-and I don't know why! I pulled her out and oh god guys, she wasn't breathing! Coach Campbell was doing CPR the whole time until the paramedics got here." Connie explains, crying harder as she has to retell the story. "No one was saying anything, and I didn't understand what it was they were saying and I just, I don't know if she's gonna be alright!"
Alex places her hand over her mouth and her own tears begin to fall while Serena crouches down to the ground and wraps her arms around Connie where the two begin to cry on each other's shoulders. The only person who hasn't exactly started crying yet is Amanda but that's only because she's too terrified at the moment to do so.
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