Antonia had been doodling in a sketchbook while she waited for the bell to ring. She was in her health class sitting with a group of girls that were talking about the hottest celebrity drama. Antonia laughed with them anytime they said something stupid and listened to their secrets. Girls were interesting that way. Some girls are very open to sharing stories and talking about personal issues within a few weeks of knowing them. Although Antonia knew not to share anything too serious with them, she would still give in her two cents. Originally the group that Antonia was sitting next to was the group of obnoxious football players in her world history class. Unfortunately, her interactions with them got ugly very quick. They began to make little inappropriate jokes with her thinking it would slide through. Antonia wasn't really up to date with some of the slang terms the boys would use especially if some of them were speaking Spanish to each other. She for sure could pick up some terms since it was not that different from Italian. During the second week of school, Antonia was writing down notes when she had observed that one of the boys kept looking over at her frequently. He kept pointing towards her hair and she had put in the back of her mind that they were probably overreacting to her hair being in space buns. When she had packed her bags, one of the girls in her class came up to her. "Oye." She had turned around to face her. "I know you're like British y like you might not know other languages, but you need to stop sitting with those guys." Antonia looked really confused and responded. "I don't understand? Yes, they're quite annoying but they're tolerable." One of the other girls interjected. "No wey, like they were making fun of your hair. Like there's a spot on the back of your head where it's like a little clump of hair gel. It's all dried up white and they were basically saying you have cum in your hair." Antonia's face began to feel warm. "...oh" she said. "Yeah man, they're fucking nasty. Honestly if you want… you can sit with us. I feel like they have been saying other stuff too, but you might not know about it." Antonia wanted to walk up to those boys and slam their heads against the wall. She fantasized about seeing them the next day and ripping their shirts off and hitting them with the hardest studded belt she owned. She wanted to send them flying off the highway. "Thanks love. I don't mind joining you."
Antonia went to the cafeteria bathroom and peered from her phone camera to the mirror to angle the view. "Those bastards." Those boys were commenting on the white spot beside her ear. Antonia knew that she couldn't trust them and would avoid talking to them. Antonia had told her friends at lunch what happened and felt embarrassed. She felt even worse when Wally was screaming with laughter and fell out of his chair. This made Antonia want cry as everyone in the cafeteria was directing their attention at them. Karen helped redo that side of the hair and Nicole just reassured her that they had nothing else to talk about and probably are too stupid to have girlfriends. Before leaving for her science class one of the other friends from her health class shouted, "Is that the leftover you saved for lunch from this morning?" The group began to hoot and holler when suddenly Jiya walked up to one of them, and threw his phone in the trash can. "Shut the fuck up and mind your own business." A skinny brunette and blond boy yelled about how much of a bitch she was and Jiya completely ignored them. She grabbed Antonia's arm and pulled her to class "I hate this place."