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𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 ≪•◦ ❈ ◦•≫ cherry and marcia and their minions walked over to me, some of the girls they hangout with don't like me much, some do while the others give me their resting bitch face.
"talia, i'm going out today, i need you to walk home or take the bus, it'll be freezing out so take off the jacket and put this on." cherry handed me her yellow hoodie that she barely wears.
"i'll be fine cherry, i don't-" she cuts me off.
"put it on now!" cherry demanded.
"alright, alright!" i stopped, took off the jacket to put on cherry's hoodie.
they all walk away, the assembly was starting soon but i want to be first in that gym to get to the back of the bleachers. johnny and ponyboy caught up with me, we were the first ones to make it to the gym before others, staff were busy taking seats by the center of the gym or were just setting up the mini stage.
i sat down where i've always sat since the beginning of the school year, pony snuck in his lunch even though lunch was in an hour. everyone began walking with their chatters going straight into their friend's ear, peter was walking with dana, a.k.a the school bitch. nothing about it made me jealous since i'm nowhere near peter's type anyway.
as soon as everybody was seated, principal wilson had the microphone by his mouth.
"good afternoon students, today we will be discussing the upcoming dance, a.k.a the snowflake dance." feet stomping on the floor rises "calm down please, last year's dance was a bit of a disaster with the flu and spiked punch going around."
i leaned my head in close to johnny "spiked punch?"
"a senior spiked the punch last year." he explained.
"oh." i still didn't get it.
"so as a well known school in tulsa, we as a community should keep you kids safe. so please do us a favor and go ask mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, your older siblings, or even your legal guardians if they could take part as a chaperone for the school dance," principal wilson smiled "more details will be in the flyer that is sent home to everyone."
basically the whole freshmen class groaned at the dumb idea, seniors were a bit amped up since they got to takeover the chaperone role in the school dance, hopefully cherry doesn't get the idea of being a chaperone.
the assembly was a wrap, lunch time was now, i grabbed my stuff and headed over to the cafeteria room. usually i'd sit alone or with my friend, cressida but she barely shows up due to the joint custody her parents are going through right now, she's been my best friend since 2nd grade, it all started over a fight over a broken crayon to us being best friends, we'd show off how much the "tooth fairy" gave us whenever we lose a tooth or read books to each other.
i miss cressida but somethings just aren't meant to happen, yep i'm getting old alright. ponyboy and johnny took the sides of my bench, two-bit and steve on the other, surprisingly i wasn't uncomfortable with them around me.
"talia, come sit with me and my friends." peter patted his bench, his friends all surrounding him.
"no i'm good." i continued to take more bites of my pb&j sandwich.
"well make sure to check your pockets if they feel empty." peter snickered, that went too far.
"they're not like that, ya know?" i turn to him, taking sips of my apple juice.
"they're greasers, ya know?" he mocked my tone.
"yeah they're greasers but they're not who you think they are." i rolled my eyes.
"i'm just looking out for you." peter turned his back, that was it.
i slid the clear plastic straw out of my juice box, ripped the clamps off to get an open hole, dumped the cold liquid onto his head. peter got up with apple juice spilling down his temples, melinda noticed and immediately dragged me to the office.
my arms were crossed, glares sent straight to me, melinda left the office but who gives a shit about her anyway. principal wilson walks out of his office, pushing dally out which was very weird since i thought the boy is a no show for school.
"dal, what are you doing here?" i am now the most confused person of all.
"i accidentally set a fire in the bathroom, now i'm never coming but hey, free pass?" he chuckled before leaving.
"oh if it isn't talia valance, come on in!" principal wilson motioned me towards his office "so what are you in here for?" his hands folded like the president who poses by their desk.
"well peter louis was being rude to my friend, ponyboy curtis," if only he was more to me "so i decided to be the better person and stick up for him. that didn't end well when peter got a small box of apple juice poured on him."
principal wilson nodded at my explanation "well, i totally understand that you're just being a friend for a friend but you know this school doesn't tolerate students harassing others," who said i was harassing peter?! "and for that, you will serve detention tomorrow afternoon, and yes i will speak to mr. louis."
anger boiled through my blood, i put on a fake smile and exited out of his office, now this school's up for nothing but shit.
