𝐆𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 || #𝟏

Chapter 42

"I never thought she'd be the type of person to do that," Jolene commented - looking at our mean teacher. She was writing up questions for us to do in our textbook, and was also yelling at Iris for breaking dress code. Again.

Her skirt was a bit too high for school, not to mention, it was also kind of transparent and you could faintly see the outline and colour of her underwear. I tried my best not to pay attention, but it was very difficult considering that her underwear had a picture of Sofia the First. 

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Dinner is awkward. Especially since it's with Luke, Claudia, my mum and me. Claudia keeps boring the heck out of everybody by talking about law related things, and the most interesting cases that she's read out. She also starts talking about her favourite television show, suits. This seems to perk Luke up, as he's also watched it. My mum keeps on trying to ask him questions about his personal life, but Claudia keeps on interrupting.

"So," Claudia swoons, taking a swig of her glass. "Who's your least favourite character? For me, I really don't like-"

"Honey," my mother sighs. "Maybe we should change the topic of our conversation, Luke, how's your family?"

"I have an older brother," he smiles. "My mother and father aren't usually around though, they are on a long business trip."

"What would you like to become when you're older?" My mother politely asks.

Luke thinks for a moment, "I think... Well, it's not really set in stone, but I'd really like to become a brain surgeon."

Claudia snorts, and everybody stares at her. "What? I'm sorry, it's just that being a brain surgeon is... Yucky, no offense. You get paid to break people's skulls and poke your fingers around in them."

"Technically, they don't break the person's skull," I correct. "Also, it's called a craniotomy."

"How do you know that?" Claudia suspiciously asks.

"I studied brain cancer back in primary school for one of our projects, you even came to the event. Were you even listening when I was presenting it-"

"No offense, but I was much more interested in that one stall... What was it..? The one about Jesus. They also had autographs from Jesus, I liked that stall," Claudia remembers.

She's talking about Emily's stall. Emily had studied religion, and as a joke, she created autographs from Jesus. She got a picture of some random man from the internet that looked like Jesus, and then grabbed a pen and started writing his signature in untidy cursive. Needless to say, our teacher got really offended and threw the autographs out. However, she had already passed them all out, and almost everybody in the event was wearing Jesus badges.

"Claudia, you can barely hold yourself in court," I shot back. "No offense, but you can't keep on using your ethnicity as a way to win cases."

"I mean, I've got to use what I've got to use... Don't I?" Claudia mumbles. "Work smarter, not harder. Right?"

My mother groans, cutting into a piece of chicken sitting on her plate. She notices that I'm not eating any meat, and starts to get offended. "Why haven't you eaten any meat?"

"Um. I'm trying to be vegan," I awkwardly say. "There's this vegan cook at school called Katheryne, and she's really crazy about being vegan. She physically maims kids who aren't vegan."

I'm not joking. The other day, Brandon asked for a meat hamburger and Katheryne got very mad at him. She, and Belle got on the food trolleys and started patrolling the cafeteria, ramming into anybody who was seen eating meat.

Sadly, Lilac was eating a tuna sandwich, and when Katheryne saw this - she rammed into their cafeteria table. Alexis, and her friends flinched in fear, as Katheryne pulled out her pink ukulele and started singing a song about being vegan. Lilac continued eating her sandwich like nothing happened, and Katheryne first: grabbed the sandwich from her hands. Second: Threw it in her face, dragged her arm, pulling her out of her seat and shoving her into their food trolley. She sat down shamelessly, tucking in her knees as Katheryne and her devoted friend ran around the perimeter of the room.

The principal walked in on this sight, sent Lilac to the nurses office, who evidently only gave her a bag of ice - and sent Katheryne to solitary confinement. Solitary confinement was basically just locking somebody in the bathroom for disabled people. As you passed by it, you could hear her swearing, kicking and yelling about being vegan.

"Well that is terrifying," my mother commented. "Why hasn't she been fired yet?"

"I asked that question as well," Claudia proudly states. "And I found out, using my lawyer skills, that Katheryne is actually the principal's younger sister!"

I cough, choking on my water. The water slips down the wrong pipe, and seeps into my lungs as I gasp for air. "First off, I can see the resemblance. Second, you do realise that paralegals also research-"

"No," Claudia cuts in, holding up her right hand. "Also, when I graduate law school, pass the bar and become a lawyer - I will sue her and the school for physically abusing the students there." Everybody is silent, "what? You can't tell me that she doesn't deserve it!"

Luke shrugs his shoulders, slightly nodding his head. "I mean, you aren't really that wrong."

"See? He gets it! Why don't you?"

"Probably because by the time you become a lawyer the statute of limitations will prevent you from actually being able to sue-"

"Jasmine," Claudia prickly smiles. "If you want to become a lawyer just like me, you could've just said so!"

I stare at her blankly, setting down my cutlery. "First off, I have no intention of becoming a lawyer. Second of all, what makes you think that I will be able to actually hold up in court well - and third of all... Who's parked outside?"

The sound of the car slamming registers with everybody's ears, and then there's a loud, aggressive knock on our door. My mother stands up, walking towards the door, slightly opening it.