To Be Me

Touch-Nots

           "Seth Reynolds. He stays in the Dragon dorm second floor. He has the body of a runway model, great looks, and of course he's obviously very rich. His mother owns Ventures Park; all locations, a bunch of other amusement parks and a fashion company you must've heard of it. 'Upliftted'?"

Emma had to know what she was talking about. It was one of the top 5 fashion companies in the world.

"Wow that's quite big."

"It's ok. His dad owns Sunrise hospital. Also all Locations. Like in the world."

She emphasized so Emma could get a glimpse of why he wasn't someone to mess with while at The Elite.

Emma paid rapt attention as Natasha went on.

"Secondly, there's Harry Blues. He's-" Natasha tried to find the words-

"He's good looking I guess and has a well toned body but man is he a proud ass and damn right rude. Your typical rich kid and that's because his dad runs one of the top tech companies leading in AI development and his mum is a very sought after programmer who does project for Google in her spare time- or so he said. He's on the basketball team and has lots of girls and guys drolling over him and following him around like a bunch of flies attracted to a rotten fruit."

She rolled her eyes. "You get used to the sight."

Emma chuckled seeing her reaction. "I bet I will."

"The best would be to avoid him but don't let him catch on cause he hates it when someone doesn't adore him like everybody else."

"It seems to me that I won't have much to worry about though. I don't think any of them will have time for the scholarship student who they may consider a charity case so-" Emma made air quotes as she spoke.

"You may be surprised Emma. These rich brats are very surprising."

Emma quietly giggled.

"What's so funny?"

"I mean. It's really funny hearing you say that cause that's what everyone outside this school calls you all."

"Really?" Natasha chuckled.

"Well, you'll soon find out that not all of us are brats. We are rich though just not brats." She smiled then continued.

"Harry stays in the Dragon dorm. Top floor. Actually about that. Harry and Seth were both originally staying in the Fox dorm. The second floor if I remember correctly then suddenly one day, they decided to change. I personally think it's because of all the drama and sycophancy that goes on in there. The lesser kids oh so desperately clinging onto the higher ranked just for some attention or acceptance into what they believed is the highest class. So annoying. I was so sick of it."

She sighed then clapped herself back to reality.

"Anyway. There's Ryan Black. He's the only son of Tim Black and stays in the Fox's dorm top floor. He's the total opposite of Harry. He's good looking, kind, nice to people and a pretty interesting guy once you get to know him. Super friendly with everyone even with people in the Tiger dorm. Most of them don't really relate with people who are not in their dorm, they see us as lower class beings but he's pretty nice to everyone which isn't a usual trait of foxes in the school."

"Foxes?"

"Oh? Yeah we normally just address people by their dorm's name when talking about rank."

"Dorm's name? Rank?" Wait what?"

"You're not aware? That's a little surprising. Seeing how you knew of the ranking system I just assumed you would be aware of how it worked. Why do you think you were given a bronze keycard? It's the lowest rank in this school. Even the dorms have their names relating to rank. Wait, you really don't know all this?"

"No. I just thought our dorms were picked at random."

"What? Random?" Natasha tried to hold back her laughter. "I wish. Wouldn't life here be a whole paradise then?"

"What's that about then?"

"Well then. From the top."
Natasha pointed a finger upwards as she fell to the couch right next to Emma.

"The Fox dorm. It's for the top students in the school. The richest of the rich, crème de la crème, the 1% of the 1%. The fox is quite cunning so to be the best you've got to do as the fox does. Find a way out of any situation and strive to be the best. Their keycard is black just like some of their credit cards.

Then there's the Dragon dorm. The dragon burns all in it's path to get what it wants. Their keycard is golden-"

"Wait a minute. Wouldn't it be better if it switched. I mean the top two. It just seems like that."

"I thought so too when I heard it but it seems the fox can trick his way out of any situation. Even against a dragon it seems. Well to be a fox here, you have to."

"I see." Emma nodded attentively.

"The remaining two dorms hmmm- The Lion slays all in his path to get it's desire. The students there should be able to make their own path to the top no matter who gets in the way. Their keycard is sliver and then there was us.

The residents of the Tiger dorm." She spread both her arms in the air dramatically causing both of them to giggle.

"We are meant to be strong willed and should be able to survive in the wild just like the tiger. In all we do, if we ever want to see the top I mean. Some top students say it's because no matter how fast we run, we'll never be able catch up to them. Most bratty students that are higher than us adapt this meaning over the real one, but I think we can choose to believe whichever we want."

She ended with a soft smile.