madness and ecstasy // leo valdez

- jetty jumping at the grand canyon-

idk if you guys have ever heard of jetty jumping but i'm australian so- 

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As they wandered around the exhibits, Coach Hedge would shout occasional comments to keep them in line. It didn't work as much as he would have liked. He sounded like he wanted to kill them all. It was okay.

Teqi wouldn't die anyway, if this turned into a horror movie.

Jason would be the pretty girl at the very start who runs up the stairs instead of going into the street and dies straight away. Piper would be the cool friend, the one the directors couldn't kill off because they're the only queer person in the whole movie and they have the funny one liner when they find out who the killer really is. Leo would definitely be the horror movie nerd with moles that everyone falls in love with, even though they were supposed to like the jock. 

There would be no love interest. They probably dipped before the movie even started in the first place. Her life was just that pathetic.

Piper explained horror movie lore a lot. She could probably get a PHD in it.

Teqi picked at the scar on her pinkie. Leo was standing next to her, pulling popsicle sticks and rubber bands out of his pockets. He twisted the snapped hair band around a pipe cleaner.

A group of girls kept looking over at Piper and Dylan. They were wearing bike shorts and White Fox branded hoodies in hideous bright colours like orange and teal. Their bleach blonde hair was held back by claw clips.

Teqi pulled apart a split end of her black hair. Her brown roots were starting to show at the top.

One of the girls, who was infamous for vaping in the bathrooms and setting off the alarms instead of going onto the roof like any sane person ever, called over, "Hey! Piper, does your tribe run this place?"

The other girls exchanged glances. One of them frowned, "Liliana, that's racist."

"But I don't hate black people," Liliana argued. A bit of her hair was caught in her hoop earrings. "I listen to Tyler, The Creator. Duh."

Piper and Leo exchanged a glance from across the room. Teqi's gum became rancid. It felt like she was chewing acid that was dissolving her teeth by the second. But there was no acid. It was over.

Nothing was dissolving anybody.

The sleeves of Piper's black zip up hoodie, the one with the little purple logo over her heart that she'd smuggled in when Olivia Rodrigo released her new GUTS merch, bunched up as she clenched her fists. She marched through to another exhibit. Dylan trailed behind her.

Teqi followed Leo and Jason to whatever they were supposed to be looking at and writing notes about, for whichever project was due this week. She'd failed all of them, except that one weaving excursion.

Her daisy-chain crown was superb.

The trio reached the far end of the exhibit hall, where a set of big glass doors led out to a terrace.

"All right, cupcakes," Coach Hedge announced. "You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of about seventy jumbo jets, so you twigs should be fine out there. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork, and I'm already full from lunch."