BAD OMENS ✬ luke hemmings

1.0 | community day

Community day.

The once in a blue moon opportunity, or effort, the school and Student Council puts in to make sure that all the students get a break and get to better build their trust and relationships with one another by doing activities such as; a scavenger hunt, mindful coloring, or basketball – because they always choose basketball as the default sport – before all the grade merge and gather together in their designated house teams.

Blue, Red, Green, or Yellow. It's so picture perfect, isn't it? And of course, Blue and Red are always the winners of whatever activities they have to do to rack up fictional points and force school spirit.

All the seniors are gathered outside the cafeteria, sitting on their designated lunch tables. Luke and his friends on one, Aria and her friends on another. All the homeroom teachers are standing around, as the grade-level coordinator stands in the middle of them announcing the day's agenda.

"Okay! First up on the agenda, which was sent to all of you, we are doing grade level activities for the first two hours before you all break into smaller groups for what you selected on the form sent to you last week."

Aria leans in, "You all are coming over after school right?" She whispers, hoping not to attract too much attention from anyone around.

"Yeah, I told my mom that I'm sleepover too." Sade replies, "I'll just wait in the library with Michael for you." She says, remembering that Aria is still expected to participate in some – friendly – fancy after school detention.

"Practice ends early today, so I'll be done by four." Jonah adds. "Sade and I can drive to yours together, because there's no way I'm going to squeeze into those foldable back seats."

Jonah usually takes the bus, he's got his license, just not a car. Fortunately, for today his mom isn't working, meaning the car is his for the next 24 hours. Perfect timing as well considering he doesn't have to squeeze into Aria's car, and he can drive home.

"Are we going to Calum's?" Sade asks, having been updated on the group chat for the last couple of days. "If we are, I need to tell my mom so she doesn't freak out when she checks life three-sixty."

"Why would we go to Calum's?" Michael questions, rolling his eyes at the thought, "We'd just sit around a bunch of people that don't even like us."

"They don't like you Michael," Jonah laughs. "They're cool with Aria — except Luke — and they haven't decided whether they like Sade or not."

"That's because they don't know who I am," Sade comments, "even though I've been here for a year, but whatever." The girl is salty, upset, annoyed by the fact that she's been at this school for a year and yet some of the 'conventionally attractive's' don't seem to acknowledge her or learn her name.

"How can they not like me?" Michael asks, "I've never even talked to them."

"That's the problem," Jonah says, "they find you all entitled."

Both Michael and Sade scoff at the remark. Entitled? Them? That's rich, coming from the most entitled people in the school. As if Sade walks around purposely ignoring them, or that she only talks to the people in her inner circle. And sure, Michael has said some shit and gotten into some drama within that group, but that shouldn't deem him entitled, should it?

"Entitled?" Sade repeats, "That's so fucked."

"We're the entitled ones and not Aria?" Michael says, pointing to his best friend, "She's the most entitled one out of all of us!"

"It's not about that, Aria talks to the girls. She's on good terms with them, and she's friends with Chiedza." Jonah explains, "You two, however, I can't say so much."