Two Tongue High-school

Chapter One

"Wonderful day, isn't it?'" I'd mumble such to myself as I look outside the window my desk just happened to stand closest to. The sky was cloudless and bright. The garden was filled with small animals running around and the school yard was filled with teens playing football or soccer. My thoughts quickly took over my mind.

I'd expect everyone to be whining about how 'school sucks' and 'they wish summer break was longer'. But this class was silent, almost as a mouse. I was sure the teacher was surprised. Most of the teacher's words were blocked out by the filter of my head. It was the average literature class, I usually loved and specialized in this stuff. But today, I had been forced out of my slumber by my parents after months of staying home. And it didn't feel good.

The teacher suddenly yelled out to a student in the back, ordering them to silence their voice. My train of thought drove away almost immediately, I looked up at the whiteboard sitting on the wall at the front of the room to see Mrs. Sallow. She was yelling at our grade's 'jock,' Lake Becker. Leader of the football team, P.E teacher's favorite and most likely to become a famous athlete along with his squad.

I envied him. But not because his fame or how jacked he was, not even because of all the people who wanted to date him. His way around sports in astonishing. I played plenty of sports myself, enough of them at that. But the ones he played, I either didn't know how to or was too scared to. And I don't know why I am.

I felt a sudden tap on my shoulder, my head whipped around and my attention went straight with it. Who I laid my eyes on was to no surprise, Emily Howard. She gave me a note, signaling to pass it to the person in front of me. 'This must be her friend,' I thought myself. I grabbed the note out of Emily's hand, a bit forcefully by accident. I tapped the girl in front of me on the shoulder just as Emily did to me, she turned in my direction. I was given an up-close sight of her beauty, her dyed blue hair swishing around in around as she turned, her lipstick gleaming in the ray of the sun.

By instinct, I just froze to take in what I just saw. She looked at me with the expression of confusion before taking the note out of my hands. After a second, I broke out of my trance, shaking my head and rubbing my temples before sitting up once again. I watched as the girl turned to Emily and gave her a nod and a following thumbs up. Then she turned back to the front of the classroom. I don't know why I reacted like that, but I know not to get involved with anyone who is Emily's friend. If it weren't for Lowri Montoya, I'd surely be their target. But for now, I remain untouched.

Not everybody likes Emily, and by 'not everybody' I mean absolutely nobody besides the jocks who try to hit on her or her best friends. Otherwise, she's literally Regina George herself. There's only one thing you need to know about her and her group to know if you like her or not, they're vicious and cruel. I honestly don't want anything to do with her, most are victims of their gossip and shit-talk.

I mean, hearing the stories my club has given me, it's a big no. They started a rumor about Bentley Travis, told the gossip girls that he stalks people in the bathroom, that spread around like wildfire. Teachers wouldn't let him have bathroom breaks until everybody forgot about it. But he sure didn't. Joel Quartz was bullied about tortured for a good amount of time, a while before he actually stayed from school for a month, people thought he moved until he finally showed up. I make it sound worse than it was, but that's just what I think it felt like for them.

A noise came from the object bolted to the wall, the ringing of the bell startled me a bit. Most of the students quickly packed up their belongings and attempted to rush out of the classroom. But Mrs. Sallow stopped them all. "You must pick up five pieces of garbage before exiting my classroom!" She'd shout. Everyone got to the floor, only one person using the broom because we did only have one of them. I picked up the right amount, then some extra. I decided to stay a bit after class to get my stuff in check.