10 | BURNING

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Okay, listen

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Okay, listen. 

I'm going to take over from now on 'cause we're really getting started. 

Where did we last stop? Oh right. 

The screaming girl.

Yes, that was nuts, because—

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO—"

Sachie made up her mind at that moment; she was not going to shut up. And she really didn't. 

Not a single person didn't cover their ears and stare in shock. Sachie's voice was surprisingly loud for such a demure young lady. 

Her bushy eyebrows furrowed, her tiny eyes tightly shut, she kept screaming and shaking her head left and right, her grizzly hair swaying with the movement. She looked like an enraged chihuahua.

Even when Anjo opened her mouth to try and shut Sachie up, she just refused and screamed:

"NO! NO I AIN'T SHUTTING UP!"

"Okay but can you at least—"

"NO! HOW 'BOUT YOU LEARN TO SHUT YA MOUTH 'N LISTEN?!"

"But—"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NO GOD PLEASE NO! JUST SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!"

Sachie just kept screaming and yelling and shouting as if her lungs wouldn't implode. She clutched onto her hair and glared at Anjo.

"FIRST, YOU YELL AT ME F' SOMETHIN' THIS RIDICULOUS! THEN YOU WASTE MY FOOD! THEN WASTE MILK ON MY HAIR!" She yelled. "JUST WHAT KIND OF STUPID DOORKNOB ARE YOU?!"

"Doorknob...?" Anjo uttered, confused.

"YES! DOORKNOB!" Sachie screamed. "JUST WHAT IS WRONG WITH YALL, HUH?!" She turned around to look at everyone in the cafeteria. "LIKE SERIOUSLY, WHAT DO YALL HAVE STUFFED INSIDE THOSE SKULLS?! DIRT AND CHEESE, MAYBE?!"

Anjo blinked.

"DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!" Sachie pointed a finger at her. "FURREAL, DID SOMETHING HAPPEN TO YALL WHEN YOU WERE TODDLER?! 'CAUSE WHY DOES EVERYBODY JUST WANNA FIGHT?! LIKE, WHAT HAPPENED TO COMPLAINING ABOUT HOMEWORK AND DETENTIONS, HUH?! WHAT HAPPENED TO RUNNING AROUND THE SCHOOLYARD?! REALLY, ALL YOU DO IS CLOBBER 'ROUND LIKE A BUNCHA COWS!"

Nobody dared utter a word. They just stared at Sachie as if they were curious apes gaping at their mentor, until they saw the humor in the situation and errupted into world-engulfing laughter. 

"Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! What the f*** is wrong with that monkey face?!"

"She's so old-fashioned!"

"Where do you come from?! The 80s?!"

The cackling was so loud it filled the whole cafeteria with buzzing noise. Even Anjo and the girls beside her had tears in their eyes, cheeks red and mouths wide and mocking grins. 

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