The Revision [EDITING]

10: Study Hall Gossip

<<Chapter 10: Study Hall Gossip>>

"Oh my god, Kate, have you heard?" Sloane gasps lightly as she rushes towards my desk during our study hall, dragging Farrah in tow.

"No... Is there something important that I should've heard about?" I chuckle lightly before mumbling, "Now that's the question, isn't it..."

"Caroline made Serena start crying her eyes out! They were sitting by the lockers and Caroline was outright ignoring Serena!" Sloane starts blurting out.

"Oh, well that's rude." I grimace before looking back down at my math homework that I'm in the midst of completing.

"Yeah. Caroline kept making faces at Serena and the rest of us like we were the trash stuck at the bottom of her fancy-ass shoes." Farrah adds in, almost stoically, before adjusting her glasses and admiring her black nail polish.

"Yeah, it's true! I mean, Serena was being a little over dramatic, but still...." Sloane pitches in.

Don't get me wrong, I definitely am NOT Caroline's biggest fan, but Serena isn't exactly right in her actions either. She always makes things much more complicated than necessary, and honestly, she needs to just cut the attention/sympathy-seeking shit.

"Okay..." I slowly drawl out, getting up from the small, classroom desk that is crowded by my friends and walking over to sharpen one of my pencils. (To be honest, it's already sharp... I'm just sick of all of this drama).

But hey, on the bright side--graduation is next week! The end of the school year has totally flown by, thank God.

Well...

All juniors have to take some dumb ethics course next year, so I'm going to take it in advance over the summer instead. So, really, next week isn't the beginning of the summer for me.

"You're taking ethics over the summer, right?" Sloane asks as she walks up next to me, somehow redoing her curly, medium-brown hair up into a bun during the process.

"Yep, you?" Sloane has been hesitant to sign up, since--Well, it's summer school. And since the semester-long course has been condensed into two weeks, there's a hell of a lot of homework to go along with it.

"Oh, thank god... I signed up last night," she sighs in relief.

"Oh my god, have you heard?" Serena scampers into our classroom and right on up to us as she stands tall in her 4 and a half feet of gossip queen glory. So much for her 'crying her eyes out'.

"Yes...?" I quizzically raise an eyebrow as I look down to Serena.

"Caroline is moving to South Africa!" Serena screeches in a tone that seems a tad bit too overjoyed to be spreading the what-should-be-sad news, then proceeds to scamper across the room to spread the gossip train--her muddy-colored blonde hair swishing as she continues about the study hall classroom.

"Oh, shiitake mushroom," Sloane mumble in shock. (She never curses, but her substitutes tend to be fairly entertaining.)

"Wait, but didn't she and Finn just get together?" I ask Sloane, awe evident on my face. What the fuck is happening? Wait... Does this mean that Finn will be available? The poor guy probably feels like shit, though, with his girlfriend moving away and all.

"True, yikes... And Finn basically ignored all of his friends for the past year in order to get with her, so he's dug himself into a deep, dark hole," she grits her teeth as she does a once-over of the classroom.

"Yo, bitches, guess who's moving to a land far, far away!!" Rachel runs over to us with an overjoyed look on her face as she does a little happy dance, causing Sloane and I to chuckle.

"Caroline? Yeah, the rat has already made her rounds," I respond as I lean on the desk next to me. We're still standing by the pencil sharpener in the corner of the classroom, funny enough.

"She does look kind of like a rat..." Sloane comments and nods her head in thoughtful agreement.

"Wow... Why is she even moving? I had no idea this was happening," I say, still slightly in awe. Would she and Finn be able to pull off a long-distance relationship? I kind of doubt that... Yikes.

"Who cares? The snake is moving away! Woohoo!!" Rachel exclaims, causing a few people to look our way. Luckily, the study hall was already quite loud with chatter, so it wasn't too big of a deal.

"Hey," Natalia walks up to us and sets her over-stuffed backpack down in the chair next to the desk that I'm currently leaning on. You'd think it'd be over stuffed with books or some academic shit, but no--Natalia's backpack is stuffed full of earbuds, music, and random One Direction paraphernalia. She and Farrah both... Those girls have more One Direction photos on their phones than I have of dollar bills in my piggy bank.

I mean, I'm broke, but still... Besides my point.

"Where were you?" Sloane asks Natalia intuitively.

"Principle's office. Apparently Spotify isn't an 'appropriate use of study hall time'," She rolls her eyes and shrugs it off.

"That's such bullshit. Whether or not you get sent to the office is honestly just a matter of who can hit command quit the fastest on their laptop," Rachel grunts.

"Eh... It's true," I add in with a shrug.

"So Caroline, huh?" Natalia sighs and takes a seat on top of one of the desks. She was a Carolinn shipper at one point (weren't we all), but soon revoked that thought once she saw Caroline's true colors. But hey, the girl isn't half bad compared to some other people we've encountered lately.

"Yeah... Yikes," I say. "Do you think they'd be able to survive the distance?"

"U.S. to South Africa? Oh hell, no." Natalia says dramatically, causing everyone to double over in laughter. I think that I'm slowly starting to realize... I don't really care anymore. I think that my long-lasting crush on Finn has slowly begun dissipating. This is huge!

"I'm kind of with Natalia on this one..." Farrah adds in.

"There's no way in H-E-double hockey sticks. I hate to say it, but it's true," Sloane says, and we all nod in agreement just seconds before the bell rings, signifying the end of the study hall period.

"So... To lunch?" I say with a smile and a shrug as I swing my backpack over my shoulder.

"Yes! I'm starving," Rachel shouts as she pumps her fist up in the air and runs out of the room.

"Okay then..." Natalia mumbles, and we all laugh in agreement, following Rachel to the lunchroom. Hopefully it'll be something good to eat today, eh?

A/N: Hello my lovely readers! I apologize for the huge delay in update, but it's my summer break right now and I've been super busy on vacation and such. Well, mostly watching TV... Hehe (please don't hate me :* )

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