𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐊 / scott reed ✓

𝟓𝟕. college interview

ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐊
57 / COLLEGE INTERVIEW
↳ season four, episode seven: college interview
act two / monty was framed

"𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐃𝐔𝐄𝐃 him. Clay had a gun in his hand!"

Jessica Davis and Nessa Dempsey stood in their routine spots in Principal Bolan's office. It was their second home, at this point. Today's topic of discussion – the active shooter drill.

"They beat the shit out of him!" Jessica exclaimed, and Principal Bolan held his hand up.

"Jessica, Clay was violently upset." he explained. "He was not coherent, and he was armed. The officers had to respond."

"Sir, we were all violently upset." Nessa interjected herself. "We were fucking terrified!"

"Right." the principal said. "The intent of the drill was to evaluate student and staff response to an actual crisis."

"Whatever the intent was, the response is that we were fucking freaked out." Jessica told the man, and Nessa nodded alongside her.

"Multiple of us had panic attacks." Nessa told him. "That's not fair, and now we're pissed off. Everyone is."

"I thought we all agreed that safety was the priority." the man said, almost as if he believed he was in the right.

Jessica leaned forward, putting herself at the same eye level as the principal as she spoke. "Do you really think that Clay is safer now?"

Bolan sighed. "I'm sorry about Clay. I really am."

He gestured to the seats in front of him that Nessa and Jessica were oh, so used to. The two girls sighed before sitting down, defeated.

"But I think there's more going on there than just a lockdown."

The girls looked at each other, sighing as they sat back in their seats. "There's a petition going around saying that we should resign. That we wanted this crazy drill, and the cameras, and the metal detectors."

Bolan shook his head at the girls. "Nobody knows about our conversations."

"But, they know that we haven't spoken up." Nessa said softly.

"Do you two think you should speak up?" Bolan asked, and the girls exchanged glances. "Do you think it would make things better or worse?"

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"𝐈 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄 those stupid fucking chairs." Nessa told Jessica as they walked along the hallways after their meeting, just the two of them. Having alone time together was rare for the pair of best friends, but they cherished it when they had it.

"You're telling me, bitch." Jessica agreed. "Every time we go in there, we accomplish nothing."

Nessa nodded, and the two girls continued down their path. They passed Diego, who gave Jessica a flirty wave as she passed by him. Nessa looked at her, waiting until he was out of earshot to tease Jess.