My Drug-In Editing

Colors?

Edited July 2, 2016

Evie's POV

I walk into school Monday morning and there's already an impossibly long line in front of the office. I see Liam and Alex talking, probably about anime, judging from their hand motions. I don't know much about anime, so I decide to let them talk without me. It's good to see them getting along. I scan the line, hoping to find someone I'd actually like to talk to. I see Ben and I start walking towards him. On my way over to Ben, I spot Erik. He's not looking my way, so I try to turn my face away. Not looking where I'm going, I run right into this really tall, big person. It's like hitting a brick wall, which I do have experience with. It's Jarrod.

"Uh, sorry." I say nervously pushing my way past. Finally, I reach Ben, and hide behind him. He doesn't acknowledge me. I look up from behind Ben's shoulder. Jarrod is staring right at me. I tap Ben's shoulder. He continues to ignore me, but at least Jarrod has now decided to move on and talk to his buddies.

Finally, I get to the office and they shuffle me off to a separate room to get my picture taken. Then I'm shuffled into a different line to pick up a new ID. I was right. Good thing too, I had just lost my old one.

I'm looking over as they had out the freshly printed ID cards. Why are they different colors? It seemed as though the majority of them were white with dark green ink. Others were yellow with dark green ink. This didn't totally alarm me as these were our school colors, but it seemed weird that there were fewer yellow cards than white.

Tommi Zook. Yellow. Paul Barrett. White. Robert Hunt. White. Kendra Carlson. White. Cassandra Perry. Yellow. And so it went on the rest of the people before me had white cards. I reach out to grab mine. I got a yellow card. Does this make me special in some way? Probably not... It's probably just how they were packaged or something.

Once I finally got to class, I realized I hadn't asked the office for a pass. I look at the teacher with fear in my eyes. She saw.

"It's ok Evelyn. I know you were in the office. I can see your new ID in your pencil bag. That's your pass." She said with a calming tone. She looks down at my ID and frowns. I think I hear her mumble "what a shame" or something like that. I dismiss it.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. Which I was thankful for. Ben never really did get a chance to talk to me. I wonder what he wanted to say.

Ben's POV

I don't know how Tommi knows these things, but the new school IDs are just another sign of how well Erik is able to control literally everything in this school.  Tommi said he didn't know the details but the IDs come in different colors and I apparently don't want to get the wrong color.  I wanted to share this information with Evie, that's why I went to her house yesterday.  Tommi told me last night that telling her might leave her worse off than if she didn't know.  I promised myself that I wouldn't tell her unless she figured at least part of it out on her own.  The way I see it, she should be either fully informed or not informed at all. 

I get my ID, get a few sad looks from teachers, I guess I got the wrong color.  The rest of the day I spend texting Tommi with questions that he said he would find answers to.  I maybe forgot to mention that the leading provider of all drugs used in the fog corner was Tommi's older brother, Darius, so as far as keeping track of other gangs, he's our go-to guy.