Good Girls Can Be Fun

1. A Purple Elephant and Seven Monkeys

CHAPTER 1- A PURPLE ELEPHANT & SEVEN MONKEYS

            A new school year had started, but nothing much had changed. There were the same familiar faces, jocks were still at the top of the social ladder, and I was still towards the bottom of it. We still had to wear the same ugly uniforms and the kids at the school were still stuck up rich kids, with a few exceptions, including my three best friends.

              The grass on the football field was freshly cut and perfectly manicured. I watched as the sporty students of Roosevelt Heights Academy sprinted up and down the field, throwing a football, catching it, and snatching red and yellow flags from a velcro belt. And one boy in particular captured my attention. 

            “Are you even listening?” My best friend Lily asked. I looked at her confused. I hadn’t even realized she was talking to me.

            I wiped off a drop of sweat slithering down the side of my face. We were sitting on the bleachers underneath of the scorching hot sun along with a few other students. I squirmed uncomfortably, my gym shorts sticking to my skin.

            “What were you saying, Lily?” I asked. She smiled knowingly and was about to say something else, but I was distracted once again.

            I watched as Dallas threw the football across the field, his muscles tightening, and his shirt clinging to his sweaty torso. A girl named Alexis sauntered up to him, flirtatiously flipping her hair glossy red hair. I clenched my teeth.

            Alexis was a senior and the captain of the girls’ soccer team. The whole school knew that her boyfriend, Richie Larkson, dumped her over the summer for a girl from our rival school, Barker Academy, leaving her completely humiliated, heartbroken, and in desperate need for a new toy. And Dallas was her goal.

            He was the next top eligible bachelor for Alexis of Roosevelt Heights even though he was only a sophomore. His older brother, Austin, would have been in line before his brother Dallas. But he had a reputation of being the school’s bad boy and player and Alexis was too smart to target him unlike most girls that laid eyes on Austin Ryker. 

             “My cat was tragically trampled by a purple elephant and I invited her seven monkey friends to the funeral,” Lily said interrupting my thoughts. I stared at her incredulously. 

            “What was an elephant doing in our town and how did your cat know seven monkeys. Is there some zoo around here that I’ve failed to notice before?” I asked, trying to wrap my mind around her statement, “And I’m sorry for your loss, but to be honest I never liked your cat. She was evil.”

             Lily glared at me, “My cat’s alive and sweeter than a slice of chocolate cake. And you are completely incapable of paying attention whenever meathead is within a ten mile radius of you.”

              A cool breeze swept past us, blowing Lily’s curly dark hair into her face. Sweat glistened off her chocolate skin in response to the hot weather whereas I was an unattractive shade of red. I frowned at this thought and her jab at Dallas.

            “Dallas is not a meathead. Not all jocks are jerks.” I defended my crush.

            I held up a hand to my forehead to block the sun from my eyes, trying to get a clearer view of Dallas. Alexis was still trying to talk to him, but he was focused more on the game. I smirked, pleased with his reaction to her.

             “Girls, could you at least try to participate today?” Coach C yelled to us, “Jog around the track at least once,” he pleaded.