Insanity

Chapter 19

Chapter 19

(Two months later)

Christmas party... What should I wear? After the Christmas party there's gonna be a Snowball Dance. Last month we had a dancing contest and my batch won then there's gonna be a dance competition... I still haven't gotten over with the break-up. I kinda miss him.

Small crumpled papers hit my head and it was Arthur Stephens. I clenched my jaw and threw him back the small crumpled paper. Then ms. Jean arrived.

"Who's coming for the snowball dance? Everyone stand for those who are." Ms. Jean instructed. Everyone stood up except for me and Andrew. What a coincidence!

"Mr. Garfield and ms. Robinson," ms. Jean said. "Why?"

Andrew sighed and we answered in chorus.

"Going on a Christmas trip." Andrew said. "Snow, I might get sick."

Ms. Jean nodded. Everyone sat down. "Bring out your notebook and jot down some notes." Ms. Jean said. We took out our notebooks and jotted down some notes. "Bummer," whispered Ryder Perkins. The boy who had a crush on me since grade one.

I did the TSK sound. "It's bummer to you, Ryder. You're just disappointed because I'm not going to the dance and you were about to ask me. You really got disappointed with me when I started going out. Twice. I broke up. Twice. And now, the snowball dance has come and I already broke up with this," I hesitate and looked at Andrew who is looking at me. "Bimbo... And you want me to go to the dance with you? No sir. You just don't get over a break-up fast... I know right, bummer," I said and leaned on my chair. "For the record, you're not my type." I add. Everyone was all like, "ooh..." Except for Andrew. Ms. Jean shushed us and I go back to writing.

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"Ooh, Ryder..." Kelly teases and he stormed off. We both laughed and walked out of the classroom. Kelly walks to her classroom for her next class and I run towards Chelsea. We walked to the gym together, dropped our bags and put on our leg warmers and stretched for our rehearsals for the dance competition this coming weekend.

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Two hours of dancing and failing. I drink water, carried my bag to the classroom I am about to take next. I walked past Andrew and ran towards Cecilia. I ran towards Cecilia and Drake came to this school again.

"Hey, Ce. Hey, Lena." Drake said. We waved our hands at him and he walked towards the principal's office. We walked to the laboratory, dropped our bags on the floor and did some equations for our experiment.

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"What's that smell?" Cecile asked loudly. We sniffed the room and saw the work of Lucas. Shaking, I grabbed Cecile's hand and hid under our table. We grab our bags with us and hugged it. Then Lucas's experiment exploded. Nothing hit me, Cecilia and our bags but the whole laboratory... Blue. His glasses, blue. Everything about him is blue. Sir Thomas dismissed us already. I walked out of the laboratory, students staring at us and our classmates walked out of the laboratory and the students on the hall covered their nose. Me and Cecile laughed and we walked to the cafeteria, grabbed our trays and had some food. We walked to our table and ate our lunch happily there.

"So," Charlotte begins. "Let's all stop by at Lena's house and have a get together at her room. All agree to that?"

"Of course!" Everyone agreed and I laughed. I just took a big bite on my apple and spit some out because of seeds. I drank my water. We continued talking... And talking... And talking until lunch ends.

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So dismissal. That took a lot of hours. When we were about to get out of the school, the principal announced, "snowball dance canceled. Dance competition; December 16 at the school theatre. Christmas party; December 20 at the gym. For the next year's activity, Junior-Senior Prom or JS Prom will be held at January 13 at Radisson Hotel. Thank you and see you at the dance competition. You will have no classes for one week but you have to go to school for practices." Prom? I never thought of prom for years already... I thought about it once when I was in fourth grade and I was ten years old there... Where I started ignoring my father... Thought about everything there. Dancing, prom dates, prom king and queen... Wow, I've been thinking high of my life already. The student body president, and top 1... But since I'm not those anymore. I'm not the student body president anymore, I'm not the top 1 anymore... I'm just an ordinary, smart student with so many friends that she could trust, loving mother, a strict father, two brothers who are annoying. Let me enjoy ordinary life.

"Miriam," Tiara whispered. "She's not even doing her job."

I look at Miriam who is flirting with Paul. Tiara's right. She just wanna be a a vice because she wants to be popular. Cold hearted skank. I waved goodbye at Tiara and walked towards my friends. My friends whispered something that I don't know... I interrupted their conversation, "hey... Wanna start the get together?"

"Of course!" Everyone yelled and I laughed. We hopped inside Kelly's van and she drove to my block.

Minutes passed by and we already arrived. I stepped out of the car and said, "I'm just gonna buy something from the store here, 'Kay? Make yourself at home." They went inside and I walked to my neighbor's house.

"Colette!" I called. Colette is my mom's best friend and she owns a store. She walked in and asked me what am I gonna buy.

"I'll just buy some... Gum." I said. I gave her ten bucks and then Andrew came.

"Hello, Andrew. How're you doing?" Colette asked.

Andrew nervously smiles and answered, "never better." Then looks at me. Colette gave me the 10 pieces of gum.

"Aren't you two together?" Colette asked. We nervously laughed and we both answer at the same time, "not at the moment." With our accents. That just came out wrong.

Colette's eyes widened. "Lena, British?"

"It's daddy's." I correct and wink at her. I walk to my house and walked inside. Dropped my bag and walked straight to my room where my friends are. Then we started get together until 8 pm.