Friends (Human Lapidot AU)

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli wasn't like most normal girls. She didn't like nail polish or make up. She didn't like gossiping or talking about boys. Lapis just liked the swings. During recess, she would sit on the old rusty swing set and go as high as she could. Then she would close her eyes, and everything would disappear. No kids that called her freak girl behind her back, no old metal playground that looked like a hungry dragon, no school in general. Just her. Lapis liked to pretend she could fly. When she was on those swings, she wasn't Lapis Lazuli: Scrawny fifth grader with dyed blue hair. She was Lapis Lazuli: Water witch, with beautiful wings made out of the seven seas. She would fly above the world, the wind hitting her face and whipping her dress, and she would look down at the mundane life below her (it was a lot easier to like if she was a billion feet in the sky, she decided). But that all ended when the bell rang, ripping her out of her fantasy. Lapis's eyes opened, and she was back in the damp school yard of Beach City Elementary, a small cluster of buildings that had probably once been pink, but were now the color bubblegum that had been chewed for way too long. The blue haired girl sighed deeply and got up off of the swing. She walked back to her class with the rest of the kids, trying not to slip on the mud that made weird squishy noises beneath the soles of her blue rubber boots--it had been raining all morning and the usually compact dirt had turned into quicksand. When Lapis walked through the door of her small, slightly cramped classroom, she heard people talking about her. "Freak girl didn't bother to bring a rain coat today," somebody said. "She probably can't even afford one. I mean look at her," another remarked, causing the both of them to snicker. Lapis pretended like she couldn't hear them and made her way to her desk at the back of the room. She didn't care what anybody thought. If you're so worried about me not having a coat, then maybe you should buy me one, she wanted to say. But she didn't. Lapis liked to think that people hated her because they didn't understand her. She was the girl with blue hair who refused to talk, after all. They disliked her because they didn't know her, not really. So she made it her mission to distance herself from everybody. This way, people didn't hate her personally, they just hated her because they were stupid. Lapis looked at the clock on the wall. She sighed. Only two more hours until school is out.