Blue

12

what was supposed to be a dream come true

quickly became a complete and utter disaster

all in the form and time span

of spring break.

she was going to France

as a part of an exchange

through school.

she had been looking forward

to the trip 

for years.

it was the reason

she chose to take french

it was the reason she stuck with french

even when her teachers 

and classmates 

were seemingly the devil incarnate.

she had wanted to get away 

so badly

she had wanted to travel

and see the world 

so badly

that her expectations had risen

beyond possibility.

or maybe it was the simple fact

that she had expectations at all

that it all went to hell

faster than she thought possible.

her first warning

was the simple fact

that she wasn't friends

with anyone else on the trip.

not that she really had a lot of friends,

but there wasn't even one person

on the trip

that she had really talked to before.

The only person she'd had 

a true conversation with before

manifested in the form 

of Parker Millington,

the witchy sophomore girl

with a knack for making other people

feel left out and utterly unimportant.

Not only was Parker on the trip,

but Katie Saint,

who was worse than Parker, 

who Parker followed around like a lost puppy,

and the over-privileged Katherine Blesski, 

who was a model

who had more money than everyone else on the trip combined,

who was nice to your face

and gossiped when you left.

But she didn't know the three

well enough to know that.

she didn't realize who they were

until she was stuck with them 

for 12 days.