this is dedicated to jade. im sure she hates me for not finishing my last story and starting a new one. and to mariah because i am a hypocrit. ~enjoy~
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My chest heaved painfully and my red hair tossed in the hot summer air. You know how when you run for a long time you get a weightless feeling and it feels numb so you can run a bit farther. Then you crash, right? Yeah that happened about 15 minutes ago. The only thing keeping me running is the thought that I’ll be free soon. That and that it’s entirely possible that Sister Rosita will trip and break a hip. This story, like most stories of my life, started in church.
Inside the fence is a forest, in the forest is a town, in the town is a church, and in that church is a complete and total wack-job/dictator. Her name is Sister Rosita. I hate Sister Rosita. Anyway I was sitting in church. It’s mandatory church. I sat four rows back from the front on the left of my friend Cei, short dark hair that cured around her face making a circle and covering the left half of her face. She always wore a blue hair band but it never affected the hair in her face. She was tall and thin. Her hair used to be a lot shorter, because she worked with the mechanics and less hair is easier to manage, but people kept mistaking her for a boy. To the left of me are a very handsome Danny and a very handsome Zack. Danny is big built like an upside-down triangle from the waist up, very muscular and tan from working with livestock, with blonde hair that went a thousand different directions and deep blue eyes. Zack is thinner and not so muscle-y or tan, he worked inside all day working leather, and his brown hair fell down in front of his hazel.
Then Sister Rosita caught my attention after her long boring speech about only having sex with one person for your whole life, because that’s the way god wants it. A speech she gives three times a year. “After service today I will need to see Lucille K. Aylen, Maria A. Benedetti, Daniel M. Cooper, Zachary A. R. Delacroix, Clara H. Ramsey, Awilda R. Sampson, and” she gritted her teeth with the next name “Rex S. Stacks.” That list can be translated to: Cei, bitch1, Danny, Zack, bitch2, me, and Rex, just in case you didn’t catch on. Rosita hated Rex’s name. She always used our full name and his wasn’t a Christian, Latin, or historical name. His rebel parents I guess just loved to annoy her as much as we do now.
We were all petrified. No list of names was that long. Ever. Not during the service. We hadn’t done anything wrong. Not recently anyway. And Maria and Clara never do anything wrong. Rex leaned over from the pew behind, “well it looks like they found out about our wild sex parties.” Rex always joked but this time it sounded hollow. I knew he was as nervous as us. I let out a giggle anyway. That joke reminded me that there wasn’t anything she could do that hadn’t already been done to us. Plus whatever it is we can use St. Clara and St. Mary as human meat shields.
The sermon concluded and we went to the back of the church where Sister Rosita’s office was. We took our usual seats and Clara and Maria stood because we took all the chairs. Sister Rosita walked out. We waited for her to call our names, in alphabetical order of last names as per the usual. But she just waved us inside her office.
We all went in. the room was quite large with a large wooden desk in the center with nothing on it. The wall was creamy white and the carpet was green. Sister Rosita was small, old-ish and always wore her nun get up. Rex and I took the two seats in front of her desk. I patted my lap for Cei to take a seat too. Cei sat in my lap and leaned to the left and I leaned to the right so we could both see. Sister Rosita looked disgusted at us. Rex not wanting to be out done motioned to Zack and Danny. Danny looked annoyed and Zack sat in Rex’s lap sideways, like he was being held bridal style. The goody two shoes stood respectfully in between the seat splitting their disapproval between me and Cei and Zack and Rex.
