Let it Rein

Crestwood High

On July 12th the seniors of Crestwood High were invited to visit some scientific, military lab in the middle of nowhere. Mr Petrie, our year level coordinator, said that it was a great opportunity for our school because it's supposed to be some secret NASA base where they test anti-gravity suits and stuff like that. Apparently only three schools, including us, were lucky enough to have even been invited. Some people say it's actually Area 52 because no matter how much of a computer nerd you were, you can never find anything about it online. Apparently, we were the first group of students to have ever been invited. Regardless, I didn't want to go, I'm not sure if anyone wanted to go to be honest, most of them were just scared. I usually spend my time alone, at school, in the back corner at the library, between the non fiction and young adult shelf, so the idea of being in a bus, for over two hours, with a bunch of obnoxiously loud teenagers wasn't really something I wanted to go through, let alone spending a whole day doing whatever the hell with them. But like all field trips, it was "educational" and a "great opportunity for the school" so it was compulsory.

The morning of the excursion was came by unusually fast. Mr Petrie had all of the seniors meet at the front gates with the school bus waiting for us. Everyone started arriving so Mr Petrie split our cohort into two groups, group 1 and group 2. Ms Small, my HPE (Health and Physical Education) teacher was in charge of group 1 and Miss Foster, my science teacher, was in charge of group 2. When they finished marking the roll and making sure that everyone was accounted for the class was split and I was lucky enough to be in group 1, not.

Crestwood high, just saying the name irritates me. Like all high schools and literally every high school movie ever, there are social groups. Of course, you have the ones at the top of the social hierarchy, the "it girls/mean girls" whatever you want to call them, that supposedly run the school, that every girl wants to be and that every guy wants to get with, cue Tianna Chearls and Candice Gardener. Tianna can sing and as much as I hate to admit it, she is really good she sings at almost every assembly, school dance, basically, anywhere where there's a big enough crowd. Her dad is also the sheriff and her mum is super strict, you know what they say about kids with strict parents . Anyways, there was a third member of the "it girls", D'cota Hails, but she moved schools almost 3 months ago and the other two have been treating it like she died or something. They even asked the principal, Mr Ball, to have a one-minute silence at assembly the week she moved because apparently "the whole school is just like totally crushed because she left us". Of-course there's also Stacy Drew, but I wouldn't call her an "it girl", she is more like their shadow. You know that girl who does everything and anything in order to have a seat at the "it table" yeah that's Stacy Drew.

The school representative's aka "the goody two shoes crew" that consist of Amy Lee, head of the squad and the school representative , Alexa Adams, Cortney Marr and Erin Huff. These girls are the biggest snitches in the whole school, some people even call them Mr Ball's watch dogs. I honestly don't blame them. One time, Amy and Cortney caught Tianna sneaking out of school to see her so called College boyfriend and of course snitched to Mr Petrie, who then told Mr Ball who then got her suspended for 3 days. I mean morally it was the right thing to do I guess but still, mind your own business much? Anyways, the school reps and the "it girls" are like sworn enemies now and any enemy of the "it girls" are an enemy of basically the whole school for like the rest of high school. its all child to me but only occasionally it becomes very entertaining.

My favorite person in the whole school, even if he doesn't know it, Wilkey Evans. Wilkey is the definition of class clown. I mean we're not friends or anything he just gets along with everyone, and everyone loves him, well technically not everyone. I mean he's a joy and delight to the students but a menace to the teachers. Especially Mr Ball. Mr Ball despises him even though he can't say it, it's almost like he says it with his eyes and the vein that is always throbbing on is forehead . I don't blame him though; I mean he is the one responsible for all the "Mr Ball sucks Balls" and the "draw a line if you hate Mr Ball" graffiti around the school and in the toilets. The whole wall is filled with lines by the way. I, however, approve of his pranks and find him and his "deeds" very amusing and very entertaining. 

Back in the 6th grade a girl name Margret Berg got her period in the middle of a science exam. She was sitting in the middle desk, of the front row, she was really smart too, so obviously she finished her test first. She got up to hand in her exam papers and when she realised there were blood stains on her chair it was already too late, everyone saw. All the boys were panicking because they didn't know what was wrong with her. One of them even called an ambulance. I've always wondered how that conversation went. All the girls ran away from her and called her a dirty pig, it was really sad considering how embarrassing it must have been for her. Margret ran out of class and "all the way home" that day, it was all over the school. I honestly got fed up with the gossip pretty quick and so did Wilkey. That's when he decided to put sardines in one of the air conditioners in the teachers' lounge and glue in Mr Balls clown wig when it was dress up day to his head and just like that everyone forgot about the Margret incident. The only gossip flowing around school was "What happened to Mr Ball today?", "Did you see what happened to Mr Ball?" Wilkey made sure everyone forgot about the incident by making himself the centre of attention and its been that way for a long time now.

Of-course you also have your jocks/athletes, school nerds, gamers, computer nerds and then there's me. Rein Synclair. Yes, like rain but with an 'e' instead of an 'a'. I don't really fit into any social group. I'm not funny, nobody wants to "be me" and I like to mind my own business. I don't really have friends let alone best friends. I know of people, but no one knows me, honestly, I don't think anyone even knows my name. Wilkey is the only one that has ever talked to me, he found me in my corner on time, and even he doesn't know my name, he calls me "wolf" as in lone wolf. I'm not sure how I feel about that name at the moment, but I guess it's whatever. I've never had a boyfriend and for good reasons too, no one at my school can even qualify, not saying I'm anything of a catch its just all the "pretty boys" love only themselves and their fancy rich boy cars. Basically, they are all trash. The only decent guy in my grade is Wilkey and he's not even the "pretty boy" I mean he is cute or whatever but no. I stay away from boys. I don't mind being in the shadows it doesn't bother me, it doesn't make sense, but I don't really know how to make friends so yeah, I guess you could call me weird besides the fact that I don't fit in, anywhere.