The loud ringing of the alarm woke Fabienne up. Who doesn't love Monday mornings? Fabienne grunted while she got up and rubbed the sleep from her eyes. As she checked her phone, she saw that she had a few new messages from her group chat with Alice and the others. They had been texting non-stop throughout the weekend.
Fabienne had told them about the upsetting standards and school policies she struggled with. Unlike her friends at school, they had been completely understanding of her feelings and thoughts. Fabienne was relieved that she had finally found people who felt just the same.
This had given her enough confidence to try to challenge the rules. She had come up with a subtle way of breaking the dress code. One of Alice's friends had given her a transparent blouse, which was made out of see-through fabric. That way, her body would technically be covered but still visible. Fabienne loved the look of the blouse. Underneath she wore just a regular tank top, which was against the dress code as it prohibited the girls to show their shoulders. Her skirt was just about the required length. Fabienne was well aware of how tiring it was to fight the teachers about the length of skirts and pants. And how embarrassing and humiliating it was when they measured the length of said piece of clothing.
However, this felt like a good place to start.
It will be easier if I go about this slowly. Change probably won't happen overnight. I'll need to figure out how much I can get away with and navigate my way through their stupid rules and how to change them.
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ContoFabienne is a 16-year-old teenage girl living in the south of the USA - Texas. Her small village is full of sexist douchebags, who act like they're still living in the 19th century and see woman as housewives only. Fabi is sick of it. It seems like...
