All we are is just another brick in the wall...
~Life pretty much fell into the old routine that I’d been in before we moved out of Malibu. Well for the time being it did.
Then things started to happen,things which reminded me of the way they had been before I was relocated [from the standpoint that I disliked] from my old home town~
Kate: *Standing by her locker talking to her boyfriend about something which happened on the weekend* I told you Ethan! Lizzie and her brother ruined the new sweater that I was wearing at the party! That’s why I didn’t feel like wearing it today! I swear, sometimes I wonder why we even agreed to give each other another chance!
*While I am standing there and getting books out of my locker, she happens to glance to where I am and sees me. Hmmm…. maybe that’s not totally right. What she did was more like glance in my general direction because she heard a little of the music playing from my now lowered headphones before I hit the pause,rewind then stop buttons..the end result of those actions being how I usually shut the player off, then turned back to what she was doing a barely audible snort escaping her pink frosted mouth. Too bad, for me, the conversation didn’t end there*
Well we all have things that go wrong for us at one point or another in our lives. Me,I would have thought by now, the office would’ve seen the error of their ways, and given me a different locker But no, that didn’t happen. Just like, I’m not complaining about who I am 2 lockers away from, non-stop, like someone else who I don’t have to name directly
Kate: Well at least I have a life that’s interesting, to talk about. And as usual, you just happen to be jealous of that fact, same as the rest of your loser friends
*Chuckles slightly after shutting the door of my locker* Thought we discussed that as well. Or did you forget already? I suppose you did forget how I mentioned, and you agreed, that the only reason you babble so much about how bad things are for me, and the rest of my studygroup, is because you are jealous of how well our study habits allow the group to do on tests, when you and the rest of your study group seem to be at the lower end of the grading curve when our tests are handed back
Kate: That changes nothing and you know it. Your group isn’t at the top of the food chain in other matters that are as equally important. And if I have anything to say about it, none of your lady friends will ever be a threat to me on the cheerleading squad
Like I would care about such a silly after school activity
Kate: Which makes perfect sense, as the only kind of life you have outside of school is none
*Sighs while walking away slowly* you know I have things that take up my time. As such, what I do when I’m not within these walls is none of your business. Now if you don’t mind I have other things to do
Kate: *whispering to her man just before I get out of earshot* See I told you she would walk away before we saw her start to cry. If we’re lucky she won’t be a burden to us for much longer. Her family might take pity on her for how she acts, but that doesn’t mean it’s a concern for any of us that she would be better off anywhere besides where she can be with her real mom who isn’t even capable of taking care of herself
~Yeah, and luckily for the two of them, that’s as far as she was willing to take things, for now. Too bad that’s not as far as I was willing to go, after I heard what she said~ *Stops dead in my tracks and turns to look at the pair of them before walking the short distance back to where the now closed locker of my ‘friend’ is* Okay…. you had better take that back within the next five seconds….
Kate: Or?
Or this…. *which was when I pushed her against the locker and stood there, hoping she wouldn’t follow my advice. Soon as I didn’t get what I wanted, I started leaning on the midriff section of her body, as that was where I’d dropped my hands, doing what I could to press not only her spine into the locker, I was also able to cause the back of her bra to press up against it as well. At the first slight yelp of pain, her boyfriend went off and told someone what was going on. That other person was the one who turned out to be responsible for the next authority figure on the scene*
Ms. Ungermeyer: Well now, this is an interesting site. And by that I mean one that I will not allow in my school. If you would be so kind as to take you hands off Ms. Sanders, we can deal with this problem a bit more peaceful. Wouldn’t you agree, Ms. Vargas?
I suppose. *Which was when I did what she wanted. Too bad I wasn’t in the mood to let her start getting to the bottom of this, in the way that would make things better for not just me*
Ms. Ungermeyer: Now then, what started this whole thing?
Kate: *Wincing because of how I made her feel* I know I didn’t start anything. I was talking to Ethan when that little psycho shoved me against my locker and tried to cripple me
*Blinks* Tell a lie often Kate?
Kate: See? She acts like she didn’t do anything wrong!
Ms. Ungermeyer: While its well and good that we get some of this matter out in the open, declaring your innocence is hardly the way to make sure that both sides of the story get heard now isn’t it?
Me/Kate: No ma’am
Ms. Ungermeyer: Good. Now, since its obvious that the 2 lockers in question are so close to one another, is there any chance that this problem could have been avoided?
Kate: It could have, if someone would have bothered to turn off the garbage that I heard coming out of her cd player,a little faster.
*Snorts* What I was listening to is no more likely to be considered ‘garbage’ than what you were whining about to your boy toy
Ms. Ungermeyer: Okay, do I have to take you both down to my office?
Kate: Don’t see why I would have to be in such a place, since the only person guilty in this matter isn’t me
Ms. Ungermeyer: While you seem to be convinced that might be so, its clear that you did antagonize her by bringing matters into the discussion that didn’t belong to such a conversation
Kate: So? I’m not saying that I didn’t ‘egg her on’, and I’m not saying I did force her into action. I was simply defending my right to talk to someone, and then that little psychopath shoves me against my locker and tries to crush my stomach!
Yeah, and you know something Kate? What you just said, well part of it anyway, applies to me as well. Right along with what I should’ve done to begin with, and left it at that. *Which was when I took advantage of the fact that I had nothing to lose, by reaching out and lightly slapping my antagonist on the side of the face. That little action almost made what happened next to me, worthwhile*
Ms. Ungermeyer: Ms. Vargas! March yourself down to my office…. now! And rest assured that your parents are going to know all about what happened today, as your little action just now earned them the right to know. I hope you feel what you just did was worth it, because when I am done with you; today is going to be the last day this week you are in school! And I hope that your ‘vacation’ pales in comparison to what your parents might have in store for you! *Which is exactly the way things turned out being, when all was said and done at school*
My dad: What in the world were you thinking Albertina?!?
*Snorts* She had it coming! She called my music garbage! And she compared me to my mom whos spending her best years in a padded room!
My dad: That’s not an excuse for what you did to her and you know it. So what?
My dad: Go up to your room. Whatever
My dad: Don’t expect me to go easy on you after I’ve discussed this with your mother
Like I care. *Which was when I did indeed make my way to my room, falling on my bed and I flipped myself over and just lay there, not caring about anything. Which was the state he found me in*
My dad: What’s wrong?
I don’t like it here! That girl, the one who put me down reminds me of Summer! I want to go back to where we used to live!
My dad: We can’t do that and you know it
So what are we going to do?
My dad: Don’t know about me, but you are going to see someone I just got off the phone with. Seems one of your classmates has therapists for parents
*Eyes him warily* Not sure I like where this is heading. You were talking to that boyfriend of Lizzie’s parents weren’t you? He told me that his parents were both shrinks when we first got here
My dad: I’m sorry, but we can’t afford any more incidents like the ones, which we used to have back in Malibu. You’ve barely recovered from what happened, and you go and do something that could end up with you being taken away from here!
I’ll go and talk to them, or only one of them if that’s what you want
My dad: Good. Well I’m going to leave you be for now. Your mom is going to order something and I’m going to go and get it, is there anything that you might be in the mood for?
Whatever you decide on is okay with me
My dad: Okay. Just thought I’d check with you first. *Which was when he left*