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“Where’s the grass? Where’s the playground? Where’s the king?” TJ asked himself, him and Vince in front of the highschool door.
”I don’t know, Teej. I know middle school was slightly hard, but…man, this is beyond hard.” Vince replied, not looking away.
TJ nor Vince never thought this would be highschool. They thought it would be like the teen shows and movies they watched, but it wasn’t like that. By the contrary.
”Ok, time to see who was right…High School Musical, Mean Girls or Heathers?” Vince chuckled, probably trying to hide his pain.
”I hope it isn’t Heathers. I dont wanna keep my boyfriend or girlfriend away from exploding the school!” The leader said, a little laugh in the end.
”TJ, you’re single.” Said the athlete, giving a touch of reality to his best friend.
”I can dream.” TJ said, ignoring his reality.
As soon as they entered school, the hall was full, but empty at the same time. They could hear the Ashleys screaming “SCANDALOUS!” In the end of the hall, Randall having an existential crisis about how Ms. Finster wasn’t in high school and Lawson, a sophomore now, trying to fight the air for ego reasons. Vince got scared when he saw a hand touching his shoulder, but got calm when it was just Gretchen.
”Gretch! Thanks God it’s just you!” Vince got relieved.
“Just me? Ouch!” Gretchen joked. She still stayed the same nerd, her outfit wasn’t a generic instagram model and yes a dark academia vibes.
“Ok, where’s Spinelli?” TJ asked Gretchen when he first spotted her beside Vince.
”Mikey and Gus as well, Teej.” Vince said.
”Spinelli is probably arriving late, because they stayed awake till 5am watching a….really, uncomfortable cannibalistic movie.” Gretchen did not look comfortable while saying the last phrase. “Mikey has one last poetry to write so he can come, Gus is getting paranoid but he’s almost here.”
”What are you dorks doing?” Spinelli said as she got to her friend group in the halls.
“You watched Hannibal, Spin?” The athlete asked.
”Yeah. It’s a fun movie, ignoring the eating people’s brain meanwhile the people are still alive part.” She chuckled.
Mikey arrived with them alongside Gus, and they chatted about their life during vacations and what are they doing when highschool recess starts. Mikey said he’s working part time as an art teacher, although he’s just an assistant now. Gus went to military camp, and he didn’t like that so much. Gretchen just mainly researched and studied. Spinelli saw wrestling on live, and watched many horror movies. Vince practiced his basketball and cooking, and also secretly watched RuPaul’s old show. TJ didn’t do a lot in his vacations, although he did find out something really important about who he really is.
As well as all of the gang.
“I swear, that wrestling was tender! Trish Stratus sure knew how to deal with all those people!” Spinelli said, enthusiastically.
”Well, how much did it cost though?” TJ asked.
”I don’t know. Dad bought it as my birthday gift, and y’know how he refuses to tell me the price of stuff!” They angrily said.
The bell rang. It was time to hit the class.
”Whoever arrives last it’s a booger eater!” Vince screamed, already running to the class.
The gang were the only one running. They were the only one living their lives.