Spec
"Darn it! Lost again," I announced to no one in particular. Passels of people pushed past me. Some even came close to knocking me to the ground. I guess their sole mission in life was to rush to their classes or chat with their friends.
Friends... I thought yearningly.
Wouldn't those
be nice to have..."Hey! Speculum!" I heard a familiar scratchy voice call out from behind a blockade of teenagers. Of course, I knew exactly who he was before he finally grasped the opportunity to emerge. After enduring many obstacles like rude people who were about as motile as lawn décor and avoiding flying desks, the loser leader from breakfast arrived in front of me. "Tough.
Huff! Crowd!
Huff!” He gasped, utterly out of breath. His gaggle of losers followed suit.
“I told you, Whitney--‘Spec’ is fine,” I reminded him, scratching the back of my neck nervously. “‘Speculum’ is too much of a mouthful.”
“Okay, Speculum.”
We proceeded cautiously through the halls, a motley crew of mini-snot factories. Counting me, there were now five losers. Four of us had immense, the-universe-is-so-microscopic-in-comparison crushes on the smartest, sexiest, most popular girls in the entire
world of girls.
Trebor, on the other hand, hadn’t voiced is opinion on girls at all. Despite being nearly seven feet tall, his demeanor was that of a timid, shy little mouse. His immense, acne-infested face often blushed to a rose’s hue at the mere mention of “crushes.” The guy had his quirks, but didn’t we all? I mean, we were all practically shipwrecked into the loser squad. No one else would
dare to take us in. Although, that popular girl at breakfast
did say I was different...
No! I thought with conviction.
She acted out of pity, and pity alone! That’s how it always
is! Everyone pities the pathetic, minuscule excuse for a boy who is a failure to everybody and every
thing in his path. They will
act interested at first, only to jettison you in the dust once something that’s actually worth their “valuable” time pops up. I bet that Amira, the love of my life, only selected me to be partners with her in organizing the dance because I was practically
dripping with my poignance.
“Earth to Spec! Earth to Spec!” A loser called ‘Jed’ waved his hands over my face, jumping up and down. He was even shorter than
me (that’s why he was jumping)! At five feet in height and the width of a pencil, Jed had a high-pitched voice that seemed to be influenced by helium. Everything always looked like it was sliding off of him because he was so tiny, like his perfectly square, ebony glasses and his uniform. He constantly had to readjust the way the outfit hung on him, to prevent the entire thing from slipping off of him altogether. Jed’s attire appeared to be particularly ruffled at the moment. It was probably from all that jumping. “Master Azrael told us we’re going to be late!” Jed yelled on a sky-rocketing high decibel, alternating between jumping and fixing his glasses and uniform.
‘Master Azrael’? Was he referring to the leader, Whitney? Well, I could see why he would rather be ‘Master Azrael’ than a stupid name like ‘Whitney’. Although, why was
I talking? My name was Speculum, A.K.A ‘Spec’. I guess both of our parents had bad tastes in names.
“Quit spacing, Spec! The bell’s gonna ring!”
I soon found myself separated from the rest of the losers. They probably had to go to normal classes like math--boring! I, however, was opening the door to my new life--literally. Genuine happiness was emitted from my soul, for I entered none other than ‘Mind Practice” class.
((I wonder if this is actually like a real guy’s perspective...? Rymber? XD
Benjamin, should Spec share third period Mind Practice with Caroline? :3 <3 <3 <3
And fun fact: ‘Trebor’ is ‘Robert’ backwards. Since the nickname for ‘Robert’ is ‘Bob’, wouldn’t the nickname for ‘Trebor’ also be ‘Bob’ since it’s spelled the same backwards and forwards???))
Aeryn
Aeryn prolonged her soft-singing of
Headlock until she reached her class of Algebra II. She loved to write, draw, and participate in physical activities, and was, in fact, gifted in these areas. Aeryn even carried around a notebook that she constantly drew and wrote in. The notebook was tattered and worn from many, many years of use, but that didn’t stop her.
As for math, Aeryn couldn't care less about meaningless numbers and equations. Since she was still intelligent, she was placed into the second-highest math class a tenth-grader could take--Algebra II.
Aeryn embraced her notebook, pressing it against her chest. With her tight grasp on it, she could feel the racing of her heart pulse through her notebook. She couldn’t stop thinking about
him--Chris. He was still cozying up with Charity, no doubt, possibly making plans to elope. They didn’t want people like Aeryn interfering, right?
God, she wanted to wring that woman’s neck! If only she could feel it snap between her hands! But what then? Chris would certainly hate her for eternity, spoiling any chance of, of...
Why was she even swimming around in these thoughts anyways? Aeryn had never experienced anything like this before, whatever “this” was. And she could certainly see why. Aeryn’s head spun so much she had to stable it with her own two hands to prevent her from collapsing. She had to see Chris.
As fate would bestow it, she spotted him once she entered her math class. He mustn’t have been in the best of moods, for he had just punched a hole clear through the wall. Aeryn could see him through the now-gaping wall. Yes, he most certainly
wasn’t in the best of moods. He snarled at the command of the wolf inside of him, and his fist was freshly-caked with the debris from the wall.
Teachers and students alike pursued him, the teachers doing so because Chris was obviously in trouble, and students because he was hot and/or wished to witness some more action.
Chasing after him, Aeryn screamed “Chris!” as loudly as she could manage. But alas, her voice was swallowed by Chris’s chaotic paparazzi. Aeryn reached out for him, his jacket nearly in her grasp. Instead, she received pants.
Empty pants.
Aeryn slowly allowed her gaze shift to the pants, noticing with increasing alarm that she wasn’t clutching them in a very appropriate place.
“AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Aeryn shrieked, immediately dropping Chris’s pants. Even before they hit the ground, fangirls of Chris snatched them up, squealing about how they now possessed Chris’s pants.
“Whatever,” Aeryn reverted back to her surly self, rolling her eyes under her shaggy bangs. She rounded on her heel, hood high, and marched back to class. Aeryn didn’t look back. But that didn’t mean she didn’t
think back.
((Phew! There you go! It sure
took long enough!))