I have watched a lot of movies about life in high school but nothing prepared me for this – the first day of Senior year at high school #4. Yes, I move a lot, a consequence of having parents who hops from job to job like a game of hopscotch because they claim they’ll get bored if they stay at a job for too long.
As much as I try to be inconspiscuous, the moment I pull open the double door and entered the school, I find every eyes are suddenly shooting daggers in my direction. What are people staring at, I wonder, haven’t they seen a new girl before? Suddenly, a boy with huge glasses and a face full of acne grabs my arm and pulls me aside, “that’s the cheerleaders’ door, they won’t like it…
Before he can finish his sentence, a cheerleader appears before me, her arms cross, “What’s your deal new girl, is this like your first day or something using our door, what, you think this is some kind of game, you’re in some real trouble,” I stand there for a moment, jaws slack as I take in what the cheerleader’s run-on dialog but the two words that stood out were “game” and “trouble”, I gulp and wonder what game is she talking about and trouble, I don’t want trouble.
Written for Six Sentence Story. The prompt is “Game“.
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ahh! high school! the warm, protective embrace of contemporaries and adults alike!
lol
(not for nothin’ and in no way intended to infer the tenor of my own years in school, but when I write a story that calls for a school, nine-times-out-of-ten, I name it William Golding High School)
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That’s interesting that you would name your school. I feel like if I’m writing a piece of flash fiction, it would be a waste of words to name places.
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my actual high school was just High School… where’s the fun (for the Reader) in that? lol
I agree about wasting time with names, except when I’m trying to sneak in a point about someone/something in the story itself. (Being the author of the old novel, ‘The Lord of the Flies’ I figure I can say a lot about how difficult life in those years, for us here, say, 13 to 18 yo)
You raise an interesting point, tho.
There are def some choices we can make with stories, classic ones, like, do I describe my character’s appearance, do I have to give everyone names… that sort of thing
…sorry for the digression… I totally enjoy talking about the ‘how’ of Six Sentence Stories as I do of the ‘what’
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I totally get it. There are definitely scenarios where it’s necessary to name characters, places, and (maybe) objects but sometimes, for the sake of word limit, time, and storyline, names will just be a waste of story real estate.
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Good reminder that high school cheerleaders should lighten up.
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And they should be less mean.
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This makes me very glad I attended only one school, at least I knew the drill.
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I attended 3 high schools and even then the first day at a new school was always terrifying.
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