Romeo’s
Kiss - Chapter Two
Julie
walked down the long hall; she observed the old, white walls with little cracks
here and there and little initials where people had written on them. She laughed
when she came upon the little cartoon man she had drawn just a few short years
ago. Even though it had been three years she could still remember exactly when
she drew and why she drew it, it was a cartoon making fun of one of the teachers
there at the school. She continued to walk down the hall and into the large
cafeteria over to a table consisting of her best friends. She plopped down in
the empty seat next to Codi and laid her head down on the table, using her arms
as a sort of pillow. She sighed heavily and Codi laughed at her. She raised her
head up and looked at Codi who had a grin on her face and was looking down at
her.
“What’s
your problem?” Julie mumbled.
“The
way you seem to have a million problems, and you act like you have one more. So
what’s up?” Codi said with a mouth full of nasty cafeteria food in which she
didn’t mind eating.
“I
just found out that my parents are going one of their friends parties this
weekend, and I’m being forced to go, seeing how you’ll be in Wilburton.”
Julie confessed as she rested her head on her hand, she moved her finger around
on the table in a figure eight as she looked at the contents on Codi’s plate.
“So what kind of road kill are they feedin’ ya today?” She said only half
joking.
“I
think its spaghetti but don’t quote me on that.” Codi joked back; Gloria who
was sitting across the table from Codi made a face as she held up her food with
a fork and they all laughed. When the laughter died down Codi turned back to
Julie.
“Y’know,
you could go to Wilburton with us if you want-“
“No
that’s ok.” She quickly cut in. Codi shrugged it off and pick up a pea from
her plate; she sat it on her spoon expertly and flicked it off onto another
table. That caused a stir from an already angered classmate, Christy. Christy
picked up some smashed potatoes with a spoon from her plate and launched it at
Codi, but instead of hitting Codi hit Julie, who then took some o the beans from
Codi plate and threw them, which landed in Laura’s lap. Soon the whole
cafeteria was in an all out war.
Brian
had been sitting behind Julie with his friends at the next table, when the food
fight started he tried to make his way to the closest exit just as Julie was
doing the same, they ran right into each other, and both of them turned around,
grabbed a spoon full of food from plates left and forgotten on the tables and
turned back around to rub it in each others faces only, the principle got in the
way. Both Brian and Julie looked up at the man with potato and ketchup smeared
on his face and silently prayed that they could run before this mad principle
could catch them. Instead they stood there frozen like little scared puppies who
just ran into a monster lurking around the corner.
Principle Hester grabbed the two teenagers by the back of their shirts as
he yelled out to the cafeteria; everyone stopped dead in their tracks and looked
at him.
“Who’s
responsible for this!?” He shouted out. Everyone looked around for a second,
some shrugged their shoulders, but everyone else just pointed to Julie and
Brian, out of shier irresponsibleness. Principle Hester took Brian and Julie to
his office where they sat in the two chairs in front of his wide oak desk with
papers sprawled everywhere. After explaining the hole thing, principle Hester
called each of their parents and told them they would be expelled for one day,
after some pleading from Brian parents they were fried of that implement and
were just sent home for the day. Both of them had to walk home…
“Y’know,
I really hate you.” Julie blurted out as they walked on the opposite sides of
the road from each other, making their way to their homes for the day.
“Gee
thanks for sharing that with me. Ya know, this is really bothering me, why
can’t we just forget about this hole thing and be friends?” Brian asked as
he made his way over to Julie’s side of the road, thy stopped and he held out
his hand as a sign of peace. Julie looked at him for a moment as though she were
thinking it over but then shook her head violently and gave a short laugh.
“Never.”
She snorted and kept walking.