Opposites Attract

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Victoria

By the time we pull up to school, it's not just me and Ginger, it's also... Holly, the tall, always smiling girl with black curly hair and an odd sense of humor. Her parents work at my parent's company, up on top with them. Cassie, the short, quirky girl with straight brown hair to her shoulders and an unexpected pair of bright blue eyes. Her mom is a famous gold-medal Olympian for gymnastics, and Cassie isn't half bad herself.

By now, you're probably thinking I'm a brat and I have everything I've ever wanted. Well, I actually have gotten everything I've ever wanted, but... I'm not a brat. At least, I don't think I am. And just because my parents are rich doesn't mean I'm super mean and popular and everything.

Anyways, we all pile out of the limo. Our school, Lexington Middle, is a super good school, sure, and it's one of the most expensive here, sure. But it also has some really nice people in it. I mean, they might be over privileged or whatever like me, but that doesn't mean they have super big egos or something. Well, some of them do. But that's not the point.

Lexington Middle is a small gathering of buildings, like little workshops, all around a big garden. It's really quite nice. You walk through paths all around to get to your classes. If you get bored and look out the window, it's nice to see all the green and birds and hear the wind blowing and the chirping and the little tiny waterfall pond thing making water noises. It's tucked behind a big office building, though, so that kind of makes me mad at the office building sometimes. Couldn't they have built it in another place? Oh well.

"Hey. GUess what I did yesterday?" Holly asks us.

"I know!" Ginger says sarcastically, "You got a... stick of gum."

"Hilarious. I rode the BUS! It was horrible and nasty and there was a drunk guy sitting next to me and... UGH!" Holly shivers in horror.

"Come on, it couldn't have been THAT bad." Cassie says, and, trying to look on the bright side, chirrups, "At least you didn't get stolen from!"

"I did." Holly says, looking super upset, "It was my-"

"iPhone?!" Ginger gasps, clapping her hands over her mouth in only partial mock horror.

"No... I hid it in my bra before I got on the bus." 

"You WHAT?!" Cassie shrieks and falls over backwards. "Oww..." She rubs her wrist, "That hurt."

"No, really?" Ginger says sarcastically as she helps Cassie up.

"You hid it in you..." Cassie lowers her voice dramatically and glances around, then shrieks, "BRA?! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!"

"Oh my god I'm going to die do you not know how to SHUT UP?!" Holly hisses, trying to avoid stares from all the other people coming into school. The bell is going to ring in like three minutes, so I inform the group of that so Holly will hurry up with her wonderful bus robbery story. "Right." Holly says, "So, I was just sitting there, and then we went over a bump in the street or something, and I was standing up, and my bag - you know, my nice one that cost four hundred dollars? Light green leather with gold clasps? Well, I had my wallet in there, and I had just gone to the bank because I was going to go to the store downtown that only takes cash. I was taking the bus because there was no one around to drive me. So, I had, like, two thousand dollars in there in hundred bills. Anyways, the bus went over that huge bump, and it flew off my arm and I fell forwards. So this guy picks up my bag and it was open so my wallet was on the ground, so he picks up my wallet and it looks like he's just picking it up, and he puts it back in my bag and gives me the bag. AND THEEEEEEN-" Holly pauses when the bell rings and we start walking to our first class, so she speeds up her talking, "AND THEN, I got off the bus finally and ALL THE MONEY WAS GONE OUT OF THE WALLET! ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL OF IT! THAT WAS MY ENTIRE MONTH'S ALLOWANCE! And I was going to buy this really nice dress for the dance! Ugh." Holly finishes with a huff.

"Wow. Scary." Ginger exclaims as we all jot down the homework written on the board.

"I know, right?!" Holly smiles mischievously, "Bet you would lose more money than I did on a bus, though. Bet you would get your iPhone stolen and a bunch of other stuff!" 

"Would NOT!" Ginger exclaims, "JUst because I lose a lot of stuff at home and I've been through four iPhones already because they cracked or fell out the window or whatever else happened DOESN'T MEAN I AM AN EASY TARGET FOR STEALING STUFF FROM!"

"Yeah, it could." Holly says, "Because someone could make you "LOSE" some stuff."

"Oh, shut up." Ginger snaps, sounding annoyed, "I will go on the bus with three thousand dollars and my iPhone AND my laptop. And I will not lose more than you did."

"Ginger!" I exclaim, "That is the worst idea EVER!"

"Yeah." Cassie says, nodding along with me reasonably, "If a ton of your stuff gets stolen, you know, at some point your parents are going to stop getting you stuff."

"PLEASE. They can't stop spending money! You know that."

"I'm just saying," Cassie says, her hands up like she's being threatened, "You should THINK before you ACT."

"You sound like my manners teacher."

"You have a MANNERS TEACHER?" I snort and start hysterically laughing, "Ma - ma - ma - MANN - MANNER - MANNERS - MANNER T - T - TEA - TEACHER - MANNERS TEACHER?!"

"Do you have something to share with the class, Holly, Ginger, Cassie, and Victoria?" Ms. Lani, our twenty - something science teacher asks, arching an eyebrow and eyeing us. We shrink back into our seats and I whisper,

"No, sorry."

"Good. Right. Now, today, we're going to be starting to grow our flies..."