Lockdown

Chapter 1

"Rosette! Hurry up you'll be late!" Mom yells up the stairs. I rush down the steps and put on my shoes. "Next time you're not down here i'm leaving."

When we get in the car my older brother is already in there.

"What took so long?" He asks.

I just shrug but my goes on to tell him how lazy I am and how i'm never ready. 

Uhmm. Excuse me? I'll get ready at my own pace.

But of course I say that in my head.

We get to school and mom drops us off. "Have a good day. Ross your cars out of the shop tomorrow."

"Okay thanks, Mom! Bye love you!" Ross says already drifting towards his group of friends.

Ross is a senior and he's a receiver for our football team. SO naturally he's popular.

"Bye mom!" I say waving. She drives away.

I turn and run towards my friends. They were yelling my name like maniacs. I'm a sophmore and i don't think of myself as popular but i have a lot of friends and we're a well known group.

"Hey guys! What's gucci?" I ask waving my peace sign.

They all cringe.

"Ew don't." Elle says looking sour.

"What?" They just shake their heads. "What did i do?" 

"Just. Don't." Mandi says. "Let's try this again."

I stand there grinning. Elle, Mandi, Jess and Kenz are the girls in our group. Sometimes they get really crazy and by sometimes, i mean all the time. The boys in our group are Jack, Eric, Drew and Reeve. They are somewhat normal but they hang out with us so who knows? 

The boys aren't here now they're always with their teammates, surrounded by fan girls.

"Rose! Hello!" Menda waves her hand in my face. I realize i've been staring into space. "Go over there and come back and say hi."

I don't even ask why, I just go. Over the years, I've learned to just go.

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After this morning's commotion, we went to class and suffered the traumatic pain of learning. 

It's lunchtime now.  Thank God.

I go to my locker and find eight hungry teenagers waiting impatiently at my locker.

Reeve spots me first.

"Hey! There she is!" He says lifting his arms up as if i can't already see all the guys 5'11- 6ft tall figures above everyone else bobbing heads. The boy grin and say hey since I didn't get see them this morning.

"Finally! I'm so hungry I could eat a mouse!" Jess exclaims. We all look at her.

I shake my head and open my locker. I put all my things inside and get my lunch money.

"Isn't it 'I'm so hungry I could eat a cow'?" Jack asks.

"No. It's 'I'm so hungry I could eat a Gorilla.'" Eric says.

I turn and look at him. "No. It's not. It's 'Cow.'" 

Before we get into another petty argument again. Jess says." It's neither because I wouldn't be able to fit a Cow or Gorilla in this." She gestures to her thin figure.

"Yeah. That's why you gotta eat more." Drew says pinching her arm.

"So you can eat me when I'm all fattened up? No thanks, Witch." Jess says. We start walking towards the lunch room.