Sarah Taylor
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Post by Sarah Taylor on Sept 18, 2015 4:42:17 GMT -8
September 17, 2015 Disruption in the cafeteria…
Herded like cattle, the Sarah and her classmates walked down the line in the cafeteria being given the oh-so-more healthy delights. However, school food was school food and it wasn’t like the school cooks were being paid to be gourmet chefs. Sarah looked at her tray in dismay after paying, stepping out and looking around at the filling tables.
“Sarah! Sarah, over here!”
It was Alissa, another junior, but she was ‘assigned’ to Sarah to be her guide through school for the first month – or until she figured her way around. Now, she was used to the typical segregation kids did with their own classmates. You had the Gothic and hard rocker folks, the cheerleaders and jocks, the D&D nerdy types, etc. And, as Sarah followed the waving arm, she realized Alissa sat with the stereotypical, reputation ending, kids that even the ‘nerds’ avoided. Not that she was as judgmental, but she knew this was going to be a loooong school year.
“Guys, this is Sarah Taylor, she’s new here from Hawaii.” Alissa said in her bubbly voice when she sat down. Introductions were made, but it would take more than just one meeting for Sarah to memorize them – so for now she just smiled and gave a nod. Disdainfully, she picked up her fork and stabbed at the limpy greens that was supposed to be spinach.
“They cook the food to death don’t they?” Sarah said, looking around at the others who giggled softly.
“Yeah, we don’t eat it.”
“Mark usually brings us all a snack from home, but he’s absent today…”
“So… we get to starve?” Sarah asked. But then she got the ‘would you rather die of food poisoning’ look, and gave a small laugh. “Touché…” So she set her fork down with a cling and leaned back in her chair with arms crossing over her stomach. Though the clinging sound the fork made when hitting the table made her stare at it for a long time while the others talked about… well, whatever, she was having a hard time paying attention. Giving a shake of her head, she sat up and picked up her fork – then Alissa’s since she wasn’t using it either and began lightly tapping them together making a little tune.
“Blunt the knives, bend the forks…” She started, a small smile crossing her face as she remembered the song – word for word – from the movie. “Smash the bottles and burn the corks… Chip the glasses and crack the plates…”
They were already cracking up when recognizing what she was doing… and it had already started drawing the attention of others in the cafeteria as they got louded.
“That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates!”
Sarah had no idea what was really inspiring her to even start this, but she felt no need to stop despite that the monitors were starting toward their table – as if they were some delinquents! This, of course, only spurred her onward… normally something she wouldn’t do either.
“Cut the cloth and trail the fat!”
“Leave the bones on the bedroom mat!”
“Pour the milk on the pantry flooooor!”
“Splash the wine on every door!”
Two of the people at her table had even gotten up, on the damn table itself!, and just randomly started dancing around in circles with their arms linked. It was really starting to be a big scene that she hadn’t expected to happen… yet couldn’t stop!
“Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl; Pound them up with a thumping pole; And when you’ve finished, if they are whoooooole…”
“Send them down the hall to roll!”
And then they were outnumbered just as Sarah had tossed up a hard as rock buns from her tray – which she tried to catch, but it ended up hitting the shoulder of one of the monitors and rolling away.
“Shit…” Blink, then innocent smile. “Um, I mean, oops?”
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Sarah Taylor
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Not all who wander are lost.
Posts: 11
Other Half: Me, myself, and I
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Post by Sarah Taylor on Sept 21, 2015 12:10:17 GMT -8
Disney Lip Sync Gone Wrong
"Yes, Mr. Taylor, she must've thrown the lighter because we didn't find it when security searched her." The Principal was saying while Sarah sat in one of the office chairs with her backpack and hoodie at her feet, arms crossed over her stomach, and head staring out the window blue eyes in a glassy stare while lips were pursed in a straight line while she looked outside the window. The weather channel hadn't called for rain, but there was a steady drizzle going on outside. Not enough to make noise on the glass and the sky was only partly cloudy, but it was there - she saw it, she could hear it, smell it, and - more importantly, felt it. Go ahead, they said, it'll be great, they said... the Disney Lip Sync. Sarah wore her white Ariel t-shirt with a pair of jeans and sneakers; she even wore a Little Mermaid watch and bracelets. Yes, she planned on lip syncing Under the Sea... but what happened? One of the cheerleaders botched up Disney's Frozen's Let it Go and it caused her and the few new friends she'd made in school to snicker discreetly about it. And then? A challenge - for Sarah to 'up show' the cheerleader. Originally, Sarah was against it... she hated the movie Frozen - envied the character Elsa - but when they started making those chicken noises and flapping their elbows like wings... well, her pride reared it's ugly head. And what does she do? She belts out the song Let it Go... not lip syncing, but literally singing it, word for word. Not even needing the damn reader the school had set up. And just when she went flamboyant with 'let the storm rage onnnnnn!' part... one hand raised up suddenly the sprinkler system in the school went off. And since Sarah had been standing in a chair - since she was short and had to be seen - she had also just happened to be near a sprinkler. So, in midst of the chaos of the water spraying from the ceiling and kids screaming - enthusiastically mind you, they thought it was great, she would surely be the talk of the school by tuesday! - security caught her before she could make the mad dash and came to the assumption that she had used a lighter or something to set the sprinkler system off. She argued with them til her face turned purple - figuratively speaking. Insisted there was no lighter... she never smoked anything in her life either so why would she even have one? But they just assumed she must've gotten rid of it. Their idiocy was infuriating... and because she argued with them instead of 'coming clean' her two day out of school suspension was now extended to a week - including being banned from Homecoming, the game and dance. Thankfully she hadn't had a dress bought yet! And so now, she was sitting in the office, the Principal finishing up the conversation with her Dad - who was at work, so this just made it ten times better. Now her Dad had to leave work to pick her up from school and take her home. They didn't live far from Garfield, less than twenty minutes away, but still. It would be the longest twenty minutes of her life... she only hoped the forty-five minute or so drive from the base to the school would be enough to calm her Dad down that he would maybe save the lecture for that evening when he got home? Maybe? While the Principal left the office, Sarah chewed on her lower lip before sneakily drawing her phone out of her pockets of her hoodies to fire a text off to Ki - a small one, without details. I fucked up, Ki. I'll try to call if I can, later. To be continued...
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Post by Story Continued. on Sept 22, 2015 3:31:30 GMT -8
Tuesday morning, Garfield High school, first bell. Just after the first bell rang, the fire sprinkler system went off in the main hallway. At second bell, the fire sprinklers went off in the principals office, and the same room as Sarah's incident the day prior. Another sprinkler in the building didn't go off but was leaking a lot of water. Examination would find all four sprinklers were faulty, and were also on a recall list.
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