Honey and Medicine
Chapter 3
“Blah blah blah Y’know! Ha ha ha!…” was all Sam
could hear as she sat next to Clarisse. Today was hell but she was a little
relieved to have gotten away from that Casper guy. Strange as it seems, she was
actually thinking about him. Not in the, oh-My-Prince-Charming!-Come-and-save-me
sort of way, more like the,
who-names-their-kid-Casper?-like-the-friendly-ghost-Casper? kind of way but
nevertheless, he was definitely on her mind.
Samantha was poking at the little steamed green
trees on her plate -a vegetable known as broccoli- as she scanned the cafeteria
for all the obvious cliques. In every school, there would always be the most
popular, hottest, prettiest, richest senior who could basically, get anything
or any guy she wanted.
And at LHS, that girl was Jenine Sapphire Rose.
She would go around saying, in a very irritable fashion, “It’s pronounced
Juh-Neen not Jen-Nine.” Usually, that sentence would be followed by a remark
like Idiot, Retard or Loser. Jenine was blonde with beautifully curled hair,
tall, slim like a model, had blue eyes and was always spotted with designer
outfits and handbags straight from the runway.
It was
only Sam’s first day at LHS and she already knew so much bout this Jenine girl
from Clarisse and hallway gossip. Okay fine, maybe Sam was listening to
Clarisse after all, she wasn’t too bad.
In the cafeteria, Jenine was accompanied by her
two BFFs, Ashley Greene and Candace Dale. Both of whom are just as gorgeous and
rich as Jenine. When they walk in the hallways, people move aside and make way
for the ‘Queen Bee’, like the Red Sea separating for Jesus or something. It
made Sam feel utterly disgusted at these people but then again, the only way
she was going to live through living hell in this dump was to do what everyone
else was doing.
“Sam. Sam!? Hellooooo?” broke Sam’s train of
thought and observation time. It was Clarisse calling while snapping her
fingers. “I’ve got a new friend for you,” said Clarisse, pointing to Sam’s
right. Sam looked to her right and saw some guy had suddenly sat next to her.
He was skinny with some black hair sticking out of his clearly over-worn and
over-washed beanie and wore thick black plastic glasses.
“Hi new girl, I’m Kevin, master of the school’s
website and head of the school’s magazine. I see Clarisse has been boring you
with her incredibly long one-sided talks – “
“Hey, I did not bore her!”interrupted Clarisse,
clearly offended.
“Sure you didn’t. Anyways, let me tell you a
little bit about the little cliques, or rather as I like to call them, herds or
flocks, in our school here.”
“Err… okay. I’m Sam by the way”
“Sam, nice name. Anyways, moving on, over there
in the middle is the popular people’s table. Only the posh of the school get to
sit there. As you may already have known the head of the flock is the very
infamous Jenine. Usually the table is crowded with freshman and sophomore girl
wannabes but Jenine only talks to her two best friends Ashley and Candace.
Yeah, you do not want to get in their way.”
“That was not on my mind but thanks for the warning” said Sam
“Yeah, there was this one time I was talking on
the phone and I didn’t see her coming. So, I didn’t make way for the three of
them and the next thing I know, everybody in the whole school thinks I’m an
attention seeker and a fat hobo. I got hate mail for a whole month cause of
them.” Said Clarisse, reminiscing of her past.
“Yeah, yeah. That wasn’t even the worst case. I
heard there was this one girl who transferred school cause of the amount of
threats and ‘accidents’ that happened to her.”
“Wow, that’s pretty serious.” Sam said.
“Okay, over there directly next to the
I-am-popular table are the jocks. Most of them are super athletic but super
stupid and the rest of them are semi-athletic and semi-smart but all of them
are super heartthrobs” said Clarisse with a little sparkle in her eyes. Kevin
exaggerated rolling his eyes in either jealousy or disgust. Sam wasn’t too
sure.
“Yeah yeah, the leader of the dogs is Jenine’s
boyfriend, Rayzen. He’s Eurasian and head of the track and field team. One part
Japanese, one part American. He’s the fastest long-distance runner in all of
LHS. Previously Jenine dated that guy over there, Casper.” said Kevin as he
pointed to Casper with his fork.
“What? Why? What happened?” Sam questioned, a
little too quickly.
“I see someone has caught your attention. Ooh la
la Sam!” said Clarisse sounding like a 6 year old.
“No it’s nothing, he’s in my Chem class that’s
all. He’s pretty self-centered.” Said Sam, keeping her cool.
“You can go fantasize all you want about him but
there are a ton of girls after him and another ton of girls heartbroken cause
of that guy. One of the greatest mysteries of LHS. Why doesn’t any girl come
over for this sexy piece of meat over here? Okay, back to the topic,
apparently, they broke up because Jenine was cheating on him –or so says
Casper. But Jenine declined and said he was cheating on her. Either way, in my
opinion, they’re both cheating and lying chickens. But you didn’t hear this
from me” said Kevin.
“Oh okay. How about –“
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING. There goes the bell signaling the end of recess
and cutting Sam off rudely.
“Never mind everyone else for now they’re not as
important. I’ll tell you more tomorrow or something” said Kevin hurrying off to
his class.
