Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Pregnant Queen


The ringing of the red hallway’s obnoxious bell alarmed the senior quarterback and the football team’s watergirl. Their make-out session had to end. Quickly they dressed before the gossip-craving students could discover their secret. Rushing out of the bathroom, they ran right into the homecoming queen, Dawn. She looked at them non-chalantly and walked past with only a cell-phone in hand.  As the hallways filled with obnoxious freshmen and jaded seniors, Dawn continued to walk the hallways looking down at the buffed floor tiles. Soon she’d began her daily routine of greeting her unwanted minions of a quick, monotone “hello”. She never knew who was speaking; their faces were just all a blur. Again, the bell rings. Dawn makes it to class at the turtle speed of 1.5 seconds per floor tile. She was planning to beat her record of .5 seconds per floor...