valmora | [tGE AU] Classroom Apathy (Sandy and girls)

Disclaimer: Not mine; all to MGM/UA and Paul Brickhill.

Classroom Apathy
Icebreakers on first day ineffective

Sandy’s day begins in journalism class: hot, stifling and too full of girls in pink with squeaky voices. The air conditioner is nonexistent and the heat sticks to his skin.

He begins to wonder if the girls' throats hurt from all the squealing. His ears already do.

He's looking forward to second period gym, as stupid as that sounds, because at least in his gym class there aren’t any girls, or if there are, they’ll all be butch, which isn’t so bad. They’re not as bad as these walking-talking-gum-chewing creatures he’s hesitant to even call human, anyway.

The teacher has them do an icebreaker - what an ironic name - a quick round-robin activity of saying one's name and doing an accompanying action after repeating the name-actions of all those who came before. The girls giggle and do cutesy things like hop up and down or twirl in circles.

Sandy, second-to-last and frustrated by their poor memories, sits through Jezebel or whatever her name is twittering through all fifteen before her: "Um, Beth? Like this?" She jumps forward. "And Shirali -" She waves - "Hihowareyou? And I'm Jezzy." She nods her head triumphantly.

"Would you like an action with that?" Sandy asks, not without an undertone of rancor. She turns big, baby-blue eyes on him, her fake-straight hair flowing over her shoulders.

"Oh, I don't know?" she simpers. "Like? Howabout this?" She snaps her bubble gum.

"Fine." Sandy leans back in his chair, starting with Crystalle and dictating, rather than doing, their actions. He finishes with, "I'm Sandy, and my action is fuck you.

"I'll see myself to the Dean's Office, thanks," he adds to the teacher as he shoves his hand back in his jeans pocket, standing and heading towards the door.