A dreary morning (god this is so obvious). She rubbed her eyes free of the tendrils of sleep. Looked at the mirror, and was shocked fully awake. "Oh~ God! Which monster is that!" she shrieked in a high nasal voice. Shielding her eyes from the painful truth reflected in the mirror, she glanced downwards at the clock, now fully awake. "Oh sigh, why am I awake so early today?"
Then she realized that today was MONDAY. SCHOOL! "Oh !@$) $%&). She ran to the mirror again and peering at her reflection let out another dismayed sigh. Why oh why is today a pimple day?! It's Monday andI'm supposed to go to school looking like a freaking cottage cheese??? Argh...."
But she knew that she had to hurry up or her mom will start nagging again. Therefore Katie rushed to her bathroom for her usual morning routine of primping, plucking, showering, shampooing, curling and goodness knows what other weird concoctions she applied to her face to mask that dreadful piece of cottage cheese.
Of course, Katie being who she was, even walking up early would end up in being tardy. She was only moderately late today, having missed Assembly, 2 periods of Physics, 2 periods of Chemistry, and 2 periods of PE. Well... She'd get there in time for lunch.
Stumbling out of the house, all prim and proper with her skirt only 6 inches above her knees, and blouse neatly ironed, she was actually thankful she didn't miss lunch. Been having hunger pangs all week from her latest diet regiment. Of course, while looking for her shoes (the white ones, she didn't own many of them out of her 100 over collection), the caked on makeup fell to the ground like brown snowflakes, revealing all the little peaks on her pockmarked face.
But being in such a hurry she didn't really realize the bleak
reality of her face that resembled peeling wallpaper and jumped on to the bus as she saw it rolling down the street of her house. On the bus, she grabbed her little heart shaped sparkly luminous pink compact out of her minute handbag ( she didn't see much point in carrying her school books usually) and started doing the last minute touch ups before arriving at her school. While on the bus and staring at the mirror,she started to dream about Kenny, all his masculine charms, all the little ways in which he made
her day that little bit brighter. Not that it wasn't already Neon Pink, but he helped. Yeah kenny. Although she didn't really know his full name, nor where he stayed, nor which class he was in, nor which CCA, those things weren't important. She'd been dressing to impress the whole week. And Kenny, dear dear Kenny, would be drawn to her like bees to honey. It'd be like fishing. And she'd been wearing fishnets all week.
By the time she arrived in school, Katie was already blushing so brightly that the blusher she wore could have been done away with. Indeed, her friends all commented that she was literally glowing. Like some overbaked strawberry short cake. All the same, she dropped by her locker in the third floor corridor first before goign to class for afterall, what was the hurry? She was late already anyway. Opening her locker she gazed longingly at the photo of Kenny that she had attached to the locker door. Oh Kenny...just looking at the image of him sent tiny ripples of electricity tingling up her spine and she couldn't pull her eyes off for a full 5 mins. But suddenly the ghastly ringing of the "Big Ben Chime" of the schoolbell rang and looking at her watch, she realized that it's time for lunch! So she happily trotted down to the canteen to catch up with the latest gossip with her fellow bimbotic cheerleader friends,and also inevitably to see if lady luck was shining on her, meaning to say, whether or not Mr Handsome was lunching anywhere near.
She stared at the cheesecakes on sale. Buy one get one free, the sign said. She stared and stared, it was so tempting. All that yellow creaminess, and not to mention fat. She blushed a shade of deep red, standing so close to temptation she felt almost indecent. She jumped, at a sudden tap, and all giggling behind her were all her friends. Ohhhh.... if she could find a hole she'd dig all the way in. Caught in the act! "Well... " she mumured, "Why don't we all share two pieces?" Her twenty friends all blushed a deep shade of red. "Okay~" they replied shyly.
So all twenty of them bought that two tiny pieces of PURE
CONCENTRATED TEMPTATION, and started savouring the delicious smoothness of the cake, while all twenty of them were bent all over the table, their overly short skirts creeping up to reveal a lot of pure white creamy thigh that started elliciting the many gazes of the ruggers at the next table.
Slowly, Katie uncovered her eyes. She couldn't believe what she'd just bought. "Its so sinful!" she shrieked. And stared at that piece of cheesecake. Oh... if only Kenny was as easy to get as a piece of cheese cake. He'd be equally sinful, she was sure. She reached out, almost reverently, and took a pinch. All the other girls did the same... Each girl eyed the piece they held in their hands, couldn't bear to put it into their mouths almost. Too good to eat certainly applied here! Still, even the stoutest mountain can be moved with determination. And cheerleaders aren't nearly as resolute. Slowly, the fingers crept towards their mouths. Inch by inch, centimeter by centimeter, millimeter by millimeter. Almost there. "AHhhhhh!" Katie shrieked, pointing at the stairwell. "AHHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!" All twenty one of them shrieked. Who else, but Kenny walking down the steps. At that very instant, with reflexes faster than the Air Rifle team, in perfect synchrony bettering the School Band, all 21 compacts came out at the exact same time. "Click!"
Sauntering past them, Kenny decided to pay them a special visit today. "Good afternoon ladies *wink* " He certainly was a charmer wasn't he? Of course, with the gorgeous looks of Gilderoy Lockhart and the smooth moves of a typical movie star, he was able to captivate every single girl in the school with just a hint of a smile crawling up the edges of his extremely delectable mouth. However, he decidd that there was only ONE girl worth thinking of....but who it was remained a secret for he did not really feel "up to her standards" as yet. Amazing isn't it? For one as big-headed as him, but true....love is a funny thing.
Anyway, back to the canteen. While Kenny was paying a visit to the cheerleader's table, from the edge of the table he spotted someone else sitting silently, alone, at the table next to it. That, that girl....there was something different about...some mysterious feelings about how her hair shone in the sunlight and how she stared out into blank space,one could literally see the thoughts fomulating in front of her.......the way she seemed to GLOW with an aura of multi-coloured splendour.......her eyes, her face, the way she SMILED! Kenny thought he was about to have a heart attack and faint at the spot. Or perhaps he was simply feeling nauseous from the smell of the mixture of cheap perfumes from the cheerleaders' table.
The more he gazed at her, the more that stirring grew, not from down there, but from deep inside, from a place he never knew existed. Her eyes glistened, glowed, with the texture of jewels, clear, sparkling. In her eyes, he could see spring, and summer all at once. The very essence of life lay in those eyes, and they were feeding him, sustaining him with all that he needed. He realized that he needed no lunch today, he'd be totally content, just looking into those eyes. His gaze took in the rest of her face. Too perfect, too perfect. A slight impish grin, a beautiful nose that had character, wonderful skin, that looked perfectly smooth, like that of a china doll. He very much wanted to reach out, there and then, and caress that smooth skin, to feel for himself if a thing of such beauty actually existed. He reached out, and touched... wet clay.
All the girls noticed his hand reaching out, and almost instantaneously, all of them pressed their faces in the general direction of his outstretched hand. Visibly irritated. He stood up. And all the girls fell by his feet. He strode, such strength that was fake, an act, became satisfyingly real. He sat. In front of the angel that had stolen his heart, all within a few moments, a few moments almost eternity.
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