Not Your Average High School Experience

Already got into a fight.

Elizabeth walked home with a wide smile on her face, just at the thought of her new History teacher. Now, she knew that the thought of her teacher shouldn't make her this happy, but after Ms. Watson got onto Allison today in class, it was kind of hard not to be happy when she thought of the teacher. That smile remained on her face as she turned to walk down the road her house was on, soon arriving at the rather long driveway that would lead her to her house.

When she got to the top of the driveway, she just stood there for a moment and took a good look at her house, despite the fact that she knew just about every detail of it because she had lived her since she was born. The house was a darker grey with black shutters on either side of the windows that were on the front of the house. There were two windows on the front, right side of the house which would look into the garage if someone were to look inside them while a third one was on the second floor of the house, looking in on a family room. A single window was on the left side of the front, looking into the dining room and the final window was on the second story of the house, sitting over the small front porch.

Letting out a soft sigh, Elizabeth walked down the long driveway, soon arriving and getting out her keys to unlock the door. Once she did that she walked inside, closing the door behind her before making her way into the living room with was directly in front of the front door if someone took enough steps. She walked towards the living room, setting her backpack on the love seat that was in front of the bar that was part of the kitchen.

Walking along the bar, she ran her hand along the top of the marble surface before she turned left once she reached the end of the bar. Immediately to her right was the fridge, which she normally would have opened to get a drink, but this time she walked past it and the stove before getting to the pantry. Reaching inside the pantry, she pulled out the little bag of dry cat food and bent down to fill up the little food bowl that was beside the pantry.

After the bowl was filled she put the food back where she got it from, soon closing the pantry door and walking into the dining room which was to her left. Walking through it she ended back at the front door, soon walking a little towards the living room. Elizabeth stopped before she walked into the living room and walked up the stairs.

This was the start of her after school routine. She'd feed Shadow before heading upstairs to shower, soon coming back downstairs to attempt to do her homework which she would give up on about halfway through only to start drawing. Then once it started getting late, she'd head back upstairs and to her room where she would sleep so that she could wake up a repeat everything all over again. Which is exactly what she did.

Elizabeth rolled over the next morning, groaning slightly as she blindly swatted at the alarm clock that was sitting on her nightstand. After a moment the alarm went silent and she smiled slightly before opening her eyes, only to smile wider at the sight of her little black kitten curled up on the pillow next to her. Smiling, she reached over and scratched behind his ear before crawling out of bed. She walked to the entrance of her bedroom and turned on her bedroom light before starting to get dressed and ready for school.

About half an hour later, Elizabeth walked downstairs in a pair of dark blue jeans, a grey tank top that fit school dress code despite the fact that she covered it up with a black hoodie. Her grey Vans were on her feet, her jet-black hair was pulled back into a sloppy bun rather than being let down like it normally was and she was ready to head to school. With her keys in her hand and her headphones in she walked down the stairs the rest of the way before walking out the door.

It didn't take Elizabeth long to reach the familiar Lugoff Elgin High School, which caused her to sigh slightly. She walked across the parking lot before walking inside the building, soon walking into the front office. When she got into the front office, she didn't even have to say anything because the box that held all of the school newspapers was already sitting on the counter waiting for her. Smiling slightly to herself she picked up the box before walking out of the office so that she could start her morning, teacher to teacher delivery rounds.

For the most part, her rounds went just the same as every Wednesday morning rounds. She stopped by every room and gave the teachers their newspapers, not saying anything to them and not really smiling at them because they all hated her. This changed when she got to Ms. Watson's classroom. Elizabeth lightly knocked on the door before being told to come inside, which she did.

"Morning Ms. Watson, I'm just here to bring you the school newspaper. You'll get one every Wednesday to hand to your last class students." Elizabeth said as she walked over to the teacher's desk, smiling at the woman as she set a stack of newspapers on the desk. Elaine smiled before sitting up slightly in her chair as she glanced at the front of the newspaper before giving a soft 'thank you'. Elizabeth nodded and turned around, getting ready to leave until she heard her name.

"Elizabeth? Can I ask you why you're the one delivering these? They don't have someone in the office to do things like this, rather than having to make a student do it? I mean, don't you have friends that you could hang out with in the mornings?" Elaine asked while raising her eyebrows slightly. Elizabeth shook her head slightly as she turned back around.

"No, I don't really have friends to hang out with in the mornings, so I keep myself busy with whatever I can find. Normally you'd think they'd have someone to do this but they don't, so they take volunteers rather than forcing someone from the office to do it. If you don't mind, I need to get going now. I'll see you later on today." Elizabeth said before she turned around and walked out of the classroom and back out into the hallway.

Little did Elizabeth know that she would be meeting Ms. Watson a little sooner than when she had planned to.

Lunch had just started and so far, Elizabeth wasn't liking the way that the day was going. During gym, when all of the girls had dressed out into their P.E clothes, someone got ahold of Elizabeth's hoodie and completely soaked it. This enough pissed Elizabeth off because she didn't really feel like wearing a tank top all day, and she knew exactly who did it, she just knew that no one would believe her if she said something about it.

So, currently Elizabeth was sitting at a table all by herself, eating what the school called spaghetti while looking about the lunch room because she had nothing better to do. Since the school was somewhat lax with its cellphone rules, Elizabeth was able to have her phone out to listen to music as she studied the lunch room.

From where she was sitting, Elizabeth was able to pick out most of the different cliques in the school. She could see the football players covering two or three tables and the cheerleaders weren't too far away from them. Then you have the dance kids, who didn't feel like sitting with the cheerleaders despite the fact that almost all of the events that the two participated in were together. The JROTC kids were taking up a few tables of their own and then the other major group that she had noticed were the outsiders. They came from different cliques but they all sat outside and maintained in their clique while they were out there.

Elizabeth sighed slightly before looking back down at her food, taking another bite of the spaghetti before she started to open her milk. Once she got it open she drank some of it before going back to eating. To her, this lunch class was seemingly normal, which was rather odd. Very rarely did Elizabeth have a quiet and peaceful lunch with Allison and her buddies around. Sure enough, the moment that Elizabeth thought she may be off the hook because Allison was absent, the very girl walked into the lunch room with a nasty look on her face as she spotted Elizabeth.

Elizabeth rolled her eyes as she watched Allison and her friends get in the lunch line, looking down at her phone to change the song to something else. After she changed the song, Elizabeth looked at her plate, trying her best to keep from looking at Allison, thinking that maybe the girl would go away if she wasn't acknowledged.

Sadly, this wasn't true. When Elizabeth looked up the next time, she noticed that Allison and her friends were getting ready to walk through the serving line and did her best to finish her food before they got out. If Elizabeth could get through with her food, she could slip out into the hallway and head off to see one of her teachers to make up work or something. Anything was better than dealing with Allison.

This, however didn't go as planned because the moment that Elizabeth decided to get up, her food still unfinished, she felt something hot and then something cold run down her back as well as over her shoulders, some also managing to get on the top of her tank to. Immediately she stood straight up, knowing exactly what was on her. Spaghetti and milk. Closing her eyes as she took a deep breath, Elizabeth slowly opened them as she turned around to face a smiling Allison.

"Woops, I didn't see you standing." Allison said, clearly not meaning it. As of now, Allison had messed up yet another piece of Elizabeth's clothing and that was the last straw for Elizabeth. A blank look on her face, Elizabeth held onto her tray, moving it so that she was holding it above Allison's head before turning it over, which drew a gasp from the people that were watching. Spaghetti landed all in Allison's hair before starting to fall onto the shoulders of her white top, which only made Elizabeth smirk.

"Woops." Was all Elizabeth needed to say before Allison's face flashed with anger. Acting faster than Elizabeth had ever seen her act before, Allison suddenly pushed Elizabeth, though it didn't really do much seeing as Elizabeth was clearly bigger the Allison. Elizabeth chuckled slightly before getting serious as she push Allison right back, causing the brunette to stagger quite a bit. The only reason the girl didn't fall was because one of her friends caught her before she was able to. Clearly angry now, Allison straightened herself up before moving a step closer to Elizabeth, suddenly smacking the black-haired girl across the cheek with a clearly audible 'smack'.

Elizabeth looked forward after she recovered from the slap, clearly getting ready to deliver more than a slap in return when suddenly Ms. Watson was pushing towards the fight. Elizabeth's hand was raised but before she could do anything Elaine had her hand on Elizabeth's wrist, keeping her from doing anything else. Elaine guided Elizabeth to take a few steps back and told both of the girls to knock it off.

Looking at Ms. Watson, Elizabeth wasn't really happy that someone stopped her and took her anger out on the teacher rather than the person that she should have taken it out on.

"I don't need your help, I can handle it myself." Elizabeth said in a harsh tone, clearly letting her anger towards Allison be reflected onto Ms. Watson as she pulled her arm free from Elaine's grasp, setting her jaw before she pushed through the crowd and headed out to the hallway, though she was soon stopped by the Principal. Not happy that she didn't get to do anything in return, as well as the fact that she was most likely going to get suspended for starting a fight, Elizabeth wasn't happy with how this day was turning out so far, and there was no way that it was really going to get any better.