Athena dreamed. She was herself, life was normal, she was in school, a hall full of students who she didn't like, she was a witch, an outsider and a self made villain to the common world. She liked being on the outside, she liked playing the freak, making the world uncomfortable. It was if her differentness put a spot light on her, a dark spotlight, she was noticed, because she couldn't be ignored.
She had her friends at her back, Zoe and Sabrina and Amber and Melissa. Each finding their own voice in the Goth crowd, each vastly different from the other. A Punk, a Cyber Goth, A witch, A poet.
They walked down a long hallway full of students, nobodies, nerds, those who didn't have a group, a mass of people who blended into a mass of conformity and averageness. They were boring, to look at them was boring, to talk to them was boring. She was of interest, her darkness begged questions and fear.
At the far end of the hall was another light, a yellow light, who it shined on was blocked by the vast number of boring book baged bummers who filled the space. But a good reader would know that at the other end of the hall walked the other half of this equation. The popular crowd. Cheerleaders, Jocks, people made interesting by their money and good looks, and who had about as much depth as a photograph.
Athena assumed it would be Sarah, Tiffany, Biff, and a host of hangers on. She steeled herself for the confrontation, as she shifted though the crowd, moving like two trains towards each other on the same track. She knew how it would go, Sarah would call her a freak, Athena would call her a bimbo, both would get angry at the other and things would move on.
The lights got closer and the crowd thinned. She could see Biff, he was the largest, then she saw Sarah, and then something she didn't expect, She saw Beth. But a prettier Beth, a perky cheerleady Beth, a more McMillan Beth. This girl had lighter hair than the Beth Athena currently was, more pronounced breasts, A pure McMillan.
Things moved on as they normally would, Athena was ready to call Sarah a pinktard, one of her more original insults, when suddenly.....
YOU BITCH! You stole my life!" Beth yelled.
"but you were never alive, you didn't exist before me...I don't even know you."
"Oh I existed, and i was going to have a such a nice life, I could have had her life." she pointed towards Sarah, the queen bee of the school, "and i could have made it my own." Beth said these things with tears in her eyes. "but now i have to be you."
Beth lunged at Athena with full force.
"No wait... Athena tried to yell but it was too late Beth slammed into Athena and there was pain.everything went light.
And then she woke up. Still as Beth. It was time for school.
