The halls of Sanford Valley High were bustling with motion. Long and high arches left space for a bustling crowd of droll students to go about their business, hopping inbetween classes, gathering what they needed at flimsy lockers, and on occasion making small talk with their usual repertoire. Kicking unnoticed against the wall, a pauper of a miscreant tapped his fingers gently against a slim artifact unseen, attached and loosely dangling with each tap as if waiting for a sigh to lets others receive it's 'gifts'. His bushy unkempt hair signaled distress but despite his lack of hygiene, hunger in his gut and mismatched shoes he was perfectly calm. One moment or the next wouldn't break the young Mr. Steward from his daily activities.
Zack Steward triangled his fingers in on a fire alarm and smirked. Before he could ready himself, a plumply acquaintance waved and greeted him with boundless glee, robbing his focus immediately with her girth and beckoning.
"Heyyya Zachy-kun!"
"Earth to Hippo-Kate, I thought I told you not to talk to me when I'm in the 'zone', remember? There's havoc to be wrought here." Zach quickly hid his hands against his back, stiffing out one knee with ripped skinny jeans and shuffling straight in the same grey hoodie he'd worn for the past 3 days.
Katie pouted, placing heavy hands on his shoulders and shaking discerningly her rainbow fingerless gloves brushing against his shoulders. "Zach, no, bad! Bad Zachy, I thought we agreed you'd stop going to the 'Zone' already, get thing settled out! Didn't you even look at those applications for Hot Topic I gave you?"
The boy, lanky and shaken like a skinny twig by a gorilla pulled out a pink smartphone with heart stickers on it and checked the time. "Nah, all I recall is I'd stop Zoning out whenever you lectured me on it, maybe. And yeah sure I looked at those. Looking's a lot of fun right, 'cept you aren't much for looks but so long as lookings what you wanted, I completely did that. 'Looked' at them, and than threw them in the garbage. What more do ya want?"
"B-but, I had to argue with my manager for months to get you a vacant position there. Zach, really! It's time you cut this out and get your life together. Or atleast get moving, we have Gym in a few minutes." Katie told him. She pulled out a box of flavored pretzel sticks and tried to hand one to him, stuffing her face with the rest.
"No, 'you' have gym in a few minutes. I have a date with a desk in the Detention lounge, oh how I've missed sitter-to-Betsy. Rocks me right through day after day. Oh and uh, apparently 'Carol Lane' has a Dentist checkup in an hour. Sure hope she makes it but not really because who cares." The boy responded, rolling his eyes and putting away the smartphone. He took one of the young ladies sticks, biting the top part in half. "Hmm. lunch." Flicking the other half in a janitors direction. "That'll have to sustain me. Potatoes Tomatoes you know? Well what do you know, you must get 5 square meals a day, desert, after-desert and than some. " He said, slowly counting down silently.
Katie swallowed the last of hers and fluffed out her brown hair slightly, swishing two pigtails in the back underneath a headband. "Haha very funny. But seriously, cannot you try to be a little more concerned about this?" She began putting away her colored bracelets for gym. "Remember what Mr. Connors said to us in his office last week after you 'painted' his car?"
Zach continued counting to himself. "No? I cannot remember what was said yesterday, let alone last week. Don't lecture me Kit-Kat, you'll know I'll have already forgotten it."
Katie took out her Pokemon themed yellow gym clothes and hung a towel across her shoulder, crudely baring some anime character on it. She pulled into her rainbow striped stockings and without a word, transacted a 50$ from their colorful nylon and slipped them into Zach's pockets. Zach looked the other way and scoffed slightly.
"That's okay, my memory isn't too great either sometimes... but Zach, please don't do this. Don't you care about your future at all?"
With a hearty sigh, Zach reached the end of his countdown. "Not really." He tugged his fingers hard pulling on a string wired across the room to an alarm. The sprinklers immediately went off and Zach took Katie's hand. "Come on, let's go do those laps or whatever. Lordy knows you could use the exercise.
"ZAAA-!" Katie was immediately silenced by a dirtied hand and dragged along quickly. The ensuring downpour muddied up the pink highlights, causing her to reach quickly and prop on hooded cowl with cat ears ontop. Holding her red skirt tightly to her wide thighs, she ran in with Zach into the locker room hoping the repercussions would be less severe this time.
Meanwhile, close outside a tan skinned, bob haired lady swished around and strutted in a pleather miniskirt, taking out her lollipop. "Hmm, those two vagrants seemed, exceptionally adequate. Odd couple, outside the plebeian masses, have some meandering interest. Will put them on the "Heavily Consider" Category." With a mere snap of her fingers the Sprinklers went off and she walked away from the scene.
