The Mission Part 2

May, Thursday 14, 2015. Place: Raven high school. Time: 12:53

Karen Hamlett sat with her friends Bailey Orange, Elizabeth Orange, and Alex Williams . Karen played with her food while she sneaked glances at her crush across the cafeteria.

“If I tired I could beat you…”, Elizabeth said looking down. Bailey and Alex were the smart ones in the group. Bailey always having the top grades and Alex the one that doesn’t try but still has AB honor roll. Elizabeth was the music lover. She was all about singing. She also was a writer one of the best Karen has ever read. Elizabeth was short and very skinny. Because of the way she looked she was always picked on about being weak.  

“Yeah right!” Bailey said laughing. Bailey was the athlete. She was severely dedicated to swimming. Her nickname in the group was fishie. She and Elizabeth were best friends otherwise known as the twins. Bailey was taller and a bit more built then Elizabeth. Bailey had shoulder length brown wavy hair.

Alex continued eating no longer interested in the conversation. She was short and larger. She had glasses and cropped blond hair. She mostly wore black because her mother made her. Her mom stated it was slimming. Alex was the rebel of the group. She brought pocket knives to school and practiced with bow and arrows. She had a reputation of beating up kids that talked about her mother. Alex was the first one you came to if you wanted someone to leave you alone.

Then that leaves Karen. She was tall and medium sized. She had long dirty blond hair and beautiful blue eyes. She was credited as being sweet and caring, though she had her moments of blow ups. Alex and bailey often picked on her about being stupid, thus giving her the nickname Goldie locks. She was also boy crazed and had a thing for older men. Every guy with a jaw line she typically liked. She had a thing for sparkles and anything shiny.

“Leave her alone you guys. She probably could beat you.” Karen said standing up to throw her garbage away. She strutted to the trash can making sure her crush watched her every step of the way.

Alex rolled her eyes at Karen and looked at Bailey, “Liza couldn’t do anything to me or you. Karen wouldn’t be able to take me either. The only person that could probably beat me would be Grace.”

Grace Carney was a girl in their outer group of friends. She had recently cut her curly  hair short. She had glasses and was in marching band. She has a black belt in (ninja skills) which made her untouchable by Alex.  She was the one every usually picked on. When there was nothing to talk about the topic basically ends up being her.

Karen being one of Grace’s best friends didn’t typically like this, but any defense she made for her was shot down immediately.

“Today I read another one of her stories and she is exactly copying it from that new TV show.” Elizabeth said leaning closer.

“Seriously, it’s so annoying. Did she use that name that she stole from you again?” Bailey turned towards Elizabeth.

“No, she’s using one of yours now.” Alex said staking her trash into a small pile.

Karen sat back down at the table, “Maybe she just likes the name. There’re tons of people out there with the same name. That’s not considered stealing. If It was a bunch of Johns would be in a lot of trouble.”

Bailey rolled her eyes and sighed, “You don’t understand I came up with that name. it’s unique, mine alone.”

The bell rang and we stood and started heading through the crowd to the lunchroom doors.

“You guys are just being really immature about this.” Karen said shaking her head.

“You’re going to the beach with her for a week this summer, right? Can you talk to her?” Elizabeth asked.

“Yeah, I’ll talk to her about it.” Karen snuck a look to her right where her crush talked to his friends. He smiled and laughed at something they said.

A foot shot out and tripped Karen, making her shoe come off. She looked around and saw Nic Hayes looking all too guilty.

“Nic!” she yelled at him jokingly and slapped his arm.

Nic Hayes was one of Karen’s best guy friends. He was from South America and his accent sometimes made it so you wouldn’t understand what he was saying. He and Karen told each other basically everything.

“Is it getting hot in here?” Nic said wickedly smiling and looking pointedly at Karen’s crush.

“Shut up!” she elbowed him in the ribs.

“Wow, it really is hot in here!” Nic basically shouted.

In front of them Bailey and Elizabeth had linked their arms together and skipped. They talked about the TV show they recently watched. Alex laughed at them and tried to keep her distance.

The hall was filled with laughing teens waiting for the school day to be over. Little did they all know their school day was going to end faster than they'd realized.