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"How could you talk to him like that?" Nataile asked in jelosy and awe, as she tied the laces to her shoes.
"It's simple. He's a jerk." Sarah said, her t's and M's sounding awkward due to her plugged up nose. The bleeding had stopped, but she didnt want to take any chances, for the time being, she had shoved a bunch of tissues into her nostrils. 
"You're not going out in public like that are you?" natalie asked.
"why, do you not want to be seen with me?" sarah snapped. Natalie looked hurt.
"No, it's becasue Brody is waiting outside the locker room." She half whispered, as if her voice would be heard from behind the heavy metal door.
"GREAT." Sarah mumbled and pulled the tissues out carefully. She cleaned the blood from her lip and chin, pulled her hair down, and forced natalie out the door. 
"Distract him." She whispered as she slammed the metal door shut. With luck, natalie could make him feel awkward and he would end up going to the parking lot instead of the assembly. She smoothed out her shirt, and took a deep breath, ready to run into the auditorium if need be. She pushed the door open, and darted out amongst the crowd of seniors and juniors, who towered over her, she was a mere five foot four. The door to the gym was open and free of any unwelcome visitors. She stepped out the door and into the growing sunlight. Her upperclassmen coverage dispersed and she beelined right to the auditorium. She silently praised natalie in her head. She took a seat right by the door for an easy exit in the auditorium and stared blankley at the stage. Natalie came running over to her. 
"Wow." She said, her face flushed and a dazed expression on her face. Sarah payed no attention to natalies detail of her conversation with Brody. For a week afterwards Brody would always apologize to her when ever he passed bye, but it eventually turned into a joke for him and his friends. Then things calmed down and the regular routine of silence begain once more. That is untill it came time for winter break. 

It was a miserable looking friday afternoon, school had just let out and sarah was in a hurry to get to the parkinglot where the busses waited. The teachers were espeically cruel at this time of the yearh, heaping on projects, papers and presentations. Her back pack was full, as were her arms.

first period p.e. was the horror she would start her day with. She was not an athletic gilr,so she found p.e. to be one of the many annoyances in her life. Along with the junior in the parkinglot, he was in her class and was a constant destraction. She rushed into the girl's locker room and changed from her nice school clothes to the un flattering p.e. clothes, which were nothing more than a large t-shirt and oversized swets. The other girls had cute gym outfits, but not her. Her mother wouldn't buy her things that were that expensive when her old clothes would be just fine. The girl shook her head. Long, sleek auburn hair fell in her face, it came to the middle of her back. She pulled it back into a ponytail. The only thing she was proud of was her hair. Her friend natalie jogged over to her, and they both went into the gym. 
"Only eight more months!" Natalie whispered, and both girls giggled before running to their attendance spot on the rubber gym floor. It was only eight more months untill they were finished with p.e. once and for all. All the freshmen and sophomores were lined up, waiting for the teacher to come and instruct them to do some mindless warm up activity before the public humilation of team sports began. Most of the juniors were in attendance line as well, except for a small group of boys. They came out of the boys locker room, making quite a sceen, brody, the tall blonde had pulled the pants of his friend, an equally tall brunnete, down to his ankles and was hiding behind some terrified freshmen. Had it been any other student to pull something like that, they would be given detention. But seing as it was brody, the highschool god of sports, the teacher just rolled his eyes and continued to take attendance. It was people like him that brought out the worst of her. Natalie groaned beside her, and grabbed her arm. 
"Isn't he amazing?" she asked, her voice full of awe. The girl rolled her eyes and gave a sarcastic response. She looked at him closely. He was rather attractive. His hair was almoast white blonde, and was about 4 inches long, but covered his eyes in the front. He had a toned muscular body, but he was incredibly pail. He looked like he was about 6'4" but she wasn't sure. She felt very ugly sitting in a room full of muscualr skinny girls with tight clothes that showed off their bodys, where she sat in frumpy mom clothes. The teacher blew his whistle and announced that, since today there was a manditory assembly wich would cut into first period, they would be playing dodgeball. A quiet groan spred through out the underclassmen section, where as the upperclassmen let out laughs of joy.
"C'mon sarah, lets go hide in the back." Natalie whispered and pulled the girl off the floor. Sarah nodded. The likely hood of all the underclassmen being picked off before class was over was a slim one. The class was divided into two, upperclassmen stood on the left, underclassmen to the right. Sarah grumbled quietly how P.E. teachers were miserable little people who only tormented studends because their own lives sucked, which made her and natalie burst into a fit if laughter. Unfortunatley the upperclassmen took that as a sighn of weakness and targeted them.
"Way to go sarah, you blew our cover!" natalie said with fake anger. Sarah gulped and ducked behind a freshman, who got nailed in the face by the foul smelling rubber dodgeballs. The freshman scampered to the side of the gym, where now more than 3/4ths of the underclassmen stood. It was a massacre, only about two of the upperclassmen were out. Sarah peeked out from behind her newest sheild, her friend bobby who was just as cowardly as her, only to check the time. If only she hadn't done that. Suddenly all she could see was red, and smell the awful rubber ball. Then pain erupted, starting from her nose and leaching out to the rest of her face. She slumped to the ground, her hand shot to her nose. There was blood. IF looks could Kill, brody would have dropped to the ground. He laughed at first, untill he saw that he had caused Sarah the misery of a bloody nose. The teacher blew his whistle. 
"time's up. Go dress up and report to the auditorium." 
Brody jogged over to sarah, nataile and bobby. Natalie turned bright pink at his arrival, boby shrank away and sarah glared. 
"Sorry about that! are you okay?" he asked his voice containing little concern. 
"Does it LOOK like i'm okay?" She said, her nose still dripping with blood. Brody cringed.
"i guess not. Look, let me take you down to the nurse's it's the least i can do." He said, extending out his arm. Natalie let out a little whimper of jelosy, that only sarah could hear.
"Drop dead." She grumbled and stormed off to the locker room.