//------------------------------// // Friends // Story: That One Human // by Spin Art //------------------------------// I’m actually pretty excited about school. I hope you guys don’t think of me weird, but I’m not here for the homework. I actually enjoy being with people. I’m a pretty social person who likes to make jokes or that’s what I think. I think my jokes are pretty funny. I crack myself up all the time! Ahahaha…. I’ve been here at this school for a year now so nothing much is new to me. UCA is pretty decent. Surrounded by wheat fields, there is a patch of green grass, trees, and buildings. Behind the Administrative Building (the place where most classes meet) they’re making a new cafeteria which probably is that brown/gray part of the green. Compared to this cafe, the rest of the building on campus aren’t so nice and modern. Is it that dainty? Not really, so all of us manage. But this “Water Tower Plaza” is going to be sweet! As that is being taken care of behind the scenes, we students go TO SCHOOL! Hurray…. Remember I’m here for the dorm life and for my friends so meh, forget about that school part! … Nevermind, I actually want good grades…. After Registration Day where we sign some papers and get signed up to be involved, here comes the next day. The legit first day of school. ---- Yes! I don’t have a 7:15 class or a 8:15 class! This Sophomore year is going to be chill. Time to sleep in.... I woke up at 8. My roommate was working right now. I laid in bed waiting for my 9:45 class. Maybe I should get ready. I put on my Rainbow Dash shirt on, some jeans, my Roxy sneakers, and my gray beanie on. Done. I went over to my desk and sat down. I have noticed my RD holographic trading card fell from it's shelf. I picked up the card and carefully let it rest on some stable object. "There you go." I said with a smile and glanced upward. My pony collection was spread all over my desk shelf. Sadly, their pastel colors didn't match the lavender walls we have. But they were my pride. I'm a brony and proud. I frowned with a bad thought. The new girls who enter the room think I'm crazy. My classmates from Freshman year already knew that I loved ponies. I thought that they were okay with it, but then four girls already have used this fact against me. So what about the new girls? What would be their reaction? But it's too late to hide it now. Everyone will know by then. Or maybe I'm just really lazy. "Whatever comes and goes...." I muttered to myself and played with a pencil between my thumbs. The sound of a key being inserted into a door tickled my ear. My roommate walked in. "Hey Lorena!" I said gleefully turning to face her. "Hey Gabby!" she replied. Lorena was a short girl who wore glasses. This year was her first year at UCA. Her brown hair covered her half deformed face. Since she was born her face was like that. Back at her old school she was bullied because of it. I had overcame the fact because she was my friend and my awesome roommate. Lorena walked over to her desk. "I'm so tired! You know what I do in the morning?” exclaimed Lorena. “What?” “I have to stack chairs on top of the table, sweep, and mop! So boring!” Lorena worked at the cafeteria. It seemed like this year everyone is working at the café this year whereas last year I worked at the café and everyone was off somewhere else. At least my friends were for the most part. “Hey, how many more minutes until the next class?” I asked her. “Twenty more,” Lorena sighed, “so where do you work again?” “Umm. Front desk remember?” “OH! RIGHT!” We both laughed. This year I work in the Girls’ Dorm front desk. The job isn’t hard, but it is a slow paced job sometimes. All you do is sit at the desk waiting for someone to come over for something or if the dean tells you to do something. Thankfully, I work in the afternoon. ----- “Welcome students!” our teacher Mrs. Turner said joyfully. Thankfully I made it in time. The bell hasn’t rung yet, but I tried to find a seat. In the near back was a desk right next to these two boys. I managed to maneuver around the desk pods towards the back. I plopped down right next to them. The bell buzzed through the wall. Everyone became quiet and looked over to the front. I took off my gray beanie because I knew Mrs. Turner took points off for hats. Where was Lorena? I scanned the classroom for her. Over to the front right next to the teacher’s desks were two student desks that faced the class. Lorena sat in one of them. Good. She isn’t late. I sighed. “Let’s play an ice breaker game. We go around the classroom starting with Ella,” Mrs. Turner pointed to a girl in a pod in front of us, “and we use a positive adjective that describes you. The adjective must start with the first letter of your name. Then the next person will say everyone’s names that was said then yours.” The teacher paused and looked around for questions. There seemed to be none. “Ready? Go ahead Ella.” “Excellent Ella,” she said quietly. “Excellent Ella, Awesome Amber,” an Asian girl with blonde streaks repeated. I looked over to the third girl in the pod for a response. The girl was tan, skinny, and had brown wavy hair. It seemed like she needed help on her name. “Excellent Ella, Awesome Amber, and Crazy… Carly?” she hesitated. Mrs. Turner frowned. Crazy didn’t seem like a positive adjective to her. What did she think she was? An insane serial killer? “Okay, for now we can keep it. Keep going.” It was my turn. Everyone was waiting for me. All summer I couldn’t wait to use the adjective I was going to use. This was going to be easy, there were three people who already said their name. I took in a big breath. “Excellent Ella, Awesome Amber, Crazy Carly, and Glamorous Gabby!” I breezed by with a cocky smile, “get it right.” The funny thing was, I’m not those girls who wake up in the early morning to prepare their hair and face to meet guys. I think it’s good to look pretty once in a while especially when it’s Banquet day. It is special that way otherwise. Looking pretty everyday would just wear off the effect, simple logic right? One of the guys in my pod continued the game with his name as “Magnificent Mike.” Then the next guy responded right after. “Excellent Ella, Awesome Amber, Creepy Carly-“ The classroom bursted out in laughter. I was trying hard not to fall out of my seat. I glanced over to my best friend who sat in the middle back pod. Her name was Marijke. We always joked about how she was such a creeper. So how many creepers we have in this class? I laughed. ---- It has been two days that school started. Lorena and I have been surviving with our new schedules. On the first day, I accidentally walked in a wrong class. I realized that I was not supposed to be there when I rechecked my schedule and the teacher said there were three extra people in the class. I woke up early again. What is the deal here? Maybe I'm just really worried that I might over sleep for some odd reason. I really don't want miss class again. I got up from my bed, grabbed my Derpy lanyard, and opened the door. Colorful streamers hung from our doorway. In front of our door, the wall had streamers that spelled out "Lorena 16." "OHHHHH..... RIGHT....." I said out loudly. Today was Lorena's 16th birthday. Everyone was telling me about it. How could I forget about it? What a great way to start out the school year, make it your birthday! All day everybody was greeting her with a happy birthday. Every time she walked into our room, I would always say a "Bappy Hirthday." She didn't like the attention a lot. It scared her. Today at Assembly everyone in the school sung/screamed their worst at Happy Birthday. What a sweet sixteen! In the distance, the sun begins to fade into an orange and purple. The day was ending while Lorena and I stayed in our room. Somebody knocked on our door. Lorena got up from her desk. "I GOT IT!" she retorted. At the door was a buff girl with blue long sleeves and cargo shorts. It was Sarah. In her hand she held a big bucket of ice cream and two boxes of cones. "Hey Sarah!" I exclaimed loudly. "Hey guys, so Lorena this is for you," Sarah handed the bucket and boxes to Lorena, "you better share with Gabby, okay?" "Okay!" Lorena agreed cheerfully, "hey Gabby, do you want to share this with our hall?" "Just one moment," I said without looking up as I finished up my homework. Lorena left the room with an accidental slam our door. "Sorry!" her voice was audible through the door. I shook my head with a chuckle under my breath. I got up from my chair and walked down the hall. Where was that girl? I turned to the left and there she was at the end of the hall about to knock. I ran behind her. Lorena turned around to make sure that it was no one suspicious and knocked. "Come in!" someone called out. I looked on the door, there were two name tags: Karly and Melia. Lorena opened the door. The two girls were in there staring at us to explain ourselves. One of them was Crazy Carly, one of the girls in our class. But her name was spelled with a "K?" Well then. I raised the corner of my lip. Melia is a Junior. I remember that she was here last year as a Sophomore. She had a round face, black hair, and blue eyes. I smiled at her hoping for a smile back. Melia nodded back with a smile. Karly looked down Lorena's arm to see what she had, it was the bucket of ice cream. Karly's face began to beam- "Hey do you want some ice cream?" Lorena asked them. "YES!" Both of them responded happily. We entered the room. "Finally! Some people on this hall wants ice cream!" Lorena sighed in relief. I looked at her, "well, practically everyone denied ice cream." "Now people want ice cream because I am here, duh!" I said wittily, "do you guys have any spoons and bowls?" The two nodded and got their supplies. We set the ice cream by their sink. Melia handed me a spoon and I began to dig in. I dumped loads of ice cream in Melia's bowl. Her face was blank as if she was into space. "Melia, is this enough? I mean-" I laughed, "-I could just be going on forever and you would be here saying 'keep going, keep going' and your bowl is over flowing!" Everyone laughed. Melia nodded off and told me that it was enough. Karly came over and I begin to dump some ice cream. "That's good enough." she said and walked off to her bed. With a leap, she jumped onto the bed butt first. Both of the roommates happily ate their ice cream. "But no, Gabby, the people on our hall were like, 'No I'm good,' or 'Sorry, I'm lactose intolerant!" Lorena kept going. I intently listened and dug into the bucket with a spoon the two gave us. "Someone on this hall is lactose intolerant?" I scoffed. "Yeah! But then there was these two!" Lorena pointed at the two, "Thankfully, we have people that can help us finish this with us!" "You're trying to make us fat, huh?" Karly responded. Lorena and I looked at each other. What was our response to that? "Dang it, we blew our cover." Lorena joked. "Oh no...." I whispered. There was a silent pause. Finally, I exclaimed loudly with arms flailing, "DARN IT!" Karly out of the corner of my eye, covered her face in her palms trying not to laugh so hard. "Let's make a move out, quick! TO THE ROOM!" I continued. Lorena and I dashed out of the room, "BYE!" "Bye...?" The two roommates were confused. We continued running. As we arrived at our door, we were laughing. "What was that even about?" I asked my roommate. Panting, I shook as I tried to insert my key into the door. Lorena shrugged. "I dunno," she paused, "but we're going back tomorrow!"