User blog:Scarly/Once Upon A Time - Sophie Green: Chapter 3 - The Social Experiment Named "Clique"

I was left to my own devices after class, Melvin and Cornelius had to watch their team practise. I walked through the school hallways, not really focused on a destination. All that really intersted me was how other students interacted with each other. I walked aimlessly for nearly a hour, when I started to feel hungry. I noticed that some students were walking down some steps, into a room at the back of the foyer, so I followed them. I found the school cafeteria, I had to fetch a tray before I joined the line.

There wasn't much choice for foods, that I could see. The dinner lady was a older looking woman, brown hair up in a hair net, her clothes and apron were in a very poor hygiene condition, she was stocky built. When it was my turn, I smiled at her.

"What are the choices?" I asked, glancing over at the serving trays.

"Well, you've got chicken with ketchup or without it," the woman replied, she appeared to be annoyed about me asking.

"With ketchup, please," I told her, holding up my tray as she slopped the food onto a plate, then placed it on the tray. "Thank you."

I took a carton of milk from further up the counter, then walked across the room. I looked for a available place to sit, just looking at the seating arrangements was like looking at a pie chart. Each student in a different clique, confined to their chosen areas, not mingling with anyone outside their clique. The cliques appeared to be identical to the ones at my old school, I could tell exactly who they were at a glance.

On the far table to the right, boys in letterman jackets, girls in cheerleader uniforms. It seemed the air around them was filled with competitive, because some were arm wrestling, some exchanging play by plays of various tactics they used in football practise. While one of the girls preened herself, touching up make up then making sure her hairstyle didn't have a hair out of place. The girl, I saw twice today, with the pink jacket, was stood by the boy that had threatened Earnest this morning. He appeared to be telling the other boys something, while he had his arm around the girl with the pink jacket. I only knew the names of three of them, Ted Thompson - the boy talking with his arm around Scarlet Smith, the girl preening herself was Mandy Wiles. These were clearly the Jocks.

The next table over from them, had boys wearing leather jackets. Just looking at them, was like looking back at the fifties era, with their greased up hair and dress sense. The tallest of them was talking to the others, beside him was a girl with short red hair in a bob style, she wore a red neckerchief along with a leather jacket. I could not see her face, as she was looking at the taller boy as he spoke. At the very end of the table, was too girls, like they had separated themselves off from the group, but was still associated with it. One girl had golden windswept hair, even though she wore a leather jacket, she looked more like a biker girl to me. The other did not look at all like the others, her hair was poorly cut, she looked more like a dyed red haired punk. Other than the punk girl, these were clearly the Greasers.

The next table across, had boys and a girl wearing Aquaberry clothing. Their self important attitude and a total condescendence, seemed to surround them in a invisible bubble.

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Author's Note

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Again, this one is unfinished. I do hope to update over the next couple of days.

When I mentioned Anita and Cody, not by name because Sophie hasn't met them yet, I thought it should be mentioned that Anita's style is "biker" not "Greaser", because most people assume that it is Greaser. Also, no Cody isn't a Greaser, she's just sitting there because: 1, Anita is her bestfriend. 2, There isn't a Townie table, because naturally they aren't students. 3, Cody does whatever she likes and doesn't care what anyone else says. XP

Also, I decided to skip the "clique talk", because that is so cliche and been done in nearly every Bully fanfic ever written with a OC as the protagonist. So, there's no clique talk, and she already knows because of the cliques at her former school. I'm just describing them, to get it out of the way, and get to the point where she becomes a nerd.