welcome to derane academy.

[Aliyah Patterson]

Aliyah brushed her curly brown hair back as she took a seat in the lunchroom. She was wearing her uniform- a navy blue shirt, and khaki skirt. In her hands was the green plastic lunch tray. The lunch for the day was raw rice, hard macaroni- and "meatballs". Everyone truly thought the meatballs were golf balls covered in throw up dyed red.

She let out a sigh as she stared at her plate. She took her plastic sport, and plunged it into the world of macaroni and cheese. She tasted some of it. It tasted like garlic and salt mixed together. She spat it out on her napkin.

She smoothed out her skirt, and tried again. Avoiding the macaroni and cheese, she went for the meatballs. She broke of a small piece. She nibbled on it. Her friends were right. It was as hard as a golf ball, and indeed, it taste like throw up. She spit this out on her napkin, as well.

She crossed her fingers and hoped the rice wasn't as bad. She took a spoonful of it and tried to bite on it. It was hard and cold. Her napkin already filled with the lunch, she didn't use manners and spat it out on the plate. "Ew,” she cried.

[Noelle Miyazawa]

Noelle grasped her green so called lunch tray, and gracefully walked to the middle of the lunchroom for two reasons. The main one was to show off her new ‘in’ outfit, everyone could see her if she was standing in the middle of the lunchroom, and, the other reason was so that she could find a place to sit. From the middle of the room, she had a great view of everyone. She saw Aliyah Patterson, an actor, spit out some of the rice, right onto her tray. Noelle was taken back. But then she thought of how she could she could show off in front of Aliyah, showing her manners. She skipped up to the seat across from Aliyah, and sat down.

She smiled her fake charm smile, and raised her spork, she checked to see if her elbow was beneath the table, and slowly, and politely, scooped what seemed the least disgusting, the rice. She tried to swallow it smoothly, and paining herself as she did it, slowly grasped her milk. She sipped it slowly, even though she wanted to gulp it down quickly. Finally, when the disgusting taste was gone from her mouth, she slowly put her milk down. Then, she looked down at her milk packet, and realized how much she drank. She began panicking, what if someone saw her drink so much without breathing? She needed an excuse, before Aliyah spread some dumb rumor.

“PE was so difficult today!” Noelle exclaimed, slowly coming up with a story, “And this food is so gross! I drank so much, but really, I don’t blame myself. I mean I wouldn’t want myself to become dehydrated, or starve.”

[Aliyah Patterson]

Aliyah raised her eyebrow as Noelle sat down by her at the lunch table. She couldn't help but flinch. Since when does Noelle Miyazawa sit next to someone like her at lunch? Poor Aliyah was taken a back for two reasons. Noelle had actually managed to eat some of the food, and just the plain fact that she was sitting 2 1/2 feet away from her.

She watched Noelle finish off the last of her milk. "Of course," she said smoothly. She stared at her plate. The meatball actually looked like it was crawling. Her eyes widened. She looked back up at Noelle. "Hey," she whispered, lowering her head. "Why aren't you wearing your uniform?" she looked around nervously. "You’re so totally gonna’ get caught." she said warily, rubbing her eye.

She hadn't gotten any sleep whatsoever the night before. She found it rather difficult to take in what had happened the other day. Trying to get the thoughts out of her head, and tried to gulp down the rice so she wouldn't starve to death in sixth period.