Impressing

Date: 9/16/2020

I travelled all throughout this massive school trying to impress these girls. I followed my friend— the friend switched between two of my friends the whole time— as she went through, sometimes stopping to do something. She’d stop in a locker room area to do her makeup or her hair; she’d stop in a large, fancy school-shop area to look at a bag or a shirt; she’d stop by a vending machine hall to get a snack; et cetera. The entire time I found myself almost obsessed with impressing these girls. I was a ‘newcomer’ to this school and so everyone was kind of talking about me, since I was the only one going there who wasn’t wealthy— or at least who wasn’t related to / dating someone wealthy. As we went around the school, several girls stopped by and talked to me. In one locker room, my friend was at a locker shifting through skin care products; I waited by the doorway nervously, not sure what to do. Then, this brunette came up to the doorway and smiled at me. She had a sharp jawline and longish nose, and almost a snarky look about her; not in a rich-person way so much as one of those ‘nature-girl’ ways. Her clothes were simple and the cuffs of her pants were slightly dirty. Her brown hair went down to her chest, but was longer at the back. She said hey, then asked me if I dyed my hair. I said no. She smiled again and said something like, “well, that’s good. Natural blondes are really hot, I was going to be disappointed if you did dye your hair.” Before I had the time to respond (I don’t think I would’ve been able to anyways, I was so flustered) my friend decided to leave so I followed her, mumbling a thank-you or something to the brunette. Things like this happened kind of frequently throughout the school. Then, we got to an outside pool area of the school, like a courtyard almost. The pool was massive, and in the center was a floating structure of sorts. A girl I apparently knew came up to me and my friend left. The girl had curly curly blonde hair, a goldilocks face with a soft-girl pink nose and ears, and plump lips. She looked like a princess or something, except her clothes were slightly more regular. She and I talked and ended up deciding to swim to the center of the structure and make our way inside from the outside, to prove that our school needed more defense— the girl was obsessed over someone trying to assassinate her and I was pretty concerned about the fact that she was saying someone was gonna assassinate her so, it worked out between us. Her parents told us to be careful and she shrugged them off, while I said a polite thank-you. Then, she and I put on bathing suits— her parents let me choose from like an entire closet full, so I was happy with myself— and together we swam to the middle in turns, first one of us swam with the other kind of leaning on us, then we switched. Finally we made it to the middle, and I somehow shoved myself up onto the top. From there it was easy (for me at least) to make it into the structure. I retrieved the power source, a small coin looking thing, and the girl and I made our way back. When we got back a small crowd had formed. I was kind of embarrassed because now everyone was acting like we were popular or something, like we were ‘heroes’ even though we didn’t technically save anyone.