Popular Outcasts

"Heeyyyy!" Lyla skipped over to her best friend Katey. Katie was a petite, curvy, tan, fifteen-year-old-girl. Lyla was the same age. Lyla was tiny as well, but she was frostily pale, with flaming red hair, and a Gothic dress code, even if she was one of the most bubbly person you would ever meet. She skipped up in her black and red plaid skirt, black v-neck and red and black knee-high socks, with her combat boots clanking on the floor.

"What to do you want?" Katey laughed her way.

"A cupcake!" She giggled, pulling one out of her lunch box. She always brought some random sweet to school, so not a surprise to Katey. She looped her arm through Katey's, pulling her along as she skipped to the lunchroom.

"WHAT are we doing HERE?" Katey complained, probably wishing to go do sports or something.

"Eating, maybe, like normal people?" Lyla laughed, rolling her eyes.

"Who said I wanted to eat?" Katey retorted.

"Maybe your stomach? Or God? Or maybe simple physics. Whichever reason floats your boat." Lyla continued, skipping through the lunchroom, waving to other Goths, emos, skaters, preps, valleys, jocks-basically everyone, because even if she was completely weird, she was so friendly, in all the non-sweaty-ful clubs, and school Vice President. She knew everyone. So did Katey. They were...popular outcasts.

"Whatever!" Katey says while walking outside, untangling herself from Lyla. Lyla rolled her eyes thinking, It's probably Kate's time of the month. She sat with some other kids, all in pink, and not exactly loving her, but friendly enough to where they would be able to spend enough time to eat.

When Lyla left-well, skipped-out of the lunchroom, she saw Katey kicking the guys asses at soccer. She clapped. "What are YOU clapping at?" She asked. Lyla gave up on words, one just rolled her eyes. When Katey was being a bitch, there was no way of changing it. She knew her well enough to know that. Lyla sat next to Clara on the bleachers, one of the mean, snobby cheerleaders who sneered at her presence. Lyla got a kick out of this, laughing under her breath, she loved scaring cheerleaders. Hence the Goth get-up.

When Katey injured one of the guys, Lyla hopped down off the bleachers and said, rocking back and forth on her heels in her never-ending giddy state-of-mind "Can I play?"

"Sure!" Said a really, cute skater guy. Lyla giggled.

"If you can take the heat!" Spit Katey.

By the end, Lyla and Katey had sent all the boys crying, resulting in Lyla offering a high-five and Katey walking off, Lyla shrugging, and skipping to some other friends. Katey sat down, chugging some water. Bridget waved to her, Bridget was a preppy emo chick, basically becoming Lyla's best friend, even though Katey and her were best friends, growing apart.

Katey was walking towards her "Beaner" crowd, when she saw one of Lyla's besties flirting with her boyfriend. Katey walked up to her, and punched her in the face. She knocked her off her feet, sending her flying into the tree behind them.

"OWW! Fucking bitch!" She cussed at Katey. The girl Katey had hit was Brianne, A little wanna-be emo girl, but you could tell she preferred pink to any other color, and shopping to any other "sports".

"Excuse me, little slut, what did you say?" Katey replied, suddenly seeming a lot more than her small self.
"Brianne! Katey!? What the eff!?" Lyla yelled at them. She rarely ever cursed.

"Stay outta it!" Katey screamed at Lyla.

"What's up with you, K!?" Lyla screamed back at Katey, storming to Brianne, picking her up, and walking toward another group of people, leaving them to figure it out by them damn selves.

"Why did you hit me, damn it!?" Brianne yelled angrily at Katey, storming in her face.

"'Cause you're a slutty hoe!" Katey said, pushing her away, with WAY too much force, causing her to stumble to the ground.

"Damn it! Why did I even pick her up then!?" Lyla said from across the quad, peeking from behind the skater guy from earlier, Jesse.

"'Cause your stupid!" Katey screamed back,

"Screw this!" Brianne said, hopping up off the ground and looping her arm through Katey's boyfriend's (Jake) and pulling him off.

"Jake, were done, and Brianne, you can have my sloppy seconds." Katey said sweetly, with a big grin, walking off toward her friend Brandon.

Lyla walked up to Brianne, and cussed Brianne out ending with "Mother fucking boyfriend stealer!" And ran after Katey, actually not skipping for once. "Are you okay?" Lyla asked Kate.

"Yes? Why wouldn't I be?" Kate laughed out.

"Oh, ok." Lyla said, just happy Kate's anger wasn't directed at her for the first time today. "Do you wanna come over to study for the test tonight? Brandon and Jesse are coming?" Lyla explained, rocking on her heels like she always did, she just couldn't stand still.

"Mmmm....Sure." Kate shrugged.

"K," Said Lyla "See you later alligator!" She called, skipping off.

"Bye? I guess." Kate said, turning on her heels and smacking right into Brandon.

"Hey Katey," Brandon said.

"What's up, hoochie?" Katey said with a laugh.

"Hoochie? Who are you-WOAH!" Screamed Brandon as the ground cracked open behind Katey, he pulled her to him, thinking of how he would ask her out if she was swallowed up by the earth. Damn earth.

"Ahhhh! Ay Shit!" Katey screamed, but her scream was covered by Lyla's louder one as she fell in, along with Brianne, and several other students. Jesse quickly caught her, he screamed in pain as he tried to pull her up the side of the rock.

"SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!" Hollered Lyla, never before saying that many curses in a day, let alone a sentence.

"Are you ok!?" Jesse yelled when she was almost up. The ground opened up wider, swallowing both Jesse and Lyla. He didn't scream, but Lyla practically burst everyone's eardrums. Everyone was running away, but holes were appearing and swallowing everyone, one a couple hundred out of the 1300 students still survived by the time the ground had stopped shaking. Then the lightning came, striking at least fifty students dead, and injuring almost all the rest.

"Katey!!!!" Screamed Jake, pounding his feet to her. Katey was still staring down the hole with Brandon, trying to see either Lyla or Jesse (Jesse is Brandon's brother).

"What the hell do you want!?" She yelled at him.

"Babe, are you ok?" He said.

"Babe? Um, honey, I told you, we're through." Kate replied. Brandon snickered, and tried unsuccessfully to hide his grin.

"What are you grinning at?" Katey smirked at him.

"Helllloooo!? Holding on for our lives here!" Lyla called up.

Katey peeked over the edge of the largest gap in the ground, saying "Oh yeah, you're here still. Mm."

"Love you too, bitch!" Lyla called up, sick of the shit, especially in this predicament.

"Why thank you!"

"Shut up and save me, would ya?"

"Ughhh, fine! Brandon help!" Complained Katy. Jake goes to try to help Katy look for something to help "Not you, BRANDON."

"I don't give a damn who helps me, I would just like to live!" Screamed Lyla. "Dammit! Must I do EVERYTHING myself?!" Lyla said.

Everybody on top heard rock crunching, and Lyla telling Jesse to either "Hold on" Or "Gimme A Boost-push like a man, not a wimp!" And the next thing they knew, Lyla's slender fingers were over the rock, her hair was a mess, her face was all smudged with dirt and ashes, and-and it looked like she'd grown at LEAST six inches. Now she looked about 5'6. "What the hell?" She asked after commanding everyone to lug up Jesse. She looked down at herself "Why is the ground farther away!?" She yelled, cocking her head to the side, and screaming when lightning struck her, then Katey.

"Shit!" Jesse screamed as water flooded in, getting higher and higher... and higher.