and also serves as a computer lab/classroom
for electives like yearbook,
journalism, and graphic design.
During lunch, Mr. French holds open hours
where students can come sit, eat lunch
do homework, check email, read books, etc.
I’ve spent a lot of time here
since I don’t really have
a solid friend group yet.
The cafeteria scene is—
well, just as stereotypical
as most high school cafeterias are.
Finding a table that’s not reserved
for some clique can be
exhausting.
Occasionally, I sit with Angie and Kayla
from cross-country, but
they both have boyfriends
who they often spend the hour with
engaging in aggressively heterosexual acts of PDA
that make even my hopeless romantic self
extra uncomfortable.
I’ve never once
seen Lyric in the media lab at lunch.
She normally sits in the cafeteria with her BFF Kiana
and some other equally beautiful people
including Jamison Jase
who looks like an IG model
and runs cross-country with me.
But here we are:
