Chelsea is catching weird vibes

                Kodak moment is revealing itself two rows to the left and the strong pull of its backwards oddity is enough to sink me. Call this numero dos of five strange occurrences that I have witnessed. The first was during the pep rally when I saw Spencer smiling at something Ashley said. Not particularly a golden moment that is considered noticeable by anyone else besides me, but I knew I saw Spencer smiling.  Stark contrast now because this time Spencer is just shrouded in overwhelming sadness over what looks like loneliness.

 I had never seen a cheerleader look so defective. I had always thought protocol, for each new minion of the cheer squad, stated that the lot of them must endure lobotomies to ensure their overly cheerful attitudes even when knocking someone’s self-esteem to a base level of zero. What was strange about my observation now was that Spencer was fine Monday. Yesterday, I had not noticed anything out of the ordinary even with her angry tirade in the cafeteria that fully embarrassed Ashley to no end. Now third day of detention in and Ashley did not show up in school, and Spencer looks as depressed as I do when I do not get my habitual ritual double shot espresso in the morning.

What my old friend Ash had told me as her reason for not coming today, was that she was sick of dealing with bleach blonde bimbos and if Fish wanted to throw her out then so be it. This was told to me this morning as I was trying to function without my double shot espresso that I had to forgo because I was running late for school. I wanted to swing by Ashley and Kyla’s house to pick up Ashley because her surrogate Mother had taken Ashley’s car from her when she found out Ashley had detention.

I had tried to reason with Ashley, “Two years of dealing with the asses at our school would have made your skin thick enough by now so barbs wouldn’t bother you anymore.” but Ashley had only shook her head displeased.

She then said, “No. I really don’t care about that. I just need things to cool down a bit. Apparently my ‘apology’ really did not work on Spencer.” Then she cast her eyes down at my feet furrowing her brow and put her hands on her hips. She let out a small groan of dissatisfaction and said, “This is going to be harder than I thought.”