HALL MONITOR DISPATCH – EASTSIDE STREAMER HIGH
(The Cafeteria of Broken Promises)
The big double doors of the senior wing slam open like the final scene of every bad teen movie. The fluorescent lights flicker on cue. Enter the flea, self-appointed Queen Bee of the Streamer Clique, bellowing the classic hallway power move:
“Hello, hello, I am here, look at me.”
Every small warrior on their respective benches (the usual lunch-table hierarchy of mods, lurkers, and people who still think this is a real high school) immediately bows.
They echo their hellos like the underclassmen they are, desperate not to get socially iced by the streamer extraordinaire.
“Happy Sunday Spunday,” she cajoled while sauntering down the hall with the grace of a beached walrus.
Her main squeeze, Goober, senior class stoner, permanent hall-pass holder, and professional chair-warmer, wanders up, takes her hand, and slides into position like they’re posing for the yearbook “Most Likely to Get Detained Together” page.
The flea nudges him to say hello to everyone.
Like a stoned ground noodle, he slowly obliges and lets out a lone, slow, methodical “hello.”
She...