#𝚃𝙼𝙿𝚂𝚃𝚄𝙾𝚄𝚂        an    independent      KAT    STRATFORD      of      10    things    i    hate    about    you  .        **  penned    by      trooper  .        highly        selective  .        low    activity  .

𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐑𝐔𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐋, 𝐀𝐒 𝐔𝐒𝐔𝐀𝐋,      and by the time she stuffed her bag in her locker and got to English, her translator was asleep in a chair in the back and the resident cold “bitch” was at the front snarking off to the teacher. Ferris smiled small to herself as she crept behind the teacher and through the aisle to get to her seat beside Kat. The bell was about to ring but Ferris got the tail end of her friend’s latest complaint of the misogynistic patriarchy and didn’t bother getting her books out as Kat turned to another victim. It was barely 10am and Kat was fuming. About what? Ferris wasn’t 100% because Kat wasn’t facing her and today her hearing aids decided they weren’t going to be dried out enough to function properly so there was a water logged effect to every word but  [ … ]  knowing Kat, it was something trivial and overdramatized.

“I see I haven’t missed the morning’s attack on the patriarchy,” Ferris joked with a breezy and bemused smile, a low and quiet chuckle bubbling through her words as her hands flexed tiresomely. She had just woken up after a three day sleepless bender so everything seemed to be working slower for her this morning. Even her fingers.  <<  Who pissed in your Cheerios?  >>

            sit    down      ,      shut    up      ,        be    seen      ,        not    heard  .          one    might    tell    her    to    choose    her    battles    more    wisley      ,        but    why  ?          is    that    not    just    caving    in  ?          THIS      is    the    battle    she’s    chosen      ,        much    to    the    school’s    dismay.          ❛        aren’t    you    supposed    to    be    challenging    us    to    hold    different    thoughts      &&      opinions    instead    of    shutting    down    the    opinion    of    anyone    whose    is    different    than    yours  ?        ❜          head    tilted      ,        smirk    in    tact                                      at    least    until    the    word      𝚍𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗      was    spoken    into    existence.          defeat    frustration    written    clear    upon    features.

⸻ visible heat in her cheeks reaches his heart , draws him near like a moth to a flame to toy with her hands without a thought . mere concept of another peering through his many walls & loving ( though apparently , not adoring ) him in spite of their looming presence hadn’t occurred to him once . ❝ no ? ❞ prods his curiosity . ❝ so you’re saying it’s at least somewhat there , then ? come on , how far off am i ? ❞

holy   shit.         sometimes,      he   has   to   force   himself   take   a   step   back      &      realize   the   gravity   of   the   situation      ──      the   bigger   picture,      if   you   will.         that   even   though   he   surrounds   himself   with   people   that   are   in   the   same   mess   he   is,      the   tragedy   isn’t   contained   with   the   naive   bubble   he   uses   as   a   defense   mechanisms.         that   people   outside   of   his   group   have   lost   ones   they   love   to   the   upside   -   down   as   well,      even   if   they   stand   in   the   background   wallowing   in   grief.            ❝      shit…      ❞            the   curse   enters   the   atmosphere   with   a   sigh,      hand   reflexively   moving   to   run   through   his   hair.            ❝      that      [   …   ]      that   really   sucks.         i’m   sorry.      ❞

   ❛        WHO      would    go    to    that      antiquitated    dating    ritual  ?        ❜

        ❛        tell    me    something      true  .        ❜

        ❛        everyone    was    doing    it      ,        so    i    did    it  .        ❜

        ❛        she’s    meeting    up    with    some    bikers.        big    ones  .          full    of      sperm  .        ❜

      ❛        listen      ,        i’m    really    sorry    i    questioned    your      motives  .        ❜