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Storyline:
You walk down the street, minding your own business and thinking of what to do next, when all of a sudden, the silence of your thoughts is broken by laughter. Turning to look at the commotion is a group of punks scrawling a name in paint across a brick wall. Frowning, you continue down the path you were on. This time you come across a small house, with four girls all dressed up in the latest trend. You raise an eye, and move forward, trying hard to ignore their squeals as they flip through a book of some sort, each saying how much they love this certain guy they've never met, but are wishing they will. Further down the road is a group of high school students, deeply immersed in their work, they look like they're really good friends, but no one so much as utters a word of conversation to another. Finally you make it home, thinking hard of what you saw, wondering if those people were like that before, if you just walked by ignoring their business. Then you think If those people became friends, how would each act? Would they help each other out, or would their differences clash?, you think to the old classic 'The Breakfast Club'. Wonder, wonder. You imagine what it would be like if somehow, that sort of thing happened at school, work. Wherever.
The next day, these thoughts still at mind, you head out for school. Today you pay more attention to the groups of friends in the class/halls. And you notice something. Sure there may be some cliques, where some people sneer upon others because of their placement in the social charts, while others looked up to others and wished they could be like them.
Then breaks come, these cliques are still together. Then the end of the day, they're still together, you grow a bit tired of the observations you were taking. It is at this time you notice something.
As people wave goodbye to their friends, you notice one person from each 'clique' turn and walk the other way. They head towards each other and greet, then head off, all keeping a distance as to not be seen by their 'friends' in each clique, and head off to the nearest park, into the woods.
Curious, you head off after them, making your way in the shadows. They head deeper and deeper into this bush, one of the girls crying a silent burst of disgust as she heads into the trees. A 'Plastic', you think, remembering the movie 'Mean Girls'. Then a burst of light shines at the end of your path. What seems to be a small shack rests in the middle of a clearing, with a sign on the door reading 'Clash of Differences. Friends Only'. You don't want to intrude, but you still want to see what this is about.
Conversation begins, you head into a small shrub under one of the windows of the shack, and listen.
'Finally, the day is over.' Says one voice, high and full of power. Probably from one of the popular cliques. 'I was really getting tired of that boring lecture from Mr. Fernstear.'
Jokes are passed around, and you now understand. These people really are friends, ordinary people leading totally different lives. Some are part of the 'lower class cliques' of the school, only acting to wish they could be friends with the 'higher students', while others are part of the 'higher class cliques'. You sit there in the shrubs just long enough to truly respect these people, for what they are risking for friendship. But still you wonder, why do they have to act? Why should they risk, if they are truly friends? Why don't they just accept the fact that some people would shun them if they want to be friends? You hear someone walk over to the window, and your breath stops short. To find you, they would be pretty angry. And you are scared of what may happen.
Trying as best you can to be quiet and stay still, you hear the person walk away, and some whispers, to low for you to hear.
Next thing that happens, someone- maybe the same person, maybe not- heads outside, and walks to the shrub you're in. They reach in to grab something, and you push back. Too late, they have you by your shirt collar.
'Look what we have here.' They snarl. By the looks of their facial piercings and tattoos, you recall seeing them from the previous day, with the punks. Your heart pounds, and you wish that you'd never came.
The person drags you into the shack and shoves you onto a couch. You are facing what looks to be bout eight or nine people, but you're too scared to count.
'What you in?' Says one of them, one of the 'Plastics'. Your eyes turn confused, and you ask.
'What do you mean?'.
'Where do you stand in the school. Which clique?'
You finally understand. 'Oh. Me, I don't really fit anywhere, I just do my own thing. Mostly with those who watch the movies, find meaning, read and make criticisms.' You take a deep breath as everyone huddles together, away from you.
After what seems to be an hour, they all turn back.
'We don't have someone like you in our group. Never heard of such a clique.' One says, their eyes almost piercing yours.
You gulp, 'Well. I sort of created it myself.' You see them smile slightly, and one starts to laugh, the one who dragged you in.
'Looks like we can have another friend in our midst.' They say, you are frozen with shock. They have accepted you.
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Hair tied back, chin held high, Jasmine felt like the top of the school. Loved, and followed.
At least that was how she acted, if anyone knew the truth. Well, Jasmine shuddered to think about it.
She seemed perfect in almost every way, but like most people, she had flaws. Jasmine always found some way to criticize her appearance, the aspect of her that made her one of the 'high-class' students, and she had to keep that up.
Today was a different day. Today she was thinking of something other than 'acting her part' in her clique. There was a new part to her group, her secret club. The Clash of Differences.
If anyone was to find out about this small gathering of friends, chaos would begin. It seemed as though the very air of the school depended on different groups to keep things together. Teachers even had that look, like they were a part of each clique, but not quite, they had their conventions, a staff room. Basically if anyone one of the high-school cliques could get a lounge, they would probably have to be a huge part of the school, 'high-class' classmates.
This new member of Clash, well, they were different. Something Jasmine had never come across. This person seemed to be in their own little world, not belonging to particularly anywhere.
Could this be the start of a new high-school era, or the beginning of a new drama? She thought, as she tried to fake giggling along with her girlfriends, Casey, Karmen, and Heather. Together at school, they were inseparable, always together. And somehow all managed to weasel their way into all the same classes. Then after school would come, and they would each pick a separate way and head off.
For Jasmine, it was the shack in the middle of Dreyling Forest. Too deep for anyone to dare venture in, except for Clash members. Jasmine hated the idea of trudging through the wood just to get to perhaps one of the best areas in the world. But she fell through, after all, she wasn't the one who chose the location. She helped set up the shack itself, by decoration. She even helped everyone find more members for the club, if it could be considered that.
'So did you hear about Drake?' Heather chirruped, breaking Jasmine out of her thoughts. Casey and Karmen giggled.
'Ooh! No, tell us PLEASE!' They harmonized, Jasmine nodded, both partially acting, partially true, interested. Drake was the guy of the week for Heather, the status would probably change the next week if she didn't start dating him.
'Well, I couldn't help overhearing Judy, Drake's sister, talking about who he liked. And when I walked over to ask, she just gave me an odd look and walked away.'
'Maybe it was you Heather!' Jasmine squealed. Heather blushed as she took this in, then turned to a loud laugh from down the hall. It was him, Drake, along with a couple of friends.
'HIII DRAKE!!!' Heather waved, as Drake looked to see who greeted him. He blushed, almost as red as Heather had, and walked away with the rest of his friends.
'Poor boy, too shy to say anything.' Casey muttered, then returned to her small conversation with Karmen, giggling madly.
Jasmine sighed quietly, and walked silently along, giggling only when she felt needed.










