Shannon on a Wild Card day!

I felt like stepping the story along a bit more.

It's a wild card day! I can do what I want!

It had been over a month and Shannon still didn't know anything about Jeremy other than his last name and that he was friends with the clown boys in her math class. If only she could spend some alone time with him she could find out more.

Unfortunately she was always with Aberdine, who had become more and more talkative and attached to Shannon over the past month. She'd follow Shannon between class and lament about how nobody liked smart people and how only good looking people were popular. Shannon knew it was pointless to argue with her, whenever Aberdine starting ranting there was no stopping her.

Lunch became more of Aberdine and Eddie bickering over how Eddie was a nerd and would never get a girlfriend and how Eddie insisted he could get any girl he wanted. Amanda never joined them for lunch anymore. Shannon just wanted the school days to end so she could walk home with her best friend.

"Ugh! It's like all those two do is want to fight or complain about everything!" Shannon groaned as Amanda and her walked together. Shannon sent Eddie away insisting she needed to speak to Amanda alone. "Can you and I go for lunch together tomorrow? I'm so sick of listening to Aberdine and Eddie drone on!"

"Whose Aberdine again?" Amanda asked confused.

"This girl in my math class I befriended. She always talks about how only good looking people become popular and how smart people are pushed around. Oh and she only ever wears black."

Amanda made a retching noise. "Black? Really? What is she, going to a funeral or something?"

"It wouldn't look so bad if she wasn't so pale. Honestly her cloths are nice just, black."

Amanda just shrugged and checked her cell phone.

"I still can't believe YOU have a cell phone!"

"What can I say? A girls gotta keep connected." Amanda typed away on her phone as they walked.

"So what are you doing?"

"Hmm? Oh, nothing, just texting someone."

"Well, who?"

"Just a friend."

Shannon frowned. "You're not being very talkative."

"I'm sorry, Shannon. I just have a lot going on right now. I can't focus on any one thing."

"Like what!?"

"Well, I tried out for the junior girls basket ball team and I'm waiting to hear if I got in."

"I didn't know you tried out for the basket ball team. Why didn't you tell me?"

"I told, Eddie. Didn't he tell you? Thats why we didn't walk home together last week!"

"Eddie mentioned you were busy."

"Eddie can't do anything right." Amanda dismissed the conversation and went back to checking her messages.

"So, what. They're going to text you to let you know you got on the team or something?"

"What? No! That'd be creepy! I'm waiting for a text from Connie. We're working together on an english assignment."

"Can't you check it later?"

"This is important, Shannon! You're always telling me I need to be more focussed on my school work." Amanda rolled her eyes and went back to her phone. The two walked silently until their split off point. Amanda turned and walked up the park path without even saying good bye. Shannon walked the rest of the way home alone.

The next day Shannon walked to school early. She left before Eddie and didn't stop to wait for Amanda. She walked straight to class.

The bell rang and the students trickled in. Aberdine bee-lined for Shannon. She stopped in her tracks as she got closer.

"Hey! You got that scowl down pat like I taught ya!"

Shannon just glared.

"Hey, is everything alright?"

"I'm fine."

"I know Shannon when she's fine, and you're not fine Shannon. You're scowly Shannon. I've never met scowly Shannon."

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Ok, if you insist."

Aberdine sat quietly beside Shannon for the rest of class. Between classes Aberdine would follow Shannon silently. At lunch she left her alone. "What's your problem?" Eddie asked when he saw Shannon.

"She doesn't want to talk about it." Aberdine gave Eddie a glare. The three of them ate their lunch in silence.

After school Shannon waited with Eddie to walk with Amanda. After a few minutes of waiting Eddie sighed and said he was going to walk ahead. Shannon waited.

30 minutes had passed and Amanda still hadn't shown. Shannon kept waiting.

After another 15 minutes Shannon finally started to walk home. As she got to the street corner a couple of girls pulled up in a red sports car. Riding in the back seat was Amanda. They were all laughing and singing to the music playing. Shannon stared aghast at them. As the light changed they zoomed off leaving Shannon standing alone at corner lot of the school.