2 Drabbles

Collin's thoughts

Collin was sitting under his favorite tree at lunch time, Harriette was doing extra cheer practice and Bentley was comforting his girlfriend, Karina, because she hurt her ankle and couldn’t cheer with the rest of the cheerleaders. Which meant Collin was alone for lunch.
He was sketching a picture of Bentley and Karina, just another drawing to add to his growing collection of sketches of Bentley. He realised it was sort of creepy to have drawn so many pictures of one person, but he tried not to think of it that way.
Bentley did not find it creepy though, he liked it. Collin smiled, remembering when Bentley was looking through his sketch book he had teased him for drawing so many pictures of him but told him afterwards that he found it cute.
He finished his drawing and then looked at it for a while before he shut his book and just stared into space.
Sometimes he still wondered why Bentley would want to be friends with him. It’s not that Collin thought that he was a loser or anything and he guessed that they were both sort of popular, but it still shocked him.
Collin had liked him long before they were friends, so when Amado invited him to hang out with him and Bentley Collin was nervous at first, but Bentley was so easy to hang out with and it was not long before they were really close.
Collin liked to think that maybe Bentley liked him more then Amado, but usually pushed those thoughts out of his mind.
And right then with Bentley comforting Karina across the outdoor cafeteria Collin could not help but jealous of Karina, but he pushed that feeling away too and decided that he needed to do something else other then stare at them from across the cafeteria so he went to watch Harriette’s practice.
Harriette waved excitedly when she saw him sitting in the bleachers, he waved back and smiled. He never told anyone his thoughts about Bentley, not even Harriette. Bentley knew, but that was for another story.

Dance

Something not a lot of people knew about Fedora was that she liked to dance, she once took jazz classes but after the teacher made a passing comment about her weight Fedora quit.
She also used to take hip pop, tap, Irish dance, and a whole lot of other dance classes but after quiting jazz she quit the rest too.
She still practiced dance by herself though, and any time the school had a talent show she performed.
Sacia used to dance to, and actually went to the same dance class she did, but somewhere along the way Sacia stopped. She was never really passionate about it, it was just something she did because she could. Of course she still performed at all the talents shows like Fedora, there was nothing she wouldn’t do for a little time in the spotlight.
Harriette tried Ballet when she was younger, just because Fedora did dance and she wanted to too. She quit pretty soon afterward though.
Chriselle took hip pop classes, and of course she was a cheerleader. She also always danced at talent shows, the school talent shows were filled with dancing.

Tamarai Claire Brown; “It’s like the sun, it is that sparkly.”

Tamarai Claire Brown
“Claire!” Harriette suddenly said, breaking the silence that had fallen upon the room.
Harriette Brown, DaeRi Baek and Tamarai Brown were all hanging out in Harriette’s room, trying to think of a name for Tamarai.
Tamarai had announced that she thought she should have an American name. DaeRi had asked why, she did not change her name even though it seemed weird to most Americans. Tamarai insisted she wouldn’t use it always, just as a extra name, maybe a middle name, she said.
“Why would you even need a middle name.” DaeRi asked, still confused to why Tamarai wanted an American name, she had been adopted years ago by Harriette’s mother, and just now she wanted to get an American name?
“Because, it sounds cute to have two name. I could introduce myself as Tamarai blank.” Tamarai said, then she laughed a little. “Fill in the blank of course.”
So they got down to business thinking of a name. Harriette had already said no to five names; Katy, Gisselle, Heather, Kelly, and Jenny.
“It has to be special.” She had said. “Any friend of mine cannot go around with a un-special name.”
Tamarai had smiled at that, it was her living pride and joy to have Harriette as a friend and sister. Even though Harriette was younger then her her, she always looked up to her in every way. Harriette was prettier then her, more popular then her and even more talented, so Tamarai wanted to be just like her.
So when Harriette said Claire Tamarai immediately loved it.
“I love it.” She said.
“Of course you do, I thought of it.” Harriette said.
“I don’t know why the other names weren’t special enough.” DaeRi mumbled, she was always annoyed with Harriette for thinking she was better then everyone else.
“Because,” Harriette replied. DaeRi flinched, she hadn’t wanted Harriette to hear that. “They did not have any spark. Tamarai Claire Brown.” She paused for effect, “so much spark.”
“It’s like the sun, it is that sparkly.” Tamarai said, smiling. “Thanks so much, I love it. I really do.”
“You’re welcome, Tamarai Claire.” Harriette said.