12:14. 12:14:01. 12:14:02. Tick, tick, tick. WHY DOES THE LAST MINUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES ALWAYS GO SO SLOWLY?????!!!! I watch as the red second hand slowly slides over to the 12... RING!!!!!!!!!!! FREEDOM!!!!!!!!! I pop my locker open, grab my lunch box, and head over to the Rec room. My friends and I always eat there. No one uses it, being named the Rec Room in all, and it's total secret-ville. I grab Juan from his journey to the gym (where all the rest of my loner friends eat) and push him into the Rec Room instead. He doesn't really mind, as our Rec Room lunches are WAY better than reading in the gym all alone. Unless it's Harry Potter. Then you can ditch me.

We all sit in a circle, munching and (at least for me, Juan, and Adam) reading, we all put our food away at 12:25 on the dot. (AND THE BOOKS, ADAM!) We gather in a better circle, and Jojo (quite dramatically, I must add) picks a name from the hat. "Aaaaaaaaaannnnnddd... our first victim iiiiiiiissssss... Insert trumpet fanfare, JUAN!!!" Juan looks up from his book (he's reading the Maze Runner again. That series was so not worth my time) and puts his head in his hands. "It's happening again!!!" He cries dramatically, and sighs. "Okay, fine. It's Lila." "WHAT?!" Everyone shrieks at once, besides me. As the professional shipper, or so he likes to call himself, Rodney is up first. "I ship it, Liuan!" "I was thinking more like Juila," I argue. "No offense, Rodney, but Dawn's is better." And this is TASHA speaking! I feel pretty proud, I came up with a good ship for once! It's my turn to draw from the hat. Please not me, please not me, please not me... I close my eyes, grab a slip, and peek at it. "Rafael!" Yes! Rafael promptly turns red again and tries to run away, but good thing Sadie's almighty Adam is here, because he locks Rafael in place like cement. After struggling for a few seconds, he gives up. "Okay, fine. Something very interesting happened in art today..." His voice fades to my ears as I start reading Magyk. I know what he's going to say, so I just ignore it. It's always Courtney, Courtney, Courtney. YES! I GET IT! YOU LIKE COURTNEY! LEAVE ME ALONE! "Luckily, we got out 5 seconds later, so I didn't have to deal with the embarrassment anymore," Rafael's voice fades back into my ears. Darn you, ears! Luckily, the story is over, so I didn't hear much. All I see next is everyone staring at me. "What?" I ask. "I wasn't listening!" Everyone just looks at each other and shrugs. Luckily, the bell rings next, saving me from about 50 million more minutes of awkwardness.

The rest of the day slinks by, slowly but mischievously. FINALLY, FINALLY, the clock strikes 3 and we're outta here! Seeya later, school! Meet you at midnight!