Hello, my name is Hagrid. I am a 14 year old freshman from John Quincy Adams high school. I am a girl, believe it or not, and I'm always depressed. I have no friends and people at school call me gay. I've never dated a man. EVER! I'm not even worried about it. I'm only worried about my depression and the disease that will kill me in ten years.
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Hi! I'm Melissa and I am 14 years old! I can't wait to start my freshman year at John Quincy Adams high school! I heard they have horse-back riding classes..... Oooh, I am so excited. I got a really cute, pink, sparkly skirt and a sweater with a puppy on it to wear on the first day. You've got to look nice on the first day! Oh, my casserole is ready from the oven!
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Hey guys! I'm Arianna and I'm 14 years old. So I go to this old school called John Quincy Adams High School and I'm a freshman. Like who the heck is John Quincy Adams? Whatever. I have long, beautiful, blonde hair and dark blue eyes. I'm pretty sure I'm the prettiest girl in 9th grade but definitely not the smartest. Anyways, I heard the school has a new hair styling class. I saw it! No never mind that was the salon. I just got my hair done too! Oh I got to go put on my lip gloss!
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Chapter 1

Arianna and Melissa plopped down at the table in the cafeteria. Melissa munched on her bag of potato chips and Arianna checked her mascara in her compact mirror. Hagrid lumbered over, clenching her lunch tray in both hands. Hagrid let out a sigh. "Hi. I'm Hagrid. May I have the pleasure of sitting with you?" She said all of this in a monotone voice.
Arianna glared towards Hagrid, "Ew! We don't hang with losers like you!" she screamed. Melissa frowned at Arianna, "Arianna, please be nice." Arianna rolled her eyes and Melissa smiled at Hagrid. "You may have the pleasure of sitting with us." Hagrid slumps down into a seat across from the two girls and starts viciously biting into her lasagna.
Hagrid chomps loudly on her lasagna. "Oh my gosh! Can you like not chew like that?! Like geez Magrid. I didn't even want you here." Arianna says meanly. "It's Hagrid FYI. You're so dumb and blonde you can't even remember one person's name!" Hagrid yells and picks up her tray and rushes off. She looks back at Arianna and Arianna laughs as Hagrid bumps into Josh, her boyfriend. Her lunch tray spills all over her and Josh just laughs and walks by. He comes up to Arianna and she greets him. "Hey Josh." Arianna flirtatiously says. "Hey Ari, I'm dumping you. Bye." He walks away and Arianna is upset and furious. Then it's Hagrid's turn to laugh.
Arianna's expression turned from shock, to horror, to anger, and to sadness all in a matter of seconds. "You know that wasn't very nice of you to say those things to Hagrid," Melissa piped up. Arianna wailed, "How could you even, like, say that? Right when my boyfriend just dumped me!" She pushed her tray forward and sobbed into the table. Despite Arianna's crying, Melissa smiled. "He was totally a jerk anyway. Why don't you just go start dating Cornelius?" Arianna raised her head and said, "Why would I want to date that Corny guy? He is ug-ly!"
Just then, Cornelius walked by the lunch table and toward the restroom. He accidentally walked into the girls restroom to find Hagrid crying in the corner. She was holding a t-shirt from her gym locker. Cornelius, embarrassed, tries to escape but Hagrid speaks up. "COOOORRNEEEELIUSSSS!!!" she screams and launches herself into his arms. Cornelius quickly throws her onto the floor but she grabs his ankles. "I'm desperate..." she whispers creepily. Cornelius rushes out of the bathroom to leave Hagrid crying on the floor.
Meanwhile, Josh and his buds are laughing at the lunch table. Arianna gets so upset she just leaves school. "Where are you going?" Melissa asks. "Away from here." Arianna answers. "But you'll miss our last 3 classes!" Melissa complains. "Who cares? It's not like I listen. Or care. Bye." Arianna leaves the school and walks to the cafe down the street, her favorite place to sulk, and eat.
"Oh well, I'll just go to my horse-back riding class!" Melissa said giddily. She skipped from the cafeteria to the stables from behind the school. The warm sun made Melissa feel bright and cheerful- even more so than usual. When Melissa reached the stables, she saw what she least expected. She saw her parents talking to the athletic director, Mr. Edgewood, a plump man with a bad temper. Their faces were grim and serious and they gestured their hands in an urgent way.
Hagrid stumbled out of the restroom, thinking of going to stalk more men, until she saw Cornelius at his locker. He was getting his books for his next class. He looked over and saw Hagrid and began to hurry. Hagrid ran over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck like an old chum. "Cornelius, I am depressed. I am desperate for someone to help me through my problems. Will you please be that someone to me?" Cornelius slapped his hand to her face and walked away. Hagrid huffed and walked in the opposite direction to her next class.
Hagrid finds Melissa and they start to hurry to their next class, Mrs. Goldie, who teaches History. Melissa complains to Hagrid. "My parents are talking to Mr. Edgewood and I need to know why!" "We're going to be late lets go." Hagrid says back. They make it to the classroom just in time. The bell rings and Mrs. Goldie starts taking attendance. "Hagrid?" Mrs. Goldie says. "Here." Hagrid mumbles. "Melissa?" She says. "Here." Melissa says a bit annoyed. "Arianna?" *cricket cricket* "Arianna?" She repeats. "She left to go to the.." Melissa starts but slaps her hand over her own mouth. "She went where?! Tell me!" Mrs. Goldie yells. "Fine! She went to Collie's Cafe down the street. Don't tell her I told you." Melissa sighs. Mrs. Goldie speaks up again. "Josh! Gang! Go to Collie's Cafe, grab Arianna and drag her here. Now!" She sneers. Josh stands up. "Gang!" He snaps his fingers and his posse aligns behind him and they swag walk out of the classroom. Hagrid scoffs and Melissa rolls her eyes. Josh and his gang and Mrs. Goldie are so stupid.
While Josh and his gang go on their search party for Arianna, Melissa ponders why her parents were talking to Mr. Edgewood. Could it be she was in trouble? Did they think she was doing drugs? Or maybe she was getting a special riding lesson! That thought cheered her up. Hagrid grunted. "Sooooo, you know Cornelius?" Hagrid slid her chair closer to Melissa's desk. "Ummm, he was on the golf team. I think.... it might have been the basketball team," Melissa shrugged and continued doodling in her notebook.
Hagrid nodded and started paying attention to Mrs. Goldie. After class, Cornelius was at his locker again, when he heard banging down the hall. Hagrid was walking down the hall wearing golfing clothes and swinging a golf club around the hall. She whacked a few people in the face while making her way to Cornelius. Hagrid smiled and Cornelius licked a spoon and stuck it to her nose. She frowned and knocked Cornelius out, before walking away and to her next class.
"Ermegerd!" Arianna shouts as Josh and his posse drag her out of the cafe. They drag her down the street and into the school. Josh picks up a struggling Arianna and holds her bridal style, then his posse lines back up behind him. He holds her tight as they arrive at Mrs. Goldie's classroom. Josh #3 of the Josh Gang (4 cool bros named Josh) opened the door for Josh and Josh walked inside still carrying Arianna. "Mission accomplished!" Josh grins. "Good job Josh's." She grins and hands them lollipops. They open the wrappers and put the lollipops in their mouths. "HEY! NO CANDY IN CLASS!" Mrs. Goldie rips the suckers out of their mouths and throws them away. "Don't you know the rules! Imbeciles." Mrs. Goldie says.
In the hallway, the vice principal pulls Melissa aside. "Melissa, you need to come to my office. Your parents are here to speak with you," he said and guided her toward his office. A million scenarios ran through Melissa's head, and most of them ended in the world exploding. Her parents sat on two chairs in the office. Their expressions didn't reassure Melissa. She sat down next to them. "I will give you some privacy," the vice principal says and exits the room. Melissa's mom spoke first. "Honey, this is about your horse-back riding lessons. When you were a wee lad, you twisted your spine doing cartwheels. Now it is impossible for you to ride... we didn't want to tell you." Her dad added, "If you get on a horse, you could be paralyzed for life!"
Hagrid was walking down the hall when she saw Melissa screaming and throwing a tantrum down the hall. Hagrid stared at her, sighed, and walked to her. "What's wrong with you?" Hagrid asked. Melissa looked up and sighed, "I can't ride horses because of my spine!" she wailed. Hagrid stood there and nodded. "Good for you," Hagrid said and walked away. Suddenly Cornelius was walking down the hall with a bruised lip. Hagrid went up to him and looked him straight in the eyes and said, "That spoon trick was unnecessary," and she smacked his lip again and walked down the hall with Melissa clinging to her pants.
"What was that for?!" An annoyed Arianna asks Josh but his posse wasn't far behind. "What dragging you to school? It was an assignment from Mrs. Goldie, duh. Plus I got a yummy sucker." "You had that sucker for 2 seconds." "You're right." He says and dashes back into the classroom. He comes out with 4 new suckers. "Here you go gang." He hands them out to his posse and they smile at the yumminess. Arianna punches Josh, kicks Josh #2, slaps Josh #3, and elbows Josh #4. When they're all on the ground she drops a kick on each of their faces and knocks all of them out. "That's what you get for messing up my hair, dummies." Arianna says aloud and ignores the laughs she gets from the random bystanders.
At that moment, the bell rings announcing the end of the school day. Arianna, Hagrid, Melissa, Cornelius, Josh, and his gang all strut out the school doors. They push over the sad, yellow, school bus. Then they all leave.
The next morning, all the friends woke up as ferrets. Except for Cornelius, for he turned into a fat man with a beard named Dexter. Suddenly, something went wrong again and Dexter turned into a cantaloupe. The ferrets then began to devour his remains as a juicy sweet cantaloupe. TO BE CONTINUED!!!