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We
had our first group meeting yesterday
during English and Becca tried to take
charge of the whole thing. Every time she
opens her mouth she totally talks down to
everyone. Like she's the only person in
the world who has a brain. It makes me
crazy! But I played it cool... I mean, why
should I let a dork know that she can get
me upset? Anyway I was sitting there
listening to her talk about this really
weird idea she had for a play with... get
this... "life sized paper dolls!" And she
was all excited about it and trying to
sound all deep and philosophical or
something. She must know she's a total
loser (how can she not?) and maybe she's
figured out the only way to survive is to
use big words so nobody can understand her
(except the teachers... who she is
best friends with).
Then
she asked us what we thought of her idea
for the play. And I could just tell the
way she asked that she expected us to bow
down and hand her the Academy Award or
something. Not wanting to be rude or
anything, I just told her I didn't think
it "worked." Miguel and Chaz were not as
kind as me, in fact, Chaz said he thought
her idea "sucked." Then Becca started
acting like a total baby. I mean she
actually started yelling at us that we
didn't have enough brains to recognize a
brilliant idea when we saw one... or heard
one, or whatever. And while she's going on
and on about this dumb idea of hers which
nobody got... I'm sitting there pretending
to be all sympathetic but actually I'm
thinking "If she's so smart how come she
doesn't have a clue?" She really doesn't.
Not about anything that matters, like what
to wear and what to do with her hair or
how to get a guy to notice you and what to
say to him when he does. If I could just
give her a few pointers... all right
lots of pointers... she might,
like, well, become a better person. And
that's when I got my brilliant idea. About
the play. 'Cause the way I see it, if
Becca keeps on the way she's going, she
will always be an outsider and me... well,
I'm just naturally an insider, so it's
kinda like a good deed for me to want to
help her. So I thought that our group play
could be like a different kinda "Clueless"
where the main character isn't really
together. Alicia Silverstone but a dork...
a real clueless chick.. a girl
like... Becca! And I would be
the clue-full girl who wants to help her
become an Insider. And there could be this
prom or something and does a make-over for
Becca's character and my character sets
her up on a blind date with the geeky
cousin of my character's boyfriend (who
should definitely be played by Miguel,
uh... the boyfriend, not the geeky
cousin... the cousin should be played by
Chaz... not that he's geeky, but he's the
only other guy in the group and no way do
I want him to play my
boyfriend.)
Miguel
and Chaz really liked my idea. No surprise
that Becca was totally rude and actually
laughed at me in this mean, superior kind
of way! But who cares? We voted and
my idea won! And you may not
believe it, but I am actually excited
about this class project now! This play is
going to rock.
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