Emergency!

[Prudence Roberts]

After her failed attempt to get the principal to put an end to GSA, Prudence was far from giving up. All she had to do was make a trip to the computer lab then the copy room and she was ready for plan B. She printed out numerous fliers that said the following:

Are you a loyal servant of God and our savor Jesus Christ?

Do you think allowing GSA to continue in our Christian school is an abomination?

Then Come to the Emergency meeting of the Alliance of Christian Students to stop this unholy mockery some call a 'club'

The meeting will be held in Mrs. McRoony's room after school next Thursday. All DEVOUT Christians will be there.

Prudence was quite proud of herself and her little plan. All she had to do was organize a protest. She knew there was plenty of students, and some teacher who felt the same way she did. There was also even more parents she knew would love to put a stop to GSA. Prudence merrily waltz through the halls during her study hall putting up her fliers all over the school.

[Garrett Speelers]

Garrett passed by some girl on the way to his locker who seemed to be putting up fliers. He paid her no mind as h e made his way down the hall. He had decided to skive off his study hall in the computer lab for ten minutes so he could take a smoke break in the boys lav.

As he finally reached his locker, an end one that had the wall on the other side, he noticed what the fliers actually said. They seemed to be for the League of Extraordinary Christians or Bible Beaters Unanimous or some other ridiculous bullshit like that. They seemed to have their sites set on th GSA now.

That was such bullshit. He knew some kids on the GSA and knew that they had worked hard to get the principal to approve their having the GSA in the first place. He made a scoffing sound as he took the flier off the wall and crumpled it into a little ball. He then aimed for a trash can near the water fountain and didn't care if he missed or not.

[Prudence Roberts]

Prudence kept on her flier hanging spree, completely unaware of anyone else in the hallway until she heard the sound of crinkling paper. She turned quickly to see Garrett Speelers, a boy in her grade, crumbling up one of her precious and informative fliers. Well, this was just unacceptable. This boy just couldn't go around tearing fliers off the walls in school! People needed to be informed and educated about the dangers of homosexuality!

With her lips pursed and her eyes narrow Prudence walked over to Garrett and tapped him on the shoulder. The boy had to be at least a foot and a half taller than her so her head was tilted up quite a bit to look at his face. "Excuse me." she said, trying to not have her voice sound very cold, "but do you have a problem with my fliers?"

[Garrett Speelers]

Garrett spun around quickly when felt the tap on his shoulder. He was on the edge ever since the other day when Blane had found him with his black eye in the bathroom. It was just the same girl from before. He looked down at her, as he was great deal taller than her. . .then again he was a great deal taller than most people. He ran a hand through his messy hair as he glanced over at where he'd chucked the flier.

"Actually, I do," Garrett said. "The part where it calls the GSA an. . ."


He paused, holding up a finger to her as he went over to retrieve the crinkled paper and bborught it back. He crumpled it and skimmed the lines.

"Unholy mockery some call a club," he finished, crumpling th paper back up.

[Prudence Roberts]

"Well," said Prudence with a shrug, "It's true. This is a catholic school, Garrett, it's just unacceptable to allow a club like GSA to be here. The bible clearly stated that homosexuality is unholy and disgusting and all homosexuals will burn for eternity in the fiery depths of hell." Garrett seemed to be on of the people who has fallen into darkness to think being gay was OK. Prudence really wanted to educate the boy to show him how truly wrong his thinking was. "Perhaps you should come to the meeting." she said, "It sounds like you could use it. In fact, bring some of your gay friends, maybe we can 'defagatize' them." That actually was a very good idea and Prudence couldn't figure out why she hadn't thought of it before; turn the gay kids straight. All she had to do was teach them the bible and the error of their ways. How hard could it be?

[Garrett Speelers]

"That's a load of bullshit," Garrett said indifferently to her spiel about what the Bible had to say on homosexuals.

He reached into his coat pocket, his coat was hanging in his locker and grabbed a cigarette and his lighter out of it. He chuckled slightly at her offer.

"Yeah, as tempting as that offer is, I'm going to have to decline. My gay friends don't need defagatizing," he said. "Thanks anyway."

[Prudence Roberts]

Prudence watch with a disgusted look on her face as Garrett pulled a cigarette and lighter out of his pocket. "Smoking causes cancer you know." she said coldly.

"Yeah, as tempting as that offer is, I'm going to have to decline. My gay friends don't need defagatizing," he said. "Thanks anyway."

"Well, I hope for your sake and your friends' sake that you reconsider." she said, "I will most defiantly be praying for your lungs and your gay friends tonight to help you find your way to Jesus. Now if you'll excuse me I have many more fliers to hang up and not much time left in my study hall. Tata." She turned and walked away from Garrett. Some people needed Jesus more than they knew, people like that Garrett boy. Prudence was just going to have to try her best to save him, but right now she had fliers to hang.

[Garrett Speelers]

"Smoking causes cancer you know."

Really? he thought sarcastically. I hadn't known.

"Easy out," he muttered under his breath instead, shrugging slightly. He shook his head eat her as she went down the hall to hang more fliers, claiming she would pray for him and his friends. "Yeah, you have fun with that."

He stuffed the lighter in his pocket, and shut the locker door. He ran a hand over his eye out of habit recently and was pleased to note it hardly hurt anymore. He then walked down the hall to the bathroom for a relaxing smoke.

[Faye Prewett]

"Fun times at 'Do-Good' High," came a sarcastic voice from Garrett's left. Faye had heard the end of the conversation between him and 'The Great Prude' as Faye secretly referred to her as. There was nothing worse than someone who took things out of context to prove their own side, and refused to admit that there are two sides to every argument. Otherwise it wouldn’t be an argument.

Garrett was a boy in her grade, and he was pretty cool. About ten times cooler than The Prude, but that wasn't terribly difficult.

[Garrett Speelers]

Garrett stopped short of the boys' lavatory, hearing a voice from his left. He laughed awkwardly as he turned to face Faye, a senior as well.

"Yeah always someone ready to save your sould," he added. "Even if it doesn't need saving."

[Faye Prewett]

"Yeah always someone ready to save your sould," he added. "Even if it doesn't need saving."

Faye spotted the boy's room behind Garrett and gave him an apologetic look. She figured he had to go to the bathroom or something, and knew that if she had to go to the bathroom she wouldn't want to be interrupted by pointless conversation.

"Sorry about that... didn't realize you were headed into the little boy's room," she declared. "But yes, I agree. Only if anyone's soul needs to be prayed for, it'll probably be yours," she joked, unable to keep a straight face. Garrett was a genuinely good person, at least from what she could tell. So what if he had a few bad habits? Didn't everyone?

[Garrett Speelers]

As she apologized Garrett just shrugged. He held out the lighter and cigarette so she could see he was just going for a smoke, before returning them to his pocket.

"It's no big deal," he commented. "But I mean obviously I'm the worst kind of evil dooer. please. . .tell me you'll go to the prayer meeting and pray for my soul."

He said it all with a great deal of sarcasm. Girls like Prudence could just get under his skin sometimes. What with their self righteous dogma bullshit.

[Faye Prewett]

Faye didn't feel quite so bad about interrupting a smoking break. So long as Garrett didn't mind, of course. Some people were pretty serious when it came to getting their cigarette break, and she wouldn't want to make him all jumpy or aggitated. Having friends who smoked, she knew how people could get without nicotine after a while.

"But I mean obviously I'm the worst kind of evil dooer. please. . .tell me you'll go to the prayer meeting and pray for my soul."

"Friend of the homosexual and smoker of nicotine. If you aren't destined for hell, I don't know who is." Faye laughed. "But that's not a half-bad idea... going to the meeting, that is. You know, just to see what The Prude has up her sleeve," she added conspiratorially, watching her continue around the corner.

[Garrett Speelers]

Garrett smoke casually: he wasn't an addict, he just like to relax from time to time. . .although lately he had been smoking a lot more. Of course he supposed that could be directly related to his father.

"Yeah I expect some of the other kids will have the same idea," he said. "She invited me and my 'fag friends' to come and be saved. I highly doubt that'll happen."

He realized that in all honesty, this was the perfect opportunity to end everything bad about his life. The constant beatings, the fear, but that wasn't how he wanted it to go down. Sure if he did go to the meeting and continued to be in the anti-GSA movement, Blane would stop telling his dad about his being with queer friends, and in turn his dad might lay off him, but he liked his friends, and he'd be damned if he would let himsefl be tempted by that bullshit.

[Faye Prewett]

"Yeah I expect some of the other kids will have the same idea," he said. "She invited me and my 'fag friends' to come and be saved. I highly doubt that'll happen."

Faye smiled at Garrett. She rather liked him, though she wasn't about to say anything about it. Faye was secretive like that. She couldn't say that she was crushing horribly, though... she had to admit that she liked several guys, nothing seroius. She had never taken high school romances too seriously, which was why she rarely acted on her crushes. If something happened, then it happened. She was pretty easy going like that.

"Well," she relented. "I suppose I'll let you get back to your smoke break." Faye looked at the clock on the wall in the hallway. "I should get working on my Lit & Comp project," she added. "I'm supposed to be researching in the library." Faye couldn't believe she was graduating this year... she wasn't even 17 yet! It was crazy.

[Garrett Speelers]

"Oh, all right," Garrett said with a shrug. "You have fun with that."

He waved at her and grinned, something he didn't often do. . .especially recently. He walked into the bathroom and lit his cigarette. However, after only one puff, he realized he didn't really feel the need to relax anymore. He wet his fingers, put out the cigarette and went back to his class.