The Desert Standoff by Nadia Siddiqui

Author:Nadia Siddiqui [Siddiqui, Nadia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Suzi - High School, Junior Year

“E w, I would hate to be her.” Bethany isn’t the sort of girl Suzi considers to be her friend. She doesn’t think that Bethany really has too many friends. Perhaps that’s why Suzi keeps hanging out with her. She doesn’t want to say that it's a pity so much as she doesn’t feel that anybody should be left alone if somebody can help it. Suzi doesn’t agree or disagree with the girl leaning against the lockers in front of her, her designer bag clutched to her chest with her pile of textbooks. When Suzi first met her, she thought that perhaps nobody else could relate to Bethany simply because she is so wealthy, but having gotten to know her better over the last handful of months Suzi now knows the truth.

“Don’t be mean, B, she’s probably not too thrilled to be here anyway.”

In truth, the whole school has been talking about her as of late. That’s probably the way it goes in any school whenever you transfer this late in the high school system. It must be hell to up and leave everything you’ve ever known so close to senior year. Suzi doesn’t consider herself to be overly close with too many of the other kids in her school but she doesn’t dislike them. She just finds most of the things they do to be childish. Even with that being true, she couldn’t imagine doing her senior year anywhere else. She wouldn’t want to go to prom without the same people she has spent her whole life around. Suzi has known almost all of these people since she was a child. Some even longer. Half of their parents were friends with her parents and everybody knows everybody and that’s just how she likes it. She wants to keep it that way. This new girl is fully out of her element. She’s not told anybody where she’s from and according to the rumor mill she really hasn’t said much of anything to anybody really. She seems like she just wants to keep to herself.

“I don’t even mean like not thrilled, I mean look at her clothes. She just looks like she smells ... or like her mother has three dozen cats and never washes anything. Seriously, it’s disgusting. Does she even own soap?”

Suzi shoots Bethany a look so angry that it could curdle blood and she reaches out and pinches her right on her elbow. Bethany shrieks and drops all of the things in her arms. “Ow! What was that for! You pick this up right now!” Bethany stomps her foot as if that’s going to make Suzi drop to her knees and pick up her fallen things or she will somehow decide to apologize when it’s very clear by Suzi’s expression that she’s going to be doing nothing of the sort.

“No. You deserved that. What a horrible thing to say.”

Suzi steps over the pile on the ground and jogs over to the new girl

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