New kid shows up at the high school the next day. Hello, the high school. Hello, the students in the high school.
Hello, Jessica.
Jessica's very talkative. It's almost hypnotic.
"So what's Arizona like?"
"Well, sunnier."
"I bet! Wow, have you ever seen snow before?"
"On TV."
"Ha ha ha! Oh man is everybody really tan? Do you hang out at the pool all year round ogling boys?"
"I'm a little too gay to ogle boys."
"Oh! Oh wow. Okay. So um, I know this is a really small town, but guess what?" says Jessica.
"What?" asks Bella.
"We actually have a lesbian here! HEY SOLVEI!" Jessica hollers across the entire cafeteria.
"Cool. Three uses is enough to justify the purchase of silly anatomical heart molds, right?"
Monday's delicious offering is lollipops. Ordinary circular ones, in blue and green and purple and yellow and red.
George declines a lollipop because "it's like sucking dick", mocks his friend who takes one, and tells Solvei that if she likes lollipops he's got one for her to try. He's not particularly restrained in his volume.
Solvei ignores him completely. As soon as he makes one of his remarks, George temporarily ceases to exist in her universe. Who wants a lollipop?
Well, not any of the people who heard George's opinion of lollipops and are feeling insecure in their masculinity today.
But most everyone else wants a lollipop. When Solvei leaves the section of the cafeteria with George in it he decides to compliment her on her ass.
"You've got a very good 'ignore' feature going there," remarks Bella, when the lollipops are disbursed and Solvei's sitting down again.
The next day, Solvei is late to school.
While she is busy being late to school, Bella finds herself prone on the ice in the path of an out-of-control van.
This doesn't go very well for her.
She's only about half an hour late, but the parking lot is still a bit of a scene when she gets there.
Those bloodstains do not look very okay.