Chapter #5Bonnie, a tiny, overlooked Senior in High School by: booger   Bonnie was prepping for her friends to come over for their usual 4-person Friday evening game night. She had the card table readied down in the basement with an assortment of chips, candies and sodas. They would usually hang out down there late into the night, and it more often than not turned into a sleepover. None of the four were popular enough to get invited to anything else on a Friday night.
Bonnie herself, or “Scrawny Bonnie” as some of the meaner girls at school called her, was small and unimpressive. Standing 4’11”, weighing maybe 90 pounds, she was usually mistaken for a child wherever she went, instead of an 18 year old young woman. Her mousey brown hair was kept short. Her clothes usually consisted of old jeans and a baggy hoodie. She wasn’t good at sports, art, music, theater or really anything else and her grades were simply average. In every way she blended into the background. She was lucky to have made even the three friends that she had.
There was Deborah, a uniquely fat girl who was nearly as wide at 250 pounds as she was tall at 5’3” in height. Her hair was bright blonde, always back in a ponytail, and her face could be cute if angled perfectly, but usually all people noticed were the chubby cheeks, multiple chins and upturned pig nose. She was sweet, although incredibly dumb, usually leading her to be the butt of jokes around school. Jokes she didn’t even seem to notice.
Another of their small group of friends was Sultana, a gawky girl who’d moved from Yemen with her parents when she was 10. She’d had some sort of pituitary issue, a main reason for moving here, and stood a painfully thin 6’3”. She spent most of her time hunched as far over as possible, trying to dodge ridicule, and kept her long black hair often combed in front of her face to keep from having to look at her peers. She really only smiled around her small group of friends.
Lastly was Lexi, Bonnie’s childhood best friend. Most people were struck by her huge mess of curly, red hair, and her bombastic personality matched its wildness. She was the loudest of the bunch, finding herself to be something of a Queen Bee among such a poor hive. She was an average 5’5” with a quickly widening rear end, something that wasn’t helped by their regular bing-snacking game nights. She sometimes got the bare minimum of attention from boys, only because of the big ass, but her bad skin and abrasive personality drove them off every time.
As they all came pouring in to Bonnie’s house, Lexi handed Bonnie the small package she’d found outside the door before heading over to grab a drink from the basement fridge.
“What the hell?” Bonnie wondered, as she opened the package and carefully inspected the item inside while her friends obliviously start chattering about nothing in particular, Lexi being particularly loud.
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