The Kool Kids

The Kool Kids arrive at the school and everyone draws their attention to them.

Snap, snap, snap.

Here they come! The cool kids.

Everybody hates them.

Everybody loves them.

Everybody wants to be them.

Boys roll their eyes.

Girls faint.

The cool kids, aka The Kool Kids, tilt down their sunglasses and smile. They straighten their jackets and wink at the girls.

The students gasp as the trio continues in their hallway stroll.

But it was all just a fantasy.

Tomas, Harrison, and Joel sigh, imagining their popularity.

“Wouldn’t it be cool if that could happen?” Tomas asks. “Being the center of attention?”

“Yeah,” the two other boys sigh.

"Guys would envy you, Harrison says.

"Girls would love you," Joel says.

“We can do that,” Tomas declares. "We just have to upgrade ourselves and everyone will love us."

The two other boys agree.

The trio borrows money from their parents to buy the coolest clothes.

The next day, the boys enter the school with their “cool attire”. They stroll through the hallways, tilting their sunglasses, but no one looks their way.

They wink at one girl, but she screams in terror.

Tomas then smiles at one jock, but the jock pushes him against the lockers.

The "Kool Kids" then realize that coolness is overrated.

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