High School - Original Writing - 1238 Words

It was 1996. We were seniors in high school, we lived in a lifeless suburb of Sacramento, and we were always bored. There were three of us then, Jack, Dan, and myself, John. We were an unremarkable group, and though none of us would have dared to admitted it, we were decidedly unpopular. Not so much in the sense that we were ever targets of significant harassment. We had never been shoved into lockers, received undue beatdowns, or been subject to the disdain of the student body, because all of those require a degree of visibility, which we simply did not posses. Our lives that year were predominantly occupied with selling tickets and overpriced popcorn from the dingy window of the drive in movie theater we worked in and finding time to†¦show more content†¦Inside, a bartender stood indifferently, a cigarette hanging from his lips, as we walked past, he made no acknowledgment of our existence, no slight nod, no half drunk attempt at a greeting. Across the bar, a woman stood, topless, one hand gripping a stained pole, gyrating for a small gathering of men, maybe ten, maybe eleven. The woman was beautiful, no older than twenty-five, but her eyes betrayed stark dispassion, each successive swirl around the pole deepening the bags below her eyes. We sat, looking on with a mixture of pity and curiosity, cheap vodka burning in the back of our throats, all knowing that we were thinking the same thing, but no one said a word. We retired to our motel at 2:30 that night, the time at the club had all but disappeared, gone in the trance of the woman’s dancing. We slept late that morning, it was almost noon when we awoke, groggy and hungover. The lobby served breakfast, bland and cold. Each sip of the tepid, acidic coffee required more labor than it was worth, and we left unsatisfied. Jack grunted as he pushed on the exterior door, and grimaced at the slice of sunlight that split his face in two. 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