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.the plot « Thread Started on Nov 5, 2007, 8:48am »
Dear Students;
Just a quick update on the continuing developments of the current building project taking place within the school. As you know, the initial grant approved for the total costings of carrying out the project - though generous in nature - will not cover the final cost now quoted, which had caused some dilemna over the school's future. I wish to inform each one of you that the solution to this problem and our future here at Wetherfield is in, what I deem, perfectly capable hands: yours. Between myself and the faculty, we have decided that student run initiatives will be the best way to publisize our plight and raise the needed funding. Each of our five departments (art, Dance, Drama, Fashion and Music) will be challenged to raise the most money that they can, pushing themselves to their limits. Incentive, beyond the academy remaining open, to acheive this goal will be put in place - the department which raises the most money shall have the building dedicated to themselves and receive choice of the new facilities.
Thank you and to your marks; - Dr. K. M. Saxenhammer.
So amongst the already competitive departments a further stone was dropped, creating ripples and waves of old rivalries and past feuds. To the majority of the students this competition - for though the staff avoided the word itself, clearly it was - conjured ideas of opportunity and prestige for their chosen discipline, each more than happy to prove their worth and forge rivalries with the other departments. A select few, however, could have imagined nothing worse, a wedge driven between their already strained inter-departmental friends and their loyalties to their peers. Others still found no interest in the competition - what did a few new classrooms matter to them? - continuing student life the only way they knew how. Unsurprisingly, sabotage was a much bandied word: what have Music got planned? Who's endorsing Art's fundraiser? Drama are going where? When are fashion thinking of that? How can dance pull that off? The departments were united in one aspect though: "YEAH? WELL WE'LL JUST HAVE TO STOP THEM!"
Fights, both verbal and physical, broke out. They always do when students are pitted against each other. And the traditional form of punishment for this was detention - two weeks of performing services for teachers, generally from 4:00pm to 5:00 pm.
Nine students from five majors + inter-departmental competition + detention + teacher = chaos
So one would expect such things to go, and so they did go - Alexia Davidson, Isabelle Vittera, Vincent McCarthy, Kiara Brownlee, Michael Swann, Jennifer Dawson, Richard Gardiner, Alanna Dietrich, and Danielle Calvin did not get along. Detentions were suffered out in silence for the first few days, Kiara and Michael's constant chatter being the only interraction which took place. By the fifth day, however, they had to talk, and all were amazed to find that the others were much more likable than expected - they weren't just trying to find out other departments' secrets. The students were horrified to discover that they had begun to bond.
Such an experience would not be complete without some sort of love relationship, although this one was not exactly ordinary: Isabelle Vittera, drama student and homosexual, and Alexia Davidson, fashion major and bisexual, fell for each other. High school relationships are never so simple, of course. Vincent McCarthy, music student, watched their relationship with jealousy, for he found Isabelle quite attractive. He was popular, and aside from her sexuality there should be no reason why she wouldn't go out with him. Unfortunately for him, one reason was enough. Unfortunately for Alexia, her swift and reckless involvement in one relationship committed her for some time at least, even though she found herself admiring Vincent. It didn't help that he wasn't interested in her. Alexia's friends encouraged her to spy on Isabelle, to use her less desirable relationship to her advantage. Fashion could gain the upper hand over drama, and they knew they needed it. Isabelle, likewise, was encouraged to report on the fashion students, and to use Vincent's interest to her advantage. None of the three were happy, and none could be until this fundraiser was over: the increased tension between departments did not allow relationships, even if the open and accepting attitudes of art students did. The other detention students also regretted having to separate themselves from their friends. Their only choice was to let life play itself out.
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