THE SWITCH

THE SWITCH

It was an ordinary lunch day in an ordinary school when ordinary Belinda sat down alone just like any other ordinary time. She took out her ordinary lunch and looked at her ordinary drink. After lunch Belinda went to the bathroom and took a look at her ordinary hair and her ordinary face.

For Karen it was an extraordinary day in her extraordinary life. She sat down with her dozens of extraordinary friends and looked at her expensive extraordinary life. She laughed an extraordinary laugh and smiled an extraordinary smile. After lunch Karen decided to go to the bathroom, she walked in and didn’t even notice the ordinary girl that was standing there gazing into the musty mirror. Karen stood next to Belinda and looked into the other mirror at her extraordinary hair and her extraordinary face. No wonder she was so popular. She walked away and as her hair bounced in her stride she dropped something.

Belinda walked over curious as to what the extraordinary girl dropped and picked it up.

There in Belinda’s hands was a glowing orb.

Belinda took the glowing orb and put it into her pocket and walked out of the room.

Belinda entered her next class as if it was any other ordinary day, but when she entered the room all eyes fixated on her. Belinda, as insecure as she was, became nervous. Then something amazing happened. A group of girls guided Belinda over to the back corner to sit with them. The back corner was an honor for any ordinary girl.

Belinda sat there, smiling and laughing with her new friends. When one of the girls took out a compact Belinda got a glance at herself, and in the few moments that Belinda saw her reflection she was astonished. There in the small piece of glass she saw a girl she had never seen before. A girl with bouncing blonde bubbly hair and a perfect blemish free face and a glow about her that she had only seen once before during her encounter with Karen. Belinda soon realized that she was no longer the ordinary girl that she saw previously in the bathroom mirror. She was something completely new, something completely different. She was reborn, and this time she was extraordinary. She laughed her extraordinary laugh and sat with her other extraordinary friends and took out her extraordinary homework, and began her extraordinary life.

Meanwhile, Karen enters her class. Everyday when Karen had entered her class she was usually instantly greeted by dozens of other extraordinary girls. This time though Karen was ignored. Slightly concerned Karen began to walk over to the back corner only to see that all of the desks were taken. Her eyes filled with disbelief. All of her friends at turned her back on her! Her “friends” she had never really taken the time to know, but had always assumed loyal companions had gave her the cold shoulder and now Karen was alone.

Karen walked over and sat at a desk in the front of the room. An ordinary desk next to ordinary people. People she had never taken the time to even notice. She looked in the front of the room and saw a mirror towards the front. There instead of the glow she was used to seeing when seeing her reflection she saw something that frightened her completely, blandness. Her bouncy bubbly bright blonde hair was sort of faded and unnoticeable, her bright deep blue eyes were shallow and discolored. Her perfect blemish free skin looked blotchy and unkempt. Karen sank low in her chair and noticed an initial in the desk…”B”

In the back of the room Belinda sat with her new friends and was laughing an extraordinary laugh when she noticed something written in her desk. There in perfect extraordinary cursive was the letter “K”

In the shallow world known as high school, you aren’t as extraordinary as you think, your “friends” are the friends that you have assumed that they are. The popular ones are only popular because of their obnoxious motions and there extraordinary hair and clothes. If they had looked different from the start and never found their glow they wouldn’t be where they are. They would be sitting in the front, alone.