#high school days

[mutantthedark]

Caught red-handed

Warnings: Cheating, angst, hurt no comfort, swearing. Enjoy reading! Or not... ---- The morning felt like yesterday. The morning sky is clear with no clouds, but the wind is brushing the leaves who is hanging on the breaches gently.

It's spring season, the weather is getting warmer, thank god Halia didn't have to wear a coat again. Walking to school in snow was a waste of time for her and it frustrated her so much. 

A few students walking towards the school, some of them are going to the canteen to eat breakfast. A chatter filled in the hallway into Halia's ears as she closes her locker while she's carrying a backpack on her shoulders. She walking through the other students and sees her best friend, Michelle, who is southeast asian descent. Halia gives a small wave and smiles. "Hey."

"Hey, good morning!" Michelle hugs her gently and releases her. "Everything okay?"

"Yeah, I just didn't sleep well, had to finish all my school work after leaving the driving test." Halia sighs and rubs her eyes.

"How did it go?"

"I failed, again." 

"Seriously?! You failed 2 times now? What did you do now?" Michelle's eyes widens, Halia motions to Michelle to walk beside her slowly. 

"The driving instructor insulted me that I didn't cleaned the windows, and even in the back of the car!"

"That sucks... It's certainly not easy." Michelle mutters.

"Of course it isn't... it's so much going on right now." Halia looks around the hallway and raises her eyebrow. "Have you seen Noah?"

"No, but I'm guessing he's running late?" 

"Probably..." Halia checks the clock who's hanging on the wall, she still has 6 minutes to hang out. "His dad is always driving him to school, maybe his car broke-"

But Halia got cut off by the 'ding' sound and she pulls out her phone, message from Noah. She opens the message and reads it carefully.

 Noah: "Hey, I'll be late to class, the traffic is really terrible, tell the teacher, yea?" 8:25 am.

Halia's eyebrows raises and types the message back, her fast fingers are typing the keyboard.

Halia: "No problem, don't worry about it!" 8:25 am.

"He texted the traffic is terrible." Halia tilts her head and gives almost a smug face to Michelle. 

"Oh, no shit, sherlock. People are always driving to work. Uh... We have Spanish class, right?" Michelle rubs her forehead gently, brushing her black curtain bangs away.

"Yeah, we do." Halia puts her phone back to her pocket as she continues to walk with Michelle. She groans in annoyance.

"God, I hate this class! Everytime the teacher asks me to read, I struggle with words. Also, we have a test today and I don't know anything!" Michelle fake-sobs, leaning her forehead on Halia's shoulder.

"Hey, chill out, you're barely passing. What, you get C's? Good thing not a C-" Halia grins, she's clearly teasing Michelle. She looks at Halia annoyingly, still slowly walking to Spanish class slowly while Michelle's arm is resting on Halia's shoulder.

"Yippie, yeah. Or else my mom will kill me, my dad always gets grumpy." Michelle pouts.

"Hey, I'm always helping you, you know? Besides, I learned Spanish when I was 13 years old." 

"You're a lifesaver! I'm glad I have a wonderful friend like you!" Michelle raises her arm, similar doing a victory pose. Halia rolls her eyes playfully and they walk into a Spanish class.

The other students are already in their seats, the bell rings as Halia and Michelle sat down in their seats, taking out the book, notebooks and pens out of their backpacks.

The Spanish teacher closes the door behind her and walks to her desk to put her stuff down. 

"Okay, students! As you may all know, we have a test today. So, I'm giving you..." The teacher looks at her wrist watch. "A five minutes to revise everything what we learned and wrote down everything we should have."

Halia raises her hand. "Ms. Green?" 

Ms. Green walk to Halia to listen what she has to say. "Is it okay for Noah to take the test in another day? Because he's going to be late."

"Uh..." She thinks for a moment, then looks at Halia. "I'll talk to him when he gets here, but thank you for informing me." A smile preads on her face as she brushes Halia's shoulder gently, she walks to the desk to take out the test papers. 

Halia sighs quietly and opens the notebook to check everything what she had to write from the board. Surprisingly, her hand writing is clean, the highlights are marked with light yellow color to memorise everything. Although she's really good in talking Spanish, only that languages what her aunt taught her the most.

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Of course, Noah ran late to Spanish class in the middle of the test, but luckily he'll take it next time. Good thing the teacher is one of the kind, if not, he wouldn't passed the class. After 4th period, it's lunch time, the three of them are sitting on the bench outside, the sun of the warmth are hitting their skins.

"Man... this day is more harder than I thought." Michelle sighs softly, looking up at the clear sky.

"Tell me about it. For me, Thursdays are the hardest days for me." Halia blinks a few time, looking at the school's surroundings. Noah, in other hand, his arm is wrapped around Halia's shoulder, she looks at him.

"Wanna hang out after school?" Halia asks, bouching her leg lightly.

Noah sighs. "I can't, sorry. I have a practice today."

"Oh, my bad. You're a quarterback. Sometimes I lose a track of time." Halia rubs her temples softly.

"I honestly can't hang out too, I have a gymnastics." Michelle answers, rocking her feet back and forth gently.

"Right, Thursdays are the worst..." Halia groans lightly. She hates these days. 

Every.damn.time.

Although when she met Noah, things are getting little easier for her. Of course, they argued a bit, but not too much by considering things. 8 months of relationship... Wow, time flies really fast.

Noah is seriously has a good taste by finding a good places for Halia to hang out. She's lucky she's with him.

...Maybe not anymore...

By the time Halia is always in his case, asking where he been or something, he always act nervous. No wonder what he's hiding, maybe it's Halia imagination and throws that thing away.

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It's been a few hours and classes are over, Halia is already exhausted as she's packing her math book in her backpack. She's the last one who leaves the classroom.

Halia is walking in the hallway and spots a History teacher, Mr. Smith who's carrying books.

"Do you need help with that?" Halia asks as she approaches him. He nods. 

"Yeah, could you bring them to my classroom? I have to get more from the library." 

Halia nods and takes them to bring to the History class. So much for after school hours, he has no one to hang out with, she'll probably spend her day alone at home to do something useful. 

Noah promised her they'll go to restaurant to get Japanese food after he kissed her forehead. Boyfriends... they do so much.

Halia tiredly and slowly reached the History classroom and puts the books on the table. When she was about to leave, she hears muffed voices in another classroom, Halia raises her eyebrow curiously and follows the sound of the voice.

The voices are coming from the English class.

The door is slightly open, Halia peeks through the gap and looks at it. There is Ryan with... another girl? Who appears to be talking, so she decides to listen.

"Really? You shouldn't have." The girl giggles and looks at him lovingly with those green eyes of her.

"It's no problem, Ashley." Noah rubs his neck. "A few days back it was amazing."

"Same, the date was fantastic!" She smiles. 

Halia's eyes widens in sight as she keeps listening quietly. Date?! Did she heard that right?! That cheating bastard--

"Although I promised Halia to get the Japanese food tommorow, I'll lie to her again to hang out with you more." Noah smirks. Ashley rolls her eyes.

"Ugh, you're still with that intelligent-freak? No wonder why she's always in your case."

"Yeah, she sometimes acts like a bitch and I don't like her, I don't even love her anymore." Noah chuckles darkly and he grins.

Halia feels her heart shatters in thousand pieces. Why would Noah say this?! Obviously he's a fucking liar.

Saying he has a Rugby practice, obviously he's a quarterback on Thursdays but he's hanging out with another girl! Halia now doesn't reconize herself anymore... it feels her blood is boiling.

"Guess I'll see you later." Ashley smiles, rubbing her forearm shyly.

"Yeah..." Noah gently takes her chin and leans in closer to her, Ashley slowly closed her eyes, they were about to kiss... Halia's brain signals to burst inside immediately, she had enough listening. Halia slams the door open and glares at them.

They flintched and Noah turns around, his eyes widens as he sees Halia... all angry. "H-Halia! W-what--"

"I should ask you the same! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Halia bursts out as her eye twitches.

"I-I uh... W-we were just talking...! I swear! Come on... yeah." Noah nervously laughs, Ashley glances both at them and rushes out of the classroom to leave them arguing, seems like they're going to kill each other.

Halia crosses her arms, holding back her tears inside her. "So this is you've been doing huh?"

Noah sighs and rubs his neck nervously, trying to act innocent. "Halie, love--"

"Don't "love" me!" Halia gets closer to him and puts her finger to his chest. "You lied to me, how could you?! I did everything for you and this is how you repay me?!"

Noah blinks and rolls his eyes annoyingly, busy with "practice", he knew he was caught red-handed by her.

But this relationship never meant anything. Just some texting and saying "I love you"'s over and over. Then she starts to wonder: how many times he has been with her? Her heart was hurting like crazy, stabbing her countless times like with a knife. Noah looks at her and sighs softly, she is about to stroke her hair, but she slapped it away.

"DON'T YOU FUCKING TOUCH ME!" Halia hisses.

"WOULD YOU PLEASE JUST LISTEN?!--"

"NO!"

Her voice echoes around the English classroom, even in the hallway. Rage, a pure rage. She doesn't even want to hear his excuses and lying in front of her face.

"How many months have you been with her?"

"Halia-"

"How.many?" Halia's voice cracks, tears starts to fall down her cheek. Noah closes her eyes and keeps silent, keeping his mouth shut, trying not to let out of breath of annoyance.

"2 months."

2 months... 2 fucking months... God, it feels like 2 whole fucking years. Noah was never good hiding his act and emotions, but he tries to keep his cool. 

"So this is why you've been acting weird for the past few weeks... Who are you?! You've changed--"

"So what?! People fucking change right?? If you think crying like this will help you to get back at me, you're a fucking idiot."

No. He didn't mean that.

Did he really?

He never cared, he didn't loved her.

"I don't need you..." Noah mutters, turning his head away. "Not anymore."

All those times, those 2 months he cheated... he lied behind her back time to time. Hell, Halia's brain goes on fire right now, and just like that her world broke.

Noah walks to the door and stops for a moment, he looks over his shoulder to look at Halia who is still frozen in shock. He wanted to say something, nothing came out, no words, only silence between them. 

With that, he leaves the classroom, leaving Halia completely alone. Halia clenches her fists and punches the wall while she screams in frustration. His words rang inside Halia's head, she starts to sob hardly and tears fall down her cheeks, then pain hits her more.

 Even though love is cruel by cheating... and a waste of time.

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

1985 photo of Gillian Anderson as a young punk.

This picture is purportedly from Gillian's yearbook.

[okochamasensou]

song logo transparents ripped from mm+

[arinewman7]

High School Days

Jasper Johns

lead relief with mirror, 1969

[tattoorue]

[do-u-really-wanna-know]

[animemakeblog]

“Tonikaku Kawaii” The Anime Series Gets ONA in Summer 2023

Joshikou-hen (High School Days), a four-episode original net anime series, will be produced for the Tonikaku Kawaii anime series, according to a statement released by Warner Bros. Japan. More information, theme songs, and a promotional film were all disclosed on the official website. On July 12, the ONA series will begin.

[ressjeon]

HYYH SONGS OMG 😭😭😭😭

[illicithurricane]

Sorry for the rant but I've been keeping it til now.

The Sims team could have made TheSims4 an AMAZING game, worth its price and better than its predecessors. Get to Work introduced us to Aliens and playable careers but why the heck NOT to sickness? Sure, we have llama flu or whatever it's called but why not a more complex dive into chicken pot or disease that will lead to our sims passing if we dont take care of them? Why not broken bones or migraines? Why not allergies and ACTUAL disabilities, which is something I feel like it's not represented AT ALL and there are so many people who have disabilities. So they are not marketable enough to be represented? They are not as important (if not even more) than the lgbtq community which is getting all the attention possible without putting any effort cause... sorry if you dont wanna hear it but we are not in the 60s anymore, all people of any race, sexual-orientation, etc etc gets bullied and picked on. Get over it. It could have been added even with Nifty Knitting: elders in wheelchairs. But no. Again, why? Cause these people are not marketable enough? Blind sims, deaf sims, a game with actual depth, no? Okay. GG TheSims team. Dine out is still broken. I literally cannot have a restaurant because even if I go to the location and play it out, costumers are a pain in the ass, they dont sit down, when they sit down they get up, the staff is glitchy-- and when I open it from my Sim's house, it just tells me "the restaurant is losing money" every single day... so what is the point? StangerVille, Old Wild West theme = no horses. Cottage Living = no horses. Laundry Day, we literally have ONE washing machine and ONE dryer. AND THE PACK RELIES ON LAUNDRY which is also annoying and poorly made cause they could have given us "wearablity": your sim can wear a specific outfit number of times and THEN it gets dirty and smelly and it gets put into the hamper. Every time my sim changes (which is multiple times a day, without any reason at all) the hamper fills. Every day I have to do laundry which is not that realistic. Also, took too much to make a "wear SLEEPWEAR /EVERYDAY when at home" preference? Cause I dunno if it bothers people but my sim staying into work clothes when comes back home is a bit... annoying. Werewolves are basically furries (no tail, really!?) when they should have been scary (like the ones in the mod..................... again, a mod that is better than the actual game?? WOW) and the storyline, the abilities, the werewolf itself is meaningless, it's empty, is just there without a purpose. No zodiac signs, no "bad" traits or simply not enough to make a difference. We have loner but it's not like having a shy person. We have kleptomaniac but we have limits on the trait. We have squeamish but it triggers only when Sims are doing dishes or cleaning... which is a very superficial view on the trait. No baby strolls cause babies are objects, you cannot even get away from the crib cause you cant interact with it outside that space (but why am I complaining, toddlers came years after the release of the base game, like pools.................) All these things can be achieved with mods. A game that costs 1000 euros ca SHOULDNT NEED MODS, especially to be fun and playable. Pandasama released a realistic childbirth mod, which it has nothing weird showing if you dont have WW but that is the only way I want to play "giving birth" from now on. It's a more serious mod, which it could have been in the game already cause if The Sims team can add sexual preference and pronouns (the last one, to me, is BS to the limit in a game like TheSims but... LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE MARKETABLE YEEEE) there could have been also a better childbirth experience with Get to Work. I could literally go on for days about The Sims not being a good game, way too overpriced and marketed towards a specific generation and who cares about others. Still no different heights or heights slider. In a game that is 8 years old. Only now we have body hair when modders added it years ago... but keep cheering The Sims team for pronouns, yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... stupidsheeps.

[mmmakeovers]

#teen-a-day 4-7

freshman // try hard // emo // redneck

the second bulk upload of the #teen-a-day challenge by @dizzywhims 🖤

these teens are on the gallery (mmmakeovers)

more images under the cut

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Gillian just shared this on her Facebook page:

[shironezuninja]

I’ll be wearing this Vox Machina shirt around Clearview just to spite ***** country. The unfinished drawing in the 3rd photo was the viewing of a Manhattan hospital that I saw across the East River from my Roosevelt Island High School years between 2003-2006.

[theredhairing40]

People were afraid of me in High School... so why would I miss it, if I was the one people feared?

[lowvintagesims]

copperdale high school having accessible parking spots and curb cuts teasing that disability is going to be added to the sims 4

[azertysims]

A d o l e s c e n c e

[petuniabuilds]

Holly is the cheer captain and a self proclaimed overachiever. Despite her high social standing at school, she is very down to earth and kind. She is known for her amazing dance moves and agility, but most people don't know that this is all because of her strong work ethic and dedication to practice. Others assume she is naturally talented and no one notices the effort, tutoring, and extra classes she takes in her free-time. This is my first sim for the Teen-A-Day Challenge.