The Study of Names

by THX 0477

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With enough pent up anger to boil an egg, Heather sat in study group, the same group she had bemoaned, rejoiced in, and now loathed. Four students thrown together by the capricious whims of Ms. Stone, 8th grade English teacher from Hell.

Hadley, her Hadley, sat diagonal from her, oblivious to her hurt. He had been hers, for a short, short time. She had reveled in him, thought to lay down in the warmth of his affection forever more. Such are silly school girls dreams, dreams destroyed by the supplanter.

Jacklyn, the whore, sat across, smiling smugly over her book. She’d ripped Hadley away just as love seemed destined to fully bloom with her flippant charms. Heather whispered a secret curse upon her house forever.

At least the foreign exchange student seemed nice, the hitherto ignored member of the group on account of Hadley’s sweet, chestnut curls. He sat doodling to her left, oblivious by choice or by language barrier to the drama before him.

“Bjorg,” Heather asked, “Have you ever been to France?”

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. The Study of Names

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 8 months ago

    Okay, had fun with the whole junior high scene and got carried away with the names.
    Heather: heather, you know, the flowering shrub.
    Headly: Field of Heather…um, I mean heather.
    Jacklyn: supplanter.
    Bjorg (with little dots over the ‘O’, which I can’t do on my keyboard): Salvation

  2. The Study of Names

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 8 months ago

    That’s ‘Hadley’, not ‘Headly’. Doh.

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    SKermitgorf's Buddy Icon SKermitgorf

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    very kool name choices, I like bjorg- oblivious by choice lol.

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    One Time, One Chance's Buddy Icon One Time, One Chance

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    oOo, i LuV the jr high scene! is Bjorg a guy, seems sorta odd that the character is the only guy in the group.. but anyway, nicely written, good descriptions =]

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    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 8 months ago

    Um, nope. The main character and Jacklyn are girls. Bjorg and Hadley are both boys. I double-checked, and the pro-nouns all fit, or did I miss one?

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    Laine P. Grey's Buddy Icon Laine P. Grey

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Yes, I loved it!

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    someday_93's Buddy Icon someday_93

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Oh, wow, THX . I love all the names…not just one but four! And the lovely description of junior high…this is great!

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