'C'mon guys, this is serious!'

'Shut up, Tara,' Robbie said, pausing mid-noogie from his position atop Samuel. The latter struggled in vain amid the distraction.

The sun hung over the western horizon, resting on the business towers of central Graceburg, although the five of us were wallowing deep in early evening shadow beneath the East-Side Bridge--and even deeper in the filth that had become the Shanduc River.

'Uggh, I still can't believe the smell!'

Chelsea, rich snob. Mind as empty as her old man's vault is full. Her only desire is to get her M.r.s. degree so she can have a Mexican nanny raise her flock of clones while she spends days in fashionable boutiques and nights at fashionable parties.

'I thought that was your perfume.'

Robbie again. Or 'Rob' as I'm sure he calls himself while hanging out with the nowhere crew in the parking lot during classes.

'Hey, shut it butt wipe!'

Enter the knight in shining armor, Matt; Chelsea's number one. By which I mean that she was stringing along at least five and Matt was currently leading the race.

'And get off of Poindexter. Some of us would actually like to leave this filth today.'

Yep, we had one of those here too. Poindexter, aka Samuel, the stereotypical geek. Cute in a kind of coke-bottle glasses, would rather program than go out, pocket-protector way. Okay, yeah, I have a thing for him. A little thing. But it would never work. I'm too much the tomboy, the outdoors, love-life-and-leave-the-planet-for-next-generation type.

Oh, by the way, I'm Tara, the only one who cares about this project.

	12:15 EST   May 1st, 2008 – by Mariama Abdulai This is a pretty interesting read! Way to go Simian! :-)
	15:34 EST   May 1st, 2008 – by Marzipan Googelplex Awesome, Simian! This is almost exactly as I pictured it! Love it!
	16:43 EST   May 1st, 2008 – by Simian Simon Thanks :-)
	17:14 EST   May 1st, 2008 – by Simian Simon oops, double post. although i'm not sure why 26 min apart?!
	20:13 EST   May 1st, 2008 – by Ryan Riverside Simon: If you refresh the page, no matter how long after, it will repeat the action, be that commenting, MMing, or grafting.
	20:57 EST   May 1st, 2008 – by Nina Zito Ryan is our code ambassador. He always has the answers before I get there, and is 99.9% accurate in his assumptions. ;) He is absolutely right about this of course, and I went ahead and deleted the second duplicate comment.
	20:59 EST   May 1st, 2008 – by Nina Zito Simon, I love the description of Chelsea, very cheeky.
	18:46 EST   May 6th, 2008 – by Joseph Nelson Not bad, although I feel some of these characters are a bit familiar. Like your typical group of generic teenagers. But it's early still, so there's plenty that could spice this up.
	20:55 EST   May 6th, 2008 – by Chris Sadler That's what I was thinking, Joseph. It takes a while to develop characters' personalities.
	15:00 EST   May 18th, 2008 – by Fullmoonblue The last few sentences made all the difference for me; I liked realizing that I was supposed to be in Tara's head.
	17:57 EST   May 18th, 2008 – by Kate this is really good, just one minor question (and i mean really minor) - how old are these people? Because I thought they were seniors, but I don't think seniors really give each other noogies. It seems a little immature for 17-18 year olds. But once again, that is SO minor, it doesnt really matter, this snippet is really good, Simian. All of your stuff is awesome. :)
	05:06 EST   May 20th, 2008 – by Ryan Riverside Caitlin, noogies happen all throughout college, and for some people that hang out with people they grew up with, their entire lives. Noogie-gauging is not a sufficient determiner of age, in my opinion.
	07:27 EST   May 20th, 2008 – by Chris Sadler At least it wasn't a 'Swirly.' :D
	18:51 EST   May 20th, 2008 – by Kate I'm sorry Ryan, I was speaking out of personal experience. I'm sure it does happen, I was just stating my opinion based on what I have seen.
	20:37 EST   May 20th, 2008 – by Ryan Riverside Hey, no need to get sorrowful. We're all chums here. And I am VERY proud to have never been swirlied. VERY proud.
	19:20 EST   May 21st, 2008 – by Kate O definately. And I'm even in high school and swirlie-less.
	22:52 EST   May 21st, 2008 – by Chris Sadler I like the word 'Chums,' it makes us sound very cool with one another. I think it is very appropriate (unless it was a typo and you actually meant 'Chum,' cuz baiting the water with fish guts isn't quite as cool!).
	09:19 EST   Jun 15th, 2008 – by BumbeaK the Genius Five bananas!!!
	18:24 EST   Aug 24th, 2008 – by Emma I absolutely love the characters!
	20:57 EST   Jun 24th, 2009 – by Paulina A. I adore this!!!