Physics class, room 103 on the second floor, taught by Mr Shepard. It was a class full of envious, greedy, prideful, gluttons. That’s only four out the seven but they are all there. There is pride, envy, lust, wrath, sloth, greed, and gluttony. It makes sense that a class about science would contain so much sin.
Courtney is pride. Her father buys her everything she wants, she has a brand new car, a different outfit every day, upon much more. Only the best for “Daddy’s little girl”. She would be fine if she didn’t brag about it everyday. She always talked about how rich her family was, how great her grades were in school, and how she has everything she could ever want in life. “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I actually got a one hundred on this test! I knew I could do it though, I’m basically the best in this class.” She gloated to her two girlfriends. They giggled in reply to it. Obvious envy in their eyes. “You’re so lucky, I only got a 90.” The two girls got up and walked up to the front of the room whispering to each other about how they wish they had what Courtney had. The one girl, Marissa was wearing knock-off Uggs, non Victoria’s Secret yoga pants, and a plain blue shirt. The other, Katie, was wearing a no brand pair of jeans and an arizona hoodie. While Courtney was wearing a designer sweater-dress with Ugg brand knee-high boots. She had a large Coach purse beside her. “I like really want that bag!” Katie whispered to Marissa. “I know, and those boots had to seriously cost like, 400 dollars. Easily.” Marissa scoffed. “Must be nice.” Katie added.
Jane sat in a large group of boys. She wore a very low cut shirt and tight jeans, her hair was in large curls and had long black eyelashes. Her lips were deep pink and her eyes were light brown. The boys stared at her while the teacher droned on about centripetal force. She leaned to the boy next to her, Kyle, and asked for a pencil. His voice cracked and his hand shook and he said yes and gave her his. She cracked a smile knowing what she was doing to him. Evan who was sitting behind her told her he liked the color of her pants. His partner Ryan chimed in as well “You always look so pretty Jane, I bet Katie is so jealous of you.” That was when Alex turned around and yelled “Will you guys shut your damn mouths so I can pass this next class. I know you guys don’t care, you care more about how attractive Jane looks in this awful fluorescent light, but please do me a favor and shut up or leave.” “Alex, please look straight forward and stop talking, this will be on the test.” Mr. Shepard said. “Look at what you idiots do, make me get in trouble...” Alex used a few rude words and turned back around. His face was red as fire and he had a temper to match. “Glad you decided to join us.” Mr Shepard said to him. “It wasn’t even me who was talking first! If you actually taught this class you would know!” Alex stood up and shouted. “You can go ahead and excuse yourself.” Mr. Shepard said calmly. “But, I-” “Leave Alex!” The teacher cut him off by yelling. Alex shoved his desk a few feet, threw his desk at Kyle, and slammed the classroom door behind him.
All the commotion woke up Ray who often slept during all of his classes. He glanced at the clock and wiped the drool off his chin. He often drooled when the lecture was especially boring. He put his head back down and was very noticeably out after a few seconds. After Ray was asleep again his partner Alison slipped her hand into his open back pack and took five dollars. Her mother sent her to school everyday with five dollars but she saved her money and bought packs of cigarettes with it, instead of using it for lunch money. So she would take other people’s money and justify by saying they weren’t going to use it anyways and she’d pay them back somehow later. Alison was the greediest girl in the whole school. She came second to a boy not in that class, but he stole from his work’s cash register nearly every day, because his paycheck wasn’t good enough for him.
Which brings us to our last sin, gluttony. It was not represented by a girl eating her feelings by devouring 3 snickers bar during just one slide of notes, nor a boy who thought it was necessary to drink one two liter sodas a day. No, it was a boy, Nick. He loved to party, he drank beer and anything else he get his hands on like water. He would drink when he shouldn’t, when he already drank too much, even after he puked. He wasn’t drinking away his feelings, he just liked to drink alcohol. He liked the taste, and what it did. He especially liked it because it got Jane to hang out with him. She enjoyed a few drinks with him and they often hung out outside of school. Nick didn’t see any reason to not drink an overly excessive amount, to him it was normal.
Every class Nick was hung over, Ray would sleep and Alison would take a few bucks from him, Alex raged (not every day like that, but he was always angry with someone or something), everyday the boys would lust Jane and she would eat it up. Marissa and Katie would envy everything about Courtney, and Courtney wouldn’t let them forget that she was ‘above them’.
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