Physics class, room 103 on the second floor, taught by Mr Shepard. The seven deadly sins ran rampant in there. I sit in class day in and day out, listening and watching as my classmates commit these hanus sins. There is pride, envy, lust, wrath, sloth, greed, and gluttony. It makes sense that a class about science would contain so much sin.
Courtney's 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." All of this would be perfectly fine, no judgement passed, but she likes to talk and blatantly brag about it. 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! Well actually I can, Mr, Shepard always tells me that I'm like, his best student yet.” She gloated to her two girlfriends. They giggled in reply. Obvious envy in their eyes.
Marissa stared at her test and said “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, Victoria's Secret Yoga Pants, and a plain blue shirt. The other, Katie, was wearing washed out jeans and an Arizona hoodie. Washed out jeans have been out of style for a long time now. While Courtney was wearing a designer sweater-dress with Ugg brand leather, knee-high boots. She had a large Louis Vitton 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.”
“Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I actually got a one hundred on this test! Well actually I can, Mr, Shepard always tells me that I'm like, his best student yet.” She gloated to her two girlfriends. They giggled in reply. Obvious envy in their eyes.
Marissa stared at her test and said “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, Victoria's Secret Yoga Pants, and a plain blue shirt. The other, Katie, was wearing washed out jeans and an Arizona hoodie. Washed out jeans have been out of style for a long time now. While Courtney was wearing a designer sweater-dress with Ugg brand leather, knee-high boots. She had a large Louis Vitton 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.”
Jane sat in a large group of boys. She wore a very low cut shirt and tight jeans, her chocolate brown hair was in loose 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.
"Oh, uh, yeah. Here." Kyle barely forced out.
Jane 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, which was dumb since they were regular dark blue jeans.
His partner Ryan chimed in with “You always look nice, I bet Marissa wishes she got the attention you do.” Mr Shepard threw a tennis ball at Ryan to get him to sit back down.
"Do I have your attention now Mr. Ryan?"
"Centripital force, love it" he shouted across the room.
"Great, now keep your mouth closed
"Oh, uh, yeah. Here." Kyle barely forced out.
Jane 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, which was dumb since they were regular dark blue jeans.
His partner Ryan chimed in with “You always look nice, I bet Marissa wishes she got the attention you do.” Mr Shepard threw a tennis ball at Ryan to get him to sit back down.
"Do I have your attention now Mr. Ryan?"
"Centripital force, love it" he shouted across the room.
"Great, now keep your mouth closed
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.
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 multiple two liter sodas a day. No, it was a boy, Nick. He loved to party, he drank beer and anything else he got his hands on like water. He would drink when he should not, when he already drank too much, even after he puked. He was not 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 did not see any reason to not drink an overly excessive amount, to him it was normal.
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 multiple two liter sodas a day. No, it was a boy, Nick. He loved to party, he drank beer and anything else he got his hands on like water. He would drink when he should not, when he already drank too much, even after he puked. He was not 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 did not 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, everyday the boys would lust Jane and she would eat it up. Marissa and Katie would envy everything about Courtney, and Courtney would not let them forget that she was ‘above them’. And every day I sit here with irrational anger over it all. Sinners.
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