American Teen

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August 24th, 8:
00 a.m.,

Warsaw, Indiana.

The first day of senior year.

Warsaw is your typical

Midwestern town,

mostly white, mostly Christian,

red state all the way,

middle-class,

but some very wealthy families

and far-from-wealthy families, like mine.

Good morning, staff and students,

we're going to have a wonderful day

here at WCHS.

Our Government teacher, Mr. Grose,

taught us that America is a meritocracy.

But here, it's a total caste system.

At the top is

the most popular group of girls,

led by queen bee Megan Krizmanich.

And then there are the jocks, who in

our school are the basketball players.

Colin Clemens is the star of the team,

which means he's second

only to Jesus in Warsaw.

At the opposite end of the spectrum

is Jake Tusing,

your quintessential

marching-band nerd.

Then there's

my best friend Clarke and me.

I guess you could say

we're the in-betweens.

This is all we've known

since we were little kids,

and in nine months, it'll all be over.

In the meantime, all we have to do is,

you know, figure out who we really are

and where we're headed in life.

Holy sh*t!

It's gonna be a good year.

Whatever, dude, it's gonna suck.

It is our senior year, though.

No way we won't own the school.

I'll own the school.

I've always owned the school.

Megan Krizmanich, probably

the biggest drama queen in Warsaw.

Smart, popular, attractive.

The richest family.

- Powerful.

- Like a princess.

She's never talked to me,

she's never looked at me.

All through high school

I've heard she is the biggest b*tch.

Maybe I am, but I do what I want to do.

I'm not here to impress,

I'm here to be me.

I'm student council vice-president,

I ran track. I did volleyball, golf.

I'm in charge of the service committee.

I was in charge of prom last year.

I mean, every day,

I'm after school, doing something.

Megan's future plans include

attending Notre Dame University

and studying medicine.

Let's hear it for

our homecoming royalty!

Everybody around me thinks

that my life is perfect.

But there is just

so much pressure on me this year.

All of my brothers and sisters

and my dad all attended Notre Dame,

which is unbelievably hard to get into.

Usually they only accept

the valedictorian,

but my dad wants me to get in.

If I don't get in, he'll be heartbroken.

I have to behave.

I can't get in trouble this year.

Megan, you're not gonna

get in trouble this year.

You always get out of things.

Colin's a great kid.

He's one of the funniest people I know.

- Shaun, you look like Magic Johnson.

- That's what my mom says.

Like today, not when he was thin

and good-Iooking.

He's very friendly.

Walk with me.

And he's really a sweetheart.

A lot of girls think he's just totally hot

and they have crushes on him.

His lifestyle is a mystery to me.

This is Colin Clemens

with a Tiger sports reminder.

On Friday, the boys' varsity

basketball team will be taking on

the Tippe Valley Vikings

to kick off the start of the year,

so get out there and support our Tigers.

That's all the news we have

for you today, so

- have a great day, Tigers.

- Have a great day, Tigers.

- Let's go, Tigers!

- Let's go, Tigers!

Around here,

high-school basketball is a big deal.

Warsaw's ridiculous about it.

I mean, if we don't do well this season,

the community's going to go nuts.

Come on now. One, two, three.

- Break!

- Break!

Ladies and gentlemen,

the Warsaw Tigers.

A lot more eyes will be on me this year,

because I'm the go-to guy,

the first scoring option now.

And the stakes are really high for me,

because I'm relying on this season

to get a college scholarship

for basketball. I can't pay for it, and...

It's 47 all, and Clemens

can still be the hero of this game.

What a moment. You dream about

these things in your backyard.

Clemens shoots it. Good.

Yeah, we needed that one.

That was big.

Warsaw leads 48-47, 1.4 seconds left.

Clemens with one more.

The second one by Clemens is rolling...

Good. He got them both.

They throw it long.

Taylor will chuck it at the buzzer.

Brimming, no!

The Warsaw Tigers have done it!

My dream is to play

in the NCAA Division I,

like Purdue and IU

and all those schools.

And a toast to 6'4" senior,

Colin Clemens.

Going to the Final Four.

Hitting a three for the win.

Then after that, to try out

with the Pacers, Indiana Pacers.

Making it that far would be incredible.

Good afternoon, sports fans, I'm Brian.

And I'm Phil, and this is the best darn

sports show at the Tiger nation.

On Friday, the boys' basketball team

took on Elkhart Memorial and won.

Wow, we rock!

Everyone has their own cliques,

and I just don't really belong

to any particular clique.

The only people I hang out with

are in band, the other geeks.

I guess that is what I am.

I guess my clique is the band.

I spend a lot of my time

playing video games.

I love The Legend of Zelda.

I don't have many friends,

so it's always been really important

to me to have a girlfriend.

To be honest,

I wish life were more like video games,

because then I'd always get the girl.

My idea would be someone

I can really connect with,

someone I can talk to.

Somebody who cares about me

for who I am.

If I have a girl,

I don't feel like I'm such a nobody.

I do love the ladies,

but the ladies do not love me.

I don't know what it is about me.

Maybe it's the monotone

or the insane collections of video game

characters and the band, and

all the stuff that makes me

a supergeek.

But I don't know. It might be my face,

or the way I carry myself.

I don't know what it is,

but they avoid me at all costs.

But I am not going

to let anything stop me.

I am motivated.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Do you want to do anything

anytime soon?

Probably in, like, two weeks.

- Two weeks?

- Yeah, I'm grounded till the 23rd.

Well, three weeks from now

on Saturday,

- you wanna go see a movie?

- We'll talk about it Monday.

- Sounds good. See you.

- Bye.

- Cedric, good news. It worked.

- No, it didn't.

- Three weeks from Saturday.

- Three weeks from Saturday?

She's like, "Yeah, we'll talk

more about it on Monday."

So I was like, "Okay."

You're gay!

Yeah.

No horseplay in the hallway, please.

Thank you.

- Someone else will get hurt.

- Oh, sorry.

I'm escorting her to class.

She's a troublemaker.

You can't hit me.

Stop it. Go to class.

Hannah's not in the popular crowd.

Yes! Turn it up, man, turn it up!

She's definitely a rebel.

Not goth or emo or punk. Alternative.

- Artistic.

- Really strange.

No, my parents are upstairs. All right.

She's got heart.

Shoot!

- I don't understand what's going on.

- No, I don't, either.

It's like they're ants or bees,

they're part of a hive.

It's like they hear the signal

and they just do it, man.

- Everybody, clap your hands.

- Everybody, clap your hands.

I'm a little different from

a lot of people around here.

Warsaw is such a conservative town,

and I'm so not conservative.

I don't fit in. I hate it.

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