American Teen Page #4

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And I'm Megan.

And we have your Tiger sports results

from this past weekend.

On Friday, the men's varsity basketball

team fell to NorthWood.

You'll get them next time, boys.

Colin, what's the latest

with scholarships? Anything?

Parents are supposed to pay

for college.

Who said that?

- Like every parent...

- No.

...that's paying for their kids

to go to college.

Warsaw is an affluent community.

There's a lot of people

that have done very well,

and they can afford to just send their

kids to college, and God bless them.

We're comfortable, but just not wealthy.

I mean, not every kid goes to college.

Grandma? I'm going to school.

You are? Oh, my God.

Come here, child.

- Bye. See you later.

- Okay, I'm walking beside you, Hannah.

We're late.

I don't want to go.

I think I'm gonna puke.

I don't want you to get

kicked out of school.

Okay, well, I guess I'm kind of late

to class. Are you all right?

- Yeah.

- All right, I'll see you.

I hate school.

Well, it's all on your shoulders

not to even have the slightest mess-up.

- I mean, don't... Yeah.

- I'm not. I know.

You've used up your share for the year.

You can't have anything like that

happen now.

Are you all right?

I really don't care right now.

I just want to go to class.

Who can tell me

what caused the First World War?

- I know.

- Yes.

That one dude who decided

to kill Franz Ferdinand.

Hey, now, that's what

most people commonly think

starts the First World War.

It is what started it. I was there.

I'm doing really good.

I've just been dreaming

about college and California.

I really don't know what's so great

about California. I've never been there.

But if I had to imagine a cool place

to live, it would be fricking California.

They have beaches and mountains

and casinos.

Why not? Why not?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

is the fricking governor.

I fricking hate Arnold Schwarzenegger,

but anywhere

where Arnold Schwarzenegger

can become elected for governor,

that's f***ed up.

I have this.

- Hello.

- So how are things up there?

It seems like it would be really boring.

It is boring up here.

You want to sit back here?

I wish I could, but I can't.

- Bye.

- Bye.

Smoke out on the lake.

That would be awesome!

Mike is kind of the opposite of me.

He is very outgoing. All the girls like

him. He's the marching band stud.

I'm definitely envious.

I wasn't a shy kid,

but then middle school started.

In seventh and eighth grade,

I was really tiny,

so everyone made fun of me

all the time for being short.

One time, somebody knocked

a bowl of hot chili all over my lap.

I had to walk up

in front of the whole school

and ask if I could change my pants,

and Nate Salsger was like,

"Hey, everybody,

Jake has got his first period!"

So everyone laughed.

That was pretty much the point where

my life turned completely different.

Well, it shaped

who I was gonna be in high school.

I think that's what made me

be so afraid of who I am.

Do you want your sideburns trimmed?

Hey, Lorrin?

Should I get my sideburns trimmed?

I don't care.

I hope she doesn't share with you

some of the texts that I send her.

She doesn't share a lot of the texts

with me.

And we just hope that she doesn't get

caught in class with her phone.

- Huh, Lorrin?

- Mom, whatever.

What do you think?

- I liked it better long, I'm sorry.

- Why?

- I think it just looks retarded.

- Sorry, Jake.

It's all right.

- Do you want to go look?

- Sure.

Do you think people are going

to make fun of him at school

with his hair cut so short?

No, no one notices him.

Well, that's mean.

I'm serious.

- Jake, I'm sorry.

- That's all right.

Are people going to make fun of you

because your hair's cut short?

- They always make fun of me.

- Why?

- Because it's me!

- I told you.

So, how are you and Lorrin doing?

I don't know.

Why?

People have been talking in band

that Lorrin's been cheating on you.

I don't mean to change your mood,

but I heard some really

nasty rumors about you.

- Like what?

- There's like...

Only one person came up

and talked to me,

and if he's telling the truth,

then everything's different

between you and me.

What was he saying?

He's like, "Lorrin's been seeing

other guys behind your back."

You know the only thing I could ever

think about was talking to Mike.

Am I not allowed to?

There's nothing wrong

with having friends.

That's just something that...

- It's just common courtesy.

...people have to trust each other on,

I guess,

because I'm not the type of person

that would do something like that.

Yeah. I don't know what's going on.

I'm thinking that Lorrin told me a lie.

I'm really pissed at Mike. I hate that kid.

I have one ultimate fantasy.

The final battle between me and Mike.

I'd have the master sword out,

then I'd be very heroic.

And then I'd bring death and destruction

to my archnemesis.

Then I'd do the finishing move on him.

Until finally,

Lorrin was looking in my eyes

and she said, "Jacob, you're so cool."

And then we'd ride away

on a horse in the sunset.

We don't have anything in common.

We're not interested in the same things.

We never had anything to talk about,

we were just...

Everything was so boring

and scheduled and just the same.

I think just us breaking up

is probably the best thing

that's just gonna happen right now.

Okay.

You can't agree with me on everything.

But you don't even want to try

to make it work.

I just feel pretty heartbroken.

It's not that I don't care or whatever.

It's just... I just moved here, I haven't

got to know anybody, you know.

I want to experience high school,

I guess, just...

Well, don't worry about it, then.

So, you do what you want to do.

There's a lot of grease on the table now

because I put my face on it.

Did I tell you?

My SAT score went up 70 points.

And then, of course, when I call home

to tell my dad, he goes,

"Yeah, it would have just been better

"if you could've gone up

like 100 more points."

Gosh.

- Ladies.

- Hey, Dad.

That's a nice outfit. I like those colors.

I think he's just wearing it

to brainwash me more.

Yeah, do I need to do that?

I bet I don't.

I just want to see where everyone's

going to end up for college.

I hate talking about Notre Dame.

Everything's going to be

so much better...

Once we know.

- Yes.

- Yeah.

What?

Megan, they just got

the Prom Committee

to vote for that jungle theme.

The tackiest theme

I've ever heard of in my entire life.

Yeah, they're talking about

getting stuffed animals

and hanging vines on the walls

and all kinds of sh*t.

It's awful.

Turn on some music. I'm pissed as hell.

There's a fight about prom theme.

I wanted to make it Oriental, with

little cherry-blossom trees all over.

And then the junior class

president, Ben,

decided to pool his friends together

and have them vote for

"Welcome to the Jungle."

It's very victimizing just to be

backstabbed at the last minute.

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