The characters are all seniors in high school meaning 18.
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The sign read "Mandatory Assembly All Students 3rd Period" and underneath it said bold letters "Subject: Fighting on school property". Katie read it as she walked into school and was nervous whether this would require her participation. Katie, Short for Katelyn, was class president of the senior class and was often needed for this sort of function. Katie hated having to be in front of everyone especially when she was forced to give a speech or pretend to support a cause or function she didn't care about at all. She only ran for president because her parents forced her to, and she only won because no one else ran.
Katie was a very modest girl who hated the idea of people looking at her and always wore clothing representative of her very old fashioned upbringing. Katie always covered everywhere but her hands and her head. She stood about 5'2", she was very skinny, very pale, and had short brunette hair. She'd never believe it and nobody really acknowledged it, but she was pretty cute. She was much too concerned with her paleness and small boobs to think that was possible, and her shyness caused most of the other people at the school to see her as a geek.
The bell rang and she took off for homeroom. Sitting in her seat during the morning announcements she groaned when she heard: "Katelyn Smith please come to the principal's office." She took the hall pass from her teacher and left for the main office hoping it would have nothing to do with the assembly.
The principal, Mr. Jacobson, welcomed Katie into his office. "Miss Smith, thank you for coming. I bet you're wondering why I called you here. I need you for today's assembly."
Katie groaned in her mind nervously knowing she'd probably have to address the school.
Mr. Jacobson continued, "As you know, fighting between both the young men and women in our school is at an all time high. This is a very serious problem and for education's sake it must be stopped."
"How do you expect me to stop it, Mr. Jacobson?" Katie didn't understand how she could be useful where a member of the staff seemed just fine.
"I don't, Miss Smith, I expect our new policy to do that, but our new policy would look a lot better if it had student backing and was introduced by a student. You were the obvious choice."
Katie swallowed and said "Okay... What is the new policy?"
"Well Katie, I've talked it over with the police chief, the district attorney, and the school board and it was agreed that any person found responsible for starting a fight on school property would have to serve a week in jail, and depending on the circumstances the other participant would serve from one day to the full week as well."
Katie was shocked. ".But Mr. Jacobson, don't you think that's extreme?"
"Katie of course it is, but we're hoping with such a strong deterrent we'd never have to actually use it and with everyone's favorite class president delivering the news at the assembly I'm sure the students will understand its time to buckle down."
With that pronouncement Katie was dismissed and she went to her next class anxiously. Katie couldn't believe she was being forced to essentially tell the whole school if they get in a fight they're going to jail. She hated fights and all violence, but she thought detention was more than enough of a punishment.
