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.
While she walked back to class one of the class bullies and a notorious fighter gave her a dirty look. Sandra loved to bully Katie, often making fun of her clothes, and on more than one occasion made Katie cry. Katie hurried back to first period to avoid any unwanted confrontation. First and second period rolled by so quickly it seemed like minutes in between her meeting with Mr Jacobson and the assembly.
She nervously waited off stage as the principal called for the students to quiet down, then he called Katie to the stage. She received very little applause, mostly from other geeks. She looked at her notes and stuttered as she spoke "Thank you all for coming. as you all know its November and we've only been back to school a few months but we've already had almost 50 fights. That's more than one fight a day. So the school has decided to implement a new rule in hopes of stopping this." She swallowed and tried to hold back and impending panic attack. "Anyone participating in a fight on school will be forced to go to jail for one week".
The auditorium gasped, fell silent and then all booed. She felt like they were all booing at her and blaming her and some of them were. She started to tear up and ran off stage. Mr Jacobson then went on stage and without even speaking about the rule dismissed everyone.
Katie entered the hall wiping her tears around the same time everyone else was exiting the auditorium. She immediately felt everyone's glare towards her. Sandra approached her.
"you think people should go to jail just for throwing some fists?" She got right into Katie's face.
"No, I was just saying what they told me to..."
"I'm sure you were you little goody two-shoe bitch."
Katie was getting scared and upset. Then Sandra said the sentence that would change Katie's life forever. "Hit me!"