by Shanan King

Created on: January 24, 2012

Kathleen has decided to send her daughter to a school that requires their students to wear a uniform. She hopes Nancy won’t take it too hard, the uniform thing, not the changing schools thing. At least they have options at this school in regards to their dress code.  She already went ahead and ordered the uniforms, hoping Nancy will approve of her choosing the items in all of the colors offered. Her fussy child can then choose what she wants to wear even though it is a uniform.

Nancy’s first five minutes at Cobalt Academy were the absolute worst of her entire school career. Her uniform was completely wrong! The people who were behind this school’s uniform policy were crazy to offer choices in color. These options only created groups! Isn’t the point of uniforms to be uniform?

Right away the girl wearing the white polo and red knee-highs, paired with the red plaid skirt and the deep blue cardigan was out of place. This brunette with a black ribbon in her hair totally looked the part of the “new kid”. Nancy felt every eye in the great hall on her.

“What?” she fired.

Giggles were all that came in reply as everybody turned their backs and continued on their way to wherever the blues, the blacks, the reds, and the whatever’s went. Everybody that is, except for the tall boy at the top of the stairs, standing behind the protective railing, the one who just wouldn’t stop staring at her. How much more rude can these people get she thought.

“What?” she fired again.

The boy stepped forward onto the top step, and Nancy saw that he was wearing red and blue and white and black as well. Interesting, not in a color-coordinated group she thought. As he descended the stairs, she noticed his eyes and hair. Nancy, flustered by the intensity of the stare belonging to the boy who is now standing right in front of her, is speechless.

“I love the way the school uniform looks on you.” said the nameless boy.

Kathleen, worrying about her daughter’s first day, will soon know that Nancy just enjoyed the absolute best day of her entire school career despite wearing the dreaded school uniform.

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