Yes, choose Nancy

The students pile into the cafeteria, some with bag lunches, some going up to the counter getting Mac and cheese and a plate of jell-o.

Nancy looks around, surveying her classmates, knowing that soon they’ll be under her influence, slipping out of their clothes, getting to know each other in ways they never expected. She, herself is wearing a t-shirt that says “the cake is a lie” as well as a plaid skirt and white knee socks.

Of course she’s at the nerd table with her pals, a couple guys Gary and Dan and the goofball twins Carrie and Courtney.

Then there’s the other nerd table, all overweight boys. They’re not really into movies and games and stuff. They’re more into doing math and keeping to themselves.

There’s the rich kid table. Erin, the mayor’s daughter, has big brown eyes, long brown hair, always the most perfect clothes. Her boyfriend Jonathan is with her, as is Nicole, the class attention seeker, with long wavy blonde hair, and runs the “official school vlog” which no one but her cares about.

There are the stoners, although the it’s not like the rich kids don’t also smoke pot. Among the students at that table are Dale who is a doofus and Mandy who is way too pretty to be with the stoners, but must really love to get high.

There are the theater brats, many of whom Nancy doesn’t know well, but also Renee who has a cute pixie cut and is shy in person but opens up on stage. Nancy knows her because everyone know she has naked pictures online, though no one is sure if she knows about it.

There’s a table of overachievers, including Stephanie whom is in almost every club and has pretty blonde, almost silver hair, and always wears ruby red lipstick. She sits with the trivia team.

At the jock table sit a bunch of kids who Nancy doesn’t know in the least.

Nor does she know the kids at the student council table. Not really. She thinks one of them is class president. But she doesn’t care. Soon he’ll be a perverted maniac like the rest.

There’s a table of slightly awkward students including Phil who is always sick, and Jenna who is quiet and skinny and will probably be in braces for the rest of her life.

Then there are a lot of tables of unspectacular students who just blend in. Everyone thinks that all the kids fall into neat categories but that’s not really true.

There’s Darryl who’s been held back a couple years which must make him over 20. But he doesn’t make trouble.

There’s Bianca, a pretty black girl with a big personality and often sits at different tables, she gets along well with everyone.

There’s Ian who falls asleep in class all the time. There’s Arosh who is the only Muslim girl in class and wears a pretty pink hijab. And Zoe with her frizzy, dark red hair, and pierced nose, who Nancy suspects is secretly naughty though she had no proof. And more and more.

Not to mention Mr. Ned the phys ed teacher who is on lunch monitor duty and Miss Molly the lanky lunch lady.

And they’ll soon be fucking wild. Nancy smiles to herself. Because they don’t know that she’s already taken one of her potions and spiked the Mac and cheese.

Though it took her a while to decide if she was going to use a potion that affected every last student in the lunch room and be very diluted or one that would only center in on a few and be more potent.