High School's a Lie

Based on all of the movies and TV shows I've been watching, high school is filled with drama, various pregnancies, alcohol, and sex.  So... how come I'm not living up that lie?

from the movie "Mean Girls"

I go to school at Saipan International School.  The entire Junior class is made up of 21 kids: 10 girls, 11 boys.  12 full-blooded Asians, a variety pack of random ethnicities, and a couple of white kids.  Half of us are on the honors list.  We suspect 2 out of 21 of our classmates aren't virgins.  Hey, we're different.



So why is everyone doing the same old story where the brunette heroine encounters a blonde-haired baddie that's got the hottest guy in school wrapped around her finger, and then through some "accidental" circumstances, the heroine somehow defeats the blondie,  lands the hot guy, and everything is suddenly fixed (besides the one or two pregnant girls encountered on the way)?  I think it's because no one wants to hear about us grody virgins.  Viewers don't pay to watch studious kids on their way to college; they want some drop-out kid with a bastard child living at girlfriend's house.  Thanks Hollywood.  Now my parents think I'm retarded.

from the series
"The Secret Life of the American Teenager"

I've decided high school life is a lie made up by those fat (horny) cats sitting in their big leather chairs, looking for some meaningless life to twist and make interesting.  In context: high schoolers.  My life is actually pretty boring.  It would be an understatement to call it "routine".  While the 20-somethings in Hollywood play teenager, the real ones spending their weekends on Facebook, gossiping about not-so-hot boys, and doing homework.

That was all just a long, beat-around-the-bush way of saying that Hollywood is no place to be if you're an actual person.  I know there are actually some people out there that actually live out Hollywood's lie.  But the rest of us are just ugly and normal.  The background characters you see in the hallways in all of those movies.

So let's see it Hollywood.  I'll give you a hundred bucks to write an interesting story about high schoolers like me: the boring and educated type.  Hell, I'll even buy the DVD for once.  Try me.