Post by HSH on May 5, 2007 6:42:50 GMT -6
when it all goes to hell will you be able to tell?
Some might say that High School is the best time of a teenager’s life. Well those people have obviously never actually been to a proper High School or they wouldn’t be saying that. Oakland Prep is a prime example of money gone wild. The school charges extortionate fees and gets grades to match however there’s more to a school than just exam results and we all know that.
I'm holding out and I'm holding on
To every letter and every song.
I pulled myself out of the day we ever had to meet.
Are you through with me?
Millie Colbert was a student like any other, that was until in the middle of the night a scream ripped through the dormitories of Oakland. By the time the staff got there she was dead. A stab wound straight to the heart, a simple note sitting next to the glistening blade. “She’s better of without it.” The staff who read it came to the conclusion that the murderer had meant her heart, they brushed the incident away as an isolated event, not wanting to alarm the other parents. The students were told that Millie had been homesick for a long time and so had taken her own life. For many years the school went back to peace until another young student met the same fate, a boy this time by the name of Henry. The note was identical as was the blow to the heart. Someone had it in for the students of Oakland but who? The staff knew they needed to stage another cover-up but this one would be harder. They did the only thing they knew how. The tossed the garbage into the nearby mountains and forgot about it.
I'm all ears and I'm all scars
To hear you tell me "Boy's like you, you try too hard
To look not quite as desperate". I'm hanging on.
But I still know the way to make your makeup run.
There are many sides to Oakland. The clean floors and glistening surfaces verses the drug and drink fuelled parties that take place on and off campus. The kids here have money to blow or friends that do anyway. Everyone wants to have a good time when they’re growing up but how far are he or she willing to go to get it? Many kids have died of overdoses and the school brushes it under the carpet, just like they did for Millie and Henry in an attempt to keep up their ‘perfect’ image that they have worked so hard on. Corruption and cover-ups have always been a big thing at Oakland so watch out or you could be the next body left in the mountains.
And when it all goes to hell,
Will you be able to tell
Me you're sorry with a straight face
Relationships and splintering friendships are the normality at Oakland Prep. Cat fights, punch-ups and throwing furniture is nothing new to anyone at this school as the kids within it’s walls struggle through puberty with no one but their friends and a few on-edge teachers to lean on. Hearts are broken, bones are shattered and lives are ruined but still Oakland hides behind its smiles and spotless staff. Oakland would seem like heaven to many people but for the kids inside it’s more like hell. Their very own...
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