Curtain Call
“This is going to be so much fun, Toni,” Martha says distractedly, as she scrawls down her own name. “And this means that I can properly introduce you and Shelby at auditions! You guys can now officially become friends!”
Across the cafeteria, Toni accidentally makes eye contact with Shelby, sitting at a table surrounded by other glamorous shiny girls in expensive clothes with sleek ponytails, Andrew Johnson next to her with an arm slung around her shoulders. Shelby’s expression is inscrutable, green eyes piercing, and Toni uncharacteristically is the first to break eye contact.
Yeah, right, she thinks. Friends.
What a fucking joke.
or, after an accident that results in her suspension from the basketball team, Toni’s social worker encourages her to join the all-girls school production of 'Romeo and Juliet'. There, she meets Shelby.