Okay, so I’m a Taft student. And Taft’s rival is Hotchkiss, and before Hotchkiss day I was really indifferent towards the school. I thought of it as a friendly rivalry and was actually excited to watch the games. Hotchkiss Day was taking place at Hotchkiss this year, and as soon as we got off the bus, a girl yelled “F— Taft!” and threw the middle finger up at us. So, me being a freshmen, I was obviously rattled. My friends and I then proceeded to walk down a steep hill to go watch the field hockey game, when a group of senior Hotchkiss girls (one of them was the girl that swore at us) came up behind my friends and I and took one of my friend’s noisemakers out of her hands and waved it in her face. This was the same girl that swore at us.
We stared blankly at her.
One of her friends had the decency to tell her to give it back to us, and she did. I didn’t see the point of taking it in the first place. About an hour later, my friend and I went inside to use the bathroom and the same girl came in a few minutes after us. She just stood there in the bathroom before leaving and coming back with a boy TO BRING INSIDE THE BATHROOM. I guess my friend and I looked pretty confused, because he said “Just coming in to get water.” (I don’t know why he would exactly need water from a bathroom, but…) As we were leaving, I heard the girl yell quite loudly, “Ew, why are you wearing red gloves? We hate Taft, right?”
Then we went to the volleyball courts because we were already inside, and the varsity volleyball game wouldn’t start for another twenty minutes. So, we watched them practice and warm up. As we were watching, a Hotchkiss boy that passes us yells into his megaphone “Get the f— out to us.” We don’t do anything. Soon, a bunch of Hotchkiss kids were on the same side that we were. It was only three of us, and all of a sudden this senior guy comes up to us. I didn’t even hear him until my friend tells me that the guy asked us, in his exact words “to f—ing move”. Mind you, we were there before any Hotchkiss kids were there and nowhere does it say “Hotchkiss fan section” or “Taft fan section”. He continues to argue with two freshman girls as a SENIOR, when there are plenty other spots available. Literally. My friend was ready to fight him, a guy that was over six foot and pretty buff, so I told her we should just leave. We find our friends on the other side and he and his friends did the same thing to them too.
After that, we went to the soccer game where the same girl that swore at us, took my friend’s noisemaker, and brought the guy into the bathroom, shoved past me and laughed. At this point I’m pretty sure she’s stalking us. On our way to the field, a couple of Hotchkiss boys tell us, “Don’t bother going. You’re gonna lose, as you guys always do.”
I don’t get what the point of any of these comments were. It’s not that serious…?