I failed. I hadn't become a heel. I had become the greatest wrestling character of all: the anti-authority figure. Overnight, I became a surrogate for every single faction in the school that wasn't royalty. The tweets meant to stop me only fueled the fire.
I had done it. Social media blew up, the halls were ablaze with nothing but talk about me, and everyone wanted to be my next challenger. I had gotten all the attention I wanted. Unfortunately, I also attracted the attention I didn't want.
My parents had never been called from the school before. So I had a nice little talk with them about what had been going on after my very first one. Mind you, my folks aren’t exactly the most “involved” parents. It’s like they were reading from a script about how to be terrible parents.
MOM
Faye Shonda Grimes, get in here right now!
DAD
The school called. They said you 'turned heel?'
MOM
No daughter of mine is a dirty rule-breaker!
DAD
Did any stupid friends put you up to this?
MOM
You know who dresses like that? Sluts.
DAD
Who let her leave the house like that? Was that you?
MOM
Don't start, Dale.
Ugh. Parents, amirite?
FAYE GRIMM
Mom, Dad, I'm only following the greats. Every single one of them fought against the authority. Stone Cold, Sting, Daniel Bryan, Shawn Michaels - all of them!
MOM
What, you think just because a bunch of greased-up men in underwear do something it’s okay for you to do it?
DAD
What did I tell you about idolizing selfish white men? Huh?
MOM
She's your daughter, you know.
DAD
Oh now she's my daughter.
FAYE GRIMM
Stop! Please! All you guys do is fight! This is who I really am because I'm angry all the time. I'm angry at school, I'm angry at home, and I'm angry in the ring.
MOM
Sweetheart, we're sorry. We're working on it.
DAD
And you'd better work on this. Whatever this is.
Ugh. Back to the regularly scheduled program, please.
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