Chapters I, II, and III.
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI - Anatomy of a Rally.On Pep-Rally Fridays each of the seven class periods was shortened by seven and a half minutes. Pep Rallies were held at the end of the day in the school auditorium.
Attendance was required. Seventh period class marched over together but seating was organized by year. Seniors sat together in the middle section of bleachers, flanked by Sophomores and Juniors.
Senior class president, Chaz, would start the proceedings with a few cheers and announcements. These were not generally well received however. Chaz was well known but not well respected or liked. Chaz was popular in a Toilet Paper-the-Yard-Every-Weekend sort of way but not in a good way.
While Chaz talked the respective year classes would verbally challenge each other and compete. Call it pep or class pride, it usually went like this:
"SENIORS!", "SENIORS!", "SENIORS!".....
"JUNIORS!", "JUNIORS!", "JUNIORS!"....
After Chaz would come the football team or selected members thereof. They would act rowdy and a few of them would speak and disparage this week's football opponent. The other students would usually join in but it was probably due more to a desire to openly scream obscenities than to any actual disdain for the other team or
school.
Finally, came the skits or humorous portion of the pep rally. These weren't actual "skits" but usually involved football players and cheerleaders pitted against each other in some sort of relay race competition. Be it a sack or three-legged race or carry-an-egg-on-a-spoon-in-your-mouth type race.
You get the idea.
Even Johnny liked pep rallies. Mainly because he was not singled out or noticed. At pep rallies he was a student, not "Shit Boy" or "Produce Pants". For forty five blissful minutes he would bask in the anonymity of the junior section. So it had been at this particular pep rally...until skit time.
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