High School is Killing Her (metaphorically)

Hi this is NOT DDLC au, this is ANOTHER au where Sage is in a highschool. This is modern/human au where Sage is a normal human who has actual disorders instead of ghost disorders. She's exactly as dramatic about highschool problems as she is about ghost problems tho.

WIP! SO VERY WIP! but i must go to bed. DONT READ IT YET.

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I'm dead

 Sage as a "ghost". Maximum drama for this first part. Honestly, should be fitting for normal canon.

The blood is all but draining from my head

 blood dripping from her eyes

The nightmare started there, but now has spread

 bullet wounds yaay

My pulse is certainly droppin'

 Sage can be a little silly even when she's bleeding out

And my life is hangin' on by a thread

 Close her eyes and camera moves to show...

I'm scared

 Grey's turn! She's also dead and ghosty

Someone comes for me, I'm unprepared

 Looking over her shoulder, so nervous

The wait has got me sweatin'

 Both of them, parallel

I can't cut through all the tension

 Camera closer in, yknow to convey tension or whatever

It's hell on Earth, you know

 Yellow, so tired

I'm tweetin' all about it

 Blue XP

I take it blow by blow

 Red, powering through

But I'd never scream or shout it

 All of em, shots cut together, Sage in the center goin ><

Passing period is over, find your seats

 Hard cut to The Real World, Sage alive and fine in high school classroom

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High school is killin' me

It's got me all out of rhythm and my melody

It's not cool, it's a fallacy

It's a cruel and unusual brutality

And I can survive it for only so long

High school is killin' me

I'm so fuckin' dead

 chorus set up... lots to explain here ill get back to it

Alright, class, pop quiz! I hope you've been hittin' thе books... Miss [Lauter]!

Shit.

 first time Sage talks for reals. local delinquent that she is. bad at school.

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I was up all late last night and I couldn't fuckin' study

(Didn't want to anyway!)

 Backup vocals are The Sages chipping in. This one's very Blue

I was deep in a Twitter fight about a problеmatic puppy

(Problematic pooch)

 lol red is a problematic dog

I had heart palpitations

Tryna convert crypto to lunch money

 Dramatically laying across her desk. She would have to deal with crypto bullshit

There's nowhere to turn

For the class of twenty-twenty-wurn

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High school is killin' me

It's got me all out of rhythm and my melody

(My melody, my melody)

A cesspool, faux democracy

It's one hell of a normal abnormality

(Agh, agh, agh!)

 the sages fightinggg

And I can survive it for only so long

(Only so long)

High school is killin' me

I'm so fuckin'–

 chorus shenanigans interrupted by Sage *gasp* talking to someone??

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Hey! Hey, geek.

 Me?

Your name's Jay, right?

 Yeah?

Hi, Jay. [We've been in classes together for a long time, haven't we?]

(I'm so fuckin' dead)

 some of The Sages do Not approve of this activity

 [Ever since the first grade]

And I'm just realizing, I've never introduced myself!

I'm Sage.

(I'm so fuckin' dead)

 they're very distracting

 [—Lauter], the mayor's daughter, I know.

Yeah, but my friends [call me Sage]. We're friends, aren't we, Jay?

(I'm so fuckin' dead)

 they are not (yet)

 I don't know, are we?

Oh, I wouldn't advertise it to the whole school or anything, but, uh–

 I think the original implication of this line is that it would hurt Steph's reputation, but to be clear, Jay's reputation is the one at stake in this exchange. He should not be associating with Sage.

(High school)

 Yellow is pointing that ^ stuff up there out.

–but there's an unspoken bond between us! We're classmates, comrades, we're Nighthawks!

We don't leave anyone behind

 I got left behind this morning, The bus driver's a fuckin' asshole

Yeah! We succeed together and we fail together

And I won't mince words, I'm gonna fail this test, Jay

Unless you help me cheat

 Cheat?!

(I'm so fuckin' dead)

 oh BIG reactions to this plan from the sages

(Eight o'clock bell ring, place my head on my desk)

 internal dialogue

Come on, just finish your exam, pass it to me and I'll put my name on it

(Twelve o'clock, Girl Scout, can I just get my rest?)

 internal dialogue

I'll give you mine, you get to take the test all over again

Doesn't that sound fun?

(Three o'clock countdown, Everyday lockdown, classroom arrest)

(Is God the one giving the test?)

 internal dialogue

 Well, yeah. But won't we get in trouble?

Please, Jay... Don't you wanna help me out?

 Oh, alright

  Cheaters!

 ethan saw this going down and is putting a stop to it. asl for cheat if you're interested, would probably use that if i actually drew this

Oh god. Butt out, Ethan!

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Could keep going, but I'm out of specific ideas, so that's plenty

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