In the heart of New York City, two best friends, Phoebe Bomgeorge and Jay Lepstick, attend Horace Green College Prep School, located in the upper east side of Manhattan, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in New York City. At Horace prep, the students remain busy. Much of their time relies on correcting and perfecting their applications, college admission essays, and résumés. When the students aren’t hitting the books, they are often found at expensive philanthropy dinners hosted by a clan of robots, or in other words, their professional mothers.
Phoebe and Jay’s mothers never quite fit into this category—resulting in them giving birth to the two “weirdest girls in school.” Phoebe’s mother is very quiet. Much of her life was spent catering to her husband, Dominick. The two work for a multi-million dollar stock firm which keeps them busy, and away from home. Neither parent has the time or energy to discipline Phoebe and her little misdemeanors, leaving Phoebe to feel neglected when not with Jay, or Jay’s family.
Phoebe tries to mask her family’s neglect by using verbal irony and bluntness. She tends to come off stuck up to others at her school, but she doesn’t seem to care. She lives with her bare necessities, one of them being best friends with Jay. Phoebe believes that quality is much better than quantity. For as much money as Phoebe and her family have, she tends to keep her outer-image on the down low. She has very light, almost transparent skin. Her dark eyes and black hair make a beautiful contrast. Lazy and apathetic, Phoebe never tends to her hair, so she often wears it in tiny pig-tails poking out on each side of her ears. When not wearing her school uniform, you can catch Phoebe in a pair of dark-washed skinny jeans and a plain t-shirt. She has one pair of pink boots that just cover her ankles, they are her signature. Her tiny feet match her small baby-like figure. But her face is mature, developed, and real. Her facial expressions are usually serious, but when Phoebe smiles, it reveals a whole new side of her that people want to know.
Phoebe trusts only one person: and that’s Jay. Jay is what people at Horace consider beautiful but she is too oblivious to notice. She often jokes with people at Horace, but is really making fun of them. Jay loves hearing Phoebe talk—she thinks she’s hilarious. Her happy-go-lucky personality compliments Phoebe’s sarcastic and blunt personality. Standing next to one another, they look beautifully awkward. She has thin light brown hair that often dangles and collects, barely reaching her lower back. Her elongated body, tall and thin, moves steadily, looking careful but proud. Her arms lay by her sides, usually gripping the sides of her jeans, exposing her thin hipbones. Hugging her upper body, she often wears funny t-shirts that read random phrases like: Supreme. Yes, like the taco. The colors coming off of her shirts reflect the golden specks on her cheeks. When the sun hits her face just right, it allows the light to come in through her eyes, making them a transparent sea-foam green. The definition of freckles on her nose matches the bright red-tint to her lips, exposing her two front teeth. All of her mouth shows when she smiles, gums and all, looking giddy and innocent. People at Horace are secretly jealous of Jay because of her happy personality.
Jay’s family is much more welcoming than Phoebe’s, but less wealthy. Jay’s mother is a born and raised New Yorker. She is a hairstylist at a low-budget salon in the inner-city. Her mother always works late hours, but when she’s home she tries to spend most of time with her youngest daughter, Liv. Jay’s father abandoned the family when she was twelve years old. Her mother caught him having an affair with his secretary, and then left the family for his mistress. He still pays a generous amount of child support, but never comes around.
Liv is too young to quite understand why her father left, so Jay tries to keep her away from the answer. Liv loves hanging around Phoebe and Jay, and comes along on many of their adventures. Despite Jay’s efforts to keep Liv away from the truth about life, Liv is already exposed to a lot of the world. She will often make references to MTV and other high-exposure TV networks. Jay tries to force her away from the band-wagon, but it gets harder as the years progress. Because of this, Phoebe and Jay are both very protective of Liv. They look at her as their “little project”.
Though Phoebe and Jay’s families are separate from the popular social group at Horace, they don’t necessarily approve of Phoebe and Jay’s behavior. The two girls are often sent to the dean’s office for various reasons. From squirting water guns at random students in the hallway, to asking teachers if they are getting drunk this weekend—Phoebe and Jay never fail to get in trouble.
Unlike most students at Horace, they don’t find this to hinder their reputation, future, or schedule. Phoebe and Jay simply do the things that they want to do, regardless if it is right or wrong. A lot of the things they do aren’t extremely harmful, but, at Horace, nothing gets by. This is something that Phoebe and Jay’s parents paid the big bucks for—hope that after high school, the two would shape up and become the young ladies that they are.
But being the rebels that they are, Phoebe and Jay’s least concern is just that. They have everything but the intention to be presentable or notable— they want just the opposite. Phoebe and Jay want to be different, whatever that is. Because their parents (mother’s especially) don’t accept their behavior, they act on their neglect, and get themselves into trouble, but to them, it’s just another thing to cross off on their large list of adventures that are waiting to conquer.
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