Over the past decade, there has been a period of long and bitter hostility between Chamblee’s journalism and yearbook classes. It all began back in 2015 when a member of the yearbook staff “accidentally” replaced the Glue & Bold’s editor-in-chief Ricky “Rick” Riorrdann’s yearbook photo with one of hit singer and songwriter Rick Astley. In response, Riorrdann had stolen all of the “Percy Jackson” books from the yearbook classroom and replaced them with “Harry Potter” books. Thus began a feud that would last a lifetime.

“I mean, it was pretty uncool of that yearbook kid to mess with Ricky’s photo like that. Come to think of it, the yearbook is always messing up people’s photos and names and stuff. They couldn’t even spell my last name correctly,” said current Glue & Bold editor Tommy Rutenschientsistheishessenliygirg (‘22). 

Members of the yearbook staff echoed these sentiments, some unwilling to even comment.

“I’m not going to say anything because I don’t want to be interviewed by you guys,” said yearbook editor Noh Commant (‘22). “Yeah, I know I’m talking right now, but this doesn’t count. You’re not recording this, right?” 

However, the feud may have just run its course as it seems that certain members of the rivaling classes are growing closer… maybe even a little too close. 

“I was snapping some pictures of the graffiti on the walls when I saw Lucille from our newspaper staff sneaking out to the sky bridge with Lucas from yearbook,” said Glue & Bold reporter Nosy Norman (‘24). “They looked real sketchy, like they were going to trade quotes, or worse, get along.”

The two perpetrators under suspicion are often seen frolicking in the hallways after hours, hoping to be swept by administrators for some much-needed alone time.

“I walked past one of those trolleys in the hall the other day and I swear I heard Lucille and Lucas from one of the abnormally large trash bags,” said Glue & Bold editor-in-chief Birianna Slanck (‘22). “It might have just been me though because I only had two cups of coffee that morning instead of the usual five.”

As of yesterday, Glue & Bold reporter Lucille Evans (‘23) and yearbook staff member Lucas Tremblay (‘23) have changed their relationship status on FaceGram from “just friends” to “in a relationship,” confirming everyone’s suspicions.

“Yes, it’s true that Lucas and I are dating,” said Evans when asked about the status of her relationship. “I accidentally responded to one of those polls the yearbook puts out on their FaceGram and Lucas ended up replying back to me, so that’s how we met. We’ve actually been going strong for two weeks now, but we didn’t want to say anything because of the rivalry.”

The two lovebirds hope to utilize their relationship to break up the feud and instill peace between both classes.

“After Nosy spotted us for the third time this week, we realized that we could use our relationship for good,” said Evans. “We could stop all the fighting, arguing, and shredding of paper. We could put an end to this rivalry, once and for all.”

Tremblay agrees that the rivalry has gone on for too long and must be stopped for the sake of everyone involved.

“If you think about it, a yearbook is just a newspaper with a front and back cover and more pictures,” said Tremblay. “So, essentially, we’re all the same, all a family. And families don’t threaten to hack into each other’s websites or sabotage each other’s cameras. Families get along and so that’s what we’re going to do, eventually.”

Evans and Tremblay are still finalizing the details of their plan to reunite the two rivals, but they are certain that it will be a successful operation.

“We’re already in the process of trying to set Birianna up with Nat Li from yearbook so she’ll be more open to ending the feud. But if that doesn’t work, then we’ll probably just lock everyone from yearbook and journalism up in a room and have them work it out with an old-fashioned kickball game,” said Evans.

For now, all they can do is hope that their efforts and the power of love will be enough to help them achieve their goal.

“All is fair in love and war and right now, there’s just a little bit more war than love, but we can fix that. We’ll just have to be a little unfair,” said Tremblay.