She adores me

Chapter 2: Detention with the Edgar

I didn't expect to back to school so quickly but for once, the state funding and parent taxes were actually used for something. The fire hadn't gotten too far but was enough to blow two canisters of propane from the chemistry lab, which is what were told caused such heavy smoke. In the end, it didn't matter if the fire blew someone's entire head off, we were still forced to go to school the following Tuesday after the school was examined for safety on Monday.

I had very little money, but enough to purchase a small room from a burnt out, cockroach infested hotel that was only a mile from school. If I ran, I could make it in 8 minutes but there was no running with this damned wrap around my chest. It was painful but even worse if I removed the tight bandages. It didn't matter what the world threw at me because I still walked the halls of my school in my maroon lace dress and leather jacket on Tuesday, watching as everyone stare at me.

ASN was a very popular app in our school, used to track all the gossip in our school. It's a collaborative app from the school news paper club and the computer geeks. It gives them all some status so i supposed it was important to them. All over the app, Chester and I were plastered. Are they dating? Did Chester become soft hearted? Daughter of delinquent released after her fathers death? Who is out for Nyx Ivison? All head lines I expected but there was only one that caught me off guard when I shut my locker. "Did you know why Nyx's father was in jail? Well let me tell you, she's no saint.."

My throat knotted, reading the damned thing that was posted only thirty minutes before first block. Everything i ever kept a secret was somehow conveniently posted for the whole school, for the whole internet to see. It mentioned everything, my father's manic attack on my mother, their later divorce, his arrest and life sentence after a second attack and attempted kidnapping of me, how all i could do is watch my mother wither away, her death, my father's death and the fact that well, I was practically sleeping on the streets in between paychecks of my part time job.

Neither how or who lingered, only why? There was a whole student body that was caught up in worse things and were also heavily affected by the fire yet I was the target of today's gossip. I didn't realized just how famous I was until the head bitch approached me. Arianna Wellman, the bitchiest and richest girl known to the school. Her blond hair matched mine as she swayed, her puppy wannabes following her.

She turned away from me and pointed towards me as if I didn't hear her. "And here at this exhibit we have the biggest suicide watch, a girl that no one knew until Chester pitied the poor waste of space. See here children, this is why we don't do charity," she gushed.

I looked around the halls, maybe hoping that no one was watching her scene but was I wrong. The eyes hadn't left me so when Arianna joined the scene it only peaked everyone's interest. I even caught the eyes of Asher Edgar and Werner Edgar as they took across from each other, whispering something under their breaths.

Now Arianna spun towards me, smiling as if she hadn't just made a fool of me in front of the whole school. I took a deep inhale as my knees begun to shake, any other time I would have just shrunk but I was tired of mythic bitches like Ari. "Can I help you or are you just going to sit here and desperately breath in my carbon dioxide?" I asked.

That was the thing, people like her didn't know nothing more than economics because of how much money they spend on damned things like shoes. Laughs crackled around the hallway as anyone who took basic biology understood the comment. Even the freshmen had became more than intrigued in the showdown.

"I don't remember peasants like you talking back," she quickly shot back as her eyes drifted around the halls, hoping for some respond that matched mine.

I smirked, I waited for the day that she ever tested me because I was over it long before it ever happened. "Really? Because I don't remember penny like two faced bitches with a overly strong scent of fish being smart enough to give a museum tour. I guess you cheated on your boyfriend and slept with another HR to get that job too right?"