Excalibur Rising

Queen Bees and a little bit of magic.

 

Chapter 5

By lunchtime, Colton had passed around the message to the rest of his friends and they had all been extra careful to have at least one other person with them at all times. Before they reached outside however, Xandria realised she had left her school bag in the classroom. She probably wouldn't have noticed if Colton didn't mention it. She sighed and turned to go back but he put a stilling hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry I'll get it," he assured her before retreating down the hall leaving her alone to silence, the only sounds coming from the distant murmurs of students in the playground.

The door a few metres away creaked open and Xandria tensed up as she waited. Slowly heels clicked along the floor towards her before she was overwhelmed by the stench of sickly sweet perfume, a perfume that Xandria recognised from her classes. She breathed a sigh of relief because though the girl was giving her headache from being in the same room as her, Xandria could sense that she wasn't a minion of evil, well not one for the source of all evil. No this extremely repugnant girl was just what you would call a class A Queen Bee, one who didn't know the meaning of manners and thought the world revolved around her.

"New girl," The tall beautiful girl sneered down to Xandria as if it was an acceptable form of greeting, one hand on her hip as she posed before her trying to be intimidating but it wasn't very effective considering her opponent was in the dark. The Queen Bee ignored it though because she thought Xandria was cowering away from her which was true to an extent as Xandria was trying to get away from the perfume that was choking her.

"Cassie right?" Xandria responded as she leaned away from the smell but found that she could lean back no further unless she wanted to take a step backwards which she knew from experience would be a bad idea. When you retreat it makes the other person think that they had the upper hand and Xandria didn't want another Queen Bee getting the wrong idea. The girl across from her snorted and tossed her hair over her shoulder and she looked down at Xandria in disgust.

"It's Cassandra to you blind girl. Only my friends get to call me Cassie." Cassandra reached forwards and grasped Xandria's hair in a tight grip and tugged her whole body forwards once Xandria was less than a step away, Cassandra forced her head back so that she could stare into Xandria's face, her free hand reaching up to remove the glasses. Xandria's breathing picked up and her hands clenched at her sides so that the knuckles turned white but she restrained herself from throwing a punch. "Now you listen here new girl, there is a hierarchy in this school and you can't just come around and join the elites. If anyone deserves to be part of that group it's me and I am not going to let some little nobody take it all away from me." Before she could even react, Xandria felt a cold stinging on her cheek as the sound of Cassandra's hand meeting her cheek reverberated across the corridor.

"You shouldn't have done that." Xandria's voice was like hard steel as she brought one of her hands up and grasped Cassie's skinny hand that was wrapped in her blonde locks hair. Without taking a moment to think it through, she dug her fingernails into her arm so that Cassie released her hair. Not giving her new enemy a chance to recuperate, Xandria twisted Cassie's arm so that it was in a painful hold behind her back and Cassie cried out in pain. Her hair that usually sat neatly tousled on her shoulders was left in disarray. Standing up on her tiptoes, Xandria growled in the girls ear, not at all relishing the fact that she was causing someone pain. "You listen to me, I do not care what petty jealousies you may hold. You stay away from me and you stay away from my friends for I do not take kindly to being threatened. Consider this your warning." Xandria then tossed the girl forwards and she heard Cassie huff and puff at her for a few moments before she stomped her foot like a petulant child and then stormed away.