Geek Girl- Becoming the Bad Girl

Chapter 12

I had never ran so fast in my life. I kept sprinting even though I know they weren't chasing me but I carried on to be sure. I was so scared. Why did I just run? Why am I such an idiot? Running away from my problems will not solve them.
I started to slow down as I was half way back to the flat now. Just then I got a text. There was another before it as well but I mustn't have realised because I was running so hard! They were both from Nat! I am in trouble! It read;
What the hell do you think you are playing at? All the teachers are frantic, me even worse! Alexa has been put in detention for a week thanks to you! Congratulations! I hope you blooming well happy with yourself!
Nat
The next message read:
FFS Moona pick up the bloody phone. I need a reply as Miss Caldwell is going to set us work in a min! I'm so annoyed at you it's unbelievable!
Nat
My heart pounded like a beating drum in my head! My "best friend" was annoyed at me yet I had done nothing wrong. In fact, she is nothing to me no more! She ditched me with my arch nemesis and denied everything to protect her and Alexa's backs!
When I eventually reached the flat, I slotted my key in slowly, trying not to make a sound incase anyone was unexpectedly in. I edged the door open.
"Hello?" I called out peaking round each room door. No one was there as expected.
I crept into me and Stars bedroom. It was the biggest room in the house since we had to share. Sunny and mum their own rooms. We were just the unlucky ones. Sharing is unfortunate since we don't get along half the time.
I looked through the wardrobe we also share. I didn't have many clothes, they were mainly jeans, leggings and babyish tops! However, Star has lots of amazing clothes, belly tops, short skirts, mini skirts, leggings, jeggings, skimpy short dresses and skorts.
I took one of her bras out of her underwear draw, and stripped into my underwear. I looked too skinny. I had no breasts yet so when I put Stars bra on, it looked stupid and it was so loose that it fell down to my tummy!
I went to the toilet and took a big amount of tissue to stuff down the bra. With clothes on over the top it would look ok!
I went through our wardrobe again and found one of Stars black, long sleeved belly tops. Star was luckily so thin that it fitted me perfectly! I put on my own leggings and black converse. I looked at myself in the mirror. Apart from my face - my body and my clothes didn't look like me.... but I looked amazing.
I walked over to Stars dressing table. It was wooden with flashing lights around the mirror. Star had loved it when she was ten but when she went to secondary school and one of her friends came round, they said that it was babyish and silly. As soon as they left she immediately teared the lights all off.
I searched around in the drawers of the dressing table for Stars makeup. I picked out a mascara and foundation. I knew what they were for but I didn't know how to apply them. I loved to watch Star and mum glam themselves up for a night out when I was younger. If I was lucky, they would sometimes dab a bit of blusher on my cheeks or lipstick on my lips.
I took my glasses off and opened my eyes wide. I opened the mascara and held it up to my eye. My hands were shaking. I blinked and the brush applied mascara. I did it several times on both eyelashes and they looked massive. I squirted out some foundation onto my wrist and got a brush, dabbed it in the foundation and applied it on my face.
I took out the hair bands and let down my pig tails into its nice wavy mess. I looked so grown up. When I put my glasses back on though, it didn't really add to the look.
I went into the kitchen to look for mums handbag. She was stupid enough to leave her purse in her bag when we live on a rough estate. Lots of druggies, alcoholics and robbers live on our estate, and the worst thing is, some of them are only about fourteen and fifteen! I rummaged through her bag till I found her purse. I know we didn't have a lot of money, not even enough to pay the bills but at the time this felt important.
I fished out a fifty pound note. I felt guilty steeling mum's money but I needed it so badly. Before I could change my mind I grabbed my house keys and the money and rushed out of the flat.
I walked to the local shopping mall. I was going to make a change to my life. I was going to become..... someone else!
Star, mum and Nat had dragged me to this shopping mall many times. I was never a normal girl who loved to go shopping, I would just stay at home and do homework or revision I don't even need.
I went into Superdrug to explore the makeup. I needed to look different, completely different. I had seen Star and Nat buy some of the best makeup or run their fingers across the too expensive ones. I had fifty pounds, more than they have ever bought shopping.
I picked up the biggest brushed mascara and two bright pink and red lipsticks. I picked up a foundation that seemed my colour but I was obviously wrong. A shop assistant asked me if I needed any help and then she looked down at the colour of the foundation.
"I think that colour is a bit dark for you honey!" she laughed a bit of an evil laugh, "that would be too dark for a tan." I glared at her, giving her a death stare. She didn't look great herself, she was chewing gum noisily, showing the contents of her mouth. She was chubby and her makeup looked like a clown. Her mascara had smugged under her eyes, her blusher and foundation was also too dark and her fake tan was orange and patchy. Thats when I decided to say something I never thought I would say.
"Before you criticise me sort your self out first." I snarled.
"The youth of today, they need their mouths washed out with soap!" She said and started to stomp off.
"The same with you!" I called out. She turned around and gave me a death stare. Then she walked away.
I added a much lighter foundation to my basket along with the mascara and lipsticks, a concealer, eyebrow kit, eyeliner, fake nails and blusher. I also hovered by the fake tan. Star had applied it before and she looked great because she had no patches. I decided to buy it because she could put it on for me.
Then I went to the hair row. I had to change my hair too. I picked up two packets of red hair die. Then I went to the eye row. I had to change my eyes and I could not wear glasses.
"Hello!" I said at the counter, "Could I please by your cheapest contact lenses please! Don't worry I have money!" The lady at the counter was young, approximately 16 or 17. She didn't care about my age, she just said;
"Blue, green or brown?" I decided to go for brown because their blue was too bright. I smiled at her and my insides smiled too. I was finally going to look amazing.
She handed me the bag with the contact lenses in and said, "that will be £20 please!"
I handed her a £20 pound note, even though I was worried I wouldn't have enough for the makeup, fake tan and hair die. I then went to go and pay for them.
"Hello!" The till lady said scanning the items. She seemed nice but also curious. "Why aren't you in school today?" I bit my lip and thoughts whizzed around in my brain trying to think up an excuse not to be in school.
"It's an inset day!" I said in a hurried gabble. I didn't sound convincing but she smiled at me anyway and started packing a plastic bag with my items.
"That will be £34.50 please. My eyes went wide! I didn't have enough money. I handed her the rest of the money I had and bit my lip deciding what to do. I bit it so much it started bleeding. I gulped, plucking up the courage to tell the check out lady.
"I don't have enough money. Could I possibly leave the eyebrow kit?"
"Yes that's fine!" She said but she put the eyebrow kit in the bag!
"But I said..."
"I know what you said now be quiet and don't let anyone find out I let you off!" She smiled and handed the bag back to me. I said a quick, quiet thank you and rushed out of the store.
I'm no longer going to be know as Moona the geek, I was going to be the new, glamorous, naughty, popular girl of the school...

Hi guys,
Thanks for reading!
People keep commenting saying that I have robbed the real book Geek Girl but actually I made up this story when I was eight, before geek girl was created! This is a lot different to Geek Girl, I know I used 2 of the same characters but this story is completely different so please don't give me hate!
Thanks again!
Samara x