The Bad Girl and the Newby

The Newby

"Hey I heard there was a new girl, is it true?" I asked my best friend Nara once I got to school.

"Yep and I hear she's cute too," she said, winking at me with her dark brown, nearly black eyes. You see, I had been openly lesbian since forever. Actually, how Nara and I became friends is because I kissed her in kindergarten. She rejected me but now we're best friends so whatever.

"Nara you know I'm not looking to date anyone right now. Plus with my reputation one look will send her running to the next town over," I laughed a little but we both knew it was true. There were some pretty nasty rumours about me floating around the school. Ever since I punched the football captain, nearly breaking his nose I might add, I had gathered quite the reputation. I didn't mind it much, the only problem was that everyone was afraid of me. Luckily I had Nara. I swear if I didn't have my feisty little red-headed friend to keep me company each day I'd go insane.

"But Skye you haven't dated anyone for what, two years now. You've had enough time to forget about her." Seeing as I didn't care she gave up, "Fine, I'll see you later I'm going to go see if Sage is here yet," ah yes Sage, the love of Nara's life for about two months now. Waving goodbye I started to walk to my first class. Well it was actually my second class but since I slept in and didn't go to English this morning I'm counting it as my first. I'll just hack into the security footage later and see what we did.

Walking into the art room was like a breath of fresh air. Well more like a breath of heavy, paint fume filled air but that doesn't have the same ring to it. Going over to my easel I set up my art and began painting. My favourite medium was just plain pencil but it's fun to change it up sometimes.

"Alright class, we have a new student. Why don't you introduce yourself?" I didn't bother to look up from my work. The new girl wasn't my problem and it's not like I would ever actually converse with her.

"Hi everyone I'm Rosalene but please, just call me Rose," hmm Rose, it's a pretty name.

I had been applying the last few details to the tree trunk when I heard a scraping noise beside me. I was confused since nobody ever sat beside me but then I remembered that the newby was in my class. I looked beside me to see a girl I had never seen before. She was pretty much the exact opposite of me. Where I had raven black hair shaved on one side she had hair that resembled newly spun gold. Her eyes were a deep emerald green while mine were a light brown, the colour of melted milk chocolate. Even our face shapes were different. She had a cute heart shaped face and milky white skin. Yeah she had some blemishes here and there but other than that her skin was quite clear. I on the other hand had an oval shaped face and an olive completion.

"That's really pretty, what you're painting. Did you come up with the design?" She gestured to my painting as she spoke. The painting was of a tree with no leaves. Made from and within the branches were the gender signs, female to the left and male to the right. Right in the middle was a mix of the two signs. I had thought it up to represent equality between the genders.

"Yeah, why do you care?" I was confused at why this chick was talking to me which came off as hostility. I was never good at voicing my emotions so I usually just seemed angry or uncaring.

"Whoa no need to bite my head off, I was just trying to be nice," I just rolled my eyes and went back to work. She seemed to get the hint that I wasn't in a talking mood and went to work herself.

The bell rang just as I was finishing the male side of my tree. I got up quickly and put my things away. I was running a bit late as I went to find Nara. I arrived at my locker, where Nara usually is, to see it occupied by none other than Rose.

"Move," I said as soon as I saw her. She was pissing me off and I really didn't feel like going to detention.

"Why should I?" Damn this girl. Most people would have been cowering in fear by now but she wasn't.

"You should move because you are pissing me off and I would rather not go to detention for breaking your pretty little face. I have somewhere to be after school and detention doesn't work with my schedule," yes I admitted her face was pretty, whatever. But seriously I did not want to go to detention. I had somewhere to be after school and detention was not that place.

"I'll move if you tell me where you're going after school," she said, her eyes narrowing and her lips forming a smirk as if in challenge.

"It's none of your business," I was right pissed. I grabbed her by her white shirt collar and whispered in her ear.

"Princess, if you don't move by the count of three then I promise I will make you regret every day you live in this hell hole called school, you got me," and with that I pushed her out of the way making sure I didn't hurt her in the process. Quickly grabbing my things I left the school, not bothering with the rest of my classes. I had top grades in almost all of them anyway.

You see, it's not uncommon for me to skip but I always catch up on what I missed. I figured out a few years back that each classroom had security cameras perfectly set up to monitor the classroom. All I had to do to see my lessons was hack the security code and hit play. This also helped me if I ever needed to blackmail any students or teachers.

I hopped onto my red and black motorbike, cliche right. With one last glance at the school I drove away, heading to the gym I had built a few years ago. I would have gone to the dance studio but there would be a class going on right then and I didn't want another lecture from Madame Elrie.

When I arrived at the gym I jumped off my bike, unlocked the door, and went inside. The gym was built inside of an old boxing stadium. Since I was the champion when they moved they let me have the place for cheap.

I changed into my shorts and sports bra. Since I was always alone in the gym I could uncover my scars without worrying about someone seeing. I hooked up my iPod to the stereo system, taped up my hands and started my workout.
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Hey so this is a new idea I had. For those reading my other story don't worry that one is my first priority and I will try to keep up on updating both of these. Also I have many more stories to come so stay tuned.