The Lies of the Moon

11

Fiona continued to walk off, faster than the others trying to catch her. Until someone stood in her path. She stood there. Fiona crossed her arms trying to catch her breath.

"Holy shit, It's the blonde whore walking around with Jonas," The girl mumbled to the other.

There stood two girls infront of her. The one mumbling was about three inches taller than Fiona with short curly hair. The other stood infront of Fiona towering about 5 inches taller. With long red hair, but not as long as Fiona's.

"Yeah, yeah, I noticed," She mumbled back. Fiona looked at them and raised her eyebrows.

"Can I help you?" She asked. The two girls snarked.

"So is baby Jo wracking up the whores? First Poppi, and now you. Don't you both know he's mine?" The red haired girl said. "He'll come back to his senses, whore!" She said pounding her feet. The girl next to her chuckled.

Now that the others had caught up to her they stood a few feet back. Tommy was holding him back from yelling.

Fiona looked to the ground as the others went to tease her more. Then Fiona started to laugh. Slow at first, but then louder. She looked the red haired girl directly in the eyes.

"Aw, sweetheart, you're quite delusional aren't ya?" Fiona chuckled.

"Fiona, wait!" Jonas yelled. Fiona shot a dangerous look at him.

"Wait, Fiona Alexander? You're back? Wait, I'm sorry!" The red haired girl stammered. Fiona liked the slight rise in power she had.

"Oh shit," Mumbled the other girl.

"Am I supposed to remember you? Are you supposed to be revelant somehow? Well all I can say is that, yes sweetie. I'm back. And I may not remember what kind of bitch you are, but I remember enough to know you've created an enemy in me." Fiona said turning her head back to her. Not even stuttering she walked passed the girls smiling.

Fiona kept walking, dismissing the group behind her and she stopped for a second. The red haired girl was frozed still. Fiona snickered. "The clowns are near the bounce house, sweetie." She said walking away. She took a deep breath and continued to speed off. Jonas, Poppi, And Tommy were stuck laughing.

"This game is getting a little old, isn't it?" Poppi said. Jonas grabbed her hand.

"I don't want you, Jenna. I never have, so please leave my family alone. As my sister said, go join the clowns." Jonas said. He went to go look at Tommy but he was long gone chasing after Fiona.

Fiona walked faster and faster, but Tommy caught up, barley catching a light jog. "Why don't you slow down there for a second?" He said putting his hand on her shoulder, slowing her down. Fiona snapped her shoulder away, glaring.

"Piss off," Fiona said. She glared her eyes at him. "You don't know shit," she mumbled.

"Then enlighten me. Please do so, instead of running." Tommy said. Fiona pressed her thumbs to her pockets.

"You have no right to make any assumptions about me! You've barley known me for 24 hours and now y'all are sayin' I'm doing drugs! God, give me a fucking break. I am 17 years old, I don't need people watching over me, or assuming what I do or who I am," Fiona said rolling her eyes, crossing her arms not looking at him in the eyes. Tommy sighed.

"I get what ya' are thinkin' M'lady," Tommy said. Fiona smirked slightly a loose chuckle escaping her lips. "Unfortunately I've delt with thoose two for the past ten years and they do that. They're observant people, and sometimes they only see the surface or what'd they'd expect from the stories." Tommy said putting his hand on he shoulder. Fiona rolled her eyes.

"It still doesn't give them the right. Y'all big town people may think you know everything about everyone, but you don't. I lived in a extremely small town and I can tell you, what ya' hear isn't true." Fiona said, mumbling a few curse words under her breath. Jonas and Poppi had joined her with skittish looks on their face.

"I'm not sayin' it gives thoose asshats excuses!" Tommy said.

"Hey!" Poppi cut in.

Tommy rolled his eyes, "Sometimes people wanna judge before getting to know ya' but ya' know what. If their gonna judge, give 'em a story to tell," Tommy said, winking at Fiona. She started chuckling. She pressed her fingers to the bridge of her nose.

"You asshole," She mumbled. Jonas held Poppi's hand.

"Look we appologize for assuming shit about you, Fi." Jonas said. Fiona gave him a dirty look. Poppi looked at her with her eyebrows furrowed. "We chill?" Jonas asked.

Fiona sighed, "You really expect me to say that we're chill? Really?" Fiona rose her voice. Tommy looked at her weirdly then understood what she was doing. "Well, we are!" Fiona said, happily.

Jonas looked at Poppi who started chuckling. Tommy was laughing so hard he pressed his forehead to Fiona's shoulder. Fiona moved her shoulder, frightened by his touch. Tommy looked at her, who looked frightened. Fiona pressed her hand to her chest.

"My bad," She whispered. Tommy nodded. Don't show more signs of yourself, Fiona. Don't you dare.

"Do y'all know who that person was patheticly attacking me?" Fiona asked. Jonas looked at her side-eyed.

"That's Jenna. She's in cheer. She cheers for the schools teams, including the baseball team, who Jo is a part of." Poppi said.

"The girl next to her is Maggie, shes a sweet girl when shes not around Jenna. I was her lab partner in 9th grade," Tommy said. Fiona felt a tingle of jealously pass her limbs.

"Ah, well that was some pretty petty people to purposely attack me," Fiona said. "I mean for some reason, they were scared of me. I mean I can be defensive, but I'm not rude." She said.

"Not the way you were ten years ago," Jonas whispered so low she couldn't hear. Tommy and Poppi shot him dangerous looks.

"Huh?" Fiona asked Jonas.

"Nevermind that. Why don't we head back? We've got a busy week next week and orientation is tomorrow." Jonas said, saddened. Fiona nodded taking her phone out of her pocket. She saw the picture of her and Ashlynn.

"Sure, I'll tell y'all a funny story on the way back," Fiona said, smiling. They all nodded, laughing as they walked away. Fiona still clutched the water bottle in her hands.