Flowers of Desire

Chapter Ten

CHAPTER 10
Alice

Circe and I have begun to go back to school, Circe now having more control over their powers. The teachers were angry at Circe's absence at first, but they very quickly stopped caring.
We have finished almost all of our late things, considering we can work through the night.
We have no periods together, but we have some of the same teachers so we work on our assignments together.
The only thing we have together is our lunch periods, which at least means we can sit together then, even if we can't eat.
We're doing that right now, sitting with all of her friends and my family. Mike hasn't bothered us in like a week, but he seems to be getting more and more confident. He 'accidentally' tripped Waylon in the halls, and coughed out the f slur at Circe and me.
Every Time he makes up some excuse that he never did that, and would never do that. I'm too done with him to even bother, so we keep letting him do it.
I can feel him staring at the back of our heads, and I get a flash of a vision of him standing up, not a big vision but one of the ones where it just feels like a distant memory.
As I turn towards him, I see the exact scene playing out, him getting up, standing tall for a second before making his way over to us.
While we all stare at him, he walks over slowly like he's trying to act cool, but he just looks stupid.
He walks up to us, stopping in between Circe and Cain, getting low and whispering something in their ears.
All my siblings and I could hear it, but we couldn't let him know that so we had to sit straight-faced as he whispered in their ears, "You know, I told all my friends about you Circe, and I didn't mention you by name, just a girl who had weird powers and Bella said she thinks the Cullens do too. Is that true, are the Cullens weirdos just like you? You freaks of nature. What about your other friends, what are their names? Huh, oh yeah Zelda, Walter, and oh you," he turns towards Cain, and by Edward's wince I can tell it's bad even before he says, "Hmm, I seem to have forgotten her name."
Circe whispers back to him, despite being extremely present, "Their pronouns are they/them, and I know your brain is the size of a walnut but you should be able to understand their pronouns, considering you know how to mess mine up perfectly."
"My brain isn't the size of a walnut," he barked, hushed enough we would be able to hear normally even if we were mortals. Emmet chuckles beside Rosalie, making Mike look up, glaring at him.
He leans back down, whispering shouting, "Whatever, her name is, I don't care. Just know, I'm going to make sure everyone in the town will find out about you and your freaky ass friends."
I stand up, pushing myself off of the bench, and walk up behind him. My silent steps don't alert him, but as soon as he turns to walk away, I meet his eyes,
Even though he is almost a foot taller than me, he cowers at my eyesight. I know I have a murderous glare in my eye, reflecting back to me through his.
I go to grab him, but he seems to get a burst of confidence, ducking to the side of me. As he runs past me, he slams his hand behind himself.
As he rams his hand behind himself, he hits me in the ass, smacking it with a smirk on his face, making my face tense up in anger.
He grabs it before pulling away, sticking his tongue out at us. Most everyone at our table stands up, ready to beat his ass, but before anyone else can move, Circe is up, grabbing him by the back of the collar.
He doesn't even realize they are there until he is on the ground being physically dragged into the courtyard.
Everyone at our table and I follow her out, watching her throw him to the ground. He cowers back, not expecting her to react like this. I get an intense flash, and I immediately know this isn't going to go well, but it's not clear enough to see for which party.
She lets him get up, panic clear in his eyes that match the overcast skies. Emmet goes to walk over to Mike, but Edward holds him back much to his displeasure.
Circe is seething, too angry to even say a word, and I thought she was gonna let him go, until she walked up to him, pulling her fist back and smashing it right on his nose.
A crunching of noise echoes through the courtyard, making the newfound crowd behind us cheer. Blood gushes from his nose, twisted at an odd angle that is extremely unnatural. His little girlfriend, or whatever she is to him, Jessica gasps, trying to run over to him, but Rosalie grabs her arm, letting Circe and him continue.
He groans, "What the fuck is wrong with you?! You whore! She was asking for it with that small top."
Circe's fist turns a purple-red, about to begin to form energy balls. Newton smirks while wiping the blood off of his face. That asshole, this was his plan. He doesn't want to reveal us, he wants us to reveal ourselves.
I stroud over, knowing I can't let this continue or something will go very wrong. I stride up next to him, elbowing him in the gut, so hard he hits the ground. I circle around him, whispering to Circe as I pass her, "Don't let him get to you, he wants you to reveal us."
She takes a breath, letting the color disperse from her fists, but I know she isn't done with him yet, so I let her go on.
She draws her foot back, kicking him in the gut as he tries to get up. The faculty is going to rush in soon, so she picks him up by his collar, whispering in his ear in a tone only my siblings and I can hear, "If you ever dare to hurt my friends or family ever again, I am going to rip your eyes out and make your friends eat them."
HE nods, tears streaming down his face. It was probably a bit too much, and we are definitely going to get in trouble for this later, but it's the only thing we can do to get rid of him. That or move, but Edward is too fond of this Bella girl to do that, though we are going to have a talk with her later. She can't go around saying shit like that.
Circe runs over to us, telling us we need to go, so we all walk to the cars and drive off, heading as far away from that asshole as possible.

Word Count: 1181
Second to last chapter! This is longer than the last one even if it isn't super long, so I hope that tides you over till the final chapter! (Edit: Sorry didn't realize the format got so messed up for some reason!)