Only The Goode Spy Forever

Chapter 106: The Slap

"For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God." -James 1 :20

         Zachary Goode ran his hands through his hair. He had one of the most eventful, dramatic, girly days of his life. He sighed. All of his problems had started early that morning...

     Annalise Goode sat in her suite with 2 of her best friends, Caroline and Bree. Diana was in Misty Johanson's room helping her learn to do her makeup. Misty was a senior, and she was trying her best to impress the Blackthorne boys. Caroline was sitting on the ground as Bree sat on her bed braiding her hair into a high ponytail. Everyone jumped as the suite door flew up and a stunned Diana stood in the doorway. Her blue eyes were wide with shock.

       "You will never believe the rumor floating around the seniors," she exclaimed. Bree looked puzzled. Bree was a senior, so if she didn't know it must have been recent. "Chase is cheating!"

      "Oh my gosh!" Caroline exclaimed. Anna rolled her eyes. There was no way that her brother was cheating. Bree started laughing.

      "That's hilarious," Bree said. Diana looked at her like she was crazy.

     "Well that's the rumor Bree, and it's spreading like wildfire. People are saying that Chase slept with Veronica Banks," Diana explained. Bree's entire face fell. Her demeanor had completely changed.

     "Veronica Banks? As in Veronica Banks your roommate?" Caroline asked Bree. Bree nodded her head weakly.

      "She has hated me from day one. I never did anything to her and she's just always hated me. Now this? It's one thing to constantly make me look bad, but drag Chase into it? I can't believe her," Bree sighed.

     "I'm sure the rumor will pass," Anna said encouragingly.

     By lunch, the rumor hadn't passed. Most of the teachers were absent for the big Gallagher tour, so Zach monitored the grand hall. He ate his plate of food at his own table. He was hoping that his youngest daughter Jaycee enjoyed the tour. He knew that with her grandparents on the tour she was bound to have more fun. 

     Zach was a highly trained operative and the two things that he noticed right off the bat at lunch was the one, his son wasn't in the grand hall and two, the amount of people pointing and whispering at his daughter's table. Zach feared they were talking about Anna, and he wanted to smack the smirks off of their faces, but he didn't want to embarrass his daughter, so he sat still in his seat close by. It was only when he noticed Anna put a reassuring hand on Bree's shoulder that he realized the students weren't talking about Annalise.

    "It's okay. He would never do that. We know it and that's all that matters," she was saying. Bree nodded weakly end endured all of the students laughing at her. One particular girl with short jet-black hair sashayed over to their table. Zach was pretty sure that this girl's outfit did not fit the Gallagher dress code on account of it being too short and too tight, but he ignored it.

    "Hi Bree," she said giving Bree a fake smile.

    "Hi Veronica," Bree muttered.

    "I just had the best work out of my life," she said fanning her face and running her hands through her hair. 

    "Good for you."

    "Ask me what work out I did."

    "I don't care what you did."

     "Hmph," came Veronica's reply. She started brushing her hair with her fingers. "I got a workout in bed with Chase. I'm surprised you couldn't hear me screaming his name." Zach dropped his fork. It didn't take a special agent to see that this girl was lying, but the smirk she made showed that she didn't care.

    "You're really good at winning a game that I'm not playing," came Bree's cool reply. "I don't know what I did to make you hate me so much."

   "Bree, you're a slut. The best honey pot around. As a true Gallagher girl, I don't like my school's reputation being slandered by a whore. At least I'm only screwing one guy," Veronica snapped. 

   "Okay you can talk about me and spread rumors all you want but leave Chase out of this. He did nothing to you. I'll put up with you talking about me but if you bring him into this, we're going to have a problem."

    "Bitch we already do."

    "What do you want from me?"

    "I want you to leave this school so I can screw your boyfriend more often."

    "You're delusional Veronica. You're about to graduate and you're still just trying to be a High School mean girl. Give it up, this is getting sad," Bree finished. As some of her classmates started laughing Bree grabbed her bag to leave. Zach noticed that she hadn't touched her lunch, but she clearly couldn't stand to be in that room any longer.

    "I hope I'm pregnant so that you have to watch Chase's child call me mommy," Veronica rushed, trying to get the last laugh. Bree turned her back to Veronica. This clearly angered Veronica, so she shouted, "He lets me do all the things to him that he says you never let him do." Before Zach could even act Bree had spun around and slapped Veronica. Nothing fancy, just a good old-fashioned slap. Veronica's limp body crumbled to the ground. 

    Zach barreled towards Bree and grabbed her hand. "What the hell are you doing?" Bree ripped her hand away and turned around. 

    "Bree, this isn't personal. I just need to take you somewhere else before this gets blown out of proportion. I will back you up, but I assure you there will need to be some sort of punishment. Everyone will go easy on you," Zach assured her.

   "Where are we going?" Bree asked.

    "Well as the supervisor I really have no other choice. We're going to the headmistress's office."