¹𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑 ━ 𝗽. 𝗷𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻

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⋆ ˚｡⋆ʚ 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘-𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄 ɞ⋆ ˚｡⋆
─── ❛ menace to society ❜ ───

ISABELLA'S FALL SEMESTER WAS going pretty well. she was excelling in most of her classes, and despite the local bully, she got along with most of her classmates.

she was currently living alone as her mom had to fly to london for a movie. isabella had to admit that her house was pretty scary with no one else around, it was so big, and for what?

because of this, she spent a lot of time in percy's apartment. her mom asked sally to watch over her from time to time (sally almost fainted when she saw a text from the sara gómez), so she and percy saw each other frequently. he was no longer being weird with her, and they were back to being the friends they always were.

"i can help you with your spanish."

percy quirked an eyebrow and showed her his spanish book. she read it as well as she could.

"what the fuck? why do they teach you spaniard spanish when we're literally above mexico?" she huffed. "it doesn't make any sense."

percy scoffed at her and nodded. "i know, i have this classmate from, uh, colombia? i think. and he got a c- on the test, he was born and raised in colombia." he clarified. "he cried when he saw his result."

damn.

unfortunately for her, she couldn't go to camp to see travis without her mother's approval of her visits, so she had to stick with iris-messaging. apart from that, her relationship was okay. travis still sent her letters, she would answer them, the usual stuff. the only downside was that isabella didn't feel like a good girlfriend.

okay, this was her first relationship, she didn't expect it to be perfect. but, now that travis was her boyfriend, it all felt really... fake. like, that's what people expected to see—the two of them kissing, isabella gushing about him, and so on. it didn't feel genuine, but travis seemed very in love, how could she bring him down?

drew on the other side of the bed and sighed. "look, if you don't like him, just tell him that."

isabella threw a pillow on her face. "i do like him!"

"are you sure?" the raven-haired girl quirked an eyebrow.

"yes." isabella said. although not even she believed it.

"whatever. pass me the popcorn."

her love life wasn't the only thing that occupied her mind. she turned fourteen a couple months ago, and puberty had hit her hard.

she had to buy new clothes, shoes, and products due to her growth sprout. her body started developing much faster than before, she had boobs now! although they were an inconvenience while training and exercising, she managed to survive. silena had been advising her on new styles and looks she could try now that she was in a new stage of her life.

weird things have been happening ever since she turned fourteen. when she was mad, things seemed to break, and people who attacked her were soon affected somehow. like one time when james lauder thought it'd be funny to make gross jokes about her body, and in pe he fell while playing basketball and broke his arm. people would call it karma, but isabella knew that she was the reason these things were happening.