By then the girls had reached the dance, already heavily drunk on their stolen goods dancing with each other in the middle of the floor as they laughed
To the side stood Viktor and Petra "This is where fun comes to die" Petra commented as they watched from the side, Viktor's eyes on Aurelia before he snapped out of his trance
"No one must die" Viktor said as he offered Petra his hand as they made their way to the dance floor and began to dance, Petra albeit very sceptically
Meanwhile
Lex, Billy and Marcus had made their way to the graveyard passing a cigarette around all of them noticeably high at this point as they debated America's constituency
"Right so instead of employing a chef to open a restaurant and pour his heart and soul into concocting something delicious, you get teenagers reheating meat like patties" Marcus argues
"Aw man I could fucking eat a meat like patty right now" Billy groaned
"Seriously like what happens to a chef working at McDonalds because it's the only restaurant left, years go by his souls diminished his creativities stifled" he snorted "How is there any other outcome other than depression, drug addiction or suicide"
"Awww" Billy said
Lex suddenly appeared again "Don't let me interrupt your convention with this box of fun" he laughed as he set it down "A few pyrotechnic distractions" he said opening the box to display fireworks and flares "From hells heart, I stabbeth thee" he chortled as he lit one before it fizzled out before exploding as they laughed on the rooftop
Meanwhile
The girls were still on the dance floor although Aurelia had felt the effects of the alcohol start to wear off before Chico approached
"Maria" he started "I could have signed you up baby" he said as Maria sighed and left
"You couldn't have given her one night away" Saya fumed "You're a real piece of shit, you know all she needs is-"
"You gonna tell me what my girl needs" Chico interrupted "Eh"
Saya looked him up and down "You clearly don't have a clue"
"She give you that story about living a normal life" Chico crept closer "The house with the books and little ninos running around, yeah, she's been telling that one for years, I taught her that, she's working you" he finished as Saya ran away Aurelia still standing there listening
"What did you say to her?" Maria asked panicked as she came back
Chico chuckled dryly "I just told her who you really are"
Meanwhile Viktor had been watching the exchange from across the room, he never really liked Petra at all, he had only brung her to appease Aurelia. Now it was time for this to end, he lead her out of the ballroom to the hallway where they were met with brandy and her group of legacies
"Welcome to the legacy committee sweetheart" Brandy said eyeing her outfit "Unfortunately your applications been denied" she said threateningly as Petra looked back at Viktor in betrayal
"Rat will always be rat" he said retreating back into the ballroom leaving Petra to face Brandy
A couple minutes later Brandy walked out on stage "Listen up everybody y'all may know her as the dark cloud that haunts the halls of Kings, but tonight, thanks to the lovely ladies of the cheerleading squad, she's gone from wastoid to" she paused "passable" as Petra was pushed onto the stage in a bright yellow dress and blonde wig "Please, put your hands together for the belle of the ball the new ball queen miss rat" as they held her there on stage while the legacies laughed
There were two people not amused by this joke namely Willie who of course in his pacifism never appreciated the pranks that would be pulled, and Aurelia who was positively fuming as she watched her best friend being humiliated on stage
"VIKTOR" she yelled across the ballroom seeing him laugh with the other legacies as he froze before turning around slowly "YOU PIECE OF SHIT I TRUSTED YOU WITH HER"
"Look Aure-" He started to say before being cut of by a punch a sickening snap being heard as his nose broke
"Don't Viktor, you broke my trust" Aurelia said disappointedly as she walked of to find Petra Viktor's blood on her knuckles and face
Meanwhile
"If a wiener is called a penis, why isn't a butt called a poonis?" Billy mused as they set up their fireworks
"Cause nothing about the English language makes sense" Marcus pointed out
"Nothing" Lex added "You've got womb, tomb and bomb"
Billy paced around the rooftop "It should be a boom, it's literally a thing that goes boom"
Lex nodded "Fucking right"
"No dude no" Marcus said as Billy went to take his milk carton "Friends don't let friends share dairy"
Petra walked slowly up the stairs still sniffing slightly from crying
"Jesus, what happened to you" Marcus asked
Petra threw the blonde wig on the ground "It's my own fault for being a charlatan right"
"Oh so I'm the asshole somehow" Billy bit back as she picked up a cigarette, he sighed "We were just messing with you before, it's normal, to wanna be a part of the normal world, but it's easier when you accept you don't belong in it"
"Stop" Petra said "Lesson learned"
"You just needed a reminder of why we don't take part in that mess" Lex added "You don't need them, they are awful, you're one of ours love"
"Always will be" Billy comforted
"You have every right to be angry" Marcus inputted
Petra sighed "Nothing to be done about it"
"Not by yourself" Marcus declared
"I thought you were sitting on the side-lines" Lex asked confused
Marcus smirked "No, I was picking my battles, there's no point in having friends if you're not going to stick up for them. Let's burn them down"
"Like a Roman Fucking Candle" Aurelia said from behind them as they turned to look at her, her eyes softened when she saw Petra "I'm so sorry Petra I should have gone up there" she hugged her
"It's alright somehow I have a feeling you made them pay in your own way" Petra replied eyeing the blood on her face and knuckles
"This might be a stupid question but who's blood is that Aurie?" Billy asked peering over Petra's shoulder
Aurelia grinned "Viktor's"
Marcus whistled "That's my girl" as Aurelia rolled her eyes
"Not your girl Lopez"
"Not yet"
