Good Girl Gone Bad

Chapter 2

"Please ... Please don't tell mom." Was about the only thing that would come out of my mouth. Manny took his thumb off of my cuts, shaking his head in disappointment. His eyes trailed down to my shirt with a dry blood stain, leaving him to laugh a bit.

"Oh, little sister...I really hope you don't turn into a girl version of me." Flashbacks of my brother coming home from school with cuts, bruises, and blood on his lips came to mind. Of course I wasn't going to turn into Manny, he's the complete opposite of me. He was a trouble maker, he's a ladie's man, he isn't even nearly as smart as I am.

"I don't know what came over me .. It's just that Carmen was harassing me all day long, so I stood up for myself and she punched me first." A smug look appeared on my brother's face. "But I got a week of detention..and a Saturday school." 

"Wow, we have a bad ass up in here." He playfully punched my shoulder, making me wince a little; with me being in pain and all. "Alright....I'm not a snitch, so I wasn't planning on telling mom, but I do need you to help me out." 

"Ok, what is it?" At the moment, I was willing to do anything because I remember seeing how angry my mother got when she saw Manny all cut up when he came home from school.

"There's a party this Friday, it's gonna be huge. There's gonna be a lot of people, a lot of food, a lot of beer- which means drunk people. There's gonna be loud music, not any slow type crap, tons of chicks who will probably look like sluts, and there's gonna be a lot of making out, I can tell you that. Oh and the party is at our house." My eyebrows raised as I let his list sink in to my mind. I'm always home Friday nights, any night for that matter. Drunk people? Making out? None of that is like me.

"So what do you-"

"And that is where you come in," he added on, cutting me off, "Mom won't be home, but she somehow finds out everything. I need you to make sure she won't find out. Deal?"

"Deal."

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I woke up to the satisfying smell of eggs, bacon, and the smell of maple syrup. After grabbing my phone from the tangled blankets in my bed, I walked to my bathroom to get started on my makeup. My bruises became a dark purple, and my cuts weren't bloody anymore, considering that painful shower I took last night. The water hitting my cuts hurt, but cleaning the cuts with soap hurt like a bitch. 

Once I had finished my makeup and hair, which I straightened, I pulled out a light pink sweater and light blue jeans with rips on the knees, and white converse. I grabbed my items, and went downstairs."Goodmorning, darling." My mom greeted me- she was placing the bacon on a seperate napkin by the stove, next to the eggs and pancakes. "How was your first day of school?" I knew that was coming.

"Oh, um..it was fine! I finally got to see Eve again, and I made a couple of new friends," she placed a plate of eggs, bacon, and pancakes in front of me, "and this one girl named Mae, she's so beautiful, we met in-"

"Oh that's wonderful, honey. Look I gotta go early today, enjoy breakfast." She kissed me on the cheek and zoomed out the door. Odd, but I shouldn't complain; she didn't notice the faint purple marks on my jaw, and below my eye. 

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All day, tons of eyes were glued to my face. All day I faced the pointless comments like: "The nerd can really beat up someone" and, "Wow, I never thought a nerd could do that!" and questions like, "Did you see that hot chick beat Carmen up?" as well as, "Isn't that the girl who got dumped by Josh after she screwed him?" and the question on everyone's lips, "What happened to Carmen?" 

Right when I walked into English class, all eyes were on me; I was used to it by now. Murmuring went on in the class, I knew it was all about me. "Ok everyone stop talking. Valerie, are you going to take your seat now?" I nodded, going to the last row of desks in the back of the room, which were my only choices.