Famous

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Word about my exceptional performance had spread across the school like wildfire, making my name known to every person in the school campus

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Word about my exceptional performance had spread across the school like wildfire, making my name known to every person in the school campus. When I first found out about this, I'll admit it scared me, for I couldn't help but wonder what everyone thought of me. I told myself only a day ago that I'd not care what people think but here I was, once again, concerned about it.

Can you blame me? Up until yesterday I was a face known to a handful of seniors but now, students and teachers alike know and speak about me once in a while. My reputation is skyrocketing faster than I thought, and while that is supposed to be what I wanted, it's a matter of how everyone views me, negative or positive.

"You are quite the talk of the school, you know. Your friends and you. Especially you." Alice tells me as the two of us get dressed for school the second day after the competition, making me turn my attention to her. I don't interrupt her, so she continues. "The teachers won't stop talking about it. Everyone is saying how different your speech skills are for a girl and all that."

"They never saw me perform though." I reply, clasping the belt around my waist. "How would they know?"

Alice snorts, shaking her head. "How do you think? You heard Principal Ingram yesterday. Mr. Hawthorne and Mr. Miles couldn't stop talking about you. And then there are the students of tenth and ninth grade NC. The CNN of our school."

She's right through. Yesterday when I came to school, aside from the constant stares Claire, Mary and I received, the girls we made friends with treated us like we were still friends, waving and starting conversations which was sweet to be honest. It made Nat and her friends make faces of envy that I had never seen in them before. I knew this friendship that we have will one day fade away to nothing, but so long as they didn't want to break it up, no one's complaining.

In just a day, the three of us became the talk of the school, and every time we walked past anyone, we garnered stares. The attention is escalating.

And because of this attention, some people that wanted to know us better, or people that we no longer had anything to do, or just strangers at random, started grasping at straws for their one chance at fame. To be known as friends of the three infamous girls of seventh grade BC.

Some of that included Michael, Astrid, Max, Rea, my long-lost bestie, Rea's friends and of course, Orlando and Sky.

How I know this? Simple. Because what Alice says next has me choking on my own spit.

"I heard from the grapevines that I have a brother-in-law in eighth grade NC. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?"

"Wh-who told you that?" I clear my throat in pain, while Alice watches me with stern eyes as she ties up her shoes. "Phillipa told me. Her cousins in NC told her a guy named Orlando is my supposed brother-in-law. Is there something you want to tell me, Ariana?"

I grit my teeth in annoyance, tossing my ID card aside instead of placing it around my neck as I run my fingers through my neatly brushed hairs in frustration. After everything I said. Everything Sindy said. That little mongrel just... doesn't knows when to give up huh?

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