𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.

Cops And Criminals: Part Two.

𝐉𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞

With my right hand aching and my heart racing in my chest I desperately scribbled down the last sentence on the paper, seconds before the timer went off at the front of the classroom and Professor Greene said in a loud voice, "Pencils down."

Exhaling deeply I dropped my pencil on the desk. Today was Thursday the 13th of December and I just completed my second exam: Economics with Professor Greene. Tomorrow I had English Lit with Professor Khan.

Organizing my exam papers I made my way to the front of the classroom to hand it in with the rest of the students. Leaving the classroom I stood outside the door to wait for Evelyn and Collette. With my arms feeling like dead weight I rotated my shoulders a couple of times and cracked all ten of my fingers.

"Hi there Jasmine."

Turning my head to the side I saw Jesse approach me with Tina and Maya right behind her. Groaning I crossed my arms across my chest and faced them. "What do you want?"
"Now, now, don't be rude," Tina laughed condescendingly and leaned against the wall, just a couple of inches away from me.

"Whatever it is you girls are thinking of asking me I'm not interested," I say as I turn to walk away from them, only for Jesse to block my path with her body. "Don't walk away Jasmine, we just want to talk to you."
"Yeah. We thought the four of us could go out for coffee or something," Maya chimed in.
"Why? You three were always so discourteous to me ever since I came to this school, why so nice now?"

"Because," Tina said as she fiddled with the strap on my Bottega bag. "we want to offer you a deal."
"What kind of deal?" I knew she didn't have anything to offer me that I would want but I decided to humor her anyway.
"Tomorrow is the English Lit exam and since you're close with Professor Khan we thought you could...convince him to give you the answers to the exam." 

"You want me to convince the professor to give me the cheat sheet for the English Lit exam tomorrow?" I asked incredulously. "Have you lost your fucking minds? No. Let me rephrase that. Have you lost whatever was left of your fucking minds?"
"There's no need to be so bitchy," Maya muttered.
"Oh honey you don't want to see me when I'm being bitchy. So get the fuck out of here before I actually start being bitchy."

Disgusted with the three of them I turned to walk in the opposite direction but Jesse suddenly grabbed my arm and spun me around. "Who the fuck do you think you are? Just because you wear expensive clothes and drive around in fancy cars doesn't make you better than everybody else. At the end of the day you're just a regular college student like the rest of us. So act like it!"

"Hey what's going on here?"

Evelyn and Collette emerged from the next classroom just in time to see Jesse grab my arm and threaten me.

"Let her go," Colette ordered.
"Oh look Jasmine, your friends have come to rescue you," Tina said tauntingly.

"Didn't you hear my sister? She said to let her go!" Evelyn marched up to Jesse, grabbed her wrist and twisted it, forcing her to let go of my arm while releasing a pained cry.
"You little bitch!" Maya hissed as she raised her hand to slap Evelyn, only for Collette to grab her by her hair and yank her backwards. "No one hits my little sister but me."

Realizing the odds were a million times against her Tina decided to make a break for it. But I stuck my foot out, causing her to trip and fall flat on her face, chipping two of her front teeth.

"There, now you have something to ask Santa for. Your two front teeth," I giggled as she inspected her teeth in the mirror.
"You bitch! You'll pay for this!" she shrieked.
"Sure. Since you tripped on my foot why don't I pay for your trip to the dentist?"