I stood in the bathroom staring at my reflection in the mirror. "Who is that girl?" I thought to myself. Its amazing how much a mirror can hide. I closed my eyes and inhaled deeply I telling myself "Suck it up and be perfect". I smiled and grabbed my vanilla lipgloss out of my pink Vera Bradley bag and swiped a layer on. Amanda walked in and smiled pulling out her bright red lipstick and swiftly put another layer on making her perfect lips stand out and extenuating her dark skin. "Anna thinks Maggie is anorexic" Amanda stated in her perfectly snobbish voice. "Anna thinks too much" I replied back not wanting to continue the conversation. Jensen nodded in agreement only to go back to fixing her make up.
I walked out as confident as possible, completely faking my confidence. Then stopped when I saw Carson and Riley in front of the vending machine. I quietly walked past them and got a water out of the vending machine secretly listening in. "You little Bitch, this is why your a friendless whore!" Carson stated a little loudly while Riley stood there holding back tears. "Go kill yourself!" Carson screamed at Riley. Riley ran to the bathroom trying not to break down, as a smirk formed on Carson's face, obviously showing she was proud of herself for treating Riley that way. Carson took notice of me and shoved a finger in my face "You heard nothing!" Carson spat at me. I nodded in fright.
"Damn it Chloe"! Why didn't you stand up for her I thought scoldingly. Then watch Carson prance back into the cafeteria hugging Anna as Anna smiled proud of Carson. Once I got a grasp on what had happened, I ran to the bathroom to find Riley. "You ok?" I asked cautiously when I found her crying. "Yeah" she said trying wiping the mascara that was running down off her cheek bones. I could see she was trying to shake it off. "Does my makeup look ok?" She asked "Um.... Sure?" I said then we both laughed. With the last ten minutes of lunch I helped her fix up and we walked out of the bathroom just as the bell rang.
"Crap, I missed lunch!" Riley said disappointedly. "Here." I said handing her my lunch. "You sure? " she asked hesitantly. I nodded. We walked back to our lockers in complete silence as Riley ate. "Why are you doing this?" Riley asked as she did her locker combination. "Doing what?" I asked. "Helping me, we aren't even friends." she said as she closed her locker. "And they are?" I said referring to Carson and Anna. She shrugged. We made our way to Computer class and took our seats.
Unfortunately I sat next to Jensen "Ms. Perfect". "Haley hurry up I need my whiteout" I heard her say impatiently. I just rolled my eyes. Mrs. Cornal walked in and told us in her monotone voice "Take your seats students." Once we were all seated Mrs. Cornal began the lesson. "Chloe, you and Jensen will be partners." I heard Mrs. Cornal say handing Jensen and I a project rubric. "No, no,noooo! I thought to myself. Jensen slide her chair closer to me so we could begin the project.
