The Broken Ones

Chapter Nineteen

"So are you two friends with Alesia Floros?" Angelica asked Valeriana and Johnny. The three were at Dani's Café again.

"Y-yes," Valeriana uttered. Angelica still made her nervous, and she didn't like speaking in the girl's presence.

"Do you know her?" Johnny asked.

"We went to school together," Angelica explained. "And we were friends for a while."

"Alesia said she didn't have many friends in high school," Johnny commented

"Of course, she would say that," Angelica told them.

"W-what a-are y-you t-talking-ing ab-about?" Valeriana demanded, her voice shaking on every word.

"Let's just say Alesia isn't that hopeless victim she makes herself out to be," Angelica told them. "Let me tell you the truth about Alesia Floros."

Angelica looked at both Johnny and Valeriana. Neither of them said anything they just stared blankly back at her.

"There was also something about Alesia ever since I meet her in year seven. She had a way of acting like she was better than everyone else and you believed it as well."

"This sounds nothing like the Alesia we were known," Johnny told her harshly.

"She's a good actress," Angelica replied. "Alesia used to be friends with Amelia, Katarina and Tabitha. Until she decided, she didn't want to leave in the shadow of Katarina anymore. Alesia ditched Amelia and Katarina, while blackmailing Tabitha with the fact she was dyslexic. She started a new friendship group that I was a part of. She manipulated us to do her dirty work for her and made us bully Amelia and Katarina."

"I-I d-don't b-b-bel-believe y-you," Valeriana told her.

"Well it is true," Angelica told them. "Stay away from Alesia."

"What are you doing, Angelica?" A voice said harshly from behind them. Angelica turned to see Alesia staying behind her.

"Oh Alesia, I was just talking about you," she said with a smile.

"Sure you were," Alesia replied harshly. "Your problem is with me, Angelica. Leave my friends out of it."

"Whatever you say Alesia," Angelica said as she stood up. "I was going anyway."

Alesia watched as Angelica walked away.

"I see you two know each other," Valeriana said blankly. She didn't look up to face Alesia. Her mind was still processing what Angelica had said.

"I don't want to talk about it," Alesia replied. "Stay away from her. She is dangerous, and I don't want to see you guys get hurt like was." Alesia didn't look at the two, but her voice stayed firm and clear. "I don't want to see what happened to me happen to you."

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"I have never been to a recital before," Frankie told Alesia and Johnny as they entered the theatre's folio together.

"Neither," Alesia replied she looked to Johnny. "Have you?"

Johnny shook his head.

Not knowing what to expect the three had all dressed smartly. Frankie was dressed more preppy than Goth today but in true Frankie fashion, she was still wearing all black. She wore black skinny jeans, a long- sleeved v-neck t-shirt and a leather blazer styled jacket. Her long jet black hair was pulled back into a braid down her back. She was wearing simpler make-up not nearly as bold as it usually is. Johnny worn black pants, a white button-up shirt and a V-neck dark green sweater. Alesia had dressed in skinny jeans, a plain white cotton t-shirt and long, dull pink cardigan. Her brown hair had almost completely grown out of the pixie haircut. She had pushed the front back with a thin black headband.