The Selected

The Lies

"Dude what the...?" I practically scream as my maids whip my curtains open. "Do you not know how to tell time? you do realize it's like 6am right? breakfast isn't until 9!"

Isabelle, and Marley just burst out laughing as Rayna says, "First of all it's 8 Carter, not 6, second, you left all your make up on from last night so we have to scrub that off first now, and third you went on a date with the prince yesterday! you need to look presentable!"

I just roll my eyes and whip the covers back over my head. About 5 seconds later my mattress is being flipped and I roll off my bed onto the floor. "What the..." I begin before looking up to see all three of my maids holding onto my mattress, "HEY!"

"Oh stop whining and just let us get you ready in peace or else we'll start calling you lady Carter again" Rayna says.

"Fine."

About 45 minutes later my hair is straightened, I'm in a long red dress with matching heels, and they even managed to get some make up on my face before I dismissed myself and headed off to breakfast. When I got there I quickly sat in the empty seat beside Marissa and began picking at my food. By the looks I was receiving around the room it was pretty obvious that everyone knew about my date with the Prince. Feeling a little more self conscious I put my fork down and reached for my glass of orange juice instead. When I put the glass back down I see Marissa grab the pancake off my plate and begin eating it. 

"Hey that's mine!" I say while fake pouting.

"Well you're not gonna eat it! I'm just saving the poor little pancake from being thrown out in the trash", she replies innocently.

"You're so weird" I laugh while finishing off my glass of orange juice. When I finish the rest of the food on my plate, half of the girls have already finished and moved on to the ladies room, so Marissa and I do the same. When I walk into the room the atmosphere is anything but peaceful. I spot Serena standing with her "new best friends" Rebecca and Caroline in a line in front of Hadley. Hadley's a quiet, polite girl that might be the only one here more rich than Serena. But unlike Serena Hadley's kind to everyone, except right now she looks like she could hurt Serena. 

"What's going on?" I mean to ask Marissa quietly but I yell instead making everyone turn to face me. Having everyone's attention now I take a few steps closer to Serena and repeat, "What's going on".

"Oh nothing we're just having a little chat about Hadley's parents", Serena replies.

"What do you mean?"

"Oh you don't know? Well you see, my parents know everything, especially about our friend Hadley here's family because they stole from us a few years back", Serena replies in an innocent voice. Many girls gasp, but I know better than to believe a word that comes out of Serena's mouth.

"We didn't steal anything from you!" Hadley screams, tears threatening to poor down her face.

"Oh yes you did" Serena says loud enough for only me, Hadley, and her group of friends to hear. "Her poor widowed mother married my cousin for his money until she had enough to move onto her next husband, father number 3".

"That's not true!" Hadley cried, "Your cousin treated us horribly! My mother was only trying to protect me! She's a good mother!"

"Really?... sounds more like a slut to me" Serena says smirking. By the look on Hadley's face I could see what she was going to do next but I steped in front of Serena and block her hit. If she hit Serena She'd be eliminated, but I'd never confess to Hadley ever hitting me.

"Hadley just breath, think about what you're doing please! If you hit her you'll be eliminated! She's doing this on purpose", I plead.

Hadley looks from me to Serena and then back to me before wiping the tears off her face and leaving the ladies room.

"Makes sense that you'd stand up for her, you're just like her mother", Serena says while smirking.

"What did you just say to me?" I reply 

"Let's not pretend that I don't know the real reason why you're here. You're only here for the money, you're a gold digger just like Hadley's mother." Serena says while picking up a glass of pomegranate juice and taking a slow sip from it.

"Shut up! You have no idea what you're talking about!" I scream and raise my right hand, ready to slap her, but Marissa grabs both my arms and pins them behind my back.

"Carter calm down she's doing the same thing to you as Hadley" Marissa whispers in my ear. So I shut my mouth and try to take deep breaths as Serena takes a few steps closer to me.

"And one last thing... that friend of yours.. Anna is it? Well I saw her picture in a magazine with you and thought, huh, where have I seen her face before, and then it hit me. Her family used to work for mine, as slaves, sixes, nobodies. Your friend is nothing. And well"... she says eying me up and down, "so are you" she says before dumping the remaining liquid in her glass down my dress.

"Oh my god Carson! I'm so sorry I must have tripped!" serena says loud enough for everyone to here making it look like an accident. "Here let me help you" she says as she picks up a napkin and begins patting my dress with it. I quickly rip my arms out of Marissa's grip and push her away from me.

"Do NOT touch me!" I scream at her before running out of the ladies room and into my bedroom.