FrAcTuReD (Part One) (Completed continued in Part Two)

Chapter. 07 (Slight Edit)

"So Al, that girl you were with. She gonna be okay?" Alex paused when lighting her cigarette to look at one of her friends, Will; he always wore that beanie hat regardless of weather or what else he had on. Everyone knew who he was since he was seen as "The guy with the beanie" and was able to be spotted in a crowd with ease.

She and three others were sitting near the front left corner of the gas station, some smoked, some didn't but mainly they just sat there just to shoot the shit and talk about random things both relevant and not. It was a place that they would go too regardless of weather, even if it snowed heavily. Though as if now the rain that fell before had now stopped, leaving everything to look rather glossy from the glow of street lamps as the smell of rain water filled the night air.

Alex placed her unlit cigarette behind her ear as she looked up at the night sky. Even now there were so many stars. "She said she would be alright, you worried about her Will?"

Will still didn't look convinced. "Well yeah, who wouldn't freak if the new girl suddenly fainted out of nowhere like that? That's not normal. Besides, you had that feeling she was the guy we saw the night before right?"

Alex was quite for a moment. "Hard to say really, but it might have been."

"Dude, why do you think she was out there?"

"Looking around town?" another spoke, Jacob, a fellow classmate and someone who'd often skip class if he felt it was too boring. With his hair partly shaved on the right side into a Mohawk and dyed with dark red streaks in his dark brown hair along with having a tattoo of a butterfly on the back of his neck, making him stand out and labelled as a rebel even though he would often assist his older sister at the clothing store their parents run. "I mean she is new right?"

"Makes sense I guess," Will said. "But why at night?"

This time Erin, the one who was normally quite spoke when he let out a puff of smoke. "Who knows, but a rumor has been going around about her." out of all of them he was in his final year of high school and currently on a break from his job at the gas station that they hung out at all the time. With short dark hair and large glasses he wasn't the type to stand out all that much not that he seemed to care.

Alex looked less than impressed. "What already? That was fast; don't students have better things to do then cause rumors about others?"

"That's high school for you," Jacob said dully.

Erin continued on. "Yeah well, she's part of the Liebert family right? You know, one of the founders of this town."

"Dude," Will said, completely unimpressed. "Everyone knows that."

"And?" Alex said waiting for Erin to get to the point. "What of it?"

"Well, some people in school are saying that she was sent here because she did some weird shit at her old school or some crap like that. So her family sent her out the boonies so that she can be reformed and modeled into the newest head of her family."

Alex burst out laughing. "Are you kidding me? Who the hell came up with that crap?"

Erin gave a peeved looking stare. "Look I'm not saying it's true it's a stupid rumor after all, people make up all kind of dumb shit."

"Yeah well it really is dumb, she spoke to me about it, and she never did any of that kind of crap." She then recalled the rather sad expression that Charla gave when explaining it. "If anything, she was just left alone no one at her old school seemed to care."