To Be Ugly (Completed - 2013)

Chapter 5

Chapter 5|The repercussions of stepping on a lion's tail

The next day, nobody really bothered me till it was lunch. I just faced the usual insults, staring and little pranks like putting post it notes at my back. Meanwhile, Adrianne's popularity was already waning because the senior girls had stopped coming to excuse her from classes just to invite her to sit with them during lunch. I could only hope that her dubiously earned popularity-at my expense-would die down with my own terrible prank victim popularity.

I was rushing to the library when I suddenly slid on a banana peel dropped on the floor. Unfortunately, I slid and hit someone's back thereby pushing the person to the floor.

That person happened to be a guy and obviously the son of a top notch minister if his clothes were anything to go by. The price of his shoes alone would be able to buy three weeks satisfactory meals for I and Grandma. He had been speaking to a very beautiful third year student who walked away as soon as she saw him on the floor.

He stood up slowly and looked at me from the top of my head to the sole of my feet with pure derision. I stood up awkwardly and shifted uncomfortably under the heat of his hateful stare.

"I'm so sorry...I'm so so sorry," I muttered urgently.

I wanted to do anything at that time, anything at all that would make him slide those beautiful eyes holding so much hatred and cruelty in it off me. But he just stared at me for a minute and muttered something under his breath before dusting his jacket and with a second glance at me, he walked away.

I thought that I was free since he hadn't reacted and it wasn't until I got to my next class that I realised that I had stepped on the tail of a sleeping lion who was now out to get me.

I got to class a little late and the teacher was already there so I just sat on my assigned seat without a second glance at it. That was when I noticed that the seat was wet. And now my skirt was wet.

I thought at first that if this was just the little prank that the rich boy wanted to play on me then I was okay with it since it would just cost me a little embarrassment but I was seriously mistaken.

When the bell for another class rang, I sat put in my seat till all the students had left and walked straight to the Ladies toilet popularly called Ladies where I managed to get my skirt slightly dry.

When I finally left the toilet, there were still thirty minutes left before the current class which I had then would end. So I slipped into the gym where the current class was holding. I managed to get in without being noticed and I was happy that I wouldn't have to be cleaning any classes or toilets as punishment.

I shouldn't have been happy at all because just as I left my last class for the day, I saw people rushing out to the main hallway where all the lockers were. I followed them there to take my backpack from my locker and discovered that everyone was looking up at a big screen that was situated on top of the door leading outside the school.

The screen was showing the video of a girl walking down the school hallway. When I looked closer, I realised that it was me.

Someone had been taking a video of me when I stood up from class with my wet skirt and went to the toilet. The video suddenly stopped at the place where I entered the toilet. Texts suddenly started filling the screen with a full photo of myself.

* Watch out !

She is not only scarred, ugly and attention seeking, she also leaves her mark everywhere in the school like a dog by urinating on the chair in BROAD DAYLIGHT !

Lets just call her Miss Ugly.

How about we give Miss Ugly a taste of her own medicine???

Signed Prince Derek Dells*