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Invitation

The hot burning liquid is burning through my shirt. My hand goes to the back of my head and touches it, wanting to identify the burning, smelly, liquid. I bring my hand back into my field of vision, I quickly identify it as spaghetti sauce.

I turn around slowly.

"Spaghetti sauce?!" I make mean eye contact with her, my eyes saying revenge is coming after her. Although, they also held amusement in them. I touch my fingers to my lips to taste the burning liquid.

The taste wasn't pleasant, it was just for show.

"You do realize that this sauce is really fattening?" I say, with a questioning look on my face. Her eyes widen.

I walk up to her, with the rest of my fingers covered with the sauce. "Thanks, but no thanks." I take my fingers and wipe the rest of the sauce on her perfectly makeuped face. Her eyes go hard, and her jaw is frozen open, looking at me with a shocked angry look.

A devilish smile makes it way upon my lips as I turn away from her, only to be taken by another surprise. Everyone's eyes were on us. On ME. I read all of their faces, each filled with shock and amusement. I even sneaked a peek at the table that I came from. They held the same expressions as everyone else.

Once I was in the bathroom I took my
jacket off and started cleaning it.

I wasn't even in the bathroom for more than 2 minutes when I herd footsteps outside of the hall, they enter the bathroom. It was Piper and KC.

Once they saw me standing there, they walked right over. Smiles plastered on their faces. I was running hot water though the sink trying to get all of the fattening spaghetti sauce out of my jacket.

"Oh my god!" KC said with a laugh, as she took a seat on the sink next to the one I was using. "That was the BEST thing I have EVER SEEN!!!!"

"Really?! All I did was tell her to stay away from Ethan.... and wiped that disgusting sauce on her face." I stated, while rubbing my fingers really hard against my shirt trying to get the red splotches out.

"Her face was priceless!!!!" She started laughing again.

"I'm soooooo glad someone actually had the balls to stand up to her." Piper stated, I raised and eyebrow in her direction.

"You do realize I am female, right?" I joked.

"Of course! But- ohhh" she said smiling with a groan. "You know what I mean."

"I don't understand what the big deal is," I looked up from my jacket at them. "all I did was tell her the truth." I said, then I looked back down. I occasionally brushed my red hair behind my ears as it fell in front of my eyes.

"'The big deal'"KC said mocking me " is that no one in their right mind would tell that b*tch no. Then you came along and did!!" KC said using her hands gesturing to me.

A smile found its way on my face, what they said made me feel good. Me having the 'balls' to stand up to her. From what I had been through, I had always felt cowardice. They were making it sound like I was the most bravest person in the world. But in reality I wasn't.

Memories burst through my mind. Of hiding in the dark as it shielded me from the eyes of the killer, of cowering behind a gun as it was the only thing between my life and death.

"Rose? You okay?" KC held a hand against my shoulder and was looking at my eyes.

"Sorry, yeah, I'm okay..." I said. They both looked at each other, questioning me silently to themselves. "I'm seriously okay." I say with a cheerful smile.

I looked down to find my sweatshirt soaked and the stain a mere memory. I take the black fabric into two hands and ring it out, hearing the water hit the bottom of the sink. I ring it out a couple more times and hold it up.

"You still have some sauce in your hair..." Piper comments.

"Ugggh," I groan. Placing my jacket on the sink where KC jumped down from. I turn on the original sink and turn on the warm water and take my hair in both hands, bringing it down to the rushing water. I start running my fingers through my hair wiping away the sauce.

"Here," I hear footsteps approaching" let us do it." Before I could fully object multiple fingers start working on my hair.

"Are you sure?" I ask, "I can do it mysel-"

"Oh hush! You're one of us now!" KC said, which brought a bright warm smile to my face. Even though it was masked by the sink.

Just by the time when they were drying my hair using the hand dryer, the bell rang. Signaling 4th hour is about to begin.

They ring out my hair one more time and Piper hands me my soaked jacket.

We make our way out of the bathroom. All three of us walk shoulder to shoulder, with me in the middle.

I wasn't expecting this.