Heart of Glass (A Pierce the Veil Fanfiction)

XXIV

Jennifer's POV

I hated that piece of shit that went by the name 'Valerie.' But I had Vic and I would let him be her friend, but that wouldn't stop the hatred.

This Tuesday was going by at a decent pace. It was boring class after boring class, as usual. With our block scheduling, I only had class with Vic for three hours straight every other school day. We called them 'A' days and 'B' days, but today was a B-day. The bell rang for lunch and I flattened out my skirt as I got up.

I was on my way to lunch but Dean King had different ideas. As soon as I left my classroom, I was jerked up and taken around a corner where no one really was. Dean King was perfect. He was captain of everything he could be captain of, and well... I was cheating on Vic with him.

He pinned me up against the wall, hard, and I had a sharp intake of breath. I was suprised at how aggressive he was being right now but it was still a turn on. His lips soon found my collar bone and I threw my head back, drawing my leg up and around his back. I felt him smirk against my neck.

"Dean..." I said his name softly and my voice shook. I only wriggled out his grip when I recalled where we were.

"Dean, stop! We're in school."

"Alright but see me after school?" I agreed to his conditions and left to go to lunch.

I tried the whole changing thing with jeans and more casual clothing but it no longer fit the queen bee image that I loved too much so I went back to mini skirts and designer tops, but kept up the nice attitude with Vic.

When I got into the lunchroom, before my boyfriend the way I usually so, I sat down like any ordinary day and my friends all looked at me.

"What?" Their stares were irritating but the whole table had their eyes fixed on me.

"You're not going to do anything about it?" Alex always sat to my right, and Vic to my left. We had an unwritten seating chart here and my best friend obviously knew something I didn't.

"About what?" I put a little attitude into my voice so she would get to the point and she certainly did. She parted the two girls who sat across from us. They were only popular for being around true populars, so while the social pyramid says everyone else kisses their ass, we can actually just shit on them without regards to their feelings.

But she parted the seated girls with both her hands by shoving them to the side in opposite directions and it cleared a straight path for me to see through. They made little hurt noises but shut up soon. What I saw had me infuriated. I stared across the lunchroom at my boyfriend sitting with scum.

"Gah! Come on, Alex." I rushed up and hastily made my way to their table and it caused a bit of a scene. I thought of all the dirt I had on Valerie but it wasn't really anything. Vic hadn't told me anything and he was the only connection I had to her. Alex was on my trail, the click of her heels sounding furiously against the large square tiles of the filthy cafeteria floor.

I entered the territory that was fit strictly for those who didn't deserve to breathe the same air as people like me and attempted to pull my boyfriend out. They hadn't seemed to notice me because they were wrapped in some ridiculous conversation about some couple that was among them. I cleared my throat and that got the attention of all of them.

"Vic, why aren't you siting with us?" I pretended like I wasn't mad and reached out to him. His eyes went cold as he jerked his shoulder away and turned his attention elsewhere. No one spoke to me and they even tried to ignore me. But Jennifer Lawson was not one to be ignored. I demanded attention and I always got it one way or another. So what more could I do but try and tear them apart with their own secrets? But something had caught my eye and I must say, I would be saving the best for last.

I was very observant and I could catch on to anything that I needed to. It was from years of being popular. I dug through past memories I had from being near them and decided to start all the way at the far end of the table with Vic's brother. He had never done anything to me but he was there so he had to go down too.

"Oh, hey Mike! Smoke anything lately?" Only his brother and I knew that he definitely smoked since junior high and that he wasn't trying to let anyone know. I saw a girl I recognized as Valerie's sister gasp as she was sitting across from him.

"Oh, wait, my bad. You didn't tell your girlfriend? Ok, well I'll do it for you." I turned my attention to the young blonde. "Sorry, but your boy toy here, he's been smoking pot since junior high. Ask him about it. It's his dirty little secret." She was trying to keep it together and she was doing a better job than I thought she would. I winked at her maniacally and Mike just put his head on the table as the girl slouched down. Time to mess up a love triangle.

"So, Anne." She tried not to look at me but my icy eyes were staring hell into hers anyways. "You and Tony?" The other girl, Monica, stared at Anne like she was competition and Tony looked a little suprised.

"Oh, no? Then Tony." I looked at him with a fake happy expression and he hated it. His face stared hard at me and it actually kind of scared me. "You and that slut? You might want to get checked. Oh, and pick a bitch. Do you want this manish woman or this girl who might just work a corner?" Tears lined the eyes of the two girls and Tony held his head in his hands angrily. I laughed a little. I didn't really have anything on Jaime but I surely did know everything about his ex-girlfriend and how she did everything. Add that to his relationship with Belle, recipe for disaster. Her arms were too skinny to be healthy anyways.

"So, tell me Belle. Eat lately? And Jaime, you could do better. She fails in comparison to your ex. Remember how she used to do everything!?" I was taking them out and damn, I loved it. Belle looked insecure and like she was going to wither away while she stared into Jaime's eyes. You could tell that all he wanted was to tell her it wasn't true. But for some reason they wouldn't talk. It took some of the fun out of it.

Time for my finale. I turned my attention back to what had fascinated me so much before. Vic's wrists were unde the table and the colorful bracelets I usually paid no mind to were covering a larger secret that peeked out just a little. Across from him, Valerie's low rise jeans and crop top also hid a secret, and boy, did that really help.

"Valerie, I've always hated you, so I'll just come right out and say it. Bitch, you cut yourself." She choked and the air around her seemed to thin. The looks on faces were priceless. "And Vic, I love you but, it's over. I cheated on you and something tells me that you probably already know that." I bent over and whispered in his ear.

"You weren't good enough anyways." It seemed to kill him inside and I almost felt bad. I came back up and made a final statement.

"Well you guys deserve each other. Matching scars, right?" I smirked and walked off to go sit back down.

"It was so weird, they never said a word!" Alex was with me the whole time and she had noticed it too.

"I know! It's almost lik-" I was tackled to the floor by somebody who then flipped me over onto my back. A crowd was gathering to see me go at it, face to face with Anne Allen. She crashed her fist into my nose but Alex came to help me and her friends came to break it up.When she was off me I had a bloody nose and Monica had kicked Alex away from her and into my direction. The bell to end lunch rang just then and I got away lucky.