The Snitch

(vii)

You'd think liking One Direction in a BTS dominated society is the most difficult thing a teenage girl can do, but, rounding up a bunch of people who hate you, to perform in a skit with you is even harder. Of course, I had locked the majority of them in a room full of reptiles when they had refused to vote for me for class president. But, they've gotta learn to let things go!

After Ramona slapped some sense into me, I had decided that I was gonna start my own group for the skit.  Everybody pretty much was afraid to be seen around me. I had started by rounding up on this guy Simon who was in half of my classes including English. I caught up with him after Psychology, asked him if he wanted to be in my group. Poor guy looked like he had been hit in the hoo-has for a few seconds and then proceeded to say that he was already in some other group.

Some of the others had not been as polite. "Oh, NOW you remember we exist?!" "Why don't you ask your precious Barbies?!"

  Bitch, do you think if I had a choice I'd be standing here in your coffee breath? Grow some brain cells. And brush your teeth, for the sake of all that's holy. I just needed to get a few people to put up a decent performance! So far, I had got a few fingers but sadly, no members.

After about two days of this, I was pretty much drained. The Girls were apparently working on something big. Their rehearsals took place after school at one of their homes, so nobody had any idea what it was about. But, judging from the knowing smirks and copious amounts of group pictures on their socials, they were working hard. My mind had pretty much given up, then I decided to bring in the big guns

With that in mind I decided to corner Sherin Joshi outside the washrooms. She looked startled but managed to give me a weak "Hey Tyra!" I smiled my best Chanel Oberlin smile and said "Nice day, huh, Sherin?" She looked confused but, nodded. "You know what else was nice? " I continued "Remember last month when you leaked that junior's nudes? That one that your man cheated on you with?"

Her face paled but I continued ruthlessly "Yeah, so I have the screenshots of you telling me but, I haven't showed them to anyone. That was very nice of me, right?" I smiled again.  "What do you want, Tyra? I thought we were friends" She said shakily. I put my hand over my heart as if I was offended "How can you assume that I wanted something from you?! That is not what friends do! Of course we are friends. That is why you are in my team for the English skit, aren't you? Because we're friends." I put as much venom I could into the word and smiled that toxic smile again. She blinked in rapid succession and nodded "Of course." She drew a shaky breath "Of course. I'll be in your team. That's what friends do." I thanked her and walked off. Member count: 1.

They can take away my chair at the cafeteria table, they can unfollow me on Instagram, they can reduce me to a shadow of who I used to be but, they can't take away the things I know. Who bitches on who, who has a crush on who, all the insider information. After pulling a few strings, by the end of the day I had a complete eight-member team. I know right? Blackmail? That is just bitchy. But, if everybody already thinks of me as a bitch, it was high time to live up to character.

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"Okay, people, listen up!" Ramona announced. All eight of us were seated in my bedroom, it was kinda stuffy but, I needed a skit, not their kidneys. These idiots could handle a little crowd. "We all need to put up a great-ass show by tomorrow." Some of the kids scoffed but, Ramona continued, lady was a bad bitch. "As the person with the most experience in this sort of thing, Tyra should be the group leader. Let's vote, all in favor of Tyra leading?" Literally not a single person moved a finger. Ramona had the nerve to snigger, that little hoe knew this would happen! She had to prove to me that when I was away from The Girls, literally no one gave two shits about me! Yeah, no shit.