" Then what are you waiting for? You're a Serpent now, aren't you? Take what you want. Take this moment to make it something more."
//OR//
In which, a young girl is tired of being pushed around by her family, so she grows up.
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Chapter Ten: Choked Up
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right-for you'll be criticized anyway." -Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Cheri, relax, you sing more than you talk, and that's a lot, so you should be perfect up there, as always." Maeve gives me a reassuring smile and I sigh.
"I know, you're right, but look at Archie, he's completely freezing," I whisper and gesture to Archie on stage who was, in fact, frozen in place.
"You're ten times the singer he is." She scoffs and I shrug, nodding.
I grip the necklace hanging from my neck and take a deep breath as Archie comes off stage. I could do this. Even if Reggie and the rest of the misogynistic football team were all watching.
"Cheri Blossom," Kevin calls and I walk on stage, a wide smile plastered on my face before Reggie and the rest of the idiots club decided to start making snide comments towards me.
"Yes, I'll be singing a song dedicated to my dear ex-boyfriend, Reggie Mantle." I smile sarcastically before the music starts.
I grab the mic and flip my hair, smirking at Reggie.
"Well I, I thought I knew you, thinkin' that you were true Guess I, I couldn't trust called your bluff time is up 'Cause I've had enough You were there by my side, always down for the ride But your joy ride just came down in flames 'cause your greed sold me out in shame."
I sing, referring to when I came out to him and instead of helping me, he told my parents who then sent me off without warning.
"After all of the stealing and cheating, you probably think that I hold resentment for you But uh uh, oh no, you're wrong 'Cause if it wasn't for all that you tried to do, I wouldn't know Just how capable I am to pull through So I wanna say thank you 'Cause it Makes me that much stronger Makes me work a little bit harder It makes me that much wiser So thanks for making me a fighter Made me learn a little bit faster Made my skin a little bit thicker Makes me that much smarter So thanks for making me a fighter Never saw it coming, all of your backstabbing Just so you could cash in on a good thing before I'd realize your game I heard you're going round playing the victim now But don't even begin feeling I'm the one to blame 'Cause you dug your own grave After all of the fights and the lies 'cause you're wanting to haunt me But that won't work anymore, no more, 'Cause if it wasn't for all of your torture I wouldn't know how to be this way now and never back down So I wanna say thank you 'Cause it Makes me that much stronger Makes me work a little bit harder It makes me that much wiser So thanks for making me a fighter Made me learn a little bit faster Made my skin a little bit thicker Makes me that much smarter So thanks for making me a fighter."
