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❝How do I... How do I stop them?"
"You want to stop them?" Rachel raised an eyebrow.
"Yes," I nodded.
She immediately broke out into a high-pitched laugh. "Oh Laura, you can't.❞
Every prestigious high school has this. A group...
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. Take you down another level . And get you dancing with the Devil . Take a shot of this .
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RACHEL AND I FORMMATED AN OVERALL PLAN. Deciding that the safest way to 'overthrow' them was to simply rise higher than them. They are feared, I needed to be loved. Love is greater than fear when no one loves the one whos feared. But if you fear the one that's loved, well, that's just pure idiocy because at that point they hold more power of you and everyone else. I needed to branch out. Gain more friends, more trust, more popularity. I needed to do this the old fashion way. And meeting up once a week was too risky, so once a month and text exchanges were better. We needed to play it off as friends. I needed her to be on my side without being on my side. This little high school is going to turn into pawns for my game, and I don't feel the least bit guilty.
I dressed as I normally would on Monday. Pearls, red headband, and my LV heels with socks. Playing dumb was the worst way to go about this, so instead, I had to play innocent. Nothing I was doing was wrong, I just wanted friends. Another thing I know this school was thriving off of is parties. I would start little. Inviting no more than 30 people. People would be talking about who and who didn't get invited for days. Then I would expand, people would want to be invited. I can rely on the social status given by the girls for that. And I'll have to be respected. I need to be 'scary' enough where they won't mess with me, but kind enough where they will. That was also easy, being apart of the current A-listers practically gave me everything I needed to work with. Except for love. People only feared me currently. Freezing up in the hallway when I walked by, not looking at me during class. I was feared, and for the moment that would be very unhelpful.
So today, the first task I gave myself was to find a friend. I didn't want to jump in so soon, that would be suspicious, but I also didn't want to wait too long. My driver dropped me off, and I met up with Zia and Tao who were waiting out front.
"Hey!" Zia said, smiling at me. Usually, I wouldn't think anything of it, but after the talk with Rachel that I did indeed do some digging into (Yes she wasn't lying, a girl named Annabell pressed charges against the A-listers but lost in court), I began to second-guess every kind gesture they did.
"Hey girls," I smiled back. "What's up?"
"Are you dating anyone?" Tao asked, straight out of the blue.
I would be surprised, but it makes sense for her to ask. Especially if they wanted to get Isaia to fall in love with me, according to Rachel. But since I wasn't, I had to pretend to be. I raised an eyebrow. "No, why?"
"Oh, no reason. Just wondering, you know?" I don't think she was convinced that I wasn't suspicious. Which was good, I didn't want to let her off too quickly. "It's just, I was thinking about the party earlier and I noticed you were gone for quite a while. And you left as soon as you came back to us."
