Holly! A New Adventure

Chapter 11: Holly gets manipulated

      In the Frobisher residence, at night, Vivian is lying down on her own bed, complaining to herself for her failure to humiliate Holly with the bulb horn. "Rag dolls, porcelain dolls, paper dolls, plastic dolls, American Girl dolls, Barbie dolls. Every time I try to humiliate that girl, I end up being pinched! Ugh... Like, What am I going to do?" Vivian complained as she crossed her arms. "Criminy! What if I'm gonna make her a snobby young lady?" She said as she started to think. "I bet she can get a load of this." She thought, smiling.

Back to the Lawrence residence, Lisa and Holly are reading some books before sleep. They saw many words about a boy who had a pet mouse and a girl who had a pet hamster. When the rag doll got out of the bed to brush her teeth, she screamed in horror as she noticed Vivian in the bathroom. "AAAAHHHHH!!! What are you doing here?!"

"Holly, you're just a rag doll." She said as Lisa showed up.

"Vivian? What are you doing here?" She asked.

"I didn't want your parents to find out how I got here. Holly, I have to tell you something!"

"What do you want?" Holly asked.

"Lisa's using you." Vivian falsely claimed.

"Using me? But, we're friends!"

"No! She's not your friend! Lisa was torturing you daily."

"What are you talking about?!" Lisa asked skeptically.

"You shouldn't live with Lisa. You will be my friend now. I tried to tell my mom that I wanted a doll as my friend, but, now, times have changed!" Vivian manipulated Holly as she whispered in her ear. "Snobbish girls can't get along with normal girls."

"What the..."

"She's not your friend anymore, Holly. Change yourself."

After listening to Vivian's words, Holly stared at Lisa angrily, shocking her. "Is that all, Lisa? Hmph!"

"Holly! What happened to you?" She asked desperately as the rag doll shoved her into the floor. "Holly, what are you doing?!"

"I shouldn't live with a normal girl like you, Lisa Lawrence."

"But, I'm your friend! You live with me!"

"I don't live with you anymore." Holly removed her bow from her hair and threw it next to Lisa. Vivian smiled in delight as she walked away with her manipulated sidekick.

"No! Please! Holly, stop!" Lisa picked up the bow and tried to stop them from leaving her house. Only to see that her rag doll and best friend is gone as she watched Holly and Vivian going to the Montgomery street. "You know what? Go! Enjoy! I don't want to see you anymore!" Lisa went back to her house in anger.

"Thank you for your help, Vivian. What are we gonna do?" Holly asked.

"Let's make Portia cruel."

The next day, the students are going to Maynard H. Jackson school after an school trip yesterday morning. Lisa is dismayed that Holly has left her for Vivian as she went inside. The cheerleaders noticed her as they tried to greet her, but, were ignored. When she went to the classroom, Lisa pulled out Holly's bow from her jacket pocket and observed it before Maureen showed up.

"Lisa!" She exclaimed as she walked next to Lisa. "Lisa, are you okay?"

"It's Holly. She thought that I was using her and left me at home." She said as she recounted the event.

"The rag doll? Oh, girl. Don't worry, You can get another rag doll to-"

"No, Maureen! Holly is my rag doll!" Lisa explained as Holly, still unkind and snobby, came to the classroom. "Oh! Hi, Holly!" She greeted as the rag doll ignored her greeting. "Holly, It's me!"

"I don't think so."

"Girls! Girls!" Nikki came to the classroom, desperate. "Portia changed! Vivian tricked her by thinking that I'm a normal girl who gets along with a mean girl!"

"What kind of mean girl?" Maureen asked as Portia appeared, this time, acting as Vivian's third friend.

"What up, losers?" She greeted tauntingly.

"Losers?!" The girls gasped in horror.

"Holly and Portia are my friends now." Vivian entered in the classroom. "They are living in my house now. We're roommates!"

"Holly and Portia are not your roommates, Vivian." Lisa protested. "This is manipulation."

"Manipulation! Ha! Let me tell you now: I tried to find a friend for myself."

"A friend for yourself? What do you mean...?"

"I tried! When I was a little girl, I was lonely and friendless."