Minutes later they were seated on a bench outside in the courtyard along with their other friends Amanda, Jean, and Connie. They sat together enjoying the sun. "Hey guys, have y'all did the art thing Mr. Harman told you?" Lena asked.
"Oh, nah." Connie replied, "He doesn't teach me."
"Yeah," Amanda, or Manda replied, "it was pretty fun to be honest."
Lena was worried people wouldn't like what she made even though Pandora already said it was decent. "Hey, it looks pretty good, stop stressing about it." she told her. When there was fifteen minutes left before class starts, Lena decided to go back to class. "You know so I look at it one more time." she said.
She left without Pandora because she still wanted to enjoy the outside, she said. "But I'll see ya in a bit." Lena saw Rebecca walked out of the room she wanted to enter, upon seeing her, Rebecca pretended to look away from her. What's up, wimp? Rebecca's face said.
The class was empty when Lena entered, she saw her work on her desk exactly as she'd left it. She smiled with delight, she wanted to look at what she made one last time, but when she unrolled the paper, all she got was a surprise. When she saw it, Lena thought she was going to have a heart attack, "Aah!" she suppressed a scream. Right at that moment, Pandora came in.
"Hey, Lena--- what the actual hell?!"
Someone had decided to mess up Lena's hard work by writing a word in red paint all over the paper, covering some of the photos completely in red. Lena could only stare at it in shock, the word painted all over it was the same one Vaya said to her in science class: Weirdo, in all caps.
"Aah! Who would do this?!" Lena said in disbelief, though she didn't need an answer, she already knew who it was, Rebecca. She had just walked out of here when Lena was about to enter, and why would Rebecca go to class alone for no reason? All the fear Lena had for Rebecca turned into anger. No doubt Vaya told her about the time she was talking to herself.
"Do you think it was uh-huh who did it?" Pandora asked.
"Uh, yeah, who else?" Lena replied, "And plus, I saw her walk out of here earlier." she stared at the big red letters again, it was impossible not to notice the darn thing. "Urgh! What am I gonna do now? We don't have much time; class starts in ten minutes!" she exclaimed frustrated. There was no way she could fix it, and if she wanted to cover up the words, she didn't have enough back-up pics.
"Ck, ck, ck." Pandora shook her head, "Becca..." Lena knew her friend was at a loss for words too. Deep down, she wanted to hunt her enemy down in the hallway and tell her off, but she needed to find a way to fix her assignment fast. "Mr. Harman would never believe me if I said someone vandalized it, because like first, I have no proof Rebecca did it, and second, I have no proof."
The image of the word WEIRDO written all over her picture collage was burned permanently into her mind. How could a good day go so downhill within a matter of minutes? "Aaah, this was supposed to be a good day." Lena groaned. Suddenly, it hit her. "Oh, shit that's it!" she exclaimed.
"What are you gonna do about it?" Pandora inquired.
Carefully Lena took one light colored photo off the paper and placed it among the black and white one, then she placed it back in its original place. "What are you doing?" Pandora repeated, "You'll see." Lena replied, "But for real, Rebecca's prank just backfired."
The class started a few minutes after the bell rang. Lena tried not to have eye contact with Rebecca when she entered the class, but she saw her face looking triumphant like she had just won something. She's probably rejoicing over my misery right now. Mr. Harman walked in front of the class and asked who wanted to go forth first to present their work.
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