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28.

[continued from last chapter]

"Good morning students" Mr Fitz said. "For many of you, this isn't your first assembly, but for the freshman, it is. Usually we do assemblies once every quarter. That means we'll have four assemblies this year."

I yawned, and Josh let out a giggle. I always hated the beginning of assemblies because the principle always goes on about stuff we already know. Even if we didn't know, it wasn't important. Over the school year, the students themselves would be able to figure out that we only do four assemblies a year.

"Now" Mr Fitz said, "I'm going to share every slide with you. At the end there is a video, and it'll naturally play by itself, so please pay attention. After the video, I will go back to the slides so that I can actually read them." For the most part, everybody remained quiet, except for the one weird kid sitting in the front that was excited about what the principle had to say.

The principle clicked through every slide, showing us the title. Once we had enough time to have read the title, he would go on to the next slide. By the fourth slide, there wasn't a title, and it seemed to be a video. "There's only four slides?" Bruce, who was sitting next to Xavier, asked. "That's hella wack."

It wasn't that we liked the assemblies, but many people took the assembly time to sleep or do homework from other classes. In a way, assembly was like a free period or something.

I was about to speak, when I noticed that the video was in Joshua's bedroom. Not too long after, I realized that the video was Joshua and I, naked! I stood up, ripping Joshua's arm off of my shoulder. "How could you?!" I exclaimed, all eyes were on us.

I could hear kids in the rows behind us saying things like "dang I didn't know Mable was like that" and "oh yeah Joshua!" Joshua stood up and faced me, like he was trying to speak to me. He opened his mouth, but I smacked him before he could make a single noise. Meanwhile, the principle didn't even realize the video was still playing, he appeared to have just thought that some fight broke out.

A ton of people formed around us, and in the corner of my eye, I saw Sami laughing. "Next time, don't try to fuck my man. I promise you're not gonna get away with it" she somewhat whispered, leaning over her row of seats and close to my face. She was wearing a tube top with a lose jean skirt. In the matter of seconds, my mind was everywhere. Ultimately, I decided that if I had to be seen naked, then so did she.

I tackled Sami, prompting gasps and lots of extra noise. I pulled off her skirt, along with her underwear, and ran to the garbage can that was in the corner of the room. I put her clothes in the trash and grabbed an open water bottle that was on a table nearby. I poured the water over Sami's clothes so that she for sure wouldn't try to put it back on.

"She's got a bush!" someone yelled, obviously referring to Sami, because I shaved when Josh and I did it. The principle finally stopped the video and headed to the circle around Sami, who was now trying to cover herself with her bag. I could see Bubba trudging through the crowd, heading towards me. My hair was already up, so I braced myself. I could handle Bubba Romero.

"You dirty bitch" she yelled as she shoved me, seeming to have been with all her force. I stumbled, but quickly fixed myself. The lights in the room were still dim, but Bubba and I had light clothing on, along with light skin tones, so I could see her perfectly fine.

I picked up the little table that I grabbed the water from, and charged Bubba with it. She fall over, landing arm first. "Ow!" she cried out, "she broke my arm!" I rolled my eyes, I didn't believe Bubba at all. What if she was doing that so that I could have sympathy, then once I get calm again, she charges me? I moved the table out of the way, and grabbed Bubba's hair. I banged her head against the floor a couple times, until I felt some big, firm hands pull my off of her.

***

"Honestly, I'm just the principle, I can't charge anybody" Mr Fitz said to my parents. "It seems like Mabel may have possibly been a victim in this situation, based on the story that was told to me. However, Bubba is hurt and Mabel is not. I guess I'm trying to figure out that part."

"Wait" papi said, clearly confused. "She fought Bubba? Bubba Romero?" Mr Fitz nodded his head yes, "I was surprised too, but I guess they haven't been friends for a while. It just blew up all of a sudden today."

I shook my head, Mr Fitz had no clue just how crazy it had actually gotten between Bubba and I. This isn't our first fight, but last time our fight didn't make it to the principles office, that's all.

My parents looked over at me; papi with confusion, and mami with disgust. I opened my mouth to speak, but mami cut me off. "What could Bubba have possibly done so bad to you that you break her arm huh?" she said. "You're turning crazy mija, and I don't like it."

I sighed, "they started bullying me" I said, as my parents both showed faces of shock. "Bubba left me to become popular, and the girl she ditched me to be with hates me over a boy."

Mami nodded, "It all makes sense now" she began, "so that hickey you had, was it from the boy that they hated you over?" I slowly nodded, while trying to think of a way to change the topic. So far I've been able to avoid Mr Fitz bringing up the sex tape, but I know that he more than likely will bring it up, because I'm a minor.

"A hickey?" Mr Fitz asked, "when did she have that?" Mami's face lit up, as if my embarrassment made her happy. "Last week, she tried hiding it but I caught her" she said, without a single stutter. "Was it from Josh?" Mr Fitz asked, and my heart instantly dropped. I knew exactly what was next, but I couldn't stop it, unless I found a distraction, fast.