Bad Romance

Plans & Plots

-From your POV-

Tom sat on my bed, Victoria on Aria's old bed, and me standing in the center aisle between both of them, one arm wrapped around my torso holding up my other arm with two fingers massaging the top bridge of my nose. I was rubbing small circles and had my eyes closed, trying to wrap my mind about literally anything going on right now. I just killed someone I was close to after confessing to two people that I killed my best friend, and then framed an innocent boy for it. Tom was sitting on my bed with wide eyes staring at Victoria and Victoria was staring at me as the three of us tried to figure it out. "Okay, so tell me again what you remember?" I ask her. 

"I remember being in the library, scared of you, and Alex was there rambling off crazy stuff about how envious he was of Tom, and then a sharp, stabbing pain, in my stomach and everything going black." she groans out. Her voice which used to have a light, high, and snoopy tone had morphed into a grumbly, raspy, and dark one. 

"So you remember Alex killing you?" I lie. Tom just barely flicks his eyes to me, maintaining an emotionless face, before moving his eyes back to her. She lightly raises her head and clenches her jaw.

"He did this?!" she growls. 

"Yes, he did." Tom chimes in. "He was angry at Y/n and wanted to get back at her by killing her closest friend." he lies. I have no idea if she knows that Tom and I are dating, but I don't tell her in case she connects the dots and realizes that if Alex was really  trying to get payback on me, he would've gone after Tom first. 

"So do you remember how you came back to life?" I ask her, moving my hand from between my eyes to my chin.

"All I remember is waking up on the floor in this dark, wet, room that had plenty of pipes everywhere. I heard voices, a man's voice whispering in my head and then a giant black snake-like creature nearby. And then..." she takes her time recollecting. I recognize immediately the 'giant black snake' and dart my eyes to Tom who is clearly avoiding eye contact with me.Tom what are you holding out on me? 

"It's okay, take your time remembering. The more you can tell us the better we can help you." I tell her. She thinks for another minute before speaking. 

"The voice, it was... evil sounding. He said 'you and I are alike. Double crossed by close ones and misunderstood. You're evil now, like me. I will always be apart of you.' and then a pounding headache and I blacked out and when I woke up, I just barely made my way out into the corridors and began wandering around as my memory slowly gathered tidbits." she says. "I'm going to kill Alex with my bare hands." she says in an angry tone.

"Alex is in Azkaban. He's never getting out." I sigh lightly as I start shaking my head. 

"So, what do we do now?" she asks. I look up at her.

"D'you want to resume life as normally as you can?" Tom suggests. 

"We can't. If she comes back as Victoria, everyone will wonder what the hell happened... and Alex's investigation will be opened." I mouthed the last part to him. 

"Victoria is gone." she grumbles. Tom and I look back to her. "I now go by just V. Victoria was weak, the world walked all over her and any time she tried to do what was right she got screwed over in the end." she said in a deep and angry tone. Whatever happened to her, whatever voice she heard, something had happened to her. Victoria used to be docile and scared all the time. V, was angry, spiteful, dangerous. I walk back and forth, slightly, and then I figure it out. 

"Pick a color." I tell her. 

"What?" Tom asked in confusion.

"Black." she says back with no thought. I pull my wand out and do a charm that turned her hair completely black. It was still scraggly and messy and covered most of her face.