My Little Secret

Chapter Seventeen

PART THREE: LIANA

Chapter Seventeen:

            The scandal didn’t die down for a while. Finally, on Friday afternoon, Istria logged back on… and exploded. She wrote a fiery message on Shierry’s wall.

            ‘BITCH! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? YOU SAID YOU WOULDN’T TELL!’

            Shierry’s comment was pretty nasty. ‘I didn’t!! God, I never even SENT those texts. Get away from me, you little liar.’

            ‘OH YEAH THEN? THEN WHO ELSE WAS IT NAMED SHIERRY THAT I TEXTED THAT TO?’

            Me.

            ‘I DON’T KNOW! DON’T YELL AT ME BITCH! I DIDN’T DO THAT!’

            I figured it was time to start on Liana. I still had just about two months. I could do that. I figured I might not get revenge on Maia- maybe I’d just get her side of the story and decide from there.

            I started the same way with Liana as I had with the other two, commenting on her statuses. Nobody suspected me. I was just that friendly stranger- why would Istria have any reason to think that Rhodinia did it?

            No. It’s Lori. I’m Lori, not Rhodinia.

            What was happening to me?

            I regained my composure and went back to reading the drama-filled home page. I’d have found it funny, but I was too preoccupied wondering why I was starting to think of myself as Rhodinia and not Lori anymore.

            I noticed that it was around the time I should start my online course and signed on, sighing. Liana would have to wait.

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            Over the next few days I watched Istria’s friendships crumble over Profile, just like the way mine had, only with different insults.

            You could see Istria crumbling, too. I wished I could be at school to see what was going on there, but if I was at school, this most likely would not have happened in the first place. Ah well.

             I stopped chatting Istria, trying to offer comfort. Rhodinia was done with Istria, as was Lori. I was starting to see the two as separate people, which wasn’t bad, but sometimes I caught myself putting ‘Rhodinia’ as my name on test papers and such online. That really freaked me out. I figured that as soon as I was done with my revenge I’d just delete the Rhodinia account, because I was slowly starting to get more and more into being Rhodinia Drake that I was forgetting I was Lori Keating.

            Heck, even without Rhodinia, I was starting to lose touch with myself. I didn’t know who I was and that scared me, but I brushed that aside in my quest for revenge. I just concentrated on that and tried to forget how my life had crumbled and was still crumbling. I just wanted them to feel what they’d done to me, even if they didn’t know that was why they were slowly being crushed.

            They weren’t idiots, though. Eventually someone would figure out that the people being targeted were the ones who had hurt me the most, and they’d start whispering. That wasn’t going to happen if I could help it, though.

            Liana was going to be a bit more tough to crack. She was notoriously secretive at school. I wasn’t sure how I was going to crack her but I knew it’d have to be more complicated than just simply gaining her trust.