SWEET BUT PSYCHO
How dare can she talk like this? I thought she’s out of Jason’s and my life for good.
” Get the hell out of my sight,” I said, trying not to make any scene. That’s not me. I have no idea how to be a bitch like her. I gave a hand to Pearl to help her get up. She rubbed the dirt off her dress. She looked at her elbow in pain.
” Are you okay, Pearl? ” I asked, examining her hands.
” She’s fine. Stop overreacting.” I heard Crystal’s voice again. What does she want from me? Can’t she mind her own business?
” I told you to…” I started still trying to act calm. But then, I heard a girl’s voice behind Crystal.
” Maybe Pearl wanted to call Andrian to show her injury. But he won’t give a fuck about her.”
That’s it. Mess with me. I can deal with it forever. But talking about my best friend like this is beyond the limit. I do remember this voice. It must be Crystal’s friend. Lexi. I looked at Pearl’s reaction when she heard Lexi’s words. Crystal must be here to embarrass me and Pearl in front of all my classmates.
” Shut up, Bitch. This is my last warning. Get out of here or you will be leaving the ground getting embarrassed. I know all of your pathetic and ugly secrets.”
Crystal eyes narrowed while I looked at the angry face of Lexi. It must be the first time I ever talked with her or shouted at her.
” Go ahead. Say what you have in mind. I know what you are going to say. I hook up with Andrian. Yes, I did. So, what? Do you know what I have to say about you? You stole my boyfriend and hooked up with Ryder behind Jason. Isn’t it true?”
I almost lost my breath when I heard her saying something cruel like that. I never hooked up in my life. I never betrayed anyone. She doesn’t know anything about me. She’s the one who’s doing some nasty things behind Jason’s back. Who knows what she had done which still stays a secret? I can see all eyes on me. Observing me. Judging me. This is one of the moment I never thought of it to happen.
I don’t know how I should react. I didn’t reply. I slapped her. Hard. My hands aren’t in my control. I heard a lot of gasps everywhere.
” I’m not a slut like you. Say something like this one more time. You are dead.” I looked at her with a fierce look. She’s too shocked to react or take her hand from her cheek.
” You deserve this, bitch,” Pearl added. Soon, more students surrounded us who might not be our class girls. Right now, I couldn’t spot any boys. especially not Jason and Ryder. My heart hurts. I never did something bad behind Jason’s back. I accept that I’m dating them. But I have been truthful to them. I would never betray any one of them as Crystal said.
” You are messing with a wrong person,” Crystal slapped me back after she recovered from the shook. There’s more laughter when she did it. I know many girls are on her side. I can somehow see some phones near me. Are these stupid students taking a video of this scene?
” Are you angry that I told your dirty secret? You have been hooking up with two boys frequently. Everyone must be thinking you are a new student who is nothing but an innocent girl which is clearly wrong.” This is it. I already got embarrassed. There’s nothing to lose now.
” You are gonna pay for this,” I muttered under my breath and stepped forward to punch her in the face. This is ridiculous. I’m not the one who goes into a fight with a girl in a high school. I know I will probably end up with injuries. But still, I desperately want to do something to her.
” Get off me, Psycho,” she screamed as I pushed her down on the ground and tried to show the anger I had inside me through my hands. The next minute, I can see more lights from the phone and students footsteps. Crystal is more psychotic than me. She almost punched my face hard and tackled me on the ground. I brought my hand up from the ground and threw some sand on her face. Before I could take that minute as an opportunity to knock her off, someone pulled her up from behind her. I heard multiple voices which I’m not ready to analyse it.
” Let me go. I gotta teach a lesson to this sick bitch.” Crystal growled, not ready to stop the fight but neither do I.
” What the fuck are you doing, Emily? Are you insane?” I heard Ryder’s voice at last. I must be feeling his hands pulling me up from the ground. My hand made a fist but Crystal is almost far away to hit her. My hands are full of sand dirt. I must be looking crazy.
” Let go of me,” I struggled under his grip. Since the class is over, I couldn’t notice any teachers around us. That’s for my own good or I would be standing in the principal’s room again.
” Stop it, Emily. Calm down and tell me what happened.” Ryder tried to smooth talk me.
” Nothing. Just kill that bitch.” I said like I want to murder her.
” I will do that before you do,” I heard Crystal’s shouting at me.
” Come one, Crystal. Let’s get out of here.” I heard a boy’s voice behind her but tried to carry her when she’s not ready to obey. That’s when Jason entered.
” Can’t you all just mind your own business? If I see anyone holding their phone, I’m sure I will break it to pieces.” Jason threatened as he randomly grabbed a phone from someone’s hands. I heard the pleading of a girl when he took her phone. Jason simply taped on it and gave it back. I think he would have deleted it.
” Jason,” Crystal started but the boy forced her out of the ground as the others started to leave the area.
” What’s wrong with you? This is not how you behave, Emily.” Jason approached me with an angry face. Jason rarely calls me Emily. I can’t believe they both are mad at me right now. They don’t know what Crystal said to me. Whatever it is, I shouldn’t act like a psycho.
” Don’t ask me anything,” I said, trying to fight the tears. I don’t want to create sympathy.
” What did that bitch say to you? If you told me, I could have taken care of the problem. Why did you get into a fight?” Ryder asked me as he released my arms and I didn’t try to run away.
” I can’t say it now. It will probably be recorded on everyone’s phone. I don’t want to stay in Edgewood high anymore.” I looked down to hide my eyes which already blurred my view.
” Don’t worry about the footage. I can delete all the evidence from all phones. I will make sure of it.” Jason kept his hands on my shoulder and made me look at him.
” Everyone knows that you are capable of deleting it in some ways. But you caused it. Didn’t you? She’s your ex-girlfriend, right?” Ryder fires at him.
” She’s nobody to me now. How can I be the problem? Don’t talk rubbish.”
” I’d better leave this whole damn school. It spoiled my name. I can’t tolerate this anymore.”