I do not own Monster High.

Cleo squinted.

Frankie nodded quickly and then squeaked, "Right? Right? Right guys?"

Draculaura, who was conveniently looking at the Justin Biter poster on the other side of the lunchroom, nodded too. "Totes. Laguna was crying lakes."

Clawdeen made a growling sound that had Frankie kicking her under the table for.

She continued. "So anyway, THEN the new girl insulted her hair—and you know how Laguna is about her hair, especially with all the chlorine in the school swimming pools—and she ran off, crying. Personally, I think the new girl was trying to make an impression, like, I'm the Queen, and did that by insulting everyone she saw."

Abby sniffed. "Then why not get out of her eyesight?"

"Be-cuuuzz the point is the new girl—isn't her name something like Serena?—is going way overboard. She's acting rude, stuck-up, mean—"

"Then why are we sending Cleo de Nile there?" Clawdeen huffed. "She's worse than— ohhh."

Cleo shot her a look and then snapped her fingers into Frankie's face. "Continue."

"—and she's picking up all the guys! I mean, a second ago she was flirting with Deuce while our friend Laguna was weeping! Cleo, you're the school's—the school's own Queen Bee!—go and rip her apart!" Frankie ended the conversation and took a bite of mystery meat.

Then she wished she hadn't. Ghoulia gave her a sympathetic glance.

"So," began Cleo, "this Serena is A, being me, which everyone knows is my thing, B, made Laguna cry, which makes me wonder why Clawdeen didn't go rip her a new one, and C, flirting with the guys, even beloved boyfriends who have girlfriends willing to rip Serenas into shreds. Now I know you're lying."

Draculaura squawked. "How? How?"

"Because no one is that stupid. Please." Cleo returned to her bottled of iced water while rolling her eyes. "Now go, go and—recycle."

Just then a sobbing girl with blond hair passed the lunchroom doors, crying into her light blue skin.

Abby frowned. "Laguna crying." Ghoulia moaned.

Cleo's plastic bottle crumpled, shooting droplets everywhere. "So, where is this Serena?"

Serena's real name turned out to be Bea. Her mother, Queen Bee, had kicked her out when her nagging became too annoying and shipped her off to Monster High.

Monster High's real queen was not pleased.

In a matter of seconds, Bea was crying, screaming, and using old and cliché insults. She was also caught by the Headmistress trying to claw Cleo's smug face off, shipped off to another school in the middle of nowhere, and a day later when they were all back at the lunch table, Deuce holding Cleo's hand under said table, life was back to normal.

Until Laguna came back.

"So sorry mates! I forgot to mention my dad got us great tickets to the Coral Barrier show back home, so Gil and I went off and left you here! I didn't even think about what you might be thinking until we got back this morning."

Cleo's eyes narrowed in the ghoul's direction. "What."

Nervous laughter, awkward excuses, empty table in a matter of seconds. Deuce laughed.

A/N: So in case you didn't get what happened: Cleo probably wouldn't confront a problem unless it was in her face, so Frankie and co. made up a story where Laguna was upset to get her to put Bea back in her place.

A lot of mistakes. Written in a few minutes.

I have not read the books.