This is the first FF I've posted in a while. I wrote it FOREVER ago, on the urge of wanting to slap Jerome; unable to do so, I wrote a character to do it for me.
Alice was a quiet girl. She never really spoke out for anything or anyone. Not even for herself. She passed under the "nerd" radar by making grades that were no better than decent, and she never sat too close to the front or the back of the classroom. She knew the tricks some of her schoolmates liked to play and often overlooked them with hardly a glance in their direction. But when Jerome put up those ghastly posters—well, she felt she had to say something when Amber ran, crying, down the hallway.
She went up to the laughing boy and slapped him good and hard. "How dare you?" she cried. "How would you like it if it were you posted on the walls like that? You wouldn't be laughing then, would you?"
He looked at her as though she'd grown a second head. Then she realized she'd given people a reason to talk about her.
Red-faced and upset with herself, she pushed her way around Jerome and left through the same door Amber had exited.
Her roommate, Thalia, tried to console her when they got back to their house.
"Surely it wasn't as bad as you make it out to be," Thalia said.
"It was worse. Way worse. I can't believe I did that!" Alice buried her face in her pillow and groaned.
"I think it was pretty brave of you."
"No, it was stupid. I should never have bothered with boarding school." Her voice was muffled, as she hadn't removed her face from the pillow.
Thalia put her hand on Alice's arm. "Believe me; most people will see you as a hero for standing up to that Jerome. He deserved the telling off as well as that slap in the face." She grinned. "Tell me his face wasn't priceless when you did that."
Alice pulled her face from her pillow and gave a small smile. "Yeah, that was pretty funny. Bet no one's ever thought to do that before."
"I'll tell you, I thought of it, but never had I planned on actually doing it." Thalia laughed.
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