Disclaimer: I don't own Tamora Pierce's characters.
Not Taking Anymore
"You've gotta come to my opening!" a medium build red head screams at a dark haired girl, who is scowling at the loudmouth redhead.
"No," the dark haired girl firmly replies and tries to walk away.
"Why not?" the redhead glares daggers with her grey-blue eyes, at the dark haired girl's back. Everyone in the mall stares as if enraptured.
"Why should I go?" the dark haired girl whirls around to face the redhead. The deadly look of calmness shows on the dark haired girl's face. Her ever-changing, brown tiger-eyes, burn with anger and outrage. "Why should I go to an opening for a person who only enjoys the destruction and pain of others?" The dark haired girl turns on her heal leaving the sputtering redhead behind in her wake.
"Guess you couldn't get the freak to come, Bianca," a tall, busty blonde, saunters up to the redheaded Bianca.
"NOW what are we going to do for entertainment?" Bianca pouts as she watches the dark haired girl walk away.
"Stupid Bianca and Beatrice," the dark haired girl growls as she walks away. "They have no clue as to what my life is like..."
"And what is your life like, Jenny?" a jock steps out from behind a pillar with a frown of concern marring his normally smiling face.
"What do you want, Kyle?" the dark haired girl, identified as 'Jenny', frowns at him.
Kyle sighs, "Jenny, I'm not like them. I'm not the enemy."
"I'm not saying you are, or that you aren't," Jenny blinks in surprise. Her mask of calmness falls to reveal confusion.
"Look, Jenny…"
"I am," was her quick reply, as she tries, unsuccessfully, to make her way around the jock.
"Jenny, I want to be your friend," Kyle holds out his hand. "Please, let me?"
Jenny sighs, "Okay, who put you up to this?"
"What?" Kyle looks at Jenny with hurt pouring from his voice and eyes.
"Look, just leave me alone. I don't need any more jocks or cheerleaders to deal with."
"Jenny," Kyle grabs her arm in a desperate attempt to get her talking to him. She just keeps trying to jerk her arm free.
"You want to know what its like? Being picked on? Being verbally abused by others? Having everyone tell you, that you aren't good enough? Well I'm sick of being treated that way. So, I don't care what you say, because I can do fine on my own. I remember trying to fit in, only to have the door slammed, repeatedly, in my face. I don't care anymore. That's what my life is like around you and my 'peers'," Jenny spits out bitterly. She stares right into Kyle's startled, blue eyes, causing him to release her arm. She sighs softly, turns, and walks out of the mall, leaving Kyle standing there in inner turmoil.
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