"I don't know whether to be surprised or not that you're here." A slightly familiar voice spoke from behind Rosë.
The light brunette girl turned and faced her emo cousin. "Hey Zoë," She replied with a rueful smile.
"Hey," Zoë replied, the corner of her mouth twitching upwards slightly, revealing that she was happy to see her cousin.
"Zoë," a younger emo ran up to them, "The Chavs are causing trouble again." Zoë sneered.
"I'll be back, I have to go take care of some things." Zoë told her before walking off with the younger girl.
"But I…" Rosë trailed off knowing that her cousin was now out of ear shot, "Don't know where to go."
It was moments later that she was approached by three blondes that wore the same uniform and had their hair styled with the same curls. "Are you new?" One of them asked.
"Yes," Rosë replied, not sure whether she should really be talking to the three girls.
"I'm Chelsea," the girl Rosë assumed was the leader told her. "This is Saffy and that's Bella," Chelsea gestured to each girl in turn, and they waved when she did so. "What's your name?"
"Rosë," she told the girl. "Rosë Magnate."
X
Somehow, the group of four was able to maneuvre themselves up the stairs to the dormitory. Everywhere Rosë had looked there was somebody running around that was distinctly from a different clique than the last.
They were now walking through the dorm. They walked passed a group of girls that were wearing bright neon colors and plastic-y polyester while dancing to rave music. "Oh," Saffy remarked hurrying over by Rosë, "Don't mind them, that's just the Flammables."
"Why are they called Flammables?" Rosë asked confused. Nothing about them seemed very…fiery or explosive.
"Have you seen all that polyester? Last year, one of them took up smoking and half the school burnt down." Rosë grimaced at the thought before walking on.
"Where can I set my things?" she asked as she walked by a girl with mocha colored skin cutting police issued anklets off with hedge clippers.
"Tew wewds, yeah?" the girl snapped, "Dohn' geh cahugh'." She sighed before calling out irritably, "Next!"
"Well, we can make some room in our area I suppose." Bella suggested.
"Yeah, you can so totally hang out with us." Chelsea told Rosë happily, "I mean, if you wanted." She added, trying to play it cool after thinking she was being overly excited.
"Does she look," She heard Zoë hiss, "Like she'd want to hang out with a bunch of shallow, vacant, facile, peroxide-blonde turbo-skanks?"
"Think she'd rather hang out with you and the sulky sun-dodging Emos?" Saffy shot back. The three girls did a weird hand flip thing.
"Yeah, I'd raver 'ave a midnigh' awlgebra feast wiv da geeks," the dark-skinned girl laughed.
"Like we'd do that," one of the geeks snapped.
"Yeah, it was actually trigonometry." The head geek remarked.
"And that's why Lucy will always be a virgin," Chelsea, Saffy, and Bella made fake pouting-simpering noises.
"As opposed to a brainless slapper, you mean?" the head geek stood as she argued in her defense. "Seriously, she'd snog a melon if you drew a mouth on it." The dark skinned girl 'ooohed' as did other girls around her. Rosë tried not to crack a smirk.
"That's not fair," Saffy snapped, "it was a grapefruit, actually, and it was years ago."
"Bella," Chelsea snapped embarrassedly as everyone laughed, including Rosë who was trying hard not to because she could tell that Chelsea was already embarrassed enough. "That was a secret."
"Well, I suppohse yew can try savin' duh wawld wiv duh Eco freak-o's," one of the dark skinned girl's followers commented.
"Eco freakoes, Eco freakoes, Eco freakoes," Zoë and her friends hissed repetitively.
"Hey," one of the Ecos snapped, "Why don't we let Rosë decide for herself who she wants to hang out with, yeah?" Everyone turned and looked at Rosë, all trying to make themselves look better to try and impress her over to their side.
"I…um…" Rosë stumbled over her words, shocked at the situation. She hadn't had many friends at Cheltenham, and she was not expecting girls to fight over her being her friend.
"Come on Rosë," Chelsea whispered in hope.
X
"Even if she chose to hang out with you, do you think I'd let her?" Zoë snapped at Chelsea angrily. Her cousin needed to stay near her area so she could watch out for her.
"Let her? She's not your property Zoë!" Chelsea snapped in response.
"No, but she is my cousin." Zoë snapped back.
"Great," Bianca said sarcastically with a role of her eyes, "I risked ma life faw a cohrpse kissa's cousin." Zoë raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"What do you mean?" Chelsea, Saffy, and Bella asked. They were ignored.
"Oh please," Zoë heard Rosë speak up. The Emo looked over to her poshly dressed, light brunette cousin who stood at a height five inches taller than her natural height with her high heels on and had her arms crossed across her chest. "Michael wouldn't have killed you." Zoë made a note to herself to find out what her cousin and her enemy were talking about, later.
"Wha makes yew saay dat?" Bianca raised an expectant eyebrow.
Zoë watched as Rosë continue speaking, "Because I know his father, and he wouldn't have gotten him out of a murder case. Evidence that he slapped me and tried to beat you up: his father wouldn't mind paying off someone to get rid of it." Rosë explained, "All the evidence they'd gather for a murder trial, though…" Rosë trailed off, her face pensive, probably thinking of how to word what she was going to say next. "His father's a tight-wad. It'd be too much money to him to cover up his son's mistakes in that situation."
Bianca scoffed in response, rolling her eyes, "Wha'eva'." Zoë could tell Rosë knew that the Chav Rude Girl was just irritated that she had lost the verbal argument.
Rosë turned and faced her. "I think I am going to put my stuff in their area," she nodded her head towards Chelsea and Co.
Zoë sneered, "You make her a slag, Chelsea, and I'll give your high heel collection to the first years." The Chelsea's face went pale at the threat. She nodded in reply before taking Rosë by the hand and pulling her away from her cousin.
"Have fun being a facile turbo-skank," she called out as a dig at Chelsea and Co. more than at her cousin. She had a feeling, though, that the comment would come back to bite her in the ass soon.
X
After setting her things up in what she learned was the Posh Totty's area, she headed back to the main area of the dorm with Chelsea, Saffy, and Bella.
She now stood with the group of three barely listening to what they were gossiping about. Instead, she was leaned up against a wooden pole watching the girl from the café (who she still hadn't gotten the name of) attempt to bludgeon her cousin's head with something. "A little help?" her cousin hissed out.
"How 'bout…no?" Rosë remarked from her spot leant up against the wooden pole that they were facing.
Her cousin struggled some more for a moment, the girl strangling her. "Please," she coughed.
"Hey," she remarked in a flat tone, "no…stop." The girl trying to attack her cousin didn't even look up.
Rosë looked at her cousin with a shrug, "I tried."
"HI GUYS!" a loud voice stopped café girl from maiming her cousin, but they didn't move from their spots.
Rosë looked over to where the yell had come from, seeing a girl with dark, wavy chocolate hair, in a navy blue sailor's dress with white trimming and the school's emblem sewn on it. She wore a boater hat with the school's emblem on it, a pair of navy stockings not unlike that of Chelsea, Saffy, and Bella's and a pair of black pumps. She smiled brightly at all of them, "As the new head of the student body I thought we could hold a meeting every Wednesday to give everybody the opportunity to propose new ideas about the day-to-day running of the school."
By the time the girl had finished speaking, café girl had pulled away from maiming Zoë and had taken her headphones out. Well, that explains part of why she didn't look up when I spoke, Rosë thought to herself, granted I wouldn't have done much if she had. Shortly after her thoughts turned to the silence of the room, she and everyone started laughing at the girl. The girl who had just spoken gave a few embarrassed, half-hearted chuckles.
"Oh, gaw, yew nearly 'ad uhs dere Annabewlle." Café girl remarked after everyone was done laughing.
"Hey, girls, girls, girls, look," Lucy pointed her laser pen at the school's emblem on the Annabelle girl's dress, "She really is head girl." That's when everyone noticed the Head Girl pin on Annabelle's dress. Lucy scoffed, turning to look at the other girls.
"Talk about keeping it in the family," Zoë commented. Café girl's mouth opened in shock, and Rosë heard Chelsea scoff sadly.
Rosë turned to her new friend and smiled sadly at her. Rosë could tell Chelsea had wanted the position. Of course, Rosë wasn't so sure she would've done well as head girl. To be quite honest, Rosë didn't think any of the girls who were most upset about it could've done a tremendous job as head girl. One thing confused her though, Zoë's comment about "keeping it in the family." She turned to Saffy softly asking, "What does Zoë mean?"
"Annabelle's Ms. Fritton's niece," Rosë furrowed her brow at the name. "Ms. Fritton's the headmistress." Rosë's lips formed an 'O' just as a strange beeping started.
"Guys," a girl voiced from one of the Geeks' computers, and everyone turned to look at her. "We just got something really suspicious on CCTV. Someone just went into the library."
"The library?" Everyone remarked in confusion before walking over there.
"I didn't know we had a library," Saffy remarked as she walked over with Rosë.
A/N: If you were reading this story before this chapter came back, go back to the first chapter and re-read it because it's been changed (a lot). The idea i had for where this story would go changed. Sorry it's been so long you guys. I've been trying to write, but I'm in 2 dual credit classes this year, pre-ap physics, and pre-cal (a whole year ahead of my grade in math). I'm also doing Winter Guard for my school, so that my be a bit time consuming. I promise I'll try to update next weekend as well, but I'll be in Boston, Mass. for a journalism convention.
Also, a shout out to koryandrs for her review, I wasn't expecting to already getting a review to my story since the archive is so small. So, thank you ;) it means a lot.
Thank you to irishlovatic and CrazyRach for following this story. Thank you for sticking with this story so early on, and I hope you enjoy the story as it goes on.
Post to ya later, guys ;)
~Wrote Too Soon
