Chapter Three
Walking down the school's corridor, Lacey was sure that the hype from Danny's return yesterday had finally died down. Green Grove may have been a small town, but even something as big as Danny Desai became old news fast.
She still wasn't sure how to feel about the situation. Especially since this time, his return was sprung in her without warning. And to add to that, everyone's reactions were the last thing she expected. It would be easier for her to ignore him if almost every girl in school weren't drooling at just the thought of him; one of those girls being her best friend. She sighed realizing she would have to go another day with Regina eye-fucking Danny from across the cafeteria and Sarita complaining about it.
Walking up to their lunch table, Lacey noticed an increasing frustrated Sarita and an oblivious Regina sitting next to her.
"Will you just tell me already?" Sarita slammed her fist down on the table. Regina never looked up from applying her lip gloss. Grinning, Lacey sat down next to her.
"Hulk smash!" she mocked in a deep, supposed-to-be hulk-like voice. On very rare occasions did she poke fun at an angry Sarita, but it was moments like these she couldn't pass up. Lacey's smiled dampened when she realized it was actually something she and Jo used to do to Danny when they were kids.
Leaning back in her chair, Sarita crossed her arms. "Maybe she'll tell you."
"What are you guys even talking about?" she asked.
"Regina won't tell me what Socio whispered in her ear yesterday." Lacey's mood turned somber. She'd been up all night wondering the same thing. Regina's face had been flushed red for the remainder of the day and she avoided looking everyone she came into contact with in the eye. She didn't want to admit that she wanted to know, but curiosity got the best of her. Curiosity killed the cat, but she hoped it wouldn't kill her popularity. She hoped sending a Regina a subtle text about Danny wouldn't give away to much. But eventually her text turned not so subtle when she got impatient from Regina not answering them. She tossed and turned all night waiting for a response that never came. She had bags under her eyes to prove it; makeup only did so much.
The smug look on Regina's face told Lacey that she had gotten her text. All of them. Regina knew she wanted to know just as much as Sarita did. Possibly more, she just wasn't as good at hiding it as Sarita.
Closing her compact mirror, Regina straightened up in her seat. Her cheeks turned a light pink just thinking about him.
"Well... First I started with the 'Five Step Process," she started.
Lacey rolled her eyes at Regina and her ways to seduce men. With her, it was always a game. Around these parts, (parts being Green Grove High), she was known as a man-eater and idolized the most famous of them all: Marilyn Monroe. She lived by her quote, "Keep it classy. Never trashy. Just a lil' nasty." like it was part of the Ten Commandments. Even though spreading her legs for Danny contradicted the very quote itself.
She dressed as her for Halloween for two years straight and never failed to go all out by dying her hair bleach blonde just for the occasion. Lacey was sure that if her mom let her, Regina would surgically implant a beauty mark on her face... If that were even possible. Convinced she had ways of seducing men, Regina created her own method she called the 'Five Step Process' and she didn't tell just anyone about it. She didn't even let Lacey in on it until a year into their friendship. She'd be lying if she said it didn't work. After all, it was how she'd gotten Archie. She still remembered the day she told her.
"Step one: Cleavage. Flaunt what your momma gave ya.
Step two: Walk that walk. Strut is everything.
Step Three: Look as innocent as possible. You don't want them to know what you're up to.
Step Four: Flirt. And don't forget to bat those lashes.
Step Five: Reel em' in."
Lacey smiled. She may be a bitch and make Lacey unbelievably uncomfortable with her crude jokes, but she was glad to have a friend like Regina. She'd molded Lacey into everything her mother wanted her to be (and secretly, what she wanted to be).
"Then, I spread my legs a little-"
"Ha! A little?" Sarita interrupted. "Try a mile." Regina gave her an annoyed look.
"Do you want to know or not?" she asked raising an eyebrow. Sarita stopped laughing immediately.
"Right, so as I was saying... I was so sure I'd got him, then he leans in and whispers..." Regina mimicked Danny and leaned in, causing Lacey and Sarita to do the same. "'Spread your legs wider for me. Touch yourself and let me watch... Now.'" Leaning back, Regina looked between the two girls expectantly. They stared at her with wide eyes and sat in silence for several moments. Sarita was the first to speak.
"He told you to-"
"Yes. There in front of everyone. Can you believe it? And then he ordered me, as if I was some dog that needed to be trained." she scoffed tossing her hair behind her shoulder. Lacey and Sarita both rolled their eyes.
"Well, you are a bitch." Lacey joked halfheartedly. Regina flipped her the bird.
"Don't act so high and mighty." Sarita told her. "I've seen you get with a guy in the backseat of his car within less than twenty-four hours of knowing him."
"To my defense, he was hot. Plus, that was different. It was in the privacy of his backseat. Not out in the open for all to see. Even I'm not that slutty. That boy is into some seriously kinky shit."
They all laughed over it for the remainder of lunch, but neither Sarita nor Lacey knew the seriously kinky stuff Regina was thinking of getting into.
Well, Lacey was wrong about one thing. Two days later and Danny was still the talk of the school. Only difference is that now, so was Regina.
When you're the daughter of one of wealthiest families in town, you get noticed. When you have a hot bod to go with it, you become high school's queen bee. But when you get caught having sex in the school's auditorium with the town's child murderer, you become the talk of the entire town.
Lacey had been hearing the entire day about Danny and his sexual encounter, only she never heard exactly who it was with. It was like the first day he'd came back all over again. The whispers in the halls, the pointing and staring. She was somewhat used to it, except when she was by herself. Usually, when she was walking with Regina or Sarita or Archie it was easier. Walking down the hallways alone made her nervous, and with everyone watching her, it made the long trek seem even longer.
Being popular, no one in a lower social class ever approached you first. Not unless they wanted to be chewed up and spit out. Not by Lacey, but by Sarita or Regina. They were brutal when it came to keeping the status quo. No one disrespected or crossed you, and no one talked about you... At least not to your face. You can find the nastiest things written about you in the stalls of the bathroom, but all the gossip was whispered in the hallways. And there was always that group of girls that talked a little too loud. Which is how she found out about the lucky soul that probably got to do some really dirty things with Danny Desai. And when she found out exactly who that soul was, she was at her throat quicker than you can say 'socio'.
"Please tell me it's just a rumor. Please tell you didn't sleep with Danny in the school's auditorium." Lacey pleaded. The school circulated rumors about Regina all the time. From her sleeping with the entire soccer team one night then the football team the next, to her getting caught with Principal Tang on his office desk. You could never find who started them, or who would even get the idea to start them, but Lacey knew which were true and which weren't. Knowing Regina, it probably wasn't a rumor. But Lacey hoped that, just this once, it really was.
The one about Principal Tang was grossly true, but Sarita managed to squash that one before it got out of the school's population and into the town's. If it got out to the town, it was bound to get to her mother, who still thought Regina was a virgin angel sent from heaven. Which made Lacey wonder if she was still on her medication.
"Chill Lace. It's just a rumor." she assured her. Lacey sighed a breath of relief. But the relief didn't last long.
"We fucked in the projection room above the auditorium." Regina stated in a nonchalant manner before skipping off in the other direction, leaving a stunned Lacey in her wake.
I really like Regina. This is how I pictured her personality. I wish we could have seen more of what she was like before she was killed off the show. Still not sure about Sarita. I think she's a good friend as long as you're the person she wants you to be. But we'll see as the show goes on.
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