Alpha Inlet
Renita's Cove
Monday, September 6th
10:59 p.m.
"We're here!" Ivanna called out, waving her aPod over her head.
"Hello?" Tammi called out.
"Yo!" Roza screamed, her voice echoing throughout the cove. Water lapped up the shore, washing away rocks and sand, but not worries.
"What if this is a setup?" Tammi asked, shivering in the cold air.
"Nope."
The girls jump as a sudden voice from inside of the cove scared them. Stepping out of the shadows was a tall, thin, asian girl. Renita.
"Welcome." Renita said, smiling. Her perfect, straight teeth stood out in the darkness.
"Hello." Ivanna stammered, as if she was looking at her clone.
"I have brought you here for-"
"Oh, shut it." Roza said, throwing her hands up in the air.
Renita scowled. "Fine. Kailani. Maiya." Renita hissed, and two identical girls stepped out of the cove.
"Hello. My name is Renita, Alpha Extrodinare, fashion mongul, International Alpha, blahblahblah." Renita smiled. "I hope you were listening to what my mother had been talking about before, about how only one girl can graduate valedictorian at the end of this year, which would lead to them becoming the It girl, the one girl she'd always wanted to be, and the one every girl wants to be, correct?"
The three girls nodded, not sure of what Renita was trying to say.
"So you could guess that every girl would do whatever it would take to be the It girl, as cronicled in the It Girl novels. I would like to know something you did like that."
Ivanna bit her lip. "Like a sacrifice?"
Renita nodded solemmly.
There was the dance recital, ten years ago. Ivanna thought. She was four. There was a solo, and either Ivanna or another girl, Shayla, could have the part. Shayla and Ivanna were best friends, but Ivanna wanted the part, she needed it. But Shayla go it.
Shortly before the recital, Ivanna bumped into Shayla in the locker room. Shayla was smug about having the part, and Ivanna was sad because, if she didn't get the solo, her mother wouldn't let her do dance again next year, and she had already told her she had gotten the solo.
So Ivanna jutted out her foot in a very fancy, dancer-ish manner, then began doing solo warmups. As Shayla withered on the floor, Ivanna ignored her, doing her best at the solo piece. By losing her best friend, Ivanna got the part.
"I hurt my bestfriend to get a solo. That girl moved away a month later." Ivanna said softly, holding back tears as she spoke.
"I broke up with my boyfriend when he tried to kiss me because I knew my mom wouldn't allow it." Tammi said, starting to cry herself.
"I was anorexic for a year." Roza sniffed.
Renita smiled. "Wow." Looking at the three, she raised an unexpectant eyebrow. "You're missing two."
"Loser and Wet Blanket stayed behind." Roza asnswered her. Renita nodded.
"Well, when you get back to your house, remind your roomates to tell us about whatever they did." Renita remind her. Roza nodded.
"Back to the It girl nonsense, I hope you know that I am that 'It girl' that my mother is looking for." Renita told them, her grin smug.
Ivanna's heart sank as Renita's last ten words sank into the recesses of her heart. Was Renita serious?
"Of course, my mother wouldn't have that, which means that whoever this "It Girl" is, she has to be exactly like me, a carbon-copy, a reflection. She has to be A-List perfect, full of perfect, well-roundedness, and nothing more than full achivement all around. Kailani, Maiya and I have brought it to ourselves to "help" our mother choose this girl."
"How?" Roza asked. Renita shot her a look out of the corner of her eye as she continued.
"By this, Kailani, Maiya and I will be performing routine "checks" through our mother's computer to decided on ourselves who this girl will be. Maybe it will be one of you- maybe it won't." Renita smirked.
"I don't get it..." Tammi said softly.
"What she means, dumb-ass, is that we're gonna hack our momma's computer to see who's got the perfect grades, the most diverse scedule, and the highest-ranking on our mother's percentile chart. We'll text you at the end of every day on where you stand in our momma's mind, but you will be in the dark about how we feel- which ultimatly is what will decided where you will end up come June twenty-first." Kailani snapped. "Okay?"
Tammi nodded slowly.
"Wait, wait, wait." Ivanna said, "So you're gonna hack your mom's computer, find out our grades, text them to us, but none of it really counts in the long run?"
Renita, Kailani, and Maiya nodded in unison.
"That's bull." Roza muttered under her breath.
"Excuse me?" Renita asked. "I"m sorry, I don't speak bullshit."
"Exactly my point." Roza sniffed. "So this is dumb."
"You're dumb!" Maiya screeched. Renita and Kailani bore stares into her skull as she shrinked into the cave.
"Alright." She smirked. "I give you good luck in the future."
"Thanks." Ivann muttered. "Means a lot."
Tammi and Roza waited for another one of Kailani's retorts, but the girls had already creeped back into the cave.
Back at the Lisi Harrison House, Chloe and Renee were gossiping about nonsense that Chloe could care less about, like lastest fashions and how fake-designed jewlery on clothing was in. As if.
As the doors of the Lisi Harrison house creaked open, and the three missing girls crept upstairs, Chloe turned onto her side and hid under her covers, hoping that maybe they wouldn't reconize her in the dark.
"Loser!" Roza snapped at Renee. "What's your biggest sacrifice?"
Renee was silent for a few moments as she pondered. "Oh! Starting my job at JCPenny."
Roza made a slapping sound as she facepalmed herself. "Duh!"
Chloe sat in silence as Tammi and Ivanna hurried into the bathroom. Roza was quiet for a few moments until Chloe heard her texting someone on her aPod. Probably another student.
It wasn't like she was ratting Renee out or anything. Why would she do that?
