Chapter 9: Skeens Masterpiece

"We gotta do something big, and we gotta think of it soon, since this is your debut and everything kid." Mundy said to Spinelli fifteen minutes before recess was supposed to begin.

Spinelli nodded, clenching and unclenching her fist,

"Yeah but what?"

"I still say we just wing it like we always do, these things tend to work themselves out. See a kid, trip the kid, end of story." Sue Bob Murphy put in.

"That's fine for any everyday kind of thing but for an intro I think not?" Mundy argued.

Skeens looked up at the sky before turning to the others and saying,

"Normally it would be fine to get a reputation little by little Sue Bob but in Spinelli's case she'll need something big in order to be believable. She was in Detweilers group for a long time, plenty of people will think that it's just a phase or because of a fight or whatever. So we've got to prove that she's really bad."

"How are we going to do that?" Sue Bob Murphy asked.

Spinelli looked up at the sky trying not to pay close attention. The way Skeens was talking Spinelli was a little nervous of what she'd be asked to do exactly. Her conscience prickled just imagining some of the things that she might be asked to do. She wasn't quite sure she wanted to do anything to bad quite yet. She'd be okay with telling off a few teachers or skipping classes but she wasn't sure how far she was willing to go to be bad. Perhaps Skeens picked up on these feeling because before she knew it one arm was drooped over her shoulder and he was saying,

"Nothing to bad there Spinelli I know you're a beginner don't worry, we'll work our way up if we can, but you will have to do something rather large scale to begin with, or else your reputation will stay the way it is."

He leaned forward so that his mouth was a centimeter from her ear,

"Is that who you want to be? Detweiler's lap dog?"

Spinelli ground her teeth together before grabbing his right arm and yanking it towards her hoping for him to stumble a bit. She pulled the arm behind his back and used her other arm to press his face against the wall that they were next to,

"Don't mess with me Skeens I'm warning you now. I will hurt you if I have to."

Skeens smirked as Spinelli let him go. He turned around and leaned forward, moving towards her as she had turned to walk away,

"That's much better isn't it? Do you feel the rage rising? Use it Spinelli, it's a beautiful thing your anger."

Spinelli sent him a warning flash of her eyes as she started to walk away,

"Don't worry about my introduction to the school. I'll handle that myself. You all just start worrying about your ownselves. Don't think I'll go easy on you just because you enlightened me about my situation. If I'm going to be bad then I'm going to be the best at it."

She turned around with a somewhat manic grin,

"I may hang around you guys sometimes but don't think that means your safe from harm. I will hurt anyone who bothers me, friend or foe." She said as she headed on to the playground.

She had a rough idea of how she was going to introduce her new self to everybody, and she needed to be in the center of things so to speak, in order to be ready for it.

The others watched her with wide eyes.

"I never thought she could be that bad." Mundy said in practically a whisper.

Some of the others looked fearful but Skeens was watching her leave with a look of awe on his face,

"Her rage is so beautiful. I think I've created a masterpiece, I need to portray this through art."

And with that the graffiti kid set about making a portrait of Spinelli, as the queen of the rebels.