"What the fuck was that?" Lauren hisses, like she's part snake (Jessica suspects she's not entirely off the mark there).
She bodily drags Jessica into the bathroom and flings open the door with a bang like it personally offended her, her mother, her grandmother, and her step-dad.
There's a girl with red glasses inside. She jumps a few feet at the sound of the bathroom door hitting the wall and skittishly walks out upon seeing Lauren's face.
Jessica jealously wishes she could switch places with her. Instead, she busies herself by studiously not wiping her cheek free of Lauren's spit and checking her nails. The purple glitter polish chipped after only two days.
That's disappointing.
She looks up. Lauren's graduated from snake to dragon. If Jessica was the type to use inanimate objects for metaphors, she'd just say Lauren looks like a boiling tea-kettle.
Jessica decides to try her hand at honesty.
"I don't know."
Lauren quirks a thin, imperious eyebrow.
"I don't think I've ever seen any of the Cullen react to anything."
"I hear Emmett tells jokes."
Lauren curls a glossy strand of magazine-worthy hair around her finger and rolls her eyes at Jessica fondly. She looks immaculate, of course, even under the terrible bathroom lighting.
Boots tugged into a pair of track pants with a matching hoodie worn over the top. If Jessica were the jealous type (she is) she'd wish Lauren had slipped on the puddle next to Eric's locker and fallen on her face.
Since she's not, she makes do with fervently praying for Lauren to get hit in the face by a volleyball during PE.
"The last thing Forks needs is another comedian."
We both grimace as an image of Mike pops into our heads. Nobody has the heart to tell him that he's not funny, so they choose to think it instead.
"I really didn't do anything. I mean, I was looking at him."
"What, so he has eyes on the back of his head now? Get real," Lauren scoffs.
Jessica giggles and rolls her eyes.
"Maybe it's like a sixth sense? He can just tell when people are staring at him."
"Then he wouldn't ever be able to pay attention in class. The Cullens have been the talk of the town since they got here."
She's right. Within one week, even Angela had gotten in on the excitement of having new kids by badgering them into several interviews for the school paper.
They eventually ended up cancelling plans to run a week-long exposé on the Cullen family's personal lives.
"There's not much else to write about, so we're trying to capitalize on this." She'd explained with a put-upon look on her face when they refused to have their photo taken for the third time in a row.
Jessica thinks back to that moment and grimaces, her earlier excitement of having held Edward's attention dying off.
"It was probably just a fluke. Maybe there was actually a fly on his back or something."
"Was he trying to glare it into submission?" Lauren returns.
Jessica's primal survival instincts blare: Warning full snark ahead! She dodges gracefully.
"Come on, we're late to third period."
Lauren grumbles but lets Jessica take the out.
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