Even though Sarah had moved into her new apartment, Shane still picked her up. When they got to school everyone was staring at them and some were even laughing. They were all confused as to what was going on, and they weren't sure if they wanted to know.
"So Sarah, who was the guy you brought to prom?" Lydia, an annoying girl that had to get into all the gossip asked her.
"Oh, that was Jareth, why?" Sarah asked.
"Well, everyone says that you guys hit the sheets on prom night." Lydia said with a smile.
"What? Melony!" Sarah realized horrified.
"That is not true!" Natalia yelled at Lydia horrified.
"I only say what I hear." Lydia said turning around and walking away.
"Oh my god." Sarah said putting her head on the door of her locker.
"Sarah, it's only a rumor." Shane said putting a hand on her shoulder.
"It's a rumor that they can back up! When I go and tell the principal about my moving into an apartment, they are all going to have a field day with it!" Sarah said tears forming in her eyes.
"Sarah, it's not true! Why worry about it?" Natalia asked Sarah.
"Because Natalia, everyone is going to believe them! Everything backs them up!" Sarah yelled. Natalia hugged her and they all went off to their homeroom.
Lunch-
The day had been filled with people whispering wherever they went and rude comments said just loud enough so that Sarah could hear. Melony was about to make things worse.
"So Sarah, should we expect any mini- Sarah's running around?" Melony asked with an evil grin.
"Melony, you know that these aren't true!" Sarah spit back.
"Oh, do I now? Everything seems to point towards them. You even took him to France with you." Melony said back.
"Melony, I'll have you know that going to France was the worst thing I ever could have done! You just need to shut that oversized hole in your face!" Sarah yelled at her.
"You need to close your legs." Melony said very loudly.
Without warning, Natalia jumped up and punched Melony hard in the nose. Sarah was immediately pulling Natalia back and Shane was helping.
"Let me at her!" Natalia yelled.
"Natalia, no! It's fine!" Sarah told her, trying and pretty much failing at holding on to Natalia.
"Cat fight!" Someone yelled from around them. This gathered everyone into a circle around the two girls who everyone knew were going to pounce at any second, that is if Mrs. Law wouldn't have broken it up.
"Everyone go back to your lunches! Natalia, Sarah, Shane, Melony, the principal's office now!" She yelled stepping between them. Natalia stopped trying to get her hand on Melony and they walked into the principal's office silently.
Natalia sat in the chair at the desk next to Melony with a smile on her face. Melony was holding her nose trying to stop the bleeding. It was obvious that Natalia was very proud of herself.
"What has gotten into you? You are all usually such good students." The principal, Mr. Gold said.
"Well when someone is spreading nasty rumors about my best friend, I'm not just going to sit around and do nothing." Natalia said, the smile still on her face.
"What type of rumors?" Mr. Gold asked.
"I'd really rather not discuss them." Sarah spoke up.
"Surely they can't be that bad." Mr. Gold said looking at her.
"These definitely are." Shane said.
"How bad can they be? Come on let's hear them." Mr. Gold said.
"For god sakes, the word around school is that Sarah slept with her prom date." Melony said angrily.
"Oh, maybe they are that bad." Mr. Gold said. "Any idea on who started the rumors?"
"Not at all, that is such a horrible thing to say." Melony said switching into nice-girl mode.
"I have my suspects." Natalia said giving a pointed look at Melony.
"Well, either way that was no way to behave today. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to suspend you four for a week." Mr. Gold said sitting back in his chair.
"Mr. Gold, you can't be serious." Melony complained leaning forward in her chair.
"I'm sorry Melony, but school policy is school policy and that policy states," he opened up the school handbook, "Any person involved in a school fight will be sentenced to a minimum of one weeks suspension." He finished.
"Mr. Gold, I didn't do anything!" Melony yelled.
"Would you like to make it two weeks?" Mr. Gold asked, his usually calm voice rising.
"No sir." Melony said sitting back.
"Good, now go get your things and leave the school." Mr. Gold said giving an apologetic look in Sarah's direction. They all got up, packed their things, and left the school.
Jareth was surprised to see Sarah home at 12:15 when he knew that they would still be at lunch. Sarah explained to him what happened and he felt extremely sorry for her.
"They are just rumors, love, they will pass." He assured her.
"I hope so. God, everyone knew about them." Sarah said, eyes looking off into space.
"Everything will be fine." Jareth said putting his arms around her.
"Well, look on the bright side, now I can spend more time with you." Sarah said with a smile.
"That's my Sarah, always looking on the bright side." Jareth laughed as he held her. "Let's see if we can't arrange it so that Natalia and Shane's parents don't receive that message."
"You would really do that?" Sarah asked him.
"Anything for you, I find myself saying that a lot." Jareth said with an expression of confusion on his face. Sarah laughed as she moved towards the phone to call Natalia and Shane and tell them to come over.
Authors Note-
There you go! Another chapter! Now I'm off to write another one!
Tez