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I wasn't able to say anything. My friend looked at me, her eyes seemingly asking what my reaction was. There was absolutely nothing I could say. I just couldn't believe all that I've heard. First, there's Muffy; an orphan whose parents were killed by robbers, then there's Loca; a street urchin stolen from her parents during an accident. I asked her for almost a million times if this was how things really happened. She'd nod. I knew those nods were enough. Even though my friend had done so many crimes against people, she wasn't a liar. And besides, how could someone make up those kinds of story? It is just plain mean. Even too mean for my friend to do. I accepted every word that came from her mouth, and maybe I'd have a hard time adjusting to them whenever I'd see Muffy or Loca. Perhaps I'll think, "Oh…Muffy is an orphan." or, "Loca was a street urchin!" I lifted my head and looked at my friend. Her eyes are crimson from crying. I guess I'd feel the same way if I recollected my past with my two best friends. I understood perfectly how she felt, neglected and unloved by the people whom she strove to help. She rested her head on my shoulder as she continued to cry. I could feel the sleeve of my shirt becoming wet from her tears. I did my best to comfort her.

"Shh…don't cry anymore." I said. "It's gonna be OK, Alana. It's gonna be OK."

After the reunion with their daughter, Loca's parents moved to San Francisco to settle there for good. At first, they wanted to take Loca with them to New York, but Loca insisted to stay in San Francisco. Loca wanted to stay because of her new (and as well as old) friends. Fortunately, the company where Loca's father worked has an opening in the San Francisco district, so looking for a job became a breeze. They stayed in a house two blocks away from Alana's and Muffy's in the uptown. Loca would go to Alana's regularly and play there with her friends. It didn't take long before Muffy and Loca were also bonded as friends. And soon enough, their friendship strengthened and the three of them became inseparable.

"It is on this day, that I am proud to announce…" Alana declared one afternoon during their daily play dates. "That you, Muffy and you, Loca…" She added, going to her friends and touching their heads as if knighting them. "And I, Alana, make up the greatest and strongest friendship this world has ever seen! We, Alana, Muffy and Loca, will become unbreakable and will always be together no matter the problem or the event. We will look out for each other and won't desert one another."

"Yes!" Muffy exclaimed, standing up and taking Alana's hand. Alana continued.

"It is on this day, that I make our friendship absolute. We will stay strong even if we are faced with an uber-hard problem!" Alana mixed in her little kid vocabulary, considering that she doesn't know a lot of words yet. Loca then stood up and took Alana's other hand.

"Yeah! We will stay strong!" Loca said happily. She knew that Alana somehow learned from her lecture about bravery and staying strong. Alana continued.

"On this mo-mo…men…tu…?" Alana couldn't pronounce the word "momentous". Loca leaned over and whispered the right pronunciation to Alana, causing Muffy to giggle a bit. Alana's face lit up and said a soft thank you to Loca.

"On this mo-men-tous day, I declare that we, Alana, Muffy and Loca…" Alana paused and looked at her friends by her side. "Form the Terrific Trio, the strongest friendship this world has ever seen!"

"Yeah!" Loca exclaimed, raising a fist into the air.

"Whoo-hoo! I'm like…whoo-hoo!" Muffy couldn't really find some words to celebrate and settled for her cheers. It was on that day that Alana, Muffy and Loca made their group. But…you might be wondering. Why is it called Terrific Trio and not Terrible? I also asked this to Alana. Seems that there's a story behind it. If you're still reading up to this point, then I guess you'd figure that Alana, Muffy and Loca were not really evil little seeds to start with. Alana was a helpful little girl, who had deep compassion in her heart- and very different from the middle school bully who made people's lives a living hell. Muffy was an innocent, sweet little girl who just wanted to live in a family- unlike the mean cheerleader who is arrogant towards her inferior. And Loca was a young girl who learned to live in the spiteful world at a young age, but learned a lot and passes her tender wisdom to other children- and nothing like the big tyrant who often resulted to violent means whenever she never got her way. Alana then answered my question.

Why was the Terrific Trio changed into the horrid Terrible Trio?

After a year, the three of them stepped in the second grade. Loca was immediately accepted by the school seeing how she missed the first two fundamental stages in education, and how she couldn't afford to miss out on any more. They have lived under their self-christened group, the Terrific Trio and never did they separate. They were just like any other friend group in school, who hung out, ate lunch together and sat beside each other in class. But no one foresaw the dramatic change that will happen to the Terrific Trio.

It happened one morning, as the Terrific Trio came to school. A group of boys were hanging out by their lockers and didn't seem to want to move. Alana, Muffy and Loca wanted to get their books from their lockers, but the guys wouldn't let them.

"Excuse me…but can you please move?" Alana asked politely, with a smile on her face. "We have to get our books for our classes." Loca and Muffy nodded behind her. But the answer wasn't as simple as a "yes".

"Make us! You're just a stupid girl." A boy, possibly the leader scoffed. "And we got here first! We don't care if you go to class without your little books, right boys?" He added. His little minions snickered behind him. But Alana was persistent.

"Please! I'm asking you nicely." Alana pleaded for them to move. Loca, however, wanted to take some action. Her hand was clutched in a fist and ready to strike, but Muffy prevented her.

"Well, we don't care! So take a hike, loser!" The boy said, and with a thrust of his arm, knocked Alana back. The boys laughed even louder. Loca caught Alana after she was pushed and waited for anything Alana might say. Muffy and Loca helped Alana up.

"Are you OK, Alana?" Muffy asked, brushing Alana's hair back. Alana didn't say anything.

"Yo, Alana. Want me to take care of these guys?" Loca asked, cracking her knuckles. Alana didn't say anything. The boys then started to put more fuel into the fire.

"What's the matter, Alana, cat got your tongue?" This was then followed by a roar of laughter from his cronies. Alana then remembered what Loca told her about not backing down in a fight. She figured this would be the right time to test if she really has learned form Loca's lecture. Alana lifted her head, her eyes losing their sprightly glow. Her eyes were empty, as her face had no expression in it. It looks like she has gone numb. But then, something shocking came from her mouth that no one, not even Muffy and Loca expected to come from her.

"Loca…" Alana muttered. Loca listened. "Pound them."

"But Alana-"

"Just do it!" Alana cut her off with a vicious command, her eyes flaring up as she looked over her shoulder to Loca. Loca nodded and rushed forth to beat the guys in a bloody pulp. The guys were scrawny, only about a half of Loca's height. Loca was tall, and she didn't feel scared that there were four of the guys and only one of her. Alana watched as Loca's fists made contact with the boys' heads, stomach, mouths and faces. Muffy was scared, but Alana didn't feel the slightest sympathy, humility or anxiety. Alana watched as the boys suffered in Loca's hands, literally. A small smile curved on her lips. When she thought the boys had enough, Alana called Loca back.

"That is enough, Loca." She said lifelessly. Loca was still holding one of them by the collar, her fist raised in the air. She looked at the boy. He had his bruised face scrunched up in a scared frown, his eyes shut tight. Loca scowled and threw him on his back. There were small spots of blood on the boy's shirts, coming from open cuts on their brows and from their bleeding mouths. Loca took her place behind Alana, her conscience slightly bothering her. But the urchin in her was satisfied. Loca somehow felt that her aching for a good fight was satisfied. It felt good. It felt really good when her fist made contact with human flesh, and the blood would then seep out of the fresh cut. Loca then didn't notice that she was smiling at what she's done. Alana's smile stayed there. It wasn't sweet. It was evil. Muffy felt her insides trembling. This wasn't the Alana she knew. This one is a vicious tyrant, out to get anyone who opposed her. Alana then turned to look at Muffy. Muffy was shocked to see how the glow in Alana's face faded and how she has gone numb of compassion.

"Muffy," Alana started. Muffy knew that whatever Alana will ask her, she'd better agree to avoid trouble. "Clear the area. No word of this must get to the teachers." Muffy shakily agreed to it.

"W-Well…n-nothing to see here! Please clear out." Muffy stammered, shooing the people away with her hands. The people didn't move an inch. They continued to view what happened, exchanging whispers and curious stares. Alana didn't like this.

"Muffy…clear the area." Alana repeated, her voice becoming more poisonous. "Do you really want all these people staring at you everyday? Talking about you?" Alana added, trying to spur Muffy into her bidding. As if it hit her, Muffy's face snapped.

"No…I don't." She muttered to herself. Then, to everybody's surprise, Muffy's usually sweet face was now twisted in a nasty smirk, abrasive and harsh. She put her hands on her hips and started to snap and bark at the bystanders.

"Like, take a picture or something! Get your noses out of our business!" Muffy shouted, driving the bystanders away. "And don't even try telling the teachers! The moment we find out you told someone…we won't leave you until you're dead, got it?" This scared the kids who were watching. They didn't expect this kind of behavior to come from Alana's gang. They went away with fear flooding their insides. A new breed of bullying has spawned in their school. Muffy huffed after shouting, catching her breath. She has never shouted at anyone before. It felt good. It felt good to release all that energy from inside her. Somehow, it felt good to bark at others, especially if they cannot do anything to respond or retort. A wide, mean smile spread across Muffy's face as she turned to Alana, who raised a thumb at her. Loca nodded, grinning quite evilly. Muffy's smirk grew worse, folding her arms across her chest. Alana looked at the bruised boys on the floor and stepped on the leader's head. The leader winced in pain as Alana's foot hit the bruises on his face.

"The next time you pull the same trick on us, I'll make sure that you'll get something even worse than this." Alana hissed, moving her foot on the boy's face, as if trying to put out a cigarette with her foot. She lifted her foot and walked past Loca and Muffy, who themselves, couldn't believe what happened, but somehow, they feel really good.

"Loca, Muffy." Alana called, not looking at them. Loca and Muffy nodded at each other and followed Alana. This was the beginning of the so-called, "Reign Of Terror" brought about by Alana's gang on the school. After classes, Muffy and Loca were again at Alana's for their play date. But this time, the air was no longer sweet and innocent. It was rancorous and nasty, a bad aura drifting all around the room.

"The Terrific Trio is no more." Alana said, her voice grim. Loca and Muffy waited, but there were traces of twisted excitement on their faces. "We will no longer be pushed around. We try to be polite and this is what we get."

"Yeah. I don't like…like it!" Muffy already developed her trademark cheerleader accent. It came quite naturally. Loca cracked her knuckles.

"If anyone wants to mess with us, they'll have to go through me first." She declared, punching her palm with a fist. Alana smirked.

"From this moment on, we, Alana, Muffy and Loca are no longer members of the Terrific Trio." Alana said. "We now form a group who lives their own life, and won't let anyone get in our way. What we want, we will get." Muffy and Loca were getting really excited and cheered Alana on.

"We will no longer be nice."

"We are no longer the Terrific Trio."

"From now on, the three of us will be known as the Terrible Trio…and we will reign over our school, filling the hearts of our peers with fear."

Loca and Muffy cheered for their leader. They couldn't all explain it, but deviating from the good path felt good. They wondered if rebelling really felt this great. But they didn't really worry about details. All that is important to them now is that they are free to do whatever they want.

And anyone stupid enough to get in their way is dead meat.