Mindy sat down in her regular spot at the back of the class. She laughed.
"3, 2, 1…" she muttered.
Right on cue, the teacher squealed. She sat on the tack.
Mindy, plus the rest of her class, burst out laughing.
"I told you, Miss Roberts, do not pull pranks at school!" Ms Ashton yelled. Mindy got detention. She walked down the halls, looking in every room.
"Where's that girl…" she muttered, looking in a window covered in dust. Dani sat there, in the corner, dressed all in black. Mindy dropped her books in surprise.
It was lunch. Mindy walked up to Dani, and sat down.
"What happened? You look…emo today." She said.
Dani just looked away.
"You can either tell me, or I-" Mindy warned.
"No." Dani said softly.
"Tell me." Mindy prompted.
"I messed it up!" Dani cried.
Mindy was surprised. Dani never cried… not even when Bakura force fed her strawberry ice cream.
"It's okay…I'm sure you didn't mess up that bad…" Mindy trailed off. Or did she?
"But I did." Dani sobbed.
"What, exactly, did you mess up?" Mindy asked, worried about her friend.
"I-I-I-" Dani stuttered. "I messed up being a spirit medium."
"IT WASN'T THAT IMPORTANT, YOU STUPID COW!" Mindy thundered. "IF BAKURA-"
Just then, Bakura appeared.
"Someone called?" he said mischievously.
"I..did." Mindy muttered angrily.
Bakura sat down next to Mindy, and stroked her hair.
"Stop it." Mindy warned, grabbing his hand.
"Feisty today, aren't we?" he sneered.
"Dani's gone emo." Mindy said simply.
Mindy and Dani walked home, both silent. They hadn't spoken since god knows when. Blubbering didn't count.
They sat down, and did their homework. Mindy, as always, finished first.
"M-M-Mindy…how do you do this one?" Dani stuttered, pointing at a very hard math problem.
Mindy showed her how, without speaking one word.
"Thanks." Dani said.
Maybe she'll be less pathetic now.
Mindy walked up stairs, and went into her room. Her dog was already in there.
"Good boy, Luffy. Good boy!" she called.
Luffy chased his tail for three hours, all the while banging his head to the heavy rock metal music that Mindy was playing. Soon the song changed ro something much less hardcore, but it was one of Mindy's favourite songs.
"My walls are closing in, these wounds, they will not heal-" she muttered softly.
Just before she could sing another word, Bakura burst in.
"Mindy? Go check what's going on with Dani. She's got your lighter." He said, panicked.
"I told you never to ever. Let. Her. Have. My. Lighter!" Mindy said, attempting to stifle a yell of fury.
She ran down stairs, her hair flying behind her.
"Daniele. Marie." She panted. "Do not EVER touch my lighter again."
Dani hung her head.
Mindy walked back up the stairs, and looked back once or twice. She walked back into her room, and kept the song on.
"Better. Now, Bakura, I need to write this. It's…errr…not my diary…" she trailed off. Bakura grabbed a little black book off her bed.
"Ooooohhhhh…according to you, I'm so dreamy…and sexy….ooooohhhhh." he sneered.
"Give it back!" Mindy snarled.
"No." he said softly.
"I SAID. GIVE. IT. BACK!" Mindy screamed.
"And I said no." Bakura repeated.
"Not fair!" Mindy whined. "I want it back!!"
He read it.
"It gets worse." He said gravely.
"How so?" Mindy said sarcastically.
"There's things in here I need to know that you haven't told me!" he said angrily.
"I was getting around to it." Mindy sighed.
Mindy stormed out of the room. Why is he so mean? Usually he's really nice. Is it just me, or has he changed slightly?
She punched a small hole in her sister's door.
"Shut up, you little bitch." She called into the large room.
"You little prick, you punched a hole in my door!" Adelle screamed back.
Mindy mocked her for a few more minutes, before her sister Annie stopped Adelle from jumping on her.
'Ooooh, I'm so afraid of ickle Addie." Mindy said in mock fear.
"Shut up, you little cu-" Adelle spat angrily. Annie put her hand over her mouth.
"Did you just call me a-?" Mindy said waspishly.
Adelle shook her head. "I didn't!" was her muffled reply.
'You did!" Mindy said, furiously.
Mindy flicked her hair out of her eyes, and walked off.
"Stupid, slutty, skanky bitch, on my back about what I wear when I want to look nice….grrrr…."
Mindy walked back into her room, and played more Linkin Park. She danced in her overly large, dark room. She heard her phone ring.
"Hello…" She said into the blood red Samsung.
"Hello, Mindy." Mindy noticed it was her friend Violet.
"Oh, hey Vi!" she said brightly.
"What's up with Dani?"
Mindy didn't answer.
'MINDY! What's wrong with Dani!"
Mindy sighed. "She failed a silly little exam thing and went emo..."
Violet gasped, and Mindy guessed that Vi had dropped the phone. Mindy hung up.
Soon, a song by Jason Derulo was on. Mindy sighed. This song can go fuck itself.
She turned off her iPod dock, and turned on her laptop.
Mindy_Is_So_Damn_Angry has just signed in
Mindy_Is_So_Damn_Angry: Dani has officially strummed my last nerve.
I_Don't_Care: I can tell, you're really pissed off.
Dani_Fail has just signed in
Dani_Fail: You guys talking about me being fail?
Mindy_Is_So_Damn_Angry: No…of course not.
I_Don't_Care: No. We didn't.
Short_Ass has just signed in
Short_Ass: You guys must have been seriously pissed off today, Dani was being a total bitch!
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I_Don't_Care has just signed out
Mindy logged out of her computer, and started fiddling with her hair. For no particular reason, she took out her scrapbook. She stuck in a few new pictures, and then read it.
"I remember that…that was before Mom died…" she trailed off, choking back tears. "And that was just before Dad left…"
She turned away. That was before I even knew how evil I was.
"Why isn't it eerie that I can't be normal. I'm basically an orphan." She sobbed softly. She only cried when she was alone.
Bakura walked in, noticing the sobbing.
"Mindy?" he called softly into the room.
There was only sobbing.