Chapter 5: Toys

"Today I don't feel like doin' anythin'...I just wanna lay in my bed...hmm-mm-mm..." with an earphone on her left ear, Alice hummed The Lazy Song as she casually worked on her Calculus. She could hear the girls were talking.

Though, she wasn't named the Ice Queen for no reason; she's a professional when it came to ignoring the world.

"Why is Blood sitting with her...?"

"...Probably lost a bet..."

Alice wanted to laugh at the possibility. Yeah, must be something around that. She didn't want to be toyed by a fucking idiot, though.

"Share me your earphone." She heard Blood said, and he didn't wait her answer, as he took the other earphoe. She quickly snatched it off his hand.

"No. I don't want to get infected from whatever stuff in your ear." She easily said while kept doing her assignment.

"Bitch."

"Now you'd want to move away and leave me the hell alone, right?"

Blood scoffed and turned to his worksheet, and glanced to hers. She's already halfway done, he didn't even want to look at the problems.

"What a boring bitch."

"I know." Alice retorted casually, wishing that he'd just move the fuck away.

He smirked, actually amused by her reactions. He glanced to her dry, frizzy hair and found his fingers playing with her dark blonde hair.

"When was the last time you shower?" he mocked.

"So shut up, shut up, shut up, don't wanna hear you, get out, get out, get out, get outta my way, step up, step up, step up, you'll never stop me, nothing you say will ever bring me down..." she purposedly sang a bit louder just to shut him from her hearing range.

He chuckled and leaned to the desk, staring at her serious face as if Calculus was so much interesting than him. He smirked wider since she shifted uncomfortably under his gaze, constantly pushing her glasses.

"Twenty six pimples, terrible blackheads, acne scars, chubby, dull face...Ugly." He judged. "Think of my presence beside you as a thank for your self-consciousness to not ruin our Year Book."

"Oh, gee, thank you so much." Alice bitterly said, quickly pushing her glasses and rubbed her face, and inwardly flinched at how oily her face was.

"You're welcome." Blood scoffed. "Actually, you can do more. Like, letting me copy your assignment."

"Fuck off." She deadpanned and finally, turned at him coldly. "Else than mocking my appearance and my boring personality, do you have any more business? 'Cause what you've been doing is so 2012, Blood."

"It's so 2011, actually." Blood corrected.

"Dammit, we've been stuck in the same class for two years? God is trying to test my mentality..." Alice sighed to the ceilings. "Just six more months...God, if I pass Your test, let me get a college far away from this stupid jerk."

Blood narrowed his eyes on her. She really knew which button to push; her stingy tongue was famous for everyone who attended Treffen High.

After two more subjects, the breaktime bell rang, signing for the Science Class to move to their Homeroom. For two years, Blood and Alice had been sharing the same Science Class and Homeroom. They hadn't been talking much last year, and she was glad. Now that she somehow caught his attention...she wanted to choke the bastard.

Alice watched her classmates went as she packed her books. Usually she would wait for Rose, because she's slow...but that beautiful curly brunette left quickly with her new gang.

Alice sighed to her bag. Rose was beautiful, she had a boyfriend and even her best friend confessed to her; she's slow and clumsy, the shoujo-girl type that every guys would love. She used to be so friendly to her, but probably because Rose just respected Alice as the big tenth at school.

Then again, that's just what she's known for at school.

Stopping by at the restroom, she stared at the mirror. Alice put her hair on a ponytail and wiped her face with wet handkerchief.

"Trying to look better? Forget it..."

Alice froze as she felt a hand rubbing her chest. Fortunately, bless her thick glasses; her eyes were wide, but they were hidden as she glared at the mirror to see Blood behind her, rubbing her body with his hands.

"What the fuck, Blood." She quickly took his hands away from her body and was thinking to pretend that it never happened, but then Blood didn't let her go that easily.

He grabbed her by the collar and made her lean back to the sink and started to undo her buttons.

"Hey!" she slapped his hands again and frowned at him. "What the fuck do you want!?"

Blood chuckled. "Come on, I'm trying to do a favour for you..." he leaned to her neck. "Though you really need to use conditioner and maybe perfume..."

She shoved him without doubts. "I don't need to get laid."

"Because you're a lesbian?" he smirked.

Alice inwardly screamed, but she just took a deep breath and then leaned to Blood, taking his collar to bent him to her eyes' height.

"I'm not one of your toys..." she hissed to his face. "...I'm Alice Liddell. I play with the interesting people."

Blood narrowed his eyes on her. "I'm not in your list?"

She shoved him by the collar and wiped her hands on her pants. "Typical narcissist playboy? Aren't you mainstream?" she fixed her button again and glanced at him. "You don't need to do me any favour, idiot. I'm too ugly for that, right?" she smiled bitterly and grabbed her bag, exiting the restroom.

"By the way, are you just going to stand there? This is the girl's restroom." She said, before nonchalantly walked out of the restroom, her face completely unfazed, as if nothing just happened.

Blood thought she didn't understand that he'd gotten more interested.

~.X.~

Taking off her glasses and stared at her face on the mirror, Alice frowned. She really had to take care of her face...blackheads, breakouts...and her hair's so dry and frizzy...

Rose didn't do much about her appearance, though she brushed her hair all the time...

Maybe some people just born naturally beautiful. Alice glared at her old portraits back in middle school.

How did she look like that? She used to be so cute...what had happened? Stupid high school...Maybe it's because high school was filled by idiots that she turned ugly so no idiots would come up for her.

She poked her arm; it'd gotten fatty a bit, it would shake. Alice huffed. It's because she had to quit the swim team since eighth grade. Her waist and thighs got bigger as well.

She didn't want to go back to the swim team again; she'd start back with the kiddies, because that's the rules!

"Is something wrong, Alice?" Julius asked, taking down his newspaper, realizing that his niece had been staring to the mirror restlessly.

"That jerk is playing with me..." Alice said earnestly. "...Because I'm ugly. I wonder what it'd be like if I keep ignoring him as I change my appearance..." she frowned at Julius. "Julius...can I change?"

Julius raised his eyebrows at her. Alice was nonchalant; since hormones struck her in the ninth grade, she started having breakouts, and didn't care; she had to study a lot so she didn't do much excercise anymore as she had been in the swim team.

The navy-head pondered, a little angry; that Blood Dupre probably had gotten too far that Alice actually wanted to do something about it.

"Sure. I actually know a good Dermatologyst at the other side of the town." Julius smiled and stood. "We can go and check up for today if we go now." He checked his wristwatch.

Alice lit up immediately. "Awesome! We'll start with the face..."

"Though you promise, you have to be dilligent on taking care of your face." Julius demanded.

"I promise with all my heart!" Alice determinedly said. "I'll check on Friedrich frist then we'll go!" she smirked and went.

She's going to do it. She's going to change. She wondered what that jerk would feel then...An evil scheme was playing in her head.

Blood should've known his place.