"Agh... this is really starting to sting, I'm gonna follow Tucker to the nurse's she might need to take a look at this." Sam frowned holding the eyebrow that had yet to stop bleeding.
"Okay, I'll let Lanser know why you're late, try and get you out of trouble." Danny nodded looking up at Sam, he frowned he wasn't used to being shorter than her, but then again girls generally were shorter than guys. He sighed taking the last of his books out of his locker, ignoring the mirror inside, at least he didn't have anything else to worry about.
"Hey Danny." Paulina's smooth voice said behind him, Danny blushed and spun around. Suddenly Paulina didn't look so attractive to him, and he didn't like the way she was looking at him, almost predatorily.
"I was just having an argument with one of the girls here, she says that you've already done both boys where as I say you've already done both boys… at least three years ago." Paulina grinned nastily at him, Danny blinked in shock, Paulina had never been like this to him before. A thought struck him, was THIS why Sam hated Paulina, did she act like this to Sam?
"I- what?!" Danny snapped just realizing what he'd been accused of.
"You're not denying it then." Paulina laughed loudly.
"I- of course I haven't slept with either of them! What kind of person do you think I am?!" Danny shouted offended.
"A whore, why else would any self respecting girl hang out with two boy losers?" Paulina shot back before flipping her hair over her shoulder and stalking off. Danny felt tears prick his eyes, sure he'd been bullied by Dash before, but that boy hardly had two brain cells to rub together. But Paulina… she was smart, she cut right to the quick and to be honest her words hurt, there was no truth in them but just his very act of defending himself made him look guilty. Did… did Sam face this all the time when she was a girl? With a shudder Danny ran off to class to find with surprise that Sam was already there, she looked up at him with an eyebrow raised in question, Danny shook his head and slunk into his seat.
"What happened? How come you're later than me?" Sam whispered hurriedly.
"I… just had a run in with Paulina is all." Danny replied quietly as Paulina looked over at him and her and her friends burst into little fits of giggles.
"Yeah… she can be a real bitch. One of the nastier sides of being female is all the other girls." Sam shrugged.