(18) Plot
Lily's eyes danced mischievously while her mouth watered at the thought of payback. It had to be rough on Lily being abandoned in the home not knowing when your family is coming to get you. If they even cared enough to come back for you. Charlie and Renee would never do that. Would they?
"Okay, we're going to need to plan this down to the very last detail." Lily nodded her head and waited for my agreement.
"We're not going to hurt her?" I thought I saw a flare of disappointment in Lily's face.
"No only her ego. But if she gets emotionally undone then that's just a risk I'm willing to take." Lily scoffed.
I leaned back on my bed putting my legs in front of me. The comforter felt prickly and uncomfortable. I tried to smooth the sides of the bed that had rumpled.
"Why do you hate her so much?" I asked suddenly.
Maybe Myra treated Lily the same way she was treating me? Lily shook her head back and forth.
"She's horrible. She's just a horrible person. She's mean! Bella. Meaner than a snake." Lily panted. She was breathing heavily. "She made me think I was going crazy. She uses to switch my stuff and steal my clothes all the time. Remember the leather jacket she was wearing. She didn't even ask if she could borrow it. Totally rude."
"That's not good." I muttered getting more freaked of Myra by the second.
"There was another girl that used to come here. Her name was Courtney. She and Myra became besties. Weird I know. They decided to gang up against me and make my life hell. Then one day out of nowhere Myra turned against Courtney. She just snapped and said really horrible things to her. Beyond horrible." Lily shuddered.
"She got Courtney upset and Connie had to drug her to stop her screaming. I won't even tell you all the cruel things she told her. It was enough to rattle Courtney and the next day she was gone. No explanation. So that's why Myra sucks." Lily hopped off her bed and went to her dresser.
"She won't fall for it." I attempted to stop Lily before she got carried away.
"Yeah, she will. You know why because she's stupid. I mean she's crazy and horrifying but she's dumb." Lily opened the dresser drawer and pulled out a pad of paper.
"I don't want to do this." I started to get a queasy feeling in my stomach.
"Okay. Let's not do anything and you can wind up like Courtney. One morning Courtney woke up and found all her hair lying beside her in bed. Her hair was tied with a pink ribbon. Let's just wait till that happens." Lily leaned in to make her point. "She's heartless and the sooner you realize that the better off you are."
Lily sat across from me on my bed and opened the pad of paper. She wrote at the top of the paper. Plan.
"Let's brainstorm." Lily chewed on her pencil.
"She cut off her hair." I couldn't get that disturbing image out of my head. Lily waking up clueless that Myra had took a huge chunk of hair off her head. It was heartless. I cringed thinking it could be me in the same situation if we didn't take care of Myra.
"Like I said mean." Lily scrambled for her clip and pushed her hair off her face.
"We could prank call her." I fumbled for a good revenge scheme and came up with a lame idea.
"Yeah, we could order five pizzas for her. She would probably eat all of them and smile while she did it." Lily snorted. "That's too amateur. You're in the big leagues now."
"We should shave off her eyebrows." Lily laughed and clapped. "I love it."
"That's not good enough. They'll grow back." I said shrugging my shoulders. "If we're going to mess with her it has to be epic." I was pretty good at scheming.
"I like it." Lily laughed. "See I knew you had potential." She waved her pink hello kitty pencil in my direction.
"A love letter." I blurted and waited for Lily to dismiss my idea as too babyish.
Lily rolled her eyes but stopped waving her pencil.
"From a secret admirer." She gasped and held her fist to her chest. "A love letter written by your friend only he's anonymous."
"You mean Jacob." I stated just to make sure she wasn't talking about Mike. But then again Lily never went to Forks High School.
"Yesss. The hot Indian guy who visited you."
"He'll never do it." I shrugged in denial.
"He won't even know. Myra will think he's writing professing his undying love to her." Lily snorted and grabbed the steno pad.
"Who's going to write it?" I asked.
"Me." Lily contemplated. "Shoot, she knows my writing it's going to have to be you." She threw the pad on the bed. "But don't write too girly or she's going to know it's one of us."
"I don't think I can do it." I argued biting my lip.
"I can do it." A voice piped from the open door. Joey bobbed inside and shut the door quietly.
"You little sneak!" Lily shrieked and threw her pillow at Joey.
Joey dogged the pillow and dropped herself to the floor. She hugged her knees and wrapped her arms around them.
"Why not?" Joey asked looking at Lily.
"You'll tell her." Lily complained. "We can't trust you."
"I don't like Myra." Joey whispered. "I won't breathe a word of this to her." Her brown eyes burned into both of us with a fierce intensity.
"Okay then welcome to the team." Lily bopped on the floor next to Joey and gave her the pencil. "Let's get started."
"She might recognize Joey's handwriting." I grasped for anything that would delay this plan. It was happening a little too fast.
"Not a problem." Joey looked up from the piece of paper. "I use to forge my dad's signature on permission slips all the time." She scribbled a word on the paper. "See."
"Not bad." Lily said impressed that Joey's handwriting resembled an adolescent boy.
"Dear, Myra." Joey began. Lily scoffed.
"Not dear Myra, what are we in the 1950's. Put Yo, Myra." Lily reasoned.
"Umm, he's not a rapper." I murmured. "What about just writing Myra at the top?"
"Okay," Joey wrote out the name. "Now what?"
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"We are fabulous." Lily bragged and shoved the letter into the envelope. She licked it shut and gently pulled the flap closed.
"Not bad if I do say so myself." Joey crossed her arms and leaned against the dresser.
"How does she get it?" I asked fidgeting. This whole lying business was very easy for Joey and Lily. It made me a nervous wreck.
"Mail?" Joey looked at both of us.
"It would be more romantic if it was delivered to her window." Lily smiled widely.
"He doesn't know which window is hers. Unless he's stalking her and that's just creepy. She might burn the letter before she reads it." Joey swiped the envelope from Lily.
"When is Jack coming back?" Lily turned to me.
"Jacob? I don't know. He said he would visit soon." I shrugged and Lily nodded with me.
"I'll give it to her tomorrow. I'm going into town to buy a few things. I'll tell Myra that I bumped into your friend and he gave me the note." Lily tried to grab the letter from Joey.
"Wait. Bella will give it to her. It makes more sense that she sees her friend." Lily handed the envelope to me. I gulped and took the envelope. I didn't want to give it to Myra. How was I going to give it to her? Great, I wasn't getting any sleep tonight.
How am I going to do this?