Tripping The Prom Queen
Chapter 6: Mean Girls
Author's Note: Wow! Thanks to: MadTwilighter, IKNOWIMWEIRD, Angeline95, Stacy Sapphire, Mittenz, Remaki, Kat L Black, EsmeAliceRose and ItsJadee for the reviews on the last chapter. Thanks also for all the new listings as a "favorite" or "alert" story! I guess you all loved Chapter 5 and "Protectiveward" as much as I did! I promise, we'll be hearing lots more from him! Please keep the reviews coming, so I know what (who) you guys like and want to see more of!
This story reminds me of that Taylor Swift song "You Belong With Me". But exactly who belongs together? We'll have to wait and see…
This chapter has a little dark twist at the end, as will the next. ..
Ok… onward! Enjoy!
Chapter 6: Mean Girls
Bella spent the weekend contemplating Alice and Jacob's proposition. She had yet to agree to or refuse their offer; it required some thought.
Yeah, sure… Part of me would like nothing better than to totally trash Rosalie! After what she did to me! Alice and Jacob are right! She does need to know what it feels like!
I can't be that evil… Can I? Would it even be worth it? We can't win…
Or… can we?
Her thoughts still vacillated when she arrived at school Monday morning. Bella made her way to her first period English class and sat down. She heard Victoria whispering, but pointedly ignored her.
Not in the mood for her bullshit!
Bella tried to be attentive to Mr. Mason's discussion of King Lear. She had read the play and its themes certainly seemed relevant to what she experienced now.
A tale of two sisters… fighting for what they deserve.
However, her mind kept wandering. When the bell rang, she stood up. The people sitting around her immediately burst out laughing.
Alice quickly saw what happened. Gracefully, she leaped over the desks, to come to Bella's aid, thrusting her hoodie at her.
"Tie this around your waist!"
"What?"
"Do it!"
Frightened by Alice's fierceness, Bella quickly obeyed. The other girl then seized her hand and dragged her to the nearest bathroom.
"What's going on?"
"Not yet!" Ali insisted, as a group of girls entered the restroom. She pushed Bella into a stall.
"Stay there until I tell you to come out!"
The bell rang and everyone else scattered, leaving the two alone.
"Coast is clear."
"There's something on the back of your pants!" Alice told Bella
"What?"
"Just pass them out to me." the other girl said, removing a small blue bottle from her purse.
Bella slid out of her jeans, which wasn't easy to do in the cramped stall. Before handing them over, she examined them. Bright red splotches stained the butt of the otherwise pristine new jeans Alice had just given her for her birthday.
"It's not…" she struggled to explain. However, Alice already knew.
"It's ketchup."
"Ketchup?"
"Yeah. I saw the empty packet on the floor, by your chair. You must have sat on it."
"Give it to me." Alice added. "I think I can get the stains out."
She carefully sprayed a small amount of blue liquid onto the scarlet smudges, then blotted it with a white cloth, then repeated the process.
"Voila!" she announced, passing the pants back to Bella, now in perfect condition. They showed no signs of ever having been damaged.
"How did you do that?"
"Ancient family secret" Alice smiled.
"Thanks. That could have been really embarrassing!"
"Yeah. And tragic!" Ali said, trying to lighten the moment. "To do that to brand-new "Sevens". We should have them arrested! For crimes of fashion!"
"Bella…"
"They are never going to stop. Are they?" Bella asked perceptively, emerging from the stall.
Alice locked eyes with her friend.
"No"
"Not unless we do something." Bella knew. "I've had it with those bitches!"
"Does this mean?"
"Yeah." Bella's eyes blazed. "Bring it on!"
"I'm calling Jacob!" Alice announced.
"He'll kill us if he's not part of this!"
The threesome met up after school at Fork's only diner. Sally, the waitress quickly took their order, which consisted of Diet Pepsi's for Alice and Bella and a Double Cheeseburger Deluxe for Jacob. He practically drooled when his food arrived.
"Oh, man, does that look good!" he announced, taking a big, enthusiastic bite.
"Thanks again for meeting us." Bella told him.
"No problem, I'm starving!"
"You eat like a wolf!" Alice commented, reaching for his fries. Jacob swatted her hand away.
"Hey! Stop that!"
"So" Bella said, bringing everyone's attention back to the matter at hand. "We all know what's been going on."
"And that it's time to do something about it! "
"Where do we begin?"
"We go for the jugular!" Jacob said ruthlessly. "What's her biggest weakness?"
"I'm not sure."
"Come on!" Alice said. "There must be something…"
An idea occurred to Bella.
"It was a secret… I wasn't supposed to tell anyone… But… those rules don't apply anymore!'
"There is"
"Spill it, Bells!"
"Emmett."
"Emmett McCarthy!" Jacob grinned.
"She's got a thing for Emmett! I knew it!" Alice squealed.
"What are you, psychic or something?" Bella asked, impressed.
"I told you. Yes."
"So? What do we do?"
"Obvious, isn't it? Alice smiled, loving her idea. "We will make sure she never gets him!"
"How can we do that?" Bella wondered.
"By making sure someone else does!"
"Awesome!" Jacob approved.
Bella wasn't so sure. Nervous, she scooped up a couple of Jacob's fries and popped them into her mouth.
"Hey!" he mock-protested. Actually, he didn't mind at all.
"Bella can eat my fries any time she wants…"
"Bella?" Alice questioned. "What do you think?"
"I don't know." she answered. "Emmett is a total player. He and Rosalie have dated before, but he wouldn't commit. If she couldn't get him, I don't know who can."
"I do" Ali said confidently.
"You?"
"No, silly!" Alice laughed.
"You!"
"Me?" Bella replied doubtfully.
"It would piss the hell out of Rosalie!" Jacob admitted.
But I don't like it! Bella and that- lunkhead! He's got a football for a brain!"
"I can't do that!" Bella announced.
"Why not?"
"I'm not his type."
"He doesn't know what his type is!" Jacob sneered. "Why else is he such a man-whore?"
"Jealous, Jacob?" Alice cooed.
"Hell, yeah!"
"We'll work on you later!" she assured him. "Right now, it's all about Bella!"
"I can't!" Bella protested. "Alice, why not you? You're so pretty and bubbly! You could do it!"
"I could" the other girl agreed. "But it would be so much better if it were you. The ultimate sting for the QBB."
"QBB?"
"Queen Bee Bitch!"
"Love it!" Jacob agreed.
"Come on, Bella!" Alice encouraged. "How bad could it be? He's a hottie!"
Yeah… Bella thought. He is. But he's not…
Please! That was never going to happen, anyway!
"He'll never ask me out!"
"Have you ever talked to him?"
"Once. Last week in the hallway. He asked about our English assignment. Not exactly the beginning of a meaningful relationship." Bella said sarcastically.
"Still. We can make this happen!" Alice was confident. "We see this all the time in movies! And there are other things we can do, too!"
"There are actually movies about this?" Jacob snorted.
"Sure. "Heathers", "Jawbreaker", and "Mean Girls". Bella, you've seen them, right?"
"Yeah" Bella nodded, remembering sleepovers and movie nights at Rosalie's.
Focus!
"Ok, what happened?" Jacob conceded.
"The girls did it to themselves." Alice announced. "Gossiping. Stabbing each other in the back!"
"We can't do that. We're not friends with them."
"What we need is a mole on the inside!" Jacob announced.
"Guess all that CSI finally paid off!" Bella teased, elbowing Jacob .
"Perfect!" Alice squealed
"Just like in "Mean Girls". Stir up a lot of trouble! Split them up!"
"Who?" Bella wondered. She knew them well.
"Jessica? Lauren? Those airheads couldn't stir up anything if you handed them the world's largest spoon!"
"Not them." Alice agreed. "But there's someone else who definitely could."
"You mean…"
"Yeah"
"But why would she do it?" Bella asked. "She's clearly on Rosalie's side."
"She's on her own side." Alice said knowledgably. "Trust me. She's got her own agenda! She'll help us by helping herself!"
"How can we find out?" Bella asked. "She'll never admit that! Definitely not to us!"
"Oh, I think she will." Ali added.
"We just need the right strategy…"
Across town, Victoria lit up another cigarette.
Damn this shit! I need something else, something stronger. But I'm all out! James said he couldn't get me any more until later tonight.
Meeting up with him at midnight posed no problem. Victoria could easily slip out of her grandmother's house undetected. She had been doing it since her arrival in Forks, a mere four weeks ago.
Gran is so clueless! Victoria thought derisively. "Just like my parents. They honestly thought shipping me off to the backwoods would change me! Make me a good little girl! Like all the bitches here! Boring!
Especially Rosalie! But I'm not taking her shit forever! I've never been second to anyone and I'm fucking not starting now!
Restless, she stubbed out the used cigarette and lit another. She missed her home in Manhattan and her elite prep school. The people there were so much more interesting and sophisticated.
And I was the leader! The most popular girl there!
Until one night changed everything…
Her school expelled her. Her deeply ashamed parents clearly wanted nothing to do with her.
Like they had that much to do with me before. I never saw them! Not that I want to!
So they stick me out here! Like that changes anything!
What's such a big deal, anyway… Just a stupid accident!
I didn't actually kill her…
Author's Note 2: So? What do we think of this ending? Anyone want to guess what Victoria's dirty little secret is? Hint: Be afraid! Very, very afraid!
