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A/N: Oh my gosh! I'm so, so, so sorry about the late update! I've just been really busy with life and everything.
Reminder (because sometimes even I forget):
Will - Cornelia - Taranee - Hay Lin - Irma - Will
Disclaimer: I do NOT own W.I.T.C.H.
After art class, Taranee's day had run pretty smoothly. She went to all her new classes, quietly sitting in the back of the classrooms and not talking to anybody. She followed the teacher's instructions, wrote down notes, and did homework. It felt like any other normal school day... You know, except for the fact that she was in Hay Lin's body.
Now what was Hay Lin's locker combination again? Taranee thought, looking at the schedule Hay Lin had given her, which just so happened to have her locker number and combination, too. She was standing in front of Hay Lin's locker, so she could put her stuff in it and head to lunch to meet up with everybody.
"Oh, here it is," Taranee mumbled to herself, putting in the combination written on the piece of paper. As soon as she pulled up on the latch and opened the locker, a piece of folded paper came out and floated to the floor in front of her feet. Must be a homework assignment, Taranee thought-assumed as she reached down and picked it up. She unfolded the paper and her eyes widened as she scanned it.
On the paper's white background, it had a bunch of cut out letters of various shapes, sizes, and fonts. They looked like letters cut out from a bunch of different magazines. It was like the person who wrote the letter didn't want her to know who wrote it. It read:
Greetings Guardians,
I am here to tell you that if you tell anybody about your current conditions, then someone will pay. Consider yourselves warned.
- Anonymous
Taranee looked cautiously around her in case the person who left the letter was still there. She saw no one. The hall way was empty. I need to tell the girls about this ASAP! Taranee thought, folding the piece of paper back up and putting it in her pant pocket. She hurriedly exchanged books from her locker and shut the locker door, but before she could even take another step, she was roughly shoved into her locker.
"Hey!" Taranee yelled. "What was that for!?" She swiftly turned around to see that Uriah, Kurt, and Clubber had surrounded her.
"Hey, Hay," Uriah hissed, pushing Taranee against the locker again. Taranee looked around the hallway and noticed that it was deserted, except for them four.
"What was that for!?" Taranee snapped eyes ablaze (or at least they would've been if she still had her fire abilities). She wasn't scared of Uriah anymore, not since she gained confidence, friends, and her powers. Besides, she's faced things way scarier than Uriah... But not uglier. Uriah definitely had them beat by a mile.
"Cut the crap, Hay Lin," Uriah growled, obviously very angry. "I know what your little friend did to me."
Taranee looked at him confused. "What are you talking about? Who?"
"Your little pal, Irma, did this to my face," Uriah replied, pointing to his bandaged nose and bruised and dirty face. It looked like he had crashed it into a wall or something.
Taranee raised an eyebrow. Did Hay Lin beat him up? She thought, slightly amused. "Did she beat you up?"
Uriah frowned and was about to say something before Kurt cut in. "Of course not! If she even dared to attack him, then she would get her butt beaten by Uriah here!"
"Yeah, and we would be there to help!" Clubber added, lightly punching the palm of his left hand with his right fist.
"So what happened?" Taranee questioned.
"She made me run into the wall! Over and over again!" Uriah exclaimed, balling up his fists in anger.
Irma's mind control powers! Taranee figured out in her mind. Hay Lin must've accidentally used them on Uriah! Taranee snorted in amusement.
"Is that funny to you, twerp!?" Uriah growled, stepping closer to her.
Taranee didn't answer.
"I thought so. Anyways, I don't know how Irma did it, but she did! And guess who gets the payback!?" Uriah said, grabbing the front of Taranee's shirt and lifting her up off of the ground. He shoved her back so it was flush against her locker and smiled mischievously, winding his fist back. Taranee struggled against Uriah's iron grip, but surprisingly, he was very strong for being so lanky.
"The same person who gets it every time something in my life goes wrong," Uriah continued, causing Taranee to stop struggling for a second. "You." And then, Uriah's fist came barreling towards her face in a blur of movement.
As soon as Will stepped into the cafeteria, waves of whispers and rumors rippled through the crowd of students. And as she continued on to the table that the girls and her normally ate at, she could feel and see the looks of disgust people gave her when she passed them.
"I heard that Cornelia and Matt did it on the floor in Mrs. Rudolph's math class right in front of Will, Matt's girlfriend," one girl whispered to another as Will passed by. The second girl gasped in astonishment and then, sent a dirty look Will's way.
"I heard that she beat up Will and then, started making out with Matt," Will heard another girl from a different table say to her whole table. "It wouldn't surprise me if she's been sleeping around everywhere."
"Yeah, seriously, what a slut," a girl from that same table replied in a snarky tone, sending Will a disgusted look.
So I guess this is how rumors are spread, Will thought to herself as she received more dirty and disgusted looks and heard more people whispering. And if all these people know, then I'm sure Cornelia knows. Will gulped. Great.
"Hey, Wi-Cornelia! Over here!" Hay Lin yelled, waving her arms for Will to come over there.
Will smiled as she walked over to the table that her friends were sitting at. At least not everybody is giving me dirty looks, she thought. "Hey, guys," she said aloud, sitting down at the table. "How goes it?"
"Dude, how goes it? 'Taranee' is going to be super mad at you," Irma answered in Will's voice with a wink when she said Taranee.
"Yeah, seriously," Hay Lin agreed, looking at Will. "What were you thinking, 'Cornelia'?"
"I don't know," Will sighed. "Matt was leaning in to kiss Ir-Will, and I sort of freaked out and pushed her out of the way. Then, we sort of just kissed."
"Wow, it sounds like you weren't really thinking at all," Irma stated before taking a drink of water.
"Hey, at least I wasn't a deer caught in headlights when that happened," Will countered. "I mean you were going to kiss him, weren't you?"
Irma shrugged. "I don't know, maybe."
"Hey guys, sorry I'm late," Taranee apologized before sitting down at the table. She looked over to 'Irma'. "We need to talk about something. Has Uriah really been-"
Suddenly, the cafeteria door slammed open hard, revealing a very angry looking 'Taranee'. "Cornelia!" she screamed. It was almost like steam was coming out of her ears. She did not look happy. Oh boy, Will thought definitely anxious and a little scared. Cornelia's going to kill me.
Cornelia stomped over to the table with a glare that could kill as everyone in the cafeteria went quiet and watched what was happening. Cornelia got all up in Will's face and screamed, "What the heck were you thinking!? Are you trying to ruin my life!?" Of course, any innocent bystander would not have noticed the double meaning in those words, but Will got exactly what Cornelia was mad about.
"I-I'm sorry," Will apologized, looking into Cornelia's now dark eyes. "I didn't mean to, I swear."
Cornelia snorted angrily before looking around the cafeteria and seeing that everybody was looking at them. Even the lunch ladies were watching them with mild interest. "What are you people staring at!? This is none of your business!" Cornelia snapped, sitting down at the table. "Seriously, people, go back to your own lives!" Everybody shrugged before turning back around and continuing to eat, talk, or whatever they were doing before.
Silence ensued as Cornelia fumed internally.
"Hey, Cupcake," Martin said, breaking the silence as he walked to their table. He then put his lunch tray on the table and took a seat next to Hay Lin. "How's my Flower doing today?"
Irma gagged while pointing to her mouth as Hay Lin smiled at Martin. "Uh, pretty good," Hay Lin replied.
"You know, I heard Uriah got back from the nurse during fifth period," Martin stated. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad he wasn't seriously injured."
"Me too," Hay Lin smiled as she received confused and puzzled looks from her friends. Even Cornelia gave her a 'What happened?' look.
"Um, what are you guys talking about?" Will asked curiously. "What happened with Uriah?"
"Oh, you guys didn't hear?" Martin questioned surprised.
"Would we be asking if we knew what happened!?" Irma snapped. Hay Lin sent her a glare.
"You're right, you wouldn't be if you already knew," Martin said, pushing his glasses back onto the bridge of his nose. "So in second period gym today, Uriah ran into the wall over and over again. It was like he couldn't stop."
"What? Why would he do that?" Will inquired puzzled.
Martin shrugged. "I don't know. But if you ask me, I think he was under a trance or something."
It was like light bulbs turned on for all of the guardians. Well, except for Hay Lin and Taranee who both already knew the answer.
Suddenly, 'Will' stood up. "Well, Martin, it was nice seeing you, but I think you should go now."
"B-B-But," Martin started as he stood up and Irma began lightly pushing him away from the table.
After he was a good distance away from the table, Irma came back and sat down. "A trance?" she stated quietly. "More like mind control." They all looked to Hay Lin. "What did you do, Ha-Irma?"
"I didn't mean to," Hay Lin replied. "I just saw him picking on everybody in gym and I sort of snapped. I thought about him running into a wall, and the next thing I knew, he was running into a wall."
Irma sighed. "Now you know how powerful it can be. You've got to be careful about what you think or else everyone will be running into walls."
"I know, and I'm sorry," Hay Lin replied.
"And I can't believe you're being nice to Martin!" Irma added.
"Why wouldn't I? Martin's a nice guy," Hay Lin countered.
"Yeah, but he's...," Irma paused, thinking of how to describe him. "Martin."
"Anyways," Will started, with a 'let's move on with it' tone of voice. "At least nobody saw her mind control Uriah, right?"
"Wrong," Taranee answered. "Uriah knows that it was Irma who made him run into the wall... Or at least Irma's body, anyways."
"What? How?" Irma questioned a little worried. "When did you find out?"
"I don't know how he found out, but he did," Taranee responded. "As for how did I find out, he told me before lunch while I was at my locker."
"Why would he tell you?" Will asked puzzled.
"Because I was the one he got his revenge on for the whole wall mishap," Taranee said, rolling up her left sleeve to reveal a big ugly bruise on her shoulder. The rest of the guardians gasped. They didn't think that Uriah was the type to hit a girl, even if he was a big bully. "Yeah, he was aiming for my face, but luckily I managed to divert it to my shoulder." She winced as she rolled her sleeve back down, covering the bruise. "But this isn't the first time something like this has happened... Isn't that right, 'Irma'?"
Hay Lin shuffled around nervously, avoiding eye contact with the other girls. "W-What?"
"Hay Hay," Irma whispered very quietly, so that no one else could hear. Her tone was hurt and worried, making Hay Lin feel even worse. "Uriah's been bullying you? Why didn't you tell us?"
Hay Lin looked away from her best friend guiltily. "I-I-I don't know," she replied.
"You don't know?" Cornelia asked a little sharply. "I can't believe you didn't tell us! I mean we could've at least given that slime ball a lesson or two for hurting one of our best friends."
"I know. I just... I didn't want to get you guys involved," Hay Lin said sadly.
"Well, we're involved now," Taranee responded, taking a bite from her apple. She could sense the sadness and unease coming from Hay Lin, so she decided to change the subject and tell them about the letter. "But before we talk about that some more, let's talk about this," she said, pulling out the letter and placing it on the table.
"Ummmmm, what's that?" Will questioned, reading what was on the letter like the rest of the girls. "And who's this 'Anonymous' person?"
"Obviously someone that doesn't want to be known," Cornelia snapped, still mad at Will. And who could blame her? Thanks to her, she was the new school slut and probably part of every rumor out there.
"So what do we do?" Hay Lin asked a little worried about this new threat. But on the bright side, she might get to go on another adventure with her friends.
"Well, the letter just says not to tell anybody about switching bodies or someone will pay," Taranee started out slowly. "So the answer is simple. We don't tell anybody about it and nobody gets hurt."
"Yeah, but -" Irma said before getting interrupted.
"Ah, there you are, Will," a teacher said, smiling while walking up to them. "I was looking for you."
Irma hesitated. For a second, she had forgotten that she was in Will's body. "Oh, uh hi," Irma said, trying to figure out who this teacher was. She knew that she had seen this teacher before, but she just couldn't quite place her finger on where. "We've met before, right?"
The teacher burst into laughter as Will gave Irma a 'What are you doing?' look. "Wow, Will, that was a good one," he said with an amused smile. "I'm your swim coach. By the way, I just wanted to remind you that the regional championship swim meet is tonight, so be prepared for that. See you later." He then, left with a wave.
Irma turned towards Will with a raised eyebrow. "There's a swim meet tonight?"
Will smiled sheepishly. "Oh yeah, I knew I was forgetting something."
"Oh my gosh," Cornelia stated wide eyed, staring at the figure coming towards them. "What is he doing here?"
"Who?" Hay Lin asked as all of them looked over to where Corny was looking.
"Him," Cornelia answered like he was some sort of deadly disease. And why shouldn't she be? He was her ex after all. "It's Caleb."
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