Chapter 4

Donald was furious when he discovered that Sonia was going through other students files.

"How dare you!" he yelled at an unrepentant Sonia. "You have no business going through the files of other students."

"I was just looking for my file." Sonia lied.

"Do you expect me to believe that rubbish, Sonia?!" Donald asked, still yelling.

"If Miss Brennan hadn't stuck her nose in, I would've got what I wanted!" Sonia said, glaring at Joanne.

"You were snooping." Joanne said firmly.

"Miss Brennan, who's file was Miss Hammond looking at?" Donald asked Joanne.

"I believe it was that new girl, Tiegan Brook." Joanne replied.

"Oh, I see." Donald said. "You can report to me after school, Sonia!"

Sonia rolled her eyes before leaving the office.

I will have the last laugh. Sonia thought to herself before smirking.

During lunch, Selina was watching Jerome play rugby with some of the other guys when Melanie strolled over.

"Well, look what we have here. A slut!" Melanie said, glaring at Selina.

"Rack off, Melanie." Selina said, rolling her eyes.

"You just couldn't wait to get your claws into Jerome, aye?!" Melanie snapped.

"Says the one that cheated on him with Jeremy Riggs!" Selina snapped back.

Melanie scowled before saying, "Don't you dare bring that up!"

Selina let out a huge smile. "Why not? Ashamed of what you did?"

"At least I'm not a flirtatious bimbo!" Melanie yelled.

Selina got up from the metal bench and got right in Melanie's face.

"You wanna call me that again, bitch?!" she yelled.

"I said that you-"

Selina pushed Melanie over, which caused several students that walked by to laugh.

"Leave me alone, Melanie!" Selina said to her.

A humiliated Melanie stormed off, with the students still laughing at her.

"Go, Selina!" one of them shouted out.

"Thanks." Selina said, taking a bow.

Meanwhile, Tiegan and Stephanie were outside sitting under the shade when Sonia's friends, Amy and Kim approached them.

"Hey, Tiegan. I never knew you had a fling with a teacher!" Kim laughed.

Tiegan got up and went straight to the two girls before angrily asking, "What did you say?!"

"Sonia went through your student file and discovered some very interesting secrets during your stint at Hartley High!" Amy said, a smirk draping across her face.

"Don't be stupid!" Stephanie said, raising her voice. "Mr Fisher already caught her going through things that aren't her business!"

"The whole school will know everything and your reputation will go down the tube." Amy said.

"Bye, Tiegan." Kim said, before her and Amy walked away laughing.

Tiegan was incensed!

"H-how d-dare she!" Tiegan muttered, her anger slowly reaching breaking point.

"Don't listen to Kim and Amy." Stephanie said. "They're just lying."

Tiegan and Stephanie walked inside, where several students were giving Tiegan weird looks.

"What's going on?" Tiegan asked Stephanie.

"Don't tell me..."

Before Stephanie could figure out what was going on, Sally raced over.

"Tiegan, Sonia has been spreading rumours about you." Sally told her foster sister.

"Those aren't rumours." a male student griped. "Tiegan was quite the slag at Hartley High!"

"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" Tiegan screamed before running off.

"I'll go after her." Sally said to Stephanie.

"Okay." Stephanie said.

Just as Sally went outside, Sonia walked in. Stephanie's blood was boiling.

"Looks like your new friend is short of friends. Such a shame." Sonia said, grinning her head off.

"Who the hell do you think you are?!" Stephanie shouted.

"Me?" Sonia asked pretending to be clueless.

"Yes, you!" Stephanie continued shouting. "How dare you bring up Tiegan's history at Hartley High! She's had enough of people victimising her!"

"That's her loss then, isn't it?" an unrepentant Sonia replied.

Stephanie was beyond furious now. "How would you like it if people aired your private business?!"

"Defend your new friend all you like, I'm out of here." Sonia said.

As Sonia went to leave, Stephanie grabbed her and pinned her against the lockers.

"Hey, take it easy!" Sonia said. The arrogant look on her face was gone.

"If you EVER give Tiegan a hard time again, I'll tell Mr Fisher that you smoke behind the maths block!" Stephanie yelled.

"It's not my fault that Tiegan Brook is a flithy, lowlife retard!" Sonia yelled back.

That was it for Stephanie. She pushed Sonia onto the ground before attacking her. Several students started coming over and some chanted "fight, fight, fight"

"Get off me!" Sonia wailed. "Stephanie, please!"

"You want to talk bad about my friends! This is what you get!" Stephanie said, pulling Sonia's hair.

"STOP!" Sonia screamed.

Donald made his way through the crowd of students before breaking Sonia and Stephanie up.

"You never surprise me with your stupidity, Sonia!" Donald yelled at her.

"She was the one that attacked me!" Sonia protested.

"I bet I know why!" Donald snapped before turning to Stephanie and saying, "Miss Mboto, you can see me after school."

Stephanie just walked away.

"And as for you Sonia, you can now report to me after school every day for the next week! Maybe then you'll think about spreading gossip about other students!" Donald shouted at Sonia before leaving.

An enraged Sonia threw her school bag at the lockers.

NEXT TIME...
- Travis and Kelly lecture Stephanie over her fight with Sonia
- Tiegan wins the respect of all her classmates, much to the chagrin of Sonia and her cronies
- Selina and Jerome's friendship blossoms