Chapter 11 Picnic

My blood started to boil at the sight of them. "What the heck are you guys doing here!?" I busted out. Honestly, I wanted to have some alone time. 

Shouldn't they be in their room or something?

Hearing my voice, they all turned and smiled, except for Xander who still had his back to me. "Hi, Hailey. Would you like to join us?" Sandy asked as she brought out different kinds of sandwiches and cakes that made my mouth water. 

But not enough for me to join them. I still have my pride! 

 I averted my gaze to their food and glared at them. "You haven't answered my question." 

Sheen got up from a sitting position and grinned. "We basically followed you here. And when we saw where you went, we decided to have a picnic." He admitted. 

So they were following me. 

A+  honesty for them.

Leo grabbed one of the sandwiches and smiled at me. I could have sworn I saw light in the background when he smiled. "I have to say, Miss Collins. You know your way around here to have found this spot. It's relaxing." He said and took a bite out of his sandwich.

I snapped out of my thoughts when I noticed Sandy handing me a sandwich. I shook my head, still holding my ground as I said, "I thought we had an agreement that you would leave me alone?" 

"Unless you engage in a conversation with us first." Continued Sheen and grabbed a sandwich. I noticed that Xander still hasn't spoken a word. I fixed him a glare in which he didn't notice seeing as he was enjoying his sandwich.

"That's not the point." I said. Then I suddenly felt someone grabbing a hold of my hand and tugging it down. I looked down and saw Sandy smiling at me as she said, "Sit. Join us."

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

Suddenly, Sandy frowned and her face turned red as she got up and faced me. "Listen-I-don't-want-to-repeat-myself-again-so-just-do-as-I-say-and-sit! Are we clear!!?" She said it so fast that I almost didn't catch her words but heard enough to know what she wanted me to do. I sat on the blanket wordlessly while Sheen burst out laughing.

"That's what you get when you piss her off." He said. Sandy ignored him and took her seat beside me. Her face now looked happy and contented as she offered me one of their sandwiches.

I shook my head no. "I already have mine." I said and showed it to her. But honestly speaking, I like my sandwich better since it has my favorite filling. Nutella.

Sandy stared at it for a while before she took it off of my hands and handed me hers instead. "There, no more sandwich so might as well eat the one I made." She smiled sweetly and before I could stop her, she took a bite out of it.

"No!!" I said in a horrified voice as I watch her chew on my sandwich and saw her eyebrow furrow. She gulps and then frowned at my sandwich.

"Ugh!! This is fattening. It's not even a week yet and I ate chocolate." She said and she shifted her gaze towards Sheen who was still enjoying his own food. She then pulled Sheen towards her and shove my sandwich into his mouth saying, "Here, Sheen. You can have it." Sheen coughed violently as he choked while I look in despair at my sandwich.

No!! My Nutella!!! How dare they do that!?! 

These heartless bastards!!

I glared at Sandy. "That was my sandwich!!" I said.

Sandy drank some water before she turned to look at me. "Well, you’re welcome."

"But I liked it!!" I said. It was useless telling her that now since my sandwich is long gone. I sighed and shook my head. "Forget that. Can I please know why you guys followed me here? On my secret spot?"

"Uhhhh.....technically, it's Leo's spot, you know? Seeing as he is the son of the owner of this school and all." Argued Sheen.

I glared at him to shut up. "That's not that point now, is it?" I retorted. 

"We want to recruit you as a member of the student council." Leo said and before I could say anything else, he added, "It's not a part of our issue. This time, this is purely for the sake of the school."

I stared at him for a long time before I asked, "Why me? Aren't there any capable students of filling up the spot?"

Leo shook his head. "The person we are looking for is someone who has a great influence on students to maintain peace and that he/she is dedicated to this role. So far, we've only seen two. One is Miss Stan and the other is you. Since Miss Stan already declined the offer, we are giving the spot to you."

I snorted. "Really?"

"Come on, Hailey." Sandy urged. "Take the spot!! We all would like to have you in our group."

"Hmmm.....MmmmMMMM!!!" I heard someone mumbled and saw that it was Xander. I raised an eyebrow at him before I turned to face the others and asked, "What's wrong with him?"

As if one cue, Xander turned to face me. I have to stifle a gasp when I saw that his hands were tied in front of him and his mouth was covered in tape. "The heck happened to you?" I asked and I saw him glare at me. Sheen immediately went to his side and placed an arm around his shoulder and laughed.

"Oh him?" He pointed at Xander. "He's actually on a diet and asked us to tie his up and tape his mouth so he couldn't eat. The guy has been pigging out for the past few weeks, you know?"

Xander turned and frowned at Sheen before he elbowed him making him fall to the ground. Once Sheen had fallen, Xander took that opportunity as he ripped the tape off of his mouth. He glared at Sheen saying, "If anyone should be on a diet here, it's you! How many of those sandwiches have you eaten?" He asked him before he turned to face me. "These fools tied me up so that I won't say anything rude to you, but you know what? Screw them. Whether you join us or not is up to you, but I'll tell you this. I don't like you and if you do join us, don't expect me to treat you like a comrade."

"Seven." Sheen answered his question.

"Sheen, I think that was a rhetorical question."

I gave Xander a long hard look and borrowed some courage from my cool self. So whether I join or not, he'll still be a jerk huh? Well, that's good to know. "Don't worry. I'm not interested." I told him. "But I'm just curious though. What makes you think that I'll be good at being the peacekeeper?"

"The way you handled the girls at the cafeteria was proof." Said Leo. He smiled and nodded at me as if in approval. "We've heard of you breaking fights before but we really haven't seen you in action until 27 minutes ago."

"But that was hardly a fight!!" I argued.

"True. We also heard that you help the students from being bullied."

"Not true."

"True."

"Not true."

"True." As if on cue, my gaze went past Leo and saw a couple of jocks tossing a nerd’s bag back and forth. The jocks laugh as the nerd tried so hard to grab his bag in mid-air. I frowned.

Why do the jocks always pick on the nerds? It's getting really annoying. 

Might as well get some fun out of it.

"Excuse me for a moment." I said as I got up. My eyes not leaving the jocks as I made my way towards them. 

Once I was behind one of the jocks, I tapped his shoulder. He shrugged me off at first, but on the second try, he saw his other friend pause after he caught the bag. Then he and the nerd both gaped as they look at me. The first jock seemed confused by their reaction until his friend pointed behind him. Slowly, the first jock turned and when he saw me, he screamed and back away a few feet from me.

Let's keep this to ourselves but I do love their reaction when they see sneaking up behind their backs. They immediately go from bullies to screamers.

"H-Hailey? What brought you here?" He asked nervously.

My cool girl act was in the spotlight now. "I should ask you the same thing." I said. "What's going on here?" 

This time, the second jock answered. "We were just.......playing with the nerd, right?" The second jock gave the nerd a look. The nerd hesitated and looked at the ground. Confused about what he was going to do. It was obvious that he was getting uncomfortable.

"Do you know what time it is?" I asked them.

"Uhhhh..........12 something?"

"Exactly. It's lunchtime and you guys are making noises and making me lose my appetite." I said and my eyes turned ice-cold as I said my next word. "Do you know that my lunch in the cafeteria was already ruined? And I don't want that to happen here too. So far, I'm just keeping it together in a thin line. You don't want that to break now, do you?"

They all seemed to turn pale. The first jock quickly backed away towards his friend. "S-Sorry, Miss Collins. It won't happen again." Then he grabbed the bag from his friend and gave it to the nerd. "Let's go." He told his friend and they both hurried away from me.

I grinned inside of me. Did you see that!!? They ran away like pussies! The cowards. 

"U-Umm....." I turned my head to the side to see that the nerd had approached me. I have to give it to him. He didn't run away like those cowards. "Thank you." He said and looked at the ground instead.

I snorted. "Next time. Don't let them take your bag." I said to him before I turned my back and headed towards the student council to finish our argument. Once I got there, I sat on the mat.

"Where were we?" I asked and suddenly remembered. "Oh yeah. Not true." I said.

 The Student Council stared at me as if I had grown another head. "That answer is null and void."

"Are you serious?"

"What was that just now?"

"Excuse me?"

I raised an eyebrow at them. "What?"

Sheen shook his head. "Didn't you just realize what you just did just now? You help someone when we told you that you like helping people."

"I didn't help him." I told him.

"Are you retarded or something?" Said Xander making me frown at his chosen word. "Then what do you call that just now?"

"It's called amusement, you caveman. I like seeing their faces when I do that. Especially the male jocks. I mean, did you see the looks on their faces?! Pretty nice transition from a bully to a pussy. Ha!"

Instead of laughing with me, they gave me weird out looks.

"....."

"Unbelievable." 

"What is she?" 

"She's a demon." 

I frowned at them. "Hey, if you guys don't have anything nice to say and don't say anything at all."

"Nonetheless, the offer still stands." Said Leo.

Xander gave him a look. "Are you sure, man?"

Leo nodded. "Her motive might not be in the right place but she does have the influence and she's only doing her.....amusement to bullies."

"You guys make it sound like what I'm doing is a crime!" I said and a little bit offended by how they are talking about me. I sighed and shook my head as I started to get up. I dusted my shirt off. "Anyways, I'm going."

"Miss Collins." Leo called out as I started to leave. "The offer still stands. Take your time and think about it." He said.

I nodded as finally took off. As I left, I already told myself and assured it that I will not join their stupid group. 

At least, that's what I thought until one week later, something happened making me doubt my decision as I needed their help.