Chapter 8

Chapter 8 - You are way better.

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"Is everything ready?" Ace asked, looking at us.

We all nodded our heads in affirmation.

"This should be fun." Dylan grinned then turned to me, giving me a bigger grin. "Thanks Joanna, if it weren't for your bucket list this wouldn't have happened."

I waved my hand in dismal, "its okay. In fact thanks to Bryan for stealing my list and I am honestly quite enjoying this." I saw a small smile creep up on Ace's face on his otherwise his expressionless face.

I remembered his text from yesterday. Nothing ever happened. My foot nothing happened. He can say that when I kick his balls and feed them to the sharks.

I sighed, glancing around. Logan, Alan and Max had gone to Mrs. Finn's house late night yesterday to cover her brand new Mercedes with pastel and neon post-it notes. The front was covered in pink, yellow and light blue. The sides in orange and green and the back white and light pink. 'Good Morning Tight-Pants!' was written in bold black letters on the front post-its. Logan had clicked pictures of the car from every angle and showed them the first thing he entered school. He even made a W******p group and posted it there so we all could have them. It looked ridiculous but awesome. Dylan had even patted their backs in a proud father manner.

Janice, Brittany and Dylan had covered Mrs. Finn's parking lot with sticky wet mud in the early morning. So that after removing all the notes she would find the car wheels brown and sticky with mud when she parked at school. Luckily her parking lot was at the far end and no one was allowed to park anywhere near it. Perks of ruling the school.

As for me and Ace, we had sneaked into her cabin early morning. A bucket full of water was placed on the door in such a way that the second she opened the cabin door, she would be soaked in the cold water with the plastic bucket just about touching her head. Knowing she would change into her spare clothes that she always kept in her personal cupboard, we had smartly exchanged her usual formal pants and shirt with a neon pink top that had 'I Quit this Job' written on it. It was paired with green loose jeans since no one knew her waist size. Even after all this Ace wanted to take more revenge for the torture and chiding he had to go through for 3 years so he had mixed excess salt in all the bottles with water. He had also twisted one wheel of her rotating chair so that she would fall when she sat on it.

Yes we are evil. But it was worth all the torture she had put the students through. I bet students would thank us in their prayers. And I had also realized that this was the first time I was doing something against the rules. It felt good.

Memories made while having fun are the best and most memorable memories. After all life is all about enjoying with friends and eating Nutella.

The first bell rang and we mingled into the crowds of students to avoid suspicions. Dylan, Brittany and Alan went to their biology class. Janice and Max to calculus and I walked with Ace to literature class.

"All we have to do is wait and watch now."  Ace said flopping down beside me.

I could feel the curious stares of all the people in the class on us. Mainly because Ace was attending literature class for only the second time this year and instead of his usual seat at the back corner he was sitting next to me in the center of class.

I heard heels clanking and groaned mentally. Why does she have majority classes with me? I heard a sharp intake of breath and looked up to find Alicia staring at us with wide eyes. She looked from Ace to me and repeated it until her eyes landed on me and shifted from shock to evil. "Slut." She mouthed and I rolled my eyes in response, making her more furious.

She walked steadily to me and stopped in front of my seat. Her face completely covered in white foundation and pink blush. Lips red and eyes surrounded by brown eyeliner with gold eye shadow. "Get up." She ordered, keeping her red purse on the bench. It was so small, but then again she didn't bring books and pens for class, she bought mirrors and lipsticks.

I glanced at Ace who was looking at our exchange with amusement. He was probably hoping for a cat fight.

"You sit there." I said to Alicia, pointing at her regular seat.

"I want to sit here today." She stated, playing with her hair and sending a flirty wink in Ace's direction.

His responding wink wasn't expected by me and nor was the seething and annoying feeling inside me. Bloody prick, winking back. I glared at her and lifted my bag. "He is all yours." I spat and walked off to the last bench, not caring to turn back see the triumphing look on her face. Her smirk would fail to hurt me as much as the flirty look on Ace's face would. Of course I wasn't jealous. Nah!

But then I thought of it again and turned back. Never let a bitch win. "Alicia?" I droned sweetly. "Honey your face isn't the drawing book, chill with the make-up."

Ignoring the snorts and loud laughter I walked to the back seat feeling immensely proud of myself. After a few seconds I felt a presence besides me but ignored it until I felt the familiar smell of mint and vanilla. I looked sideways in astonishment and then to my previous bench where Alicia sat alone, glaring at me.

It took a few seconds for the situation to sink in. "Why?" I finally asked Ace curiously.

He shrugged like it was no big deal and gave a simple answer that made my tummy zoo turn live. "You are way better."

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"Bryan Cooper, Maxwell Scott and Dylan Davis, come to my cabin RIGHT NOW." Mrs. Finn's extremely angry voice came through the loudspeakers clearly.

We looked at each other and then at their table. It was lunch break and we were seated separately to avoid questions. Ace, Max and Dylan got up slowly from their seats, stretching their hands uninterestingly. Dylan turned to our table and threw a discrete wink at us while Ace and Max strolled nonchalantly out of the canteen. It was like a routine for them.

"Do you think she knows it was us?" Brittany whisper-asked.

We turned to her. I shrugged my shoulders and Logan shook his head. "I doubt it."

"But her face when she entered school will sure be worth the punishment." Alan commented, laughing at the memory. He was the only one who had seen her entering among us that too because he was chasing Celia begging for a date and every time she was downright rejecting him. All we had heard were the screams of Mrs. Finn and all the teachers running everywhere shouting at the students, demanding answers.

"You should have taken a video." Janice said, slapping the back of his head.

He scowled at her. "And what would I tell Celia? ‘Oh! I'll talk to you later because right now I need to shoot a video of our principal's furious face because my friends would love to see it.' And she would be like, 'Oh, that's great. Why don't you ask them for a date then?'"

We chuckled but Janice stared at him with a blank face. "Is she possessive? Because if she is then you better leave her right now. I don't want you not attending our movie nights and stupid plans because some girl is insecure."

"Janie baby, I would never miss our meetings." Alan cooed.

Janice raised her eyebrows. "Even if she is on the bed with legs spread out, waiting for you?"

"Uh then I may have to think." He said, rubbing his neck.

"Eww a very bad image." Logan wrinkled his nose, shaking his head.

Alan kicked his feet. "You aren't supposed to imagine that."

"I couldn't help it. Janice described it in such a way." Logan defended, drinking his water in one gulp.  

"Joanna Williams, my cabin." The loudspeaker rang again.

I felt my heart beat rise. Holy Fuck! Did she know? I hope not. Did she threaten the three and made them tell my name? Bryan wouldn't do that, would he? My parents would kill me and if they didn't Connor sure would. I looked at my friends who had worried expressions on their faces.

"Fuck!" I exclaimed in a low tone, my fear raising another notch.

"Should I come with you?" Janice asked, half getting up.

I shook my head, gulping hard. "I'll be fine." Hopefully.

"I hope you get suspended." Alicia shouted as I walked out. I turned and smiled sweetly at her. "I hope you learn to zip your mouth or our school will be infested by the shit falling from it."

I knocked and entered the cabin. Ace, Max and Dylan were still there with blank faces.

"Miss. Williams." Mrs. Finn nodded towards me and when I saw her I almost laughed out aloud instantly pretending to have a coughing fit. She was wearing the spare top we had kept for her and probably the jeans too but I couldn't see it because of the opaque table. Even her chair was different, wet and low? The broken chair lay in a corner. My eyes swept towards the bottles but they were all gone. Looks like she tasted the water.

"Yes Ma'am?" I asked, biting my lip from laughing.

"You are the class president and your duty is to handle the students properly. As you can see I am wearing different clothes because some student found it funny to exchange mine with these." She gripped the neon top, her eyes flaring with immense rage. "I am ordering you to find out the responsible person behind this or you will suffer maximum loss. I hope I have made myself clear. Now disperse." She waved her hand facetiously.

I felt anger rise inside me and all the guilt I had for going with the prank melted away. "Ma'am, I am sorry but that is job of teachers and student body president, not the class president. I am already arranging for our annual festival and also tutoring Ace along with handling my personal studies. I can't handle more. I am sorry."

She stared at me with more fury before sighing. "I'll tell the teachers to look into this while you Miss. Williams back answered me and as a result I order you to tutor Max and Dylan along with Bryan. Now leave, all of you. And if I find you that you three have a hand in this, the punishment would be severe than just a parent meeting."

I didn't wait for another second. "Thank you Ma'am." I said and sauntered out closely followed by the TTs.

"That was close." Max half-whispered, rubbing his head.

"And impressive." Dylan added, nodding in my direction. "You totally told her to fuck off."

I frowned at him. "I didn't tell that."

He rolled his eyes. "Indirectly genius."

I childishly stuck out my tongue. "Yeah yeah."

"You were good." Ace whispered, knocking his shoulder with mine lightly.

My smile automatically grew wider and I looked up at him to see a little smile on his face. "Thanks." I whispered back. Our eyes locked and just like that the world disappeared.

"You have to teach us too." Dylan said merrily, bringing me back to the world.

"Uh yeah." I sighed. One wasn't enough now I had three. A sudden idea popped in my head. "We'll do group studies."

"We?" Max inquired.

"Janice and all and you guys. We'll have fun." I said excitedly. Group studies always worked, that's what I had heard but never tried it.

"I have a feeling fun is only thing we'll have." Ace mumbled.

And suddenly I had that feeling too. Max and Brittany in one room - always glaring, Janice in Dylan in one room – always flirting, Logan and Alan – always joking and Ace and I in one room – always bickering. It would be fun alright.

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Sooooooooooooooo much fun!!