Chapter 5
Brittany applied her moisturizer and when she heard feet shuffling at her door, she quickly jumped on her bed and faked sleep. Lisa was very strict on her sleeping by her bedtime which was twelve.
"Brittany" Lisa said as she came in. She smiled as she saw Brittany "sleeping". Please don't come here, don't come here, don't come here, Brittany thought and shut her eyes tightly as Lisa sat on her king-sized four-poster bed.
The universe clearly hates me, Brittany thought. But I'm doing what it tells me, she groaned inwardly and stiffened when Lisa started stroking her hair. "Sometimes...I wish you wouldn't be so hard on your father. He's trying his best. He just...needs some time. The both of you have been through a lot and you're hurting...but there's no way you'll heal without helping each other get through the pain your passing" .
Brittany didn't say anything. Trying his best huh? I don't think so, she thought. "Brittany?" Lisa said and Brittany quickly let out a fake snore and Lisa got up, "You must be really tired. Goodnight then" she said and left.
Brittany got up and took her flashlight. No she wasn't going to the lake, she had to sleep early to wake up early and strong and execute her plan. She tiptoed to the garage and checked the trunk of her car. Yup! The paint was still there. She took a whiff of the acrylic paint and smiled. She loved the smell of paint. And revenge. "Pink would look so good on that motorcycle" she smirked and silently laughed evilly. She closed the trunk and tiptoed back to her room.
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"Brittany, I don't think this is a good idea" Maddie whined as Brittany sprayed pink paint on a certain motorcycle parked in front of Euphorium High School. "Quiet Maddie! You're making me loose courage!" Brittany said as she took another spray paint and sprayed it on the helmet. "I don't think you need courage again, you've painted the motorcycle pink already" "I'm not yet done my lovely friend" Brittany said and removed the gum in her mouth and put it on seat. "Now I'm done!" she said and packed her baggage.
"I can't believe we missed Chemistry just for that!" Maddie said as Brittany washed her hands in the girls' bathroom. "Did you want to go for Chemistry?" Brittany asked and Maddie shook her head, "So you're welcome!" Brittany said as she flung the water from her hands while Maddie handed her paper towels.
"Now, all we have to do is wait for----" they heard sniffling and crying from a stall. Maddie rolled her eyes as Brittany opened the stall where the crying and sniffling was coming from. They saw a small girl, probably a junior, with her head knees close to her chest. She was rocking herself forward and backward.
"First of all, ew! Second of all, ew! Thirdly, ew! Fourthly---- Why did I even open this door?" Brittany said and was about to close it but Maddie held it. "Maddie!" Brittany said but Maddie paid no attention to her, "What's your name?" "Maddie, don't talk to vermin! You'll only get germs from them and OMG! Is that snot coming out of her nose?" Brittany asked obviously disgusted.
"It's Loucita" the girl said in a small voice. "Why----" "Okay Loucita! Why are you crying in the bathroom?" Brittany asked and Loucita sniffled, "I'm new here and some girls made fun of my outfit and my grandma was the one that picked it out for me and...and..." she started crying again. "Oh my God. Okay with the water works!" Brittany said but Loucita continued crying "I knew I shouldn't have opened this door".
"Loucita----" "Why would you even allow your grandma to pick your outfit? They are old, plain and boring and are supposed to play bingo all day" Brittany said and Maddie sighed, "Get up, let me see your outfit" she said and stretched out her hand to help Loucita up. "Ew! Maddie! I told you not to talk to vermin and now you're touching them and----What the hell are you wearing?" Brittany asked as she noticed Loucita's outfit.
Loucita was wearing a pink pleated skirt with checkered socks, a baggy shirt and there was a yellow moufla around her neck. To literally crown it all, there was a little tiara on her head.
Fashion disaster! System overload! Fashion disaster! System overload! the robotic voice in Brittany's head kept on repeating. "I feel like someone could die just by looking at you. And you're crying that people are making fun of you? Darling, when you look like a washed-up clown, of course people would make fun of you" she said and tears started welling up in Loucita's eyes. "More tears? Nuh-uh! Wipe that sorry look off your face and get a new outfit and for the love of God and my eyes, don't you dare allow your grandma pick out your outfit and don't wear this trash tomorrow" Brittany said and she removed the yellow moufla from Loucita's neck, "What's this garbage?" "It's a moufla. I knitted it myself" Loucita said softly. Without wasting time, Brittany dropped it in the trashcan near her, "Oops! My hand slipped!" she said feeling no remorse at all.
"Brittany!" Maddie said when Loucita's tears started again. Brittany rolled her eyes and sighed, "Louisa or was it Loucita? I honestly don't care cos I'm not gonna see you again and having your useless name in my head just takes up space for more important things" she said and Loucita continued crying. Maddie gave her a that's-a-pep-talk? kinda look and Brittany shrugged.
"Look, you're only a junior, so you have time to look better and be the queen of this school" Brittany said, I'm sure no one will respect you though, she added mentally. "What I'm saying is, do things that won't make people look down on you. Act sassy, steal their boyfriend, dress like a boss and behave like one, have a crazy bucket list to be the most popular girl in the school, and then, no one will look down on you. Instead of you crying in the toilet, you'll be making others cry here. Take it as your revenge on the world for making a mockery of the wonderful outfit your grandma picked for you" she said. Luckily, Loucita had stopped crying.
Brittany backed up and retched, "Talking to vermin makes me nauseous" she said and Maddie shook her head and smiled at Loucita, "She isn't a bad person. She just takes good the wrong way. She's really nice" she said and Loucita nodded. "Maddie, let's go! It must be lunch by now and everyone have already seen it" Brittany said as she dragged Maddie out of the bathroom, then she came back, "Sweetheart, don't think I'm a nice person. I'm a really, really, really bad person. I'm the one that makes girls cry in these stalls" she said and Loucita nodded. Brittany's eyes flicked up to the tiara on her head and she knocked it down, "I don't appreciate crybabies wearing a tiara when the real queen is still alive" she said and walked out of the bathroom with her sunglasses on.
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People were murmuring and whispering. Seth was pissed. He knew no one in Euphorium High School would dare mess with his motorcycle. It had to be on of the prissy Disnee kids. "You sure it's one of them? Disnee and Euphorium never interact with each other" Zed said as he held Seth's shoulder "No one in our fucking school would do this shit! They'd be too worried that I'll know who they are and beat the crap out of them. Male or female!"
"Oh please like you would hit a girl!" Brittany said as she walked towards him. A slight smirk formed on Seth's face, "I should have known. This has you written all over it" he gritted through his teeth and she smirked, "Don't be angry sweetheart. I'm only returning the favour" she teased as she circled him. People started murmuring and gossip started spreading; are they dating? Is she Seth's new toy? I guess Sam's outta the picture, I thought Brittany wanted a nerd, he is definitely not a nerd, what will happen to poor Jake? Forget Jake! What about the nerd in suspenders? He seriously thought he had a chance with Brittany.
"And what favour could I have done to deserve such a wonderful gift from Miss Brittany Copper?" Seth asked as he took a mocking bow . "You made me cry yesterday...and I hate crying in public cos it ruins my makeup and I have nowhere to fix it. I just hate public bathrooms" she said and Seth grabbed her arm, "Cut the bullshit Brittany!" "I don't like vulgar language and hands off the merchandise!" she said and his grip became stronger.
Zed stepped in and tried to make Seth let go of Brittany. "Paws off my queen, you flea!" Jake said as he flung Seth's hand away from Brittany's arm. "Repeat that pipsqueak!" Zed said as he loomed over Jake. Zed was a lot inches taller than Jake. Jake's squad surrounded him immediately and Zed scoffed, "Bring whoever you want. I'd beat them into pulp". "You guys can fight anytime and anywhere but here and now. Some teachers are coming" Taylor said as she held Zed's hand and led him away.
"This is not over Britz! It's only the beginning" Seth said "Oh Seethe! Try smiling more and then you won't look like a donkey's ass! You see what I did right there?" Brittany asked Maddie who just sighed and rolled her eyes. Brittany gave a little wave to Seth before she walked into her school. "It's just the beginning!" Seth smirked.
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The rest of the school day was filled with murmurs of what was going on between Brittany and Seth. Everyone was surprised that they talked to each other because for generations, Disnee and Euphorium never interacted. No one knows who made the law, it has been like that since and it was supposed to stay that day. Euphorium kids thought Disnee kids were rich, stuck-up and snobbish while Disnee kids thought Euphorium kids were the pure definition of bad.
"What were you thinking spraying pink paint on that jerk's motorcycle?" Jake asked and Brittany rolled her eyes, "Like I said it was for revenge" "You took it too far" "It was just a motorcycle" "Seth Williams' motorcycle!" Ken said and Brittany scowled at him, "Why is he here?" she asked Jake. "He's my best friend" "That doesn't mean he can be included in our conversations" "Oh please! You guys are not dating anymore" Ken said and she smirked at him, "Right! So tell your best friend to stop acting like we are dating. He can't tell me what to do and he certainly does not have the right to say anything about me pinking Seth's motorcycle!" she yelled and was about leaving but Jake reached out to hold her arm, "Britt----" "Don't touch me!" she said and walked out of the classroom.
She stopped in her tracks when she saw Damian leaning on the wall. "Damian" she said and he rubbed his nape nervously, "I just wanted to see if you are okay" he said shyly and she smiled at the pink spread across his cheeks. "Why wouldn't I be okay?" she asked as she walked closer to him "I don't know. The whole motorcycle thing" "Don't worry. Seethe can't do anything to me" "Seethe?" "It's my nickname for him" "Oh!" he said and she slipped her hand around his arm. Damian stiffened under her touch. She was so close to him now. His breathing was hitched, his heartbeat had increased drastically and his face was hot and tomato red. "Want to ditch?" she asked.
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Seth punched the wall again as Taylor came with a first-aid kit, "I brought the whole kit instead of just bandages" she said and dropped it beside Zed. She looked at Seth who was punching the wall furiously. "Shouldn't we stop him? He has been doing that for two hours" "He's just blowing off some steam" Zed said as he glanced at Seth "What's he even pissed off about? His pink motorcycle or the fact that a Disnee girl got him good!" Taylor laughed.
"Haha Taylor!" Seth said as he sat down and put his bloody hands on Zed's laps, "Ew! Do it yourself!" Zed said as he pushed Seth's hands away. "Taylor would you be a darling and help?" Seth asked and she shook her head, "I make guys bleed. Helping one clean his wounds would make me bias towards half of the male population I have injured" "But you've helped Zed with his wounds" Seth pressed further and she looked away. A slight blush on her face. "Zed's different" "Wow Zed you got yourself a keeper!" Seth said as he slapped Zed's back playfully and Zed glared at him then he held his hands and started cleaning them.
"So what's the plan about your pink motorcycle?" Taylor asked and Seth's eyes darkened. He was really angry. "I'll just take it for washing. Hopefully the paint would come off" he said and Zed wrapped the final bandage around his knuckles, "Thanks!" Seth said and looked at his hands, "You've gotten better at this!" Seth nodded. "Cut the bullshit Seth! What's your plan about Brittany?" Zed asked and Seth smirked, "You tell me Zed. You tell me!"
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Brittany slumped on her bed. She was really exhausted. Instead of Damian ditching with her, he dragged her to the library and tutored her. She tried to zone out but Damian's voice always brought her out, so she did learn.
"Brittany, are you okay?" Lisa asked and Brittany shook her head, "Lisa, when was the last time I went to the spa?" "Last month" "That's long!" she said and sat up. "I'm going this weekend. Help me tell dad!" "Your dad's not around now. He travelled for business stuff" Lisa said and Brittany rolled her eyes, "Of course he won't tell me" she muttered and looked at Lisa, "He left one of his credit cards though" Lisa said and stretched out a card to Brittany, "He told me that you will need it" she said and Brittany was about to take it happily but Lisa kept it back in her pocket, "He also told me to monitor how you use it". "I need it now! I need to go to the spa!" "You'll go this weekend and I'll give you the card on Saturday" "But I need a manicure and a massage now!" "Brittany, I am not your father. You yelling would only give you a sore throat and a late dinner" "You'll starve me just to prove a point?" "Honey, take it as a diet. You are getting fat afterall" Lisa said and left Brittany's room.
Brittany ran to her vanity and checked herself in the mirror. Lisa was right. Her cheeks were getting bigger and her arms had gotten thicker. She gasped and held her cheeks, "I'm hideous!" "No you're not!" Lisa said as she walked past Brittany's room, "But----" "I was thinking we could go grocery shopping" Lisa said as she poked her head through the door. "Why would I go shopping if it's not for clothes?" Brittany asked with her hand on her hip "Well, we could buy enough food and you'll get to buy your green tea" "Green tea?" "It makes you slimmer!" Lisa said and Brittany gasped, "Give me an hour! I'll just freshen up and come!" she said and headed into her bathroom.
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Brittany grumbled for the umpteenth time. She had only come for green tea but Lisa was still buying things. She took the bag of chips from the cart and started eating. "And you wonder why you're getting fat" Lisa said as she dropped a pack of cheese and flour into the cart "Are you done?" Brittany asked and Lisa nodded, "Great! Let's go!" she said and they went to the counter to pay.
As they were leaving, someone bumped into Lisa, dropping some groceries on the floor and she too falling on the floor. "Lisa!" Brittany said and turned to whoever had bumped into Lisa. He looked familiar. But where had she seen him? "Can't you watch where you're going? Does being so tall make you not to see short people?" she questioned and he smirked, "I see why Seth is so eager to get back at you". Seth? she thought and looked at the tall guy in front of her. He was that guy that was with Seth.
"Bro! What---- Brittany?" Seth asked and Brittany put her hands on her hips, "Nice to see you here Seethe!" "Seethe?" Zed asked Seth and he shrugged. "Oh right Lisa!" Brittany said and turned to help Lisa up, "I was beginning to think you had forgotten me on the floor" Lisa said as she dusted her clothes while Brittany picked up the groceries.
"Zed?" Lisa asked and Zed looked surprised, "Lisa?" Brittany stood up and looked at them, "Lisa, how do you know this guy?" "Zed's mom and I were friends at Nursing School. I was there when she gave birth to Zed" Lisa said and Zed smiled, "You stopped visiting, why?" he asked and Lisa smiled, "I got a job". "As a nurse?" he asked and she shook her head, "Nope! To look after this little missy!" Lisa said as she patted Brittany's back.
"Aren't you overqualified for the job?" Seth asked and Brittany glared at him. "Lisa, this is my best bud, Seth!" Zed said and Lisa smiled at him, "Hi!" she said and he nodded. Aren't you supposed to say hi back? Brittany thought. "I might be overqualified but I love the job!" "Rich girl needs a nanny? Guess mummy and daddy does not trust you" Seth said "Shut up Williams!" Brittany said angrily and Seth raised a brow.
"I mean no one wants to hear your voice" Brittany suddenly replaced her angry tone with a bored one. No one has to know, she thought and looked at Lisa, "Can we go now?" she asked, "One second! Do you have a girlfriend Zed?" Lisa asked and Brittany looked at her surprisingly, "Lisa?!" "It's not for you! It's for my sister's niece!" Lisa said. "Yeah right!" Brittany muttered as she rolled her eyes.
"Yeah! She's really nice!" Zed said and Seth looked at him. Taylor was anything but nice. And I thought they were not dating, Seth thought. "Oh! Shame! My sister's niece would have been lucky to have a nice guy like you" Lisa said and nudged Brittany in the ribs, "Get yourself a nice boyfriend and stop giving me a headache" Lisa said and Brittany's cheeks pinked a little. "See you later!" Lisa said as she left with Brittany behind her. "See you tomorrow Britz!" Seth called out and Brittany glared at him.
"So you and Brittany, huh?" Seth teased Zed who gagged, "Dude! She's not my type! But hey! I can sense the sexual tension between you guys!" Zed said and Seth gagged, "Brittany's cute...but she's too..." "Too?" "I don't know! She's my enemy!" Seth said as he dropped purple hair dye in the basket. "I bet you wanna fuck her!" Zed said and Seth smirked, "I wanted to fuck her the first time I met her but now, I'd shoot her twice with a pistol!" he said and put another purple dye in the basket. "What do you need dye for? You never liked dying your hair" "It's not for me" Seth said and looked outside at Brittany who was also staring at him. She flung her hair across her shoulder with much sass and entered her car then she drove off. "Zed, I spy with my little eye a screaming girl with purple hair" Seth said with an evil smirk and Zed looked at Brittany's car that was already moving out of the driveway, "Tomorrow's going to be a crazy day!" he said.
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"Vote for Brittany for prom queen!" her posse shouted and Brittany rolled her eyes, "C'mon girls, no need to announce the results of the contest. Everyone knows I'm going to win. I always do" Brittany said and some girls were whispering at their lockers, "Maddie would make a better prom queen than Brittany" one of them whispered. "Then why don't you vote for her then? I dare you to vote for her!" Brittany said and they gulped, "Brittany, we were just----" "Oh please! Everyone has freedom to vote for anyone they like" Brittany said. "I advise you to run and keep your mouth shut!" Tiffany said and the girls nodded and ran. "Tiffany, you did not have to scare them like that!" Brittany said and continued strutting to her locker like the hallway was her own runway.
"Hey princess" someone said and Brittany groaned as she rolled her eyes then she slammed her locker shut and saw Jake leaning on another locker. "I've told you times with numbers Jake, if you want to call me something related to royalty, use queen, not princess. Queens are higher than princesses and I'm higher than anyone in this school" she said and Jake smiled, "Sorry your highness" he said and she smiled cockily, "I'll grant you audience. Make it quick!" "Sure thing!" "Umm...excu...excuse me, this is my locker" a small boy said shyly. "Back off pipsqueak!" Jake barked at the boy who immediately scampered away. "Time's up!" Brittany said and she walked away.
"Brittany, wait!" Jake said as he ran after her "What do you want Jake?" "Give me another chance" "This again" Brittany groaned. "C'mon, let me show you how much you mean to me" "Jake, I'm done with you and I don't deal with washed-up relics, so if we're done here, I'll just leave" "But you're hanging out with that nerd" he said bitterly. "And do you have a problem with that?" she glared at him and he raised his hands in defense, "I'm just stating the obvious" "Okay Captain Obvious!" she said and saluted him and turned to go. "You'll come crawling back to me, Brittany, when you realize that no one can make you happy except me" he said and she turned to him, "When you come to your senses, you know where to find me" he said and walked away with his hands in his sport's blazer jacket.
A couple of cheerleaders ran past Brittany with their pom-poms and so much giggling. "Oh look! It's the fallen queen" someone mocked and Brittany glared at her. Eva Harrison, wannabe queen bee of Disnee High School. "I don't have time to talk to people like you as it lows my IQ" Brittany said as she walked away but Eva stood in front of her with some cheerleaders behind her.
Brittany snapped her fingers and her posse gathered behind her. Eva and Brittany have been nemeses since they could remember. It all started when Brittany won the beauty pageant in kindergarten. The fight did not stop there obviously. Middle school, everyone wanted to Brittany's friend and the popular guy was all over her. High school, Brittany dated Jake, the guy Eva had been crushing on and she had won prom queen and homecoming queen while Eva always came in as first runner-up. Brittany was even the head cheerleader but there was an "accident" and she had dislocated her knee, so she stopped cheerleading. Although the knee had healed, Brittany still had a slight trauma about it so she quit cheerleading and Eva had taken that opportunity to expand get domain. According to her, it started with being the head cheerleader then being the queen of the school.
"You finally realized that Jake was too good for you and so you let him go, I'm so happy" Eva said and Brittany rolled her eyes. "Have fun with your nerd while Jake and I would have our own fun" Eva said and one of the cheerleaders, Layla spoke up, "Jake and her are going on a date this Saturday" "Layla! I told you not to say anything" Eva said and Layla looked at her, "You told me to say that to Brittany when the time was right". "Whatever!" Eva said and waved Layla to be quiet, "You can try and sabotage the date but it won't work. Jake has finally come to his senses and he likes me now" Eva said.
Brittany chuckled, "Can you get anymore dumber Evy? You're going around announcing your first date with my leftover. Well, I suppose dogs get happy over leftovers" she said and the girls gasped. That was the queen bee of Disnee High School. Savage! "And the guy you're going out with just tried to ask me out on a date few minutes ago. If you were here earlier, you could have seen him. Anywho, you bored me" Brittany said and turned to go.
Eva clenched her fists as everyone tried to suppress their laughter in the hall. The fact that Brittany never got her name right was infuriating. It was as if she was not worth Brittany's time. Brittany had always humiliated her, so it was time for revenge. Eva pushed Brittany hardly and everyone gasped as Brittany fell towards the janitor's bucket.
Her head landed inside the bucket which instead of dirty water, smelt of dye. She felt water being poured on her head. She immediately raised her head and saw the janitor running away. Everyone in the hall burst out laughing. Brittany's posse ran to her and tried to help her up but Brittany remained on the floor. "Umm... Brittany" Tiffany said as she brought out a small mirror and Brittany looked at herself in the mirror.
An exact replica of her stared right back. But something was different. Her reflection's face was covered in purple dye and...dare I say it, her hair was a deep shade of purple instead of the usual sandy blonde. Brittany unconsciously dropped the mirror and let out a blood-curdling scream.