11. Seatmate

Eve complained; Natasha was sitting in the principal's office motionlessly, and Lance was leaning against the closed door with crossed arms.

After what felt like forever, the principal asked Natasha, 

"Do you want to call the police?"

He was finished with this school bully long ago, even though he had protected her in the last incidents; he couldn't do more for her or he would lose face. He couldn't let himself be used by a fifteen-year-old girl. But if the police were involved, he wouldn't know what to say to Paige's parents, and the school would have a damaged reputation.

"No, nothing has happened to me, so it's fine." Natasha glanced at Lance. He was really good-looking, with his light eyes and pale skin; his hair was dark and full, slightly going over his eyes. He looked like a bad boy.

When Eve heard this, she got a bad impression of the girl. Here she was fighting for justice while the victim didn't even care. 

Exasperated, she took her school bag after provoking the towering Lance with her eyes. Eve then walked to her classroom after he stepped aside from the door.

The principal let out a breath of relief. "Good, then go to the school nurse if you are not feeling well, and if something like this happens again, come to me; I will talk to Paige."

Like this, they left the office; Lance was never even asked if he had witnessed anything, as he was there apparently for his presence only.

Natasha and he were assigned to a class by the headteacher and got escordered there. 

After opening the door, he saw Paige at a glance; she had changed out of his blazer and was wearing her own, which was in her school bag. She looked boredly at their entrance and nodded at him ever so slightly. She sat in the middle aisle on the second-to-last row. The only seats available were beside her and in the last row on the right, where a petite girl with two pigtails was sitting.

As he introduced himself with his name curtly, the girls stared awestruck at him, and whispering was heard. He thought he saw Paige roll her eyes for a moment and tried to hold back his laughter.

When Natasha introduced herself, she received the same reaction from the boys.

'Truly a golden couple,' Paige thought. 

She didn't know how to handle the upcoming situation. Originally, the two of them didn't come this late and could sit together. But this time, because of Eve and the principal, they came so late that there weren't enough seats.

So, while the teacher looked a bit lost with where to place them because he didn't want to place either of them with the school bully, the little girl with pigtails stood up. "You two want to sit together, right? Because... both of you are new, right?" She eagerly nodded to herself and sat beside Paige.

'I don't remember her character.' Apparently, the plot was at work.

Now that the problem was solved for her, she chose to sleep at the desk. After being nervous all night and in the morning, she began to relax. Until now, the teenagers had stayed away from her and nobody had gone crazy trying to bite (?) her or pull her hair out.

The others in class hadn't expected anything else from her because, although Paige, the bully, was sleeping every now and then and didn't listen to the teachers, her character was designed to be highly intelligent, and she had been in the top 5 places in every exam.

But that was the old Paige, and the new Paige was a bad student since she was young and had left the school long ago. Even if she was threatened with losing a finger again, she could never get first place, or second place. Or hundredth place. 

It was time to let the intelligent school bully become a dumb school bully.