03|College queen? Arrogant.

"Argh..."

Rhea groaned as she sat up. Her her throbbed painfully and she rubbed her forehead. she looked around and noticed that the room she was in presently was very different from her regular bedroom. This room was so plain unlike her library like room.

Her eyes widen, 'where I'm I?' she thought. She looked around and her eyes found a framed photo hanging in the corner of the room. In the photo was Rhea and Claire grinning happily with ice cream smeared on their faces.

"That photo...." She said to herself as a small smile graced her lips.

The photo was taken on their graduation day in high school. The two of them recently found out they had similarities in their homes, problematic fathers so they decided to be friends from then on.

To celebrate their newly found friendship, they sneaked out of the valedictory service and went to an ice cream store. After ranting about their lives, they shared all information about themselves and cool it off with plenty ice cream. Claire who got tired of the ice cream was the first to smear it on Rhea's face. It went on and on till they were tired and asked the attendant to take a picture of them.

It didn't take much longer before worried Laura and Madeline came looking for Rhea, they were super happy to find her having a good time with a friend so they invited Claire for dinner. Since then, Rhea and Claire became good friends.

Back to present, Rhea wondered how she ended in Claire's room. The last thing she remembered was the party they attended last night. Did she get drunk? She wondered. 'Obviously' that could explain her throbbing head and dry throat. She was suffering from a terrible hangover.

'Damn you! Damn you terrible Claire' Rhea cursed her friend bitterly.

She struggled out of bed and cleaned up in the bathroom. She wore one of Claire's short and shirt before heading out of the room. The clattering sound of cutleries led her into the kitchen. Claire stood facing the aluminum sink whisking eggs in a bowl.

"Hey" Rhea mumbled rubbing her still throbbing head.

"I see someone decided to wake up already" Claire said without even sparing her friend a glance.

"I didn't ask to be taken to a party!" Rhea cried. Her head throbbed even more. 'Hate you! Goddamn you!'

"Hey before you curse me, I didn't drain bottles of alcohol down your throat!" Claire defended herself.

"It's all your fault...! Ouch... my head hurts" Rhea cried even more.

"Sure it does" Claire scoffed before passing a glass of water and Aspirin to her deadly looking friend.

'Terrible Claire' Rhea cursed inwardly before drinking the medicine whilst scrunching her face in disgust.

"What says the time?" Rhea asked feeling better after a while.

"1:15.."

"WHAT!" Rhea yelled making Claire jump nearly chopping off her hand instead of vegetables.

"What?" she asked with a disgusted expression.

"I had class today, an important one for that matter!" Rhea said.

"Well..., you were in bed all day cos your ass was too drunk" Claire responded rolling her eyes.

"I could have gone for that lecture if you woke me up" Rhea groaned.

"Really now, for your knowledge, I only just stop trying to get you out of bed two hours ago. I was so scared it I continue waking you, I might end up losing my hand"

"That's outrageous, you're exaggerating" Rhea said in a small embarrassed voice.

"Oh... ain't you the outrageous one here, acting as if missing just one lecture would affect your top scores" Claire scoffed.

"What are you saying?" Embarrassed Rhea said.

"Please, who won't tell our Law department top scorer and college belle will graduate with first class degree at a glance" Claire praised.

"Stop flattering already" Rhea said.

"You know it's our final year already, let's have all the fun and live in the moment okay" Claire said as she passed a plate of food to Rhea.

"Whatever..." Rhea rolled her eyes.

"A-cho! a-cho!" Rhea sneezed.

"You caught a cold?" Claire looked at her surprisingly.

"That's not possible, someone is probably talking ill of me" She wondered.

"Really now, I would say someone is rather praying for you... you are too good to be cursed" Claire said.

"Oh please, spare me" Rhea scoffed and they laughed.

Inside a room in a pent house located at Rose garden villa in the city, Amelia Jones, a socialite as well as a college student sat in front of a huge dresser fixing her face. She was known for her great body and looks although she was also an intelligent medicine student. Her contradicting figure made her stand out among her peers, she is also know for arrogance and rudeness.

She spent the night with her rich boyfriend, who was the heir to a billionaire and an hardworking man at it. She was planning to return to her place after the man left for work early in morning. She frowned when she remembered he refused to spend more time with her no matter how much she pleaded with him.

He obviously chose work over her but she was okay with the arrangement as far as he continue to pay her bills. His money made her content not his presence. She looked at the branded bracelet he had just purchased for her and nodded in satisfaction.

She continued her make over when her phone rung. She saw it was her best friend calling so she paused and pick the call.

"Where are you!" the person on the other side yelled. Making Amelia put away the phone from her ear scrunching her face in disgust.

"I'm at..." she was about to respond but was cut short.

"I know ... I know don't tell me" The person snorted.

"Megan tell me, why did you call" Amelia said with evident of disgust in her voice although she tried to cover it up.

Megan on the other side frowned but quickly recovered and smiled since she knew she was about to through a bomb on her friend.

"Whatever .... just so you know Amy, you are trending right now" Megan said.

"What do you mean trending?" Amelia frowned.

"Story about you is everywhere, you are being cursed to death online" Megan explained.

"What? why..."

"Telling you will spoil the fun just check it out yourself now" Megan said and ended the call.

Amelia immediately went only and opened the search bar. She typed trending online news. And immediately, it loaded...

COLLEGE QUEEN BEE EMBARRASSED

COLLEGE BELLE PUT IN HER PLACE

ARROGANT BITCH MEETS HER DOOM

AMELIA AND THE MYSTERIOUS GOD

...

It went on and on ...

"Bam!"

Amelia angrily threw her phone on the table. Her face twitched and she dug her nails into her palm.

"That bitch... that fucking witch, she planned this all along! she was clearly at fault but all these haters are enviously bashing me trying to pull me down and tarnish my reputation I spent years in building.... arghhh" Amelia yelled tugged at her hair angrily.

Her phone rang again and she picked it.

"WHAT!" She yelled

"Oops, I suppose you have seen it then" Megan laughed.

"It's not funny, what blog put up this post, I know they are in cohort with that bitch! curse her, curse the damned bitch...!" Amelia yelled.

"Calm down Amy..." Megan laughed gripping her aching stomach.

"I see this makes you happy too. I don't know what you will do, find a way and put down that damn post, everything and start thinking of a revenge plan" Amelia instructed.

Megan rolled her eyes. It was as expected, Amelia is always giving the commands for her to follow and she had no choice but to do because it was only with Amelia's help she was able to climb up the social ladder.

"okay okay, I'll find a way"

"Better do" Amelia said rudely and ended the call immediately. She wiped her face to restart her make up.

"Rhea, you need to see this!"

Back in Claire's apartment, Rhea and Claire were done with having breakfast. Rhea laid on the couch reading a random novel while Claire scrolled through her phone.

"Rhea, you wouldn't believe this!" she said again practically shoving her phone into Rhea's face.

"What exactly I'm I not going to believe?" Rhea said pushing away Claire's hand that was blocking her line of sight and she sat up.

"You are not even looking interested but whatever.... You wouldn't believe who is trending"

"Who, tell me"

"Amelia, Amelia Jones .... you know her, you should... everyone does know the rude bitch. She always act high and mighty with her plastic face ..." Claire fumed.

' For my best friend raging this much, I need to know who this Amelia whatever is' Rhea thought. She took Claire's phone from her and looked at the pictures uploaded. It was a picture showing the front view of an angered lady and the back view of another.

Rhea recognized the picture clearly, it was shot from the scene from yesterday. She scrolled down and read through. The exact words spoken by her was typed. 'This is outrageous' she thought.

"It is unbelievable..." she started.

"I know right... who would have thought that...." Claire cut in.

"that someone posted this without revealing my identity, surely, the person just wanted to pull Amelia down" Rhea concluded.

"What? What are you saying about you identity" confused Claire said and Rhea rolled her eyes.

"You can't even tell the back view of your best friend ... can't you see this is the exact cloth I wore yesterday" Rhea said pushing the phone back into Claire's open hand.

Claire looked closely at the picture and at her friend. She repeated the act again.

"You don't mean it!" She yelled. "Rhea this is you! No, you were the one who insulted Amelia... and this, you didn't did you?"

"If you are talking about the post, I did not and I have no idea of who did. Who know, might be someone who really does not like her" Rhea shrugged.

"Will you stop acting like this is no big deal and give me the full detailed gist?" Claire said.

"What's there to tell, it is exactly as it is written there in the post" Rhea said picking up her novel but Claire snatched it away from her.

"What do you want to hear?" Rhea said glaring at her adamant friend.

"Everything" Claire answered eagerly like a kid waiting to receive her reward for being honest.

Although uninterested, Rhea narrated the whole story to her friend from her lateness to the encounter.

"Wow...." Claire looked at her friend in awe. Rhea shook her head at her cute stupid friend who was ready to hear every gossip.

"Why are you just telling me now?" Claire demanded.

"Because there was really nothing to tell"

"What are you saying, there was everything to tell.... I really wish I was there with you..." Claire said with dreamy eyes.

"I could have broken her plastic nose for daring my innocent friend" she said

"It was not big deal though"

"Say that again and I will hit you where it hurts badly" Claire glared.

"Okay" Rhea said as she zipped her lips.

"You know I feel bad for those two right now, I know they will be cursing you from earth down to eight levels of hell once they see this post. My dear friend, you are gradually entering trouble zone, but don't worry, I've got your back" Claire said patting Rhea's back.

"Okay okay thank you..." Rhea said trying to remove Claire's hand from her back.

Rhea's phone rang and she picked it seeing it was a call from home.

"Hello" she said.

"Rhea... " Madeline responded in a tone that seems a bit off and immediately, Rhea knew something was wrong at home and she panicked.

"Speak"