"You owe me work. Just do it or pay me my makeup kit back." Cherry said, I was mature enough to understand that she deliberately did it. But what she wanted me to do, because I do her every chors in the packhouse. I don't think she need to make a trap for it. "Don't waste my time. I have to do a lot of stuff." She blew on her newly painted nail, seemed she just had a nail art before coming to the school.
Now I either need to pay her 1200 bucks or be ready to do whatever she says. Second option was better.
"What do you want me to do?" I asked her, If the thing goes worthless, for that amount, I was ready for it unless she asked me to clean her toilet, Which I did once and it was the worst experience.
Cherry gave a thought, looking around as if she was searching the most difficult task for me.
"Go and get his hair." She pointed at the canteen ambience. My gaze followed her fingers and I was dumbfounded. Cherry was asking me to get the hair of the Vampire prince Rowen, I mean she was not kidding? No girl could roam around him.
Austin, Ethan and Rowen were playyng some game in their phone as their eyes were wide and poked into the tilted mobile screen. Seemed they were minding their own business.
"What would you get by it?" I asked her, it must be just to tease me. They really want to kick me out of the school. Rowen was cold as ice. If I really got his hair, I wonder if a single strand of hair was left on my head.
"I want to do a black magic. I want him to make mine." She smirked and Clara and Catty both laughed hard at her words.
"No, I can't do it." I shook my head, I was better to be invisible to them rather than doing something that pisses them off.
"Then pay me my lipstick." She insisted, I clenched the straps of my bag and headed to the bench where those three guys were sitting. I stood in front of them, first they even bothered to look at me. I didn't understand how to speak to them.
"Excuse me.." I waved at them, their cold faces turned to me. Their brows furrowed at once. Even though Austin and Ethan appeared a little less scary, Rowen himself looked like he would just rip me off and drink my blood right now.
"I..." My lips trembled, I was craving to talk to them but not this way. Their sharp gaze was staring at me.
"You came to apologise for bumping me, but that's fine." Ethan told me,
"No, I didn't come here to apologise." I said, trying to gather words. Those tree girls standing at the corner and laughing at me.
"Can I have Rowen's hair?" I asked them, and they stared at me weirdly. Rowel's eyes turned darker, as if he was going to gulp me right now. I knew this daring cost me 120$
"Do you even know what you are asking for?" Austin gave me the cold shoulder, I knew it was just the first day of school and I was asking the most popular guy, the vampire prince, a hair. That was going to cost him nothing but for me enough to pay Cherry.
They three watched me with cold glare, I didn't mean to annoy them.
"Yeah!" I nodded, that made their faces even more furious.
"You..." Ethan was almost about to say something but Rowen stopped him.
"Come and get it yourself." Rowen told me, I was shocked, he meant I should hold his hair and pull it hard so it will uproot. I pressed my lips. "Are you scared?" He asked me again. I turned back. I didn't know what the girls wanted from me, why they gave me such dare. I nodded.
"I am not scared," I was hesitating a bit, so I walked and stood behind him. Ethan and Austin stared at me shockingly as if I was going to slit his throat, whereas I just wanted to get a single strand of his hair. As soon as I touched her hair, Rowen grabbed my hand tightly, as if he was warning me that he could break my bones in an instant. I looked nervously towards him.
"Do you dare to touch my hair?" He clenched his teeth. Before I could say anything, Cherry and Clara arrived. I wanted to tell them that Cherry had asked me to do this.
"Oh Rowen, do you know she wants to do black magic with your hair to get your attention?" Cherry said, and I stared at Cherry. I was trapped again, I really became a way of their fun. They kept using me again.
"Looking at your face, anyone would be scared. How did you even get admission to this school?" Austine laughed, and I stared at them with blank faces.
“You guys must be hiding her from small babies in your pack right?” Ethan made fun of me again. He was so polite a while before. I clenched my fist and realised I should leave for the classroom. Their jokes were pricking in my heart.
I clenched my fist and just walked to the classroom, then Rowen threw banana shake in front of me, and I slipped. My legs just slipped off and I fell over the floor. My butt hit the parking tiles and hurt my ass.
"Ouch.." I screamed but that just dissipated in their laughter. Students gathered around us laughed at me, calling me different names. muddy p***y, mudyline Moore and whatnot.
I pressed my hands against the floor and got up, I stood. My dress was messed, and I slowly tried to walk ahead.
I went to the washroom where girls were giving a touchup to their looks. When I was wearing such baggy clothes, they had mini skirts and tank tops where they could expose as much body as they could. They gave me weird glares, wondering why I came there. I went to the restroom and checked my butt.
My soft snowy butt turned red, it ached even more. I took out lip balm and applied a little on it. At least it will stop that burning and scratching skin. I walked back to the classroom, sitting on the front bench and the lecture began.
As the lecture got over I returned to the packhouse, I just entered the room and threw my bag angrily. I was irritated, I never felt hurt when someone else made fun of me, but when I heard Austin, Rowen and Ethan making fun of me, my heart ached. Perhaps they were close to me when we were children, that's why.
"What happened? How was your first day at school?" Maya asked me. Obviously, after looking at my face she guessed that it was not good. I stared at my face in the mirror and rubbed the mud from my face.
"Why did mom ask you for such a promise? I am fed up with this. I hated it." I hated it before too, but today I hated it the most. If it was my original face, they three would have liked me too. "They made fun of me. Why can't I go as everyone." I began crying.
It's not that I cried because of it for the first time, but every time Maya explained to me that Betty and her daughter would hate me even more if they saw my real face. I believed her every time but today this logic appeared false to me. I was being a fool when other girls applied lipstick, I had to hide my beauty just because I could not let my three step sisters be jealous of me. Today I want to become rebellious with Maya.
"Daisy, If I can pretend to be Mute for you, Can't you stay like this for yourself?" She asked me, I pressed my lips. I knew it was hard for her too. One day while working in the kitchen, some hot water was poured on her hand. Yet she pressed her lips and didn't scream. She bear it silently because of me.
I nodded and acted like I was convinced that my imagination was taking me to the world where I was being myself, loved by everyone else. My dad, my aunts and Rowen, Ethan were good towards me.
I changed my clothes and started working in the pack again. Taking the bucket in my hand I began my swiping work. started with the big dining table of the living room and then furniture from Betty and dad's room.
"What will you wear to the party? This one? No this one?" I saw Betty choosing a dress for her daughters. A famous designer, Marina, came to visit the packhouse. I knew because I read her name often in the newspaper that the most famous celebrity, Luna, wore the dress designed by her only. She charges almost several hundred thousand for a single gown, in addition to some accessories.
"Cherry will wear pink.. And you wear yellow.." Betty selected a beautiful gown for them, I excitingly found one that was Marina's hand. An ice-coloured fairy gown. The shining white stone on it resembles the real life stars, I knew this dress would be glowing in the dark too. Its intricate design and delicate fabric mesmerised me. I wish I could touch it once, I won’t think about wearing it because they say you should dream about something which you’re capable of. Right now just touching it became my dream.