I stood in front of my mirror admiring the crown tat on my right side neck. my friends and I had succeeded in getting same tattoo in same spot the previous day, it was a golden crown tattoo; signifying our superiority in school as the Premium Queens of hiddenveil high school.
I stared at the mirror one more time before entering the bathroom to freshen up and prepare for school.
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I and my friends sauntered into the class, and of course everyone's gaze fell on our glorious tat; cause it was a bold but delicate one.
"Oh my gosh! the PQ girls totally nailed it!" a girl said.
"I wish they will just sign me in, they are so cool!" another girl said.
"They are my role models," another girl said, staring at the PQ girls with a dreamy face.
Ethan and Nathan entered the class and immediately stopped on their track due to the murmurings that's coming from the class.
"Yo! did you girls got a tat?" Nathan asked, turning to I and my friends who were sitting on the front roll desk.
"Yeah baby," I replied.
"That's so cool!" Ethan said.
"But we feel betrayed," Nathan said frowning.
"It's never too late, you guys can get yours after school today." Lisa said reluctantly.
"I hate the fact that Shelly and her crew are not yet in school." Diva said.
"Exactly! I would have killed to see the look on her face on sighting us." I said as we all burst into laughter.
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Shelly laid on her bed scrolling through the school's anonymous blog searching for gossips to read when she came across a blog post about the PQ girls.
"No way!" she exclaimed and immediately dialed her friends number.
"Hey girl!" Chloe and Zoe greeted in unison.
"Have you girls seen the latest gist?" Shelly asked.
"Hold on a minute let me check," Zoe said and logged into the school's app.
"What the fuck! how does this girls gets to be this cool?" Chloe asked rhetorically.
"I just hate the fact that they gets cooler day by day, I mean it's so draining trying to keep up with them." Shelly said and face slapped herself.
"Let's get ours as well." Zoe suggested.
"Won't it be so obvious that we are copying their style?" Shelly asked.
"Let's dye our hairs then." Chloe said.
"Will that be cool?" Shelly asked.
"Yeah, and we should think of a name to give our group." Zoe said.
"Vile queens!!" Chloe shouted.
"So cool!" Shelly commended with a smile.
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I turned on my bed trying to catch some sleep but couldn't, I checked the time and it was 12 O'clock in the mid night.
"Shit! I've a presentation today." I murmured and brought out my laptop.
I scrolled through my laptop memorizing my topic. It was a class presentation, given to us by the history teacher.
Half way into memorizing my work I started feeling sleepy, I closed my laptop and made to sleep when my phone beeped.
"Hell no! no way!!" I yelled on reading the text message, I deleted it and immediately dialed a number.
"Hola mi amor, didn't expect you to still be awake by this time of the night." he said on picking my call.
"What was the meaning of that text message, Jayson?" I asked, clenching my fist.
Jayson chuckled and paused a bit before replying,
"I want you back in my arms, I know it was supposed to be a one night stand thingy, but Zen you're too good to let go."
"You better be kidding right now, Jayson don't ever try to call or text my number again!" I warned and hung up the call on him.
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"No! Zendaya, you keep messing up your presentation." The history teacher said, feeling unsatisfied with my presentation.
"I'm sorry, please give me this last chance; I promise to do better this time." I pleaded, feeling so embarrassed of myself.
"You keep saying that Zen, this is your 4th chance... I'm afraid you've to repeat this presentation." The teacher said and left the class.
I growled and kicked the desk in front of me feeling so exasperated.
"It's okay Zen, I think you're stressed out or something, I totally understand your situation." one of the history student said in a soothing voice.
I turned and stared angrily at her before leaving the scanty class for the general class.
I entered the class and walked straight to Lisa and Diva who were anxiously waiting for my arrival.
"You made your presentation, right?" Diva asked.
I sighed and sat down on my chair,
"I wish, I just don't know what happened to me; I swear, I was overly prepared for this."
"What happened?" Lisa asked.
"I keep messing up my presentation and so the teacher asked me to repeat my presentation." I said and face slapped myself.
Lisa got up from her seat and stood behind me, giving me a gentle massage on my shoulders.
"You don't have to be hard on yourself, sunshine."
"Yeah, repeating a presentation is still part of learning. I believe you will do better this second time." Diva said, gently rubbing the back of my palm.
Shelly entered the class with her friends, a sly smile plastering all over her face as she walked towards our direction.
"Oough!! heard the popular queen bee couldn't pass her presentation." She said and her friends burst into a mocking laughter.
"Isn't that an embarrassing thing for a student body president like you." Zoe said.
"Back off assholes!" Lisa warned.
"I might have messed up my presentation but not my pussy baby girl." I said and Shelly's face immediately flushed.
"Next time you talk about my pussy in a disrespectful way, I'll make sure I send you to hell and back." Shelly threatened.
"Absolutely nothing, that's what you can do." Diva said.
I got up from my chair and stood in front of the three of them.
"You three are just like my pinky finger, you know what that means? I can easily crush you dummies, so quietly back off."
Shelly stared at us for a while and angrily left with her friends.
"What's up with that glowing amulet?" Lisa asked with a slight frown.
"Her business not ours" I responded.