Chapter 25
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Upon arrival, I saw the first poster on my locker and I croaked into tears as I tore it off.
There, in a bold print, was my mother cleaning a toilet that I assumed belonged to Brooke. Mom was in a maid uniform and Brooke took the liberty into adding a silly caption which read : Clean Enough Miss. Diamond?
And at the bottom of the page, it reads, Blossom Wright's mother.
Now everyone would know my mother cleans toilets for a living.
Sophia and Nina appeared right after. They really were two guardian angels. Sophia was holding tissues and Nina comforted me.
"I can't believe Brooke would stoop this low," Sophia snapped.
"Of course she would. She's Brooke!" Nina responded.
A few students walked on by and started laughing, pointing and calling me names:
"Maid baby."
"Domestic maiden."
"Maid in L.A."
"Shut Up!" Sophia yelled after them but they just laughed louder and continued on their way.
"I wouldn't be able to take this," I told my friends.
"We know the feeling. We really do, but you've come too far to run away from this. Don't let Brooke scare you off. She's just doing all these silly stunts to break your high self-esteem. Are you going to let her win?" Nina said.
I shook my head no. I couldn't let Brooke have the last laugh. I had every intentions of standing tall no matter how embarrassing the posters appeared to be.
"Well. Well. Well. If it isn't the maid's daughter," a voice interrupted.
We turned and saw Nick.
"What did you just say?" Nina asked him.
"You don't hear well, huh? But that's okay because I wasn't speaking to you anyway. I was speaking to your friend. The girl who got our quarterback's head up his ass that he can't focus on his boys anymore."
"Nick, you're out of line. You can't blame Blossom for Jevan's behaviour towards you!"
"Oh I can and I just did. She's ruining everything the moment she arrived here and he set eyes on her. I don't know what he sees in you. You're not all that pretty and you're from Africa."
"And what does her country have to do with anything? Maybe you don't find her attractive but Jevan sure does. So why don't you just back the hell off and leave Blossom alone," Sophia spoke up.
"Who do you think you're talking to, huh? You forgot you girls walked the halls like ghost before. We made you popular. Nobody liked you clowns before and when Jevan wakes up and get his senses back, he would realize that that African isn't for him and she's nothing but bad luck."
"I can bet you used some African black magic to charm my best friend!" Nick finished.
"Shut the hell up Nick. I can't believe I actually liked you. You're a pig!"
"Well I never liked you. You're a nobody!" he spat back.
We watched as he turned and left. I couldn't believe those words came out of his mouth. I knew that I wasn't his most favourite person in the world, but did I really deserved his harsh and mean words?
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Classes didn't do well. I wasn't participating as I should be. And for the first time being in a new country, I wish I was in my own country where other students were of my status.
When school ended, I packed up and went to get the bus which was a bit late today.
I stood in the parking lot with a few others when Brooke appeared with her friends at her side.
"Liked the pictures, maid?" she asked.
"I will report you to Mrs. Tisdale tomorrow. You're just lucky she wasn't in today."
"No. You're lucky she wasn't in because if you had opened your big mouth and said something to her, the next thing your mother would be cleaning up is your face off this pavement!" she shot back.
Her friends laughed as they mimicked a house maid using a mop.
"Clean up. Clean up. Blossom got to clean up!" they sang.
"Brooke, I hate you," I said.
"I don't care. You're a nobody. A dirt. A filth that needs to be cleaned. You don't matter to people like me. Why don't you just leave and go back to your country?" She responded and flipped her hair behind her ears.
"Awww, are you going to cry?" Tina asked.
"Big baby. Why don't you call your mom to come get you. She's probably, just cleaning or changing the sheets or something."
The tears came. Nina and Sophia had extra classes and were still in the school. Brooke always torment me when she knew I was by myself.
Then as if I didn't have enough people who already hate me, Nick arrived.
"Hey Brooke. I didn't know you were friends with it," he said.
It?
"I'm not. I can't stand her. She needs to go back to her country," she said back to him.
He chuckled. I turned to leave to avoid any more drama but they blocked my path.
"Leave me alone!" I yelled but it was more like a cry for help.
"I told you our fight wasn't over," Brooke said as moved towards me in slow steps, or maybe that was how I was beginning to see things now.
Slow.
"Beat her ass, Brooke," Nick pitched.
She reached me and I saw her hand lifted up. I closed my eyes, readying myself for the hit that never came.
One by one, I opened my eyes. Brooke stood with her hand lifted as if it was frozen in mid-air. Her eyes held fear and intimidation as she reconsidered her actions and quickly dispersed with her friends and Nick.
What the hell they ran away from?
I looked behind me and Jevan was standing there. I couldn't stop the smile of relief on my lips although I wanted to be mad at him.
