? WINGLESS AND BEAUTIFUL ?
?EPISODE 43?
“Denise… you certainly can’t do that.” I protested
instantly. “I can be a crew member of some dance, I can
help you organize stuff, but please… I’m no usherette
material.”
“Why not?” Denise asked. “You’re gorgeous, you’re
smart, you know your way around and you’re probably the
only one in this school who had read the school history.”
I shook my head. “These kids hate me! Surely, you can’t
make me more vulnerable and visible to scrutiny than I
already am.”
Denise was about to open her mouth for an argument
when Chaise interrupted, “I can read the school history for
your little game, Denise.
Leave Alice out of it.” His voice was cold and firm and before Denise replied, I thought I saw her mouth curve a little bit, like she was preventing herself from
smiling.
“O-okay. If… if you insist,” she said to Chaise. “I’ll email
you the names of the kids and the schedules.”
She then gathered her stuff and before she stood up to
leave, she gave me a wink, confirming my suspicions that
she wasn’t really thinking of making me go through the
worst nightmare of being the school’s tour guide.
She wanted Chaise to volunteer for it, but she was too proud to ask him.
When she was gone, I turned to Chaise, “I can’t believe
you fell for that too easily.”
I was afraid that he would get mad when he realized
what Denise had just done, but he simply shrugged. “I can’t
believe you didn’t see that coming before I did.”
I grinned at him. “I guess you and Denise are more
compatible than you’d like to admit.”
“Nope. It’s just that most psychopaths think alike.” He
grinned back at me. “Aren’t you scared of the company
you’re keeping?”
I laughed. “I’d take you and Denise any day over the
airhead bimbos on that table.”
“Yeah, I’m worried about what they will do to our visitors
when they get here.”
“I’m worried too. You know how those kids want to show
the rest of the world they were better than everybody else.
I hope they don’t see them as the embodiment of what the
rest of us are really like.”
“Yeah. Some of us have brains you know.” Chaise
laughed.
“I hope they don’t try to pull off the usual tricks they
pull on me. They have the tendency to prey on creatures
they thought were weaker than them.”
However, it turned out that we didn’t need to worry that
the popular kids in our school would embarrass us in front of
the exchange students.
One week later, a luxurious bus
bearing the banner “Jacksonville Titans” parked in front of the school grounds.
Almost all the students lined up to get a glimpse of our visitors.
And one by one, they got off the bus looking more like runway models going to a fashion show than students going on a field trip.
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