"I thought I wouldn't go to school anymore..."
I sighed, dramatically. We were in the car, heading to school together with Arien as the driver while Ariel in the passenger seat and the others in the back.
"Suck to be a sophomore, isn't it?" Ryan scoffed, looking amused.
I smacked his shoulder and he just chuckled as if it wasn't affected him at all.
"Shut up, you only 2 years older than me." I said.
He was trying to get on my nerves, I can sense it. That's Ryan, always teasing and make fun of me but even though he always get on my nerves, he would be the one who always comfort me first.
And he protected me till the end. Same went with Arien and Ariel, they both died protecting me too. While mom and dad, they just disappeared without any trace.
It would be enough time for me to avoid the tragedy from happening again, right?
If only I know the identity of that unknown killer, maybe everything will be much easier for me to know his motives for killing my family.
"This wouldn't have happened if you just obediently obey me and didn't try to run away 5 years ago." His words kept playing in my head. What did he meant by those words? What happened to me 5 years ago?
Whenever I thought about it, I'd started become nauseous and my head starting to hurt. I got this feelings that I was forgetting something that really important.
But, why couldn't remember even a little things? The memories that I only remembered when I was a little was scared of being alone.
"Rayna, I hope you behave yourself today." Arien said after being silenced for the entire time.
I just shrugged, looking uninterested. I was quite a troublemaker during this time but it didn't last long. Not after I was betrayed by the people who I used to call as my 'friends' and I even found my boyfriend cheated on me with one of them.
I didn't want to go through that twice. It was painful to be used by someone you actually trusted.
I want to ruin this fake friendships. I should be the one to ruin them first. It's not like they would care or anything, I didn't mean anything for them after all.
They only be friend with me because I am the principal's sister. That's true, Arien is the principal while Ariel is one of the teachers there. Way to ruin my highschool life with these guys always watching me. But guess what? Shockingly, I was managed to get away from troubles. Both of them didn't know I was friend with the bad kids at school and also dating a delinquent. I could tell that I'm good at keeping secrets because they didn't find out till now.
"Rayna, are you listening?" Arien asked when he didn't heard my answer. I let out a sigh in frustration. "I heard you. Don't worry."
He stared at me through the mirror but I ignored it by throwing my gaze outside the window.
Ryan then leaned a bit and nudged me with his shoulder, "What's up?"
I scowled, "What?"
"You're quite grumpy today. Something's got on your mind?" He clarified.
I sighed. "You got me. I had a lot on my mind. Everything just doesn't make any sense that I wished some of my memories are just a bad dream." I told him. He gave me a surprised face and clasped his hand on his mouth.
"You're actually have something to think?" He teased. I could hear Arien and Ariel were trying to hold their laugh inside.
"I hate you."
"Love you too." He chuckled and patted my head, "But seriously, are you okay though? You know you can tell us if something's been bothering you."
"He's right, Ray. Isolating yourself just making it more miserable. You should at least find one of us. We don't eat people." Ariel laughed slightly.
I glanced at her. Surely you don't, but Arien and Ryan will if you guys know.
"What was that?" Arien asked. Oh, did I say that out loud without realizing?
I just shook my head. I was exhausted for no reason with only thinking about these thoughts. Let's just wait for a while see how it goes.
.....
Ah, I thought I would just figure things out today, didn't think I would start making a move but after seeing Cynthia who I was still calling as a 'friend', I changed my mind. She was waiting for me while leaning against my locker.
"Get off, I want to put my bag in there." I said, coldly without meaning to. I mean come on, she started pissing me off by showing her face in front of me. After remembered everything that I've done to her and she never appreciated that apparently, I became more pissed that I could just launch her a good punch.
But, of course, if I do that, Arien will kill me afterwards. I wouldn't want to risk anything because of a stupid bitch.
Cynthia gave me a puzzled look, probably confused by the way I was treating her. She gave me some space and I opened my locker, taking everything I need for the next class. She was still staring at me.
"What?" I asked.
"You... Are you okay? Did something happened? You're quite grumpy today." She replied.
Ah, I felt dizzy. Her voice made my head hurt. What's wrong with me? It's became too often now. Maybe I was just thinking too much? I just want to be alone right now and think about everything slowly because my head might just explode.
I turned around, completely ignoring Cynthia and started walking away with my books. She then grabbed my arm from behind, stopping me in the track. I glanced at her and narrowed my eyes, "What the hell do you want?"
She just kept staring, I could see she was trying to remain calm though her eyes started to burn with fire. She's mad and I was starting to realize she was a fake friend. I must be stupid. Why didn't I realize about it before?
I let out a scoff, "You know what? I was never realize that you're a fake before."
Her eyes widened.
Before she could answer me, I cut her by asking a question that broke my heart, "How's your relationship with Zach? Are you both happy?"
Zach was my boyfriend. I loved him, I truly did but he cheated on me with this bitch over here. I don't get it, I thought I gave him everything and he loved me back but I was wrong. He never felt the same as I did. I really thought he would be the one.
Cynthia stunned when I asked her the question. "W-why would you think that?" She stuttered. I knew it, judging from reaction, I knew I was right.
I chuckled, my heart aching. "You think I wouldn't notice?" I yelled, slamming my locker loudly and successfully gained everyone's attention.
Great, I was slowly losing myself but still conscious to not letting the anger take me over. I thought I was just gonna see how everything's gonna go but now that the situation had changed, might as well just say whatever went on my mind.
Then, all of a sudden, a group of girls walked in our direction and yelled Cynthia's name. We both turned around and I quietly let out a huff, getting annoyed. There's my another backstabbing 'friends'.
"Rayna?" I stunned.
Ariel was now standing behind me along with two other teachers. I just noticed their presence. She gave me a questionable face, as if she was asking me what was happening here. The other two teacher just gave me just gave us a dirty look. As expected, the same thing were just going to happen all over again and again.
A troublemaker, ain't I?
That must be the same reason why they looked at me that kind of way. Typical, they only kept their mouth shut because I am Arien's sister. For god's sake, can they just treat me normally?
Everything just kept making me pissed. Maybe that's why my head felt heavy. Come to think of it, everything just crashed down today right? I swear I need to chill and take a breath.
I sighed. This is such a pain.
"What is going on here?" One of the teacher asked.
"I saw her trying to hit Cynthia just now but she missed." Evelyn said before I could answer her. My head snapped at her direction instantly.
"What the hell? You just arrived here like twenty seconds ago. Do you really saw that I hit her?" I said, taking a step closer to her when Ariel blocked my way with her hand, stopping me.
"Rayna." Ariel warned. I hated it, what did I do wrong?
"What?" I asked, "Do you believe what this bitch just said?"
"No cursing!" The teacher yelled and she turned to everyone, "Well, did anyone else saw what she did except her?"
I dug my nails in my palm tightly. My head turned to Cynthia and Evelyn, giving them both a cold stare that successfully gave them chills. "So, you've finally show me your true colours now, huh? I see, at least I'm glad you wouldn't be able to take my money by force again after this since you guys are no longer my friends."
Both of them froze as if they had just realized about the things that I have said. They used me for money for all this time. Disgusting retards.
"Excuse me?" A girl, who were standing in the crowd, raised up her hand.
"What is it?" Ariel asked. She walked up to her and showed something on her phone. Then, I realized she was showing her about what had happened just now.
"That blonde girl kept bothering her so she slammed the locker to scare her little. She didn't even touch or hit her the whole time. People just mistaken the situation. The girl started it first." She said referring the blonde to Cynthia. I wondered if she just defended me?
The teacher gave each other a glance. Ariel went quite after she saw the video and for some reason, I could tell she was feeling guilty by believing that bitch and not her own sister.
"We'll just let you guys off with a warning for now. If we hear or see something like this happen again, we won't hesitate to drag both of you to the principal's office, do you understand?"
This is ridiculous. Never imagined that I'll face something like crap on my first day of being returned to my past. I've had enough only to think about the possibility of being back to my past and how could I avoid the incident that'll be happen in the future which included my family.
Ah, my headache starting to get worse. My head felt like it's going to explode real soon.
What's happening to me? All of a sudden?
"Rayna? Did you hear what I just said?" The teacher asked. I looked up at her, my vision became blurred. Her lips moving but I couldn't hear a single word.
"Are you okay? You look pale. Do you need to go to the nurse?" The other teacher asked.
Ariel just stared at me. She was worried and could sense something's wrong with me, "What's wrong?" She put one of her hand on my cheek, "You're quite warm, I think you should see the nurse. Want me to go with you?"
All of the attention turned to me. I hated it. Just mind their own goddamn business, would they?
"Attention seeker..." I heard Evelyn mumbled quietly. Why am I only able to see her true behavior now?
I pushed Ariel's hand away almost immediately. She gave me a concern face. Guilt suddenly filled inside me when I pushed her hand away.
"I'm fine. I want to get ready for my class. Can I go now, please?" I asked, looking down. My head suddenly felt heavier but I was able to refrain myself from making it obvious.
After given the approving answers by them, I gave my last smile before walking away.