"I don't want to be the one to say it," Anna's nerdy shorty friend, Wayne shook his head and looked at his friend Debby for help.
"Fine, I will tell you guys. I think it is best we tell you ourselves. It won't be nice for you to hear this from anyone else," Debby finally agreed although she was still hesitating. "They said Rose is a daughter Valerie had out of wedlock," she started with the lightest of the rumors.
"Oh . . .," Rose murmured nodding her head slightly as she felt relieved, at least the rumor was not as serious as she thought it was and since it was about her and not Anna she was satisfied with the outcome.
"They also said . . . " Debby started but stopped and stared at the faces of the boys seated with her on the table starting from the stone faced expressionless guy sitting beside Jace, then to Jace and finally to her nerdy friend and shook her head. "I will tell you two outside or at least somewhere private," she told Rose and Anna as she stood up.
"Okay," Rose immediately agreed. Anna's friends were smart and if Debby suggested they take it outside then it was something not to be said around the boys.
"Sure," Anna agreed too and she stood up to follow her sister and friend outside the cafeteria to wherever might be private enough.
"I heard she was kidnapped," a girl said told her friend. "I thought you knew about the rumor going around."
The word kidnapped made Anna pause on her track as her sister and friend kept walking ahead.
Those girls kept on talking and made sure their voices were amplified as they did not want Anna to get stressed trying to hear their gossip but served it to her well.
"Kidnapped? What happened to her?"
"She was raped. They found her abandoned on a construction site unconcious. I heard a doctor said she was raped till she passed out."
"What? And she acts so almighty just because she is Valerie's daughter. I also heard she was adopted. I wonder what makes those two think they are better than us. They actually got involved with Jace. I wonder how she seduced him since it seems she is very good at doing that."
"Should I meet her to teach me?"
"I heard that she was not raped but went to a party to drink with some older men."
"She seduced them just like she is seducing Jace."
The weight of the rumor made Anna feel all her blood rush to her head and the only thing on her mind right now was how hard she should beat these girls to vent as much frustration and anger she felt at the moment. With that, she walked back to the girls and lifted her hands on the one closest to her.
She gripped the girl's hair and positioned her face in a very fast motion for her to get full access to the girl's cheek before she began hitting the girl on her cheek s with as much strength she could muster at that moment.
The girl as well as everybody else around were too shocked at first because of how fast everything happened. The girl never expected Anna to come over and the slap she got was far from her imagination. The girl began scream and struggling when Anna hit her the third time but her struggling did not last long as Anna weakened her with every slap she gave her and the girl passed out.
Satisfied with the outcome, Anna adjusted her grey blazer and glanced at the girl on the floor with her friends trying to wake her up. She saw the redness of the girl's now swollen cheeks and could not help but smile. Hitting the girl was really refreshing she enjoyed it well and she was happy with the result.
She dusted her palm together and turned to see Rose and Debby staring at her as though they were looking at an alien with seven horns. "Go ahead and tell my sister about the rumor. I know about it so, I will just go wash my hands in the restroom," she told her petrified sister and friend.
Without waiting for their response, she walked away while the girl she hit was being helped to the infirmary by her friends. Three other people stood watching petrified among the many other students which happened to be around when Anna hit her.
The look of admiration on Jace's face was just too obvious. He smiled brightly as he stepped into the view of most of the other student and made an announcement with the power bestowed upon him by his family's name.
"Anna is my girlfriend and I will haunt anyone who says anything hurtful about her. So . . ." he made a my-eyes-on-you sign around before walking away with his new nerdy friend and body guard.
Rose and Debby got a lot more petrified by that announce if that was actually possible. Rose was wondering when her sister accepted Jace as her boyfriend and Debby were congratulating her friend mentally for wining over such a hot guy that every other girl would almost kill for.
When Rose's thoughts went towards the fact that they might have to go back to being home schooled if her foster father gets too hear about what happened, she ran towards the direction Anna left but Anna was nowhere to be found and she did not see her till the end of school for that day. She got back home alone with their driver only to find Anna seated in the living room with Valerie and Justin.
Justin was obviously angry and she did not know why Anna had beaten the girl up since her mind was occupied by the thoughts of how disappointing it would be to lose the moments she enjoyed in school and the little connections she was slowly creating among a few students for future use if necessary.
She was also worried that Anna's wild uncontrolled behavior might stain the reputation she was trying to build for her future ascension on the throne. It won't be good for her to get tagged along with Anna as wild and uncontrolled.
She was bent on keeping the right appearance, the right smile, and avoids any image staining act. It was hard but that was very important. Her mother's reputation was ruined and she would not want her reputation to get ruined as well since she had a mission to clean her mother's reputation.
Faced with Anna's untamed behavior, she put in a tight spot. If she continued moving around with Anna in public she might as well change her name to Anna and dress like her since they will package together and share the same title.