"That looks extravagant, a lot outrageous to be exact," Airi came to a conclusion in her mind seeing the insides of the office.
"Oh, you came! I'm glad!" Rena exclaimed seeing Airi just on time. "Please come in, Airi. Surely, you are true to words."
Airi walked into the room and moved towards the large sofa the room had, to take a seat. Just when she was about to sit down, Rena interrupted her, "Airi, if you would close the door."
Airi was dumbfounded by how Rena chose the time of her taking a seat to say that. "You could tell me to do so when I was near the door, couldn't you?"
"Oh, wow. You know to talk back, huh?" Airi felt stupified by the retort of Rena. "Then, should I have stuffed up my mouth seeing you, like others?"
Suddenly, the sweet smile on Rena's face distorted into a sinister one, hearing Airi. "Sharon, shut that f*cking door," even her tone and manner changed into total opposite. Airi's entire body and mind got on full alert mode seeing this sudden change in Rena. "My hunch was right then, she is definitely not the way she appears to be," she thought to herself. Yet, she didn't flinch even a bit to voice out her thoughts. "Sure enough, you aren't someone who you present yourself like."
Rena clasped her hands together with a sinister sneer, and somehow, she looked totally like her sister. "Aren't you a good judge of character? Then I guess you could guess what's the reason for calling you here?"
Airi also dropped her cute, petite-looking smile, as she smirked, "I reckon this is about that pretentious brat who very well goes slurring in front of teachers…"
Rena slapped both of her hands on the table in front of her as she sprung up from her seat. "Who the fu*ck are you calling pretentious you b*tch?"
Airi slowly sat down on the sofa, put her legs crossed over each other. "The very same person who is the sister of someone equally, no, more fake. To think I thought of you someone admiringly cool on the first day in the hall, how foolish of me. I should've known you belong to those pathetic losers who go on bullying people, and…" Airi met eyes with the guy Lloyd standing beside Rena, "Seducing boys and keeping boy-toys. Surely, that was a huge mistake from my side. I apologize for that."
By now, not only Rena, but the other two student bodies were fuming like fire. But there was no way to refute the things Airi said, because everyone present there very well knew about Rena and her tempers, no matter how soft she presents herself as outside this room.
Ignoring all those glares at her, Airi continued talking to Rena, "Look senior, you are the student council president here, and I heard you have been one for ages, so surely you aren't supposed to side your sister even if she was in the wrong. I mean, who bullies someone the very first day at school, right?"
"So I have to learn my duties from you? I need to know what I should do and what I shouldn't, from you?" Rena laughed out loud, "What a load of crap you are spewing right now huh? And bullying on the very first day you said? You didn't do the same? I heard whatever you said to Maria, you think that was just something I could ignore?"
Airi clutched her temples like she was in immense pain, "Such a bunch of weaklings, one goes off nagging to sister, and another comes out like a hooligan."
"YOU F*CKING CONTROL YOUR MOUTH!" Rena roared by the indifferent and smug behavior Airi was giving to her.
"And you! Just hold on with those slurrings!" Airi wasn't any less in those verbal wars. She equally talked back, while keeping her voice calm and dominative.
"Look, I really wanted to think you might be someone like me, you know, like strong characters, or don't like weak persons, at least you gave off such a cool aura." Airi got up from her seat, and went close to Rena's. She bent down a bit to intimidate Rena with her eyes, "But it's such a shame, you are the same as the Sayuri girl you bullied back then. Actually, you turned out weaker than her, how disappointing!"
Rena felt like her blood was boiling in anger and embarrassment. No one ever dared to talk back to her, let alone intimidating her. She has always put up with a good front to the entire school and the teachers, just to be on center. She tried to be pretty and approachable to be in the talk of the boys. And those who were problematic, she scared them off so badly that they never even tried to talk around about her even in their dreams. Part of it was how imposing she had been to them, but the majority thing worked was the power she had, and the authority her family had as the richest and most influential family in the city.
And here she was, getting cornered by a newcomer junior, who might have looked timid and cute, but her aura was so dominative she couldn't get a loophole to breakthrough.
"What? Already tongue-tied? I didn't even do one percent of the things I did with your sister to you. Seems like Maria is way better than Rena Sinclair." Airi was honestly hoping for something severe today, but the way she is getting things right now, dealing with this much was nothing for her. "You know what? I would've done so much better job as a bully. Just drop the delusion of being the gangster goddess here, you don't even qualify to be a lackey."
Rena wanted to crumble Airi's smug face so badly, but no matter what, she couldn't take her eyes off those penetrating gazes in front of her.
Suddenly, she thought of threatening her about Airi's demeanor. "Well, Miss Airi, aren't you the same as me? You pretend to be someone cute and easy-going, but actually, you aren't right?"
Airi moved back a bit from Rena. She took an awkward pause, and seeing her go silent all of a sudden, Rena thought she finally got her.
"What if I just tell everyone in this school how outright rude and overbearing this cute little bubbly cherry girl can be? How does that sound?" gaining a bit of space, she talked back in hope of cornering her back.
Airi surely took a pause there, but this pause was all she needed to fight back, like a tigress shrinking back a step just to leap three steps forward.
Airi burst out laughing, abruptly. Her laughter sounded so mocking and loud, and the way it was being echoed in the room, gave chills to the other three people present in the room.
Airi found it hard to control her laugh, and when she did, she looked straight at Rena's eyes. "Then go ahead, if you really think something about a mere newcomer first year would make more effect than the revelation of the teacher's diligent, bright student, and the sensual iconic student council President of the boys.
Sharon shouted out from the sides, "What do you mean by that?"
Airi turned around towards Sharon to respond, "It's simple, Miss secretary. Let me ask you this, what do you think is more plausible? A girl who is known as a cute friendly one, but a bit on the straightforward side, that is, clean as water, to be blamed as someone of a crooked nature? Or it would be more logical to think of someone who has always been forward about her works and her invitations, and clearly having a possible stand to bully people, to have something like that of a nature? After all, everyone knows that there is no single student here who can actually speak against her, right senior Sharon? What do you say?"
"Um… I… Well…" Airi sounded so confident and true that Sharon couldn't figure out what to say instantly. And the way Sharon was fumbling through her words, Rena got so furious at Sharon that she lost her control over it, and threw a book at her which was on the table. Sharon ducked and dodged the flying book for an inch, to prevent the possible severe injury she might have gotten.
"Oh! Calm down, senior! If you keep going on being violent and abusing your underlings, there would be no one left to be your lackey, you know?" Airi picked up the book and gently kept it on the table. "So, I recommend you not to mess with me, otherwise, " by then Airi dropped her polite tone to a lower level, low to such extent that it was enough to drop the temperature of the room on a certain degree, "one little word from me, be it a rumor, would be enough to tarnish your reputation and destroy your position you made through all these years; and that little statement from me won't even need to be proven."
With that saying, Airi made herself clear, and walked back to her classroom, leaving behind a fuming girl who just got her self-esteem trampled over.