I was roughly tossed onto the chair in front of Madam Principal.
"And you're here again. It's been one week! Is this going to be a thing?" She asked.
"No, miss." I replied.
"Good." She said while organizing documents. "Why are you here this time?"
"I don't know." I told the truth.
"You weren't paying attention in my class." Ms. Pims stated.
"Okay, that is true." I admitted.
"Not only that but you were distracting Draco." She added.
'Why call him by his stage name when you know his real name?'
"And is that true?"
"It was more like he was distracting me but I guess it can work both ways."
"Why would he do that?" Ms. Pims asked aggressively.
"I don't know? I think he wants us to be friends?" I answered honestly.
"Ha! You're good at lying."
"What?" I asked confused.
"Why would he want to be friends with his bully?"
"I don't know. That would be quite strange." I replied.
"I believe she's referring to you." The principal informed.
"I know. But I am not a bully."
"Oh yeah? Then why have I been getting reports from your classmates?" Ms. Pims asked.
"Because they don't like me and will take any chance they get to make me look bad?" I answered.
"You can't possibly believe that ridiculous excuse, Madam Principal!!!"
"It has happened before." The principal informed.
"I... Well the boy told me himself."
"What?" The principal was shocked.
'What!?' I was more shocked.
"Why didn't you mention this before?" The principal asked.
"I promised to keep it quiet since you know bullies tend to get worse when they know who told on them." Ms. Pims explained.
'So he planned this.'
"Miss Fleur, what do you have to say for yourself?"
"I have to say that this entire situation is outrageous. I have never bullied anyone in my life."
"Sigh. Still denying it? I saw you throwing paper balls with insults on them at him in my class a while ago." Ms. Pims rolled her eyes.
"What? He threw those at me." I defended.
"Why would he?" Ms Pims asked.
"He wanted my attention."
"Why?"
"Because I was ignoring him."
"See! She just admitted to bullying him."
"Why were you ignoring him?"
"Because I wanted to stop the rumours that I was bullying him."
"Because you were guilty and wanted to pretend you weren't!"
The principal glared at Ms. Pims.
"Madam Principal?"
"You can go Pims."
"Okay." With that she left.
"Rose. I know that it's hard to deal with hate online but you can't take it out on your friends."
I stood up.
"What are you doing?"
"You won't believe me anyway so there's no point in staying."
"You can't keep victimizing yourself!"
"That's kind of hard to do when you're a victim but no one believes you. Do whatever you want. I don't care."
"That is disrespectful!"
"Oh? Do any of you. ANY of you in this school have respect for me?"
"Well just because you're famous —"
"I don't mean as a celebrity! I'm human too! I'm still a child! But no one seems to think about that! Do you even know anything about me your student that isn't public information?"
"Well no—"
"I thought so. Goodbye Madam Principal." I turned and left. I hoped that looked as dramatic as I wanted it to. My tears might have ruined it.
Thoughts of betrayal were rushing through my head as I wiped my eyes but I wanted to confirm it before I made assumptions to I went back to my class.
'Please. Please. Let me be crazy. Let me be overthinking things. Please tell me I didn't fall into your trap.'
I opened the door all eyes were on me.
"You're back already" Emily mocked.
"Omg! Look her eyes are red!"
"She must have cried!"
"She probably got suspended."
"Serves her right!"
"That what she gets!"
Everyone was talking but I didn't care I walked straight up to Draken and asked, "Did you tell the teacher I was bullying you?"
"What!? She still wants to act all tough even though she's been caught."
"Did you or did you not?" I continued.
"I didn't." He replied a shocked expression, "Why didn't you say anything?"
"I tried to but—"
"There's no need to lie to her Draco. She can't do anything to you now." Someone cut him off.
"Yeah she wouldn't dare do anything while being recorded." Someone who was recording added.
That was all I needed. I left the school mad that I even began to think he was a good person. I walked to a cafe bought a drink to calm me down then called my sister and told her to pick me up at the cafe. The car ride was quiet. When we got home I took a shower and changed then went back downstairs to answer my angry sister's questions.
"Tell me what happened."
I explained everything.
"You're so stupid." She sighed. "Let's make a deal. You avoid that boy and I won't punish you."
"I accept! I never wanted to talk to him ever again anyway."
"Great. Also you should thank your principal."
"Huh? Why?"
"She said that you're not in trouble but she wants me to give a one month break from school to recover mentally. She specifically asked that I not punish you and let you relax during that time." Hope explained.
"...I see."
"I'm glad that you can see but call her and thank her tomorrow." Hope ordered.
And so the rumours about me being a bully spread among the students because someone, most likely Emily, made an anonymous post on the school forum based on what she thought happened.
Meanwhile I enjoyed my time off with my sister and even got casted for a musical that we will be filming in November and airing in December. I was pretty excited for my first musical drama. Since it was still only September we had a lot of time to practice.
So I practiced for a month then returned to school confidently in a stunning red dress and to compliment that I wore ruby jewellery, sparkling red heels and cherry lip tint. It was a bit too extravagant for school but I couldn't care less I was feeling my self and the whole world needed to know.
I strutted confidently into the school. All eyes were on me whether that was a good thing or not I couldn't care less. Before class started the principal called everyone into the Auditorium for a meeting.
"I have called you all here to address a recent event. I'm sure you've all heard of the rumours on the forum. I would like to invite Miss Fleur and Mister Collins to the stage."
We walked onto the stage and stood on either side of the principal.
"As you've noticed Miss Fleur has been absent for a month well this is because... Oh my. It seems I need a drink of water."