Hope left me at the school gate. I entered and soon people began talking about me.
"Oh my gosh. Did you see Rose?"
"You mean that bully?"
"Yeah"
"She looks really skinny."
"She probably starved herself to lose weight."
"Ha! But she doesn't look good at all! She looks like skin and bones!"
"Maybe she did it to gain our sympathy?"
"Why would she do that?"
"Have you seen the bandages?"
"She totally is trying to get sympathy by looking like that! She's even limping!"
"Is she going to say fans of Draco and Vasuki beat her up or something?"
"Probably. And all her simps online are going to back her up too."
Soon class started Draken was late.
He arrived with Ms. Pims. She honestly looked like she was flirting with him. He looked annoyed but when he looked at me his expression was complicated. I couldn't figure out what he was thinking.
"Rose! What are you doing sitting beside Draken!? After all you've done do you still think you can sit next to him!?" Miss Pims yelled at me.
"Miss. It's fine." Draken commented.
"It is not! What kind of teacher would I be if I let a bully sit next to a handsome, smart, diligent student like Draken?"
'I'm not a bully and you didn't seem to care when I was the one being bullied.'
I got up, went to the back of the class and sat on the floor.
I wanted to ask if she was happy but I couldn't because my voice still hasn't returned from all my singing.
"Move over to the left a bit and we're good." I did as I was told since I wasn't in the mood for a fight. I ended up sitting next to the bin. People threw trash at me all class claiming they missed the bin.
Ms. Pims also picked on me all class asking me extremely difficult questions that were actually quite easy.
Luckily it was math class so I just wrote my answers on the board.
She complained about me not explaining how I arrived at the answer aloud for the class to hear but I just ignored her.
At the end of class, she dragged me to the principal's office.
"This brat just back to school and is already causing trouble!" She threw me into the chair in front of the principal.
"Ms. Pims, you don't have to be so aggressive." She commented. "Ms. Fleur, do you have any to say for yourself?"
I stared at her. 'Did Hope not tell you I lost my voice."
"Sigh. I'm really trying here. You just got back and you're already causing problems. What do you want me to do." Madam Principal seemed disappointed.
I sighed then knocked on her desk to get her attention.
"Can you hear me? I was not disrespectful—"
"Quit being disrespectful and talk up!" Ms. Pims hit me over the head.
I stood up, "You may be my teacher but no one gave you the right to lay your nasty hands on me."
"Ahem. Rose, calm down."
I sat down.
"Miss Pims, apologize."
"What!?" She exclaimed.
"Lower your voice." Madam Principal ordered.
"Why should I apologise when she's clearly faking it?"
"S'ocard Pims, apologise to Rose Fleur this instant."
"I'm sorry." She muttered.
"Miss Pims."
"What?" She spat.
"Do not speak to me in that tone. You seem to be forgetting who is in charge."
"What am I even apologising for?" She complained.
"Treating a student harshly, embarrassing a student by dragging her to the principal's office, hitting a student, falsely accusing a student twice, wasting the student's time. Shall I go on?"
"I am sorry, Miss Rose Fleur, for the way I treated you, falsely accusing you of being disrespectful and anything else that I may have done or caused."
"Miss Rose you may leave. I'm going to have a nice talk with your teacher."
I nodded then left.
I returned to class. I realised that I left my bag on my desk so I went to grab my book for the next class.
When I did I felt a sharp pain. Well, multiple sharp pains. When I took out my hand I realised I had been cut by multiple glass shards. I took my bag up. That's when I noticed there were glass shards on the desk too. I dumped the contents of my bag onto the floor. Then took my items up and put them back in the bag leaving all the other glass shards on the floor.
I then sat in the corner next to the bin and picked out all the glass shards I could and put them in the bin.
The class laughed at me and some people still threw things at me. Draken was outside and just came back with another male student.
"Who the hell put these glass shards here!?" The male student yelled.
Everyone turned and looked at me.
"Of course it's you, Rose! What the hell do you want!?" He began yelling at me.
'Sigh of course they blame me.'
I showed my hand.
"What? You showing evidence that you did it!?" He continued to yell.
Everyone was giggling.
"...Which one of you sick bastards did it?" Draken asked in a serious tone.
The class went dead silent.
"What are you talking about? Everyone knows it's Rose. She was trying to hurt you."
"Then why is it at her desk? I get that you all don't like her but this is too damn far. I'm reporting this to the principal. Rose come with me."
I shook my head.
"She doesn't want to. Just let her be."
"Do you want to die? Those injuries could kill you."
I know now that he was lying and you may call me naive or gullible but back then I got scared and ran to his side.
He took out some stuff from his bag removed the rest of the glass shards treated my wounds then wrapped my hand in bandages.
"All done. Now let's go get you a treat." He smiled warmly. "Her seat and the floor around her better be cleaned by the time we come back." His expression changed immediately as he threatened the class.