I was not expecting to find Sophie's mom so fast… There's not much I can do for her at the moment, so I'll just ignore it.
"Well. Wanna hang out with me? I have the same class than you, so I have a free hour" she keeps whispering and I nod.
She seems nice, I'm surprise I got acquainted with someone so fast. In my last school that happened after a couple months.
I spend the rest of the class paying attention to the teacher. English is not one of my favorite subjects, but I want to pay attention to him, I'm sure dealing with antsy teens is not easy, he must be tired, I don't want to create more troubles for him.
The class is over, and Jos tangles my arm with hers, we walk towards the green area of the school. We sit below a tree, enjoying the shadow it provides.
We talk about random stuff until the locker girl interrupts us with a group of girls behind her.
"Hey! New girl!" the locker girl calls.
"Hi" I answer "I'm sorry but it's really hard to honor your advice of avoiding you if you are the one coming to talk with me" I say seriously, and Jos starts choking on her drink.
Once she stops coughing, she starts laughing "Bahahahahaha, she fucked you up!" she shouts at the locker girl, and she blushes as an answer.
I don't understand why she's laughing, it wasn't that funny, but well… I guess it's good as long as she's enjoying herself.
"What's wrong Rose, cat got your tongue?" Jos continues to tease her.
"Shut up, slut" the locker girl says, wait, her name's Rose, I should stop thinking of her as the 'locker girl'.
Rose looks at me and starts talking "New girl-"
I cut her off before she can continue "Alice".
She looks annoyed and said in a cocky voice "What?".
"My name, I'm Alice" I explain myself, being call 'new girl' is not nice, after all I never called her 'locker girl'.
"Whatever" she brushes me off "I just want to warn you".
Again? Is this girl part of a warning committee I'm not aware of?
"I don't recommend you to be friends with this woman, you might not know but she's the pack… I mean… the school!!! Yes, school slut" Rose says as if that's supposed to be a huge problem.
Pack? I'm curious at her choice of words but talking to her is far too straining, I'm not curious enough to ask her and deal with her.
I turn to look at Jos and she looks… worry? I think she's scared.
"Are you alright?" I ask her and she flinches.
"…yes" she says quietly.
"Didn't you hear me? She's the school slut!" Rose continues her ramblings "she goes sleeping around with anything that moves like the desperate idiot she is! You don't want to go making friends with the wrong people" she says while flipping her hair.
'You don't want to go making friends with the wrong people' I cant' help but feel her words are familiar, where have I heard that before? ...
"AH!" I raise my voice and they all flinch. I know I don't raise my voice often but it's not like I don't do it, don't look so surprise.
"Draco Malfoy!" I say satisfied.
"What?" Rose says confuse.
"What you said, that's really similar to what Draco says to Harry when he introduces himself" I nod. I'm glad I remembered.
She opens her mouth and starts fanning her face with her hand. Is she having trouble breathing?
"I can't believe it! You're so stupid! I try to help you and you decide to stay with the slut!"
I turn to Jos "Have you ever raped anyone?" and she starts choking again. This girl chokes a lot it seems.
"Never!" Jos shouts once her choking fit stops.
"Then, all the sexual relationships you had were consensual and responsible?" I ask, I don't like to pry in people's sexual life but since they seem to be making a big deal out of it, I want to make sure I'm not becoming the friend of an abuser.
"YES!" Jos shouts embarrassed. For a girl that they said sleeps around a lot, she sure gets embarrassed fast.
I turn to look at Rose, now I'm really confuse "Then… what's the problem?"
Rose gasps "What do you mean by 'what's the problem'!? You don't care hanging out with a slut!? You must be a slut too!!".
"Even if I was, I don't think that's any of your business" I explain, I'm already tired of dealing with her.
I didn't want to do this but I suppose desperate times does need desperate measures.
I mumble quietly "please, tease them a little bit and get them away from me".
"ouch! What the hell!?" one of the girls behind Rose shouts annoyed.
"What is it?" Rose asks rolling her eyes.
"Someone pulled my hair!" the girl complains.
"HEY!" says another one, and another one until all the girls complain about little things like someone pinching them, pulling their sleeves or hair.
They all seem to be beyond annoyed and look around but find no one.
Rose groans and shouts to her squad "Let's get the fuck out of here!" she then looks at me "I will tell everyone you're a slut!"
"… are you stupid?" I can't help but ask that. Rumors can be a dangerous scary thing but is far scarier to deal with the consequences of your actions.
"What?" she says flabbergasted.
"I don't like repeating myself" I sigh "It seems you're used to following this strategy, but you should really stop, I'm giving you an honest warning. Don't mess with people you don't know; you could get a really unpleasant surprise".
The one friend that could leave the house followed me here, and unlike many ghosts he's strong, he has no trouble in messing with this plane.
He's a vicious ghost so I feel guilty if I leave him alone but this Rose girl threatened me in front of him. I honestly hope she doesn't do what she said she will, he might harm her if she does.
Rose only scoffs and walks away with the other girls. Finally, peace and quiet.
I lean my body backwards, ready to enjoy the tree's shadow until my peaceful time gets interrupted again "Are you really ok with being around me?" Jos says sadly.