"So how 'bout your place this Saturday night?" Seth said to a giggling brunette. She twirled a dark brown curl around her fingers and bit her lip, "I was thinking of your place..." she rested her hand on his chest, "...this night". "Babe, if I had condoms right now, I'd fuck you on that wall right now" Seth said and kissed her neck. "Hey babe!" someone said and Seth rolled his eyes as his lips left the brunette's neck.
"Who are you?" the brunette asked and Sam smirked, "I'm his girlfriend!" "No you're not!" Seth said as the brunette came down from the desk, "I'm so sorry! I didn't know he had a---- Ugh! Boys!" the brunette said as she stormed off. "I'll call you later Tasha!" Seth shouted and she flipped her middle finger at him, "It's Stephanie you dipshit!" she said and he shrugged, "Same thing!"
"So, how 'bout our usual hideout this night?" Sam asked and he glared at her, "I'm done with you Sam! So stop trying to ruin my fun!" "Don't you miss me?" she asked and he laughed, "I've never missed anyone in my entire life" "But you----" "Looks like you made another one mad Se---- Oh! Hurray! It's the bitch!" Taylor said sarcastically and Sam rolled her eyes.
"Taylor, you should know that I wasn't the first one to make a pass at Zed. He made the pass at me... probably because he was tired of you being a bitch!" "What'd you say?" Taylor asked as she walked menacingly to Sam but Seth held her, "Woah!" he said and Zed came in, "What's the gathering for?" he asked and Taylor released herself from Seth's grip then she went over to Zed and kissed him then she glared at Sam and went to her seat.
Zed looked shocked, "What was that all about?" "Congrats man, your girlfriend's possessive!" Seth said as he slapped him playfully across the shoulder. Sam just scoffed and sat at her usual seat. In front of Seth.
"Seth Williams!" someone yelled outside and Zed raised his brow at Seth who shrugged, "Must be one of those girls looking for a relationship". Someone stepped into the class and Seth almost died of laughter. It was Brittany, covered in purple dye.
"Who's this purple bitch?" Sam asked as Brittany walked to Seth. Funny, you guys have the same colour of hair, Seth thought. Zed and Taylor were trying so hard not to laugh. "Come..." Brittany said as she hit Seth's table. He smirked, "It's gonna take actions and not only words to make me cum. By the way, purple looks really good on you!" he said and Zed burst out in laughter. Taylor was already clutching her ribs, shedding tears of laughter.
Brittany grabbed Seth's hand, "Come with me now!" "Aww...did mummy not teach you how to say please when asking for something?" Seth said and she glared at him, "That was not a request. Get up!" she said and dragged him up then she dragged him towards the door but Sam blocked her way, "I don't know who you think you are purple bitch! But you can't just walk into my territory and take my man away from----" "Move out of my way!" Brittany growled and she pushed past Sam.
Brittany ignored the stares as she dragged Seth down the hall, to where she parked her car. "What the hell Brittany?!" Seth said as he snatched his hand away from her grasp then he rubbed his wrists to ensure blood circulation. "Why?" she asked "Why what?" "Haha! Very funny! Why'd you pour dye on me?" "Who said I poured dye on you? I paid someone in your school to do the dirty work but yeah it was my plan" he said with folded arms. "You made me look like a fool in front of the whole school, especially Evy freaking Harrison!" "You made me look like a fool first when you painted my bike pink. So, from the looks of things princess, you planned your own downfall" "You're----" ...handsome? Cute? Sexy? An asshole? Please tell me something I don't know Britz" he pretended to yawn. Brittany did that tongue cheek thing as she nodded, "I'll get you back!" she said as she entered her car, "First get your hair evenly dyed!" he called out as she drove off.
He smirked and turned and saw Sam staring at him, "Who was she?" she asked and he rolled his eyes as he walked past her, "No one that you need to be concerned about". Purple bitch! he mentally added.
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"Lisa!" Brittany bawled as she entered the house. "Lisa!" she screamed again but there was no response. She went to the kitchen and saw a note pinned on the refrigerator; Went out to see a friend, there are waffles from this morning in the fridge. I'll be back by four. Lisa.
Tears welled up in Brittany's eyes. Now that she really needed Lisa, she was not there. She went up to her bathroom and tried to wash the dye out but it wasn't coming off. "Why? Why? Why?" she sobbed as she scrubbed her hair. She came out of the bathroom and looked at her hair. It was still purple. The purple had spread out more in her hair.
Brittany touched her hair and tears welled up in her eyes again. When she was younger, she had long blonde hair that her mom always brushed and caressed whenever she was stressed. Her mom really liked decorating her hair. After her mom died, there was no one to do it. No one to brush her hair. She tried getting her dad to do it, but it didn't work out, so out of anger, she cut it short and she liked it. But sometimes, if she wanted to feel like her younger self, she added blonde extensions. But now, her blonde hair was gone all thanks to Seth freaking Williams.
She collapsed on her bed and buried her face in her pillows. Anger and revenge running through her mind. Then she dozed off.
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"Brittany Hope Copper!" Lisa shouted and Brittany immediately woke up with bloodshot eyes. She wiped the drool at the corner of her mouth with her hand and then she used the other hand to rub her eyes. She saw two blurry figures. She rubbed her eyes again and the figures were clear. It was Lisa and Damian.
"Damian!" Brittany shouted and quickly covered herself with her duvet. "Get up!" Lisa tugged at the duvet but Brittany held it down firmly, "I'll be down in a few minutes" "You better be. We need to discuss why you came home early today and the condition of your hair" Lisa said and left. Brittany was about to raise the duvet but she heard Damian's voice, "Brittany, are you okay?" "Uh-huh. Can...can you just go down. I'll be there soon" "Sure!" he said and when she heard the door close, she threw the duvet off herself.
Her face was red with embarrassment. Damian had just seen the ugly side of her. Her drooling while she slept and her very red eyes. "Ugh! Could this day get any worse?" she groaned and got up then she went to the bathroom.
The smell of cookies hit her as she walked down the stairs. She had always liked walking up or down the long stairs because it somehow made her feel powerful, but now, she hated it more than Seth Williams. And that was a lot.
"I thought you had died in the bathroom" Lisa said as she removed her apron. Brittany walked up to her and hugged her. As always, Lisa smelt like a bakery. "What's this all about?" Lisa asked, her hands still at her sides "I just need a hug. Today has been terrible" "You always say that everytime you get back from school" Lisa said and she finally patted her back, "Tell me about it?" she asked and Brittany nodded.
Brittany told Lisa and Damian everything, from when she met Seth to when he paid someone to dye her hair. She skipped the part where she had sprayed his motorcycle pink though. "Seth? That's Zed's friend, right?" Lisa asked and Brittany nodded then she looked at Damian, "Is the hair that bad?" she asked and he reached out to touch it but he dropped his hand before it made contact with her hair. He did not have the right to touch her.
"The purple really compliments your blue eyes" he said and she tilted her head to the side, "Is that a good thing?" "Yeah! Your blonde hair also compliments your eyes and uh..." he tried to find the right words. "What I'm saying is that you always look pretty regardless the colour of your hair" he said and she looked at him, stunned. Oops! Poor choice of words, he thought and she smiled, "Thanks Damian. I think you're pretty too". Now it was her time to panic. You don't call a guy pretty! she reprimanded herself.
Lisa just stared at them with a cookie in her hand, "If you guys are going to flirt, don't do it in front of me" she said and munched her cookie. Damian's face flushed while there was a slight tint of pink across Brittany's cheeks. She was not one to blush easily.
"I never knew your hair was short" Damian said changing the topic and Brittany looked at him. That's right, she always wore blonde extensions to school. "I wear hair extensions at school" she said as she looked away "Anyway, let's think. What should we do to the hair? This is your first time dyeing your hair and Seth used semi-permanent dye and that doesn't come off easily" Lisa said. "Can't I just dye it blonde?" "You could dye it blonde" Lisa said and Brittany heaved a sigh of relief "...and suffer hair damage!" Lisa completed "What?!" "You have never dyed your hair. For all we know, you might be allergic to some dyes. You might even be allergic to this purple dye" "What?!" Brittany said in fear and Lisa chuckled, "I'm messing with you. If you were allergic to the purple dye, it could have showed. You're perfectly fine! But we don't know that about other dyes" "So I should just leave the hair?" "I don't see why not! It looks really good on you" Lisa said.
"But everyone at school would find out about the real length of my hair" Brittany said sadly "So what? It's cute!" Damian said and she looked at him, "You think so?" "I know so! If you like, you could even add the blonde extensions. You'd look like a total baddie!" he said and realized that he had said too much. "Wow! I never knew you were such a fashionista!" Lisa commended and Damian blushed, "I only thought that Brittany would look good in it. I really don't know anything about fashion" he whispered. "But----" Brittany began but she shook her head, "It's worth a shot. Besides it would wipe off that smug look off Eve's and Seth's face". "Who's Eve?" Damian asked and Brittany bit her lip as she tried to remember, "I think her name is Evy? Ava? Avery? I really don't care! Cookies!" she said as she ran to the kitchen to get some.
Lisa watched her as she ran excitedly to the kitchen. She knew what Brittany was about to say. Brittany's mom, Josie, liked to brush her long blonde hair but Brittany had cut it, shortly after her death. It was a rash decision made out of anger and Brittany had liked it for a short while. But she felt that she was loosing her mom. She had already cut her hair short and now, it was purple, instead of blonde. She did not feel like her mother's daughter anymore.
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Seth threw another stone in the lake. He had a lot of things on his mind. His mom's drinking habits, his younger brother's collapsed lung, the fact that he could not afford the surgery, the fact that his mom did not even care again and college. They were once a happy family. His mom, his dad, him and Horus. He remembered the picnics they always had in the park every Sunday. They were not wealthy, but they were comfortable and happy. But everything changed after his dad left to get the milk. His mom started drinking and she became an alcoholic. When her office had found out, they had fired her. They started lacking in money, the bills became so much but she still didn't care. All she cared about was vodka, tequila, rum, beer and the rest. Most times when she was drunk, she would insult him because he looked exactly like his dad. Horus, his brother also looked like their dad but he was just a kid. All those insults could really traumatize him, so Seth was better off taking all the insults.
He was brought out of his thoughts when he heard a branch break. He smiled knowing it was her, Hope. The lake was his comfort zone and it had even blessed him with an angel to comfort him. He always felt time stopped whenever he was at the lake...with Hope, while time flowed outside.
He decided to scare her because it was always hilarious whenever she screamed or when she tried to defend herself with a branch. He got up and hid behind the tree then he saw her silhouette coming. He smirked and dragged her, her flashlight fell and the light went out. Before she could scream, he covered her mouth with his hand, "Long time no see" he sneered in her ear and then he released her, "Not like I've seen your face though" he said and she hit his arm, "Are you crazy? I almost had a heart attack!" she said holding her heaving chest.
"Almost being the key word here. You're fine" he said "I may be fine now but it might affect me in the future and---- Oh no!" she said as she bent down to pick the flashlight. "What's wrong?" "You spoilt my flashlight...again" "I guess it's a habit!" "Better change it else I'll sell you along with your nasty habit". "I missed you Hope" "Tell me a better lie" "You're pretty!" he blurted out and she punched his arm, "Ow! You said I should tell you a better lie" he said and she sat down on a rock then she looked up at him, "Aren't you gonna sit?" "I'm trying to get night vision by staring at the moon, so that I can see your face" he said and she rolled her eyes then she pulled him down.
He lost balance and he fell on her. With the little moonlight that was on the lake, he made out the colour of her hair and eyes. Purple and blue. "You know, if you wanted me on top of you so bad, all you had to do was ask" he said cockily and she pushed him off then they sat beside each other. "Idiot!" she muttered "I guess that lie was actually a lie" he said and she snapped her head at him, "What do you mean?" "Purple and blue don't really go well. You look like an alien" he said and she bent her head, "You think so?" she asked and he looked at her. She looked sad and insecure.
"Hey! I was only kidding. Blue comes from purple, obviously they go well. In fact they go so well with each other that black and red don't even stand a chance. They'll lose if there was a competition about best matching colours" he said and she gave a slight smile. It wasn't much but it was better than that sad expression on her face. "You're an idiot!" she said as she nudged him with her elbow "But you still talk to me. So that makes you an idiot too. Only an idiot talks to an idiot cos they understand each other well" "Talking to myself is much better than talking to you!" she said and he placed his hand on his chest as if he was in pain, "Ouch! Harsh!" he said and she giggled.
"That was a pretty sound" he said and her cheeks reddened. She was not one to blush easily but this guy had some mad skills if he made her a blushing mess everytime he complimented her. "I'm guessing you're blushing right now". How does he know? she thought and held her face, "No I'm not!" "Liar liar, pants on fire" he sang and she hit him, "You're such a child!" she said and he laughed.
"I guess you must have had a lot of girlfriends, female friends or sisters for you to know when a girl is blushing" "Nah! I have a younger brother, one female friend and I've only had one girlfriend and that was enough for me to know that dating is not for everyone" he said and skipped a rock across the lake. Lucky, she thought as she watched the rock jump on the lake before it finally sank. She looked at him, "Don't tell me you have one of those cliche stories that your first love broke your heart and now you're scared of dating so you just mess around with girls" she said and he smiled, "When you say it like that, it doesn't sound sad, but yes! That's my story. She cheated on me with my archenemy and I was so in love with her" he said and rested his back against a tree, "Gosh! I was such an idiot. I mean it was very noticeable that they had something going on but I guess I was blinded by love so I didn't see it".
Brittany felt sad for him. Jake had never cheated on her, so she didn't know how the hurt felt and she wasn't ready to experience it. "I'm sorry" she said softly and he chuckled, "Are you really?" he sat up and gazed into her eyes, "Do you know how it feels like?" "No...and I don't want to" "Hmm...ever had a boyfriend?" "Yes! Who do you think I am? A middle schooler?" "Probably" "You----" "How about I show you how it is? The pain of watching someone you love so much make out with the person you hate so much" he said and came closer to her. "Wha...What are you...saying?" she asked quite flustered at their close proximity "I'm saying you should fall in love with me".