Giselle Vila Rosa's point of view
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Doing my best not freak out, I hid myself further into the hoodie, glad that nobody is paying attention to me.
"Shall I drop the bomb?" He grinned.
More murmurs erupted from the students, satisfying him more.
"Sorry for this, darling, but I can't let you have all the fun, can I?"
Yes. Yes, you can, you fucking piece of shit, motherfucking bastard.
"What are you talking about, Chairman?" The headmaster gasped.
"Oh?" Papai grinned like a devil. "How many Scholarship students are in Year 2, again?" He can't be fucking doing this.
"Lopez dropped out, so, 69, sir," the headmaster said, frightened.
"How many girls?" Oh, he's fucking with me.
"31, sir," fuck.
"One of those 31 scholarship students of Year 2, is not who she is pretending to be," he dropped the bomb. "She is, in fact, my daughter. Not Isobel or Camila, but Giselle," and he said that with the biggest smile on his stupid face. "Giselle Vila Rosa is right now, here, between all of us. As some may know, she's 22 years old, and my father insisted in her, as the heiress of the Vila Rosa, and the No. 1 ranker in the world, attending here. However, she insisted in not coming here as herself, so, she used her magic to disguise herself as someone else, under a different name."
"Even her voice is different, her aura, her origin, she changed all of it, just to attend here like a scholarship student. She didn't do this to mess with you, but to have a peaceful academical life, to not be faced with those who would solely kiss her ass, and only close to her to gain something from her. Of course, to stay off the spotlight, she faked her grades and purposely did stuff wrong not to get the top spot, and pretended to be weaker than she is. But I'm not going to say who is it, just that she mingled perfectly well."
Perfectly well my butt. "Why would someone so fucking privileged play the unprivileged kid in here?" I yelled, taking my ass off a possible spotlight. "How is that fair to us? The scholarship spots are counted to us, who need and can't pay. How can that be fair to us?"
Everyone turned to me, and though I felt my skin burn, I kept my glare fixed on papai, who's jaw dropped, probably because he definitely did not expect me to react like this. "It ain't about privilege, Ella Różowy,"
"How not?" I hissed loudly. "We are talking about the daughter of the goddamn chairman, and if me speaking up about this makes you angry, you are free to expel me, I doubt that would surprise a soul in this hell. But it is about privilege. Even calling Giselle Vila Rosa rich is an offensive understatement because of how rich she is, she has power, beauty, charm, intelligence, magic, and she's not only the No. 1 ranker in the world but also, again, your daughter. Why not disguise herself as a legacy? Why come here as a scholarship kid and steal a spot that should have been given to a kid who actually fucking needed?"
"We are here, doing our all, studying like the fuck of it, giving our blood, our sweat, and our tears to be able to even get a good spot in such a huge ranking of the academy, so we can have a taste of better things. How is it fair that she not only stole a spot that wasn't supposed to be hers, but also is here, playing around and mocking us by faking her grades and not taking the spot that should be hers had she been taking this seriously? Does that mean that our efforts are to waste? That we are not the rank we are in now but the one under us, since she would take the top had she been doing her best?" Then, I glared at the other scholarship girls.
Sorry, not sorry, girls. "Where are you, uh? Aren't you such a big shot? Where are you? Why don't you speak up?"
"For the first time, I agree with four eyes," many students spoke.
Then, slowly, many began to join what I started and when my eyes met papai's from afar, he was glaring at me, and I smirked amusedly, tilting my head in a challenge. And with the attention away from me, I sat down on my corner again, hoodie over my head.
"Enough!" Papai yelled and everyone shut up. "Have your parents not educate you, Ella Różowy? I've talked to you about your bad manners before, have you learned nothing?" Using his magic, he grabbed me off of my seat and three meters into the air, and many people gasped. "You are in detention for a month for your defiance. You have a bad habit of never understanding the order of things, don't you? You lack basic education."
It's not the first he does this, but I can't fight him here, or they will know, so I grabbed the invisible hands within which he was strangling me.
"Parents? What do I know of that?" I spilled disgusted at him. "I'm a bastard that has never been accepted but used. My mother died and even when she was alive she never cared about me, my father doesn't recognize me as a daughter and I only met him when I was old enough to do everything by myself. Basic education? Of course, I lack that, I never had anyone to teach me shit, everything I learned was on my own, through determination."
"I told you not to be emotional," he snapped.
"And I've told you that you are the emotional one in here. Is you that act up on your emotions. I defied you and look what you're doing. How is it ethical for a chairman of a educational facility to treat a student like this? I'm not your underling, Mr. Vila Rosa, and I'll never be!"
"Watch it, Ella!"
"Or what? You will expel me? Do it. Do it," I yelled, feeling my eyes teary, because fuck. Why does he has to fuck everything? "Expel me, you will actually do me good. I'm only staying because my pride doesn't allow me to stop, even though that what I want. I can't stand these people, I can't stand these professors, I can't stand the side-eyes, their superiority complex, the arrogance, I can't stand it. I want to kill everyone, I want to murder all of those fucking jerks of those legacy clans. I want to disappear. I can't even stand the sight of myself because I can't get out of here So, do it. Expel me, you will do us all a favor. Nobody wants me here."
He got so shocked by my words that he dropped me, but my magic acted up like a shield and a platform of solid cosmic energy caught me 10cm away from the ground and a scream left my throat.
"Thank you… Giselle Vila Rosa," I cried, feeling like a mess.
That was all it needed for chaos to break out in the crowd.
"Ella," I heard Jin-ah's voice, but she didn't move to help.
I don't blame her, we are talking about my pai after all, Jin-young is probably holding her back not to move. Getting up on the solid cosmic energy platform, I paused my hand over my chest, and stepped out of it, eyes dead-set on him. "You play low, Ricardo Vila Rosa, but that's more than expected from people like you. Trying to kill a scholarship student for speaking the truth. Will you expel me now?"
"Why would I do that? You're useful."
"Of course, people like you only see people like me like pawns," I scowled, genuinely and he knows it, even if the others don't. "So, as you won't get rid of me yet," I raised my middle finger at him, "fuck you!" Then I burst out laughing like a maniac. "I fucking hate you. You disgust me," then I turned to everyone else, finding all of them staring at me as if I had lost it. "You all disgust me, I hate all of you. I'm done playing good girl!" Then I raised both my middle fingers to everyone, turning to Jin-young. "I hate you even more than I hate them," then to papai, "but I hate you more!"
"And you said you weren't emotional," he mocked.
"Seems like blood runs thicker than I thought," I spoke in his mind and his eyes widened. "You picked this fight, just don't forget I am stronger than you, papai, and when I fight, I fight to win."
"How dare you," he hissed.
"And I'm the one who lost it," I mocked loudly. "Expel me."
"You are in detention for the rest of semester," he yelled.
"Yay," I scowled. "Giselle, are you here?" Nothing. "If you are, I am sorry for you, to have to deal with this motherfucker as your father. If you agree with me, can you teleport me out of here?" I screamed, looking at the girls, to make it look like it's not me. "I won't apologize for what I said because I meant it, but could you give a helping hand?"
"The audacity of this low born to-" Annele Huhtanen began to say, but her words died when a cosmic energy portal appeared in front of me.
"Badass," I giggled, acting as if I had never seen something so epic and fantastic in front of my eyes, even though I'm the one who made it. "Thank you, Giselle, you cooler than I thought. Definitely light years better than Park Jin-young," I said that very loudly. "Do I just… jump through?"
"Yes," Jin-ah chuckled. "It won't hurt."
I frowned, faking unsureness, "It doesn't look safe," then, closing my eyes and acting like a scared-cat, I jumped through the portal, passing straight into the dimensional pocket I build some years ago to have a place to hide when I need.
As my feet touched the marble cool floor of my private paradise, I was finally able to breathe like myself, and as my disguise was undone, I snapped my fingers and switched from the pajama I was in before Jin-ah popped up in the dorm, to one of my favorites bikinis, a lavander with gold that makes me look amazing. Now barefoot and with my long wavy black hair loose, I walked towards my private beach.
"Papai has no idea the fight he just bought with me," I sighed, as I touched the perfect warm water, feeling the magic in it recharging all of my energies. "Should I use that oath of secrecy with Jin-ah, to get on my side?" I grinned at myself, "She has a little crush on me, so maybe it would work? Jin-young will be so beautifully angry when he learn it's me," my grin all but widened at my mischievous plan.