Chapter 28: "Honestly I felt like Regina George"

I woke up with my head hurting and a puffy face. Another day in the life of Lidia White. I went into the bathroom. I didn't even bother to take a shower today. Who cares? No one. No one cares about me.

A/N okay I'm sorry but I just realized she's a total pick me

I messily splashed cold water onto my face. I sighed, tired about last nights erm 'events'. My tired, sunken eyes portrayed how beaten down and broken I am. I cocked my head. It's funny how a little girl can trick even the smartest of men. How a brain can make up a lie so believable that no one can tell if they're lying or being honest. Interesting.

My makeup was spot on because, well you know why. I practiced my smile in the mirror. Which one? Shall I go with 'The tired but happy' smile or 'I hate it here but I'm still happy to be here' smile? I shook my head. I'll deal with it when I get there.

I trudged downstairs but realized that my brothers don't know about my secret. No one does and I would like to keep it that way. I straighten my back, puffed out my chest and decided to go with a new one: I'm so happy for you!

"Hello my dear Chica. How are you on this fine morning?" Zack said in a Shakespeare kind of voice.

I yawned and said "Fine, fine. How about you good sir?" In the same voice. We both giggled and I sat down and ate my breakfast.

The twins came down and as per usual, Jesse ate what I couldn't and James rolled his eyes. "What does it feel like to be officially 17? It must feel awesome right?" I told them, fake tired excitement evident in there.

Jesse looked at me. "It feels amazing! Thank you Lids for actually acknowledging how old we have turned!" He glanced at Zack. Zack just rolled his eyes and turned back to what ever he was doing.

The drive to school was shorter than I would've wanted. We took the same route so I don't know how it could've been shorter. We pulled up into 'their' parking spot. When we got out I gasped. What the hell are they doing here?! "What the hell are they doing here?!"

"Lidia! Language!" Jesse said until he saw what I was looking at.

"Oh hell no. What the hell are these bitches doing here?!" Jesse practically yelled.

I glanced at the twins and I swear I saw smoke coming out of their ears. What we saw was unbelievable. Florian Private Schools was here. In our school parking lot. Why, pray, would the academic board put these two schools with each other?!

"C'mon. Let's just go." I said, pulling on Jesse's arm.

"No Lids, you know what this means?" He asked.

"Nope. I'm not quite following." I replied.

"This means we have to show them who's boss." James said for his twin.

I scoffed. Why would we do that? Please don't tell me my brothers are going to challenge them or some stupid rivalry shit. "And how, pray tell, are we going to do this.", James took a deep breath, "And don't tell me we're going to fight them!"

James scoffed. "Just because I like to fight doesn't mean that's my answer to everything! And besides, we are going to act more pompous and intimidating than them!"

I cocked my head. "And tell me brother, how do I look intimidating?"

He had an evil smirk. "Trust me, what you're about to do is going to make even the wimpiest of nerds look somewhat cool. Just do what we do."

He puffed out his chest, had his back so straight there's no way he could ever get scoliosis. His chin was pointing to heaven and he walked like the owner of the world with a cocky, smug smile on his face. Like monkey see monkey do, his twin did the same. I tried my hardest to do it but I'm not sure I was doing it right.

"So little sis. In order for this to work we have to act all cool and like we don't give two shits about anyone", he paused, "well like you don't give two shits about anyone. Stay close to us. We have to make this work." Jesse proclaimed.

Not wanting to disappoint him I did all the poses and- me being the best liar in the world- my smug face was looking better than James'. I looked like a 2000's high school bully. Or like Heather Chandler. Yeah, that's a better comparison.

The three of us marched into the building. Heads snapped towards us. I did my best to not coil into a ball with all of the attention I was getting. We saw the 'popular' group of kids from Florian Private School. They gave looks of disgust. We strutted past them and like the amazing actress I am, I did a hair flip right as we passed them.

I turned towards my locker and motioned my confused looking best friend to the bathroom. "Okay so what the hell was that? And why are those pricks here?" Audrey demanded the second I closed the door.

"Okay to answer your second question, I don't know and to answer your first, I guess my whole family hates them and so my brothers were like 'Lidia! Act a like a spoiled rich brat!' and I was like 'umm okay?'." I summed it up for her.

"Well we do hate them and second, you go girl!" I laughed and headed to first period. Ugh. Math.

Mrs. Gray stood up at the front of the class while I leaned back in my chair, twirling a piece of my hair. "Okay students! So today we have some erm, visitors!", she said with a hint distaste. "They are here because their school is having some mold problems so the academic board nominated our school to let them use our facilities while theirs is being cleaned and all that stuff. Any questions?"

Keith raised his hand. "Yeah uh, when are they going to leave?" Some kids snickered.

Unlike her usual self, she didn't answer with her classic 'do not use that tone of voice! Detention!' She answered "I do not know." I'm pretty sure I heard her mumble "hopefully soon". Very classy.

To my surprise, no one picked on me. I don't know if it's because of the way I'm dressed and acting but I have a pretty good feeling why.

It's pretty obvious these kids and teachers hate the new arrivals. Okay let's not be stupid here. My brothers run this school, no doubt about it, so it's only fitting to act like it to show them we are superior. And since I'm a White now, I'm now apart of that monarchy. The only reason why they aren't picking on me is because they want to show them that we're better than them and to do that, we have to act the part. All of us.

Once the bell rang I went to my respective classes. As if the whole school knew what was going on, they treated me like a queen. Even Casey backed down. It was so weird. Whenever I saw a 'rival' kid I scrunched up my nose and shook my head. Lunch came around pretty fast and Audrey and Evan were quick to let me sit with my brothers.

I sat at the boy's table. My brothers acted like they controlled everyone here and I mean, they kinda do.

Kenzer was quick to make small talk with me. Occasionally we would whisper and look over to the table where the kids from the other school were. Damn it! How in the world could they be able to snatch a table almost as good as ours? Reminds me of Friday the 13th.

Suddenly, while I'm drinking my mint chocolate chip milkshake, I see Donavon. He sees me and get a look of shame on it. How freaking rude. He dare shames me?! Does he not know all the shame I have gone through?

I rolled my eyes though what I wanted to do was go to a bathroom stall and cry my eyes out. But I couldn't do that. Not while I have gone this far into this little prank. We are way to far gone to back out. If there's one thing I learned from living with my brothers is that once we do something, we finish. Never do something

half-ass.

I laughed casually at some joke that wasn't even remotely funny. The bell rang, signaling lunch was over. I pushed my chair out and stood up. Evan and Audrey strutted behind me. Honestly I felt like Regina George.

The rest of the day went by in a flash. Not that I'm complaining. All of this, this mean girl façade is totally not my style. I'm meant to be the background character. The main characters best friend if you will. All of this attention is really tiring. How do the girls not have under eye bags? Probably because their daily night and morning routine is about 30 minutes long. And that's just for their skin. Who knows how long their shower is?

We stepped out of the car and I swear I could've passed out then and there. I don't know how I'm going to last another 4 days since thanksgiving break will be soon. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite Holiday. Period.

Normally I would go up to my room and do my homework there but since being the new Regina George has tired me out so much I just dropped my bag and laid down on the couch. So... very... soft... I began to fall asleep but was awoken by the sound of my third eldest brother. "Hey! Wake up! You've got homework." I jumped awake and hit my head on his and we both simultaneously grimaced.

"What the hell? What was that for?" I asked  indecorously.

"Watch your mouth!", Caden chastised.  I gave him a 'are you freaking kidding me' look and scoffed. "Anyways I just wanted to let you know that Luke and Zack are out on business or whatever. I don't really know the details. Basically I'll be watching you for the rest of the week."

Oh c'mon. We both know that it's about their mafia. It's so funny how they haven't found out that I know. Well I mean I guess I can thank Kai for that. He surprisingly kept of his promise.

"You mean Sasha will be watching us for the rest of the week?", I put in. "Oh c'mon. You don't really expect me to believe that you would actually watch us. When you're in charge all havoc unleashes." I give his offended face a deadpanned look.

He scoffed. "Actually no, no she won't be here. She has to go do something for college. So yes Lidia, I will be watching you so behave yourself!"

I rolled my eyes. We all know that dinner tonight will just be Chinese Takeout. No doubt about since apparently Luke has given the cook a vacation week. Not that I'm mad or anything. He definitely needed that vacation I'm just frustrated that he couldn't wait after the 'business trip'. Oh gosh. The rich life is getting to my head. Shit.

Too comfortable and too lazy to get up to my room I just stayed on the couch and did my homework there.

Halfway through my math paper I heard a certain conversation where one side was yelling. The twins's side. "-ou don't get it! They have to leave!" Jesse hollered at the phone.

"Jesus Jesse, we can hear you." Zack said.

"Then why aren't you freaking listening!" He yelled even louder.

"Excuse me.", the boys still continued to yell at their older brothers. "Excuse me!", they both looked at me. "Thank you. Now if you don't mind, I would like to really get this math done. Thank you."

"Hey Lidia you tell them!" Jesse says, very loudly I might add.

"Tell them what?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Tell them to kick those Florian Scum out of our school. They need to freaking leave now and if they don't so help me god I will bash those sons of bitches face i-" James says. Well more like rants but who cares?

Luke interrupts with the clearing of his voice. "That's enough thank you. Now if you excuse me we have actual problems. And plus, aren't you supposed to be complaining about this to Caden? I mean he is the law expert."

The twins ohhed and said their goodbyes. Thank heavens. "Lids, nice talking to ya but we have to go. Later." Jesse waved.

I mumbled a 'bye' and continued on with my homework like a good kid.

As I predicted since I'm practically always right, we had Chinese Takeout. I mean, when am I not right? I was right about the mafia thing, my brothers having a black hole for a stomach, and uh... so much more!... I think.

Before I stepped into the shower I vigorously  scrubbed all of the makeup off my face. Wow. I looked like a whole different person. If you're wondering when I did all my extra makeup, I did it in the girls bathroom. I know, so cool.

After my long, long, shower I laid my head to rest. What a tiring freaking day. First I wake up practically wanting to kill myself and then I act like somebody I totally am not and now this? This is too much to handle for one person.

I laid in my bed and gazed up at the ceiling. Eventually sleep overtook me and I fell into a state of unconsciousness. I woke up feeling some energetic even though it was about 3 in the morning. I  walked down the stairs and to my luck, I tripped. Lucky me. I strolled into the kitchen to go raid the fridge and saw someone who I should've, but didn't expect to see. James.

I sighed, not even wanting to know why he was dressed like he was the leader of a motorcycle gang. I just opened the fridge and saw some left overs someone had put in there.

"Soooooooo. How was your day?" James asked.

I snorted. Did he really just say that? "I'm pretty sure you were there with me for like 3/4 of the day but overall pretty stressful. I had no idea that being such a brat was so tiring." I said with a slight smile.

He chuckled. "Really?"

"Yep. That must be why you're tired all the dang time." I retorted with a cheeky smile adorning my face.

"Watch it. I won't hesitate to smack you." He said.

I flinched. Like visibly flinched. I know, I know 'why the hell would she do that? She's supposed to not flinch'. Well try being tired and having to do stupid freaking math.

"Why did you flinch?" He asked, a bit of darkness beginning to swirl in his eyes.

My mind immediately went to the thing I know best; lying. "Well when someone tells you they're gonna smack you you're going to have some type of reaction." I chuckle.

"Huh. Okay.", He looks at my shoulder where my sleeve was covering it but riled up due to the fact of me tripping down the stairs on the way here, "Hey, what's that?" He pointed to my shoulder.

"Oh this? Ha. It's just a little scar. What about it?" I give a fake chuckle.

"Well it looks like it's from a knife." He says.

I finally looked down snd saw one of my very, very old scars. Probably the third one I ever got. It ran from my neck- barely missing my jugular- all the way to the beginning of my armpit.

"It's from a piece of metal. I was walking and playing in the woods one day and turns out there was a piece of metal and I just cut myself. Not a big deal." I gave him a fake smile.

He just nodded his head in agreement. "Well Lidia, it was nice talking to you but, I have to go take a shower," he began to walk but suddenly stopped and turned around, "I was never here."

I chuckled. Him and Jesse could act just like each other sometimes. Whether it be Jesse acting like James or James acting like Jesse. That's a tongue twister.

I jogged up the steps, carrying a small bottle of tea. Who doesn't like tea? I made sure not to trip this time. I set my tea down and searched for my diary. This had to be put in there. I don't think I have ever said that big and smart of a lie ever. Plus it was as if I knew the answer straight away!

Dear diary,

Today was tiring. These kids from our 'rival' school are supposedly staying with us. My brothers, being the top dogs they are, made me dress up like Casey. I know! Why would they do that to me?

I got hungry so I went downstairs to raid our fridge but with my luck, I tripped down them instead. I saw James most likely coming from a party of some sort. We talked but guess what? He saw one of my oldest scars! He asked about it but I have him one of the best lies I have ever done; I told him it was by metal. We both know Carl did it.

Love,

Lidia White

I am sooooo sorry for not posting. School and reading on Wattpad has kept me busy. I found 2 really, really great books. They are

1) Catching Charlie

2) the butterfly effect

Read them! They are soooooooo good

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