Carola realized the truth in that. She wasn’t exactly a wallflower, but she certainly did act as if no one here was up to the standards she had. And there always is an attraction in things you can’t have. Knowledge is power, and she intended to exploit both this power and all the knowledge she had.
But there was one thing she could not make sense of. ‘But you have always been nice to me, even when I haven’t ever reciprocated that?’ She could not understand how Natasha could continue to be civil towards her.

‘Well, let’s just say I am one of those girls who want to be you,’ Natasha replied nonchalantly. As if what she had said wasn’t a heart-to-heart confession.
‘Well, Nat – from this day on, we are friends. I am sorry for being so unfriendly when all you have ever been is nice to me, almost,’ Carola replied with a glint in her eyes and the promise of the resolve she was feeling.

Twenty minutes later, the two girls walked hand in hand in hallways as if they had been friends forever. Natasha had dismissed her minions a few minutes before, saying she finally had someone to talk to who surpassed both their IQs, and Carola only smiled at them.

She had to admit. Natasha wasn’t all as bad as she had always remembered her to be. But then again, she too could be hiding her natural face, and her true intentions like others had and were only using the right time to hurt her. Carola only sighed inwardly, scared at the idea of not being able to trust anyone again.
She shook those thoughts from her head. This was not the day she could relapse. She had things to do, enemies to terrorize, and make her presence known.
‘Oh hey, Nat, when are the cheerleading auditions? I was thinking that I would take part this year,’ Carola said as she was putting her stuff in her locker.

They had been to Natasha’s locker first, and she just assumed the girl was following her.
When she didn’t get her response, she noticed the girl in question scaring some freshmen, from her peripheral view, who by the looks of it looked as if they were about to pee their pants. Smiling, Carola turned around and stopped.
All humor vanished from her face as she stood in front of the bane of her existence.
‘Hey – I just wanted to thank you…’ But before Ella could say any further, Carola stopped her with her hands.