THE BOY WAITING IN THE BLEACHERS was an odd spot in the assorted crowd of jocks and cheerleaders. As Kaelyn was being lifted into the air, she saw Peter looking at her. To be fair, most people were when she was the only girl, a girl with bright red hair nonetheless, being lifted fifteen feet in the air. She tried not to pay attention to him, she had bigger things to concentrate on right now like not falling and breaking something. However, there was something about Peter that made it hard for her to look away. Maybe it was knowing his giant secret, maybe it was the impending study session that would reveal just how stupid she felt she was, maybe it was a lot of things. Her life was already interesting enough, she didn't need Peter's secret weighing down on her soul. Maybe she should just delete the video of Peter. Kae wasn't the type of girl to stoop to blackmail, especially not when what she was getting from Peter was something she could have just asked nicely for. Then again, due to her social status at Midtown, Peter wasn't just someone she could approach without whispers winding their way through the halls. Peter was too nice to interact with someone like Kaelyn. Her rightful place was surrounded by cheerleaders and rich jocks, not the little smart kids like Peter.

In her distracted state, Kaelyn learned the law of what goes up, must come down because she was falling through the air. She seemed to forget she was at cheer practice in her state of mind, but someone else seemed to forget to catch her as well.

Kaelyn fell from grace, ironically she did not fall gracefully. A few girls scrambled to catch her, but the most they did was lessen the pain of the fall as she hit the ground, half landing on one of her teammates. The wind was knocked out of her, but nothing felt broken, so that was a plus. A few girls were holding in giggles, but Kaelyn was fuming.

Being helped up by Beth, she brushed herself off and immediately whipped around to face her teammates.

"Someone wanna tell me why the hell they felt it best to abandon their post? I could have broken something!" Kaelyn shouted, hopefully embedding fear into the hearts of her fellow cheerleaders, "Who was it? Who let me fall? If no one speaks up, I'm making all of you run laps in your Keds and kill your calves, how does that sound?"

"Bitch," was muttered among the crowd, but Kaelyn did her best to ignore it.

Beth, standing loyally at the redhead's side, cleared her throat and announced, "It was that little brunette right there, I saw her step away, completely on purpose!"

The crowd cleared to reveal Brittany, one of the freshmen who was lucky enough to make it to varsity this year. Although she was only a year older, Kaelyn was the captain due to the fact she had been in cheer since she was about seven-years-old. Beth joined her a year later. Earning respect from the seniors and juniors had been hard, but the freshmen had always been terrified of her.

"What?" Brittany looked around at the other girls, hoping someone would claim it was them, but her hope was wasted as no one did. "It, it wasn't me!"

"Yeah, right," Kaelyn scoffed, stepping closer to the girl in an attempt to intimidate the younger girl, "I know you hate me. Aren't you the one who spread the rumor I hooked up with half the football team even though everyone knows Caden made sure none of them were allowed to touch me without getting their hands cut off?"

Brittany looked down, "I- maybe."

"So, it makes sense, doesn't it? That you, the second lightest girl here, would want me out of the picture so you could be the flyer for a night?" Kaelyn posed the question to the rest of the girls, who all considered the statement before nodding. "Run laps. For the rest of practice."

"But that's another hour!" she protested, her voice a high-pitched whine.

Stepping closer with every word, in a deadly serious tone, Kaelyn asked, "Did. I. Stutter? Laps. Now."

With a cry, the girl took off running. Everyone watched as she sprinted around the track. For a moment, Kaelyn watched with a satisfied smirk before turning back to her team. "Now, where were we?"

"Don't you think you were a little rough with that girl at practice?" Peter asked as they walked next to each other to the library where their study session was going to take place. "I mean, you didn't get seriously hurt, did you?"

"Peter, I think it's best for both of us if we keep the conversation limited to Geometry, okay?" the redhead spoke bluntly, always eager to get her point across, "We aren't friends, you don't get to tell me how to act. And for your information, even though it's none of your business, I'm rough with my girls because if I'm not, they won't respect me and follow me as a captain. Also, the freshman like to think they're all big and bad because they're high schoolers, so someone must put them in their place."

The boy just shrugged, "I mean, can't you just like... kill them with kindness?"

"Kindness and I don't get along," the girl said with a sigh, "I thought you would have grasped that by now, Peter. Now, can we please just focus on Geometry? This test is going to kick my ass if you don't help me."

"You know, you could have just asked me to help you study, you didn't need to blackmail me," Peter rolled his eyes as they reached the library and settled down at a table, "I mean, you may be unapproachable, but that doesn't mean I am."

"Oh, so he does bite," Kaelyn mused, cracking open her textbook to the chapter they were testing on the next day. "You might think I'm some unapproachable bitch, Peter, but I assure you, there's a reason I am the way I am. There is so much more to me than you will ever know, but right now, you just stay sitting pretty with your assumptions. I would recommend you don't cross me, though, Peter because people who end up on my bad side rarely get back into the good light with me and I have something that could effectively ruin your life, remember that, Spider-Man?"

Peter's eyes widened, "Keep your voice down! Let's just, let's just talk about Geometry, okay? If, if you pass your test will you delete the video?"

Kaelyn shrugged, "If I feel like it. Who knows what else I might need you for?"

There must be a little bit of twisted kindness in her heart, though, because under the table, out of Peter's sight, Kaelyn's fingers were dancing across the screen of her phone and into her camera roll. She swiped through until she found the video from that night, her finger tapping on the small trash can icon and deleting the video. However, her kindness was twisted, as she neglected on telling Peter this. She was going to make him believe he owed her as long as she wanted. Maybe this was a sick thing to do, but Kaelyn was never one to deny it.

I don't know if you could tell, but I did not know how to end this chapter lmao! Oh well, I hope you guys liked the little perspective of her character when she's not with her brother or Beth, which is pretty much how must of the school thinks she is. Gah, I'm so excited to get really in depth with her character! I think you guys are gonna love her! In my opinion, she's already one of my favorite oc's of mine!