This chapter is dedicated to olabbosy for showing support and also being a fanfuckingtastic friend

ALISHA'S P.O.V

Zarha Alonso, Head cheerleader, Most popular girl in school, Queen of mean and the list goes on.

She was slightly taller than me, had brown eyes, long blonde hair,high cheek bones, puckered lips and a well sculpted face.

She was not curvy instead she was slim. The perfect picture of a flawless model.

She also had her minions with her,Demi Saunters and Maya Williams. They were  beautiful but for some or other reason not as beautiful as Zarha.

Zarha had her fine leg on my books,looking at me with hatred and mockery in her eyes.

"Look girls,what do we have here" she said while I looked at the floor like it was the most fascinating thing in the world.

"You're a loser."she shook her head as if to say no and said "Scratch that, you're a pathetic loser."

As if she was just looking at a pile of shit, she shook her head and walked away. A few tears threatened to spill and they did.

I keep telling myself that I shouldn't be surprised because this was how my life worked.

Come to school, get humiliated, cry and then go home.

I picked up my books and went out of the class, almost running. Trying so hard to get to my biology class before the bell rings.

Winston high has very long hallways. I was only halfway to my biology class when Ms Gayle's voice came through the speakers calling for all students to gather for a special announcement.

Why did I have this feeling I knew what this was about?

Because you do, honey. Because you do...

I hushed my ever taunting self conscious as I turned on my heel in the direction of the assembly hall.

I was in the assembly hall with probably everyone in the whole school watching Ms Gayle stand on the podium.

"Good afternoon Students," she started, getting every ones full attention.

"I am proud to announce to you that the school board has selected our representatives for this years course choice competition among our final year students."

The hall applauded.

"These two students are Alisha Brown and Zarha Alonso."

I was shocked.

My tormenter was my rival now?

Good job universe, once again when I thought my life couldn't get any worse, you found a way to make me eat my own damn words. Just great.

"Could you two come up on stage please?"

Zarha was already halfway when I started to move to the stage.

We were finally up the stage and I heard Zarha murmur something like"You've gotta be kidding me."

You and me both, sister...

The announcement was over and Ms Gayle left the hall.

As I was about to leave, Zarha called me back.

"Wait, don't go."She went to the podium.

"You all know my rival in this competition, Alisha Brown, the dark skinned bitch."

I stood frozen.

"She really tried though. Whatever can you expect from someone who doesn't have a social life or a boyfriend?"

Don't cry, we've been through this. Only one year and you'll be fine.

Don't give in to the tears, don't let her win...

It was too late for all that because hot tears spilled form my eyes and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't stop the tears from flowing and at this point every ones eyes were on me.

"Even her parents can't deal with her."

At that, my heart plummeted with a loud thud in my chest.

She continued on."They left her and went away. Now the only things she has are her books and her horrible body."

At this point, every one was either laughing, standing in awe or giving me looks of fake sympathy.

I ran out of there as fast as I could. I couldn't even see where I was going,
I just knew I had to get out of there.

I ran into the first door I could see through my blurry and now burning eyes.

Luckily, it was a bathroom.

I entered one of the stalls locked it, removed my glasses and cried, cried to my hearts content.

Fear coursed through me when I heard the sound of the bathroom door being opened.

I really didn't want to know who it was.

I just wanted to go home and sleep off this horrible day. Maybe if I slept hard enough, the horrible nightmare of a day would go away and leave me alone but sadly that was never the case when it came to me.

It had been like that since I started high school.

Being humiliated was something that I had welcomed with unwilling arms.

Whether I liked it or not, it was going to happen and there was nothing I could say or do about it because Zarha was right.

Put in her words exactly, "You're a pathetic loser." I said to my self conscious.

I finally put an end to my mental damnation, took a deep breath, wiped my tears and walked out the bathroom and once again Ladies and gentlemen, I managed to humiliate myself without anyone having to do it for me this time.

A boy was in the bathroom. I was shocked, to say the least but now that I wasn't crying I got a better look at my surroundings.

There were stalls, yes like in a normal girls bathroom but girls bathrooms don't have urinals in them.

Then the realisation hit me like a brick in the face, I was in the boys bathroom and this boy just saw me come out of one of the stalls and was looking at me like a freak.

I couldn't say I blamed him. I would call me a freak too if I found myself in this kind of situation.

Ergo, I did the most rational thing any human  being would have done in such circumstances.

I ran.

Getting over my paralyzing shock, I brushed past him and bolted out of there as fast as my legs could carry me.