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I didn't have any time to check any of the other clubs on the first floor and I wouldn't take the risk after witnessing the Fan Boy's Club. I guess I just had to find the club I want to join here on the second floor.

Walking down the corridor I almost bump into a figure exiting one of the rooms.

It was Daniel.

His eyes widen when he sees me standing there and only then I realize the sign beside the door that read: Sports Club.

"Charlie," he says through a pleased yet surprised breath.

"Oh hey..." I trail off. I know what this looks like; he probably thinks I was actually considering joining the Sports Club.

I mean it was kind of tempting because I did need to stay in great shape, but the thought of spending the rest of freshman year with the boy who kind of ruined my relationship with Alex wasn't.

"You reconsidered joining the Sports Club?" Daniel asks, his eyes once again hopeful. I had to think of an excuse and quick.

"Actually," I drag out, my head frantically searching for something, anything. Finally, my eyes narrow in on the bold words beside the door down the hall.

The Drama Club.

"Actually I was thinking about joining the Drama Club." I turn back to look at him and his face falls.

I feel bad that he was really looking forward to me joining his Club but oh well...

Suddenly, a girl exits the Drama room. She was short and chubby and would've reminded me of my old self back in high school if it wasn't for her long black hair.

"Oh, Patty! There you are!" I call out to the stranger just to get Daniel to back off.

The girl furrows her eyebrows before looking behind her and back at me. She was probably looking for Patty, which was the random name I just addressed her with.

"Do I know you-?"

Quickly I rush over to her, my hand looping with hers as I drag her back into the Drama Room, ignoring her short protests.

"See you later!" I call over to Daniel who was looking almost bemused. "Patty and I have a lot of work to do, busy busy!"

With a huff I slam the door shut behind me, my back slumping against the door.

It took me a moment to realize the short and chubby girl was still there, standing with almost fearful eyes beside her other club-mates who were, to my surprise, mostly girls.

Oh right.

I probably look like a lunatic on the run at this moment.

Before I could explain myself, a familiar person walks through the members, before standing before me with an amused look on his face.

"I always found you in the weirdest situations. Why are you always getting yourself into trouble Charlie?"

I grin up at Jack in complete happiness. Jack was in this club! Just my luck!

"You know her?" Patty asks with a dubious look on her face.

"Yeah she's a friend, we're in the same dorm building," he explains, his smile still fixed on me as he pulls me away from the door and to one of the chairs in the middle of the room. I gladly take my seat. "What're you doing here?"

"Well, Patty here convinced me to join the club," I explain, with a sheepish smile of my own.

"There's no Patty here," Jack laughs.

"She's referring to me, I think..." The short chubby girl says raising her hand awkwardly and I smile her way.

She doesn't return it and I don't mind as much.

"That's Mary Fuller," Jack shakes his head at me in a mixture of discouragement and amusement. I know I probably look insane but instead of explaining the Daniel situation I just shrug.

"I actually am interested in the Drama Club," I say truthfully, looking at Jack seriously before I glance at all of the other members.

They were an odd bunch. I could count the number of members on my fingers so I knew they wouldn't be reluctant to accept me.

"Well if you're sure," Jack shrugs, looking back to his fellow club members who also shrug. I think that was a good sign. "You're officially a member. We meet here around the same time and day every week."

"Great," I say, actually excited. I finally joined a club! Even though I knew absolutely nothing about drama or acting, I knew I was in for one hell of a ride.

...

Weeks pass by in a flash and I've even started to take my club seriously. It was a lot of fun. There were about 5 girls and 3 boys including Jack and I. The girls were really nice and actually looked up to me while on the other hand, the boys were extremely shy, which I didn't mind.

It was better that way, at least they weren't animals.

Getting upstairs was a battle on its own though.
The Fan Boys club was literally driving me insane.

"I'm going to talk to someone about that Club, this isn't normal," I told Mary as she helps me down the corridor and up the stairs, the other female members of my group trying to fight off Arnold, who was the ginger-haired Fan Boy from before.

Mary and I have gotten close over the weeks, she was really nice and I liked talking to her.

When we reached the last floor, hunching with our hands on our knees, completely out of breath, the other girls turned to me with looks of envy.

"How does it feel to have such attention, Charlie?" Mary asks seriously and I furrow my eyebrows at her question.

"We wish we were as beautiful as you sometimes." Riley, a tall and lanky girl says through a frown.

"Are you guys kidding me," I say with my hand on my hips. "You really don't want to be me right now. We should hurry to our room or Jack will kill us."

The girls follow after me and I can't help my thoughts from consuming me. I didn't like the way they said that. It was weird. It was almost like they thought I was happily basking in the attention.

I wasn't like that at all and I hoped they saw that. Even back when I was fat I didn't like the attention so they shouldn't be worried about that anyway.

I guess it did make me feel a little happier and confident about myself though...

I suddenly remember Clark's words. The attention either changes me for good or I have to become a stronger me and be able to get out of it alive.

...

"Alright see you next week guys!"

I call over to the rest of them as they wave back. Jack had already left and Mary and a couple of her friends had already left without me, they said we were going to hang out in the library but I guess I was going to catch up on some of my assignments on my own.

As I was walking down the stairs I feel the familiar stares of the horny boys of Central West.

Just as I push open the door to the building, freezing cold water is being dumped onto me from above. I gasp loudly as the wind blowing on my wet clothes makes my teeth chatter.

What the hell?

Slowly I turn around at the sound of laughter.

There stood Mary and her friends, laughing and giggling along with the members of the other Clubs. Even Arnold had his camera out, laughing as he took a picture of me in my soaking wet form. Guess that was going on the frame.

"W-what's going on?" I stutter.

"Such slut, look her bra is visible!" Mary surprises me by saying and I frown, still confused by the situation. "She planned this, the whole prank on her own because she's an attention-seeker."

The laughter, the stares, and the looks the girls in my Club were giving me. It feels like so much was going on, so much I couldn't grasp.

I looked down to see my hot pink bra was actually visible through my wet white t-shirt.

Quickly I find my arms covering my chest and my tears start to trail down my cheek.

"I didn't plan this," I try to make them understand but Mary doesn't let me have it.

"Yeah right. Stop acting like some sweet innocent girl without any motives, we know how arrogant and narcissistic you really are Charlie, unfortunately, you joined the same Club as us and we got the opportunity to know the real you." Mary says and I shake my head, begging her to stop what she was saying.

How could she do this?

Why was she doing this?

"She's a whore who craves the attention of males, just admit." Mary continues and she looks so very wicked. Her eyes, her crooked smirk as she speaks.

And to think I thought she reminded me of my old self in high school.

"She's still hot!" One boy says from the crowd that's gathered in front of me. The boys were still eyeing me like a piece of meat and I could see that it irritated the other girls but most of all Mary.

They didn't like the fact that I still had the attention.

Even if I didn't ask for it. They were willing to go to such lengths just to take the spotlight away from me.

Well, I hope they were happy now.

"But look what's she's done!" Mary protests against the boy's stares. "She's a slut, she craves the attention!"

Looks like her plan backfired and the boys seemed to notice me even more than before. My eyes meet familiar blue ones and Daniel's standing there, a look of pure shock on his face, unlike the rest of them.

Instinctively, my hands around my chest become tighter as Mary glares at me.

"I hope you got what you wanted," I tell her, and with that, I run out of the doors. I don't stop. I run and run as fast as my legs could carry me and I'm surprised by how fast I reach my dorm building.

I guess the exercise did pay off.

I don't stop running up the long staircase, my eyes burning from the hot thick tears pouring down my face and my feet feel like they are starting to swell but I don't stop.

I don't stop until a flat figure stops me.

I find myself falling backward, my butt hitting the ground with a thump as I groan. I don't look up until I see a hand reaching out for me. I take the hand and Jack lifts me up, a look of worry on his face.

"What happened to you? Are you okay?"

When he asks me this I break down completely, and he pulls me to him, despite my damp shirt wetting his in the process as hugs me.

I cry in his chest and he lets me.

I was such a cry baby.

"I'm leaving the Drama club." I find myself saying through a sob.

Jack pulls away to look at me when I say this. "What?!" He exclaims. "Why?"

"I'm sorry Jack, I was actually excited for the play you had planned but I realized it's just not for me." I lie through my teeth and Jack narrows his eyes at me.

"I don't understand. Everyone's going to miss you." He tells me and I stop the scoff erupting from the back of my throat.

Yeah right. I'm pretty sure Mary and the rest of them would be overjoyed.

"Where are you going to go?" He asks.

"The sports club," I say definitely. "It doesn't matter, it's just a club, and I'll still see you in lectures and stuff."

I pull away from Jack completely before he can say anything further and walk to my dorm room with a newfound determination.

Those girls thought they could break me because I was weak. I broke up with Alex to find myself and become a stronger and better me and there was no way in hell would I let myself continue being this way.

I needed to stop being such pushover, and I need to stop worrying about what everyone else thought about me. It was time I started fixing what I thought about me.

It was time to take Clark's advice and change completely because I knew that was the only way I would make it through the year.

Central West better watch out.

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Looks like Charlies tired of being pushed around, let's see how she decides to deal with her battles ;)

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