Demon Beside Me

Chapter 12

I am such a Flirt

I went right to sleep after he left me, but for some reason I wasn’t sad when I closed my eyes. I was happy. I was so very happy. It was like my life felt good for this one small moment.

Waking up that morning I didn’t feel so bad. I felt good honestly. I know that I shouldn’t feel so great, but I did. Krad had made me feel good.

I got ready to go to school and even put my hair in a high ponytail knowing it was different style that Kate would have hit me for.

After I got dress in some black jeans and my red top I went down stairs to get ready for Mindy to come pick me up.

“You’re going to school to I see.” I heard my mom say to me and as I walked into the kitchen to grab something quick to eat.

“Why wouldn’t I be?” I caught her eyes and frowned. “I know mom look I am fine ok.”

“You where fine when Kate died and now you are fine now that Bill and his wife is gone.” She said looking at me tightly. “If you don’t talk about these things and just take a break, your feelings will eat at you dear.”

“I’m fine mom, really.” I tell her.

She sighed. “Fine Minnie, go to school then. Your brother went you might as well.”

My phone vibrated and I saw that it was a text from Mindy saying she was outside. I smiled happy that this was a good reason to leave my mom in the kitchen.

“Bye mom, Mindy is outside.”

“Hmm.” Was all she said and I turned to leave.

Mindy was sitting in her car when I came outside in a rush. She was twisting her hair in her fingers and looked like she was in a daze. I smiled at her when I opened the car door and got in. She looked at me and smiled brightly.

“Are you ok?” She asked as she drove out from in front of my house. “I tried calling you and when you didn’t answer I called your house phone, that’s when your mom told me what happened, I’m so sorry.” She paused as if she could have said too much. “Jake has been asking about you to. He says he has been calling you too.” She seemed happy with adding that little information.

“Sorry. I had to go to his wake and everything, so I really haven’t been in this world for a moment.” I told her feeling like I was lying.

I was telling the true. I had been out of it for a few days and I had gone to wake, so why did I feel like I was lying.

“How was it?”

“It was ok I guess.”

“You know you can talk to me if you want to.” Mindy said softly almost as if she wasn’t sure why she had said that. “I mean not saying that you need to talk about this or anything just-”

“Mindy thanks.” I smiled at her looking at her happily.

I was so glad that I still had Mindy throughout all of this. She was the only person who came close to being a friend and I hoped that soon we could be real friends, that soon she would see I am not going to be like Kate and she could tell me things just like I wanted to tell her things.

Mindy face held a small smile then she bit her lip.

“I need to talk to you about something that has been going on at school, since you have been gone.” She said all at once as if she was scared to tell me.

“What’s been happening at school?” I asked with a sigh.

I really didn’t care what was happening. School seemed like it was the least of my problems with Kate being gone and no longer running the show. School felt freer, I felt freer.

“It’s Stephenie.” Mindy said as if she was about to tell a secret. “She has been going around acting like she is the Queen Bee or something. She’s telling people what to do and how to do it. I don’t know what to do. She started picking on Anne-I believe that’s her name-and she acted like Sara is the new Jena or something.”

“Why is she acting like that?” I asked seeing that we were about to pull up to the school.

“I don’t know maybe because she thinks you don’t have what it takes.” Mindy said as her car stopped in her parking spot. “She always hated that you were the new Queen Bee. She never knew why Kate really liked you and I will admit I didn’t either, but Stephenie said that she didn’t have to wait around until you got in line.”

We got out of the car and I felt the air hit my skin making me feel even angrier then I already was. Stephenie thought that she could just do mean things like Kate. I wasn’t going to have that.

Who did she think she was!?

I and Mindy walked into school she seemed quiet all of a sudden. I wasn’t sure why but I got the feeling that she didn’t want me or Stephenie to see each other, but I didn’t care. I walked down the school hallway and I knew I was going to talk to Stephenie as soon as I saw her.

Her picture made me stop in my tracks. Kate. Her picture was on the wall surrendered by other pictures of her when she was little, when she was with family, and even when she was with me.

I stared at the picture of her and me in fount of the lake smiling looking happy. I wanted to cry all of a sudden. I didn’t even care about Stephenie right then; all I cared about was that Kate was gone and it was all my fought.

“Not really. I think I had something to do with that.” Kate said to me as water felled my eyes. I didn’t say anything just kept looking ahead at our picture. “What the hell Minnie, you’ll look uglier if you cry.”

“I already feel ugly.” I whispered.

“What did you say?” Mindy asked not looking at Kate for a second.

“Nothing.” I blinked my tears back.

“Here comes Stephenie.” Mindy grinned but it didn’t meet her eyes. This made me wonder was there more to her little story about with her and Stephenie talking.

“Hey bitches.” She yelled when she got to us.

This was when I first noticed she was different. She looked different to. Her once curly red hair was now straightened and she even seemed to have added hair to make it look more thick and full. Her clothes were even different. She always had on nice labels, but never something flashy like right now. That was more Kate style. I stared at her not understanding why she changed.

“Minnie, I was trying to call you, you know, but I know all that stuff was happening with you.” She said as if what had happened was nothing more than a miner cold. I rolled my eyes at her and shook my head.

“Steph how have you been.”

She eyed me briefly at calling her that. I knew she even bit her tongue and acted as if it didn’t bother her, I wondered why.

“Doll I have been good. Better than most it seems.”

You little witch. I thought knowing full well she was talking about me. Mindy watched me out the corner of her eyes and even let her eyes glace across Stephenie face.

“Well that’s good to hear, but I think you should take a break.” I told her. She was trying to call me out in front of the now watching eyes.

Mindy wasn’t lying not that I had ever thought she was, but I knew that right now Stephenie was not going to let me get away with this. She wanted to be the Queen Bee and could tell she wanted it badly. I should have known this was coming.

She had always wanted to be Kate just like I did. She never wanted to be just a part of the royal court she wanted to be the head.

It was like the school was a snake and Kate had been the head, but sense the head had been cut off I was the one to take the head place, but another wanted to be that place. I knew that the saying was two heads are better than one, but what if one of those heads does not want the same things as the other.

“I don’t think that I can.” She said sweetly. Her eyes then went to look at the picture of Kate and she laughed. “That bitch didn’t have what it took and neither do you.”

I glared at her as she turned to walk away from me. I followed her and felt Mindy behind me. I pushed her into the bathroom and yelled out to anyone who was in the bathroom. I saw all of the girls who where in the bathroom leave quickly and Stephenie shook her head at me.

“What do you think you are doing?” I yelled at her. “I thought Kate was your friend and now you are saying that-”

“She was never my friend. That perfect whore had it all and yet in still she killed herself. She is so sad and I hate her. I always did. Now look at you, you are trying to act like you are little miss perfect, Queen Bee and all, but you aren’t. You don’t have it Minnie. I mean you still are plain and dumb no matter what you do to yourself. I see that you are wearing your hair different and have make up on, but you are still plain.”

Ignoring her crazy last statement I walked to Stephenie who was now on the wall and had her arms folded. She looked angry and I didn’t care one bit.

“Who do you think you are? Kate?” I asked when she opened her mouth to say something else. She paused and looked as if she could not believe I had just asked her that. “Steph you have it all to. You are beautiful, you have a great boyfriend, ok grades, have parents you love you and give you everything you want, and yet you want more. You wish you where Kate, stop being greedy.”

“Don’t act like you are all prefect. What about you huh! You hated Kate to and you Mindy what about you, you never really cared much for her either.”

“Look stop being mean to Anne.” I told her remembering what Mindy had told me.

“What the fuck!? That is a loser Minnie.”

“I don’t care what you think. Just leave her alone.”

“I bet you don’t even know what she looks like.”

“Yes I” I paused trying to think. Anne wasn’t she like a blond or red blond maybe. I couldn’t picture her, but knew I had to have seen her before. The name sounded filmier or maybe I was making myself think it sounded filmier.

“See I knew it. You’re just like the rest of us, Minnie. You think you are better but you’re not. You’re just like us.” She said then looked at Mindy. “Just like us. Anne is ugly and plain, so I can’t help it if I want to tell her that and Kate dead stuff would to. What’s Anne real name Minnie?”

I stared at her and looked at Mindy for a few seconds seeing that she didn’t know either.

“See you two are trying to point the finger at me. You are so dumb. Don’t you know everyone calls her Anne because she looks like Raggedy Anne?”

I stared at her. Just like when everyone called me Plain Jane.

“You didn’t think you where the only one with a nick name, did you plain Jane.” She laughed in my face.

I slapped her and began to hit her. I grabbed her arm and led her to the toilet. She was screaming as I pushed her head into the toilet.

“Stephenie, you need to be nice to Minnie.” Mindy told her pulling me from my dream. I saw Stephenie smile. “And what you said about Kate was mean. Talking about how her like the way you are. Kate was our friend and what you are doing…..”

“Is doing just what she would have if she was alive.” Stephenie said cutting her off. “Now I am late for English.” She tossed her hair and left.

Mindy stared at me biting her lip. She was waiting for me to say something I supposed, but I didn’t I just walked passed her and out of the bathroom. I ran down the hall. I wasn’t going to class right now. I couldn’t I just wanted to leave. I wanted to be alone.

When I got out of the school I ran to the lot that was across the street and set under the tree. I wanted to just fall out. I wanted Krad.

He would make me happy.

“You are skipping?”

I looked up and saw Jake staring at me with those beautiful warm brown eyes of his so different from Krad, but still so beautiful.

Yeah I was in love with Krad, but I still could think that another guy was really handsome. That was not cheating.

“I guess.” I said not knowing how my voice sounded so like myself when I wasn’t feeling anything like myself. “You to huh?”

“Looks that way.” He said and sat down right by me. I stared ahead not knowing what to say as we set there for a few moments in quiet. I needed to say something to him. “Minnie how have you been?”

He soon said breaking my thoughts.

“I’ve been good. I could be doing better.” I tried to give him the most honest answer I could. I wanted to tell him the whole truth, but didn’t want to annoy him.

“Mindy told me about what happened to your father and your step mother.” He said. “You must be having a hell of a month. I mean with Kate dying only almost a month ago.”

I frowned knowing what he was saying was true. I should be going through stuff, but I wasn’t at all or at least I wasn’t going though anything bad. I don’t know why.

“I’ll be fine. Believe me.” I said with my eyes closing.

“You don’t really look fine.” He said. This made me look up and into his eyes. I stared into them trying to see myself, but I didn’t. All I saw was nothing. It was as if I could no longer see myself. “You look different to. I can’t place it. Your clothes or maybe your hair, did you change your hair?”

“It’s longer than I’ve had it before.” I told him thinking that my hair must have made me look different.

Stephenie had thought I was wearing makeup, but I wasn’t. Did I really look different or was it that since I was Queen Bee everyone saw something different. Then again was I still the Queen Bee.

“That’s what it is.” He said as if he was telling himself that.

I stared at him and soon looked away. I didn’t want to talk about how I felt or what I looked like anymore. I wanted to go to class now. There I could at least focus my mind on something other than my life.

“I was wondering if you wanted to go out this weekend.” He said after a few moments.

I looked at him and sighed. “I can’t. I am kind of seeing someone.”

As I watched his face I saw that he didn’t looked happy with that bit of information. He looked sad and slightly put off.

“I am sure he won’t get to mad if you do something with a friend.” He told me as I laughed at him.

“I’m sure he would, in fact I know he would.” I responded remembering how Krad acted when he saw me and Jake talking to each other before.

“Please Minnie, don’t make me beg. But I will if I have to.” He said I told him to stop as I laughed when he began to beg for me to go out with him.

“Look I’ll think about it.” I finally said.

“I like that answer better then the first one.” He smiled.

“I’m not making any promises.” I said to him knowing the only reason I had said that was to get him to stop trying to ask me out.

Maybe if he saw Krad and how he acted Jake would just leave going out with me alone. I thought biting my lip. I mean I did still think he was cute and it was so weird to finally get him to ask me out and not to have it be a day dream, but real.

I had dreamed of this for so long and part of me was kind of sad that I had to say no, but another bigger part of me was happy, because I had a guy who I really loved.

“I need to go to class.”

“I thought you were skipping.” He asked with his eye brow going up. He looked sad.

“Yeah I was but, I have missed too much anyways.” I told him.

He shook his head. “Your right we’ll be seniors soon, so we should be going to school more often.”

“I didn’t say that.” I laughed

“Let me walk you to class.”

I grinned. He was so nice.

A/N: Thanks for the reviews. I think you all of you who like Krad will like the next chap. (Just a hint) lol (back to back update!)

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