Rivalry

07. Comrade Kisses

Monica's POV:
"What It Is Hoe,What's U-"

"Could you be any louder Williams? "

"Every good girl needs a little thug YEAH! Every bad boy nee-"

"MONICA WILLIAMS! I pray you shut up!"

I heard a faint call. Not once, but twice. I ignored the first cry of my name, estimating that my ears were probably ringing due to the stress of 'upcoming' exams(which were aeons away, as Sin claimed) and the project deadline that I was nearing, with little to no progress.

Well, I wouldn't mind if I was hallucinating either, for that matter. My mental health had always been haywire, thanks to my friends. Mental stability? Nah, that sounds foreign. Never heard of it.

Deranged? Yeah definitely. I am a proud dictionary of 'deranged'
I mean, I could give you it's entire 'biography', if you feel like giving it a shot. Heavenly experience, it is, I must assure.

Err, jokes apart.
Well, now I could seriously hear someone calling out my name. Guess, noise cancellation wasn't a real thing after all, was it? I made a mental note to sue the earphone brand after I'm done dealing with 'this'.

I ripped out the earphones from my ears and whipped around, only to be greeted by the godly presence of..... Emily Rhodes?

"Emily? Oh how can I help you? Is there anything you want to convey?" I enquired, trying to ease out the situation after noticing her exasperated expression.

"Oh please. Keep the goodness to yourself. However, can you KINDLY-" She emphasized "-keep it down. This is a library and as far as I remember, you don't own it either. " Emily accused.

Here we go again.

" Oh I am so sorry Emily. I did not realize that me, humming a song, in my own little space caused you some problem, out of all the other presentees here. " I gritted, clearly irked but not enough to lunge at her. Who does she think she is? Rihanna or Beyonce?

"Well it did disturb my concentration out of all the people present here, because, well, we both are aware that I happen to be the only mortal with a brain, here. " Emily stated, smirking.
"Of course, how could I not realize this sooner? Emily-with-brain-size-of-a-peanut. " Now it was my turn to smirk.

To say the least, Emily Rhodes was visibly taken aback. Her eyes widened, lips parted, as if, she wanted to say something—something extremely crude and nasty.

Alas, she couldn't. She couldn't risk her facade. Even if she got her massive ego crushed and levelled by someone so ordinary.

Regaining her composure, Emily said stuttering "A-atleast it's larger than yours"
"Oh sure, Sherlock. "

Emily's POV:
How the hell could she?!
How in the fucking name of Hades could Monica Williams, a peasant, cross me? Me. Emily Rhodes?
And I couldn't even say much to her? If there was someone else in her place, I can assure that I would have destroyed them. Yes. Destroy.

Words are by far the most powerful weapon known to mankind. They can build you up to be the most powerful being. But they can also bring you down to the level of a petty fly.

I have gotten enough faith in myself and my words to absolutely crush a person to the soil. I can break them so minutely, that it will take aeons for them to move on from that selflessness and regain their balance in life. Human psyche is a feeble thing and can be manipulated by a snap of my fingers.

Monica Williams? Hah, she was no match to the power I hold. I am sure of that. It's fact. Take Aria Meadows for example. That foolish girl cannot even take a step without me now.

But what's wrong with me? These few days however, I have caught myself thinking about her more often. More than I'd like to admit. She's been invading my mental space more frequently than she should. I find myself thinking about her even when I am STUDYING?! It is exasperating, honestly. And what's more disgusting, is that, I can't figure out why she's been on my mind.

She is distracting me. That I am sure of. She must be doing this on purpose to deviate me from my goal. Of course she and her little friend were scared that I might absolutely overthrow them this year. But distracting me for that? That was a bit too much, wasn't it. Atleast I knew Monica Williams to be a person who respected work ethics and fair rivalry.

But appearances could be deceptive. And judging by her company of friends, their shallow conversations, deranged behaviour and mentality, I wouldn't be surprised. Birds of a feather flock together. And it was only normal for Monica to be exactly like her friends. It was just me who was rating her as being slightly more decent than the rest.

No one's POV :-
"HELLO? Earth to Emily." Monica waved her hand in front of Emily's face with a funny expression
Emily broke out of her trance and swallowed. Monica had already packed her belonging which were now stacked properly in her arms and her bag swung over her right shoulder.

"Huh? What?" Emily asked regaining her mental stability

"I said, will it be possible for you to get the papers of my AI assignment from the lab today? I left those there on my table yesterday and forgot to take it back home. I won't be going there today. So err, could you do it. No problem if you ca-"

"I will bring those to you by recess. Where will you be then? " Emily asked interrupting Monica.

"Huh? O-oh okay fine. I will be in the canteen itself. Thank you so much, I'm sorry for the trouble" Monica said awkwardly, visibly taken aback by Emily's decision to help her. She expected some rude remarks, but was surprised to be greeted with a acknowledgement instead. Emily simply nodded.

"Okay then, I'll see you at recess. Bye" Monica said turning around and stalking out of the library, without waitin for a reply. Emily's eyes remained fixed to her retreating figure until Monica was entirely out of sight. Then she shook her head and resumed her reading.

Monica's POV :
"Heyyy gurli- Oh my god oh my god I'm so sorry- WAIT WHAT?" I had just walked in on a couple kissing.

While, I shouldn't be surprised, as Lady Queen High has couples absolutely eating each other's faces literally in every square foot of its campus, but I couldn't decipher what I had just witnessed.

I mean two girls were kissing but these two girls were Sienna Reynolds and Angelina Morgan respectively. Yeah.

SIENNA REYNOLDS AND ANGELINA MORGAN?!?!

MY BEST FRIENDS WERE KISSING!?

Where is Anastasia I need some mental support right now, lest I fall.

"Mou we can explain- it's not what it looks like- I-I her- we-I mean-" Angelina stuttered sitting up from Sienna's lap in a giffy. Sienna looked equally embarrassed.

Both of them turned red as tomatoes clearly not expecting to get caught in the act by none other than me.
My eyes kept glancing between both of them, searching there faces for any sign of an explanation but I stopped. As tempting as it was to bombard them with incessant questions, I held back my excitement and put on a serious expression.

"We will talk about this later. I'll get Anastasia during recess. You both clearly have some explaining to do. " I completed, my expression, terse, instructions, crisp.

I was bubbling with excitement inside. I was so happy for them. But concerned, though-about Anna's choices.

Well considering Sienna's extreme 'playgirl' nature and short-term interests, it was difficult for her to settle down.

I just hoped that the both of them knew what they were doing.

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Author's Note

Well I am so sorry for not posting for two weeks. I am so sorryyyyy my beautiful readers, 😭 I promise to be more frequent now. My finals were going on and I was swamped 💀🤡
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