Power & Fragility

(1) Back to School

Aurora Grayson walks through the hallways of her school with her head held high, despite the fact that she's a grade A loser who's place at the bottom of the social ladder has been set in stone. If these people think she's going to break they have the wrong idea, she might not have a lot of friends but she has herself and as far as she's concerned that's good enough. Aurora doesn't care if everyone at this school treats her like a disease; okay…maybe that's not true. It does hurt her but she's only human for goodness sake, and for the most part she's able to put on a cold exterior like she doesn't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks of her. She's trying to not care but she finds herself constantly doing things to try to melt the ice between her and everyone else in this school.

She's not sure why the bullying started but it did and it's only grown and festered into something uglier as the years go by. She finds her escape and comfort in her singing, with a Broadway obsessed mother and a film history teacher as a father it shouldn't be surprising that she loves music and film as passionately as she does. She's been singing since she was a kid and she's extremely confident in this ability.

There's no doubt about it; Aurora knows that she's destined to be a star, she won't let anyone stand in her way. She's headstrong, stubborn, and conceited at times but she's not a bad person, her mother has told her that the people who pick on her are just jealous of her talents. As the students snicker at her and sneer their cruel comments she just ignores them, fighting back or crying only makes it ten times worse. She's been dealing with this since the fourth grade, it's going to take a lot more than someone calling her "an ugly dwarf" to break her down. She just rolls her eyes and keeps going about her day.

But despite her cold exterior, she's secretly nervous right now. Last year a tormenter of hers was Alexander Burgess, he couldn't do much to her physically since he skipped school most days but when he was forced to go he eased his boredom by constantly insulting her and hurtling sexually charged comments her way, now this year he would be returning and she could only hope he wouldn't stay for long at all. Aurora isn't scared of him though, he's just an immature jerk. She just doesn't want to deal with that bullshit. She's a little confused as to why she's so nervous, he picked on her yes but he'd hardly come to school anyway so he wasn't someone she had to deal with a lot.

But on the days he did come to school was hell, he'd been the first person to successfully make her cry since the sixth grade. And he'd walked around with a smug expression that whole day as if he'd cured a deadly disease or something. She normally wasn't so sensitive but she'd been having a bad week already, but surely he'd grown up a lot since then? And even if she hadn't, she was stronger than she was last year. Last year she'd been desperate to fit in and have friends now she didn't care as much. He was just a stupid reprehensible boy, she could handle him.

P.R. Deltoid is at the top of his least favorite people list right now, Alex is seething as his hands grip the steering wheel. He's already ten minutes late to his first day back but who cares? Between his droogs starting a revolution against his power and being forced to attend classes again with stupid uncultured idiots and revoltingly boring teachers while he could be out playing with girls and inflicting damage on innocent people; Alex is royally pissed off at the moment. He cuts someone off, his lips curling into a smile when he hears the other car skidding on the road and the driver screaming obscenities.

He would turn back and play with the poor man but he needs to stay on track so he keeps driving, he parks quickly and doesn't bother hurrying inside. "I need a late pass, darling" he informs the woman at the main office desk, she's in her thirties and has a bit of crush on him. He knows this and uses it to his advantage, he has no interest in giving her the old in out in out but he's perfectly fine sweet talking her when no one is around. She smiles at him, "Haven't seen ya in a while, little Alex" she comments as she fills out an index card and hands it to him. "You remember where Mr. Martin's class is?"

Alex nods as he walks out the door and makes his way to classroom B-21 for his History class. He smirks when he sees a familiar face, what's her name again? Abigale? Anna? No wait…Aurora that's it; "Hello there sweetheart, it's been such a long time since I've viddied that angelic litso of yours" she glares at him, "Haven't you got anything better to than harass me?" she snaps angrily, stepping around him. There's no one around and he grabs her shoulders and throws her against the lockers. It's been days since he'd hurt someone and she's the perfect target. "H-How dare you?" she stammers outraged, she's not afraid yet but she's furious and confused.

"What's wrong darling, too weak to put up a great bolshy britva against me?" he smirks down at her, she shoves at him and manages to push him away from her. "What is wrong with you? Now I'm late for class you ignoramous! Perhaps you should focus on actually passing your classes instead of shoving people around like a brain damaged gorilla" she snaps at him, oh she's feisty isn't she? "Ah-ta-ta-ta-ta now don't be a naughty lil' devotchka sweetheart or I'll have to spank you" he sneers, her cheeks flush as she squeaks in anger. "Leave me alone" she seethes through clenched teeth.

He leans in close to her until their noses are touching, "I'm being like forced to attend this blasted place you viddy my darling, but at least I have me plaything" he whispers in a dark tone, his fingers tangling in her long hair in a tight and possessive grip. For a moment, fear flashes in her big doe eyes but she retaliates quickly by slapping him as hard as she can. "Touch me again and I will report you" she growls and walks away. Alex is just about to go after her, teach her a lesson but a hand on his shoulder prevents him. "And where are you supposed to be young man?" a balding fat man asks him, coughing into a handerkchief afterwards. "Just on my way to class sir, I've been awful sick for a while and they changed my first class you see so I got a bit like confused"

The people here are such morons, "Alright then; carry on young man" the man says before disappearing. Alex is twenty minutes late to his morning class and the professor makes his displeasure known as the young man strolls into the classroom. He does in fact notice the girls looking at him with temptation and lust in their eyes and bubblegum twisted onto their fingers, he's fucked at least four girls in this room alone. He sits down and opens his textbook but his mind wanders to his feisty little dolly. Despite her sharp tongue and strong confidence she was alone and there was no one willing to stick up for her, he could mess around with her to his heart's content and not have to worry about any consequences.

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