His Only Weakness

Ashley Roberts

I sat in the office chair while the principal rambled on and on about the rules if the school and how I violated then blah blah blah. I was released with a warning because I was new and I was relieved because I had no idea how I was going to explain getting a suspension on my first day here. I was even surprised that I didn’t even get a detention. The bell rang signaling that first period was over.

I walked down the crowded hallway to my locker to get my books for the second period. The halls parted like the red sea as my presence was acknowledged. The loud chattering was reduced to whispers and stares. "That's the new girl who threw Ashley Robert into a window." A feminine voice said.

"I'm glad someone finally put the b***h in her place." another female said. I assumed they were referring to Ashley. 

"She's a Badass and she's hot?! I call dibs!" A male voice said. "I'm going to befriend her." Another female.

I just smiled at all the comments I was getting. It seemed as if I did everyone a favor seeing as no one really like this Ashley girl. Sure, I didn’t really like attention but this felt good and I will revel in it as much as I want to because I have a feeling that it wasn't going to last very long.

I finally reached my locker and all the whispers and stares died down a bit. Alan walked up to me with a toothy grin on his face. "What's wrong with your face?" I asked watching him weirdly.

"Oh nothing. How was your first class? Did anything interesting happen?"

"It was kind of good and nothing interesting didn't really happen. Why?"

"Oh nothing. I'm sure you go around everyday throwing people into windows. "

" Oh that. We she embarrassed me so I embarrassed her more. No big deal." I replied with a shrug while closing my locker and turning to him.

"You make it sound as if it's a norm for you. "

" Ha-ha... Oh well. But based on what I heard, Ashley or whatever that's her name deserved it. She's practically hated in this school."

"Ashley?! As in the Ashley Robert?!"He exclaimed in shock and worry was shown all over his face.

"Yeah. Sounds about right. You didn't know? "

" No, I just heard that you threw some girl into a window. By the way how the hell did you even managed to do that? You're like so... Small, and the windows aren't that low. She probably weighs over a hundred pounds."

I didn't even know how I did it either. How was I supposed to answer that? "Adrenaline rush?" I said with a cheeky smirk.

"You better be careful though. Her Alp--I mean her boyfriend is one mean and scary guy. Together they can and probably will make your life a living hell. By the looks of things, he already found out and I'm sure he's not happy about it."

"He goes to this school?"

"yeah. But he's not here today. "

"But how can he find out? This only happened this morning."

"Yeah and it’s on YouTube. The whole world probably knows about it by now. "

"Wow... I'll try and figure something out okay?"

"Kay. Just be careful please. Don't want my little cousin getting hurt. "

I smiled at him and just then the bell rang signaling that it was the beginning of the second period. I told Alan bye and then we went our separate ways. My class was packed with students and it didn't have any seats left except for one at the back. It was next to a short slim African-American girl with medium length black hair with blue highlights and dark blue eyes. It was rare for a black girl to have blue eyes but she must have inherited it from one of her parents. Either way they looked pretty. She was pretty and also, she had dark blue rimmed glasses.

"Hey! You're the new girl who threw Ashley Robert into the window right?"

"Is that what everyone knows me as? 'The-new-girl-who-threw-Ashley-Robert-into-a-window.'? "

" yep. Pretty much." she said and chuckled. 

"The name's Nelly by the way." I said and extended my hand for her to shake. 

She took it and said, "My name is Beyoncé." 

"cool name. "

" thanks. "

We didn't really talk much after that as we were both paying attention to the teacher. Second and third period went by quick and soon it was lunch time. I got my food and searched for a seat in the cafeteria it was so huge but yet still it was packed with students. The event with me and Ashley was long forgotten and the attention was focused on a lesbian couple who were caught doing the naughties in the bathroom.

I turned to go outside but then I heard someone calling my name. I looked for the owner of the familiar voice and found Beyoncé sitting in with her group of friends waving at me to come over. Her group consisted of three boys and three girls including her. I walked towards them and said 'hi'. They responded with a chorus of 'heys' and ‘hellos’.

"Guys this is Nelly--"

"Oh! You're the new girl who threw bitchy Ashley into the window right?" I chuckled. "Yep. That's me."

"I love you so much for doing that. But I'll miss you when you're gone though."

"Gone? I'm not going anywhere." I told her confused. 

"Not that gone. I mean gone gone. " she took her finger and drew a line across her neck. Then I realized what she was talking about.

She must've seen the realization on my face because she nodded her head slowly and said" Yeah, her boyfriend's going to kill you. He's like this huge possessive intimidating guy."

"Yeah so, I've heard. Oh well we'll just have to hope for the best and see what happens." I acted like I was okay but really, I was freaking out. 

"How are you not scared or worried? "

" I don't know."

"hmmmmm...okay." she said dragging out the letters. 

"Anyhoo... I'm Nichole. This is Danielle and you already know Beyoncé. Those are Derek, Connor and Oliver."

We talked about random things and laughed. It was as if we were best friends from birth. Suddenly there was a shadow above me and everyone and everything went quiet.