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The silence in the car was deafening.
They had cleaned up a little back at the school, the swim team had brought out towels for everyone who was involved and while it didn’t help much with the glitter, most of the mess was gone.
Besides the very few pieces of colorful confetti that she began to pick out of her hair, tearing it into small pieces in some way to distract herself from the tension.
“Are you proud of yourself?”
She didn’t say anything, biting the inside of her lip.
It was a prank. A prank.
Other girls her age were doing drugs, getting pregnant, two-timing–
Which– no, no… two-timing was bad, but Mer kind of just wanted to one-time.
Another thing that was continuously ruined by one CK Freud. Most boys at the school were terrified of Chelsea enough to avoid her entirely. A smile here, a smile there, they’d walk over– catch his eye and walk away.
“Are you fucking proud, Mer?”
That’s when she looked over at him and away guiltily.
She wasn’t guilty over what transpired. She didn’t feel bad because she pulled a prank! Mercedes didn’t know what was like, riding or something for everyone else, of course she… didn’t think about everyone else.
Okay… maybe that sounded really selfish.
But… she'd already went so long doing what everyone else wanted, what was wrong with being selfish once in a while?
“Did that balloon hurt?”
She sighed, a sense of relief filling her chest.
So… he wasn’t that angry. Which meant that the party was maybe still possible…
Since she had gotten her car taken away, Mercedes didn’t have a ride to said-party, not to mention the fact that her parents would flip if they found out she attended some random’s party without CK there.
“No…”
A minor lie, but she was fine.
“Let me guess: you still want me to drive you to the party, huh? You still expect me to fucking do that for you?”
“I tried to warn you!” Mer explained, the light turned green and a car behind them had started honking barely five seconds into it. Mercedes had sunk further into her seat, crossing her arms and avoiding his gaze entirely.
“I’m sorry, okay? I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to– … ruin things. I just wanted to–”
Have a little fun.
“I’m sorry.”
Let’s get one thing straight– she wasn’t apologizing for the prank.
Maybe a good part of it was to get on CK’s good graces so she can go to the party, but she was apologizing because he was clearly… pretty pissed off.
And…Matty was gonna be at the party and there was NO way Mercedes was missing out on that. She had planned to look her best tonight and maybe… finally, that’d get his attention.
That works for boys, right?
Looking hot?
Yeah.
A silence sat before Mercedes said anything more and they continued down the road, the slight hum of the engine running was the only thing she focused on while her mind ran in circles, trying to come up with a convincing argument–
The argument being, ‘please take me to the party.’
“Mom and dad doesn’t have to know, a lot of people were involved so I doubt they’re gonna only pin it on me and–”
Not Drake. The last thing she needed was for CK to use Drake as some… bad influence more than he already does.
“Maybe we… make a deal…”
A deal! That’s it. Brilliant. And who said Mercedes wasn’t a mastermind? Nobody, that’s right.
“You take me to the party, and I solemnly swear to be on my best behavior for…”
For…
Shit, she couldn’t give a time-frame! There was no way Mercedes would be able to keep all that up, knowing CK he’d probably blame her for some minor inconvenience that happened just because she was near!
Maybe she’s being a little overdramatic, but…
So was he!
“Chelsea, you don’t get it, okay? I have to go. It’s homecoming! I’ll… I’ll do anything.”
Anything?
Oh, hell fucking yeah Mercedes would do anything to get some alone time with the Matty Manzano.
Mercedes began to chew on the inside of her lip for the second time as the car had rounded the corner to their home.
Which was sort of like… a mini villa. It had one of those gates and everything. A pretty nice, lavish childhood home to grow up in– it was just the family that Mer wasn’t all that fond of.
The gates had slowly opened when they pulled up and she looked over at him, her hands pressed up together in a pleading manner, like... praying but Mer wasn't really religious, so.
"Pleasepleasepleasepleaseeeee."
And of course, being a little sister came with a very special feature;
Puppy dog eyes.
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