Revenge (6 page)

“That’s a terrible rule.”

“But those are the rules. Now c’mon, we need to find her!” Ally led Wesley upstairs to the bedrooms. They checked bedroom and bedroom until finally the only bedroom that was left was Josh’s. “C’mon, Wesley! Just one more bedroom! You can do it!” Then Ally pushed the door open slowly and allowed Wesley to look in first. He gasped. Sure enough, Gabriella was in there with the host himself. They were closely embraced, too busy to notice Ally and Wesley at first. However, Wesley was whimpering and the couple broke apart. Josh flipped his hair out of his eyes and looked confused. Gabriella on the other hand looked mortified. Ally just stood there enjoying the tradegy. Oh, how Ally enjoyed the sight of revenge.

“Gabriella...,” Wesley said quietly.

“Uhhh...,” Gabriella said.

“How could you?” Wesley said fighting back tears.

“Wesley! Wait, I can explain,” Gabriella said.

“There’s nothing to explain! C’mon, Ally, let’s go,” Wesley breathed. Wesley then left, running down the stairs. Ally turned gracefully, and happily followed Wesley. Ally’s mission was accomplished; she had made Gabriella miserable again.

“Gabriella, you need to stop crying so we can understand what you’re trying to say,” Jessica urged Gabriella just minutes after her encounter with Wesley.

“It’s okay, Gabriella,” Christina said softly “Whatever it is, I’m sure we’ll figure it out.”

“It’s over,” Gabriella sobbed.

“What is?” Jessica asked.

“Wesley and I...,” Gabriella said.

“I thought that was already over,” Christina said then Gabriella began to cry harder.

“Way to go,” Jessica whispered to Christina “Seriously though, what happened tonight?”

“I...I...I was with Joo..Joshhh, the the guy you introduced me to. We were having a gr..great time. Then Wes..Wesley walked in on us,” Gabriella sobbed.

“Oh my god,” Christina breathed.

“How did he know about this party or where you’d be?” Jessica asked.

“I don’t know...,” Gabriella sobbed “But he was with Ally.”

“Ally? Of course!” Jessica said, “Ally would know about this party! She’d know about the single girls rule and set Wesley up.”

“Poor Wesley,” Christina said.

“Look, Gabriella, we’ll get her back! I promise,” Jessica said.

“I don’t want to play revenge anymore,” Gabriella sobbed.

“Well, sometimes it’s completely necessary,” Jessica said.

“Ally Andrews to the principals office immediately,” a voice over the loud speakers said. Ally sighed. Couldn’t she have a break? All week she had been battling people to try to set them in their place. She had been successful last night when she ruined Wesley and Gabriella’s relationship for good.

Ally knocked on the door of the principal’s office and waited. Then she heard a voice call, “come in!” She came in and sat down in one of the plush chairs looking around the office innocently.

“Do you know why I called you in here?” The principal said.

“Nope,” Ally said sweetly.

“Are you sure?” The principal said.

“I have no idea but maybe I’m about to find out?” Ally asked.

“Yes, you are. Ms. Andrew you are in trouble for vandalizing school property. The bathroom you wrecked is going to take hours and possibly days to restore.”

“The what?”

“The bathroom on the second floor. The one you vandalized.”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Of course, you do! You signed your name all over the walls in red lipstick!”

“I did not!”

“You wrote about how you are the best and everyone else is below you. And based on your record of previous offenses, you seem guilty.”

“How could I vandalize a bathroom when I’m on crutches?”

“Just because you’re injured, does not mean that you’re above the rules, Ally. We will have to call your parents to find the proper punishment for you.”

“This isn’t fair.”

“Life isn’t fair, Ally.”

Gabriella was standing by her locker with her new best friends, Christina and Jessica. They were filling Gabriella in on the amazing prank they pulled on Ally this morning.

“We completely covered the walls,” Jessica said.

“Yeah, and we wrote her name all over the place in the exact color of lipstick she always wears!” Christina gushed.

“Yeah, it was perfect! So many girls recognize that Ally wears that color and will totally say she did it,” Jessica said.

“Aren’t you thrilled? It hasn’t even been twenty-four hours yet and revenge has already been completed,” Christina said.

“Guys, I’m glad you have my back an everything but this isn’t what I wanted. I said no revenge!” Gabriella said.

“But we had to,” Jessica said. “Ally burned you so we had to burn her back!”

“It wasn’t right! Revenge just leads to more revenge. I’m sick of this game,” Gabriella said.

“This is how things are when you’re popular,” Christina said.

“Then who wants to be popular if you’re constantly being burned?” Gabriella said. “I got to go.”

“Bye, Gabriella! You’ll see what we did is right,” Jessica said. Gabriella walked away knowing that she would never see what they did as right. Now she saw that two wrongs don’t make a right and she had to fix that starting now.

Ally was standing up from a chair in the principal’s office when Gabriella barged in.

“Ms. Marcs, what are you doing barging into my room?” The principal said alarmed.

“I have to tell you something,” Gabriella said.

“Okay,” said The Principal.

“I did it. I’m the one who destroyed that bathroom on the second floor. I blamed Ally. It was all me,” Gabriella said.

Raising one eyebrow, the principal said, “are you sure?”

“Yes,” Gabriella breathed.

“Well then, in that case, Ms. Andrews, you are free to go.” The Principal said. Ally stared at Gabriella in amazement. What just happened? Gabriella could have easily let Ally taken the fall. Gabriella was a perfect student and no one would have questioned her. “As for you, Ms. Marcs, take a seat and get comfortable. You’re going to be here for a while.”

***

Ally saw Gabriella later in the day and ran up to her. Well, she didn’t run exactly because of the crutches but she hurried over to Gabriella.

“Thank-you,” Ally said to Gabriella.

“No problem,” Gabriella said quietly.

“Sure it is! You could have easily of gotten away with the prank but you told the truth,” Ally said.

“Yeah, because I’m already tired of fighting the popular girl battle. I’m ready to just be my old self again,” Gabriella said.

“Well,” Ally said, “Wesley sure did like the old you. Good luck!”

“Yeah, like he’ll ever speak to me again after last night,” Gabriella said hopelessly.

“I’ll talk to him. I promise and thanks again!”

Gabriella heard a knocking on her door and ran downstairs. She was hoping it was Wesley but it was never good to hope too much. Sure enough, it was Wesley. He was standing on her porch in his adorable hipster clothes giving her a sad smile.

“Hey,” he said.

“Hey,” she echoed.

“So about last night...Ally explained everything to me. She set me up on purpose because she hated you. She said her hate for you goes all the way back to elementary school when you got the part in the play she wanted. That’s kind of weird, but, uhh, I guess she wanted revenge. So she took me from you. She said that you were upset and thought you could win me back by being popular. You guys basically kept seeking revenge upon each other. When she first told me that, I was still really angry with you because you thought revenge would work. But then she told me how you took the blame for something that you didn’t do and saved Ally from being expelled. That was pretty great of you. It took real courage to do that. It shows how much you’ve changed but in a good way. Now I feel like you can really see who are and how amazing you are. You make such an impact on everyone’s lives. I love you, Gabriella.”

“I love you too.” It felt so good to tell Wesley how she felt. Finally after all those years, she had the courage to say it and he felt the same way. She felt so brave that she went in and kissed him.