Page 64 of My Rules for Revenge
“Yep.”
“If I ever see him again, I’ll smash his head through a desk.”
“That sounds very painful.”
“That’s the point,” Heather said, annoyed.
Before we went inside, Heather stopped.
“Indira, I’m going to tell you something that I don’t think anyone else has told you in your life,” Heather said.
“Okay.”
“This isn’t supposed to come across as mean, but it might. This is a tough pill to swallow, but you need to know this,” Heather assured me.
“Okay.”
“I’m not always going to be there to protect you. You’re going to have to stand up for yourself in these types of situations and fight back. If you don’t, everyone’s going to think they can walk all over you.”
“Right, I understand.”
“If I were you, I’d get a little revenge on him,” Heather suggested.
“What do you mean?”
“Just so he doesn’t do this sort of thing again. That would teach him a lesson,” Heather clarified.
“I’m not sure that’s a good idea.”
“C’mon, it’ll be fun. We should pay off a girl from our school and have her flirt with him. Afterwards, once she’s gone far enough with him, we’ll tell her to convince him to send her a dick pic.”
“Oh my god. That’s crazy,” I exclaimed.
“Crazy? It’s genius. We can then leak it and humiliate him. He’ll never bother another girl again,” Heather assured.
“That sounds like it would work, but it would just create more problems. Thank you for standing up for me, Heather. I think things are fine now,” I remarked.
“If you say so. You’re kind of like Vivian, huh? You don’t like stirring up trouble. You like studying and keeping to yourself,” Heather pointed out.
“Exactly. I’m focused on school. I don’t want any other drama in my life.”
“I respect that.”
“Cool!” I exclaimed.
“We’re missing the movie!” Heather shrieked as she dragged me inside.
We both giggled as a few audience members shushed us.
When the movie ended, I surprised myself by having sex on my mind. There was a lot of it in the movie, and Carlos’ nonsense made me think about it a lot. I didn’t know much about it and never asked my parents, because it was a forbidden word to them. To be honest, I became really interested in it because of Eddy. Sex only became more real to me when I imagined with whom I would do it.
During the car ride home, Heather and Vivian were laughing and having a great time. I felt left out, but I had to understand that they had been best friends for a long time. They had a history I knew nothing about.
“Heather, Vivian, sorry to interrupt, but I have a question.”
They quieted down and looked at me simultaneously.
“Shh, the great Indira has a question,” Heather joked.
