Next day, Larissa looks at Luna walking beside her with a normal expression as nothing has happened but she seems a little bit off.
"Luna?"
"Umm, what?" Luna looked at Larissa's eyes, she could already tell what she's about to ask.
"Are you okay?"
"Ofcourse I am. Why would you ask such a thing?" Luna said with a perfect innocent smile on her face.
'She's really good at masking her emotions and not showing any discontent.' Sweat drops from Larissa's forehead as to how she would answer such a question without hurting her or not reminding her about her yesterday. Larissa helplessly dropped her shoulder.
"Ahumm, you see I didn't see Laetitia yesterday after school or today too as we left the dormitory." Larissa remembers Laetitia's shy face and it's easy to divert conversation from her to Laetitia this way. It was a bit mean of her to do that.
"I haven't seen her either. Maybe she left earlier than us?" Luna looked around the girls walking around them but she couldn't see the face of Laetitia in them. 'Maybe, she left early I guess.'
"Hey, you are Luna right?" Luna turned around to see who called her name but she didn't see anyone, she made a full circle turning around looking for the owner of the voice.
'Am I day dreaming or it's just a voice in my head?' Luna couldn't think of a reason why she couldn't see who called out her name, is it some kind of prank? Just as she moved one step forward something hit. Luna looked below and saw the head of a girl hitting her stomach.
Startled she jumped two steps back almost colliding with girls walking behind her, "What was that? You scared the shit out of me little girl."
"You could have seen me coming from miles ahead, if you could have just paid attention like normal people while walking on the road but you walked like a damn bird looking at the sky all the time." Kealyn despite having a cute appearance, her attitude and personality are completely different and she got pretty sharp tongue and a bit of ego that gets hurt quite quickly.
"My bad, I didn't mean that but I didn't see you coming. I was looking for my friend... But she was nowhere to be found." Luna said as it felt a bit awkward being called a bird in front of everyone. It gets on her nerves but she can let it go this time as she made a mistake too.
"Better pay attention next time or else your eyes would sink inside your eye socket, if you keep looking above while walking a loose ostrich." Kealyn didn't let go of the matter till she said something that meant her final remark got on Luna's nerves as she doesn't even know her nor her name and she's the one who approached her first now she's being bluntly rude to her.
"That explains a lot why you are so deep inside the earth's crust, aren't you fierce little chihuahua." Luna closed her eyes and her smile went from sunflower sunshine to smirk as if couldn't hold her laugh at someone so funny looking.
As she slowly opens her eyes, everyone around them is staring at her, their faces the same frown and unpleasant expression as if she is being judged for grave offence. She turned her head around to see Larissa, to explain what happened in split seconds that completely changed the world.
Larissa looks awkwardly at Luna questioning gaze, she moves her eyes down to look at the face of one who caused this mess. Luna lowered her gaze to see what this girl had done to take everyone at her side, as Luna looked at her she got the answer she was looking for.
"I... I... I'm not... I'm not chiw... chihuahua... Looking... Girl... I'm not chihuahua." The girl has teary eyes as tears are just about to fall from her face but she's holding back her tears with all her strength. Luna's words deeply hurted her to heart, everyone couldn't bear to see such a cute little girl being bullied in open space and calling such a cute and innocent girl chihuahua is rude and shameless behaviour.
Everyone present around them labels Luna as a mean bitchy girl, if she can bully someone so openly they can't imagine how she would bully someone in close space. There's a clear look of disgust in their eyes, as they saw how spoiled kids act in middle school before but this is a different place no bullying is allowed here so openly. Bystanders start talking among themselves as
"Did you see how she openly bullied Keanly?"
"Yeah, such a shameless bitchy personality girl. I always hate this type of entitled spoiled brats, they boost their ego by bullying weak and innocent students."
"Hey, Sydney is that girl from your class?" One of the girls asks as she looks at Luna's face.
"Yeah, she's full of herself though, everyone tried to approach her friendly but she got the attitude and ignored everyone and walked around with that loner girl only." Sydney was one of the girls who tried to befriend Luna but Luna didn't go out with her to join her group. As she knew would be just a small minion for her not friend.
Luna just stood like a statue as she watched Keanly fascial expression and sudden change in mood and emotions, her such behaviour didn't go unnoticed by the others but they thought. She's too shocked to speak as stood with the victim. Larissa keep hearing everyone words as they start talking bad about Luna, she knew Luna isn't like that and its not her fault that everything went like this but they not going to change their opinion from the way they talk and she's afraid if they keep saying things like or do something bad Luna might get hurt a lot.
"Luna, isn't the one at fault. It was her who bumped into her first and she started saying mean and rude things, even though we didn't want any trouble and apologized to her despite not being at fault. She, the one causing this ruckus, started this melodrama in the first place and is now acting like a victim." Larissa said as she looked at the face of everyone who is bad mouthing Luna, when they didn't even see the whole thing and didn't hear what this girl they consider as victim said to Luna.
Murmur of the girls surrounding them reached their ears as they didn't even try to hide their disdain and disgust towards both of them, "Look at that girl, she has no shame god forbid if I was in her place I would never defend my friends if they were at fault even if it was you sally. I always stand with truth and justice."
"You are right Brenda; I know Keanly. She was nice to everyone from the first day, I couldn't imagine such a sweet soul like her would intentionally rude someone. Even if she said mean things it's probably because these two mean rotten apple without audacity must said terribal things to her."
"No, we didn't say anything bad to her, believe us." Larissa tries to clear any misunderstanding all these students might have gotten here but it doesn't seem to be working in their favour as if she tries to explain the truth more twisted and wrenched truth becomes in mob eyes. Now it reached the point where Larissa felt like crying, but if she ended up crying over something like this in frustration it would only leave Luna more alone and emotionally weak.
"It's okay, Larissa, I was the one at fault. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. It was my fault for being rude to you when we just met." Luna bowed her head to apologize to Keanly, Larissa felt sad as she knew it was her fault and Keanly started this first. Suddenly Luna felt a warm hand holding her wrist as she lifted her head and Larissa looked into her eyes.
"Luna, remember this we do not need to apologize to double-faced people like her even if no-one believes I know what happened and I will make sure that this girl speaks the truth and accept that she is falsely accusing you for being a bad person here." Larissa looked at both Keanly and Sydney's face as at this point it wasn't hard to guess that this scene is something both of them created to separate them from the other students and left them out alone so they won't be able to make friends.
Larissa firmly held the hand of Luna as she began to walk out of the circle around them by the girls, there's no meaning to standing here for one more second if it was made to antagonize them in the first place. As Larissa passed by the Sydney she didn't fail to notice slightly curled up lips smiling with the proud smirk on her face. She has no idea what's so ever going through her head but she is sure about one thing that she might have involved in this to make Luna left out by their classmates.
"If you think you can just bully one student in front of everyone and get away with it, let me tell you this. Both of you ain't getting out of this cause this isn't your middle school nor your normal public school that would tolerate bullies like you." From within the crowd they heard the voice of the girl but Larissa and Luna didn't turn around to see who it was, as they realised that it wasn't worth explaining their part of the story.
'What's wrong with these people, dealing with them is already big headache and now interacting with them is also almost impossible if more than half of them turned out be like these girls and the worst part of all of these was who the hell would get offended over simply being called chihuahua like are they in primary school that they would cry over it.' Larissa thought with frustration, her nerves were plumping with desire to beat someone, if she didn't get pulled into these feelings like this. She can't think how anger and frustration Luna might be in her mind. But as Larissa turned her head around to look at Luna she saw her staring at the bloomed flowers on sidewalks as she watched white cosmos flower with her calm sunflower eyes, as if nothing had happened a moment ago or she didn't even consider those important enough to ruin her mood.
"Luna, are you okay?"
"Yes, I am. What would be wrong with me?"
"No, it's nothing. I just thought you might be nervous or scared by what happened to the threat they were giving."
Luna turns her around and looks straight into the eyes of Larissa as if she can see what lies beyond Larissa's eyes. "Don't think anything much more about this, it's not worth our time to consider all of them all the time. The moment they spoke to me was more than enough to give them space and moment in my thoughts afterwards. It wasn't necessary for me to consider them in my mind for even split seconds and you shouldn't be too dear."
"Time is precious, it will slip before we grasp it in our hands, better enjoy the moment with one's own self and our surrounding beautiful nature and beautiful people we make bonds with Larissa. I'm glad that I found a beautiful friend like you here and thank you for being my friend Larissa."