Girls could be really fucking mean

Not just mean

Evil

Not to me, never to me, i was that girl, the one with a trail of girls stomping behind me like I was some bitchy little queen leading an army of fake tan, lip gloss, and pure fucking chaos.

I wasn’t the victim

Pretty girls got away with murder half the time. Teachers smiled more. Boys excused worse. Other girls either wanted to be you, befriend you, or bash your head in.

But it weren’t just that.

It was survival.

Because I’d seen firsthand what happened when you stepped out of line.

One wrong outfit. One awkward phase. One moment of weakness.

And suddenly you were prey.

Girls could rip each other apart without ever throwing a punch.

Just a look.

A smirk.

A fake “Are you okay, babe?”

I didn’t want to be the babe, or the one asking the question, I wanted to be the one to make that bitch stop being okay

Because i’d lived that, long before i was skinny, tan and my braces were gone

The bad skin. The puppy fat. The way girls would clock every flaw like blood in the water.

That was the thing about girls.

Boys might smack you about, call you names, act like pricks.

But girls?

Girls were psychological warfare.

They’d dismantle your entire sense of self while fixing their mascara. They’d nick your secrets, your insecurities, your worst moments—and turn them into social suicide.

So I learned.

Real fucking quick.

I learned that if the world was gonna be cruel, I’d be crueler.

The problem was this one girl

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And fucking hell, she was a problem.

She was dangerous because she didn’t play by the rules.

Didn’t kiss arse. Didn’t flinch. Didn’t crumble.

Most girls, when you pushed hard enough, folded like cheap fucking umbrellas.

Not her.

She stood there like she owned the place, when she absolutely did not, with this air about her that practically screamed, Go on then, cunt. Try me.

And obviously?

I fucking did.

Little comments at first. Sharp ones. The sort designed to slip under the skin

She didn’t fucking care, so I swaggered over.

Lip gloss perfect. Skirt short enough to cause a scandal. My little army trailing behind me, already snickering.

“Brave outfit for someone built like a fucking doorframe.”

The girls behind me burst out laughing.

Standard.

But this bitch?

She barely even blinked.

Just looked me up and down, slow as anything, like she was assessing whether I was worth the fucking effort.

Then she smirked.

“Cute,” she said, all casual. “Did you rehearse that in the mirror, or does being a rancid cunt just come naturally?”

Silence.

Real silence.

A few people gasped. Someone actually choked on their drink.

And my mates?

Useless fucking cows. Just standing there.

I felt my face burn.

Not because she hurt my feelings—fuck that.

But because she’d done the one thing no one did.

She made me look small.

So obviously, I went harder.

Started rumours.

Told people she was a freak, a slut, a psycho.

And yeah, some girls joined in.

But it never landed properly.

Because she weren’t weak.

And the thing was what i’d said wasn’t even true

Built like a doorframe?

She wasn’t, at all, maybe that’s what pissed me off even more

She had a perfect body, and when I looked at her, it weren’t envy twisting in my gut.

It was something hotter.

Sharper.

Something I absolutely did not have the fucking emotional bandwidth to unpack.

Not only her body drew me in, though

The way she moved The way she focused on something she liked And that smug fucking mouth

I noticed everything.

It was deeply fucking inconvenient.

My friends thought I was obsessed because of the rivalry.

And maybe I was.

But not in the way they thought.

They didn’t see the way my brain short-circuited every time she got too close.

How even looking at her made me want to either slap her or shag her.

That was unacceptable.

So I doubled down.

Anything to prove—that this was hatred.

Not attraction.

Absolutely fucking not.

I kept playing my part.

Queen bitch. Ice cold. Untouchable.