_{Hannah sighed, finally making it past all the threats and insults to her locker. She leaned against it, her head pounding. It wasn’t even first period and she was already so done with the day. Everyone who heard about it, seemed to feel the need to say something to her about it, and it seemed, nobody even considered being nice about it. Hannah had heard basically the same things in less nice wording than others, from abut 20 different people. The majority of the people who knew just seemed to glare at her from across the hallways. Despite all the drama, her friends didn’t seem to care one way or another, she assumed they were just glad it wasn’t them being the victim of it all. They’d all had their fair share of slut-shaming, but it didn’t seem to have gone as far as threats. The fact that a rumour, about Sergio and herself, had gotten this far was crazy. He seemed to have the school female population at his beck and call.}

_{At multiple times this morning, Hannah realized her mind drifting to the race tonight, it was by far something more important than everything going on except school. She knew she had a good chance at winning, but she didn’t want to be too cocky about it. Hannah knew the risks of being conceited, especially in a race. It’s the time when you think you will win, that you’ll do the worst you have. She didn’t want that to happen, not in front of Sergio, not with the stakes of this game in play. They hadn’t actually discussed anything about it yet, but it wasn’t a big deal for her, she knew she’d do what it took to win, Hannah needed that over him. From her position at her locker, Hannah could see the Principal talking with Mr Maloney, another teacher plus an officer. That wasn’t very fun. Just as she leaned against the locker, the Principal turned towards her, pointing. Raising her chin and frowning, Hannah watched Mr Maloney nodding and the officer beginning to make his way towards her. Cursing under her breath, she closed her locker, resuming her position against it. Hannah looked around to see a good number of students stopping and standing by, watching the encounter.}

_{“Mrs Sherwood, may I ask you a few questions?”}

_{Hannah glared at the officer. They didn’t have proof. This shouldn’t count as being caught, no proof, no charges, no arrests, not a loss. The fact that they were even questioning her was screwed. If they were questing students ‘at random’, it was quite rude that she was their first choice. It said a lot about her and her reputation, but still. Not good news. She sighed, staying where she was. If they were going to question her, they’d be doing it right here. Hannah wasn’t about to let them drag her away, especially since they didn’t know it was her, they wouldn’t. She looked around, not surprised to see Sergio pretty much front and centre.}

_“Sure”

_{“Where were you last night?”
“I was at a party, everyone there can account for that” She shot a glare at Sergio. “Afterwards, I left with a guy and didn’t get home until this morning, he can account for that”}

_{“Well, you may have heard, there were some issues at the school last night, we are conducting an investigation on it, and we urge you to contact us if you have any information”}

_{“Yes sir”}

_{The police officer walked away, shaking his head at the teachers. Hannah turned and smirked at Sergio. She had known they didn’t have anything on her, they wouldn’t. This was still on.}

_{Hannah left quite quickly after everything had finished. People were all standing around, trying to over-hear the conversation, trying to talk to her. If she was being honest, she’d already had enough talk of the rumour about her & Sergio, and the vandalism. The more people talked about it, it was slightly more likely they’d figure things out. Which if they did, would confuse the living hell out of her, as nobody had no proof except the two of them, and there was no way either one of them was snitching. She made her way to class, rather excited to see Mr Maloney’s rage at the missing pens. Hannah had been walking around the school before class, placing them in obvious but stupid places, just waiting to be found. Hannah could see the door half open as she approached it, but she watched him walk inside the class. She jogged to get to the classroom in time, she walked over to her seat in the back quickly. Quite soon, you could have heard Mr Maloney freaking out about the pens and note she had left him from across the school, and the stifled laughter of the class. A few students had turned and given her weird looks, but she didn’t have the patience or energy to care anymore.}

_{But too soon, the first period had ended and Hannah found herself sitting in another classroom, rather bored. Checking the time on her phone every few minutes, she grew impatient. Raising her hand, she excused herself for the bathroom and walked out, bag slung over her shoulder. Everyone had known Hannah wasn’t actually going to the bathroom, it had been common knowledge since 8th grade. But, she had returned to school before the end of first break, walking through the front gates with her coffee. It was practically tradition by now, she always left during the morning and got a coffee. The teachers, the principal, had given up on trying to stop her, they had even gone as far as giving Hannah her own parking spot right by the back gates. Their reasoning being it was to ‘ensure she wouldn’t have excuses if she decided not to come back’, but she knew it was just so they could keep track of where she was at all times.}

_{Hannah had been making her way to her next class when she could see Sergio sitting alone on the bleachers. She couldn’t tell for sure from where she was standing, but he did not look happy. She first assumed maybe somebody had the guts to say something to him, but she doubted it the second the thought popped into her head. Practically everybody loved Sergio, there’s no way anybody would go out of their way to say or do something to piss him off. Whether that was because they liked him too much, or were too afraid of him, that wasn’t relevant.}

_{Debating for a moment, she bit her lip. Frowning and sighing, she turned away from the building she had originally been planning to go to. Hannah skipped a lot of her classes when she just didn’t feel like it, nobody was really surprised anymore so it wouldn’t hurt to skip one more. Although, she did have a feeling this would either end terribly or be great, that was up to Sergio. Whatever way he took her approach, it would determine whether or not this conversation would be civil or not. There was nobody else in sight, so it wouldn’t be as if either of them would have to pretend.}

_{Making her way over to him, Hannah dropped her bag next to her, sitting quietly beside him. Tucking her phone into her pocket, she looked over at him. Hannah could definitely tell something was up, she’d seen the way he acted normally, this wasn’t it. At all. After a moments’ hesitation, she poked his shoulder, leaning against the cold metal.}

_{“What happened?”}

_{Hannah considered her options for a moment. She could keep pestering him until he told her, or likely, get pissed off and hit something, or she could leave it. She watched him carefully, sighing. Hannah knew damn well it wasn’t any of her business, but she had to know. She pulled her phone out of her pocket, putting it on the metal beside her. Turning her head around, Hannah checked that there wasn’t anybody around. She looked back over at him, her eyebrows raising at the reaction of his phone. Whatever it was, it seemed bad. Hannah didn’t know what was going on, but it looked like he was majorly pissed. Which meant she really needed to watch her mouth around it right now, it’d be all too easy to make it worse and risk getting hurt.}

_{Hannah knew the rumours about him, how people were afraid of him. She’d seen multiple instances that would have been her afraid of him if she hadn’t been just as bad herself. Unlike Sergio, Hannah didn’t really have people afraid of her, they were just threatened by her. She had a track record of doing nasty, petty things just to get revenge on some girl who pissed her off. Usually meaning she flirted or messed around with their boyfriends. It never seemed to bother her or them, majority of the guys knew that was her go-to when she didn’t feel like a fight, and they didn’t seem against it either so it worked for her.}

_{Hannah smiled, as the third option popped into her mind. She knew it’d get her into trouble, either from him or from all the girls in love with him that she had come across earlier in the day. Hannah hadn’t exactly forgiven him for that whole situation, but she had accepted it. There wasn’t much for her to do about it now, so it was better to just move on and find another way to get payback. She checked once more for teachers wandering, but save for a few students, there wasn’t any people out of class. Hannah got up, stepping in front of him. Grabbing his arm and moving it, she slid herself onto his lap, pushing his shoulders back against the metal, she grinned at him.}

_{“Tell me”}