Chapter 9
April's Sabotage Attempt
Seeing Summer genuinely happy, April tries to ruin her reputation by sabotaging her art project, a crucial part of an upcoming school event.
April, perched on her self-made throne of popularity, watched Summer with the predatory intensity of a hawk eyeing a particularly plump field mouse. It wasn't just Summer’s newfound radiance that irked her – though that was certainly a factor, like a rogue glitter bomb detonated in April’s meticulously curated universe. No, it was the sheer, unadulterated joy radiating from Summer like a poorly aimed laser pointer. Summer, who used to flinch at shadows and mumbled apologies for existing, was now… glowing. And the culprit, the fluffy, loud, perpetually grinning source of this effervescent affliction, was Alex.
April’s perfectly sculpted eyebrows, usually arched in a perpetual state of disdain, practically scrunched into her hairline. Alex. The boy who looked like he’d wrestled a badger for breakfast and won. The boy whose voice rumbled like an approaching thunderstorm and whose laughter was as chaotic as a herd of stampeding unicorns. He, of all people, had managed to chip away at April’s carefully constructed social edifice by simply… adoring Summer.
This was unacceptable. This was a cosmic imbalance. This was an affront to the natural order of things, where April was the sun and everyone else, especially Summer, orbited her with a healthy dose of fear and subservience.
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