Secrets

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The Benefactor was certainly efficient, confirming the wire transfer only a few minutes after Garrett had confirmed the werewolf's death. Within the span of a few minutes Ariana and her friends suddenly had several thousand dollars. Just like that.

Well, to be fair Ariana and Violet had just killed a man so it wasn't 'like that', but it was relatively easy compared to some of their assassin jobs in the past. There had been no prolonged fake flirting with an older man, and the poison Ariana had made up from the wolfsbane flowers was much easier to make than some of her previous concoctions. It was almost hard to comprehend how easy it had actually been. Suddenly Ariana could just relax, knowing that their financial situation was a little more stable. It didn't mean that they were going to stop now by any means, but it did give Ariana comfort to know that they had enough money to keep paying her foster brother rent for the foreseeable future.

"Whoever this person is, I could kiss them right now," Violet said excitedly, keeping her voice soft so the other party-goers wouldn't overhear. She wore a gleeful grin on her face as she glanced between Garrett and Ariana.

"Well how about you settle for me instead?" Garrett asked, matching her grin. Violet willingly complied, leaning over to press her lips to his.

Ariana rolled her eyes. "Gross, as usual. At least we know money hasn't changed either of you," she commented drily. The couple ignored her, leaning into each other. Ariana waited for a moment but it was pretty obvious they were too focused on not coming up for air to remember her presence. "Aaaaaaand that's my cue to leave," she muttered under her breath as she turned on her heels and walked off.

And now she found herself alone again, surrounded by people but no one to talk to. She couldn't really see anyone else she knew well enough, since Liam was still nowhere to be found. She was half tempted to try calling him or sending him a text, but the other half of her was too annoyed at him standing her up twice to even think about talking to him. Instead she settled for wandering around and observing the party atmosphere and doing some people-watching.

It was amusing watching her fellow students stumbling around all because of a few chemicals. Alcohol was a weird thing. Ariana had contemplated having a drink herself, after all everyone else was drinking underage so she wouldn't feel guilty, but she'd already done one illegal thing tonight and she was content just watching everyone else around her losing control of themselves.

Well, she was content until a piercing voice broke her out of her silent observations.

"Well, well, well, look it's little baby Ari looking out of place as usual."

Ariana let out a long suffering sigh as she turned on her heels at the sound of her name falling from familiar lips. Sure enough, there she was in all her usual cruel glory. Siobhan Brady, dark hair falling in soft curls next to her face, which was covered in her usual heavy make up, dark purple lipstick emphasising her pouting lips. She was part of Lydia's old clique from before Lydia had gone a little crazy and fallen off the radar. Siobhan had stayed sane and taken over role of Bitch in high heels, clacking her kitten heels down the halls of Beacon Hills.

Siobhan had made it her life's mission to torment the freshman, particularly Ariana. Ariana was a bit of an easy target with her small circle of friends giving her a bit of a loner status, not to mention the fact that she was a proud science geek. She might as well have worn a sign that said 'Bully Me!' on her chest. Still, she had enough attitude to hold her own against Siobhan which only made Siobhan more determined to knock her down.

"Siobhan," Ariana started, dragging out the 'Vawn' with a raised eyebrow. "What do you want?"

"Well, I'd like to know how you got into this party for one thing." Siobhan smirked, cocking her head to one side as she looked Ariana up and down. "Are you lost?"

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