AN: Hey I still have plans to do a part three of assassination high school chapter but this Is a chapter while I am working on it. If you know the mean girl's movie/musical this chapter is based on both so it will have similarities and differences.
(THERE ARE ALSO A TON OF MUSICAL REFERENCES IN THEM SEE HOW MANY YOU CAN SPOT)
I HOPE YOU ENJOY
IMPORTANT: Alex is playing aaron samuels and Kara is Cady so in the movie they are in love obviously with those two playing those characters that would be insest and weird so I am changing the plot slightly just wanted to address this beforehand. Also I ship Janis and Cady so that's how this is gonna go
Lena's POV
September 1st, 2018, first day of junior year!!! Yay!
I internally roll my eyes at the thought of yet another year in this hell hole.
"Hey boo! You ready for another year in this dump?" My best friend Sam says while giving me a bear hug.
She is a tall and thin woman with tan skin and brown hair that suits her perfectly. She is my best friend in the whole wide world. I would marry her if I was gay.
I am straight. Obviously. I think as I shove the girl who is several inches taller than me and adjust my flannel.
"Yes, Sam I am ready. Excited? Not at all. I would rather spend an hour straight with Regina in a locked room." She raises an eyebrow at me, "Scratch that, the Regina thing would be wayyyyyyy worse!"
She laughs and nods in agreement "What's your first class?" We head towards her locker.
It takes us a minute to get there and grab our books.
"History," I say with a groan. I am about to start ranting about how annoying the teacher is when Sam taps my shoulder and points at a blonde looking at the different lockers looking lost and confused.
She had piercing blue eyes behind black glasses and her hair was in a low ponytail. She is kinda cu-
NO LENA NO! You are not a lesbian! You are straight and like the jocks and their gross faces.
When I am feeling certain feelings that just don't feel right. I just turn them off.
I have nothing against other people who are gay. I just can't be gay I mean I am a good catholic and god wouldn't do that to me because my family would disown me. And then I would homeless and alone and that can't happen. I can't leave my brother with my parents alone... (Lex isn't evil)
I take a deep breath and look to where Sam was previously standing. She wasn't there anymore to my surprise.
I quickly look around for her afraid that she may have gotten into a scuffle with the cheerleaders again.
I sigh in relief when I see that she is only talking to the new girl but my breath catches in the back of my throat when she waves me over.
I walk over to them and I am blinded by the girl's smile as she says "Hello! My name is Kara Zor-el and I would like to share with you the most amazing story!"
I raise my eyes at Sam who is chuckling nervously before saying "Okay Kara maybe later!" she says while she starts walking down the hallway. She looks behind her back at me and mouths "not a chance'' as we continue walking. "So Kara you are new here where did you move from?"
Cady seems to relax a little into the conversation and says "I am from Sweden"
I decided to finally say something. "That is a long way" wow I am an idiot. Of course, it's a long way it is in Europe for fuck's sake. I mean she is gonna think I am a dumbass now.
DEAD GIRL WALKING AVOID OR YOU COULD CATCH HER AWKWARDNESS
"It is, it is also very different from here. I have been homeschooled my whole life so this is all a little" she pauses trying to find the right words "different"
"Makes sense what is your first class? We can walk you there." Sam says with a friendly smile"
"Oh umm," she says as she pulls her schedule out and says "ahhhh History in..." no fucking way... "room 305" Of fucking course. Just my luck.
Sam lights up and says "Lena has that also so she can walk you there, but I should head to my first class." before she walks away.
I glare in my best friend's direction as Kara and I continue walking to class.
After a minute we walk into class as I smile at Mrs. Grant as I walk in with Kara on my tail.
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It's lunch finally. Kara and I walk to the lunchroom where we all eat together.
Turns out I have almost all my classes with Kara. Of course.
Sometimes I feel like God is testing me and my faith. I mean, girls are the best! They are sweet and nice and smell good and are superior to men in every way.
Kara especially smells amazing. And her hair looks so soft and pretty, but that is me just admiring her. Nothing special. No feelings. Especially since I have known her for all of 4 hours.
Sam and Kara are talking about her time in Sweden as we walk in line to get our food when I hear the doors to the cafeteria doors slam open.
Kara quickly spins around
"Who are they?" Kara questions. As the three girls strut into the cafeteria.
"Don't look at them if you make eye contact they will kill you!!!!!"
I scoff at the three HBIC's that just walked into the cafeteria and say "We call those three the plastics, there shiny fake and hard"
"The blonde in the middle is Regina George, she is the leader of that trio. She is the queen bee at the school and everyone is too scared to stand up to her. Stay out of her way as much as you physically can," Sam whispers afraid she will be overheard.
"Next is Gretchen Weiners. Don't trust her with your secrets they always get back to Regina and she will use it against you! She knows everything about everyone!" I say.
"Last but not least is Karen Smith. She is the dumbest person you will ever meet! She put a D in the word orange" Sam says with a giggle.
Kara raises an eyebrow and says "Are you serious? They look harmless-"
"Do not be fooled by the pink they are monsters!" I say glaring at Regina.
At this point, we got our food and started walking to our table.
I walk ahead and set my plate down. Sam is close behind me. I turn to look for Kara and see her standing next to the plastics table with Regina holding her wrist.
I point at them and say "What is that? I don't like that. Make that stop!"
Kara's POV
I am following Sam and Kara back to the table we are gonna sit at when I am stopped by a hand on my wrist.
I look to my right and see Regina George with a friendly smile. It had some other emotion behind it but I couldn't figure it out.
"I don't know you, why do I not know you I know everyone. Who are you?"
"Oh, I'm-"
"Cady Heron, new girl from Sweden, grew up homeschooled by her parents," Gretchen says as she blows a bubble with her gum and continues typing away at her phone.
Wow, Sam and Lena were right Gretchen really does know everything.
"You are Regina right?" I question
She nods and says "Look we never really do this but how about you sit with us for the rest of the week"
Umm, I glance over at Sam and Lena who are watching me like a hawk. When they see me glance over they make a "What's happening face?" gesture
They warned me but, they have to be over exaggerating. They can't be that bad!
"Sure I would love to!" I say with a smile
What harm could it do!
I take a seat across from them and start eating.
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The bell rings and I stand before saying goodbye to the three girls and walking out of the cafeteria toward my next class.
Sam and Lena block my path and Lena says "What the hell was that? Did we not just tell you they were the spawn of satan"
I thought I detected a hint of jealousy and the fire in her eyes agreed with my assumption but I think it is just her being a good friend.
"They invited me to eat lunch with them this week and they were being nice so I agreed. Might as well give them a chance." I say with a shrug.
Lena scoffs and says "Buddy it is just pretend! They are bitches who are being fake can't you see that?"
"Lena! What is your problem with them! They are super nice!" I say giving her a glare for her foul mouth
Sam looks wearily between us "They aren't Kara. Lena knows from first-hand experience." As she rests a supportive hand on Lena's shoulder. It doesn't stay there long because Lena shrug her hand off and storms away from us and out of the school.
Sam's POV
I turn to Kara her normal smile has turned into a deeply concerned frown.
"Don't worry about Lena she will be okay... She does have good reason to hate Regina and she will explain it to you when she is ready. I am gonna go to class come find me after school and we will go find her." I say before gesturing toward my class.
Kara nods and walks off.
I walk to class also and take a seat at a random desk in the lab.
It takes another minute or two for the rest of the class to file in.
The bell rings as Alex Danvers runs in.
Ms. Danvers cutting it close now are we. Take a seat next to Sam, please."
I internally groan of course I get the jock sweat heart who I have been secretly in love with since 3rd grade as my desk partner for our official seating chart.
Alex takes her seat and gives me that adorable little smirk of hers as she says "Hey Sam"
My heart beats a lot faster and I can't formulate words to respond. I am saved some embarrassment as the teacher says "As I told you earlier this week, the person sitting next to you is your partner for the rest of the year. Now open your books to page..."
Alex turns to me and says "I guess we are stuck together" with a small laugh as we both ignore the teacher.
I don't respond to any of her attempts to make conversation. I am genuinely afraid that I may finally snap and confess my feelings for her which will just make everything worse.
About halfway through the period she just stops trying. 20 minutes later the bell rings and I stand up and grab my stuff to leave. Alex taps my shoulder before I can leave.
I turn around and face her.
"Look I am not sure what I did but I am clearly making you uncomfortable so I will talk to the teacher and see if I can change seats-" Alex says in a sad voice.
"NO! It's fine! You don't make me uncomfortable and I am sorry if I made you think that way! I am just worried about my best friend Lena, she got reminded of some bad memories and walked out of school. I want to make sure she is okay." I say. I mean it wasn't a complete lie but still, I feel bad.
"Okay... are you sure? I can move I won't be offended if you want me to." She says.
Alex's POV
Actually, I would be very disappointed. Sam seems like one of the coolest girls in our school. She is open and honest about who she is. I wish I was more like that sometimes.
"Yes, I am sure! There are a lot worse people to sit next to in this class than you" she seems to realize that might be taken as a negative and quickly corrects herself, "Not that you are bad. You are one of the few people I actually want to sit next to. I mean not in a weird way but you are a nice person and yeah I really do have to go now before I embarrass myself more than I already have. And I have to find Lena. Goodbye now" She does this awkward little wave and quickly speeds away.
She is so adorable... I sigh and walk out of class.
Lena's POV (Earlier after her conversation with Kara and Sam)
I ran.
Well, technically I ran then punched a tree, but that isn't important.
Sam will probably kill me but whatever.
Hindsight 20/20 it wasn't smart to ditch during the first week of school but having a panic attack in school is not fun.
Kara doesn't know squat about the situation or what those plastic did to me.
I take a deep breath and think "She is new she doesn't know anything. That isn't her fault. She just moved here and hasn't gone through-'
I don't finish the thought and decide to listen to music and meditate. I rub my throbbing red hand and I know it won't be too long till Sam comes and finds me. The real question is whether or not Kara is going to come with and whether I am going to explain myself or not.
I close my eyes and decide to take a small nap against the tree I am now leaning on.
2 hours later
Sam's POV
School is finally over and I think Lena has calmed down enough that it would be safe to go find her. When Lena thinks about her past with Regina she gets a little violent and frustrated and it just gets worse if others try and comfort her. I learned that the hard way.
I find Kara and lead her outside our school and into the forest next to our school.
I know generally where Lena is gonna be. She goes to the same spot every time so it doesn't take long to find it. I see her sleeping against a tree and Kara starts walking toward her but I grab her arm.
"Look, Kara, be careful when we go up to her we don't want to startle her. I am gonna wake her up so she wakes up to a face knows." I say.
Kara nods her understanding and naws on her fingernails as we walk up to sleeping, Lena.
I pull out her earbuds and lightly tap her shoulder
It takes a couple of seconds but she slowly starts waking up.
She groans and says "Dammit Sam, I wanted to sleep for longer."
She sits up slightly and punches me in the arm but she flinches. I look down and see her hand is red, bruised, scratched, and a little bloody.
I sigh and stand up before saying "Kara stay with Lena and make sure she doesn't punch anything else I have to go get the medical kit that is in my car. I will be back in a couple of minutes"
Lara nods and takes a seat across from Lena as I walk away.
Lena's POV
Kara sits across from me and Sam walks away. Kara and I sit in awkward silence for what feels like forever but is probably only a minute.
Kara clears her throat and says "Um. How is your hand?"
I shrug and say "Eh I will be okay, I have had worse." as I look it over.
Kara flinches at my statement and I don't think I am supposed to hear her say "This is all my fault"
"This isn't your fault, Regina, and I have a past and it is my fault for still getting affected by it." I say bitterness lacing my tone.
"Do you mind if I ask what happened between you?"
I sigh I knew this was coming eventually.
"In middle school we were best friends."
Her eyes widen in shock and she says "Really?"
"Yeah. We were REALLY close for the longest time. But in 6th grade she became popular and it went to her head. I am- was a very affectionate person with my friends. I liked cuddling, holding hands, and hugging. It was just normal to my knowledge at the time. But Regina as she got older she thought it was weird. With peer pressure and outside influences, Regina started calling me certain names and spreading rumors."
"What were they? The names I mean." Kara questions in a quiet voice.
"Faggot, homo, dike, etc. The usual gay slurs."
"That is awful! How dare she fucking do something that vile! I mean that is harassment and bullying, and awful. I am so sorry you and other gay people face that even still." She says anger and sadness obvious in her tone.
My eyes widen and I quickly say "No! I am not gay! I can't be gay." Her eyes look down and she seems depressed by the statement for some reason. Then I realize that may have offended her. "I have nothing against gay people!" I say as I try to correct my mistake. "I mean, Sam is a lesbian and she is my best friend and I support her fully, it is just that I can't be gay. My family is very religious and I would get thrown out of the house and my family would disown me. That is part of the reason I hate Regina. Regina's rumors spread around town and back to my parents. They panicked and sent me to a conversion camp" She gasps and puts her hand over her mouth in shock. "Yep, now you know the reason why I hate her so much. She ruined my life. People still call me names behind my back but no one does to my face anymore"
"That is awful,"
"Yep, I am not the only one I have seen her ruin many lives. Be careful around her Kara. I don't want what happened to me happening to you."
"Yep but that just begs the question" I raise my eyebrow at her waiting for the question, "If, and that is a very big if, totally hypothetical" Kara moves so she is next to me leaning against the tree but turns so she is facing me slightly. "If your parents didn't care, about your sexuality, would you like women?"
This freezes me for a minute. "Totally hypothetical" She nods "Well I never really thought about it but women are pretty and usually a lot nicer than men. So probably" I say with a shrug. "Even if I, 'theoretically' liked girls I could never be in an open relationship with a girl. I couldn't be seen in public with them and I couldn't do any of things you would do in a normal relationship with someone. It would get back to my parents somehow and I- I just couldn't do that to them"
"Yeah but aren't some people worth the risk? I mean true love is something you just have to fight for."
"That being said by someone who has the luxury of being whoever they want without consequences"
Sam's POV
It takes me two minutes to make it to my car which was parked next to the football field.
I jog over to my car door and open it as I grab the medical kit.
I move away from the car door and shut it.
"Hey"
"Oh my lord" I yell as Alex scares the shit out of me. She was leaning against the hood of my car in her soccer uniform. I grab at my heart as I try and slow it as it is beating way too quickly before saying "Jesus Alex! You scared the shit out of me"
She giggles at me and then says "Sorry for scaring you! Shouldn't you be at home right now? The only people at school usually right now are athletes and no offense but I have seen you in gym class it isn't your strongest subject."
I gasp in mock offense and shove her lightly as I say "That is so untrue. I am great at the athletics"
She raises an eyebrow at me and starts dying of laughter as she says "Sammy sorry to inform you, no one says it that way,"
I roll my eyes at her and say "Look as much as I am enjoying this conversation where you are questioning how obviously athletic I am' she laughs at that as I continue "but I have to get back to my friend," I hold up the medkit
She gives me a questioning look and then says "Are they okay? Do they need medical attention?" Concern clear in her voice.
"Yeah she is. She punched something so she only has some cuts and bruises on her hand. I left her with our new friend Kara. I don't yet know if she is going to play nice or try to kill her."
"Well then you should probably get back," Alex says. She looks a little sad at the fact that I have to leave but that is my imagination playing tricks on me and my crush maybe getting to me.
I start walking away but Alex says "Oh before you go can I have your number?"
"Didn't realize the straight girl was into flirting and taunting gay girls" I am well known as one of the only out lesbians at school.
Alex steals a pen from a pocket I hadn't noticed in her shorts before grabbing my hand and writing her number on it as she winks at me and says "who says I am straight? I mean I play soccer." before patting my shoulder and walking away.
It takes a full minute for the blush that was on my cheeks to go away and for my heart to start beating at a normal rate.
I walk back to the forest and pull out my phone and add her number into my contacts. I create a new message and send her
"Why am I not surprised the famous Alex Danvers is such a flirt?"
I put my phone in my pocket before I could see her response.
I find Kara and Lena talking and laughing together. So they didn't kill each other that's good.
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Lena's POV
3 months later
Of course, it did.
Of course, it fucking did.
My luck is the worst.
Of course over the span of 3 months, I decide to get revenge on Regina and have Kara go undercover as a plastic and ruin her life like she ruined mine.
But of course, me and my awful luck had to go and fall in love with Kara. Of course, I had to fall hard and it hit me like a gunshot when I realized my feelings for her.
Of course, Kara is straight and ditching us to hang out with Alex Danvers when she isn't hanging out with the plastics.
And what's even worse is Sam is in love with Alex also. She hasn't told me but I know. She is my best friend and I can see how much it is killing her. Alex has no time with soccer, Kara, and school so she has spent no time with Sam.
I think Alex may like Sam also but they haven't had time to figure it out. Alex always smiles brighter when Sam is around. And they make each other laugh and smile brighter when they are together.
The worst part of all of this is that Kara turned into Regina. She became manipulative and mean. Even after we have almost completely ruined Regina's life. I don't think we will ever be able to get her back to her normal self. She is way too far gone.
I have a science fair tomorrow night and Sam is coming and trying to get Alex to come.
I talked to Kara last week about it but she said she was way too busy with other stuff and her parents had plans with her that they have had in the books for months.
I get that and said it was fine even though it is killing me that she won't be there to support me.
Next-Day (at the science fair show same POV)
Sam is by my side in a white button-down and jeans. I am wearing a white tank top and a blue fancy vest.
Of course, my family is nowhere in sight.
The night goes quickly and lots of people compliment me on my experiments..
What made my night was the fact that a recruiter from Chicago University of Science and engineering offered me a full scholarship to study for chemistry and physics.
Sma was super supportive and Alex even showed up towards the end of the night.
She looked very annoyed. Sam talked to her about it and after a minute and I see a fire in Sam's eyes I hadn't seen in a long time.
She walks up to me and says "Kara didn't have plans with her family. She blew this off to throw a huge party."
"Oh, this bitch! As soon as this is over we are gonna go confront her." I say as I resist the urge to punch something.
Sam nods her agreement.
Kara's POV
I am cleaning garbage up from the major party I threw instead of going to Lena's science or hanging with my parents.
I hear a loud and aggravated honk outside. Followed by many more honks.
I get curious and walk outside. My eyes widen as I walk outside and find an annoyed Sam and a severely pissed-off Lena.
"Lena I can explain!" I say as I drop the bag of garbage and walk closer to them.
"Save it!" Lena snaps "Nothing you can say right now can justify what has been explained to me." steam was practically coming out of her ears. She points at Alex who looks very disappointed in me as she stands next to Sam.
"But-"
"No we started this as a joke! You are too invested in this. You have become a plastic." Lena says as she walks closer to me looking like she was a second away from hitting something.
"It was your idea for me to be a plastic," I say trying to defend myself.
"Buddy it's not pretending, you are plastic as they come, you think your shit don't stink, you think the rest of us are dumb! But here's the thing I hate Regina's guts and at least she has the guts not to pretend to be my friend!" Lena snaps at me.
"Janis-"
"No, it's fine. I thought we were real friends. I see I was wrong my mistake." She throws something at my chest that I catch. I look down and see a blue ribbon for first place.
"Lena-"
"Save it! I am such an idiot." Lena walks even closer to me and says "I love you. Do you know that? Even with all this going on I feel for you. Even knowing how my family would react. The amount I felt for you made me find something worth fighting for but now? I am done."
"Le-"
"Goodbye, Kara. Have fun being a plastic. Hope it is everything you want it to be." Lena says before she turns and walks away with Sam and Alex on her trail.
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(Time skips to just before the dance the ending of this doesn't make a ton of sense unless you know the movie but I hope you enjoy it anyway.)
The mathletes one state. It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had. Kara was right. I became exactly what I hated in people.
Alex came and congratulated me on the win.
"I am sorry for all I did to you but I need your help I need to get to the dance I need to apologize to Lena and try and win her back"
"Let's do it. I need to win Sam's heart so let's get going!"
"Awww that is very adorable! Let's go get our girls."
"Well I don't actually know if she likes -"
"She does! It is really obvious!"
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Lena's POV
Sam and I are at the dance. We are wearing matching suits but I am wearing a black skirt as a bottom instead of pants like hers.
Yeah, I finally embraced myself and turned my parents into social services for abuse.
We are dancing and being dorks and the night couldn't be more perfect.
"We are 100% looking better than everyone here," Sam says.
"Of course, we can both agree we are 10s amongst these threes," I say with a smirk.
"Yes you are..." a familiar voice says.
We both spin around to see Alex and Kara standing next to each other.
"Sorry Sam," Alex says before anyone could react Alex pulled Sam into her and kissed her deeply.
They start making out and I smile happily for my best friend. But it is getting a bit much so I clear my throat loudly.
Sam blushes a bright red when they pull away and rests her forehead on Alex's.
"Sorry, you may not like me or wanted that at all, but I have a massive crush on you and have had one for a while. I am not great with words and I am a woman of action so before I chickened-" Alex gets cut off by Sam kissing her just as deeply as the first kiss.
"Stop talking. Of course, I like you back. I can't remember a time when I didn't like you. Let's go dance and kiss some more." Sam says while tugging Alex to the dance floor.
I smile as I watch them dancing.
"Hey..."
I raise my eyebrow at the girl and say "What do you want Kara?"
I see her flinch "Look you probably hate me and will probably hate me for the rest of my life but I couldn't live with myself if I didn't apologize and ask for your forgiveness."
I raise an eyebrow and stare into her eyes "Are you back to your real self?"
"I hope so, I am trying really hard at least"
"Then you are forgiven. I can't stay mad at you..." I say with a shrug.
"Well, I hope you can forgive me for this then.." Kara says after she takes a huge deep breath.
Before I can react Kara pulls me into a deep passion-filled kiss.
There are fireworks through my whole body and butterflies in my stomach. This is the best kiss ever.
After a minute we both have to pull away to get some air.
"Wow"
"Seriously,"
"So want to go dance?"
"I would love that."
"Glad to have you back Kara"