As weeks passed, I had eventually fitted into the school system. At that point, my life had started feeling better. I was making progress in school and had actually started communicating with other kids once more. Katherine and Alphonso were the best, I had actually felt like I was indeed their daughter.

Dominic however was still a different story. He was still cold and unfriendly towards me, maybe not as much as before but still. I had stopped caring about it though, he had talked to me a few times when he had to and was my ride to and from school, so I called it progress. Even Dominic's friend Marc had become really friendly to me and I knew Dominic hated that his best friend was being nice to me, but it was funny to watch his expression each time.

One evening after school was over, I had come out of class a bit later than usual because our teacher had kept us back for an extra five minutes. After all, some students had been quite disruptive earlier. He decided that he would punish us by holding us back an extra five minutes-as if five minutes extra could be considered punishment. When I reached the parking lot where I normally met Dominic for him to take us home, all I was met with was the smoke that came from his car as he sped away.

Now that was punishment.

I usually had to wait on him for up to an hour sometimes for him to be ready to leave the school grounds but the one time I'm five minutes late he left me behind? He hadn't even come to see where I was or anything.

I had lived there for a while and attended the school for over two months, so I was familiar with the roads to home. I sighed as I decided to start walking. I thought that maybe I would walk part of the way then got a taxi or something the rest of the way. I had walked for almost ten minutes or more when a silver Porsche pulled up next to me.

“What are you doing?” Marc called out to me.

“Walking” I stated as I barely glimpsed at him then continued walking while he drove slowly at my walking pace.

“I can see that, but why are you walking?” He questioned.

“Oh, I don't know. Maybe because I'm crazy and feeling quite energetic, so I decided to walk home this evening, or because your stupid friend decided to leave me behind” I replied.

“Alright, get in” Marc chuckled.

“Thanks, but I'm fine” I replied stubborn as ever, and not really being in the mood to talk to anybody.

“Come on Lexi, don't be stubborn. Let me give you a ride home” he stopped then leaned over in his seat and opened the passenger door.

“Fine” I sighed as I got in.

“You know you're one really stubborn and hardheaded girl” Marc chuckled.

“Thanks for the compliment” I replied sarcastically in a sweet voice which caused him to laughed at my choice of a comeback.

“You never ceased to surprise me” Marc chuckled as he drove off “I don't know why Dominic doesn't give you a chance”

“You should ask him that,” I said to him as he drove me home.

********************* “Thanks a lot for the ride,” I said to Marc as he parked in front of the house.

“No problem, I'll see you tomorrow. Tell the big boy I said hey” Marc chuckled.

“Yeah right, that's probably never going to happen” I replied as I got out of the car and Marc drove away.

Dominic's car was in the driveway which meant the brute had indeed left me at school on my own and came home. I headed to the front door and I shook my head at the situation. However, when I walked inside the living room, what greeted me made me wanted to turn around and walked right back out or clawed my own eyes out then check myself back in with a therapist.

Dominic was on the couch shirtless with an equally half-naked blonde straddling him. It was pretty obvious even to a blind person what they were doing. Like EW some of us actually sat on that couch from time to time. That moment, I officially labeled that particular couch uncleaned.

I couldn't help the words that came out my mouth next.

“Oh my God, EW! That's disgusting. Well this explains why I was left alone in a parking lot at school”.

At that, both Dominic and his blonde partner who had yet to see that I had entered the house, jumped in fright as he pushed the girl off him onto the couch and stood up as he quickly tried to pull up his pants that were around his ankles. I put my hands over my eyes and turned my head away as not to see anything I wished not to.

“What the hell are you doing here!?” Dominic yelled at me angrily as I lowered my hands and saw that he was finally fully clothed from the waist down and the girl was in his shirt.

“I believe I live here” I answered which only seemed to spiked his anger.

“You're not only a nuisance now in my life but the biggest thorn in my side. I don't know why Dad didn't leave you alone in that alley to die just like your parents!” He yelled “Natalia, give me a few minutes I'll soon be back,” he says to the blonde before he stormed out.

“He's right you know,” Natalia said to me. “You are really being a stupid nuisance right now. Just because you don't have a life and your parents are gone doesn't mean you can go try ruining other's lives and try taking over their parents”.

With that whatever little decency or civility, I had in me shattered. I was already hurt by what Dominic had said to me, but this classless bitch just had to go ahead and rubbed more salt in the wound. No one talked about my parents like that and got away If she thought I was a nuisance, well I'd just show her how much of a nuisance I could be.

Without saying another word, I ran upstairs to my room. I had the perfect lesson in mind for that blonde bitch. I kept hoping that it would work. I headed to my bathroom and took out a bottle of half-finished shampoo from the cabinet inside. I had some Nair hair remover in there too, so I took that out as well. I pulled the cap from both bottles and squeezed some Nair into the shampoo bottle.

I remembered I hadn't brought back the paint thinner to the garage yesterday after I had finished trying to get rid of some paint I spilled yesterday on my shoes at school. Who knew that would have become handy? I went and got the paint thinner and also poured some into the shampoo bottle then shook it up. I then poured some of my new lavender shampoo into it as well so that the scent from the two chemicals would be masked. I then went back downstairs and slipped discreetly into the guest bathroom and put that shampoo bottle in plain sight.

I passed Natalia who was sat on the same gross couch and went to the kitchen. I began my search for the stickiest or smelliest food that could be found. I settled on a tin of sardines to which I had some mayonnaise, ketchup, and mustard it in a bowl. I was just about to head back to the living room when Natalia came into the kitchen glaring at me.

I pretended that I hadn't seen her. However, when I turned around and tried to pass her she purposely bounced into me which caused the bowl to tipped over in my hand and onto my shirt.

The bitch!

I thought that my plan had backfired on me when my shirt had been messed up with the sardine mess. However, in that process when Natalia bumped into me, her phone fell from her hand to the ground. She bent to pick up instantly, and I could not believe my luck. Just imagined how delighted I was to find out that this bitch deliberately and unknowingly made my task a lot easier. I maliciously allowed the bowl with the remainder of sardines and stuff to fall out my hands right on her head. Bingo!

“Oh my God, I'm so sorry,” I said quickly as I pretended it was an accident and tried to help her brushed the stuff out of her hair when I in fact made it messier.

However, the girl almost deafened me with her piercing scream as she got up and started cursing me and called me all sorts of names. I on the other hand wasn't at all troubled by what she was saying anymore because step one of my revenge for what she had said earlier was already in motion.

“You stupid little bitch! You're such a waste of space!” She continued yelling.

“I am so, so sorry, please let me help,” I said as I feigned sorry and reached towards her hair.

“No! I don't need your damn help! You idiot” She screamed and swatted my hands away.

“Uhm.... If it'll make you feel any better there is a towel and shampoo in the guest's bathroom you could use to clean up” I suggested to her secretly hoping that she would have followed through.

“I don't want to hear a damn thing from you!” She yelled once more before she stormed out.

I took some paper towels from the roll and wiped the mess from the front of my shirt. I cleaned the mess from the kitchen floor then got a snack to eat. After about ten minutes I heard that piercing scream once again. That moment I knew that it was my lucky day, everything just seemed to have worked out so conveniently for me. I figured that my plan must have worked, either that or Natalia was giving birth to something big- a cow, maybe.

I took my time and made my way to the living room once again just in time to see Dominic strolled in. Natalia ran out of the bathroom wrapped in one of the towels and was crying like hell. When I took a good look at her, I couldn't help the proud feeling that rose within me. That Nair and thinner worked better than I thought it would. Natalia looked as if she had done chemotherapy. The front of her head was bald, and the remainder of the hair was extremely thin and looked as if it would fall off anytime if the wind blew too hard. Her face was red like blood and even a part of her left eyebrow was missing.

“Jesus Christ! What happened to you?” Dominic yelled, frightened by the sight in front of him.

That caused Natalia to started behaving more hysterically. I could not help the smirk that began to form as the sides of my lips twitched upwards.

“She- she” Natalia tried saying between tears as Dominic slowly made his way towards her.

“What happened? What did you do to yourself?” Dominic asked as he looked at her like he had seen a ghost.

“I don't... I don't know, she.” Natalia said as she pointed at me before she burst into tears again.

Maybe I had become a sadistic person At that moment because seeing Natalia like that gave me such an extreme feeling of joy, pleasure and triumphed. I wanted to dance at the moment.

“What did you do!?” Dominic yelled as he glared at me.

I put on the most innocent face ever before I replied, “Who? Me? Nothing. I don't know what she's talking about”.

“You must have done something!” He accused.

“Well, I didn't! What the hell could I have done to her causing her to look like a freaking giant bald chicken!?” I yelled back at him then stormed out.

Their backs were to me as Dominic assessed Natalia's situation. I hurried to the bathroom and took up the shampoo bottle that Natalia had used, then I replaced it with a similar one that was hidden in the cupboard before I slipped out and headed upstairs before they saw I had gone in that guest bathroom. I went into my bathroom and squeezed the remainder of the mixed-up shampoo down the drain before I washed the bottle, dried it then burned it in the bathtub.

I called it getting rid of the evidence, there was no way anyone was going to hold me responsible for Natalia's new looks. Not without proof they're not. That was only the beginning for anyone who tried to hurt me or disrespected my dead family.