🌹🖤THE PICKPOCKET TOMBOY 🖤🌹
[She’s Sassy…]
THEME: The Grand Hottie’s Kissmate
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CHAPTER 13&14
•The next Day~New York Police Station•
“Young CEO please, don’t leave me here! Please, I beg!”Mark screamed, vigorously shaking the jail bars.
Eric didn’t look back, he walked out with Thomas by his side.
Going out is like entering hell because Newscasters, Reporters and even paparazzis filled up a space like headless mice.
There’s a boundary blocking them from meeting The CEO of Grande Robotics and his son, but they’re still screaming.
Even gunshots in the air didn’t stop them. How exactly did they know that Thomas and Eric are here? No answer.
•CEO Thomas Grande, how does it feel to get betrayed by your trusted right-hand man?
•It’s a month now, have you gotten over it?
•Eric Grande, can you tell us what you’ll reward the Sharmer King with when you eventually find him?
•Can you turn gay for the Sharmer King? Rumour says that he’s gay.
•No wonder you’re the Grand Hottie. Are you really from planet Earth? Why this hot?
Eric ignored them, he locked eyes with his father and Thomas nodded.
They took different routes, Eric got to his Ghost and entered.
It’s day so it’s fair he drives.
His mind wandered back to Mark and he gritted his jaw. “füç? you, Mark”
“Senitel”he murmured.
“Senitel, right on service Master Eric”Senitel replied.
“A tomboy who has the same quality as my late twin, what do I call her?”he asked.
“Perhaps a reminder, Master Eric. She reflects what you once cherished.”Senitel replied.
“Cherished? If at all I did”Eric said.
“Then you should cherish the Tomboy. She’s your late sister’s mirror. You may call her a replacement. Though no substitute can truly equal what was lost, you can see her as your sister”Senitel replied.
“Shut up and say something meaningful,”Eric said, curtly.
“Your tone speaks hate, Master Eric. Am I right?”Senitel asked.
“Senitel!”Eric snapped.
“Call her nothing special, Master Eric. Shared qualities do not recreate blood. So she’s nothing to you,”Senitel added quickly.
“Good,”Eric said and started the car.
He drove off.
•Alex’s Home•
Alex sat up, yawning lazily. She stretched for a long time and cracked her neck and knuckles.
Yesterday’s night was hectic, she dance-practiced till she got too tired.
She got down from the bed and her neck came into view. On the left side is a tattoo.
A rose flower.
Not a deep red tattoo like Eric’s, hers is just drawn. No color. Just plain, real tattoo drawing.
Alex walked to the mirror and stared at her image, rubbing the tattoo.
“Time to get you covered up, bro”she muttered and walked to her wardrobe, she opened it and brought out a hidden bag.
She pulled it to the dressing table and poured out different concealers— especially tattoo concealers.
Like said, when she goes on her pickpocketing mission, she reveals her tattoo and dresses like a complete guy to confuse her prey.
Then she conceals it and appears as a normal tomboy.
She also hides the tattoo from her mom.
Alex picked two concealer packs and threw it in her backpack. Just in case.
Then she walked to the bathroom.
Later.
Alex already put on her shorts and tube, she sat before the mirror and opened her concealers.
She doesn’t do makeup, but she uses them to cover her little secret.
She took the powder puff, dipped it in the concealer one by one, and applied it to her tattoo.
Gradually, the tattoo was covered till her skin became natural.
The concealer is the same with her color so it’s as if she didn’t rub anything on her neck.
“Great”she nodded and packed them back in the bag, going to the wardrobe.
In no time, she was dressed in her uniform.
•Stone’s Residence•
Ana and Isa are on the couch, while Isabelle is taking tons of selfies on her phone, Anabelle is scrolling through random videos on TikTok.
“Everyone talks about Sharmer King. Even without revealing his face, girls are dying for him”Ana said.
“Plus you”Isa pouted to the camera.
“I’m just crushing, I’m not dying, Gerrit?”Ana snapped.
“Crushing on someone you haven’t seen in your life. Aren’t you pathetic?”Isa kept her phone and looked at her.
Ana scoffed and walked to another couch, falling her arse on it.
“You’re impossible,”Isabelle said.
“Girlies”Mirabelle stormed down the stairs. A house worker wanted to climb up the staircase, but a sharp kick from Mirabelle sent her falling on her butt.
“Sweetie, you’re hot”Ana assessed her sluty uniform. She rolled her eyes, smirking proudly.
“I always am”she flaunted her hair.
“You shouldn’t believe Ana, re-check yourself in the mirror. You’re horrible”Isa said.
“I don’t wanna start with you today, Isabitch,”Mira glared and fell beside Ana on the couch.
“It’s on trend— our dance challenge. And guess what? The stupid scholarships are shipping that Alex of an arsehole”Ana said.
“Does it matter? We’re winning and we’re kicking her out of Stars High”Mira scoffed.
“Should we kick her out? Or use her as our errand girl forever?”Isa looked at them and smirked.
“Grand Hottie wants her out,”Ana replied.
“If we can give Grande Hottie a valid reason for her to stay after her sure failure, then she’ll be our lickspittle till we graduate”Mira nodded.
“And what valid reason?”Ana asked.
“I don’t know, yet. But leave that to me. Then the Tomboy bitch, we’ll give her a choice. It’s either she becomes our lickspittle, or leaves the school”Mira smirked.
“Of course we’re winning, girls like that are too desperate. She wouldn’t wanna leave, she’ll accept to serve us”Isa kept the same smirk.
Ana shrugged, searching for the trending news about The ‘Sharmer King’.
“The Tomboy is gon’ hear from me today”Mira muttered in deep hate.
•Stars High•
Alex got down from her bike only to meet crazy scholarship fans.
•Alexandra Stone, we believe in you!
•You have the same last name as the Queen Bee but your good qualities differentiate you from her. You’ll win this dance on Friday.
•Go Alex, fight and win!
“What the hell?”Alex widened her eyes as she took off her helmet.
Cathy ran to her with a small but sweet smile.
“Dennis organized this. He’s like the leader of all the scholarship students. He wanted to make you feel better and eager”she explained.
“Who says I was scared? And who’s Dennis by the way?”Alex blinked twice.
“He’s not here yet. But, I believe in you. You’ll win the dance challenge”Cathy muttered.
“Thanks, but these words are for princesses. I’m Alex, not a princess that needs to be cheered before she pulls a pin outta her palm”Alex rolled her eyes and Cathy laughed.
•It’s Grande Hottie!
The once Alex supporters abandoned her, running to the spot where Eric’s Veneno parked. Some even threw their banners, only a few male students stood.
“If Dennis catches them”Cathy shook her head.
“Funny”Alex chuckled.
•My Grande Hottie, just kill me!
•Your poker eyes mesmerize me.
•Whoa, Rhapsody Morozov!
•You came with Grande Hottie! That’s so sweet!
•What about my Derek?
Eric’s eyes scanned for a particular someone. A tall, different, glaring someone.
Alex.
He smiled tauntingly and she returned it with a hard, soul slicing glare.
Eric laughed and walked away.
Alex cursed him inside.
•Did our Grande Hottie just laugh?
•What exactly did he laugh at?
•Whatever it is, it’s so lucky! I guess that tree made him laugh.
•Yeah, his eyes were on the tree. Lucky tree.
Students, especially the rich kids who came from wherever to scream Eric’s name started running to the tree to worship it.
“Are they… crazy?”Cathy muttered in shock.
“Hey bitches”Rhapsody got to them, she shook hands with Alex and when it got to Cathy, they hesitated, not knowing how to shake hands.
Cathy possibly wouldn’t know how to rock that style.
“A little hug?”Alex asked.
“Yeah”Rhapsody muttered and side-hugged Cathy.
“So, you followed ‘Grande Hottie’ here”Alex air quoted.
“He has to bribe me by driving me here. The arsehole made me angry yesterday, remember?”Rhapsody said.
“Yon give a füç? about him”Alex said.
“Grande Hottie is a mood swinger, maybe he’ll one day be close to you. People with bad mouths are always his friends, like Derek and Rhapsody. Rhapsody was his big time enemy because she never abided by his rule”Cathy explained.
“I’ll never befriend that proudie. I’d rather live in the ocean, than laugh with that Idiot. Damn, why’d you think of that, Cat!”Alex yelled.
Rhapsody laughed and tapped her.
“C’mon dude. I see chemistry. Especially now that Eric has his hatred in full pail”she teased, Alex punched her angrily on the chest and walked away.
Rhapsody laughed out.
“You teased me with Cathy too”she yelled.
Cathy looked at her.
“Me? What?”she asked.
“Nevermind, I’ll take you as a Bestie. You’re not my type”Rhapsody pulled her, walking away.
Cathy looked back, wondering why Derek didn’t come with Eric.
‘Is he fine?’ she thought.
•Senior Class•
Class is over.
Alex stayed in the middle of Cathy and Rhapsody, telling them crazy things, her face lit as a result of the tab before her.
The two laughed out loud. Although Catherine is an introvert, she really enjoys being in the company of these crazy girls.
Like, they’re really crazy. Especially Alex. At least, Rhapsody is low-key cray cray.
“You!”Mirabelle stormed in with her friends, pointing at Cathy. She stood up immediately.
“Keep our bags”she said, throwing the three little, girlies backpack at her.
Cathy managed to catch two, the last one fell on the floor.
All attention was on them.
Live videos were made immediately.
“How. Dare. You”Mira gritted her jaw.
“Hey, have you lost your respect? Why’re you here to distract our holy gathering?”Alex asked, yawning boringly.
“Nah, bitch. She got no respect. It’s up to us to lend her one”Rhapsody smirked at Mira.
“I wasn’t talking to you both! Gawd, I can’t stand you!”Mira screamed.
“Then sit down!”the two stood up in sync.
They made Cathy release the bags in her hand and the bags fell to the floor, joining the last one.
Isabelle screamed in horror as her bag landed on the floor.
“My baby!”she screamed.
At the same time, Winter and Dennis were walking in. She grabbed that opportunity to yank Winter by the collar, slapping her non-stop.
•füç?
•The Angel Winter.
“füç? it. Please stop!”Dennis begged.
Rhapsody widened her eyes and rushed to the scene, she pulled Isabelle away and angrily slammed her face on hers.
That affected Isa’s nose, she started bleeding.
“Isa!”Anabelle tried to walk forward.
“Nice phone,”Alex said behind her. She turned back and widened her eyes, seeing Alex with her phone.
“My phone. How.. how…”she panicked, checking herself. She started jumping, pointing at the phone.
“Give it back!”she yelled.
Mirabelle stood, unsure of what to do.
“This is wood”Alex scrutinized the phone and tossed it away, luckily, it landed on a locker.
Anabelle ran to it and picked it, kissing it.
“Guys!”Isabelle cried. Rhapsody was already yanking her hair.
Cathy stood, fidgeting. Dennis hugged crying Winter, watching the scene in horror.
“If someone challenges you, you face that someone. Not who’s weak”Rhapsody glared and pushed her away.
“You’ll regret this, I swear”Mira marched to her, but Alex pulled her back.
“Regret your actions first”she whispered.
“Mummy!”Isabelle ran out with a bleeding nose, Ana followed.
Mirabelle forcefully removed her grip off Alex and glared at her. Alex gave her the middle finger.
“I’m just patient till the dance challenge. After you lose woefully, I’ll deal with you. I’ll squeeze you and blow you into the air. Mark. My. Words”she warned and marched out.
The three forgot their bags.
“Boring joke,”Alex yelled after her. “Damn, so many enemies,”she chuckled.
“Thank you so much, Rhapsody,”Dennis said.
Rhapsody glanced at Winter and looked away.
“Be a man and protect your girlfriend”she muttered, walking back to her seat.
•I ship Rhapsody and Alex!
•They’re the best!
•The fighter for the scholarships!
Cathy closed her eyes, heaving breaths. Alex maintained where she stood, smiling to herself. Her dimples showed off her beauty.
•Eric’s Haven•
Eric watched the scene on his phone, smirking to himself.
“Mira’s seen her size”he muttered and bit the side of his lip, looking up.
Even though the Tomboy and Rhapsody gave Belles charming pills, the Tomboy’s guts annoys Eric.
A church rat dealing with millions spenders? How sassy.
Before she finally gets her arse kicked out of the school, how about Eric play games with her.
Eric looked back at his phone, assessing every corner of the school.
He has every track on his phone.
He scrolled to the hallway, checking all the lockers on the wall. His thumb stopped at Alex’s locker— Alexandra Stone, written digitally.
Normally, to access a locker, you’ll have to input a password. It’s a keyless entry.
But right there, with his phone, he changed her password.
A message popped on his phone, disrupting his evil scheme, he read the first few lines.
~Eric, I’m officially eighteen now, I can’t wait to kiss…
He removed the message with a low scoff.
•Ken and Ben’s Restaurant•
•In the Kitchen•
A waitress by name Amanda, rushed in.
“Customers are trooping in like swarms of bees. They’re freaking much!”she screamed in excitement.
“Christy’s doing,”a chef beside Christy replied.
“It’s just normal. Don’t flatter me”Christy blushed, grinding tomatoes and ginger.
“Normal? You call customers coming in like this is the only restaurant in the world, normal?”Amanda blinked.
“Are you kidding me? No, you gotta be kidding me”she said, Christy chuckled.
“Rich business men and women wanna eat here, foreigners and tourists are speaking good about our restaurant. Just yesterday you came and you brought us luck”the chef beside Christy said, Christy adjusted her cap and shrugged.
“Really…”
“Your food is amazing, don’t try saying it’s nothing. Boss lady adores you”Amanda snapped.
“I’m jealous, I must confess,”another cook said.
“Of course you’d be,salt lady,”Amanda teased. They laughed.
“Why exactly are you here, Amanda?”Christy asked.
“I have no idea,”she laughed.
“Yeah, I remember”she brought out the list.
“A plate of enchiladas… A reindeer sausage… two plates of lasagne… Grilled salmon with lotta ketchup… Fried chicken and….”Amanda listed, the chefs swang into action.
As Christy served, she thought.
It’s not so bad coming to New York afterall, is it?
She hopes it’s not.
•Stars High~Cafeteria•
“I’m the only one studying Espanol in this group? This is bad!”Alex complained, pushing her milk aside.
Rhapsody picked it and drank from it, Alex glared at her but she looked away. Cathy laughed slowly, burying her face in her food. She’s a foodie.
They’re on a table for five. They’re complete, Winter and Dennis joined them not long ago.
“You can switch,”Dennis suggested.
“Y’all should switch, who still learns French in this century?”she questioned.
The four raised their hands and she scoffed.
“No one forced you to study Spanish. In Stars High, you are given these four languages and asked to study one— French, Spanish, Greece and Latin. You chose Spanish and that’s fair for you. I’m learning French and ça me va”Rhapsody stuck out her tongue at Alex.
“Rhapo,”Alex groaned.
“It means you’re an arsehole”Rhapsody teased.
“Why?”Alex grunted.
“She’s lying, it means ‘I’m okay with it’. She likes French and she’s okay with it”Winter said.
She locked eyes with Rhapsody and quickly looked away.
“Thanks Dennis, but don’t try that again,”Alex said.
“What?”he blinked.
She shook her head. “Nevermind”
Winter’s phone buzzed and she lit her eyes in happiness, she excused herself and ran out.
“Win?”Dennis squinted, following her.
“Finally,”Rhapsody muttered.
“Finally what?”Alex frowned at her.
“I don’t like her,”Rhapsody said.
“Winter?”Alex asked.
Rhapsody didn’t reply, she dug in her spicy pork.
“You don’t like chicken?”Cathy pouted.
“You want?”Rhapsody asked, she nodded.
The chicken plate was pushed to her, she happily ate.
Alex stared at Rhapsody, she doesn’t like Winter? Why? Winter is a free one. And Rhapo she knows likes free people.
•Outside•
“I’ve been accepted,”Winter gushed.
The thing is, she applied for a job as a house help. She saw the offer online and didn’t think twice before applying for it.
She knows Dennis will be upset, but it’s for the best. She needs this job.
She needs something to do before graduation.
“But how am I gonna tell Dennis I’m leaving for the interview tomorrow?”she muttered.
“What do I say?”she said and jerked when she saw Dennis walking to her.
“Den, hey Den”she smiled.
“You left, and you’re smiling. Don’t lie to me, I know that look”he warned.
“Oh… I won’t lie”she muttered
“So fill me in,”he shrugged.
“The game… I’ve been playing for…”
“Win?”Dennis raised his brows.
“Fine, I saw a job offer but after remembering I’ll be in trouble at the orphanage, I changed my mind on applying”she lied.
“You should quit this job thinking thing, let’s go back in,”he held her hand.
“Yeah,”she bit her lips secretly.
•Closing Hour•
Alex walked to her locker tiredly. She’d told Rhapsody to go because she’d be using her bike. She wouldn’t want Rhapsody to drive her home.
She inputted the four digit code only to see red flags on screen.
She blinked and tried again.
And again.
“1-0-1-0!”she screamed in frustration, tapping it harder.
“Try again in one hour?”she read.
“Who did this?!”she screamed. Her head banged when something popped up in her head and she boiled.
She picked up her backpack she’d tossed to the floor earlier— out of anger, and slid it on her shoulder, marching out.
•The Next Day~Wednesday•
The screams of the students never moved Alex.
She’s not ready for BELLES.
Even when Mirabelle winked at her, she didn’t funk.
Rhapsody had asked her countless times why she was fuming, a ‘nothing’ was the reply.
Cathy didn’t bother to ask.
Winter and Dennis as usual haven’t come. They stay in the orphanage anyway.
The next to scream for was the Grand Hottie and Alex heaved a deep sigh, folding her fists.
Rhapsody noticed that but shrugged, she loves fights like this and she’s gonna sit and watch.
Immediately Eric got out of his car, Alex marched forward, in the process, she snatched a bottle of milkshake from a female student.
“Now this bitch is Alex. Dunno what Eric did, but this is Alex motherfüç?ing Stone”Rhapsody collected Cathy’s iced americano, drinking from the straw as she watched.
Everyone watched in silence too.
Even Belles stopped the little bullying they were doing at a spot to watch.
Noticeably, Isabelle’s nose is plastered.
Alex didn’t let Eric settle down, she poured the drink on his clean as füç? blazers.
•Oh my gawd.
•I sense war
Eric looked down at his soiled Blazer and sighed, looking back at Alex’s burning eyes.
Of course he knows she’s boiling.
He hates her so much that he enjoys her anger… like this.
He loves her anger, it does something soothing to him.
“You tampered with my locker yesterday and I couldn’t access it. I can’t access it,!”she screamed.
“Oh, so this is why she’s been boiling?”Rhapsody nodded to herself and took another long sip.
Cathy looked at her in surprise.
“That’s my G!”Rhapsody screamed out loud.
“You poor bitches love watching me burn clothes right? I’ll gladly burn this one in front of you”Eric said, he started unbuttoning his blazer before her.
Then he tossed it to the floor, together with his wrist watch since a little of the shake stained it.
“I didn’t ask you to burn anything and I don’t care if you do. You’re the only computer Wizard in the school, you’re the first person on my hate-list. I know you did it”Alex spat.
Eric didn’t reply, not until he set the cloth on fire together with the watch… as usual, he’s been given the necessities.
Alex folded her fists, glaring hard into his soul.
Not until she saw the watch clearly.
Graff diamond brand.
The costliest brand ever that is worth over forty million dollars!
Is that how proudly rich he is?
Her throat bubbled and she looked up at him.
“Grande Hottie?”Those words escaped her throat before she could stop them.
“Hmm?”Eric smirked.
TBC…
