Note: This is the sequel to another one of my stories, The Bikelock and the Bitch.
"Oh my God, Becca. No one cares about your damn cheer practice. We have a lab assignment to finish," Marie reprimanded her seemingly air-headed lab partner.
"Show some school spirit, Marie. Our school's cheer team is going to nationals for our amazing routines. Not everything is about you and your GPA," Becca replied.
Marie truly couldn't stand her lab partner. When she had walked into her chemistry lab on the first day of classes sophomore year and found she would be paired with the captain of the cheer team, she knew this semester was going to suck. Becca was only here to drink, party, and win cheer competitions. Marie, on the other hand, desperately wanted to go into medicine, which meant the two could not have made worse lab partners.
"Just hand me the pipet. We're almost done here anyway, and I'm ready to get this over with."
"Well, that's something I can agree with," Becca replied as she handed her a pipet, just about the only thing she had contributed to the lab project.
Thankfully, the two finished on time and left. Marie began walking to the local Starbucks to hang out with some of her friends. Marie was just glad to be away from Becca. To be fair, the two had started on the wrong foot. Marie's first real encounter with the cheerleader was when her best friend Kelly bumped into the girl and spilled food on the girl's outfit. Though Becca certainly had room to be angry, she had overreacted and blown up on the poor girl, yelling at Kelly and storming off.
More importantly, though, Marie wanted to support her friend. After that day, Kelly had nothing but disdain for Becca and the rest of the cheerleading team. Though her reaction seemed a little overblown, Marie obviously took Kelly's side, and defended her when the cheer team bitched about her.
Of course, that whole day had been bad for Kelly, Marie remembered. After being verbally abused by Becca for a simple mistake, Kelly had run off from the swim meet that would have placed her in nationals and later that night, posted tons of nudes on her Instagram page before deleting them just hours after. She had never told Marie - or her other best friend Katelyn - what happened that night or why she ditched the swim meet.
That night held a certain significance for Marie as well, though. Though she hated to admit it, she secretly held a crush on her best friend. When she had seen her nudes pop up on Instagram, she had masturbated to them, thinking of how lovely her friend's body was. She felt horrible afterwards, and she assumed Kelly had posted them on accident considering the posts were deleted shortly after. Marie knew the photos weren't meant for her but she wished they were.
Once she got to the Starbucks, she saw Kelly - and today, a few other friends of theirs were there as well. At least she could count on some nice coffee and some down time after a stressful day.
*****
When she got up the next morning, she checked her phone and received a message from Becca. Apparently there were problems with their data, and they would have to run the entire chem experiment again or risk failing the lab experiment. Fuck! She called Becca back immediately.
"Hey, Becca, I got your message. What are we going to do?"
"It's okay. I talked to our chem teacher and she said we can come in early before school starts and finish it up then and she won't take off any points as long as we finish it and can get it turned in by class."
She realized that meant that she'd have to skip her early morning soccer practice to finish the lab in time. She didn't want to miss a practice this close to the first competition, but if she didn't get all As this semester, she'd miss out on her perfect 4.0 GPA.
Marie groaned and replied, "Fine. I'll be at the school as soon as I can. That'll give us a good hour and a half to get this done, right?"
"Yup," Becca squealed, a hit of excitement in her voice, "that'll work just fine."
Marie hung up the phone and hurried to shower and get dressed. Today's outfit was a cute pink tank top tucked into a pair of blue jean short shorts. She wore dark translucent footed leggings under it with some black ugg boots. She also wore her favorite pink headband to keep back her golden blonde shoulder-length hair.
When she was ready, she headed onto the school's campus. She was wracked with nerves the entire way there. All throughout middle and high school, she had gone years without ever getting a single B, but now that was in jeopardy.
When she got to campus, she rushed to the chemistry building and went to their normal lab room. For a second, she was surprised to see the lights on. Her chemistry teacher was a well known alcoholic who rarely came into class without a hangover. This was perhaps the first time she had seen the teacher's room open before noon, much less before the first classes started at 8am.
She hurried into the chemistry lab, but as she walked over to her station, she noticed her teacher wasn't in the room. That was strange, since she didn't see Becca either, so she didn't know who had unlocked the door and turned the lights on.
Then, before she could react, someone tackled her from behind, pinning her to the floor. She struggled for a second, but before she could even think to scream, she saw a blue and gold scarf being shoved into her mouth. A second later, some duct tape materialized over her lips. This was not good. Was she being kidnapped? Had they taken Becca and Mrs. Frankenberg too?
She turned her head around and quickly discovered who her captors were. Becca and two of the other cheerleaders, Raechel and Ally, were holding her down. Raechel had enveloped Marie's legs with her own, ensuring she couldn't move them apart. Ally had sat right on her waist, making torso movements damn near impossible. And Becca was sitting on her upper back, kneeling on her arms to keep them from moving. Between the three girls' combined pressure, she could barely move an inch. Even as she kicked and tried to buck them off, she could barely move an inch.
"Oh my God, stop being such a drama queen, Marie. Just sit still and let this happen," Becca said authoritatively.
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMM," Marie tried to scream.
"Alright," the head cheerleader nodded to Raechel," let's just get started. It's not like anyone's going to hear this bitch anyway," before turning back to her captive, "You know Marie, I really did like you. It's too bad you had to be so close with that loser Kelly. But anyway, we're going to go easy on you. All we're going to do is give you a little makeover to get your... school spirit, let's say... back in check."
Marie wanted to scream again. Kelly was one of the kindest, most beautiful people she knew. Becca was just some dumb cheerleader ditz. She wanted to yell at her for being such a horrible person, but her mouth was stuffed and her throat too sore to produce much more. Her thought process was cut off when she felt something on the tips of her fingers. Something wet. She could smell the scent of nail polish too. That was what they wanted? To give her a manicure?
"You can probably tell what this is, but you should know this is some industrial strength polish. This stuff won't chip, and you won't find any way to remove it. You'll just have to live with it until your nails grow out," she heard Becca say.
Marie renewed her struggle, trying to get away. She sure as hell didn't want some vapid cheerleaders deciding how her nails would look for the next few months. She did get her hand free from Becca's grip, but it proved to be in vain.
"Okay," Becca said with a sign, "I guess we'll have to do this the hard way. Suddenly, Marie felt a sting in her upper left arm. She turned her head around as much as she could and saw as Ally pressed down on the needle she had injected into Marie's arm. Within seconds, Marie could feel her arm going numb. By the time Ally had pressed another needle into Marie's right arm, she couldn't move her left arm at all, save for being able to raise her shoulder just a bit. Soon, she couldn't move her right arm either. She was growing more helpless by the minute.