BAD GIRL: The Life of Arden Davenport

BAD GIRL, BAD GIRL.....
The troubling phrase rattled inside Arden Davenport's head as she sat in the cold grim room which served as the guidance counselor office. "Do you know why you're here Miss. Davenport?'' Lydia Carter sighed as she faced the jean-clad teen. Arden pulled an unruly marron lock of hair behind her olive-colored ear. "Please lady, just give me the suspension and let me go home." As she got up to leave the guidance counselor's office, Lydia motioned for Arden to remain in her seat. "You're here to resolve the havok you've created, Arden. Don't make this situation more complicated than it is." Standing at 5ft, 5 inches Lydia Carter wasn't what you would call a formidable figure. Yet, somehow she commanded respect.
Arden eyed Lydia, then placed her hands behind her head and leaned back in her chair."I don't have anything to say to you," Arden commented quietly as she studied Lydia. The guidance counselor, pushed her wire-framed glasses onto the bridge of her nose. "The girl you punched and her parents believe you should pay for damages." "Pay? I don't owe her anything. It serves her right after what she said about my mom." Arden thought back to the earlier events of the day. Julie Connors had slipped Arden a disgusting note during boring science class about how the other kids in the class wanted her to leave the school. Arden had crumpled the note and thrown it on the floor. "Out of sight, out of mind." Arden had said the entire day. Who cares what that Julie girl and the whole damn school thinks?"
Arden had met up with her sole friend Cam Whitaker at lunch and the two girls decided to eat lunch outside near the soccer field. Cam had commented on the beautiful sunny, weather. "It's supposed to be nice today y'know." Arden nodded wordessly. Her thoughts lied on Julie's note that miserable morning. As the two girls were about to exit the lunch room, Julie abruptly grabbed her elbow. Immediately Arden turned around. There was Julie and her group of friends standing behind her smriking, as if hiding they were hiding a secret. "Hey BAD GIRL." Julie said jovially as she picked up an apple on Arden's lunch tray ant bit into it. Cam standing closely to her friend noticed Arden's shoulders tensing in rage. "Watch yourself, now," Cam muttered to Arden. Arden was already on probation for getting into an earlier non-physical argument with Julie. Now all she had to do was ignore Julie. She had that much control over her anger. Right?