Chapter Four: Everybody's Fool
 
 
[perfect by nature
icons of self indulgence
just what we all need
more lies about a world that]
     She sits down in the lunch room and eats nothing, maintaining her picture 
perfect figure but slowly killing herself. Instead, she gossips about people 
around her, laughing at their inferority. She believes she is superior. Moving 
has changed her more than she'll ever know.

     When she eats nothing, she is killing herself. When she maintains her 
attitude, she kills me as well. She'll never know what a great person she had 
once been with her posse hanging around her and egging on her every move.

     She's now so perfect to her peers that I want to be sick. They love her. 
They love her cruel words and superior image and they worship her like a Buddha 
god. She basks in the attention and sits on a higher throne. Any higher and 
she'd be out of this world.

I hate her for what she did to me. 

[never was and never will be
have you no shame don't you see me
you know you've got everybody fooled]

 

     This can't be May Maple. I want to cry. I want to scream. I want to be 
sick. She leaves me with mixed emotions and though she calls me her best friend, 
I don't know this girl. I don't know the preppy little slut that sits her ass 
down and gossips as much as a normal human drinks water.

     She has everybody entranced. She acted perfect. Her teachers loved her, her 
friends loved her and so did boys and girls alike. Miss Perfect, that's May. She 
would do anything to be completely love by everybody. She had been that way in 
Hoenn, but I didn't think it would go as far as becoming anorexic and making 
people cry.

The May I know would never do this. I guess the May I knew is gone.

[look here she comes now
bow down and stare in wonder
oh how we love you
no flaws when you're pretending
but now i know she]

     "May, what's up with your friend?" asks a girl named Erika, who was May's 
best friend of the day. She was a Kanto gym leader, she had power over quite a 
few of her peers. But she still needed the security of being popular and liked 
by May. How pathetic.

     "Yeah, Breadhead, what's up with you?" I told her not to call me that in 
front of her friends. God only knows what they would do if they heard that.

     "Breadhead? That's one jacked up nickname," giggled May's other best friend 
and also her lackey, the Goldenrod gym leader that goes by the name of Whitney. 
The other girls (Erika, Sabrina, Misty, Jasmine and Janine) and May all burst 
into fits of giggles. I gave them a glare and moved away from their table. 
Bitches.

     
[never was and never will be
you don't know how you've betrayed me
and somehow you've got everybody fooled]

     Later on, back at May's house, she was laying on her bed and talking on the 
phone. "Yeah, that skirt she wore was horror... And that top? Where did she get 
it, the trashcan of a hippie?" May said. Brendan could hear the other person 
giggling from halfway across the room.

     "Bitch," he said disgustedly. May grew wide-eyed and told the person she 
had to call them back later.

     "WHAT did you say?" she asked slowly. She couldn't believe what she had 
just heard.

     "I said, bitch. As in you, May Maple, are a bitch." Brendan said it slow 
enough for her nonexistant brain could soak in what he had said to her. May 
looked shocked and somewhat close to tears. "I hate what you've done to me," he 
said, close to his own tears.

[without the mask where will you hide
can't find yourself lost in your lie]

     "What do you mean what did I do to you? You seemed okay yesterday, what did 
I do today? All I did was be myself," she told him, feeling confused and a 
little scared of losing her friend.

     "That's what you did. You moved away and made me crazy without you, and I 
came down expecting things to be the same and you're someone completely 
different! You don't eat, you make people cry, talk bad about them behind their 
backs and still everyone loves you! Well, everyone except me. Because I'm done 
with you, May Maple."

[i know the truth now
i know who you are
and i don't love you anymore]

     May felt a tear slide down her cheek. Brendan had been right. But she had 
to hold her ground. "Well, you've set your standards too high, Brendan. This is 
who I AM now. And if you can't accept that, then we can't be friends." She felt 
the words slap Brendan on the face, as well as herself.

     Brendan walked to her door without saying a word to May. "Wait, Brendan! 
Where are you going?"

     Brendan gave her an icy glare then began walking again. "You're right. We 
can't be friends anymore, May. Don't expect to come crying to me when people 
realize what a bitch you are." And with that, he walked. 


[it never was and never will be
you don't know how you've betrayed me
and somehow you've got everybody fooled                                                               
it never was and never will be
you're not real and you can't save me
somehow now you're everybody's fool]