<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#00ffff">Dark took a deep breath before she turned the corner. She stepped into the legendary “hall of fame”. this hallway had, through ways she did not care to fathom, belonged to the popular crowd for as long as she could remember. The cheerleaders, the football jocks, the basketball stars, and all the ‘in’ crowd had there lockers down this hallway. Of cors that meant this was the one place in the school she knew she was not welcome. This became immediately apparent  as one of the cheerleaders actually screamed, "Oh my god, what is SHE doing here?" When Dark past by. The outburst, however, had no effect on Dark and she kept moving down the hall. <br/>
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It didn't take her long to find Korina. The beautiful girl was standing at her locker talking to another girl who Dark could only assume was a friend of the redhead. The goth moved quickly, the sooner she apologized, the sooner she could get out of this hallway and away from everyone's menacing stares. The friend saw her first and It wasn’t hard to see that she didn't like the fact that Dark was there. Even Kori seemed shocked at her presence, that was fare enough though, she had left rather abruptly and no doubt this made a bad impression in the popular girls' mind.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffffff"> ‘You’re wasting your time’ </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#00ffff">a soft voice said in her head, </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffffff">‘you had your shot and you blew it, you little freak!’</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#00ffff"> A shudder ran through her body as she came to a stop in front of the two girls. Taking another deep breath, she looked up at Korina and was about to speak when the cute redhead said something about her book, </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0000">“I, what?</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#00ffff">” She said as she cocked her head to one side. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0000">‘My book? No, my book is in my...’</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#00ffff"> she began to think, till the recollection of what had happened rushed back into her mind. <br/>
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In her haste, she forgot that Korina had taken her book to look at and Dark never took it back. Her eyes widened and showed a mix of fear and relief as she held out her hand to receive her book, </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0000">“t-thank you, i-I’m sorry...”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#00ffff"> she stammered out as she stood there nervously. All her courage and determination had vanished and now she was seriously considering just running away again. It was clear she had made a fool of herself and Korina probably didn’t want anything to do with her anyways. </span>