Chapter 13:

A Truce

The Bratz were walking around the school during lunch trying to find Sasha's phone. Sasha had searched her purse and her locker a million times that day but couldn't find her phone. The girls had retraced Sasha's steps throughout the whole day and couldn't find it.

The bell rang for the next class.

"Damn it!" Sasha exclaimed. "I need my damn phone!"

Dylan walked passed them. "'Sup ladies?"

Sasha grabbed his shirt. "Did you take my phone?"

Dylan looked confused. "What the hell? No, I don't have your phone!"

"How could you let it get stolen?" Jade said. "Now we don't have the video."

Sasha glared at her. "Fuck you Jade! I don't see you guarding your damn phone every second of the day!"

"Listen bitch...!"

"Would you two calm down?!" Yasmin exclaimed. "Fighting about it won't find the phone!"

The girls simmered down. "You're right," Jade said.

"If you want I can be on the look out for you and take some names," Dylan said.

"That would be great!" Dana said.

"No one messes with my girls," he said.

They went their separate ways. Jade and Sasha went to English class. "I don't know how this could happen. Why would anyone want my phone?"

"Maybe they want to blackmail us," Jade said worriedly. The girls were taking pictures all the time from their shopping trips and vacations to the parties they went to. They had some pretty raunchy pictures that someone could blackmail them with if they wanted to.

They got to class.

"Sasha," the teacher said.m

Sasha and Jade went to his desk. To their surprise he handed Sasha her phone. "Where did you find this?!" She exclaimed in shock.

"A student found it and brought it to me. Keep better track of your stuff," he said with a smile.

"Thank you," Sasha said gratefully. She and Jade sat down and exchanged a relieved look.

After school the Bratz were sitting at the bleachers.

"Who the hell would want your phone just to return it?" Cloe asked just as confused as the others.

"I don't know but I'm not letting this out of my sight anymore," Sasha said sticking the phone in her pocket.

"The bitches are coming," Yasmin said gesturing to Tess and Nona coming towards them.

"You two just haven't had enough, have you?" Jade said to them.

"You Bratz can try as hard as you want. You're not going to get us to surrender," Nona said.

"You thought that was funny what you did this morning Nona?" Sasha said. "No one makes a fool out of me like that!"

The twins smirked. "What are you going to do about it?"

The Bratz exchanged a knowing look. "Have you told your sister about the video?" Yasmin asked.

Tess nodded calmly. "I have."

"You should have told her to watch her back," Cloe said.

Sasha went to the videos on her phone to send it but she couldn't find it. "Huh?"

"What's wrong?" Jade asked looking over her shoulder.

"It's not here!" Sasha exclaimed.

Tess and Nona started laughing. "Never mess with us."

The Bratz looked at them in disbelief. Sasha stood up angrily. "You stole my phone?!"

Tess and Nona just continued to laugh.

"You two are so going down!"

"You can do whatever you want but it'll never work!" Nona said.

"You're the worst bitches I've ever known! You don't deserve what you have!" Tess exclaimed.

"You were an idiot in the first place for thinking we'd ever be your friends!" Jade said.

"You're stupid and you're a desperate hoe!" Cloe said pointing to Tess then Nona.

"And you're a bunch of fake sluts!" Nona said.

"Go to hell!" Sasha yelled at them.

"STOP IT!" Dana shouted.

All of them got quiet and looked at her.

"Stop fighting! This is ridiculous!" Dana said.

"Dana, these girls..." Yasmin began.

"I know! They did really horrible things to you in the past."

"That's what they told you?!" Nona exclaimed. "They..."

"They did bad things to you too. Who cares? What is going back and forth like this going to do? All of this hatred isn't good. How about you all just make up right now? You don't have to be friends, but just stop fighting."

The two groups of girls wouldn't make eye contact with each other. Deep down Yasmin knew Dana was right. The fighting was pointless. Even to her it was getting tiring. There were so many better things in life to be focusing on. "Guys she's right. It has to stop."

The rest of the girls were silent, too stubborn to admit that they were right. Finally Tess spoke up. "I agree." Things had been nice when she wasn't feuding with the Bratz. She didn't think she could ever really be friends with them after all of this but she could stop fighting with them.

Cloe and Jade finally gave in. "Alright," Jade said.

"Fine," Cloe said.

"Sasha? Nona?" Dana said.

Nona sighed realizing she was outnumbered. "Okay. Fine. Truce."

"Yeah, truce," Sasha finally said.

The next morning at school, the Bratz were gathered around Sasha's car gossiping as usual. Dana leaned against the car next to Cloe who was adjusting her boobs in the side mirror. Dana looked up and saw Tess and Nona get out of their car across the parking lot.

Tess and Nona walked confidently across the parking lot even though they knew people were still talking about them. But despite that, they found themselves not caring. They didn't care about the losers they were surrounded by and they didn't care about the Bratz.

Tess glanced over at the Bratz at Sasha's car. She remembered being part of their group, hanging out with them every morning before school gossiping about who had the worst outfit in school or the latest issue of Vogue, hanging out in the bathroom doing makeup and comparing butts, going shopping, and going to parties and clubs.

But it wasn't worth it. The Bratz were evil and nothing would make her want to have anything to do with them again.

Then she caught Dana's eye. Dana smiled and Tess couldn't help but smile back.

Maybe there would be hope for them.