Perfect Hallie Torre

 PERFECT HALLIE TORRE

"Edna was his best friend, it is obvious Jerald would hate us." Noel said as he raised his legs up to sit on his desk.

"What exactly is wrong with Hallie?" Marlo pursed his lips.

"You guys should stop thinking about all that and start preparing for your trip. You don't have to bother yourselves with problems your parents can solve." Jessica said as she took her phone and walked out from the classroom.

Almost immediately, Gary took his backpack and left the class too, leaving just the three.

"Do we tell this to her father?" Marlo folded his hands as he stared at the door.

"I believe he would be the one to teach her the ways of the rich the easiest." Noel simply agreed.

****

Logan pulled the car door opened.

"I brought my own car." 

Hallie's. She gulped lightly.

"I would call a driver to bring it home for you. First, get into the car." Logan moved closer to her, his lips brushing against the nip of her ear, "My dad heard rumours that we aren't lovey dovey enough at school. Many people don't see us that much any longer. I plan to make that past tense."

"And you know that I'm Edna, not Hallie?" She asked, with a harsh tone.

"Everyone sees Hallie. Sometimes, I do too." He shrugged lightly and she clenched her teeth.

"Fvck you, Logan Alston."

"Tonight? What do you think?" 

Hallie's nails grazed her palm as she stopped them from going up and giving Logan a blow to clear his crazy smirk. 

"Stop.... flirting...with me." She said through gritted teeth and got into the car. Logan's lips went up in something that was not a smile as he closed the door.

He then turned to the other side and came in, driving off immediately.

"Where is this place?" Hallie asked, the moment she came down after the car stopped.

"You said you wanted to make everyone pay." Logan said. "Wasn't that why you got really angry seeing the fact that we are going on a trip when you are dead? This building holds something that can help in your vengeance."

She gulped lightly. "Logan-"

"In return for getting into this building, bring out Hallie." He suddenly cut her off and her eyes lightly darkened.

"Bringing me here was to see Hallie?" She asked.

Logan gave a nod.

"Is she that important for you to make a bet?" 

"Yes. Hallie is important. Too important." 

Her eyes flashed with anger. 

What did she expect from him? He was Hallie's fiancee. He should never have known that she was Edna.

She ran her eyes over him in a glare as she turned, opening the car door and picking her bag pack to leave.

"Hallie might be evil, but-"

"I don't care about the buts, Logan. I don't want to know anything. It might have been a mistake that I fell down the window, but that doesn't mean she didn't push me. If I could leave my body, Hallie can too. And that's exactly what happened. I've been feeling guilty and lost, wondering what would happen when Hallie left her body, but I'm sure she is just as confused right now, seeing herself somewhere she never expected. Just...like I did." She said.

"Logan, I don't need your help. But between me and you, the battle line has been drawn. It had already be drawn from the moment you kept quiet in the classroom. It's been a bad fate from the moment I set my eyes on you. And now, I realize one last thing. To you, I can never truly be Hallie. That's how important she is to you." She smirked, "Keep your secrets tightly wrapped in your hands. Because, I'm going to find them. And I'm going to use them." With that, she marched off the place, going down the clean long lonely road that led to where Logan had taken her.

He didn't chase after her. He couldn't. He wouldn't.

****

The maids locked her two large boxes and dragged it into the car. Gary came out from behind her with just a single luggage and he dropped it into the car boot too.

"Isn't it cold?" He glanced at her. 

She wore a single arm top and a short skirt on leggings, with her sweater over her neck, but not worn.

"It's manageable." She said.

"Alright." He shrugged as he got into the car.

"Hallie." Her hand tightened on the car door as she heard Tom's voice and she turned slightly, seeing him standing in front of the large doors.

She bit her inner lips before she walked over to him. 

He closed the gap between them, a smile on his lips as he held her shoulder tightly.

Hallie inhaled.

Too tightly. His fingers were practically stabbing her shoulders.

"You have to be good." He muttered, staring at her right in the eyes.

"Hallie Torre, you have to be so perfect. I can't risk you ending as a failed.... project."

Project.

She gulped.

That was all this man saw his children as.

"If you give me so much trouble, everything I have worked on will fail drastically. And that includes you. You don't want things to become like that, do you?" He asked and she shook her head lightly, her bones icing up from his glares.

He dusted her shoulders as he released her.

"You are.... Hallie Torre. You have nothing the fear. And the life of a lowborn means nothing to you. If anyone would threaten you with that, I would end their lives. Extend my greetings to Logan Alston." He said and that ended the conversation. Tom walked back into the house, the door closing behind him.

"Hallie, you'll be late." Her mother said to her in a calm tone and she gave a small smile to her, before she turned.

Late?

Hallie would never be late.

Because she could never be left behind.

She was....too important.

A fresh energy surged through her brain and bones in that instant. If she wanted to live to see her vengeance play on out, she had to be.... perfect.