Helping Hands

Plot
Helping out is great and all, but what if despite your best efforts, you just make things worse? Or even worse, what if things just stay the same?

Characters
River O'Lake: Owned by Riliane de Lucifen

Escarlate "Scarlet" Esposa: Owned by Cerisefan03

Chapter one: Scarlet
Scarlet wasn't doing anything.

Okay, so she was lost in thought when she probably should have been paying attention to the teacher, but still, she didn't deserve this.

She was thinking about her plan, mentally going over (for like the tenth time) all the things she needed to do/not do to survive that day. So she wasn't really focusing on the lecture.

Noticing this, one of the students snuck behind her, moved about two inches away from her ear and yelled: "BOO!"

Scarlet jumped about a mile, and ended up falling out of her desk, sprawled on the floor. She lifted one arm to shield her face as she blurted: "Desculpe, desculpe, por favor nao me mate!"

The class laughed, both at what had happened and her reaction to it. After all they had no idea what she was babbling, to them it probably sounded like gibberish.

Someone held a hand out to her. It was Rosa, one of the few students who did have some idea of what she had said. When Scarlet stood up, almost falling over on top of Rosa in the process, her rescuer whispered: "No one's going to kill you Scarlet."

Scarlet nodded and tried to sit back down at her desk. She ended up slipping and bonking her head on the side of the desk, much to renewed laughter throughout the classroom.

Hot tears burned at her eyes and she stood up, rubbing the side of her head as she ran out of the room. "Miss Esposa!" The teacher yelled after her.

She had made a fool of herself in the first class of the day! How perfect! She was quite sure that every student in the room thought she was the biggest idiot they had ever seen.

Little did she know, one student didn't laugh at all, and instead watched her retreating form, worry written all over her face.