The Ugly Girls' Club: A Murder Mystery Thriller by C.A. Wittman

Author:C.A. Wittman [Wittman, C.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

“Three words. Off. The. Hook,” Nisha said.

They were sitting on Venice beach. Nisha burrowed her toes into the warm sand. She’d been talking about an all-girl dance party that was regularly taking place at a yoga studio in West Hollywood. Girls showed up in their pajamas at two in the morning on Sundays and danced until the sun came up. You had to be fourteen or older to get in, and since they’d all recently turned fourteen, Emma the last to have her birthday, a week ago, they could all go. A Lyft driver had raved about it to Nisha, saying she went every week.

Emma made a face. “I don’t know,” she said.

“Girl, what?”

“You guys go ahead. I don’t feel like it.”

“What’s wrong with you? You never want to do anything these days. Ever since your dad threw that slammin’ party at his place, it’s like that’s it for you. You don’t even want to go over there anymore, even though his pad would be nice to hang at.”

Emma exchanged a look with Hunter and adjusted the strap of her bikini top, trying to keep from getting tan lines on her shoulders. The other girls didn’t know what had happened that night—not even Cat, who had woken up the following morning with a pounding headache and a sore stomach, bewildered to find Jaylene passed out next to her.

It had been a bleak day for Emma as she tried to avoid her dad. Mia and Blue had left the night before. Later that morning, Hunter and Charlie exchanged texts about Jaylene.

The video of Jaylene burning Cassandra the night before had stirred up a storm of savage comments on TikTok. One user had created a meme of Jaylene’s praise and put down of Cassandra, with the hashtags, #imtoojelloforthissong and #bitchgotohell. By eleven that morning, the meme already had half a million views and had spread to other social media sites.

As fast as Cassandra’s online image was growing, her music going viral, Jaylene’s was being torn down and rebuilt into the ultimate cringe meme of TikTok. She’d become the butt of ongoing jokes, referred to as jello, haterade, healous, ginger, and jitch. A month later, the views had gone into the millions, the online hate spillage poisoning her friends’ profiles and resulting in Jaylene’s mental collapse. She was now in a treatment program for suicidally depressed teens.

What took it to another level for Emma was that Cassandra seemed to thrive off of Jaylene’s misfortune. People coming to Cassandra’s defense over Jaylene’s public dis, the adulation of Cassandra’s voice, comments like, “dizzy,” “SOOO good,” “dope,” “gucci,” and “goat” had gone to her head. She’d begun vaping and always wore a fedora, her now-signature look. Girls were donning fedoras and posting lip-syncing videos to Cassandra’s “To Be Young” hit on TikTok.

Then, of course, Gumption’s painting of Cassandra had reinvigorated Gumption’s celebrity, especially amongst Gen Z girls, and in turn only enhanced Cassandra’s growing popularity—so much so, that a producer from Virgin Records had reached

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