Davina was the kind of girl whose school report would read, "Could do better." She had the brains and the looks which made all her classmates either sick with jealousy or totally adore her. But despite all her natural attributes, Davina was not the kind of young lady who ever felt the need to push herself. She was, even in her school years, what could be described as a "Lady of leisure."
As she was extremely intelligent, Davina could wing her way in most situations such as exams, but whenever that wasn't possible, her preferred option was to use her womanly wiles. In her early teenage years Davina had realised that males were total suckers for a pretty face and a sexy smile. If she wanted sweets, or CDs, or computer games, or anything else for that matter, she would just turn on the charm and ask with a big "pleaaaase?"
Over the years Davina honed her skills to manipulate men, and found that it wasn't even necessary to be nice to them in order to get what she wanted. Throughout her GCSEs and A levels she would just tell a male classmate what she wanted him to do and invariably he would do it. She enjoyed her final years at school, ordering lads to fetch and carry for her.
Qualifications were easy to achieve when the brainiest kids would do all the donkey work, then spend hours of their time condensing the relevant studies to recite back to her. One lad was even expelled because of her. She had told him to locate a batch of examination files and steal a copy for her. Duly, as instructed, the lad screwed the lock off the Principal's office door and gained entry. He took the examination paper and returned, jubilant with his achievement, and handed it over to her.
Silently the lad looked on while she sat and read the questions. She had already decided that she wasn't going to share her good fortune with him. Then, just as she'd finished, who should walk into the room, but the Principal.
But Davina was too clever to panic.
She simply thrust the exam paper at the boy and said huffily, "What are you trying to give me this for!"
The Principal, Miss Collins, asked them both what was going on, and of course accepted Davina's version of events. It was a pity as the lad had been a bright student with real potential. But such was the mental strain on him that flunked all his exams and ended up working in a supermarket. In later years Davina would make a special effort to hunt him out as he stacked shelves and pushed trolleys up and down the car park.
It always amused her to pull some prank or another on him. Either she would knock over a whole pile of cans or bottles which he was in the middle of stacking, or complain to one of his superiors that he had splashed mud on her car as he was wheeling his trolleys past. The latter would result in him being told to wash and polish her car and have half a day's wages docked. Apart from the amusement value, it was an excellent way of getting a free car wash!