Big Time Wonderland Adventure

Chapter One

"Hey guys!" A loud voice interrupted small group from their conversation early on a Wednesday morning.

"Steph's here! Everybody run!" A tall, dark haired boy said just as loudly with a huge smile plastered to his face. The group started laughing as the owner of the first voice, an average height; tan, brown haired girl glared at the boy and chucked her hat at him.

"Oh no. Not the hat, the dreaded hat of doom has got me. My death will be forever on your conscience Steph." The dark haired boy laughed while grabbing the hat and pretending to die on the table where the group was sitting.

"James, you are such a drama queen. Everybody knows the hat is only the distraction.' Steph said while throwing her bag on the floor and quickly pouncing on James, knees on the table while supporting her weight on the unsuspecting boy, and hand wrapped around his throat. By this time the whole group was rolling on the floor in laughter as Steph leant over James menacingly. James looked up at her with curious eyes, preoccupying the girl, while his hands slowly edged their way closer to her waist. As the group watched with baited breathe, James grabbed Steph around the waist and swapped their positions so Steph was now the one on the table. James smirked down at her for a minute, all the while she cursed the day she became best friends with him in pre-school. He leant down and started tickling Stephanie until she was screaming in laughter and had people staring at them. James stopped and lifted her to her feet, and said, "I know all your moves, you can't trick me, I taught you everything you know." Steph pulled away and went to sit next to her short, bubbly friend, Tess, all the while glaring at James.

"Gotta love school mornings." Tess said to the group, while smiling at Steph's glare and scowl which was quickly starting to fade. Tess was the most logical one of the group, she was always careful, but had fun which was usually dragged in hourly by the rest of the group. Even though Tess seems like the perfect leader for the group, she let Kendall run it, she said it was only because it made him feel special, but Stephanie knew her friend had had a secret crush on Kendall for the last couple of months. Kendall was tall, taller than James, had blonde hair, wild eyebrows (which he was teased for a lot), and a smirk that made everyone around him grow weary. He came up with the smartest ideas and then Tess would modify them with her logic. Tess and Steph's other friend, Kelleigh (pronounced Kelly) was a funny, pretty girl who was randomly coming out with jokes and pictures. She wasn't the best at school work but always relied on the smartest person in the group, Logan. Logan had read every text book given to them and other boring books on subjects like, the physics of roller coasters and Plants and their Growing Habits. He was good at everything and the group was constantly relying on him for homework and assignments. James and Stephanie were the fun loving pair. James was a 'pretty boy' who loved his appearance far too much, but went straight into playful mode as soon as Stephanie showed up. Stephanie seemed all innocent and quiet to teachers and strangers, but showed her true nature when she was with her friends. She was extremely deceiving and cunning and the group had predicted she was a pick pocket in a past life because she was that good with her fingers. She could reach in and take a piece of gum from your pocket without you even realising she was there. She was friendly with everyone but could get vicious at the best of times. James and Steph had been the longest friends, having been attracted to each other since pre-school. They knew everything about each other, and told each other everything. They were best friends who knew how to have fun, viciously. After a few more minutes of random conversations exchanged between the group, the bell rang signalling that it was time to go to form. The group made the way up two flights of stairs and over to the lockers, which were out the front of the Chinese room, which happened to be their form room. Everyone went to their lockers which were pretty clean and went to stand in front of Steph's locker where she was still trying to get the lock off. She finally opened it after ten attempts and the group was met with Steph's horrifying locker. The books were piled messily in the top shelf and there were random sheets floating around as well as pencils. In the bottom shelf was where Steph put her bag, which was full of plastic bags, more sheets and books she was reading. "I swear something's died in there. It smells worse than the time James left a sandwich in his locker for six months. It's just not a normal smell." Kendall said, as was his ritual every day.

"There is nothing rotten or dead, or dead and rotten. It's just its natural smell." Stephanie said while pulling out a maths book and English book. Logan looked at her weirdly and said, "There is so nothing 'natural' about your lockers. Last year a rat was stealing your stuff!" Logan's facial expression of disgust caused Kelleigh to start giggling and Kendall and Tess to look at each other and smile. James meanwhile had knelt down to help Steph pick up her books which kept sliding away as she tried to get up. He stuck the books in the crook of one of his arms and used the other one to lift Steph to her feet. Stephanie gave him her 'thank-you' smile and locked the locker. Their form teacher than showed up. Mrs Y was a forty year old Chinese wannabe. She was short and round, married to a Chinese guy, her poor child had a Chinese name and everything she owned had a Chinese theme. The group groaned inwardly at the site of the teacher. They entered the room and sat in the back right corner, Stephanie and James fighting over the seat next to the window which was solved by Steph sitting on James' lap. Mrs Y began to call the role as the bitchy cheer leaders and their jocks walked in, the leader glaring at Steph. Steph and cheer leader Taylor had been enemies since they were younger when James chose Steph over her as a friend. The stupid blonde Taylor then constantly flirted with James which he always missed until Steph told her to back off. The little cheer squad sat on the other side of the room, the guys in the group staring after them because of their skimpy outfits of mini mini skirts and tank tops that showed most of their stomachs. Tess and Kelleigh discreetly slapped Logan and Kendall's arms which snapped them out of it, while Steph pinched James' arm so hard that it would leave a bruise. James turned and glared at her while pinching back. They zoned back in to what Mrs Y was saying, "It is national sorry day today, so I would like all of you to get up and walk over to somebody and apologise." People began to walk to their friends while Logan complained to an eagerly listening Kelleigh, "National Sorry Day is supposed to be for the aboriginal people, not everyone. She needs to stick with Chinese." Steph got up when James took her hand and went to say something until they noticed Taylor standing beside them. Steph turned towards her, hands on hips and a evil look in her dark brown, almost black eyes. "I'm sorry." Taylor said with fake sincerity. "For your face." She added with a smirk on her face. Her little cheer squad laughed while Steph just stared, the rest of her group looking to see what her reaction would be. Steph just said, "I'm sorry." The group were puzzled at Steph's response including Taylor until she continued, "Wait… no I'm not!" She then lunged at Taylor, slapping her hard across the face and tackling her to the floor where she seemed to be attempting to strangle the cheer leader. James was the first to react, trying to pull Steph off. The cheer's jocks then walked in, with their ugly mascot goat which had a blue sparkly flag around it. They started laughing at James, saying amongst each other how weak he was. James left Steph and walked over to them fists clenched. Logan and Kendall followed wearily. "What." The jocks asked rudely.

"What did you say about me?" James asked, venom dripping from his words.

"Nothing much, just how your little girl over there is such a slut and how weak you are." They shrugged like it was nothing. James turned vicious over their remark, only thoughts of what they'd said about Steph pumping through his head.

"She isn't a slut. Your girls are the sluts."

"No, she is. The little whore probably sleeps with all of you and you're just upset 'cause you don't wanna share." That did it for James. He smashed the leader in the jaw which started a fight between the jocks and Kendall, Logan and James. That was when the principal walked in.

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