Everything was peaceful and quiet. A perfect atmosphere for doing homework – all four girls (Zoey, Nicole, Lola & Dana) were hunched over their desks and had just got stuck into each of their different homework projects. This was good – each one of them was going to achieve a successful grade, because of the silence, nobody distracting anyone else and no irritating noise whatsoever.

Then Lola heard it – somewhere not too far away, there was a rather racey beat pulsing through the air, and the sound of a guitar being plucked away very quickly. It was this irritating noise in the background, like an out-of-tune fuzzy radio or just a continuous humming in the room. Even after a few seconds, it was already getting to her.

"Okay, what's that noise?" she said, lifting her head up from her work and pulling a disapproving face.

The others began to notice it.

"Oh yeah-" Zoey said, grimacing in the same confused way.

"It sounds like.." Nicole said, suddenly stopping and looking around like this was some sort of guessing game, "Mu-siccc.."

"God, it's annoying!" Dana muttered angrily.

"I know!" Lola answered in the same manner, "I hope it doesn't carry on. It's very distracting."

"Where is it coming from, anyway?" Zoey asked.

"I know!" Nicole suddenly blurted, "What if it's an mp3 player that's been left on?"

"Everybody check!"

There was sudden rush of everyone leaning over and shuffling around in their rucksacks and purses, clinking and clicking noises also being produced in the process.

"Nope!"

"Not at all!"

"Not mine!"

"-Not mine either!"

Then together, the girls heaved a heavy and annoyed sigh. The noise must've been coming from somewhere else.

Then suddenly the dorm door burst open.

It was Quinn.

"You guys, can you hear the music too?!"

Nicole was busy puzzling over how Quinn had got in when they'd locked the door for homework time.

"-Wait, how did you--?" she said, pointing towards the door, only to be interrupted by Zoey.

"-That's not important right now, Nicole! Yeah Quinn, we can hear that music, and it's awful!"

"It's stopping us from doing our work!" Lola said, beginning to cover her ears.

"Well I know where it's coming from!" Quinn said triumphantly, and proceeded towards their three-sectioned dorm window.

"Where?" everyone exclaimed, and got up just as Quinn threw open one of the double-glazed sections. The music suddenly got much louder, and for some reason Nicole started to dance.

"I know this song!" she shrieked joyfully, as she jittered away to My Generation by The Who.

The rest of the girls simply shook their heads, and then continued with investigating who was making the awful racket.

"So, who's responsible for that awful oldies racket?" Dana asked, looking at Quinn.

"-Well, using my knowledge of degrees and the distance at which audio waves can travel, I managed to pinpoint-"

"Quinn!" Zoey, Lola, and Dana all shouted, getting frustrated with Quinn's technical-talk and just wanting her to hurry up with an answer. Nicole wasn't taking any notice – she was still dancing away like a lunatic.

"Okay, okay!" Quinn said, "Calm down. It's the seventh graders. I think they're throwing some sort of a party.."

"Huh?" The same girls blurted again, "seventh graders?"

"And with that sort of music?" Lola grimaced, completely puzzled.

"Uh-oh.." Zoey suddenly uttered, sounding deadly serious with a 'this-is-not-good' look on her face. She was now back to gazing out the window at where the music was blasting out.

"What's wrong?" Dana asked. The others were now staring at her in concern too (still not Nicole, though).

"There's only one seventh grader I know who likes that sort of music.." Zoey said, her voice getting louder as she spoke.

Then she turned round and let rip.

"DUSTIN!!!"

She marched out of the room angrily, as fast as he could, the other three following, Lola being the last one out and grabbing hold of Nicole's arm on the way. She stopped her crazy dancing.