Chapter 1: Kicked Out
It was a normal day at PCA. Things were different now than they'd been last year though.
This year Lola had a boyfriend. His name was Bobby and he was incredibly smart. He had the highest marks in all of his classes at his old school. He was new to PCA this year. Not only was he smart, but he was also captain of the basketball team.
This year was also the year that Michael discovered his crush on Lola, which was obviously really bad timing considering she had a boyfriend and all, but no one ever said love made sense.
Chase on the other hand, still hadn't gotten over his huge crush on Zoey. It was so obvious he liked her. Everyone knew it except Zoey. How could she be so oblivious?
Chase walked into his first class to see Zoey. He claimed the seat beside hers.
"Hey, Chase," Zoey happily greeted her best friend. Chase loved having Zoey as a best friend; he'd just rather be more than friends. If only he could find a way to tell her about his true feelings.
"Hey, Zoe."
"How was your summer?" she asked.
"The same as every other summer. How was yours?"
"Great!"
Chase smiled. "You in room 101 again?"
Zoey nodded. "What's your room number?"
"213."
At that moment Bobby entered the room. He sat at the opposite end of the classroom than Zoey and Chase.
"Is that Lola's boyfriend?" Chase whispered.
Zoey nodded. "Apparently they've been going out since the beginning of the summer. She claims she's madly in love with him."
Chase nodded.
"I'm never really been in love with somebody," Zoey explained, "I wonder what it feels like."
"I don't know." Chase lied. He knew exactly what it felt like. He was feeling it right now the same way he did every time Zoey was near him.
It was at that time that the teacher walked into the room.
"Hello, class," he greeted, "I don't know how aware of this you are, but summer is over. That means it's time to get back to work. They'll be no fooling around in this classroom. If you can't be serious about your work, you'll be sent to detention immediately, understand?"
The class all nodded. Somehow they all knew they weren't going to like this teacher.
"Every Tuesday we will have a test on what you learned the past week. The first test will be tomorrow. It will be a test on what you should have learned last year. I expect you all to do well on it."
The rest of the class was a review of what they'd learnt the previous year, so they could pass the weekly test tomorrow.
The rest of Zoey's were much better than first period and before she knew it the end of the day finally came.
"I can't believe that teacher is giving us a test tomorrow on the second day of school," Zoey complained to Chase.
"I know it's totally unfair. Who honestly wants to study after their first day back at school?" Chase groaned.
"This is totally not fair," Zoey mumbled searching through her backpack for something.
"Did you loose something?" Chase asked.
"I think I left my cell phone in first period today. I have to go get it. I'll see you later, Chase."
With that she was gone. She expected the room to be empty, but it wasn't. Bobby was in there. Memorizing the correct answers to the test using the test answer sheet he'd found in the desk.
"Bobby, you can't do that."
"And what are you going to do about it?"
"I'm going to tell Mr. Bealy, our teacher. It's not right that someone can cheat on a test while others can't."
Without even thinking things through Zoey went and found Mr. Bealy. He wasn't too happy about the whole thing and as a solution Bobby was expelled from PCA.
This was not going to go over well with Lola, especially if she found out that it was her friend who got her boyfriend kicked out.