Chapter 1 – The New Girl, Monday January 9th

Delilah

"Well this is even worse than I expected! Jesus mother fucking Christ!"

"Delilah, don't swear, this is San Francisco, not New York"

"I'm going to start crying now. I miss New York…The Big Apple. Why did you mention it?"

"Sorry. But shut up and let's get in the school already"

"Yeah and you're one to talk about that non-swearing thing…"

Danae rolled her eyes as I walked along muttering. For once, there was complete silence between us. You see, me and Danae are best friends forever, no other way to put it. But a few months ago, Mom and Dad had a random idea that we should move to San Fran. Well not really that random, as they've always hated New York and Mom comes from San Fran anyway. At least Grandma is here. I guess every cloud has silver lining. Just as it has crap lining…

I miss my friends so much! I was together with some of them from when I was just a little stupid baby. But does that matter to my parents? NO! They said I can find other friends to replace Satine, Christine and Rhiannon. But all of them pale to insignificance in front of my gorgeous boyfriend, Kurt. But by now I bet Satine has her claws in him. I mean, I have been gone about a week and she's a quick worker. She's always wanted him. From the first day of Year Seven, when he stepped into our classroom and also into every girl's heart, she wanted him. But it was me he stared at and later me he asked out and kissed and all the rest. Satine and I are both beautiful but in very different ways. She's Irish, with flowing curly red hair, sharp green eyes, very pale skin and a small fragile body while I'm half English, half American, tall with a curvy athletic looking body, dirty blonde hair (which is dyed, even though I never admit it. I will tell you my natural color one day, just not bothered too right now) and brown eyes.

Danae stopped my flow of thought as she put a beautifully manicured hand on my shoulder.

"OK, here's your classroom. Oh and," she bent a little to my level so she could see my face. "You're never going to get away with that uniform"

I stuck my finger up at her and opened the door which had a big ugly white label saying 'Year 10I' and I stepped into my new classroom, taking a deep breath as I went.

As I went in, all of the guys mouths dropped open and so did some of the girls. I did a quick scan and checked them out. Some guys were pretty good looking!

"Children, this is our new classmate, Delilah Rivers. She's just moved her from New York City so be very welcome to her as I'm expecting she's feeling very sad and lonely, so far away from home!" I rolled my eyes. I knew that me and Mrs. Irwin were not going to get along very well.

"Well Delilah were should I put you? There's a seat here next to Katie and one there next to William or you could…" she said, her hawk eyes moving swiftly across the classroom.

"It's OK," I interrupted her, "I'll sit here." And I sat down carefully next to the guy who was called William. I smiled at him and I saw him gulp. I grinned as I saw the boy next to him flash me a big smile.

"Hi, I'm Jack and I know that me and you are going to get along famously!" I laughed. Talk about corny, but he was so desperate for my attention, I just had to give it to him. He was pretty cute as well. Short spiky black hair and flashing green eyes.

"Hello Jack. Yes I'm sure that we are, no?" I licked my lips and I think I nearly gave the boys an orgasm in their seats.

"Delilah! Don't talk during class!" As her angry eyes flashed past me, they paused on my uniform, "That uniform isn't acceptable. I won't see you with that tomorrow. Thank you!" She snapped and I rolled my eyes, muttering all the worst swear words I could think of. My uniform was a bit different from theirs. We were supposed to wear white or black shirts, white or black trousers/skirts and white, brown, blue or black shoes. My black polo was tight and all my top buttons were undone and my white jeans were also pretty tight. My black high heels were stilettos and completely off regulation! Aaah, the good life, no?

School was same old, same old. The work was about the same difficulty as my old one. I'm pretty smart, even though I don't look it. You know I have a date already? Yes I'm fast as the Love Game. Jack asked me out at the end of the day. He said he wanted to get to know me better. Meaning, he wanted to know the inside of my mouth better. I just said yes, I mean, I amen't super eager for it, and I am feeling a little guilty about Kurt. Oh, I'll just check how he is with Christine tonight. I miss him.

"Hey baby, how's my Deli? We're missing you so much! School just wasn't the same. We have to arrange about you coming in Easter. But I might be away for a few days as my parents want me to go to London for some reason. You can maybe come with me. It'll be great. Oh and guess what teacher we have this term, it's Mrs. Arrington! She's awful isn't she? Oh who will I have in the near future to do my make up? I guess I'll live… And yeah, everyone is great. It was so funny today, Rhiannon was like…" I rolled my eyes. This is so typical Christine. She NEVER shuts up. Seriously.

"Chrissie! Calm down. It all sound very interesting but how's Satine? What about Kurt?" For the first time in her life, Christine was stuck for words.

"Well um, sorry to tell you honey, but they kind of got it on. See after you left, Kurt was actually depressed and Satine went over to cheer him up and you see…"

I saw. I blinked back my tears. Suddenly, I heard my cell ringing and I saw Kurt's number on the screen. I took a deep breath and picked up.

"Delilah! Oh my god, I tried to reach your land phone, but it said you were busy! Were you talking to Satine?"

"Kurt. Save your words. I talked to Christine," I heard Kurt gulp, "She told me everything. How could you? Fucking bastard. I've not even been gone just about a week!"

"I don't know! Please forgive me! All couples go through tough times, it didn't mean anything!"

"Kurt, I thought I told you. The only thing I won't ever forgive is infidelity. Sorry but this is it. Have a nice life and say hello to Satine for me, will you?" Then I hung up and broke down. I hate my life, I managed to think, in between screaming in my head.

Chapter 2 - Truth or Dare?, Friday January 20th

Delilah

Autumn's party was in full swing. Autumn is this girl in my class. She's been very friendly to me but I have a feeling she's like this all the time. She's very cute with long, poker straight brown hair and big green cat eyes. Seems like everyone over here has green eyes. She's extremely thin though, and I find it kind of weird. Oh well. It's not the poor girls fault, is it now?

Anyway, you want to know what's going on between me and Jack? We've been on 5 dates since he first asked me out. So basically, we've been going out for 11 days. I like him, but I'm pretty sure he's just doing it to get into my pants, so I've held off this long. I amen't really sure how to play the game, as I've just been with Kurt all these years and look how that turned out! I still get tears in my eyes when I think of him, but I'm just spending a lot of time with Jack now, so I can forget him easier.

Our first date, was great as I told him about me and he told me about him. We didn't kiss. I mean, he tried, but I turned my head so he got my cheek. I gave him my number and he texted me for another date. I just ignored him and he called me and so I agreed for the day after the next. We kissed then and yeah, you see. On the fifth date, he did a bit of feeling up and so did I. He has a nice chest, though, so yum!

Well, anyway, we were partying and suddenly Jack came crashing onto me and whispered in my ear, "Back to my place after the party?" He was a little tipsy but I grinned my sexy grin and pulled him close, whispering back , "Yes, I'll be there". We then danced and then I danced with some more guys and some girls. I have to say, there are nice girls here, and I can see myself becoming their friends. So far, Autumn is pretty close to me and so is Chelsea. I have a feeling Chelsea's best friend Hadley doesn't like me much. I wonder why. She can't be jealous of me and Jack, as she has her own boyfriend, Greg. He's a nice guy and all, but so not my type so she needn't be afraid of me stealing him. Chelsea is very nice though, and she is a little wild like me. She's also pretty gorgeous. Her hair is red and pretty straight. It's dyed though. She didn't tell me, but I know, as my own hair is dyed, I recognize dyed hair easily. She also has big blue eyes, which are dark blue, not light blue and so look much deeper than Hadley's, which look like satellites. Not the best ever, no?

Anyway, me and Chelsea organized a truth or dare, with some really extreme stuff! Me and Jack were dared to pass gum from my mouth to his. That was an OK dare, but funny as we kept laughing and he once bit my tongue instead of the gum. Also, Autumn shouted, "I'M NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE" out of the window and all the street heard her. We had some of the best laughs ever!

Later, I went to the bedroom to get my coat and leave when my cell phone beeped. I opened the text and it was from Kurt saying " Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart… xxx". I started sobbing and buried myself in the pile of coats. I suddenly heard someone coming up. I prayed it was Chelsea or Autumn. It was William.

"Delilah? What are you doing here? Are you crying? Is it Jack?" he seemed so concerned and it broke my heart. He sat on the bed, and I cried even more in his arms. Then all of a sudden, we were kissing. His lips were so soft and gentle, I never wanted to let go, but I should have. I was playing with fire and now it really was a matter of Truth or Dare? He wiped my tears and brought me a tissue. I told him all about Kurt and what he did and William listened intently and kissed me again.

"It's going to be OK, Delilah, I promise," and he kissed me again. Soon, we had both forgotten about Kurt and we were lying on the bed, making out, and as corny as this sounds, it seemed like we had become one, not two. Sorrow and guilt flooded out and passion came in. After a few minutes, he broke away.

"Sorry, but I can't do this to Jack. He's my best mate." And he pulled me close. I now realized that what Christine had said was right. She was a fan of all those corny love lines. 'Love is holding you close and realizing it's not close enough' is one of her favorites and now I know she's right. I'm not saying I love William, I don't. But when I was holding him, I wanted to hold him more until we were truly one.

William kissed me one last time, took his coat and left me in the big bed, now so empty without him.