ok guys i really need reviews since this is a new story...tell me what u liked wut you didnt like and what u think i should change

by the way, if it says Maren anywhere in the story, it means Carlyn, its just that i changed her name halfway through so i had to go back to the story and change it but i might have missed a few...

thanks

Erase the Past with the Future

Emma Green sighed as she walked onto the bus going to her new boarding school where she would be a freshman, Caulet. Caulet was weird, though, and it only had freshmen, juniors and senior, so the freshmen were fifteen and sixteen. Emma was sixteen. She had an early birthday. Once again, her parents were too busy to bother being a part of her life for one day and driving her up to school. They were already rich; why did they have to keep working?

The bus was a double but it was already mostly filled up. Luckily no one had sat in the back four seats, her favorite, even though they were right next to the bathroom. She sat in the window seat, farthest from the bathroom. It's not like she had anyone to sit with, though. Emma looked out the window at all her friends waving goodbye to her. She would miss them, but her parents had made it clear to her that it was either this or military school and she would not be caught dead within one hundred feet of those horrific uniforms. Her parents clearly did not want her around.

Suddenly Emma heard someone next to her. She turned around. The girl standing there looked pretty cool. She was wearing a Lucky Brand Denim miniskirt with those legging things and a grey Abercrombie lace tank. She, just like Emma, was wearing Chanel bug-eye sunglasses. She had shoulder length brown wavy hair and brown eyes. The only bad thing was that she was wearing Converses. Emma hated Converses.

"Yeah?" Emma said.

"I'm Leigh Mandle. Can I sit here?"

"

Yeah, sure. I'm Emma.. Are you a freshman?" Emma asked while Leigh looked at her brown hair, green eyes and expensive clothes, jewelry and accessories.

"Yeah, you?"

"Same. But my parents couldn't take time out of their 'busy schedules' to be a part of my life and drive me up."

"Uch, I know how that feels. My parents did the same thing. I so did not wanna come on the bus. And we're already rich, why do they need to keep working?"

"Exactly," Emma replied, rolling her eyes when another girl introduced herself as Carlyn Schrag. She had blonde hair and green eyes and looked rich and cool. She asked if she could sit down and they let her, but about three minutes into their conversation another girl named Blair Carlson asked if she could sit down. She had blonde hair and brown eyes. There was only one seat left in the row, but Blair looked pretty cool so they let her sit.

The train started moving and Emma pulled her iPod out of the Dooney & Bourke purse. She put the earbuds in her ears and started listening. Leigh and Blair took out their laptops, and, surprisingly, besides pulling out her iPod, Carlyn pulled out her book. Emma looked over to see the name of the book. Treasure Island. Wasn't that that 'classic'? Whatever. Emma pulled out her laptop and checked her MySpace. She had eight messages and seventeen comments, most of them along the lines of 'OMG I'm gonna miss you sooooooo much!'. But she also had a friend request. It was from someone with the display name 'Blair Bear'. She looked at the girls' profile and saw that it was Blair Carlson. She accepted the request and fell asleep.

Emma woke up the Leigh shaking her awake. "Emma we're here. You're so lucky you were sleeping. Someone took a huge dump and it really smells." Emma nodded and and got up to take her Louie Vuitton luggage out of the overhead compartment thing.

"Ew, yeah, I smell it."

"C'mon, hurry up, it really smells over here," Maren said.

"Okay, I' coming." Then Leigh, Blair, Maren and Emmawalked single file down the aisle, Emma last. She accidentally bumped into a guy with her bag. She turned around.

"Sorry," Emma said. He was cute; with dirty blonde hair and green eyes. He was tall; he was about four inches taller than Emma. He was tan and muscualr, and he looked nice, exactly the opposite of all the guys and Emma's old school.

"It's okay. Hey, do you need help with those?" he asked.

"Yeah, sure. That'd be great. Thanks." The guy picked up her bags and walked to the front of the bus and onto the sidewalk. "Thank you so much."

"No problem. By the way, I'm Shawn."

"Emma."

"So Emma…I'll see you around?"

"Yeah, I'd like that." Emma picked up her bags and walked over to her friends.

"Who was that?" Blair asked. "He's cute."

"Shawn, but hands off, he's mine," Emma joked. "But he had a friend with him if you want. He was also pretty hot."

"Haha," Blair said.

"Well then, I might take you up on that offer, Emma,"CArlyn joked. They started walking towards the school. They got inside and the dorm listings were posted on the wall. Emma quickly scanned the list.

"We're all in Wisniewski together!" she exclaimed. "It says we have to go there to get our rooms." They all walked to Wisniewski together, where Miss Wisniewski told them that they could pick their rooms and roommates.

"Only two to a room," she warned. They decided that Emma and Leigh would share one room, andCarlyn and Blair would share another. They got rooms right next to each other, put their stuff down and decided to 'explore'. They bumped into Shawn at the entrance of their dorm.

"Oh, hey. I was just looking for you, Emma," he said. "I wanted to tell you that my dorm is right next to yours."

"Oh, cool. So we can talk and stuff."

"Yeah."

"Oh, these are my friends, Leigh,Carlyn and Blair." She pointed to them each in turn.

"Cool. My friends are in our dorm, but c'mon, I'll introduce you to them."'

"Oh, okay. C'mon guys," Emma said to her friends. They followed her into Shawn's dorm. His friends were in the common room.

"Hey man, what are these chicks doing here?" one of his friends asked.

"This is Emma, Leigh,Carlyn and Blair," he answered. "And these," he said, pointing to the guys. "Are Zack, Ryan and Kevin."

"Hey," they said.

"So, um, we were gonna go look around," Leigh said. "Do you guys wanna come?"

"Yeah, sure," Zack replied. "If it's okay with Shawn."

"C'mon guys," Blair said. "Let's go."

"Uch, I don't feel like walking," Emma said. "Let's go play poker or something."

"Woah, dude! She knows how to pay poker!" Ryan said. Shawn glared at him. "What? I've never met a chick that can play poker."

Emma laughed. "Let's go play."

"Okay, but you have to teach us,"Carlyn said. "Cos we don't know how."

"Yeah, sure," Zack said. So they all went into the girls' common room and Emma went to get her cards. Emma and the guys taught Leigh,Carlyn and Blair how to play and they got started. After the first game (Kevin won) Shawn went to get his poker chips. Emma won the next game and the guys were shocked. After a few more games in which the guys redeemed themselves they went back to their dorm. It was pretty late and they had to wake up early the next morning so they decided to go to bed.

"Well," Emma whispered to Leigh once they were in bed. "That was a perfect first night at school."

"Yes," Leigh agreed. "It certainly was."