Chapter One:
Annie and Silver entered the hallway of West Beverly Hills High for the last first time on the first day of their senior year. The halls were buzzing with boys and girls, some of who were greeting one another and others who seemed scared shit-less to be in the environment; obviously, they were the up-and-coming freshman class. Annie and Silver continued down the hall, continuing the conversation they started outside.
"Did I mention that I'm glad that you didn't kill Jasper's uncle?" said Silver to Annie. "You have," she responded, "and I rather not think about it Silver, I still feel guilty about what happen. Have I told you how much I appreciate the fact that you're still talking to me after what I did?" Silver stopped in her tracks and held Annie. "Hey, don't think about it, you did the right thing in the end and that's what important to me." Annie's eyes were watery, "Thank you Silver." Silver and Annie hugged each other and changed the conversation.
"So how are you dealing with the whole parent debacle?" Annie sighed. "It's not good Silver, I think that they're going to split." "That bad?" "Yeah…mom just kicked him out last week. I thought things were supposed to get better."
"They haven't?" asked Liam while taking with Dixon outside in the parking lot. "Nope, and me coming back from Australia didn't make things better." "Well you did go off without their permission." Dixon nodded. "I know that but it seems like everything me and Annie do just makes thing worse, even when we try to make things better." Liam wanted to respond to Dixon, but was distracted by Teddy, who was getting out of his car and entering the building. "Hey have you spoken to Teddy Dixon?" Dixon responded no. "Not since the whole thing with his dad and well…you know." "At least your sister got out of that okay." Dixon was surprised by what Liam had said. "Was is up with you two?"
"All we did was hug Silver, nothing more. I felt like there was meant to be more but I couldn't do that to Naomi again." Silver stopped at her locker. "Speaking of Naomi, have you seen her?" Annie shook her head. "No. I've barely even talked to her. She's been so distant lately, but we're bound to see her." "Right, I just hope everything is alright with her Annie."
"Alright with me! Everything is not alright Ms. Taylor!" yelled Naomi at the guidance counselor. "Naomi, there's no need to yell. I just wanted to see if you and your sister have found a way to get along." "Well we haven't," she said sitting back down, "Ms. Taylor, do we really need to do this on the first day of school?" Kelly got up from her chair and walked towards Naomi, and spoke, "Naomi, if you don't want to be here, you're free to go," she said pointing to the door. "I'm quite busy already filling in as principal until a suitable replacement is found." Naomi got up in a huff, "Fine, I'll be going then," and with that, Naomi left, slamming the door behind her.
Annie and Silver were walking outside, browsing the club fair that always took place on the first day of school. They saw the typical clubs such as the science club and debate club and as usual, they saw the Blaze table, which wasn't being run by Navid at the moment but instead by Gia. "Hey Gia, where's Navid?" said Silver approaching the table. "Haven't seen him but at least there's a good turnout." As more people approached the table, Gia left the conversation and the two girls continued walking along the fair.
"Hey Silver?" said Annie pausing in the middle of the crowd. "What is it Annie?" "How…how come..how come you haven't mentioned Teddy around me?" Silver's face froze. "You said you didn't what to talk about the accident and since his dad…" "But he's your boyfriend." Silver took a deep breath. "Was. I should have said something earlier but he asked me to choose between you and him when things got heated and…well, you know the outcome." "Silver you…wtf?"
Just as Annie was about to say something in response, she was surprised by the presence of one Brenda Walsh. "Just the girl I was looking for. Annie, Silver," hugging both, "how have you two been?" Both girls were startled by the presence of the West Bev Alum but responded kindly. "Ms. Walsh, what are you doing here?" Brenda herself looked surprised by Annie's comment. "Annie? I'm surprised you don't know." "Know what?" "Well the reason that I'm back here is because Kelly asked me to fill in until they find a new drama teacher." Silver looked confused. "Wait, what happen to the old one? What was her name…Ms. Cassie?" "Well I'm not supposed to tell you exactly the truth but she was let go after she had a affair with one of her students." "WHAT!"
"Will both of you calm down?" said Navid. "Sorry man," said Liam. "Yeah sorry, but you have to be kidding right? I mean Adrianna not coming back to West Bev, that's just…unexpected," said Dixon. Navid looked completely stressed out and just wanted to pull his hair out. "I know, I know, I know. She said she was just going to tour for a month and then that became two and then that became the whole summer. I just got back last night. Luckily Ad convinced Javier to let me use his jet or I'd still be there with them." Liam couldn't believe what he had heard, " And you're okay with this?"
"Of course, I loved it when I directed Spring Awakening two years ago and since I'm currently taking a break from acting, it'll be nice for me and Nancy." "Nancy?" questioned Annie. "My baby girl. I adopted her before the beginning of last summer. Anyways, back to why I came over here. Annie I was just wondering if you'd be going to auditions?" "Auditions? This early?" asked Silver. "It'll help move production along if we start early. So how about it Annie? They start during sixth period today and end next week." Annie felt under pressure from having Brenda looming upon her but she somehow decided to agree to go. "Great, I'll see you then. Take care you two," said Brenda, walking away.
Silver turned to Annie. "What was that?" Annie, acting like she didn't know what Silver was talking about, responded, "I don't know what you're talking about." Silver, not taking any of her crap responded, "Yes you do. Why didn't you tell Brenda that you stopped being a part of the Drama club ever since…I don't know, sophomore year." "I don't know Silver, it's not like its anything bad. So I won't go to the auditions." "But she expects you there Annie." Annie tried to calm Silver down and tried to make her realize that she was blowing things out of proportion but Silver wouldn't budge.
At the Wilson home, Debbie was moving boxes to the front door when the telephone rang. Debbie went to the living room to answer the phone but the caller had already hung up. She was about to go back to moving boxes when the phone rang again, but once again, the caller hung up. "Alright then," she said checking the caller id and was surprised to see who the caller was. "Tabitha Wilson? That can't be right…Harry," she said knowing that it was her husband or soon-to-be ex-husband.
Debbie was going to put down the phone but decided to call Harry and find out why he called twice, only to hang up. "Pick up, pick up…Harry, why exactly were you calling?" She paused to hear his response. "Harry we discussed this…no you listen, all I want from you now is for you to get your crap out of my house and to sign the damn papers when you get hear. I don't feel like negotiating, not anymore. Goodbye Harry," and she hung up the phone, placing it down and picking up a bottle of vodka.
Back at West Bev, Annie and Silver were in the cafeteria eating and talking with Adrianna via Skype. "So when are you coming back to school Ad, we totally miss you," said Silver facing the camera of her laptop. "I miss you guys too and I promise I'll be back soon, I just don't know how soon is soon," Adrianna responded while looking around. "Hey, I don't see Naomi, where is she? Is she in the bathroom or something?" Annie was going to respond to her question when she saw Naomi enter the cafeteria with three guys, all of whom were kissing and touching her. "Um…she's around. Look Ad, me and Silver got to go but we'll talk to you soon," she said while signaling Silver towards Naomi's direction. "Oh God…yeah, we have to go. Bye," she said closing the laptop, barely giving Adrianna enough time to say her goodbye.
Both girls left their table franticly and rushed towards Naomi. "Naomi, what the hell?" said Annie, gesturing towards the guys. "Oh hey you two!" she said hugging and kissing both Annie and Silver, "I felt like I haven't seen you since last year." "That's because you haven't," said Silver, "you've been totally distant ever since the Passing the Torch Party." "Naomi, is everything okay with you because this isn't like you with the multiple suitor and the random foreign pda," said Annie.
Naomi was clearly annoyed by Silver and Annie confronting her. "Look you two, I don't know who the hell you think you are or what the hell you think you're trying to do at the moment, but I would just stop. Now if you excuse me, my new friends offered to buy me lunch. Naomi walked away, leaving both Annie and Silver stunned and somewhat hurt. "What do we do?" "I don't think there's anything we can do Silver."