It was the day right before middle school starts and I became a 7th grader.

I wasn't at all exited.

You see I have this thing, it's sort of like a disease were I only date people that are taller than me.

I've never gone out with anyone.

I did go to Indiana once (well for five months anyway) and most of the guys were pretty tall. Two of them were taller than me, But I didn't go out with ether one. I don't know why I guess it was just because I was kind of shy, When I wasn't around Mersades that is.

Mersades is my BFF (best friend's forever), we met in the 3rd grade. Of course I was shy around her at first but when I got used to her then we were inseparable. Mersades is a little sorter than me, (every one is.) and she has very sort brown/black and some gold streaks in her hair. She wears make-up, baggy clothes, and wasn't afraid to be her self. She was also a good listener and she'd give advice when I needed it.

Now me, My names Kyrie. I'm a 5'9 to 5'10 in height, I weigh 97 pounds in weight; I have long curly brown hair which was always frizzy (and I hated it.). I liked wearing black tights but this year I'm going to have to wear jeans, I have a thing against bras and jeans though I were them anyway (you know P.E.). I'm kind and I like having friends. Any way back to the story…

I was sitting on the sofa, looking out side when my mom called to me.

"Kyrie!"

"Yeah!"

"Did you pick out your out fit?" Tomorrow I was going to were dark jeans with a white shirt, a pink plaid jacket that I got from Hot Topic and high heel sandals. (I'm not a preppy girl; those are just the only sandals I have… I do love sandals.)

"Yeah mom." I yelled down the stairs.

"Ok then go to bed, you have a big day tomorrow."

"Ok mom" I said and crawled up in my bed, and fell asleep.

The next day I got up got dressed and then my mom straightened my hair, to my surprise it turned out flat, frizz free. I shoved on my shoes and walked out to the car, my mom followed me. Once we got to the car we didn't talk much. We went to human bean then to school, I thanked her but she was to busy to notice. Then a blond spiky hair boy that I felt like I knew walked in the front of the car waved at us in an apologetic way (my mom almost ran over him). My mom didn't take it too lightly, she honked at him and he scurried along. He was kind of… cute in a way, that it seemed we were related at least but I couldn't shake of the feeling that I knew him.

"Bye." I whispered and got out of the car with my binder, bag and my human bean.

"Love you." She said rather loudly with a smile.

"Yeah, you too." I said and walked off. I passed by most of my friends that said hi or said hi and told me to sit by them in homeroom.

I was walking to my locker when Mersades caught up with me. Today she was wearing a white shirt that said peace in black and light blue jeans with black converse.

"Hey! I haven't seen you in forever!" she said and gave me a hug. I patted her back.

"Yeah I-" I was about to say but then the blond boy walked by and then I looked at his face, he looked lost and confused. Maybe I could help him out, I thought to myself and started thinking but after a while I started following him. It's perfectly normal… right, I mean my locker is in that direction anyway, I thought to my self again. Mersades kept following me, and kept asking what I was doing. But I kept following the boy. I stopped by my locker to put every thing away, then looked around, but the boy was nowhere in sight. I looked around for a few more seconds then decided to go to my homeroom, but then as I turned the corner I hit something, or somebody. It was that blond haired boy, I picked up my binder and papers then helped him with his.

"I'm so sorry!" I said after I stood up.

"It's nothing." He said, standing up himself "Hey! Do you know were Mrs. Lay's class room is? By the way I'm Naruto Uzumaki, what's yours?"

"Kyrie but I don't feel like sharing my last name." I said with a smile.

"Why's that!" Naruto said.

"Because… its weird!" I yelled. My last name was long, and I mean it literally is Long

"Hey, I found you!" said Mersades. I didn't know I lost her.

"Oh, yeah. Huh." I said and shrugged "Hey if you want me to show you our homeroom then hurry it up!" I yelled then I ran towards the direction to where the room was.

"Right." Naruto said, and then followed me. It was still bugging the crap out of me that I didn't know who he was.

Once we were at the homeroom I sat down next to my friends and started talking to them about what I've been doing over the summer and how Indiana was. Naruto sat down next to me and started talking and making friends with the other boys then after a while started talking to me,

"So why'd you fall onto me?" said he said loudly, everybody stared at us, there's was some giggles from the girls and some woos from the boys. I covered his mouth with my hand.

"Will you shut the hell up?" I whispered angrily. "You're going to embarrass me!" I said even know I didn't really mind it, I mean I embarrass the hell out of my self every day with Mersades, once we threw a wet Garfield cat that we got from Mersades ex-boyfriend, chucked it at the wall and it ricocheted on a very preppy girls head (her name was Nicole) … Best. Day. Ever. But at our school if I a guy even gives a friendly wave to you you'll hear about it for months, trust me I know.

"I think he already did." Said Brandon Q, (the other Brandon is my friend, who I thought was gay for the longest time, not that there was anything wrong with being gay.) the most annoying person ever, then he laughed, some people laughed and others kept watching the scene.

"Oh shut up Brandon!" I yelled.

"Why don't you make me." He said calm, but a little nervous, he's been afraid of me since I punched him in the stomach, and made him cry.

"What's the matter Brandon? You sound a little nervous, you afraid I'm going to kick your butt again" I said and smiled, while everybody laughed at Brandon. Naruto tried to talk under my hand. I took my hand off his mouth. "Oh sorry."

"What is the meaning of this?" Mrs. Lays yelled while bursting through the door. I wonder where she even went; I didn't notice she was even gone.

"Well!" she yelled again. Naruto stood up, she stared at him.

"I believe we were talking." Naruto said and then sat down. I looked at him with amusement, and some people laughed, Mrs. lays however did not find this very funny.

"Since today is the first day ill let you off with a warning Mr…" said Mrs. Lays staring at Naruto.

"Uzumaki, if you please." He said it almost sounded like he was forcing the words out. Was he trying to be polite? She stared at him for a while then walked off.

"Everybody get a book." She said there were some groans. "Now!" she said then we all moved. After homeroom I started walking down to my first period class, cooking… great. Sadly Naruto wasn't in that class (or at least I don't think he was), so I just shrugged and walked off. Mersades was in that class though, yay! Mersades jumped up and down and started waving at me. I smiled, waved back and started walking up to her.

"Come on Kyrie we got to get some seats!" then she pointed to a near by table with one guy already in it. "We're sitting there." She said then crossed her arms, to make it official. It was a habit she did and when she did it I couldn't make her change her mind.

But I still eyed her suspiciously. The guy was ranked #39 in the book of who's the hottest guy in seventh grade (made by Mersades, and I.). We also have a book for eighth graders to, but not for sixth graders cause… well there really small at our school… I mean like half my size, which isn't that small for some girls but it was pretty small for us. I looked around the room he was the hottest guy here. (Says the book anyway not in my opinion)

"#39 huh." I say with a grin on my face. She grabbed my arm and started pulling.

"Look it's either him" she pointed towards the boy "or them" then she pointed to a group of preps, one of them was doing her make up, well one flipped her hair. Mersades absolutely hated preps, one time Nicole (big prep) was calling her and dog patting the top of her head and before I could get Mersades to calm down she punched the prep in the face and put her hand behind her back, shoved her to the ground and made her eat dirt, of course Mer (her nick name) got sent to the principles but I was there to back her up, I was like her lawyer, and she usually only got one or two days detention, it wasn't aloud that I did that but I did anyway and soon they really just didn't care that I did it, they said they thought it was good education, and they said that I could only do it if I wanted to be a lawyer when I grow up, when I told them I did, (I lied) and they let me do it.

"Fine lets go sit…" I tried to say but she already sat me down across from a empty seat and she sat next to me and stared intently at her next victim Ricky (#39).

"What are you doing here?" Ricky asked as he stared at Mersades then at me. He maybe ranked #39 but his attitude got him no friends.

"Why this is are new seats? Didn't you know Ricky?" she said trying to sound pleasant.

"And who told you could sit here?" he asked, a little annoyed. He shoved his hands in his pockets, and raised an eyebrow.

"Ricky, Ricky, Ricky…" Mer said, and she glared at him. "I did."

"Well…" He was about to say but Mersades grabbed his jacket and lifted him almost out of his chair.

"Sorry did you have a problem with that?" she asked still trying to keep her self from exploding.

"N- No I h-have no problem w-with that." He said, shaking, and lifting up his hands in defeat. Mersades let go of his jacket.

"Good." She said with a smug smile and sat back down, in victory. I looked over at the empty seat, it felt like somebody was supposed to sit there but I didn't who.

"You have the book?" Mersades said without looking at me. I always had the book be cause when ever I would give it to Mer she always lost it, well that and I had to cross off names, and rank people down or up. I only moved people down cause they did something wrong to Mersades or they almost picked a fight with her.

"Let me guess move Ricky down?" I asked and took out the book from my jacket pocket.

"Yep" she said dead serious, she always was when it came to the book. ( I'm talking about the who's the hottest guy in seventh grade book by the way.) every body wanted that book, it was like a game going around the school who ever was #1 was the hottest guy and it would definitely boost there popularity to. The number one guy one the list writes now was Barrett and he was rumored to already have three girl friends and it's the first day of school! We told every body last year that we were making a book for the boys and at first nobody cared then people started to ask and ask and it was amazing how many people were in the book. only six people didn't go in the book out of the hole seventh grade and eighth grade. We were popular to but only with the boys and we knew they were only trying to use us to get the spot of #1. But #1 was one of are friends and Mersades ex and she didn't care that he was her ex she still thought that he was the hottest so that's why he #1. I made some opinions too though when I thought Mer was being used I wrote the person who tried to use her at the bottom of the pile. After that happened and people were aware of it most of them stopped using her.

"To what number this time?" I asked and smirked. I never liked Ricky.

"#68" she said and turned her face to smile at me. That actually wasn't like her at all she'd probably put him in the hundreds (big school). Maybe she was sick or something. But Ricky didn't like this at all, if looks could kill shed be dead. His popularity just dropped by a lot, to him that is, but he decided to keep his mouth shut. Mer didn't seem to notice the cold stare she was getting.

"You feeling okay?" I asked with a worried face.

"Yep! She said and grinned, "It's the first day so I'm going to go easy." She said and put her arms behind her head and looked up at the ceiling.

"Should I just move him down or add somebody that's in the Book to take it?"

"Neither." She said.

"I don't follow" I said, confused.

"We will ask Naruto if he wants to be in the book and take the spot." She said and smiled. He is our new friend and he should deserve the chance at #1." She said and smiled.

"Does that mean you find him attractive?" I asked smirking.

"Nope I'm doing this for him." She said, she sounded serious. Ricky looked furious. I sighed

"All right then class shall we begin?" the teacher said as he walked in. he was late, the bell rang eight minutes ago. I raised my hand. And read his name off the board,

His name was Mr. clut, Weird name. He looked like a funny old man and was dressed like he was going to Hawaii

"Yes" Mr. clut said to me his glasses almost coming off his nose.

"Why are you so late?" I asked him, there was some giggles in the class.

"It's not that I'm late, you're just simply early." He said and walked away, as I processed that through my brain a little.

"Okay." He said and smiled. "I'd like to know you all so lets, stand up and say each of your…" he was about to finish but somebody ran into the door that leads into the room , and fell backwards on the cement sidewalk.