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(Bell Rings)

(Kids talking)

DEGRASSI COMMUNITY SHOOL

"This place might not be as bad as I thought it would be."

"You say that now, just wait…"

Yeah, just wait until they find out about us…

I know you are wondering who i am, well my name is Nickie Watson. I am 16 year old girl, well not the average girl. I am forced to live the lifestyle i have, I know you are a little confused, let's start from the beginning. My oldest sister Nicole is not only a famous singer/ songwriter but a movie star, dancer, author, artist, fashion designer, etc. So therefore my whole family is in the spotlight. It's not easy growing up with eleven siblings, be they may they are all girls. I am the second to youngest. My younger sister Taylor is 14, my twin sister, which we are nothing alike, she is 16. We may share the same DNA but we are very different. Being in the spot light changed her, and not for the better, but now she is into the money, cars, and jewelry. But what she doesn't understand is that this life we are living, is Nicole's life not ours. Me on the other hand, I am more down to earth, i don't need materialized things to comfort me, i have them because i want them, end even then i buy them with my own money. They look at a girl like me and look at my family and they are so quick to stereotype us, "oh, they have all the money in the world, they don't care about the wellbeing of the rest of us," "oh well if they look like that than they have to of had plastic surgery of some sort" They don't understand that we are real people and some of the stuff that they say is hurtful. Before my sister was even famous she was in the navy she entered when she was 17, and she got her doctors degree as well as her law degree. My sister had her first child at the age of 21. If she had the choice to give up her job or keep her son, she would give it up in a heartbeat! Just because we look like we are stuck up we aren't. They just don't take the time to understand us. But, it doesn't even matter because we know who we are and that's all that matters.

NICKIE POV:

"You know what Amanda?" Amanda is by best friend but more like my sister, we grew up together so we know pretty much everything there is to know about each other, so now we live together. She is more like my twin sister than my actual twin Nikita.

"Um, chicken?" Amanda said trying to be funny. Amanda always has something sarcastic to say, but that's why i love her. She keeps me sane.

"Ha Ha…um, no! I was thinking that, this school year, would be a new start for us"

We walked up the front steps of Degrassi Community School. "And you think that because…?" Amanda asked

"Well a new school, new people (looking around) hot boys. Plus my sisters Jasmine and Jennifer went here a couple of years' ago." I said making sure she got the point.

"Yeah well you know that they are going to treat us differently, i mean look at us." Amanda said sounding all prissy. We stopped for a minute and checked ourselves out.

I had to think for a minute, i mean who wouldn't want to be us; well me! I am more than average. I mean i am five foot seven, long honey brown hair, hazel eyes and an hourglass figure. I am the typical Barbie, but smarter and I'm not plastic and I am not a whore!

"Well we came here to start over, would you rather go back to private school with all of the pathetic girls?" i asked Amanda as we headed for the office.

"No! I can't stand them girls!" Amanda said sounding angry "Well get ready for the 'dreamers'" Amanda added.

The 'dreamers' are the girls who would love to be us, but love to hate us. There the type of girls that get mad when we walk by and the guys pay more attention to us than them! But it doesn't even matter because i don't plan on having a relationship anytime soon, my last ended pretty badly.

"Yeah, well we will just take it one step at a time -" i said laughing a little.

"Isn't that the reason why we transferred in the first place?" Amanda snapped.

"Mandi, shut up!" I said laughing, then i continued "We transferred because Nicole bought us one of those houses in that waterfront community, i couldn't be rude and say no, and because only snobby people go to private school!" i said as if she wasn't standing there when Nicole told me.

"And what is coming to this place going to prove?" Amanda asked in a mocking tone.

"It's going to prove that just because of my family and the situations that were in don't mean we aren't human, we just have...benefits!" i said adjusting my clothing.

Two seconds past before she opened her mouth again. I swore this girl just doesn't know when to stop!

"Real people as in-" Amanda started but i cut her off.

"SHUT UP! you know what i mean...stop asking so many damn questions!" i blurted out, trying not to sound mad.

Amanda rolled her eyes, kept walking…

"Yeah ok, do you think you are going to tell anyone?"

Sighing i replied "i don't know", i don't really want to because than people would look at me differently, i mean they already do, it's kind of hard not to when you are the sister is famous. I'm just a normal girl, a HOT normal girl.

I dug through my purse to find my schedule, its funny how in big purses I can find everything but I he small ones I can't find sh*t, finally I found it. 1st Period Foreign Associates…2nd Period Physical Education… I stopped dead in my tracks; i think i might have to tell my story.

After finding my name, my heart sunk into my stomach. "Mandi, i might have too!" i said blowing a huge bubble with my gum.

Amanda looked up at me, she isn't that short, well maybe but just by like three to four inches, maybe a little more but who's counting...

She looked at me and asked like she didn't care, "why?"

"Well apparently I have a Foreign Associates class with some lady named Mrs. Dawes" I grabbed her arm begging her, which is something that i don't do very often i pleaded,

"Mandi you have to come with me!"

Pulling away from me and shaking her head she said, "oh no, this is your life not mine!"

I knew that if i kept working her she would give in, "please mandi, you're practically my sister!"

I knew that i got to her because she stopped pulling away and said, "Yeah, your right i am, but whatever!"

I gave her a big hug, "oh thank you, thank you" i continued as we started walking into the office "by the way, i am the only one who can make having an attitude look cute!"

We both laughed.

Amanda replied "yeah enough with the huggie stuff"