"Aubrey, I'm going to drop this class!" Chloe whines as she slides her paper off of her desk and onto the floor. She doesn't wait to see where it lands as she drops her head down onto the wooden surface, groaning slightly at the unexpected pain that accompanies the action. She hears her friend sigh heavily, shortly followed by the sound of Aubrey standing up.

"No you're not Chloe. You know, if you'd stop griping about how hard pre-cal is, you might be able to finish this paper before the bell rings." Aubrey says calmly as she places the paper back in front of her flustered friend. Chloe raises her head slightly, glances at all the numbers and formulas that seem to be dancing around on her paper, and groans again before begrudgingly sitting up.

"Help me." Chloe whines, jutting out her bottom lip slightly so that she's pouting at her best friend.

"You're doing it right."

"I still need help though."

"Not from the looks of it."

"Bre, come on-"

"Chloe, just try it." Aubrey persists, already having finished the paper and knowing that Chloe almost had the problem finished. Correctly at that. The blonde girl thinks with a proud smile on her face.

"Fine." Chloe grumbles as she turns her attention back to her paper. Fifteen minutes and several curse words later, Chloe is turning her paper into the basket on the back counter of the classroom.

"See, it wasn't that hard." Aubrey chides as she texts someone back.

"Yes it was! And you were no help!" Chloe retorts as she also pulls out her phone.

"I'm offended, but since you're pretty, I'll let it go. Now, do you want to sit with me on the bus this Friday?" Aubrey asks, successfully changing the subject.

"Sure!"

"Alright. The bell's about to ring." Aubrey states, and as if to prove her point the bell sounded just then. The two girls gather their things while Chloe complains about having so much work only a few weeks into the school year.

"May I take your order?" Chloe asks while forcing a smile onto her face. It's not that she didn't like her job, but school had been so draining that day that she was barely able to drag her sorry butt to work today.

"I'll have the deluxe burger." The man replies while smiling back at her and handing the menu to her. She writes down his order as quickly as her cramped hand will allow.

"Is that all?" She asks slightly hoping that he'd say yes. Luck was with her that moment as he nodded his head in reply. As she turns to head towards the kitchen she sees a pair of new customers walk through the door. She's seen them both here multiple times in the years that she's worked at the café, but she's never talked to them other than taking their order. Not that she hasn't wanted to though, but she could never force herself to say hi to the younger girl who always seemed to be upset. Chloe smiles slightly when she notices that the young girl still has her headphones around her neck. Chloe couldn't decide why, but she thought it was entirely too cute that she always had them. Giving the chef her customer's order, she prepared herself to go ask the girl and her father what they wanted to drink.

"Here are your menus, and do you know what you would like to drink?" She asks her signature smile back in place. The father looks to his daughter before inhaling slowly.

"Un-sweet tea please." He replies.

"Okay, and you…?" She asks but trails off as she looks at the strange girl's eyes. She suddenly can't breathe, and she'd like to blame it on the fact that the younger girl looks like she wants to take Chloe out back and beat her up, but that doesn't seem quite right to her.

"Dr. Pepper please." She stated, her voice sounding more bored than anything Chloe has ever heard before, and it hurts her feelings a little bit. Not that it should, at all, but still… Chloe argues with her herself before forcing herself past her questionable emotional reaction.

"Okay, those will be right out." Chloe replies, maybe a bit curtly she thinks and her suspicions are furthered when the other girl quirks an eyebrow at her. Chloe resists the urge to defend herself and instead turns on her heel to go get their drinks.

"Hey Chlo, can you take Benji and I up to the store?" Chloe's little brother asks, not even two seconds after she walks through the door. She sighs as heavily as she can.

"Jesse, can't you wait until I've been home for like, ten minutes before you ask me for something?" She asks, her tone practically dripping with impatience. Either Jesse doesn't notice or he doesn't care because he seems unaffected.

"Uh, I guess… So, that's a yes right?" He asks smiling at her. She rolls her eyes so hard that the room spins for a few seconds after the maneuver.

"Get in the damn car." She sighs out in reply.

"Yeah! Thanks Chloe!" He cheers with a shining smile on his face. As much as he gets on my nerves, he is still my little brother. "Benji! Come on man!" Jesse yells through the house before running around his sister to go outside. Benji comes around the corner shortly after that smiling at the senior.

"Hey Chloe, how was work?" He asks politely as she turns to head to her car with the young freshman.

"It was… Alright I guess." She replies, her mind fleetingly thinking back to the girl that had practically ruined her false good mood at work tonight. "How was school?"

"Not too bad." He says unconvincingly before he gets in the back seat of the car. Chloe gets in and starts the car, and Jesse immediately lunges for the plug to the stereo so he can blast his music. While driving and not listening to the rap that's thumping through her speakers, her mind drifts to the subject of her life. She doesn't mind living in a small town, which is a good thing since that's exactly what her hometown is. Everyone else her age, including her two best friends, Aubrey Posen and Stacie Conrad, cannot wait to, "get the hell out of this town" as they put it. But Chloe knows that she's going to miss working at her grandmother's café, she's going to miss staying out with her friends until twelve on the weekends, and she's going to miss her parents a lot.

She's even going to miss coming home to her bratty little brother and Benji, who is not her little brother, but she loves him as if he were anyway since he and Jesse have been best friends since middle school. She pulls up to the store and she sees Mr. Varen inside standing behind the counter. He smiles and waves at her. As she's waving and smiling back she realizes that this is just one more thing she's going to miss.

"Thanks for taking us Chloe." Benji says politely as they enter the house. She smiles and nods at him before shooting a pointed look at her brother. He quickly swallows the mouth full of potato chips he had been eating and muffles out a distorted "Thanks!" before he enters his room and closes the door behind Benji.

"You're welcome!" She shouts through the door. She quickly throws her apron onto her bed before she turns around and heads towards her parents' room. She knocks on the door and quietly pushes it open. "Hey Mom." She whispers, seeing that her father is already sleeping and snoring quietly.

"Hey honey, how was your day?" Her mother greets, her face lighting up at seeing her daughter.

"It was alright I suppose." Chloe murmurs as she sits on the edge of the bed next to her mother.

"That good huh?" She asks laughing slightly. "What happened to put you in a bad mood?" Her mother inquires while grabbing her daughter's hand.

"Nothing really. School was a little overbearing, but other than that, nothing eventful happened." The younger Beale woman replied wondering slightly why she felt like she were lying.

"You sure?" The older woman questions, still not convinced her daughter is completely alright.

"Yeah Mom, for sure." She reassures her while smiling at her brightly. This seems to convince her mother as she smiles back at her and nods her head in acknowledgement. "But I am really tired, so I'm going to go to bed now okay?" She continues, and as if to accent her point she has to stifle a yawn with her hand as she finishes the statement. Her mother simply shakes her head.

"Alright, goodnight Chloe, I love you, sleep tight." Her mother says as her daughter stands to make her way to her own room.

"Goodnight Mom, love you too, sweet dreams. Tell Dad I love him too please." She says more so than asks, but the implication is still received well as her mother nods in reply. Chloe trudges to her room and changes clothes as quickly as she can in order to get to bed sooner. While she's pulling the covers back she can't help but review her day, and thus her thoughts travel back to the girl at the dinner. Chloe chews her lip momentarily wondering what she could've said to the girl to get a more pleasant interaction out of her, or if the girl would simply dismiss her with a wave of her hand if she tried to talk with her. For some reason that second possibility scared her more than it should have, seeing as she doesn't even know who she is. Doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to though...

She sighs tiredly and dismisses the thoughts as she reaches up and turns off her overhead light and crawls into bed, while her lamp still burns brightly, keeping the dark at bay. She plugs her phone onto the dock that sits next to her bed and drifts off to sleep, the chords in the song forcing her heavy eyelids to close.

A/N: Alright, so I've had this idea bouncing around in my head for quite sometime now, and I've decided to try and make it presentable and release it into the public. Please don't club it. ._. I'd like to know if you'd want this to be continued or if I should just leave it alone. So! If you like it and would like to see it continued leave a review, and let me pick up what you're putting down! :) (Please I'm so lonely T-T) Anyway! Have a good day/night and most importantly stay sexy~ Nat