Six weeks and three days, Samantha Lockhart had been stuck at Placebrook Prepatory Academy for six weeks and three days and she hated it. Sami found herself stuck here after her mother found about about her depression and decided the girl needed to "Get away for a while ". The only good thing about being stuck at this school was that Sami was getting back into drawing again.

Sami was sitting in her first period sociology class, her short ginger curls fell just beyond her chin. She wore her favorite red flannel over a band tee shirt and her favorite pair of red ripped jeans. Sami looked like bad news so she rarely talked to anyone within her school. She sat in her chair sketching some sort of bird on her notebook when she saw someone walk in.

He was tall and brooding with long black hair that fell across his face. The teacher introduced him as James Barnes but the boy quickly corrected him saying that his name was "Bucky never James" before sitting down just behind Sami. Sami was completely interested in him. He wore a black leather jacket with a red star stitched across the shoulder on the left side. Something about this boy was fascinating to Sami.

Sami sat through the rest of class trying not to think about the boy behind her. She rushed back to her locker after class she had a whole three hours before her next class and figured she'd drive into town for coffee. Sami was walking out the front door when she bumped into someone spilling her purse and books all over the ground.

Sami whipped her head up to stare at whomever she had bumped into. "Hey watch out won't you!" She shouted before realizing that it was the new kid in her last class. The boy had picked up most of her books and handed them back to Sami.

"I'm sorry I don't know where my heads been" The boy spoke softly to Sami as he carefully started to pick up everything from her purse. "I'm Bucky by the way. I think you're in my first period." Bucky handed Sami a few more things before reaching out a hand to shake Sami's.

"Sami and I think you're in spicers with me" Sami spoke calmly as she stood up with her purse and books. She looked at the boy carefully having to raise her gaze because of his height. "Sorry I yelled by the way. Not enough coffee I guess" Sami had been nursing a serious coffee problem since she was about twelve and it only got worse in high school.

"Sami that's pretty and yeah I could use a cup of coffee myself" Bucky stood next to the girl. He could tell she was interesting just by looking at her. "Is there somewhere good I could go?"

"There's a nice place in town. I'm driving there myself if you wanna tag along" Sami offered nicely as she awkwardly shifted her weight from one foot to another. "This place is pretty isolated so it's a good hour to get coffee. "

"I think I'll take you up on that offer"Bucky accepted her offer kindly hoping that he could make good friends here and that all the stuff that happened back home could not matter any more. Bucky stretched out his hands carefully to the Sami. "Can I help you with those? Since I knocked them all over the floor before. " Sami nodded and handed him her binders carefully.

"My car is just out back" Sami walked out the front door of the school and around to the back parking lot. Placebrook was full of rich kids so the parking lot was always packed and Sami's old red truck didn't really match the luxury two doors around her. Sami walked them both out to her car that looked like it might be more rust then not. "Sorry it's a little messy I haven't cleaned it out since I drove it up here" Sami explained as she got into the hunk of junk with Bucky.

Sami had driven her precious car up from Colorado to Montana where Pl Brook was and so her car was full of maps and books that she had dragged up here with her. Her parents had driven out with her but they flew home the second that she had gotten to school. She knew that they had sent her away because she had gotten depressed and that had only made the fact that they sent her away much worse.

"So it's around an hour into town you can put something on CD's are in the glove box" Sami said before staring up the old beast.

Bucky put on one of her mix tapes and the two sat in mostly silence as they drove into town. They occasionally talked about where they were from but they mostly just enjoyed the silence around them.

Sami parked her truck before hopping out with her purse. The town was small and rustic but not the good kind of rustic the kind of rustic that really just meant old and in the center of town was a dinner. The dinner was older then Sami's truck and made the best coffee and burgers in a hundred miles.

"This place is pretty good" Sami noted before opening the doors to the ancient building. The dinner seemed to always be full of Placebrook kids and today was no exception. Sami sat down in her favourite booth next to the window and pulled out a menu.

Bucky was surprised by the dinner it certainly wasn't anything fancy but it was nice and it had that smell of frying bacon and coffee that Bucky loved. Bucky sat across from Sami and pulled out a menu like she had.

"You'll have to help me Sami. What's good ?" Bucky looked at the menu carefully as he tried to decipher what it said. After his accident Bucky wasn't the best with remembering things and food was one of the things he forgot first.

"They make a mean mushroom burger" Sami said before flipping her cup over for coffee. "If you want a coffee flip the cup over" Sami said before Bucky followed what she did.

"I think that burger sounds pretty great" Bucky wasn't even sure if he wanted a burger but it sounded good and so did a cup of coffee. "So what brings you to Placebrook Sami?"

"I got caught up back home " Sami always gave that answer rather than the truth when people asked. She hated admitting that she got sent her because of the mangled flesh on her arms so she just lied. "What about you?" She asked trying not to get too caught up in her own past.

"I got in an accident at home and my mom thought it was a good idea for me to clear my head for a while" Bucky spoke softly as the waitress came to fill their cups. "I like it here so far though. "

"Wait until you have to use the community laundry room then you'll change your mind" Sami teased before took a long sip of her coffee still black. She liked Bucky so far and she was definitely interested in being his friend.

"I suppose so " He answered quietly. The two finished their meal quietly only exchanging small talk during the meal and the ride back.