Ok, I wasn't born in the eighties and I'm not american, so some of my facts maybe a bit wrong, I'm doing as much research as possible. I watched breakfast recently and I adore it, one of the best films ever! I wanted to write this because from what I've read, there aren't many like this. Hope you like it, tell me what you think*

Deep breathe, calm down, you've done this a hundred times. Just get this day done with and then you can go home and be yourself again.

But Lily couldn't stop the flush of red, from appearing on her cheeks, she couldn't stop her heart from doing flips. No matter how many times she did this, it never got any easier.

Finally she knocked on the principles door and walked in.

The room stank of coffee. And most of the furniture matched the smell, so did the guy sitting behind the desk. He was wearing a shiny dark brown suite with a black shirt. His eyes were full of self love. You didn't have to be a genius to realise that this guy belived, that the sun shone out his ass.

"Nice to meet you miss Tatley, please have a seat."

She sat down gingerly on the green chair, keeping her eyes off the principle, concentrating on the clock above, watching the hands go round so slowly. Taunting her.

"So, how many schools have you been at this year?" He was shuffling through a pile of papers in front of him, his eye brows nearly disspearing up into his hair, as he saw her school record.

"Two this year, but it was five last year" Her voice was calmer the she was, there was something about the way he was looking at her, that made her uneasy.

"Any reason, why you've been at so many schools?"

"My mum travels a lot, where she goes, I have to go, that means a different school each time."

"Interesting…" He kept his gaze on her, as if he was trying to see into her, find out every little detail about her crazy life.

"Well I'm hoping you'll find Shermer high school a pleasant place to be. Just as long as you don't cause any trouble, you won't have any trouble from us."

That sounded like something a mafia boss would say. Even though he was smiling, Lily understood the warning and the threat through his voice.

"I understand." Getting up quickly from her seat, Lily grabbed her new time table from the desk and walked out the office, with the feeling that the principles eyes were watching her the whole time.

The hall was quiet, everyone was probably already in class.

Lily looked at the small pack of papers in her hand, one of which told her which locker was hers and where her next class was. English, fantastic…

She shoved her coat into the locker, set the code and then started walking off down the hall, up the stairs and to the right. Till she got to the right door.

"snap out of it" she hissed to herself, as she watched her hands shake against the door knob. Lily knew that as soon as she told the teacher about her being the new kid, there would be a chorus of whispers as everyone assessed her every move and look.

It was the same in every school.

"Scuse me"

Right on que, as soon as she popped her head in, everyone went silent. Great…

"Yes dear"

The teacher was a middle aged, brunette women, she looked quite nice and at least she wasn't starring like the rest.

"Hi, I'm new, I think I'm suppose to be in this class" She handed over the piece of paper with all her details on, while pulling the hair from behind her ear, so that it covered her face more.

"Alright, miss, Tatley, what a strange name. There's a spare seat at the back, take that for now."

Lily nodded and walked off quickly to the back of the room, taking her seat in the middle.

Slowly all the eyes, moved back to the front of the class. As the teacher carried on talking about Shakespeare, of all the plays it had to be Romeo and Juliet. It always brought with it the painfull time, when someone would have to read the love scenes.

"new kid, interesting, it will give us all something new to play with"

Lily turned slightly to the side, the guy next to her was smirking at her, his brown hair flopping in front of his eyes.

"try to and I'll make sure you pay"

But he just laughed and bit his bottom lip, "your sexy when your angry, looks like your gonna be fun to play with"

Lily closed her eyes and leaned her head back, falling back into her chair so that she was almost lying on it. "First hour and this day is already shit"

"naughty language" he laughed

"fuck off" She whispered, but when she looked up the teacher was giving her evils.

"Bender, Tatley, quieten down back there or am I going to have to send you to Principle Vernon's office"

"sorry miss, I was just being friendly to the new girl" he still had that annoying smirk on his face

"that's enough cheekiness Mr Bender, or I really will send you out"

They were both silent. Lily started writing her name on the front of her new book, when she suddenly felt breathe very close to her ear. "English is gonna be good, now that you're here"

Lily breathed in deep, before quickly bringing her sharp pencil down close next to his hand, just between his fingers. "Next time I won't miss" Her voice was quiet, but harsh. For a second she saw his eyes widden, like he was shocked, but then he just pulled his hand away and chuckled.

"This is brilliant."

The whole lesson was painfull and Lily couldn't wait to leap out from behind her chair and almost run out of the room. Like her life depended on it.

So quickly, the she ended up running into a huge group of jocks standing in the middle of the hall. Causing her to to fall flat on her backside, books flying every where.

"watch out weirdo" one of the shouted at her as they all walked off, laughing. This day was just getting better and better.

Lily quickly grabbed all her stuff and started walking off towards her next class. Ignoring all the people who were pointing at her, either because she was new or because she had just got floored by a group of brainless jocks.

"Don't worry it happens to everyone"

Lily was about to shake off the arm that had slipped around hers, before she noticed the pointy chin, mop of brown hair and scary eyes.

"Jocks never change, their always the same mindless beings in every school"

Lily smiled at her cousin. She'd always been an odd ball, dressing in all dark colours and wearing thick eye liner, talking about the weirdest things you would ever hear. But Lily liked her, more then anyone else.

"What lesson have you got next?" Allison asked, pulling Lily towards her locker, which she had painted over with thick black paint.

"Art"

"great your with me"

"cool"

They walked in silence the rest of the way. Allison seemed to know all the secret passage ways around school, so they were able to get to class without being watched.

With Allison around, art went by quicker and soon it was lunch. "So where should we go?" Allison asked, taking her lunch of her locker.

"I don't care, as long as I get some air. This school is suffocating me."

"Ok, follow me."

Lily just let Allison lead her out of the school, towards the football pitch and up into the stands.

"This far away enough"

"yep. Perfect."

Allison smiled and sat down on one of the benches, pulling out a can of coke.

"You eat way too much sugar, I don't understand how your not fat"

"magic" Allison whispered, her eyes going all wide and scary.

Lily laughed, pulling out her lunch. "So what's been going on, last time I saw you was last year at christmas."

"Nothing" For a second, Lily saw her eyes flicker. It was enough.

"Your so lying"

"No I'm not"

"yes you are, I know you Allison, something must have happened, life isn't that boring, defiantly not our life."

"Or yours, what's been going on with you"

"I asked you first" Lily said, smirking at her cousin, she was going to win this mini battle. "Let me guess, not family, something to do with school"

"I hate detention last Saturday.."

"Wow, that's major" Lily said sarcastically

"shut up"

Allison hated the way her cousin actually payed attention to her, to the point where she knew what to look out for when she was lying, or nervous, or happy. Lily knew more about Allison then anyone else, specially her parents.

"come on, I want the juicy details" Lily was sticking her chin out slightly, her eyes were piercing.

"fine, I made some sort of friends and I….met a guy and…"

"and, come on, rest of the story, I'm on edge"

"fine, we kissed once"

"so cute! Who is he"

"Andy Clark" her voice was all quiet as she said it, most of her face hidden behind the thick dark hair.

"Really, wow, isn't he like school royalty"

"kinda, yeah, how do you know that?"

"He's in the local papers, as soon as I arrived in this town, I was told about him. So are you guys dating?"

"No, I mean I don't think so. I haven't spoken to him since the detention. He's probably forgotten about me"

"Allison it's hard to forget about you, if he kissed you, that probably means he likes you and if he doesn't come and talk to you, then he's a coward and your better off with out him."

Allison just nodded and carried on drinking her coca cola. "So what about you, any news with you?" she asked after a while.

"Not really, family drama is always the same, mom found a new guy, a plumber, she's trying to pretend that this ones different, just because he's a got a normal job, but he's just the same as the rest. She'll get bored eventually, go hunting for a new guy and then soon enough we'll be moving again. Same old, same old fucking routine."

"Maybe you should run away"

"I would, but where would I go, I'd need to get a job and I'd be all by myself."

"I'll go with you"

"really?"

"yeah, your not the only one with a annoying family." They were both smiling now, but they knew that they weren't joking around, this was a serious idea.

"alright, next time my mom wants to, we'll run away. Go anywhere."

"Sounds like a plan"

They heard the first bell go off for the end of lunch, ending their brief discussion about the future.

Lily said goodbye to Allison, before going off to find her next class, math, the worst lesson of all and some how she just happens to be ok at, even though a small part of her dies each time she enters a math class.

As she walked through the halls, all she thought about was running away, she knew her mom would want to move again. Lily had had enough of following her crazy mother around, just because she was never satisified for long with one man.

Lily had to get away, other wise, she'd start turning into her mom and that would be the worse thing ever.

She finally got to her maths class. She introduced herself to the teacher, before being told to go sit down in the only empty seat.

Once again next to a boy, except this one was blonde and looked so nervous next to Lily, maybe this one wont give her as much shit as that Bender guy.

"Ok everyone, were going to start, now I want you in pairs to try and work out this algebriac equation, the fastest pair, will leave earlier then everyone else. You may begin now."

"Hi I'm Lily" She said, turning to face her partner.

He looked at her slowly, his face going red. "Hi, I'm Brian"

"Ok Brian, lets trying work this one out, because I am desperate to get out of this place" Lily tried to smile at him, so that he would stop being so scared.

It sort of worked, he just nodded, smiled a little, before giving her a long answer about how to figure it out, he had already worked it out while the teacher was talking.

Of course they won.