Okay, so this is just a short prologue to the story, the first actual chapter is almost finished and will be up soon, maybe even tonight if I can get some solid writing done. This was just a little idea I've had, about how people change their minds about others. There will be a little love square, Bella/Edward/Jacob/Riley, but before you ask, there will be no blonde bitches trying to sleep with Edward. Okies? Read and review please!
Senior year. It's the year where friendships are strengthened and put to the test. If they aren't strong enough, then they break. If not, they succeed and stand until the end of time. What used to be squabbles over what table you sat at in the cafeteria now becomes which one of the backstabbing bitches slept with your boyfriend behind your back. What used to be sharing notes up the back of the classroom becomes sending text messages to each other about what you did on the weekend, or how boring the teacher is.
It's also the year where true love blossoms or fades out. New couples are made, old couples are separated. And strong couples continue. Sparks ignite, people come back and they're a whole different person. Old couples look at themselves and wonder what the hell they're doing with each other. Senior year is like taking off beer goggles. You think you've been with someone beautiful the whole time, but once everyone comes back for their final year, you realise how much everyone has grown and how the person your with isn't really the person you thought you were with.
In classes, you either pass or you fail. You either blitz the entire class or you plummet into the bottom class. You decide your career, what car you buy, where you're going to live, which all coincides with what college you go to. And most of the time, what college you go to depends on your brains. For some, it depends on how much money you have and how big of a bribe you can get in with. We all know who these people are, the ones who major in something useless, like psychology or engineering or mathematics. Which is the sole purpose of those classes, to keep them out of the classes that people are good at like music, journalism or the medical fields.
Me? I'd been with the same group of friends since we were freshmen. All my friendships were running smoothly, no kinks. We'd all grown into our personalities, we'd all done some pretty silly changes to our appearances - Freshman year, Alice's bright pink hair - some very drastic changes - Junior year, Jessica's nose job and implants - and some changes that helped us along the path to finding our true loves - Sophomore year, Rosalie finally ditching her nerdy glasses for contacts, which lead to every guy in the school fawning over her and being asked out by the school quarterback, Emmett Cullen.
On the love front it was all the same. Jasper and Alice were still going steady, as were Emmett and Rosalie. Angela had a bit of a summer fling with Ben Cheney and they were thinking of continuing it. Jessica and Mike were on again off again, but were thinking of calling it quits for the last time. And I was still single, just like I had been my entire life. Never been kissed, never been touched and never been looked at.
I was looking towards a career in primary school teaching, although my passion for it had weaned slightly. Sure, I loved teaching, but spending every single day with the same group of small children, getting frustrated when they can't pick simple things up quickly and having to explain things over and over was starting to do my head in. It was similar to telling Alice about my love life. She'd continually ask me if I had a boyfriend yet, I'd always tell her the same answer, and she'd always ask me why I didn't have one yet and then I'd have to repeat to her what I'd said a million times: I'm not pretty enough and I'm not interested in dating anyone yet.
None of the rules had mattered to me before, nor did they apply to me. I never thought that they would change for me and my friends. Until now.
Welcome to Senior year.
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