Another Bike Ride In The Park?

DISCLAIMOR: I AM NOT A WRITER, NOR CLAIM TO BE. I AM MERELY A FAN AND ENJOY OTHER PEOPLE'S STORIES AND THOUGHT I'D GIVE IT A GO! I DON'T OWN ANYTHING AND I HOPE THIS ISN'T TOTAL CRAP.

As the sun breaks over the morning pavement, the headphones of a girl play the chimes of Air's "Redhead Girl". With wheels of a bicycle on the cool pavement and a pair of petite, fair hands on the handle bars, the rider has a dark green sweater and gray shorts on. She is gliding gracefully through the park with her shoulder length bright red hair, pinned with a tiny bow, falling in the wind. Her slightly slanted bangs cover her chocolate, brown eyes which are squinting from the early morning glare. Her delicate features make her look like a porcelain doll as she rides through a park, onto the street which leads her to her fist day of college.

As she gets closer to the school, the crowds of people are visible. After the ride there, her legs are already tired and the day is just starting. Waking up to a pesky, little brother rummaging around her personal items and her twin sister hogging the bathroom, she is already in a foul mood. Not to mention her sister decided to leave before her so she could show off her lame-ass flavor of the week, whom drove her in his fancy car. She isn't into that kind of show of money, and found it peaceful to ride her bike anyway.

She makes her way through the pools of people and locates the bike racks. She parks her ride, and removes her lock from her pack. Suddenly a loud pinging noise startles her and she looks up to a blonde haired girl next to the rack stop abruptly, also startled by the noise. A bicycle in tow, she realizes she accidentally kicked a rock into the rack. She parks her bike, sets her pack on the ground, removes her lock, and clicks it securely, slightly blushing.

"Sorry about that," the blonde says bashfully. "These feet of mine have a mind of their own," she admits smiling.

The redhead smiles in return, "It's no problem, just startled me is all. I'm always a tad jittery on first days. Had a shit morning, so I guess it's par for the course," a smirk curls on her pale skin. "I'm Emily by the way" she says extending her hand.

"Oh! Right, I'm Naomi" she stumbles over her bag to reach for Emily's hand. Naomi too lost in Emily's eyes to see where she was walking. She smiles bashfully, "I guess I'm a bit nervous too, yeah?" She shakes her head, realizing how clumsy she just came across the last five minutes.

"Yeah well, better to get it out now before you fall on your arse in front of the whole college, like in the cafeteria or something." Emily looks at her and notices just how blue Naomi's eyes are in the light, a slight flutter in her stomach. She smiles and pulls her pack over her head and lets it fall onto her hip.

"Yep, well I wouldn't want a repeat of last year, that's for sure" Naomi shrugs and smiles as she too pulls her bag up on her shoulder. "People shouldn't leave ketchup packets lying around on the cafeteria floor for others to step in and make complete fools of themselves, now should they?" Naomi smiles at her confession and chuckles at her awful luck.

"That was you?" Emily blurts out with a deep throaty laugh. She smiles as she sympathizes, "I heard about that, you weren't hurt were you?"

"I wish, then I could have at least gone home instead of finishing the school day with ketchup all over my trousers." Naomi shrugs her shoulders and smiles with a squint, as the sun peaks out from behind a cloud.

The bell rings to signal the start of the first day assembly, and both the girls look up.

'Well…" Naomi starts to say before being interrupted.

"Emily!" a figure shouts from a far. "Come on you cow, hurry up or we'll be late!" Emily turns to see her twin sister Katie, dressed like a call girl but pulling it off beautifully, flailing her arms and motioning her to come.

"Gahhh" Emily sighs, "I'm sorry, my sister awaits. Heaven help her if she had to sit alone for once. I gotta go, see ya later though right?"

"Yeah, see ya," Naomi smiles, sad that their conversation was cut short. She had seen Emily around before in the previous years of school, but was far too intimidated to ever speak to such a beauty. Plus, as she just witnessed, her sister can be a tad bossy and controlling of her, so the opportunity never really came up until now. She watches Emily walk off and finds herself staring a bit longer than she should. She shakes her head and scolds herself, "Christ, what are you doing. Stop. You talk to her once and you mind is already wandering." She inhales deeply and prepares for the first day drama as she starts to walk towards the auditorium with the rest of the students.

"Naomi!" chirps out a bubbly blonde with a sideways pony tail. "Wait Naomi! I'm coming!" a flushed Pandora bounces over to the awaiting Naomi. "Bonkers, it's bright today," squinting as she holds her hand up to block the sun. "Are you ready for the assembly?"

"Yeah, let's get this over with already," sighs Naomi, smiling warmly at Pandora, who is overly enthusiastic as usual.

The students file in and find seats in the stands, cliques forming with stares flashing between groups. Cheesy Roundview College theme music fills the air, unsuccessfully trying to help the students get pumped for the school year. Naomi looks around to see where her friends could be. She scans the seats and comes across a familiar redhead and stops her eyes. Emily is sitting, looking at her organizer, clearly ignoring her sister talk . Katie's gestures are grand with rolling eyes at whatever she was yapping about. Naomi feels a pull at her sleeve and Pandora points and yips as she locates JJ, Cook, and Effy sitting up in the far corner.

"Let's go!" Pandora shouts with joy and she yanks Naomi up the steps of the stands. Naomi stumbles a bit from the surprising force behind Panda's pull. "Hi guys! Happy first day yeah?" Pandora says grinning from ear to ear.

"Hey Panda, hey Naoms" nonchalantly says Effy, a mysteriously beautiful brunette with piercing blue eyes and a smirk on her face. Clearly not as enthusiastic as Panda, she smiles adoringly at her and rolls her eyes as she pats the spot next to her and gestures for the girls to join them. Naomi sits next to Effy and Panda sits next to Naomi.

"Naomikins!" Cook, a rough around the edges bloke with boyish good looks blurts. One can tell by looking at him, that he is trouble. "Babe, are you going to stay on your feet this year?" he smiles obnoxiously and holds up a ketchup packet. He continues to laugh at Naomi's past ketchup incident, quite amused with himself.

"Yeees Cooook," says an annoyed Naomi. She is used to Cook's behavior and takes no offense to his gaping mouth and smiling laughter.

Before anymore embarrassing moments are brought up by Cook, JJ points out that Freddie is down below talking to a good looking, dark skinned boy. He is shaking his hand and turns to the stands to find his group.

JJ jumps up and waves his arms and yells, "Freds!" as Freddie nods his head acknowledging JJ and pats the boy next to him on the shoulder, inviting him up the steps. As they walk up Pandora whispers to Effy, "Who is that? What a total corker! I'd like an order of surf and turf from him!"

Effy chuckles and corrects Panda, "It's SURF AND TURF, not an order of it!" and rolls her eyes at Panda's innocence.

"Hey guys!" joins Freddie and his new friend. "This is Thomas, he's new here." He flops down and his brown hair falls into his dark eyes making him flip his head, he sees a vision of beauty and can't stop his gaze.

"Hello, so glad to meet you all," said Thomas genuinely happy to meet some people. I'm from Congo and have a new found love for …what you call doughnuts?"

Panda bites her lip and gushes as she throws her arm out at Thomas, "I'm Pandora and I too love doughnuts! Maybe we can get some after school!" Not wasting anytime on claiming her territory, not like she needs to because Effy is with Cook and Naomi is into girls, so there is no competition among the group. Effy and cook both roll their eyes at the obvious flirting of Pandora and smile at each other.

Thomas smiles, "I'd like that very much." he takes a seat next to her on the bleacher bench.

Freddie is still gazing over at the girl, and he is startled when JJ shouts, "Earth to Freds!" Freddie jumps in response and says, "Yeah, I'm here. I…just.. I um never seen her before." as he points over the redhead and her twin on the other side of the bleachers.

"Oh you mean Emily and Katie?" confirms JJ. "Yeah, I had a class with Emily before, she's the one with the redder hair and she's real sweet. Quiet, but sweet. Don't know much about her sister Katie, she's dating some football player and talks about him all the time, that's all I know. You should have seen the car they rolled up in this morning."

Freddie grins, "Well, Katie is beautiful. Stunning actually." He keeps his eyes on her until the assembly begins with a loud feedback screech over the speakers, urging their attention to the front.

After the assembly of rules and warnings from administration, the students are released and allowed to choose a locker and get situated before their fist class. As Freddie pushes the door open into the hallway of lockers, the bass of Shakria's "She Wolf" booms on a random student's stereo. He sees Katie and Emily by some lockers and heads towards them, dragging JJ along.

"Hey Em" smiles JJ, as Emily turns around from her locker. Freddie stands next to JJ just staring at Katie, waiting for his chance for an introduction.

"Oh hey JJ," Emily smiles. "Hope you have a nice first day yeah?" Emily notices JJ's friend and asks, "Who's your friend?"

"I'm Freddie" he extends his arm to Emily. "Who's your lovely friend?" he asks in return, referring to Katie.

"Oh her?" she nudges Katie with her hip. "This is my sister Katie," as Katie turns and joins the conversation. She looks at Freddie and throws her hand out, totally ignoring JJ. She smiles brightly because Freddie is a handsome bloke, and makes a smirk and says, "Yes, I'm Katie. The much more attractive sister."

Emily rolls her eyes at the typical comment from her sister, "Yeah well, nice to meet you Freddie. I have to get going to class, so have a nice first day, and I guess I'll see ya round." She shuts her locker and stood there waiting for Katie to follow suit.

"You too, maybe we'll have a class together" JJ says smiling while peaking over Emily's shoulder as he sees Naomi approaching.

Naomi just arrives at the group when Emily swings around annoyed at Katie, who is still just standing there flaunting her cleavage at Freddie, and she crashes into head on into her.

With the collision, Emily drops her books straight on her foot. "Fuck! Bloody hell that hurt" as she drops down to pick up her stuff. She looks up to see a familiar face from the morning. "Shit, that was my fault, wasn't it? She chuckled at the coincidence. "I'm sorry Naomi, I didn't see you there. I was just trying to get this cow to stop flirting with this here boy, and I just… sorry." She says with blushed cheeks .

"You alright? I'm surprised I'm still on my feet." Naomi says as she helps Emily up, eager to touch her hand again. "Yeah, I was actually coming over to fetch JJ and Freddie so we all can get lockers near each other. I didn't know you knew these fools," Naomi smiles, enjoying the new connection to Emily. She looks at Emily's delicate, red lips and perfect skin until Emily snaps her out of it.

"I had a class with JJ last year, and just met Freddie…who seems quite captivated with my sister currently." Emily rolls her eyes and smiles at Naomi.

"I don't blame him," Naomi blurts out unconsciously, biting her bottom lip for her bluntness.

Emily raises an eyebrow at her and just smiles, "Well, come on then. Let's get to class shall we?"

Emily and Naomi walk off together, leaving Freddie and Katie talking. JJ, who is very conscious about being punctual, walks off moments later to get ready for class.