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Brandon's POV!

Wakey wakey, Bran! Wakey, wakey, Bran! Wakey, wa-

I cut off the alarm clock my girlfriend, Mitzi had set for me the night before. My fingers swiped across my phone until I was finally able to switch the alarm tone to 'Marimba'.

It was my senior year this year. I was already so excited, but what made it even better was when Mitzi told me about how the girl that just moved in next door is attending school with me. Not that's she hot or anything, but it's good to make a couple new friends every now and then. I only have a few girl friends, and that's only because they hang around my friends. Mitzi doesn't really like me hanging out with girls, so I figured it was be easier to follow her instructions.

I got out of the shower and wiped the steam off of my mirror, staring at my complexion.

"Today's going to be a great year, Brandon. Don't screw it up this time..." I whispered to myself.

I had just finished putting on my shirt when the doorbell rang. My room is upstairs, so I jogged downstairs, into the main entrance hall, and to the door. My hand twisted the knob, and opened the door.

"U-um. Hi?" A perky voice spoke.

I looked up to see the most beautiful girl ever. Her hair was long and golden, and she had these...eyes. So beautiful, I can't even figure out how to explain them

"Hey." I replied, still checking up and down to see if I was dreaming or not.

"I'm erh, Stella. You're new neighbor? I thought maybe we could walk to school together and get to know each other and...stuff." She said.

"Oh yeah, sure. Let me just get my backpack and I'll be right out."

I went back up to the stairs and grabbed my phone. Right when I was at the doorway, my phone vibrated. It was a text from Mitzi.

Mitzi: hey babe just tellin u 2 hurry up bcuz i am bored kk xoxo

I called Mitzi while running down the steps, not trying to make Stella wait.

"Hello?"

"Hey babe. Where are you?" Mitzi shrieked.

Stella's eyes were looking at the ground...What was she thinking?

STELLA'S POV!

Nooo this isn't awkward at all, Brandon. Thanks for asking though. I can't believe I have to be friends with this new kid. He's probably just another dumb jock.

I heard a shriek through the phone and bursted into giggles while Brandon lightly punched me in the arm laughing into his phone.

"Brandon that one hurt!" I said through my giggles.

"Um. Brandon who the hell was that? What are you doing? Are you having sex?"

I covered my mouth before I could start bursting out laughing while Brandon facepalmed himself.

"No, babe. It's just my neighbor. She came to walk to school with me."

My fingers pointed towards me and towards Africa on the map of the side of the hallway he had.

"Because she might've gotten lost?"

I gave him a smile and a thumbs up, which he gladly returned.

"Yeah, I know. Yeah. Bye."

He let out a sigh and I began to laugh even harder.

"Jeez your girlfriend's so uptight. She gives me a wedgie." I joked.

"Haha, very funny. She's just...protective. That's all."

"Yeah, I bet 'Bran'."

Brandon sent a glare towards me making me fall on the floor laughing. I wiped a tear out from my eye.

"We should get going, or else we'll be late." He said.

I smiled at him and ran to his car- WHICH is nice, mind you. You only see so many black and yellow Cameros in a life time, you know?

"You like?" He smirked at me. I frantically nodded and got into the car.

"Wait, we're rolling up to school like this?" I asked nervously.

"Yeah. Why? You've never been in a Camero before?"

"I have. But I'm just...wondering." I inhaled the scent of new car and my Katy Perry perfume mixed with Brandon's 'Black Ice' car scenter hanging on his mirror in the car.

Brandon turned over and smiled at me.

"You know, my girlfriend would be crazy jealous that we're friends." He muttered.

"What's there to be jealous of?" I replied whilst twiddling my thumbs.

Brandon softly smiled and lightly punched my shoulder.

"You're not ugly, Stella. I've seen ugly before." He replied laughing.

I smiled and shrugged it off, the rest of the ride to school was filled with laughs, smiles, and punches.

We arrived at the school too soon.

"Hey Stella, let me see your schedule." Brandon said.

I passed him over my schedule only to see his beautiful smile again.

"What?" I asked confused. I didn't understand why he was smiling at my schedule. Was he happy I had all the shitty teachers?

"We have all the same classes together." He responded.

The car went silent.

I let out a bright smile and high fived him.

"I have classes with a person I know! Thank god for you!" I put my fists in the air, but then I realized where I messed up in the sentence.

Thank god you for you.

I quickly looked away from Brandon so he wouldn't see me blush. I thought of just dropping the subject and ignoring it for the rest of the day.

"So we should get going to class?"

"Right, totally." I responded a little too quickly, making Brandon chuckle a little.

We began to walk down the hallway and got some stares, but other than that everyone was going great so far. I stayed behind Brandon most of the time. A couple minutes passed and we eventually found our first class, the only class Brandon has with Mitzi other than PE.

"BRANNY BEAR!" I heard a shrill voice say. I kind of expected it to be Mitzi, but I couldn't see because I was still behind him.

"Hey, babe. I want you to meet Stella. She's my neighbor." Brandon stepped to the side and gestured towards me.

I gave her a wave and a small smile, but all I got from her was a look of disgust.

"Nice shirt, Stella. Where'd you get it? Goodwill?" The platinum blonde let out a laugh. Mitzi nudged her gut.

"Diaspro, shut up. Just because you're poor doesn't mean everyone else is." Mitzi replied rolling her eyes.

"I-I'm not poor." Diaspro shrieked.

"Um. Nice to meet you guys." I quickly responded before going to an empty seat.

"What an idiot." I heard Mitzi whisper as I was walking off.

Brandon walked past me, but then came back. He leaned down to my desk and smiled. I blushed, but quickly looked away. I couldn't like him. I don't want to be that kind of a girl.

"Hey, Stella." I looked at him and nodded my head a little bit.

"Are you okay? I'm really sorry about Mitzi and Diaspro, they're like a tag team." Brandon said as he chuckled.

I giggled a bit and smiled at Brandon. His eyes were so...soft. Like they've been broken so many times before. It's almost heartbreaking.

"Thank you, Brandon." I signaled for him to go sit by Mitzi, but he wouldn't budge. Actually, he took the seat next to me.

Mitzi's POV

"Bran!" I called for him loudly as possible. He's still over next to that blonde girl's desk. Ugh.

"BRAN!" I called a little louder this time, and I successfully earned his attention. I then signaled for him to come sit next to me, but he shook his head. Thinking that he didn't understand what I said, I yelled it to him this time.

"Brandon! Come over here, babe!" My throat was starting to get dry.

"No thanks, I'll stay here with Stella!"

My heart dropped.

"Are you kidding me?!" Diaspro screamed. She's started a scene again. Oh god.

"Brandon," She started "stop hanging around with that dork and come back over here! Mitzi's your girlfriend for crying out loud!"

"Diaspro , shut up!" I screamed. "Let him do what he wants. I'll take care of it at lunch."

In the Cafeteria

"And then the bitch went crazy for her shoe!" The table erupted in laughter as the red-headed girl finished off her joke.

Then they all directed their eyes toward me.

"Hey Brandon, who's your friend there?" The magenta-headed boy asked.

"Oh, I'm Stella. I'm the transfer student."

"Hey Stella! I'm Bloom, this is Flora, Helia, Layla, Nabu, Musa, Riven, Tecna, Timmy and next to me is my boyfriend Sky." I ran the names through my head a couple times, and it did the trick.

"Oh and they're all sitting next to their boyfriends. I guess you understand the concept of sitting next to our boyfriends, right?" Bloom asked.

"Bloom. She's uh, not my girlfriend." Brandon whispered. Sky reached out his hand and patted Brandon on the back.

"It's alright, man. I was friendzoned by Bloom for god knows how long." Sky said making the table laugh loudly.

"Riven didn't kiss me until the second month we went out!"

"Layla didn't give me a hug until the fifth month we knew each other!"

"Nabu, that's a damn lie! It was the sixth month." Layla replied laughing hysterically.

This went on and on, and out laughing was getting really quiet because our stomachs were hurting.

You guys are amazing.

"So Stella." I perked up realizing the question was directed toward me.

"You mind telling us why you don't have a boyfriend?" Layla asked.

"Yes, I do request the answer to that question myself. You are the average teenager, if not better. You should be getting hormones, correct? And not to mention that you have all the things that make a girl beautiful according to this article written by Angelina Jolie." Tecna added in.

I blushed a light pink and realized that they were all listening, including Brandon.

"I had one last year back in Michigan, but it didn't really work out."

"Do you mind telling us why not?" Flora chirped.

"Guys, that's quite enough." Brandon said.

"No, Brandon, it's fine." The memories started flowing in again. "He um. Hit me." I said while showing them a scar on my right forearm.

"Stella I'm so sorry." Bloom said.

"Yeah, I'll kick his balls for ya!" Musa said while holding a fist in the air. Riven took his hand and place it over her fist, slowly pulling it back down, this made the table burst into giggles again.

"It's fine, guys, really. I'm okay. It's in the past now." I said still a bit shaky from all of the laughter. I looked over my shoulder to see Brandon, and he was frozen.

"Brandon, are you okay?" Helia asked softly.

"Stella what was his name?" I asked.

"Why does it matter now? It's not like I'll ever s-"

"What was his name?" Brandon sounded a bit more serious than his last statement.

"It was Jared Wilcox. Why does it matter now?"

Everyone at the table froze. Except for me, of course. I didn't know what was going on.

"What? What did I say?" I asked.

"Hey Musa, wasn't that that one guy who like threw a beer bottle at you or whatever?" Layla questioned.

"Yeah..." Musa replied looking straight at me with nothing in her eyes but hurt and deceit.

Everyone looked at Musa, but her eyes were locked on me.

"Stella, when did you guys break up?"

"Like one or two months ago, why?"

Musa opened her mouth, as to say something, but quickly stopped herself and closed it and looked at Riven.

"N-no reason. I'll tell you another time."

STARTING A NEW SERIES WOOT WOOT! What do you guys think the reason is? Working on the next chapter right now! I'll be updating this story every week on Wednesdays if I'm not busy. Otherwise, I'll update every week, once a week. Publishing the Helia/Flora story somewhere tomorrow, so keep your eyes peeled!

~Golden Storms