Chapter One

Why did my Dad have to move back here? This place brings back so many horrid memories. Mom died here all because of one guy who thought it was okay to drive drunk. I sighed and slowly walked into school.

"Can you go any slower?" I turned to see a petite girl with a pink streak in her dark brown hair that cascaded down her shoulders. Her eyes were a piercing blue and they had a few specs of green in them.

"Lucy?" I asked. The girl's eyes got as wide as a saucers when she recognized me.

"Emily? Oh my god I can't believe it. What are you doing back? How's your Dad?" the questions exploded out of her mouth so fast that they seemed to jumble together.

I smiled "My Dad decided to move back because…well I don't really know he um never told me." My smile faltered a bit but I caught myself "but anyways Dads good, how are your parents? I haven't seen them since like 5th grade." I laughed, remembering when me and Lucy used to be inseparable. She was about to respond when the bell rang and I cut her off.

" I have to go find my locker. I guess I'll see you later. Bye." I walked away quickly trying to find my locker.

"Wait! Emily!" I turned around. "What locker are you at?" I glanced down at the crumpled schedule in my hand. "Ugh it was I'm locker 209." Lucy looked a bit upset "Aw" she said sounding disappointed. "I'm all the way on the other side of the school. I'm at locker 743." She walked away still looking a tad deflated, but perked up when a tall blonde with green eyes walked up to her and Lucy laughed at whatever the blonde had just said.

Eventually I found my locker and was able to make it to my first class, Biology. I walked in and the teacher stopped talking to look at me. He was in his mid forties and looked very strict. "Ah, Miss. Nelson you finally decided to come to class. Well, because it's the only seat left please go sit down next to Mr. Diamond." He gestured to a cute brunette with dimples and a soft smile playing on his perfect lips, his hazel eyes seemed to smile also. The teacher cleared his throat and the class started to laugh. I blushed a deep shade of crimson, realizing I was staring and ran to my seat taking out my books. "Well that's a great way to make friends Emily" I thought to myself.The teacher continued talking but I couldn't pay attention because I was to busy looking at the gorgeous brunette, and when he caught me looking he would just smile. This of course made my heart flutter and make me blush again.

The bell rang and I tried running out of the classroom but I was held up. "Wait! Come back!" To my surprise I turned to see the cute brunette running up to me. "I'm James" he said.

"Um its nice to meet you James, I'm Emily" I smiled and so did he which once again brought back those amazing dimples.

"So your new here, huh?" he asked.

"Well, kinda. I used to live here, but then I moved to California and now I'm back" I said shrugging my shoulders. James' eyes lit up like a kid in the candy store.

"You lived in California?! I have always wanted to go there! Its my dream to become a musician or a model or an actor or-" I was starting to get worried I would be late for my next class so I cut off James. Wow I was doing that a lot.

"Ugh James? I kind of have to go to History now" I said and for some odd reason he smiled.

"I'm in History next too. I'll show you how to get there." With that he grabbed my hand and pulled me down a hallway running and grinning like a crazed lunatic. "Oh my god, James! James let me go!" I couldn't believe a guy I barely knew was treating me like I had known him forever. As we ran into the classroom, with me stumbling behind him, everyone stared. My face flushed once again. This of course made James laugh. God I hate attention.

We took our seat and James started talking to some guy named Sean. They were talking about cars or something so I started to doodle in my notebook.

"I see you got better." I jumped as I heard Lucy's voice behind me. She did that all the time when we were little, I guess something's never change.

I turned around and saw her looking down at my drawing. "Yea" I said. "Its been a few years since I last saw you." She laughed and I smiled.

"So you got the attention of James Diamond? You do know that he's like royalty in this school. Captain of the hockey team and not to mention he's super hot!" Lucy said.

"He decided that he wanted to pull me into the class by my wrist, so I let him. I hardly think it meant anything."

"James usually doesn't do that with most girls." Her eyes showed a bit of sadness.

"Lu, do you like James?" I asked as a smile spread across my face.

"No, I actually have a really big crush on Kendall. He's James best friend and he's so sweet, funny, caring, and he's not hard on the eyes at all." She said raising her eyebrows suggestively. "Wow, its weird how I haven't seen you in forever but here I am telling you my secrets like were back in 5th grade!"

"At least I have a friend here though. Its hard to be the new kid. Everything is like so foreign. People always look at you funny and whisper in the hallways. That's how it was in California anyways." As soon as I finished talking our History teacher, Mrs. Collin's came in. Her bun was so tight it seemed to plaster her face onto her scull.

"Take out your textbook and turn to page 503. Read until you finish the chapter then write a 2 page summary. You may begin." She said with her cold, condescending voice. Everyone groaned and I could already tell I would not like this women.

The rest of my classes went by pretty fast and soon it was lunch. Luckily Lucy was in all of my classes as well as James. Both of them sat at the same table which was good because James seemed pretty interested in me and I really wanted to catch up with Lucy.

We walked into the Cafeteria and saw chaos. There were teens running around and some were even throwing pasta at each other. Gross. James was holding my hand which made me a bit uncomfortable seeing as I just met him. Lucy and Kendall were behind us talking about something but I didn't pay attention to them because James was taking to me.

"So what's it like in LA? Are there movie stars and musicians everywhere you turn?" His eyes showed so much eagerness and questioning.

"Yea. They are everywhere! Especially Rodeo drive." I told him remembering when I saw Keegan Allen when me and my friends went on a shopping spree.

"Wow." James said in awe. "I wish I lived there. It sounds so amazing." He looked a bit sad so I tried to cheer him up.

"But you wouldn't get to have anymore snowball fights and you wouldn't be captain of the hockey team." I told him.

"So? I would be famous!" he said with a jerky tone. (AN: If that makes any sense)

"I guess, but that means that you would have to get noticed." I pointed out. I didn't like the jerky side of him. It was actually pretty annoying.

"Of course I would get noticed! Do you see this face?" Wow. I really didn't hope this was the real James. I liked him more when he was pulling me by my arm.

We sat down at the table and I took a bite out of my salad and tasted something crunchy. I swallowed and started to choke. My throat was swelling up. Did that salad have peanuts in it?! I continued choking and Lucy instantly jumped up looking at my salad.

"She's deathly allergic to peanuts! Someone call 911! Hurry!"

I felt 2 pairs of strong arms grab me. I assumed one was James but who else had me? I lifted my head up a bit and saw Kendall looking serious.

Then everything went black.