Chapter 1:

This trip is bullshit

I waited for my teacher, Mrs White to carry on speaking, I couldn't believe I had to on this bullshit trip.

I sighed and lent my head on my hand.

"Right as everyone has paid for the trip, I will inform you that we have to meet here at the school gates at 5am" she tells the bunch of 20 people.

5 am! That's just crazy…

She begins passing around some letters, "This is all the information you need to know for the France trip"

I sighed yet again and grabbed the piece of paper that had just been passed around, I scanned it and relaxed.

I still think this is ridiculous, but least it's not too much to bring..

'To all french trip students.

You will need to bring :-

1 week & a half of clothes,

spending money,

good trainers.

Please remember to arrive outside the school at 5am, look forward to seeing you all.'

"Oh my god this trip is going to be awesome" I heard my best friend Leigh squeal next to me quietly.

I turn to face her, "Yeah great..."

"oh come on don't be such a sour puss!" she laughs.

"sour puss?" I couldn't help but laugh, "thats just wrong"

"I know, but hey it got you smiling!"

I smiled at her, yeah I suppose it did.

"Well your all dismissed for today to go get packed and things, see you all nice and early tomorrow morning!" Mrs White beamed at all of us.

She was our French teacher and done this trip every 2 years, she loved it. I didn't understand why? It was only France, no offense to French people but i mean why couldn't we go somewhere exciting like New York or Rome.

That's just me being biased as their my 2 favorite cities.

"Come on Dom" I hear some dude groan to his friend.

I look up to see a short, thin, scrawny brown hair boy standing a few feet away from me. The one thing that did point out to me about this strange boy was his striking blue eyes.

I then turned my attention to his friend 'Dom', ahh Dom, the guy Leigh has a major crush on.

I really didn't understand why, sure he was okay looking, but he was very grungy with his shoulder length blonde hair, which his friend had in common. They looked like the typical head banging stoner kids if I'm honest and yes, Leigh found that attractive in him.

We did briefly speak to Dom once but that was only because he 'accidentally' bumped into Leigh. Ever since then it's been, "aaww Dom"

I chuckled to myself it was pretty cute, they both blushed like mad, and yes I did take the opportunity to take the piss out of Leigh for yonks after that, my most perfect line - 'oh, not wearing your rose coloured blush today eh?'. it was pretty immature but I couldn't help but act like a 7 year old most of the time.

I felt someone poking me in the side.

I turned to see Leigh, "what?"

"Move"

"Oh right heh!" I replied.

I had finally made it out of the classroom and began walking to the front of the school. I hated this place it was a shithole, i mean it was home but still I couldn't wait to get out.

My mum had always wanted to move to London, hopefully it could come true once I finished 6th form.

I turned around to talk to Leigh, but saw she wasn't walking behind me, I looked around searching for my black haired best friend but couldn't find her. I decided to walk back to the French classroom to see if she got held behind by Mrs White, but to my surprise once I walked round the corner, she was chatting to Dom and his friend.

I smirked and walked up to the group.

"Oh hey Yaz, this is Dom" she smiles introducing me.

"Hey, i think i remember you bumping into Leigh, knocking her flying" I held my smirk.

"Oh yeah... i remember that" he chuckles nervously pushing some of his blonde hair behind his ear.

"So are you looking forward to this trip then?" she asks trying to start a conversation.

Awww.

"Yeah should be pretty good, I've always loved going to different places an-"

"Looking at all the pretty ladies" his friend interrupts.

Argh… so his friend is a ladies man, typical, doubt he could actually pull a girl.

"Shut up Matt, that's what your gonna be doing!" Dom laughs at him, trying to hide his blush.

"Well you know you will be missing out" Matt smirks at him.

"well I'm quite happy" he smiles back.

Matt looks over at me then Leigh, "Ahh so this is Leigh? The girl you were talking about the other day"

I see both Dom and Leigh blush, I couldn't help but laugh.

"Well yeah, i was just merely saying she was on the trip" Dom replies quickly.

"Noooo that's not what you were saying, you were saying how..." I suddenly see Dom push his hand on Matt's mouth to stop him from speaking.

I chuckled at the sight of it. Matt struggled but finally kept his mouth shut.

Leigh and Dom both liked each other it was obvious, but I doubt either of them will actually do anything about it.

"Right we better go" Dom replies blushing like mad, "See you tomorrow Leigh, Yaz"

"Bye" I wave to him.

Leigh turns to me with a horrified look on her face.

"Seriously, i think i could of died" she laughs into my shoulder.

"Well your face did say that too"

She looks up at me utterly shocked, "Oh great now i look like a red idiot"

I slowly nodded my head in agreement.

"Thanks and i love you too" she sticks her tongue out at me.

Maybe i am starting to like this trip.

We finally made it back to mine, "Mum! I'm home, with Leigh" I called while walking through the door and throwing my bag down on the floor in the hallway. It was painted a pale beige colour with a nice white finish on the doors leading into the many rooms. I took my converse off and put them on the shoe rack next to the door and hung up my coat, it was still chilly from winter. I was glad it was heading into spring and also my birthday coming up in a couple of months.

"Oh hey, how was school?" my mum asks me while walking from the living room. She lent against the banisters on the stairs.

"Oh same ole shit, we were mainly going on about the trip tomorrow, which reminds me, did you get the money changed up?"

She hands me an envelope, which was on the bottom step of the stairs, "There you go, its about 200 pound but in Francs."

"Wow thats a lot" Leigh replies.

"Yeah why so much mum?" I ask looking at her shocked.

"Oh well you got to enjoy yourself" she smiles and walks into the kitchen.

"Thanks" I shout after her, "Right i need to pack"

I walked up to my room with Leigh, once I opened the door, I collapsed onto my bed, it was too comfy for it's own good. Leigh went and sat on my computer chair and turned the PC on.

I loved my room, it was the most safe and relaxing place I knew, with it's red rouge walls and black interior. I had a black framed bed, with red cotton duvet covers. I had a built in wardrobe which was also painted black and some bed side tables. I also had a white PC on a black computer table. I had a couple of photos in silver frames which sat next to my computer screen. It really was my oasis.

"Can't believe we get to spend a week and a half with Dom" Leigh said to me, taking me away from my thoughts.

"yeah and his deranged friend!" I laughed looking at her.

"Oh come on, he seemed funny and obviously he must be nice if he's friends with Dom." she smiled sweet while giving me a strange look.

"What's with the strange look?"

"Well.." she pauses.

"I'm not going to like this am I?" I looked at her slightly worried.

"You two could get it on" she laughs.

I look at her disgusted "Fuck no!"

"he's not that bad and it could help you get over Mike"

"I am over Mike" I look away from her and to the ceiling.

"Well yesterday you didn't seem it as he was with Charley" she looks at me suspicious.

"well yeah of course I'll be pissed I mean he cheated on me with her!" I reply with a bite.

"I was just saying"

I turned to face her, "I know, I just can't believe it, I mean we were together for 3 years"

I hated thinking of Mike, he was my first proper boyfriend, well, if we're talking about first sexual relationship. We were great together and I think because he was the first boy I was with in 'that' way, I felt I loved him. He broke my heart, it was 2 months ago when I found out that at a party which was held 2 days after our 3 year anniversary he cheated, with a girl named Charley. I hated her, and now even more. She finally got her own back on me, she liked Mike before I even dated him, but he liked me, I couldn't really help that, but girls will be girls.

He didn't even try to fight for me when I found out from his best friend Ben Holden, what had happened. Ben was always nice to me and so he should have been as he dated Leigh, their relationship ended about a month ago, when they decided they were better just friends. I thought it was quite mature how they handled it especially being 17 and all. I thought it may have been harder for her as she lost her virginity to him but she was fine and I was thankful, it wouldn't of been good to have 2 best friends depressed because of boys!

"Well we're going to France tomorrow, you never know" she smiles taking me away from the bad memories.

"Yeah a holiday romance maybe" I rolled my eyes, getting up from my bed, "Right time to pack..fun.." I heard Leigh giggle, I sighed and grabbed my small leather suitcase from the wardrobe and packed a weeks worth of clothes. After an hour of packing I was finally done.

I sat down back on my bed, and sighed happily, finally I could relax and try to forget about the next week ahead of me, "I could seriously go to sleep now"

"Well, we could go out for a couple before we go to bed, it would help my butterflies"

"you really do have it bad for him!" I leaned towards her whiling winking.

"I totally don't, he's cute yeah but that's it!"

"Whatever, well for your information I do think he likes you back" I get up off the bed and open the wardrobe to find something to wear.

She hasn't answered yet, I totally now she's glaring at me in shock, with her 'oh know, you didn't' look…

Wait for it….

….

Wait…

"Really? Do you think so? I mean no he couldn't,, pst I'm not attractive!"

I turned around to face her with my hands on my hip, but all I could do was giggle. She really never saw herself for what she really was, a attractive teenager, with her medium length black hair and sparkling blue eyes, boys usually fell at her feet not that she would actually see that and Dom was defiantly one of them.

"this is not a laughing matter Yaz" she sulked.

"Come on, he totally likes you, I mean you both were blushing mad!" I put my hand on her shoulder, trying to get her to see it.

"Well whatever I doubt it" she sighed and smiled weakly, "I better get changed".

I nodded and smiled, "Okay" I watched her walk out the room, I couldn't help but feel sorry for her, the hopelessness of liking someone was pure hell, that's why I made sure I will never like another guy again, well until I am ready. The one thing I defiantly didn't want was to be head of heels for a guy and them just treat me like shit, aka nothing Mike.

I grabbed my clothes from my bed which I had laid out earlier, I was going to use this outfit for the traveling but i'm sure I could find something else.

I got dressed into a pair of black shorts and a white tank top with a woolly black cardigan.

I pulled my cardigan closer to me, it was my favorite.

Leigh walked back into the room wearing some black skinnys and a simple tee.

"shall we go then love?" She asks me.

"Yes, where shall we go though?"

"Hmmmm, The Den?" She replies.

"Sure, most of the people we know go there and as it's Friday should be good" I smiled at her, following out her of the room, while turning the light off.