Hey, this is one of my newest stories. I'll be adding 4 chapters right away, cause I wrote a lot yesterday. I want your reviews on this one,I want to know where you think this story is going. I want to hear your opninies. About my spelling, I'm from Belguim, sor my english ain't the best. Sorry for that.
Disclaimer: No charecters are mine, exept Melinda's and Tess. All thes charecteurs belong to their owners, I'm just boring them, and make thme younger. There will be references to High school musical, Hannah Montana, X-files. A clear cross over with Buffy.
Enjoy!
1. The Status Quo
Temperance Brennan walked trough the school. The 15 yearl old felt lost ever since her parents disapered. Her 19 year old brother Russ left her. That was how she ended up in the foster system. This had been the 4th school she had been send in the past month.
Altough the routine was the same, she missed having some familiar faces, maybe even friends. So far people hadn't really talked to her. She could see people avoiding her, wispering things behind her back. She knew what they were saying, what they tought. She knew that people didn't talk to her, because she was a foster child. In class no one wanted to sit next to her. Temperance so far did not like the new school. She sat down in the cafeteria. She could hear people talk.
A girl walked up to her. She got a bit afraid. Fearing that the girl would just make fun of her. On every school there was someone who had the guts to approach her, and laugh in her face. She studied her chlostes noticing that she didn't really looked like a chearleader.
"Hey, I'm Melinda Ryan." The girl sat down to Temperance Brennan. She watched her. "So you are the new kid?"
"Yes." She looked around and watched the student who were still staring at her. "I'm Temperance Brennan."
"Ignore them, they are like Zoo animals any time a new kid comes in they like to watch them." Melinda laughed "If there IQ was as big as there closet, they would make millions. But no one cares about that. So tuff day?"
"You have no iday." Temperance turned her head to Melinda "No once has talked to me, not even a single word. And no one wants to sit next to me."
"I know, us fosterchileren, never get the attention a normal student should get." Melinda replied "I gues they think we won't stick around."
"How did you know?" Brennan asked
"It's not that hard to figure out." Melinda said "I heard the Summers famely were going to get a new foster child. You are the only new kid at school. And the clothes. It's a mark."
"I know, I don't owe a lot of clothes." Brennan replied "So you know the Summers?"
"Yeah, I know Buffy Summers. She's friends with Xander Harres and Willow Rosenberg." Melinda said she pointed to a blond girl and a redhead sitting next to echader. "I live with the family Harris.. With Xander, they are not so great, but Xander he's okay."
"How long have you been in the system?" Brennan asked
"Probaly 3 years now." Melinda was looking around "I stopped counting after the 2nd year. Sometimes, I lasted for a week, a month. This is the longest time period I've been in the same family. 3 months now, almost 4. That's very uncommen."
"So do you have friend?" Melinda watched Temperance while a small person walked to their table. She had brown hairs, a slender figuir. She was weiring a skirt and putted the trail in her hand next to Melinda's.
"See Meli, Why weren't you on our normal spot?" The girl asked. Her eyes went to Brennan. "Oh, I hadn't seen you there, I'm Angela Montenegro. I mostly take art classes. And you are?"
"Temperance Brennan" Brennan shook her hand. "I'm taking anatomy classes."
"Well, I'm taking Drama and Movie classes." Melinda said "And I'm part of the drama club, I'm actually writing the winter musical. It's gonne be so great. I'm writing the music."
A very handsome guy walked by. Brennan could no langer hear Melinda and Angela talking. All her attention went to the mistery guy, who walked near her talbe. He had brown hear, amazing brown eyes and he seemed to get along with the other guys. Her attention snacked back to Angela and Melinda, when she heard a little scream.
"Who is he?" Brennan asked while she watched Melinda. Melinda watched the jogs for a moment. Studying them like some kind of math problem.
"I see you noticed our eye candy. His name is Seeley Booth." Melinda said while she took a sip of her soda. She watched Brennan smile.
"So does he have a girlfriend?" Brennan asked while she once again turned her face to the groop of jogs.
"You have a crush on Booth." On the back ground Angela could hear the denail coming to the surface. "Well, he has a grilfriend."
"That one there." Melinda pointed her finger to the table of cheerladers, more specific to the blond bimbo. "Tess Goodwin, She probably has less breancell then my great aun Lucy. Well, she is his girlfiend. The big boobs and all, that is what guys go for. And especialy Booth. But you can't get him anyway."
"Why?" Brennan watched Angela and Melinda very short, then putted her full attention on her lunch.
"It has nothing to do with you personality or your looks. "Angela said. "It's the foster child thing. This school know a simple hierachie. At the top, you've got the richt kids they totally rule the school. At the top the richest boy of them all, Jack Hodgins. Then followed by the Jogs/ Cheerladers, people who do sports, regualr studans, geeks. They are followed by science geeks. Then exchange students follow and Freaks. And at the bottem foster children. That is just the way it is."
"So I'm a foster child." She saw Angela knod "And I can't date anyone who's above me in the hiërachie."
"Well, you have to dater your own kind. Tess says." Angela replied "She only does that, to make sure that she won't loose Booth. He was head over heels in love with Cam Saroyan. 1 month ago, she was the head cheerleader. There was no status quo, everyone could hang out with who they wanted to. But then Cam got herself in an accident. And she broke her leg, she couldn't cheer anymore and was voted off the team. That is when Tess arrived, she took everything from Cam. She mad sure Cam would never be able to get back. She humiliated her all over the school."
"The lowest you can get is a freak." Melinda replied "That's why it's so hard to start at this school as a foster child. Cause you get that lable from the very first day. I used to dat this guy, Zach Addy, I can't see him anymore. Just because he's not my kind. Actualy, he is. I love science and music. I'm taking more classes about science too. The only reason why I can not go out with him, is because of the satus quo."
After that it became very quiet, there were no conversations anymore. Or atleast not about what happened to the school, why that Tess woman had so much power over the school. Temperance Brennan once again watched Seeley Booth. He was throwing the ball to another guy, and he put it down on the talbe. She could see that Angela and Melinda were talking again. At the same time she was wishing she could talk to Seeley Booth. Her eyes met his for a very breef moment. She felt like his eyes were watching her. He smiled.
"Oh my god, you didn't" Melinda yelled to Angela. Temperance attention was drow back to the funny duo. "You didn't try to put the moves on Hodgins."
"I thried, but that Tess wouldn't let me. She said I was beneath him. What makes her think, that I'm not good enough for him. I mean I know Hodgins, we were friends before she happened."
"She's so full of it." Melinda replied "They had to build another buidling, just so her ego, would fit in the school, and even now were are out of space."
"Someone should so stand up against her." Angela smashed her fist against the wooden table.
Seeley Booth walked up to their talbe. He sat down right over Temperance Brennan, his brown eyes met hers for a romantic second. Booth couldn't believe how cute this girl was. Most of the time, he couldn't see past the clothes, but in her eyes there was something that he had never seen before, she had very beautiful strong eyes. Blue eyes.
"I'm Seeley Booth" He said. He could see that Brennan didn't find the strengt to say anything, not even a small hello.
"Her name is Tempance Brennan" Melinda said when Temperance hadn't talked after a couple of minuts. "My name is Melinda Ryan, and this is Angela Montenegro."
"That's a beautiful name." Booth said while he grabbed her hand and watched her eyes. " what would you think about.."
Booth got interrupted by a mad Tess joining their table.
"Oh, what are you doing with this loozer table." Tess watched them "you know that you are sitting with two foster children and a freak."
Melinda stood up. "You know what he decides where he sits, you are not the boss of him, or me. You can't say who to hang out, and who to heat."
"Says the foster child." Tess steps around her "And you've been hear, like 4 months, with the summers, that Buffy that cuts classes more then taking them. And you are standing up against me. You really don't know who you're messing with. "
"Actually I …"
She dragged Booth along with her. Brennan still felt his hand on hers, but came to the conclusion that it was no langer there. She now saw the power of Tess, she could maed anyone shut up, and she had power that no one els possessed, not even Cam Saroyan.
"I hate her." Melinda yelled when she was out of her vision. "I hate everything about this school."
"We can bring her down." Angela reacted. Showing a very evil smile on her face. "Did you see Booth, he was going to ask Brennan out. What if we undermine the status quo, we could maked Tempe and Booth, boy and girlfriend, and then they could finnaly take down Tess."
"How?" Melinda was watching Tempe, like she just did something incredibly wrong.
"Well, didn't you see how, Seeley Booth was in to Tempe, he took her hand." Angela laughed "We got to make him watch her. We got to let them date."
"I don't think he likes me." Brennan replied to the girls.
"We are going to get her shopping." Melinda replied "I have saved some money, I wag going to buy a laptop, untill I found out that you can't have a computer. They would just take it away. You can keep clothes for some reason. If we can make your style better, we can make you popular."
"And if you're popular, Seeley Booth will s date you." Angela added "We have to make you stand out from everyone ells."
"Why would you that for someone you just met?" Brennan asked
"This is not just for us, this is for everyone that will not stand up against Tess. She's coming down. Let's go shopping" Angela yelled