My Weekend

Chapter One, My Totally Horrible Weekend

"Alright class, please pay attention." Ms. Wiley sighed in exasperation, pushing a lock of fallen blonde hair behind her ear. She glanced around the class noting how uncontrollable she had let her students grow. "Everyone turn around!" She snapped and miraculously everyone turned to face her. "Uh, good. Now that I've got your attention I can tell you about the wonderful project we'll be doing."

The class let out a groan and the teacher smirked. A piece of chalk resting wickedly in the palm of her hand.

"No, Ms. Wiley don't do it!" Squib screeched lunging himself dramatically over his desk, causing Adena to snort.

"Mr. Furlong, learn how to hold your tongue." Ms. Wiley rolled her eyes and faced the blackboard and began to write. An essay on how you spent your weekend. She stopped writing to watch the expressions of her students who had resumed back to talking figuring if they ignored her maybe the work would magically disappear. Worth 20 of this term's mark, she paused again, still no reaction. She reached for the eraser and changed the 2 for a 5 and soon the class fell silent.

"Ms. Wiley! That's not fair!" Adena groaned, a curl twirled around her index finger.

"I'm sorry, Miss Stiles, but this is the only way I can actually you guys to listen and do your work. Now take out your copybooks and write. I want emotion, not just words, I want to feel what you felt."

Groan.

- - -

Adena Stiles

September 14th, 2005

My Totally Horrible Weekend

Okay, so it started as a breezy day. Corny way to start an essay, right? Well no, because it wasn't one of those perfectly breezy days. Not those days were the sun is shining so bright, the clouds seem to be floating in the air, and the warm weather is cooled by the chilly wind. You know the ones where your hair is blowing like a supermodel's? It was pretty much the opposite of that. Totally the opposite of that! It was the kind of windy day where you hope you don't have to take one foot out the door, but of course around here that's pretty much wishing for the impossible. Anyways, as I was saying, you couldn't even see the sun! That's right now shining, bright, yellow, ball in the sky just plain dark gray clouds. And I swear to God it look like it was about to rain in any second. So I step outside and my hair, which I had tamed to perfection was blowing all over the place and soon turned into an uncontrollable mane. The stupid wind kept blowing strands of hair into my lip-glossy lips. Meaning I now had lip-gloss in my hair. Gross.

So, I, Adena Stiles, decide that this day can't any get any worse. But of course I totally jinxed it. I take a look at my watch and find that I was 15 minutes late and THEN when I step onto Court B there's Sunny Capaducha. Her arms crossed and she's got that signature smile on. You know the one Principal Bates is like totally in love with? Yeah, well that one.

"Where is everyone?"

"Coach Gunnerson has the flu so he cancelled all practices for the weekend." She says, that creepy smile still on.

"Bates could've said something on the intercom." I muttered, I mean seriously this day was just getting worse and worse.

"He did, if you would've been awake on time you would've heard the announcement." See? Worse and worse.

"Not my fault Tanis didn't say anything." I grumbled, and then it occurs to me! Where is Tanis? I hadn't even seen when I woke up.

"And it's not my fault either, but that's okay. You're here now." She cackled. I swear the God she cackled. Like a real witch like cackle!

"Not for long, I'm leaving."

"No your not. You've got practice with me." WORSE AND WORSE!

"What? No. I'm going inside. With my friends, besides it's going to rain in like 10 seconds." I retorted as I looked up and scanned the sky. And you know what she did? She threw a tennis ball at my head!

"Coach said I had to, to prepare you for the Australian Open"

"AUGH! But it's going to rain…"

"I have an umbrella."

"Like you'll share."

"Good point, I probably won't." She smirked, again.

"Fine." So I take my tennis racquet, start the ball dispenser-thingy and start hitting balls over the net.

"You suck. Your legs are like tree trunks." I'm not even going to comment on that, because if you must know boys love my legs.

"I'm ignoring you!" So I hit the ball again, this time harder because I'm imagining Blondie on the other side. Megs taught me that trick. Totally works. And then it happens. The sky just erupts into like water. And she pulls out her umbrella, labeled with Stormburst's logo all over. I swear, that kid is a walking billboard. "Can I go now? It's raining."

"Losers pick up the balls. Oh and don't shut off the machine until your done cleaning up." She waits to make sure I do as she says and then she just leaves, that stupid smirk still on her face.

Now, I go inside to change. Takes me about an extra half hour to decide what to wear because Tanis or Cody wasn't there to help me decide. And then I remember that I haven't seen any of the Top Guns all morning. So I walk into the Open, oh by the way I'm wearing these low cut jeans that I had to absolutely have when I saw them in the store, and an orange tang-top. Guess what! There's Cody, Tanis, Squib and Cameron all sitting playing cards.

"Why didn't anyone come get me?" Worse and worse. They all turn around to face me, Cameron has on this super-guilty looking face on and so does Cody.

"Sorry, Dena, Tanis said you were at practice with the Prima-Donna." Cody shrugs, setting down the cards she has in her hands onto the table.

"Tanis you knew about the practice?" I frown and Tanis looks up from her cards, flipping her straight brown hair, which I'm completely jealous of. I can never get my hair as straight as hers. She glares at me. "What?" I ask, because she only gives me that look when she's mad.

"Yeah I knew, and you would've known if you were up on time. Bates said it on the frikkin' intercom." She snapped, she's a real grouch when you get to know her.

"Jeez, no need to get testy on me, Tans."

"Testy? Testy? I have every right to get testy on you!" By now she had drop her cards all over the floor and was marching towards me. I took a step back, because that's what you do when you have an angry person like totally about to kill you.

"What did I do? I didn't do anything!"

"If you don't know what you did then I don't think we should be talking." WORSE AND WORSE! Then she just leaves. Cody sighs and does that rolley-eye thing of hers, Cameron looks on the verge of laughter, and was well picking his nose or something.

So whatever, I try to ignore Tanis for the rest of the day, and I could tell she was trying to avoid me. Totally annoying. Now I'm really bored because my other 3 'friends' have decided to ditch me and go into town together, with Cody. She's my best friend! Not theirs! And I'm the one who's in need of new clothes! And you know what's worse? I needed advice. And my fountain of wisdom was gone, yeah that's right my Cody was gone! She's got this whole 'advice' thingy going on. My personal fountain of wisdom with multicolored fishes, because regular fishes is too cheesy. Anyways… so yeah, she's gone and I'm bored.

Day ends, still totally bored.

Sunday starts, totally bored and Tanis is nowhere in sight.

Another stupid practice with Sunny, two hours of pure horribleness.

Tanis is still nowhere in sight.

At least it wasn't raining, but my Sunday passed pretty much like Saturday. Tanis wouldn't talk to me, Cameron was off with his dad somewhere and Cody was out with Squib buying some camera stuff. I wish she would've invited me but I had a practice with the little one.

And that, Ms. Wiley is my essay.

- - -

Adena walked up to the teacher's desk, a messy looseleaf paper in hand. She looked around the room noticing she was the first one done. Her eyes fell on Tanis who was busy white outing a sentence and she sighed.

"Adena, just drop the paper over there and get back to your seat please." Ms. Wiley requested and Adena nodded and did as she was told.

Worse and worse.

A/N: Dedicated to Becca (ChubbyPony) because not only is she working on a new HP fic, but was the one who made up the fountain of wisdom line. ) This one's for you!