Somebody's plaid Jack Spade duffel bag slammed into Ino Yamanaka's shin and jerked her out of her dream. The 9:30 am Amtrak Empire Service to Rhinecliff, New York, had stopped on Poughkeepsie, and a tall, yellowish-blonde haired boy about her age, wearing a green polo shirt was standing over her.

"Anybody sitting here?" he asked.

"Nope," she responded groggily. She was sitting next to the window. He threw his bag under the seat and settled next to her. He texted someone on his blueberry and noticed a handbook on her lap. Yes, our Ino Yamanaka was going to Breckwidge-Leaf Boarding School.

The train groaned along at about a mile an hour. Ino perked in her seat and smoothed back her black highlighted blonde hair. All she could think of was checking into the school of her dreams. She was dying for a cigarette, but had packed them away.

"You going to Leaf?" asked the stranger. She noticed his hair was in a high ponytail.

"Yea," she couldn't hide the enthusiasm in her voice. He smirked at her and held his hand out.

"Deidara, son of a rich business man." She shook his hand and smiled.

"Ino Yamanaka, daughter of a rich writer and artist."

When she removed her hands from her chest Deidara admired her lustrous filled out chest. Ino's dad Inoichi Yamanaka had two kids with his wife Emi. He made a lot of money with his painting and books, but he wasn't a snob more like a total hippie. Both her parents were, but her mom died from a mugging. After that Inoichi kept himself busy with work and kids. Ino's older brother Lonnie has a band called The Raves, who have made it big. The last thing Ino would need is her dad driving her up to her upper-class boarding school in his blue Mercedes, with a painted stained oversized shirt, stylishly ripped jeans, sandals, and a five o'clock shadow. No thanks!

"I'm going to Leaf too." Ino nodded and whipped out her sidekick 3. Her parents are hippies but she sure isn't it. She and her brother show no qualities of weird parents with bags of money. But Inoichi says his money is for them and they have been using it!

"Are you a freshman," he asked. She shook her head and he stared at her chest slightly moving.

"Nope, I'm a junior. I used to go to Landly Hill High, It's in the city," she responded. He nodded and stretched back in his seat.

"I'm a senior. But, I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself here. We have killer parties."

"Great, I've been dying to go to one."

"So city girl, you wanted a change of pace?"

"Yea…sort of."

The truth was she'd been asked to leave her private school Landly High. Apparently she was considered a bad influence on the other girls. Ino hadn't thought of her endless partying as bad influence at all, she was trying to have fun like all the other girls.

But, somehow all of her moments of extreme fun had also been publicized and embarrassing: a picture of her boobs and her drunk surfaced everyone's email, her dancing on a table holding a bottle of vodka without a top, she had made some bad decisions of who to sleep and make-out with at various parties—and of course everyone found out. Her father let her and her brother run wild; he thought that boundaries had no purpose since they would cross them anyway. Her 20 year-old brother got into clubs for free and hooked his little sis up with a fake id. Sometimes she didn't even need it. Having a famous brother put her on the front cover of Starz, People, and Intouch. The final straw was when she spent a night at the Plaza Hotel with her brother and his band. The paparazzi took a photograph of her drunk and skinny dipping in the pool making out with one of the band members. Then another picture of her leaving the hotel early in the morning, with wet hair, black sunglasses, and nothing but a fluffy white robe. All appeared first page on People. Rumors had flown that Ino was sleeping with all the Raves, except her brother. Concerned parents quickly called up the Landly headmistress in a panic about Ino's promiscuity. After all, Landly had a reputation to uphold!

Although Ino didn't sleep with anyone of the Raves, let alone all of them, she didn't exactly want to deny the rumor—she kind of enjoyed being talked about. So as she once again, sat in her headmistress, Ms. McKane's office, she realized that it wasn't the end of the world if she got out of Landly. Off to boarding school it was. Her dad just couldn't see why his rebellious little girl, wanted to turn sophisticated. But, what Ino wants, Ino gets.

"Wait, Yamanaka? You're Ino Yamanaka?" Her face became flushed.

"You're the little sis of my favorite band's lead singer. Wow." She was so happy he didn't bring up the magazine articles. His eyes gazed at her chest, she giggled.

"Something wrong, Deidara?" He shook his head.

"So um…you did some modeling too, right?" She shook her head and put on her Fendi shades.

The exhausted looking train conductor stopped down the aisle and took their tickets.

"Rhinecliff, next."

"Well, that's us," she said excitedly. He reached for his bag under his seat and Ino skidded out. She dragged off her up her red and white polka dotted small LeSportsac duffel bag and the old-school brown Samsonite suitcase she'd borrowed from dad off the rack. She purposely borrowed it from him, because she loved that suitcase. It had a big HUGS NOT BOMBS sticker next to the handles and the smell of cigarettes and malt liquor.

"Where are you going," he asked.

"Registration."

"I gotta wait for my friends, see you around." She nodded and both went their separate ways.

She stopped on the platform and sucked in a deep breath of fresh country air. Whoa.