Disclaimer: I only own Katelyn and her family. I own nothing original, m'kay?

Authors note: I was bored, and I wanted to write a Jason fic. I love the Jelsi ones, but I hate writing stories without adding an original character. PLEASE DON'T HATE ME ) .

Summary : It usually takes something bad to come across the good. In 16 year old genius Katelyn's case, that's breaking up with her boyfriend of two years...in front of the entire school.

Chapter 1

It had certainly been an, um, eventful day for Katelyn Hollins. She hadn't wanted it to happen, even though she felt it come for some time now. She'd done everything in her power from preventing it from happening that way, but of course her plan had failed and she'd been humiliated infront of the entire school.

...flashback

"Katelyn," her boyfriend of 2 years, Eric, said quietly as he approached her. Katelyn looked up and a lump formed in her throat. She knew what was coming, and why, but she denied it to herself ever since she found out. He wouldn't do that to her, he had promised her so when she was only fourteen.

Swallowing the lump she looked up at him and forced a smile. "Hey, Eric." she grinned. Eric ran his hand through his blond hair. "What's wrong?" 'Dumb move, dumb, dumb, dumb!' she mentally slapped herself. She wanted to put this off, not speed it up.

"Can I talk to you?" He asked, his expression hardening. Katelyn nodded and stood up from the red circular table she had been sitting at.

"Sure! What about?" she asked, slapping herself mentally once again.'

Eric sighed. "I know about Christian." he said cooly.

Katelyn's eyes widened. "...What about Christian?" she asked slowly, stepping closer and staring right at him. Christian was her BEST FRIEND. He had nothing to do with this.

"You goddamn know what I'm talking about!" he yelled, causing the heads of every teenager in the room to turn to them. Katelyn's face turned red. She hated having people stare at her. She gently rocked from one red-flat wearing foot to the other.

"I'm afraid I don't." she frowned, wondering what the HELL he was talking about. Is THIS why he was about to break up with her?!

"You SCREWED AROUND WITH HIM!" Eric screamed, his face getting red. Katelyn backed up towards the table and steadied herself.

"What?" she asked, her cheeks becoming blotchy and her brown-with-green-flecks eyes watering like they did when she was about to cry. "He's my best friend, Eric! I would never to that to you!"

"Bull!" he yelled, getting in her face now. "Jess told me! She's BOTH of our friend, and SHE would not lie to me!"

Katelyn wiped the tears that seeped out the corner of her eyes as she stood up straight and marched right up to him. "Okay, ERIC, I have no idea what the heck you are talking about! I thought you were going to dump me because you've been cheating on me with Arianna! Oh yeah, I'm not stupid, I know about that. And unlike you, I actually saw pictures of you two." she said in a harsh whisper, trying to draw the attention away from them. But what happened next would definately make them something that people would be gossiping about for a while.

"That's different, I'm a GUY!" Eric shouted before he raised his hand , as Katelyn turned around to sit back down, and pushed her, causing her to topple over and bang her face off the plastic bench. It was only plastic, but it still hurt and gave her a bloody nose, ruining her white eyelet top and yellow tank underneath. The other students gave a collective gasp as they watched Katelyn storm out of the cafeteria.

...End flashback

Right now Katelyn was sitting in the girls bathroom outside her 4th period classroom. She couldn't go in there, she really couldn't. A girl named Mary who was in that class had come in to use the washroom and noticed Katelyn. She told her about how that scene was all anyone could talk about and that Principle Matsui was looking for her. Katelyn made her promise not to tell where she was, and Mary agreed before going back.

"I can't believe that, did you see what he did to her!" Katelyn heard a girl said to her friend. She peeked through the stall door and saw that it was Gabriella Montez, a girl from her 3rd period math class. She was nice enough, so Katelyn decided to emerge from the stall and ask if she could use her cellphone to call her mum. She had no intention of leaving the bathroom until she could just go to her locker and get out of there.

"Yeah, I know! I mean what the..." her friend, Taylor Mackessie said. "Oh! Hello.." she said nervously when she noticed Katelyn come out of the stall.

Gabriella turned around and her mouth popped open. "Oh, Katelyn I'm sorry..it's just that-"

Katelyn cut her off. "Relax, I know everyone's talking about it." she sighed. "Can I borrow your cellphone? I need to call my mum to come pick me up."

"You live off Birch Lane, right?" Gabriella asked. Katelyn nodded as she dabbed away dry blood, trying not to gag as she did so.

"Yes. I do." she replied, wincing as she touched her swollen nose.

Taylor smiled. "I'll drive you home. I gotta drop Gabi off at her place anyway, she lives around there."

Katelyn smiled. "Ohmygod, THANK YOU." she beamed. "I just gotta go get my stuff from my locker, okay? I'll meet you out front in 15 minutes."

"Okay, see you then." Taylor called after her as she left the bathroom. After double-checking she ran down the hall towards to gym where her locker was. She had phys-ed first period, and lockers are always by your first-period room.

Katelyn was gathering her stuff when she heard footsteps behind her. Fearing it was Eric she screeched and dropped her stuff, which scattered everywhere. "Oh, man!" she cried, bending down to pick it up.

"Here, let me. You've had a rough day." a boys voice spoke up. Katelyn glanced up to see Jason Cross standing there in his basketball uniform. Sure she knew him, he had gone to middle school with her and now highschool, and they talked occasionally, but not that often.

Katelyn blushed as she stood up and watched Jason gather her two notebooks and binders. She reached into her locker for her bookbag and held it open as he dropped the books in. Before shutting her locker she tossed her pencil case in and readjusted her floppy brown ponytail. "Thank you, Jason. You have no idea how embarassing that was." she smiled gratefully at him as she slipped her arms into her carrot-orange coatsweater. She tied the wrap-around belt in a loopy not and hoisted her bag onto her shoulder.

"You are very welcome, Katelyn Hollins." he smiled sort of sheepishly as he fell in step with her. Katelyn peered at him.

"Pardon me, but shouldn't you be at practice? Won't coach Bolton get mad you're not there?" she asked, giggling.

"Ah, it's okay." he shrugged. "I'll just tell him I was helping you out." he shrugged. "But yeah, I should be getting back now. See you later, Katelyn." he nodded before jogging back down the hallway. Katelyn watched him go and smiled to herself as she walked out the front door. She could see Taylor and Gabriella sitting inside Taylor's car which was parked right outside. The grin was still plastered on her face as she slipped inside.

Gabriella turned around. "What's got you so smiley all of a sudden?" she asked, giggling.

"Oh, just a really cute basketball player." she turned red as a tomatoe when she said this, then laughed. Gabriella nodded.

"I know what you mean," she sighed, looking off into space dreamily until Taylor slapped her arm, jolting her abck from her Troy daydreams.

"Yes, we all know the joys of hot basketball players, but if you two don't mind fastening your seatbelts I'd like to get going, I need to get to work." Taylor smirked. Gabriella and Katelyn both fastened their seatbelts and faced the proper way.

As they were speeding along Main Street Taylor decided to bring the topic she had shut down back up. "So, Katelyn, who's this mysterious basketball man that has you so happy."

"Erm..." she squirmed uncomfortably in her seat.

"Ooh, did he kiss you?" Gabriella asked, bouncing in her seat to the song on the radio.

Katelyn shook her head. "No, he was just really nice to me...no boy had ever been that nice to me before.."

"Whatever, WHO WAS IT, GIRL?!" Taylor asked, slapping her steering wheel like it was the most important information ever, which sent Gabriella and Katelyn into a 5-minute giggling fit. "Come on, Katelyn, who was it?" she whined.

"Jas-Jas-Jason." she sputtered through laughter. The two girls turned to look at her, but Taylor quickly turned back to the road to prevent any accidents.

"Really?!" Gabriella squealed. "That's..well, that's cute!" she screeched.

"Gabi! SHH!" Taylor hushed her. "Now are you two dating?" she asked Katelyn. Katelyn shook her head.

"No, Taylor, we aren't. I barely know him." she replied.

Gabriella pouted and turned around, but not before winking at Katelyn and mouthing 'We'll have to do something about this, now won't we?'.

Katelyn groaned. She REALLY wanted them to stay out of this, but could tell they wouldn't. "Guys, please, don't do or say anything. If something's going to happen, it will."

"Fine." they both grumbled as Taylor pulled up infront of Katelyn's house. She thanked them and hopped out, breathing a loud sigh of relief as they drove away.

Author's note: Short, but what did you think? Let me know. I promise next chapters will be longer, and if you give good reviews you'll get a virtual cookie! lmao. Not really, but it's nice to pretend, isn't it? hehe

---Kate