Chapter One.

Potential.

Effy pulled up on her fishnet tights and lit a cigarette, great, I've only got three fags left, there're not gunna last me all day, she thought to herself as she walked down the stairs. Effy could hear her mum and dad talking in the kitchen; she made her way outside and stood by the car waiting for her dad to take her to what will be her first day at collage. As she inhaled her cigarette she looked up and down her street, she could hear children laughing and car horns beeping, their was also a man being dragged violently by his large dog across the street, but Effy wasn't looking at him, she was looking at a young blonde girl who also stood across the street and she seemed to be searching for something.

Effy cocked her head slightly as she looked at the girl; she looked about 16 or 17, same age as Effy, and she was wearing bright pink Doc Martin boots with a black and pink tartan mini skirt and a bright purple cardigan. The girl looked up and caught Effy's for a second before looking back to the ground around her.

Wonder what she's looking for, Effy thought as she walked over to the girl. The girl looked up and smiled slightly;

"Hi," the girl said,

Effy simply nodded hello, the girl continued, "You haven't seen a gold ring have you?"

Effy shrugged; "nope."

The girl sighed, "Ah shit." She looked at Effy; "You going to Roundview collage?"

Effy nodded; "Are you?" she asked and the girl nodded.

"Im Denise." Said the girl,

"Effy," Effy said smiling a little.

The two girls stared at each other for a bit, looking each other up and down, Effy took in the Denise's beautiful face. She then started to walk away, but then she turned around and picked up a gold small ring, she then held the ring out to the Denise; "you want a lift?"

Denise smiled and nodded.

Three streets away a young boy was skateboarding down a narrow street. Woah! Wasn't expecting it to be this steep! He thought to himself as she curved his way around the moving cars going faster than he ever had before. Suddenly he felt his mobile in his pocket vibrate, he stopped outside a fruit store and took out his mobile and read his text:

FROM COOK,

SPARKING UR LAST SPLIFF.

The boy shook his head and laughed, he didn't bother to reply, and he just slid the mobile back in his pocket and made his way down the street to a local café.

He made his way over to a table were two boys were sitting at a table outside, one had very bizarre hair; it stuck out like he had been electrocuted he was also wearing a multi-coloured t-shirt, the other boy was wearing a red jumper and was chugging back his beer and was smoking a spliff. They both looked up and smiled as the boy with the skateboard made sat down;

"Stop smoking my spliffs Cook!" he said taking the spliff out of the boy in the red t-shirts hand.

"Calm down Freddie," the boy replied, his name was Cook, and he smirked as he watched Freddie smoke.

Freddie smiled and turned to the boy with the bizarre hair, "you alright JJ?"

JJ tugged on his multi-coloured t-shirt and smiled slightly.

Cook pasted a pint of beer over to Freddie, "got you some breakfast," he smirked,

Freddie laughed; "its 9:00 in the morning!"

Cook just laughed and sat back in his chair, he put his hand up his jumper and sighed, "Dunno if I fancy collage today boys."

"You have to be kidding? You can't bunk off our first day at collage," Freddie said putting out his spliff on the table,

Cook laughed, "I need a reason to go, and I haven't found one yet," he sat up and smirked "this days got potential, it's pregnant."

Suddenly a car curved in the street missing an old woman and then the car crashed into the lamppost right next to the boys.

Cook burst into laughter but the other boys looked concerned. A man with a very red face walked out of the car; "WHAT THE FUCK!?" he walked over to the old woman "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!? COULDN'T YOU SEE ME BLOODY CAR!?" he screamed at the woman,

"Excuse me, but you nearly ran me over!" the woman exclaimed,

"SHUT UP! YOU OLD HAG! LOOK AT ME FLIPPING CAR! ARE YOU TOTALLY TWATTED IN THE HEAD?" the man said going even more and more red.

JJ winced and said "I bet that old woman could take him, like, she looks pretty fit for her age"

Two girls walked out of the crashed car, Effy and Denise.

Denise looked concerned at the wrecked car, "is your dad ok?" she asked Effy. Effy lit another cigarette and shrugged.

Cook saw Denise and smirked, "speaking of fit."

JJ and Freddie followed Cooks gaze.

Wow Freddie thought to himself, she's beautiful

JJ was equally smitten, "please tell me that isn't Denise?" he said to Cook,

Cook smiled, "sure is."

"You lucky bugger," JJ shook his head "that's your girlfriend?"

Cook nodded and laughed a little.

Denise looked around until her eyes caught Freddie's, they stared at each other, Denise smiled, and so did Freddie.

"I think she's looking at you Freddie," JJ whispered,

"Yeah?" Freddie smiled,

"Or she might be looking at me,"

"She's not looking at you JJ." Freddie said not taking his eyes off her.

JJ looked sadly "nice hair." He said, "she has nice hair…. And nice eyes, I bet she has nice tits too."

Freddie shook his head "shut up JJ."

JJ shrugged then turned to where Cook was supposed to be sitting, "where's he gone?"

Cook wandered up to Effy's dads, apparently hurt. He groaned until Effy's dad looked at him, "What? What's wrong?"

Cook held his head and groaned "you hit me!"

Freddie had to blink to check he wasn't dreaming, Cook was actually claiming to have been hit; Freddie held the ketchup bottle in his hand and smiled the little sneak,

Denise looked and saw Cook and she also had to blink, "Cook?" she whispered at him, but Cook just slyly winked at her then carried on "Look! Im bleeding! YOU hit me!"

"I DID-BLOODY-NOT!" Effy's dad yelled,

"You did." Cook said simply,

Effy's dad scowled "WELL YOU HAVE NO GOD DAMN WITNESSES DO YOU!?"

Then from behind him the old woman coughed, she smirked and said "I saw, and it happened exactly as he said." She smirked at Effy's dad.

"OH, SO THIS IS HOW IT IS, IS IT? WELL," Effy's dad took out his check book, and threw some money at Cook, and then he turned to the old woman.

Meanwhile, Denise walked over to Cook, "what the hell are you playing at?" she asked,

Cook smirked but caught the eye of Effy, he smiled at her and she walked past him.

Denise lifts her finger to the ketchup sauce that's on Cook's face she then used her finger to remove the sauce, then she licked her finger, "Clever." She rolled her eyes then walked after Effy.

Cook turned around and watched the two girls walk away; JJ and Freddie joined him,

"So that's Denise?" JJ asked,

Cook smirked, "yup, told you I was a lucky bastard."

"Who's the other girl?" asked JJ,

Cook shrugged "dunno, but I'll find out." He smirked then walked after them.

Freddie and JJ followed.

And so the first day at college begins...