Chapter 2
I don't own the Clique
Westchester
BOCD Auditorium
Monday, November 24
8:15
Massie settled into her seat, staring straight ahead to the front of the auditorium. Even though she had reassured the rest of the Pretty Committee that this new clique would nawt be a problem, inside, she was not so sure. Maybe I can hire a group of computer geeks to dig up some social-life-ruining gossip, Massie thought to herself. That'll teach them to steal my spotlight from me. Massie didn't have any more time to think to herself, because Principal Burns had just stepped up to the podium.
"Hello students of BOCD," Principal Burns said into the microphone. "Caw, Caw" some student yelled, getting giggles and laughs from all around the room. Massie thought she recognized Derrington's voice, so she ignored the impulse to laugh along with the rest of the PC. "Did you see P. Burns?" whispered Kristen from her right. "Her neck vein was like, bulging out." Kristen giggled into her palm. Massie allowed a stiff smile to come onto her flawless face. She just wished everyone would stop being so immature, and for Principal Burns to just introduce the new kids already. The faster Massie saw them, the faster she could evaluate whether or not they were a threat.
Principal Burns cleared her voice into the microphone. "I'm sure you're all dying to meet the new students to BOCD; we know that you will make them feel welcome." At this, Principal Burns stared straight at Massie, squinting her eyes a little. Massie rolled hers. Puh-lease. Making the new students feel welcome was the last thing on her To-Do List. "Without further ado, may I introduce, Jade Chang, Danica Owens, Hannah and Brianna White, and Gwen Mitchell." Massie gasped when she heard what Principal Burns. Jade Chang? The Jade Chang? "Isn't that the teenage supermodel who models for all kinds of designers, even though she's only our age?" whispered Claire. Alicia, Massie, Kristen and Dylan all nodded. "She was on my mom's show once," said Dylan importantly. "She's famous for being able to walk in super-high heels. And she looks like she's like, 17, not 13 like us." Massie held her breath as Jade walked onto the stage. She was only wearing a simple swim team T-shirt, but somehow she pulled it off like it was Donatella Versace's last designer dress. (A/N Donnatella? Donatella? idk) If this was the beta, what would the Alpha be like? Massie quickly went through a mental list of things she could do to bring down Danica, the Alpha, but then she walked onto the stage…
And Massie was blown away.
Danica was…well… ugly. (A/N wasn't expecting that, now were you? lol) Massie blinked twice. Surely this couldn't be Danica. Massie sat back and waited for the real Danica to walk out. But twin girls, one a brunette, one with jet-black hair, walked out. Then came a blonde girl. No one else came out. Massie looked around. Was this a joke? Jade Chang, the fashion world's newest idol, was in a clique full of LBRs? Massie gave The Populars a once-over. Danica had brown hair and blunt bangs, her height was probably about 5'2", and she was…quite chubby. One glance at her and Massie was reminded of Kristen's old pet hamster, Snuffles, who had died of obesity. Ok, that was a little mean, Massie said to herself. But it's kind of true. Hannah and Brianna, the twins, were stick skinny, and shaped like a board. Brianna had nice hair, but her eyes were as dead as a shark's. Hannah's hair was thin, but her eyes were vivid…it really was a shame that she had man-hands. The first thing Massie noticed about Gwen was that she had a big nose. And thunder thighs. But everything else about her was ok. Massie looked over at Alicia, who was trying extremely hard not to burst out laughing.
"I can't believe that this is the clique we were so worried about," whispered Dylan stifling a giggle. "Don't be so happy yet," hissed Massie. "Remember that Jade Chang is in their Clique. Maybe they have a whole bunch of tricks up their sleeve. It doesn't make sense otherwise. Why would a total Alpha only be a beta?" "She's really shy," piped up Dylan. She was now onto a bag of Reese's Pieces. "I heard her say that when my mom interviewed her for The Daily Grind." Dylan stuffed another handful of Reese's Pieces into her highly-glossed mouth. "And, of course, you can't be Alpha without being confident."
"I heard she's anorexic," piped up Alicia, always the one for extra gossip points. "How many points do I get for that?" "None," replied Kristen with an eye roll. "She's a celebrity; it doesn't count." "But she goes to our school now!" argued Alicia. "It doesn't matter," said Dylan through a mouthful of Reese's Pieces. "She's nawt anorexic. My mom interviewed her, remember?" "How do you know she wasn't lying?!" demanded Alicia, her chocolate brown eyes flashing. This was so un-fair. Alicia had a vision of her hard-earned gossip points flashing before her eyes. "Be-cause, everyone in the audience was so skeptical, my mom's crew had to bring in a polygraph test. She passed the test with flying colors; no way could she have lied. *stuffs another handful of Reese's Pieces into mouth* Is that enough proof for you?" Alicia huffed and plopped back into her seat.
"Guys!" Massie whisper-shouted. "Hell-o! Can we puh-lease get back on topic here?" "Come on Mass," Kristen said amiably, picking at her nail polish. "Relax a little. Maybe you're being paranoid." Massie sat back. Maybe Kristen was right. Maybe she should just relax, get a mani/pedi, and chill in the spa for a few hours- "And may I introduce," said Principal Burns, "Logan Mitchell, Mike Smith, Chris and Jon Jennings, and Jeffrey Chen." Massie's eyes widened as 5 extremely hot guys walked onto stage. "You didn't say anything about 5 hot guys transferring," Massie hissed to Alicia, whose eyes were widened in shock, shrugged and immediately began texting her "sources". Massie sighed, and looked over at Jade. Surprisingly, Jade had a look of supreme happiness on her face, and looked as though she could hardly stay in her seat. She caught Jeffrey's eye, who promptly smiled and waved. Jade beamed, and patted the empty auditorium seat next to her, which was currently being fought over by two LBR science geeks. Jade was too polite to tell them to take a hike. Plus, there were tons of paparazzi outside, and if a front page picture turned up of her yelling at two boys, it could be very, very bad for her career.
Massie waved her rhinestone-covered iPhone, alerting the PC that a very important text was on the way.
Massie: Did you see that?!?!
Alicia: WHAT? WHERE? HOW? WHEN? WHO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Kristen: CALM DOWN LEESH. Ok…deep breaths…in and out…in and out…
Alicia: Geez, I'm not 5… -.-
Dylan: *no comment*
Claire: Massie, what were you saying?
Massie: Thank you, Kuh-laire. =) As I was saying, did you see Jade act like a total wannabe fanboy when she saw that Jeffrey guy?
Kristen: I can't blame her. He's H-A-W-T
Alicia: not to mention H-A-R-T
Dylan: ?
Claire: ?
Massie: I do dearly hope that your "sources" are correct this time…
Alicia: why the quotation marks? And my sources say that he's a swimmer, his family owns some of the biggest mall in the country. That makes him Hot, Athletic, Rich, and Toned.
Massie: nice. 15 gossip points for you, Leesh.
Dylan: NO FAIR! I was JUST about to tell you guys that I forgot about when my mom interviewed the "100 Best Entrepreneurs of 2008!"
Kristen: So I assume Jeffrey's taken =( that's ok. Logan and Mike are pretty hot.
Claire: I like Jon and Logan.
Dylan: I SOO CALL DIBS ON CHRIS!!! He's MINE
Massie: ew, why? After he sent you the pig pictures?
Dylan: as IF! Not Chris Plovert, Chris JENNINGS!!!
Alicia: Massie?
Massie: Hmm… idk. I'll report later, when I weigh my decisions.
Claire: *sigh* I could just DIE AND GO TO HEAVEN in Logan beautiful blue eyes…
Kristen: HEY! HANDS OFF MY MAN! And what about CAM? Remember him?
Claire: he's going out with Duh-livia. And since when is Logan YOUR man? He just got here!
Kristen: I g2g to math. Bye
Dylan: bye
Alicia: stop eating those Reese's Pieces. Bye
Dylan: NO
Massie: bye
Massie sighed and closed her phone. Time for more beyond boring Morning Annoucements.
Jade's POV (A/N I'm gonna do some POV's of various characters. =) )
I was SO happy when I found out that Jeffrey was going to go to BOCD. He, Logan, Chris, Mike, and Jon were my childhood friends when I was growing up. Jeff, Logan, Chris and I were on the same swim team; but then I got into modeling. We're still friends, but…something changed. Suddenly, whenever the guys and I when to the pool, swarms of paparazzi would be harassing us. One day, US Weekly declared me "America's sweetheart", and went on to say "even though we all adore Jade, when will she wake up and realize that she is a girl, not a boy?" Of course, this was embarrassing beyond reason in my mind. The guys told me to ignore it. But I couldn't. Who ever heard of a top model skateboarding on the weekends instead of going on go-sees? So I traded in my flip-flops for Gucci heels, my goggles for Prada shades, and my swim suit for the latest Versace dress.
Over time, I went back to the same girl I used to be; but things weren't the same. But enough about me. Jeff was the only one who acted as if I never changed. But then he became friends with this girl…Angela. Ugh. She's a perfectly nice girl, but her name makes my skin crawl. Maybe I'm jealous because she gets to see him way more than I do. So imagine my reaction when I found that Angelais moving to Westchester too?
I shook off my bad feeling as Jeff approached. Behind Jeff, I could see Logan and Chris walk over too. I felt my heart drop a little; I had wanted to talk to Jeff alone, but that obviously wasn't going to happen now.
"Hey Jade," said Jeff with a smile. I looked up to him and grinned. He had gotten a lot taller since the last time I had seen him.
"May I remind everyone here, that there is NO TALKING allowed during Morning Announcements?" I winced as Principal Burns bird-eyes seemed to bored a hole into mine. I waved my phone and mouthed the word "text?" Jeff nodded, and next to him, Chris and Logan also whipped out their phones.
Jade: Guys wanna go to the pool after school?
Logan: sure why not; I need to work on my butterfly.
Jade: =O your butterfly is perfection.
Jon: how 'bout the skate park instead?
Jade: whoa…how'd u know we were texting? Ur sitting all the way in the front with Mike…next to those two blonde bimbos.
Mike: aww, come on jadey-sadie, you can't judge them just cuz they're blonde…
Jon: yea, and one of them was a natural brunette, but she just changed her hair to blonde.
Jade: hello? Did you guys see what bags they're carrying? They're trying to pass off these ob-viously FAKE knock-off Louis Vuitton bags as Gucci totes.
Jeff: Only you could tell apart a fake designer bag from the real thing…
Logan: she carried the real thing at Paris Fashion Week, remember?
Mike: dude…that was GOOD.
Jeff&Logan: STOP HITTING ON OUR BEST FRIEND
Jon: hey…she's mike's and my best friend too…
Jade: where'd Chris go?
I looked over at Chris. He was tapping his phone and whispering curses. Chris looked up. "Phone's battery's dead," he whispered. I giggled. That was so typical Chris. AT least one thing hadn't changed. I had a feeling that tons of other things would be changing soon.
Massie's POV
Even though the PC had gone back to whispering and giggling, I was still cautious; my Alpha senses were tingling. First of all, why was Jade, the beta, nawt talking to her clique, but to the hottie-HARTs from New Jersey? I narrowed my eyes; something was up.
Massie: leesh?
Alicia: yup
Massie: need you to find ALL the dirt you can on Jade, Danica, and the Hottie-HARTs from NJ
Alicia: on it. Meeting at the iPad after school?
Massie: done. Dylan?
Dylan: yuppers. Mm, these Chips Ahoy are GOOD…
Claire: me wants some
Kristen: that's terrible grammar…it's "I want some"
Claire: o, whatever.
Massie: as I was SAYING…Dyl, think you can bring over the video of Jade Chang from your mom's interview? Meeting at the iPad after school.
Dylan: done
Claire: done
Kristen: and done…does leesh know?
Massie: of course…she's researching gossip as we text.
The bells rang, and I got up to go to her first class. As I walked to my locker, I tripped on some LBR's dropped banana peel. As I fell backwards, I felt a pair of strong arms stop my fall. I got up, brushed myself off, and looked up into the most gorgeous green eyes I have ever seen in my life.
"Hey, are you OK?" asked the boy, his stunning green eyes full of worry. I nodded, and held out my hand for him to shake. "Hey, my name's Massie Block. Thanks for stopping my fall." Hawtie Boy smiled and shook my hand. I felt sparks flying up and down my spine. "Hi Massie," he said. I almost swooned.
"My name's Dempsey Solomon."