Chapter 2
The week had nearly come and gone by in a flash and Lauren was enjoying having the company of Crystal at lunch, and in the halls every now and then.
It was Friday and the school was a buzz with the news of the seniors only party at Tamsin and Dyson's house.
Bo, Kenzi, Dyson, Tamsin, and Hale were all loitering around the lockers waiting for the bell to ring signaling their final class of the day. Tamsin and Dyson were exchanging snarky comments while Kenzi and Hale flirted mercilessly with one another. Bo rested her head back against her locker shaking it lightly, why the two didn't profess their undying love for one another and get a room already was beyond her. Apparently everybody could see it but them.
Bo's attention however was shifted when she saw two blonde girls headed her way. She recognized the one as Lauren, though they lived in a somewhat small town, she felt like she hadn't seen the girl in ages, it made sense though if she was taking advanced classes like Tamsin had said. She did not however recognize the other blonde next to her.
She watched as the two stopped at the lockers a little ways down and across the hall the group. All of a sudden she felt a hand clap onto her shoulder.
"You really have a thing for blondes don't you?" Kenzi shook her head as she watched the girls laughing by their lockers as they exchanged books and notebooks.
"Who's the new girl?" Bo asked nodding toward the girls. She had now caught the attention of the rest of the group who were now looking in the same direction as Bo.
"Mmm, fresh meat." Dyson said clapping his hands together.
"Down boy." Tamsin said clapping a hand on the boy's shoulder. "She is kinda cute though. Way to cute to be hanging around with brainiac over there."
"You can say that again." Kenzi mused. Hale gave her a look. "What? Listen, I don't swing that way, but I am secure enough in my sexuality that I can point out another hot chick and not mean it as anything more." She shrugged.
"Whatever you say Lil' Momma." Hale said with a wink, earning a less than playful slap across the chest from Kenzi. "Ouch girl, that one actually hurt." The boy said rubbing at his chest.
"Serves you right." The girl said as she turned her attention back to Bo.
"I think we should officially roll out the welcome wagon." Tamsin said giving Dyson a wink. The boy nodded his head and the two began to saunter over to the girls across the hall.
"What was that about?" Kenzi asked Bo arching a brow as she looked on after Dyson and Tamsin.
"I dunno, but I think we should find out." Bo said shrugging off her locker and following dynamic duo.
Lauren and Crystal were laughing over something that had happened earlier in English class that day when they felt the shadows of two people on them. The pair looked up to see Tamsin and Dyson standing only about a foot away from them, Tamsin leaning with her elbow on Dyson's shoulder.
"Hi!" Tamsin greeted with a sickeningly sweet smile. It sent a shiver through Lauren's spine and she took a step back, closer to her locker. A second later Lauren's eye's fell on the tall brunette who came to stand at Dyson's side. The brunette was quickly followed by a shorter girl with jet-black hair, however Lauren barely noticed as she couldn't rip her gaze from the intimidatingly beautiful brunette. Bo Dennis. Lauren sighed inwardly. She had had the biggest crush on her all through middle school. The brunette was frighteningly perfect with her curves and the little dimple that showed when she really smiled. Lauren had long given up on that crush though, as Bo had become increasingly popular when she reached high school and hooked up with Tamsin and her gang.
"Hi." Crystal replied before glancing side ways at Lauren, who was now pressed back against her locker. She gave her a confused look before turning back to the new comers.
"You're new." Tamsin stated.
Crystal nodded.
"Yeah my family just relocated from Duncan." The girl replied.
"That's pretty far from here." Dyson said as he drew his focus to Lauren. "Hello again Lauren." He said in a silky smooth voice. His voice snapped Lauren out of her daze and she nodded curtly to him.
"Dyson." She replied with a small smile.
"Have your plans for tonight changed?" Dyson asked with a smirk.
"Excuse me?" Lauren asked confused.
"Are you coming to the party or do you have a better offer?" The boy asked with a smile.
"Party?" Crystal asked looking toward Lauren.
"Yeah, it's at our place." Tamsin said with a grin. "You should totally come… Sorry I didn't catch your name."
"Oh." Crystal blushed slightly. "Yeah, I've been doing that a lot recently. It's Crystal."
Tamsin's grin grew wider.
"Well Crystal, see you tonight, feel free to bring your friend." She cast a short glance at Lauren whose eyes had wondered back to the busty brunette who looked over all bored with the conversation.
Tamsin's eyes flickered back to Crystal, and then over to Dyson. She grabbed his hand and led him away.
"See you two tonight." The boy grinned over his shoulder, the rest of the group now following after.
Crystal looked on at the retreating group and then over to Lauren who was still looking like she wanted to shrink back into the lockers and disappear.
"Friends of yours?" Crystal asked intrigued.
Lauren shook her head.
"That's the popular clique. I think they were recruiting you." Lauren turned back to her locker just as the bell rang signaling the final period of the day.
"I dunno, the scruffy looking one seemed to have his eye on you." Crystal said as she slammed her locker and threw her backpack over her shoulder.
"I highly doubt that. Besides he's not really my type." Lauren smirked. Closing her own locker.
Crystal's eyebrows rose. "Well, now you have me intrigued. Meet me after class, you can come over to my place to get ready."
"Get ready for what?" Lauren asked truly baffled.
"For the party silly!" Crystal replied.
"Oh. Yeah, you can go but I don't think it's for me." Lauren replied as she began to walk in the opposite direction of Crystal, toward her class.
"Oh come on, what's a little underage drinking and dirty dancing?" Crystal called back to Lauren, "besides if it's a total snooze fest we'll ditch and find something better to do."
Lauren stopped and smiled.
"I'll think about it!" She called over her shoulder, and then hurried off to AP Chemistry.
Bo caught up to Tamsin pulling on her shoulder.
"Do you want to enlighten the rest of us on what all of that was just about?" Bo asked curious as to just exactly what the blonde had up her sleeve. Sure the new girl was cute, but what did Dyson what with Lauren Lewis? She wasn't exactly his type.
"In time my dear. It will all be revealed in time." Tamsin responded with an aloof air to her.
Bo just rolled her eyes.
It was almost 7:30 when Bo and Kenzi pulled up in Bo's beat up yellow Camaro outside of Tamsin and Dyson's house. The two had agreed to arrive early to help set up, and they didn't have much time since the general word of mouth was that the party would start at 8.
The two girls entered the large home calling out for their friends. When they heard the response the two headed into the den where Dyson and Hale were playing pool, while Tamsin who was dressed in a shocking red cocktail dress, with equally bright lipstick was filing her matching nails sitting on the large raised stone hearth of the modern fireplace off to one side of the room. Dyson and Hale however were still wearing what they each had worn to school that day, which in Hale's case was a black fedora with a dark purple button down shirt and black vest over it, with dark jeans while Dyson wore a simple black button down with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and light jeans.
"Oh good, the Bobbsey Twins are here." Tamsin announced without looking up from her nails.
"Hey, Soul Sucker Barbie, there were four Bobbsey Twins." Kenzi spat back.
Tamsin's scrunched up her face.
"Twins means two."
Kenzi rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, but there were two sets of them, four in total."
Bo gave Kenzi a strange look.
"What? I read." The dark haired girl shrugged. She was dressed in a tight black long sleeve V-neck shirt with a matching black leather skirt paired with black tights and boots.
Bo arched a brow at her oldest friend.
"So I read kids books!" Kenzi shouted throwing her hands in the air in surrender. "I'm going to get a drink!" She said retreating into the kitchen.
Bo was dressed in a simple little black dress that hugged her in all the right places, with her hair pulled up in a high bun, a few tendrils cascading down around her face.
"You look nice Bo." Dyson said smiling at her, to which she rolled her eyes.
"Thanks Dyson." She replied not truly meaning it. She didn't know what it was but something had changed in the boy's demeanor over the summer, and he was really getting on her last nerve lately.
Tamsin abruptly put her nail file down and strode over to the pool table leaning on it.
"So, do you want to hear this juicy little prank Dyson and I came up with?" Tamsin grinned and ran her tongue over her top teeth.
"Well, really it's more of a wager Tammers." Dyson said with a devilish grin.
"Oh that may be deer brother," Tamsin strode next to Dyson and gave him a swift slap on the ass allowing her hand to linger for a moment. "But I believe the terms may have changed just slightly." Tamsin snickered.
"Dude sometimes your relationship is a little too Cruel Intentions for me." Kenzi said with a disturbed look on her face as she stood in the doorway a shot of what looked like vodka in one hand and a beer in the other.
Tamsin stood up strait allowing the comment to roll off her back.
"What do you mean the terms may have changed?" Dyson asked after lining up and taking his shot.
Tamsin wiggled her eyebrows and giggled wickedly.
"First we should explain…" Tamsin said looking between Bo and Kenzi.
"Right." Dyson replied grinning. "So, the other day I literally ran into Lauren Lewis."
Bo rolled her eyes. "We already heard this part."
"Let him finish." Tamsin said defensively.
"Yeah, so like I said, I literally ran into Lauren Lewis, and I began to think about how it's weird she's been in our class for like ever, but I've never really seen her before you know?" Bo and Kenzi both nodded. "So I started thinking about all the girls in our grade, and how much of a laugh it would be if I started to date one of the super unpopular ones, you know, make their dreams come true and all." Dyson folded his arms across his chest looking proud of himself.
"So you want to bang a bunch of ug-o's?" Kenzi asked as she downed her shot. "Hey, it's your senior year, whatever boats your float my friend."
Dyson began laughing.
"You see, that's where Dyson's idea ends, and mine begins." Tamsin chimed in.
"Since when are the two of you into charity cases?" Bo asked. "And what makes you think that every girl in our grade wants to date you?" She scoffed at Dyson's arrogance.
"He's hot, and the captain of the lacrosse team." Tamsin shrugged. "Besides, aren't you forgetting that you dated him?" Tamsin smirked. "Besides, like I said, the terms have changed."
Dyson furrowed his brow at her.
"Then why did I work so hard at getting Lauren to come tonight?" He asked a little irritated.
"You see that's the thing. We're still going to try to turn the school freak into prom queen; it's just not going to be with you." Tamsin said as she turned her gaze from Dyson to Bo. "It's going to be with her."
All eyes fell to Bo who was standing completely taken aback.
"What? Why me?" Bo asked.
"Yeah, why does she get to do it?" Dyson asked incredulously. It was his idea in the first place, and now Tamsin was just going to let Bo have all the fun.
"Because Dyson, after observing a little more of our brainiac's behavior, I don't think you're really her type."
"Please." Dyson snorted still not seeing the direction Tamsin was going in.
"She's been giving Bo the little lost puppy dog eyes for years, it just took me until today to realize it." Tamsin said, her mouth curling into a side sneer.
"So what is the bet exactly?" Kenzi asked intrigued.
"Kenzi!" Bo shouted. "I didn't agree to anything yet… what are the terms?"
Tamsin smirked.
"I tell you what, to make the odds a little more interesting, I'm going to change the game a little. I'll pick out a girl tonight for Dyson. It can be sort of a competition rather than a bet. Whomever can be the school's hottest it couple wins."
Bo felt the heat rise up her neck. Tamsin was hitting a nerve and she knew it by making it a competition with Dyson. It was a low blow, but from the look on Dyson's face, he was completely game.
"And what do you get out of it?" Bo asked cautiously. She couldn't see how Tamsin could possibly benefit from the situation, unless her heart really was as icy as her demeanor.
"We all get a good laugh either way. Either you succeed in making your girl popular, with prom queen potential and dump her publically, or, you fail miserably, and everyone remembers you for being the loser that dated the most updateable girl in school, while Dyson pulled a total Cinderella story, every girl's dream." Tamsin folded her arms across her chest. "So really no matter which of you wins, and which one looses it's a win win for me… Unless you both bomb in which it's my birthday, Christmas, Valentines Day, and Kwanza all rolled into one!"
Bo thought about it for a moment. She didn't like Tamsin's tone, she would be glad to put her and her stupid stepbrother in their places. I mean what could it really hurt? Well, besides Lauren, she thought. She wasn't too thrilled with the idea of hurting someone else, but who says that Lauren would really be that into her anyway. Maybe she could let her down easily before the public dumping. I mean it's not like she has any friends to be embarrassed in front of anyway, Bo tried to reason.
"I mean unless you don't think you can beat Dyson…" Tamsin said, goading Bo.
"Come on Bo Bo, you'll show the girl the time of her life." Kenzi said slapping her on the back. "Maybe all those college applications you have yet to fill out will consider this community service."
"Hey there's no shame in backing down Bo." Dyson gave her a fake innocent grin. "I mean it would make you the bigger person." He then burst out laughing.
"Oh you're on asshole!" Bo shouted as she spun on her heel and headed toward the kitchen for a much needed drink.