Zay walked down the hallway of the school, without a care in the world. He just so happened to look to his left and noticed the same guy with the camera putting a flyer up on the wall. As soon as he saw him walk away, Zay walked up to the wall and yanked the flyer down. He looked at the green piece of paper in his hand and read it quickly.

Holden Photography Presents:

High School Cliques Exposed

All photographs taken by Joshua Matthews

Can be found under the Showcase tab on the official website

Zay folded the flyer and stuffed it in his pocket, leaving to find his friends. Zay found his friends in the front of the school during lunch and approached them quickly. "Guys," he said as he walked towards them. "Check out what I found."

Zay handed Lucas the folded flyer and watched him unfold it and read it. "I don't get it."

The wind blew Riley's shoulder length hair back as she snatched the flyer out of Lucas' hand. "I saw a bunch of these around the school," she said as she skimmed through it. "I just passed them."

Maya, who's hair was in a high ponytail nodded as she took the flyer. "Me too. They didn't seem important."

Zay scoffed. "Yeah well they became really important when I saw camera guy hanging one up." He took the flyer out of Maya's hands and looked at it again. "If it means anything I think this guy might have posted those pictures he took on this website. My guess being that its his showcase. Meaning that his name is Joshua Mathews."

Lucas was quiet for a moment. "Alright. I say we check out this website later." The bell rang out in the background. "Because it looks like we have to get back to class." He watched Zay fold the flyer and put it back in his pocket. "Let's go guys."

The quartet walked back in the school, not noticing the blue eyed photographer taking a picture of them from the parking lot.

The hot sun beat down on poor Riley as she ran the track during gym. Riley was panting and practically out of breath. The gym uniform itchy and unbearable in the blasting heat. Riley, lost in her fatigue jumped at the sound of the coach's whistle, which scared her right out of her skin. "Ladies go get some water!"

Riley, seeing this as an opportunity to catch a break collapsed on the track. Her chest rising up and down, little brown hairs sticking to her forehead from her sweat. Brown eyes pleading, she sat up and watched the long line for water. Riley whimpered out loud and groaned in agony. The burning sensation in her chest, making her want to cry. She never had to exercise at the other schools she attended, why was this one different?

Riley wished that it could rain. Oh how she wished that little tear drops could fall from the sky, putting her out of her misery. Then it dawned on her. She looked back to see everyone else still at the water fountains, including the coach. Grinning to herself, Riley stood and focused her mind. Channeling her powers deep inside of her, Riley looked up at the sky and held her hands out in front of her, palms up.

Looking back down at her hands, Riley watched the blue cloud float to the end of her finger tips. She placed her fingertips together so that each finger was touching its double on the other hand. The sensation built up inside her as it traveled from her fingers, to her hands, up her arms, and into her head. The same pigment of the blue cloud, turning her iris' the same cloudy dark, blue color. Angling her head back to the sky, Riley gasped as the sensation left her body.

Smiling, Riley called the coach over as she felt little rain drops begin to fall. "Coach!" she called out. "It started to rain!"

Riley happily pranced over to her teacher and told her all about the mysterious rain, not noticing the brown haired, blue eyed photographer that swore just a minute ago it was bright and sunny.

Maya walked out the front of the school and sat on the steps as she waited for her free period to be over. She sat quietly and observed everyone and jumped back a bit when a skateboard came crashing down next to her. Maya looked up behind her and narrowed her eyes at the stranger. The stranger, who had brown hair and an entrancing set of green eyes picked up his board and quickly apologized. "Sorry. Some jerks pushed me and my board fell."

Maya just stared straight ahead and watched some jocks toss a football around. "Not much of a talker huh?" Maya blatantly ignored him. "Well I'm Charlie since you asked. Just thought I'd let you know."

Maya stifled a laugh and continued to watch the football be tossed around. Suddenly, the football made its way past them and hit someone walking across the grass. The guy collapsed onto the ground in an awkward heap. Maya's eyes widened in alarm and watched as Charlie dashed to the person's side. "Farkle are you okay?" she heard him ask.

This Farkle character mumbled an incoherent response and sat up slowly. Charlie, upset picked up the football and threw it right back at the guys. It hit one of the jocks harshly and they all looked towards Charlie. Charlie quickly helped Farkle up and the pair started to run. Maya, quickly got up and followed them. She walked fast while following the jocks. Farkle and Charlie ran into a chain link fence and turned back around to face their tormentors. "Come on guys," Charlie coaxed. "We can work this out."

"No we can't," one of them argued as they all cracked their knuckles.

Maya stood near a wall and watched it all unfold in front of her. Believing it was the right thing to do, she focused her mind on an emotion. Anger is what she chose. She closed her eyes for a split second and opened them abruptly, her usually calm blue orbs became this fiery red. She focused all of her energy towards the pair backed up against the fence and grinned as she watched one of the jocks try to punch them, but stop short because of something protecting the two. "What the?" the same jock said, confused.

The bell rang in the background causing the jocks to back off. "Come on guys, we can't be late for another class or we get kicked off the team."

They all backed away, not noticing Maya. Maya released her hold and allowed her eyes to go back to normal. Farkle watched the jocks walk away and elbowed Charlie. "What was that?"

Charlie shrugged and noticed Maya by the wall. "I have no idea."

After school, the group of four met in the library of the school. "Let's check out this website," Lucas declared as he sat down in front of a computer. He typed in the website address and went to the showcase tab. A bunch of pictures showed up on the screen. They scrolled through and looked at every last one of them, not one picture had them in it. Lucas smiled. "This is great!"

Riley breathed out in relief and hugged Lucas from behind. "Not just great, amazing!"

Lucas stood and walked towards the door. "I'm gonna go start the air conditioning in the car."

Riley jumped up. "I'll come with."

Riley and Lucas left Zay and Maya in the library by themselves for a moment. Maya looked at the computer screen and sat down in front it abruptly. "What are you doing?" Zay asked.

The sound of the mouse clicking filled the background as Maya spoke. "I feel like there's more." Maya searched the page and scrolled down to the bottom. Seeing exactly what she needed, she called Zay over. "Check this out Zay." She read the little caption at the bottom of the screen. "If you would like to see more of this artist's work please visit his website. It is linked below."

Maya looked at Zay and noticed the worry in his face. "Go to the website!" he exclaimed.

Maya jumped in surprise. "Alright! Jeez," she complained. She clicked on the link and looked at the new webpage that pulled up. Maya looked around and looked at this tab that read New Kids. She clicked on it and was met with a swarm of pictures of them. "Oh my god," she breathed. "These had to have been taken over the past week."

Zay cursed under his breath. "We have to get them down."

Maya nodded quickly. "I know but how?"

Zay shrugged. "I don't know. That's what I'm still trying to figure out."

Maya walked into school the following day and walked to her locker. She opened it up softly and placed some of her things inside. She closed it shut and jumped in surprise. To her right stood Josh. "Hi," Joshua Matthews greeted. "I'm Joshua Matthews, resident photographer of Holden High School."

Maya ignored him and walked around him to start walking to homeroom. Except Josh caught up to her and walked right by her side down the bland hallway. "I've noticed you and your friends," he began. Maya continued to walk on. "But first I noticed you," he breathed. Maya immediately tensed up as the words left his mouth. "I usually get a vibe about every student in this school. Like whether they are sporty or artsy, but there's something about you and your friends. I can't get any sense of who any of you are. Especially since you all don't talk."

Maya glared at him out of the corner of her eye and thought of the gallery of pictures that were on his website. What was he? Some kind of stalker? What about them could possibly interest him? All he's probably ever seen them do is sit and talk to each other, he hasn't even seen them eat. Maya walked into homeroom and sat down at a desk in the back. Josh sat down right next to her. Noticing that he was still there, Maya rolled her eyes and stared off into space.

"Here," Josh slipped a piece of paper on Maya's desk. "Its the address of this place that I usually shoot at. You and your friends should come and on the back is my number." Maya looked at him and raised her eyebrow. "If you guys get lost or anything." Maya looked down at the small slip of paper and reluctantly took it. She slipped it into her notebook and looked straight ahead again, but this time with a slight smile on her face.