Mandy woke up and looked around

Mandy woke up and looked around. The clock next to her blared with the most obnoxious sound some moron could come up with. For the umpteenth time she hit the sleep button. Every day her mother reset the time and apparently, she'd been so tired she'd forgotten to change it. Ten minutes later, the sound again woke her and instead of beating it, she yanked the cord out of the wall.

Clank. Clank, clank. One eye opened as she looked over to where the irritating sound was coming from. Clank. Another pebble hit the glass pane of the window next to her bed. She pulled back the navy blue curtains to look down at her best friend where he stood on the ground. In his hands were more of those horrible rocks. With sleepy hands, she pushed up the pane of glass.

"What the hell are you doing?" she yelled down from the second floor window. Sean didn't need to be close to see her glare and rolled his eyes. And he also knew that she was still in her pajamas and her hair was a mess.

"How about it's 7 in the morning on a Monday and you aren't dressed yet?" he asked yelling back. There was a sudden flowing cursing as she ducked her head back in the window, hitting it on the way through and a sudden scuffling. Chuckling, he walked around to the front of the house and unlocked the door as a cursing Mandy through it. In the back of his yellow Volvo. On the back seat were a hairbrush, a muffin, and a pack of gum.

"Bro, you're a life saver," she informed him as he drove the eight-minute drive to the school. Now dressed in a t-shirt and jeans, she mildly presentable. He wondered briefly what he'd do if she decided to become a real girl. Not saying she wasn't pretty with long, straight chestnut hair and eyes the color of the moon but she just didn't seem to notice the guys around her. He on the other hand had a date with a different girl each Saturday.

Olympus High was built by a Greek architect as an American monument to the Greek gods. Sean pulled into his parking spot in the Apollo section of the student parking just as the warning bell began.

"Thanks Sean!" Mandy yelled as she dashed off to the west side of campus. He waited for a second before locking the door and left hers open as she came running back to grab her backpack. He couldn't help cringing when she slammed the door.

"Sorry baby," he said affectionately to his Volvo then walked leisurely to his first period in the quad next to where he parked.

Mandy darted into English and had barely sat down when the warning bell rang. Katie, who sat next to her, reached out a hand briefly for a high-five. Rachel, on the other side of her, gave her two thumbs up. In the front of the class, Miss Berry smirked.

"Looks like all those track meets were worth it." Miss Berry didn't mind her running in like that; she was after all the track coach, which the girls in the middle of her room all were part of. "Today, we are going to continue with Oedipus Rex." Katie read the lines of Jocasta while at the same time making faces at the fact that she married her son. The bell finally rang after an hour and the three of them left together.

"So did Sean drive you to school today?" Rachel teased playfully. She wriggled her eyebrows at her suggestively. The three of them laughed.

"Well duh. He's the only way I get here on time."

"Barely on time," Katie corrected. Since the other two girls knew better than to argue, they kept their mouths shut. The group approached quad three and separated to go their separate ways.

Lauren checked her appearance in one of the many compact mirrors she carried with her. "Hm," she murmured. "I think I need some eyeliner. What do you think?" she asked one of the sycophants that constantly surrounded her.

"You look lovely as always," the girl replied in weak voice. Once again, she turned her blue-green eyes back to her mirror.

"I guess your right," she said, more to herself than to the girl. There was obvious relief in her face at the agreement.

"It's not like I'm seeing anyone other that Blake." There was obvious disdain in her voice that she didn't bother to hide in her group of girls. They all walked toward pod four. All the guys they passed turned to look at her in her short skirt and shirt that showed two inches of flesh of her flat stomach.

"Go," Lauren said, sending the five girls scurrying away from her to their own classes. In front of her stood the wide receiver of the school football team. "Warren. I wasn't expecting to see you today," she said smiling seductively as she walked toward him.

"Hello," he replied roughly. His auburn hair was cut short and his eyes were so dark they were nearly black.

The warning bell rang making him jump a bit. "I'd better go. Couch says if I'm tardy again I'll be on the bench for the next game." He gave her a kiss before moving away and toward quad one.

"Damn," she muttered roughly as she went to her own class.