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"There's something I need to tell you about her Garfield."

Raven's POV

"What is it Rae?" Garfield asked. I sat there staring at my best friend for a minute. I just can't tell him how Tara is just like that. He liked her, why would I want to ruin his first crush? What if he thought I was being selfish? How am I suppose to tell him?

"Raven? What's wrong?" I heard him ask as I snapped out of my thoughts.

"Umm…nothing. I was going to say, Tara isn't great," before I continued, I saw he had an unreadable expression on his face, "she's amazing." I finished with a smile. First he looked like he had a frown but it immediately turned upside down.

"I'm glad you like her Raven. I know you don't like a lot of people but it's great you're giving a few a chance to get to know you. Hey I'll be right back. I'm going to call my mom and tell her to bring me a salad. " Garfield got up and walked out of the cafeteria as Victor approached me.

"Hey Raven, how's it going?" he asked and took a huge bite out of his burger.

"So far, I want to murder a few people."

"Ha! I know how you feel. A bunch of guys are flirting with Karen already and I want to kick their-"

"Excuse me, but this table has my name written all over it. So, do me and my friends a favor and move." Victor and I looked up to see a girl wearing a pink sundress with long blonde hair and a couple of girls standing by her side wearing the same stuff as her just different color dresses and hair.

"Actually," I started while searching the table, "there's not even one letter on this table."

"Ha very funny. I like this table, so I want it, now move!" she yelled. Richard, Kori, and Tara came back with lunch trays.

"Umm…something wrong?" Richard asked while looking at the girls then at me and Victor. The girl turned to look at Richard then smirked.

"Well hello, people call me Kitten, and you are?" she asked in a flirty way.

"Richard, and these are my friends-"

"I didn't ask about your friend, I only asked about you. I see you and your friends enjoy this table. Let's make a deal, you and your friends can have this table if you agree to go on a date with me this Friday night."

"What? No, I don't even know you!" Richard yelled.

"That's why we should get to know each other Richey-pooh!"

"Don't call me that! I'm not interested."

"Look, it's just a table! So we will just move to another if it'll make you happy." I said while getting up.

"No need to move," I turned my head towards the voice to see the boy from my third period class, gym, and was staring at me the whole time, appear by Kitten, "You'll have to excuse my twin sister, she can be a spoil brat sometimes."

"Ugh! First day of high school and your already running it for me Malchior!" Kitten whined. She started to walk away but stopped in the middle of her tracks and faced us again.

"I'm warning all of you! He's worst than me!" she yelled and started to walk away again.

"That's not true at all. I think she's always been jealous of me because I know how to make people like me. Anyway, I'm the nicest person you'll ever meet."

"Well that's good to hear." Richard said as the bell started to ring.

"She wasted the time of our lunch!" Kori yelled.

"It's ok Kori, after school we could grab a pizza if you want." Richard offered Kori.

"That would be the glorious friend Robin! I do not mind at all doing the accompanying!" she grabbed his hand and rushed out the cafeteria to there next class, followed by Victor, as Garfield came back in and eyed Malchior.

"I'll hope to see you again Raven, until then." He smiled and walked away.

"Who the heck was that?" Garfield asked in a kind of angry way.

"Some dude from my third period class, speaking of class, I don't want to be late." I grabbed my book and started towards fifth period, band.

Apparently, we were all in band together. By all, I mean, Garfield, Kori, Richard, Victor, Tara, Kitten, and Malchior.

"Raven, what instrument are you going to play?" Garfield asked me.

"Probably clarinet, what about you?" I asked and put my book away

"Trumpet."

"Me too Garfield!" Tara yelled with excitement.

"Tara, can you go see what the others are doing while I talk to Raven?" Tara frowned but smiled and nodded when she got up and went to the other side of the band room.

"Talk to me about what?" I asked while looking at her to see she was talking to Kitten instead of Victor and them.

"I was just getting rid of her, I like her but she is kind of taking up my time to spend with you. I haven't seen you this whole summer."

"Oh. I thought you would've wanted to spend time with her."

"What? No way! To me, friends are more important than relationships."

"You and me both, I need to go to the restroom before the bell ring, I'll be back."

Garfield's POV

When Raven walked out, some blonde head girl with a pink sundress and long blonde hair approached me.

"Hi I'm Kitten, you must be Garfield?" she asked me as two other girls stood behind her.

"Umm, yeah. Why?" I asked unsure if I could trust this girl.

"I talk to Tara, she really likes you."

"Oh."

"All you can say is oh for a girl like her? She's better than that creep you be hanging out with." Was she talking about Raven? She's definitely going to regret saying that.

"Raven is not a creep! She's an amazing best friend and I'm glad she's in my life. How about you go and tell Richard how you feel and mind your got dam business on who likes me. Actually, I could care less who likes me at this moment even if I like the person back. My best friend matters more."

"Whoa, how do you know how I feel about Richard, seems like you're all up in my business."

"I know because I saw you eyeing him, and basically you just told me. So you told me your business."

"Hey grass stain, what's happening?" Victor asked referring to my green eyes.

"Oh nothing, Kitten was just being a-"

"No need for the name calling. My sister is always being in other's business." Malchior appeared by me. Why do I feel I'm not going to like this dude?

"Malchior! Leave me the hell alone! I don't need you telling people how you think I am!" Kitten yelled and walked back to the other side of the room as Victor walked back to the others and Malchior was still standing by me then sat next to me.

"I'm sorry about her. Our dad spoiled her."

"I can see that."

"So umm, about Raven-"

"What about Raven?" Raven asked while sitting on the other side of me.

"Oh, umm, I was just going to ask if you'll like to hang out sometimes." I was about to say something until Tara came back.

"Garfield, come on! He's about to assign instruments!" she grabbed my hand and pulled me towards to where the band director was.

"Hey Mr. Johnson, me and Garfield will like to play trumpet." Tara said as I snatched my hand away.

"Actually, I don't want to play trumpet, I'll play trombone."

"Oh, well me to." Mr. Johnson gave us each a case. Tara walked to a seat and patted another for me to sit next to her.

"Umm, Mr. Johnson, please give me a trumpet and don't let her get one too."

"I know what you're going through, when I was in high school, this girl copied everything I did and I could never hang out with my best friend so I finally got rid of her." Mr. Johnson said while giving me a trumpet case.

"How'd you do that?" I asked with curiosity since I was eager to get rid of Tara.

"I started avoiding her and she moved on."

"Oh." I said as Tara stood next to me again.

"We're switching back to trumpet, cool."

"No, I only put him on trumpet because we needed another one, you can stay on trombone." Tara frowned and looked at me.

"Garfield, can you still sit with me?"

"Sorry Tara, but I have to sit with the clarinets and the other trumpets." I said pretending to be sad and walked over to the trumpets which were Kitten, Kim and Cameron, from my third period, a girl with red hair, and these two girls that were twins.

"Hey Garfield." Kim said while waving.

"Hello Garfield, I heard you are the friends with Richard, Victor, Tara, Kim, and Raven. I am Kori, I hope we can be the friends also." Kori said as the clarinets walked over, which were Raven and those two other girls that were with Kitten.

"Nice to meet you Kori, and of course we can be friends." Kori gave a big smile and hugged me very tightly.

"Ok Kori, let him go before he pass out." Raven said. Kori looked at me in an apologetic way and let me go. The bell rang and everybody took their seats.

"Pss! Garfield! Over here." I heard Tara call but ignored her. She was just so annoying.

"Ok class, so today, all we're going to do today is learn the basics of your instrument. I won't be able to get to all the instruments today so if you're a beginner, sit back and chill, and if you're not a beginner, you may go ahead and play." Mr. Johnson said while approaching the trombone section first.

Me and Raven looked at each other and smiled as we started playing.

Flashback

Third Person

About three years ago, Raven and Garfield saved about five thousand dollars together from summer jobs, babysitting, and garage sales. They both wanted to play instruments really bad so they ended up at an instrument shop one day in town.

"Out of all these instruments, which one fits you best?" Garfield asked as he looked very excitedly around the store.

"I think clarinet fits me the best." Raven said as she walked over to some clarinets. Garfield watched his best friend looking at the clarinets and smiled. He could tell she was enjoying herself.

"Gar, these prices are unbelievable!" Garfield walked towards her and looked at the prices. Five hundred dollars for one, a thousand for two, and so on.

"Wow, that's pretty much a good deal."

"A good deal indeed," We turned to see a man approaching us with a big smile on his face, "This deal is for the entire year. For every instrument. Plus, we offer lessons for beginners for only ten dollars each."

"That's amazing. Can I get this clarinet?" Raven asked while pointing at a blue clarinet.

"Well of course you can," The man said as he took the clarinet, "follow me." He said as Raven followed but stopped to see Garfield wasn't doing the same.

"You coming?" She asked. Garfield shook his head and pointed to the trumpets. She looked towards to where he was pointing and nodded in understanding.

Garfield walked over to the trumpets. They were all gold. He eyed every single one of them until he spotted a silver one. His smile became bigger as a man approached him.

"Do you like what you see?" he asked.

"Yes, I'll take it. And I'll like a lesson too." The man nodded as he grabbed the trumpet.

About half an hour later, the two teens met outside the instrument shop.

"I'm already loving this instrument!" they yelled at the same time and laughed as they walked home.

They went to Garfield's house and decided to learn the song they made together.

A couple months later, their instruments were forgotten.

End of Flashback

Raven and I never told anybody about playing instruments. We actually learn to play other instruments other than trumpet and clarinet. I'm guessing we just decided to play the instruments we began with.

We played the song we made about our friendship. After we were done, the whole room started applauding. Blushes appeared on our faces as everyone went back to what they were doing.

"Wow, that was amazing you two. I thought I was good." Kim said.

"Thanks Kim, this is Raven, Raven this is Kim." I said.

"Its nice to meet you Raven, so what song were you guys playing?"

"Oh it was just a song we made about our friendship." Raven answered.

"Oh well that was just amazing. Maybe we can learn a few things from each other." Kim said as she started playing scales, she was pretty good.

After school, Tara walked up to me while I was at my locker.

"Garfield, do you want to go the park with me?" She asked in a cheery voice.

"No thanks, I'm going with Raven to-"

"Garfield! Quit mentioning Raven so much, do you know what she said to me?"

"No, what she say?"

"She said that I will never be loved, that you'll never like me because I'm pathetic. Then she said maybe you would like me, she said you're a sorry little nobody like me, she just felt sorry for you and pretended to be your friend. I wasn't going to tell you at first until I realized how much you deserve to know the truth about her. You don't deserve a friend like her. You deserve so much more." I looked a her in shock. Could she possibly be talking about the same Raven I was thinking about? I just can't believe it, Raven would never do that. Or would she?

"Hey Tara, Garfield, what's up?" Kim asked as she approached us.

"Nothing Kim, I was just asking if Garfield will want to go to the park with me. How about Garfield?" I looked at Tara studying her face. Did Raven actually say all those things about me? I'm just not sure. I looked at Kim to see her giving a cold look at Tara. I wonder why. Raven popped up beside her and looked confused.

"Gar, are you ready to go to-"

"I'm sorry Raven but I have plans with Tara, maybe later." I said as I took Tara's hand and walked off.

Kim's POV

"H-he told me he was going to hang out with me today and not let Tara get in the way." Raven said while lowering her head. I looked at her then the two who just appeared around the corner. I pulled out a piece of paper and pencil and scribbled down my number.

"Raven, I want you to text me later, I need to talk to you about something." I handed her my number and walked away.

Raven's POV

"So he bailed on you. I don't understand how he chose her to hang out with over you." I turned around to come face to face with Malchior.

"He said he wouldn't do that. He lied to me." I said while getting a little angry.

"Don't worry about him. Do you want to go to the park then grab a pizza?" At first, I wanted to reject him like earlier, but I didn't want to go straight home.

"I'll love too." He grabbed my hand as we walked out of the school building.

Author's Note:

If you guys are wondering who Kim is, that's me. I'm the problem solver of the story. Ugh! Doesn't Tara just make you want to slap her across the world? I never liked Tara, she's nothing but a problem maker to me. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Next chapter will be up soon, until next time!