Jordan awoke to find her mother standing at the foot of her bed.
"Mom what the hell?" she asked startled and a little annoyed by the smile on her mother's face.
"Get up dear, it's a school day and not just any school day, your first day at a new school!" she declared triumphantly.
"New school? Mom I don't have a new school" Jordan was trying to process what her mom was saying.
"Yes you do dear, I pulled you out of Blake and enrolled you at Eden Hall Academy! Isn't that wonderful!" her mother was over the moon.
"Are you kidding me? You just pulled me out of Blake, just like that?" Jordan wondered what on earth had possessed her mother to do such a thing. As far as she knew she hadn't done anything to warrant expulsion, or even a suspension for that matter. Plus Eden Hall is Blake's rival school.
"That's right, Blake wasn't the right school for you but I really feel that Eden Hall is" her mother pressed on.
"I can't believe this!" Jordan sighed heavily and flopped back down on the bed.
"Now Jordan get up, you have to get dressed for school!" her mother nudged her foot and held up her new school uniform.
"Great" Jordan replied sarcastically as she reluctantly threw the covers off of her and slowly sat up. She knew there was no way in hell she'd get out of this one. She was attending Eden Hall and that was it.
She growled to herself when she realised it was Rick who was behind this sudden change.
I'm going to cut his freaking balls off she vowed.
"Come on Julie hurry up, we're gonna be late!" Connie shook her roommate and took a step back when Julie's arm came flying out at her. She knew Julie was grumpy in the mornings.
"No" Julie groaned and rolled over.
Connie sighed. It was time for drastic measures.
"Come on Jules, get up!" she yelled and launched herself at the bed jumping on top of Julie and tickling her until she had no choice but to get up.
"Okay, okay I'm up! Now get off me!" Julie sat up and rubbed her eyes. By the time she'd finished her essay last night she would have had around three hours sleep.
"Don't forget this!" Connie handed her the essay.
"Thanks" Julie grabbed it out of her hand and ran out of the door leaving a smiling Connie staring after her.
Julie had officially gone nuts.
Jordan clutched her bag as she stepped out of her mother's car. That was the other thing that sucked, her mother had insisted on driving her to school rather than letting her ride the bike. Now there was no escape for her.
She vaguely recognised the enormous red and black sign and realised that this was the prep school that she dropped that guy off at.
Well, I guess at least I'll know one person other than Rick the Dick she thought as she tried not to cringe at her mother.
"Have a wonderful day sweetheart!" her mother called from the car window.
"Whatever" Jordan mumbled and slammed the car door shut. Her mother really had no clue sometimes.
"Oh my god what is that?" a perky blond cheerleader stared at Jordan horrified as she walked past.
Jordan looked down at her attire, black jeans and a plain black tee. What was so wrong with that?
"Check out the dyke boots" another one remarked as she opened the front doors.
Oh them. She thought looking down at her shoes.
Meh who cares? Jordan reminded herself she didn't care what people thought and strolled on in.
"Jordan, hold up" she kept walking as she heard her cousins voice behind her.
Fuck off Rick she thought as she kept ignoring him.
Rick eventually caught up to her and grabbed her arm.
"I said wait!" he scolded whipping her around to face him.
"And I'm saying leave me alone and go back to your team or the cheerleaders or whatever, I don't like you so fuck off" Jordan wrenched her arm back out of his grasp.
"Listen here Jordan, you may think you're top shit because you can ride a motorbike but at Eden Hall here no one is going to care. No cousin of mine is going to parade around here acting like a member of a biker gang. People are already talking about you and its not positive feedback" Rick warned.
"Positive feedback? Jeez Rick I've only been here for a total of three minutes, is the social life around here really that pathetic that they have to talk about me?" she turned on her heel and walked off.
"JORDAN!" Rick yelled attracting the attention of several students.
They turned to watch the girl with the long dark hair flip the captain of the Varsity Hockey team the finger over her shoulder as she sauntered down the hall.
"That was interesting" Les Averman pushed his glasses back up his nose.
"I'll say, interesting indeed" Greg Goldberg agreed.
"Hey Linda can I walk you to class?" Charlie offered his girlfriend the mega-watt smile he knew would melt whatever icy problem she had with him this time.
"I suppose" Linda half-smiled and closed her locker.
She was still annoyed with Charlie for being so late last night.
Charlie grinned even harder and took her books for her.
"So what class do you have first?" Charlie asked slipping his free arm around her shoulder.
"Social studies" Linda replied smirking at the JV cheerleaders who looked put out that the captain of the JV hockey team was dating her and not one of them.
"Sounds interesting, its your favourite right?" Charlie asked hoping he'd gotten that fact right.
"Yes it is" Linda was smiling now. Charlie does listen when you speak to him she thought happily.
Seeing this as a green light to go ahead with her speech on the disease stricken orphanages in South-East Asia she seized the opportunity.
She didn't realise that Charlie's attention had been captured by a new student who was being escorted down the hallway with Dean Buckley.
"Nah it can't be" Charlie mumbled not realising that Linda was staring at him waiting for a response to a question she'd just asked him.
"Why can't it be Charlie" Linda began reciting her reasons unaware that wasn't what Charlie was talking about.
"Hey Charlie!" Averman and Goldberg caught up to the couple in the hallway.
"Hey guys whats up?" Charlie greeted his friends and ignored Linda's pouting.
"Not much, hey we've got a new kid right, and she just totally dissed Riley. He grabbed her in the hallway and gave her one of his stern talkings to before she turns away, walks off and flips him the bird over her shoulder. How classic is that!" Goldberg was talking excitedly.
Even Linda had to smile at that. The very thought of someone publicly humiliating Rick Riley like that was extremely amusing. She made a mental note to seek this girl out. Obviously she had some brains.
thanks AndieLu again for being the only reviewer (even though stats indicate more than one person is reading this), I hope the card works out, I miss seeing you on here and its really nice of your brother to let you use his in the meantime.