Teacher's Pet

Kacey, Molly, and Grace stomped into the Perf bathroom all in bad moods. "Look, I'm sorry for snapping on you back there." Kacey said sincerely looking over her shoulder at her two favorite Perfs and well, best friends.

Molly sighed unfolding her arms and giving a small smile to Kacey while Grace looked down at her feet chewing her bottom lip nervously. "Okay, what are friends for?" Kacey smiled back and Grace looked up now that things weren't so tense anymore.

"Why do hate Stevie so much anyways?" Grace asked gasping and then covering her mouth with her hand instantly regretting the words that left her mouth. This question had been bugging her for a while now and it was driving her crazy, but she didn't mean to ask it. She just hated being mean to Nelson just because of Kacey's hatred to whatever makes Stevie happy. And, um, she hated being mean to Stevie, Kevin, that one new cute boy, and other people too of course.

Kacey gulped. "I don't hate her. Hate is such a strong word." She stated not convincing Molly and Grace for a minute. The two girls gave each other a few looks before folding their arms over their chest and playfully smiling to Kacey. Kacey's eyes darted between the two girls nervously. "What?"

"You're jelly." Grace giggled lightly.

"Am not!"

"Then why are you being so defensive?" Molly said in a singsong voice knowing that this would make Kacey tell the truth. "What is it? Her parents having a lot of money? Your parents have a lot of money. Or that she's written more than one song? She can play instruments? She has a band?" Molly listed the reasons why she thought that Kacey could be jealous.

"Or that she got that cute boy before you did?" Grace teased with the wiggle of her eyebrows.

The Perf leader groaned putting her head in her hands. "She dropped me in the beginning of middle school!" She exclaimed hoping they didn't hear her. How could they not when she shouted it to the whole entire universe.

"What?" Both Molly and Grace shouted simultaneously throwing their arms down. Kacey blinked. They did that a lot.

Kacey shrugged it off like it was nothing. "Yeah, we used to be really good friends in fifth grade and I was talking to you guys and she did too, sometimes. Then when we entered middle school she… just… stopped talking to me." Kacey finished leaving out a few tiny details. It wasn't exactly lying if you just didn't tell the whole story, plus she really didn't want to remember it. It was behind her and now she was on top of everything else. Come on, she was Kacey freaking Simon for crying out loud. The most popular girl in school. That was all that mattered now.

"Wait, so she just stood up and left you… for no reason?" Molly asked making sure she was taking it all in correctly.

Kacey shrugged her shoulder. "Yeah." She lied. Molly shook her head. That wasn't right, who would do something like that?

Grace scoffed. "That's so messed up." Both Molly and Kacey nodded agreeing to what she said. Grace didn't get that. How could you leave your friend and just abandon them for no good reason? It just wasn't right.

Kacey sighed. Lying to her friends didn't feel good. It felt awful. "Look, we're going to have to do our make-up fix-up next period and go to class because we can't be late again." The two girls nodded and the three were just about to head out the door until Molly blurted something.

"That's just not right." She murmured. Guilt was eating Kacey alive. She wanted to tell them the truth of what really happened, but it would just make her look like the bad person.

"Guys, let's just drop this." Kacey explained dropping her hands for emphasis. Molly was just about to ask how could they when Stevie did something so shallow, but Kacey beat her to it. "I know it was pretty messed up and shallow of Stevie to just drop me like that without even explaining herself, but that's behind me now. I'm here now, with you guys, and we're the most powerful group in the school. That's all that matters, right?" Kacey said, but truth be told that she was the shallow one here. She wouldn't admit that though. The girls headed to their classes without another word.

Stevie sighed pulling off her white beanie and setting it on her desk since students weren't allowed to wear any form of hats during class, or in school. She was still pretty mad about the fight in Mr. March's class, but relieved that Grace and Molly tried to stop Kacey. It was the thought that count. Right now, she was in Mr. Martin's class. It was one of the three classes she didn't have with Zander. It was a good thing that she had just had Grace and Molly in this class and not Kacey. She had all three of them in science without Kevin, Nelson, or Zander which sucked. And then she had Nelson and Kevin without Zander and the Perfs in another class.

Class hasn't started yet and Molly and Grace were currently talking to Mr. Martin like they usually do with every teacher. Stevie rolled her eyes. The Perfs always do that just to get the teachers on their side. But when Stevie got a good look of Mr. Martin, she couldn't stop the smile that came to her face.

Ignoring the red flags that told her he was not to be involved with and was just a creep, she thought he actually looked kind of cute. For a teacher. Yeah, she knew that he was older and, well, a teacher, but he wasn't ugly.

Grace and Molly laughed leaving Mr. Martin at his desk and walked past Stevie's desk with no reaction towards her. Stevie furrowed her eyebrows her eyes following them as they walked to their seats and then quickly looked down at her hands. 'That's weird. They just flat out ignored me.' Usually they would say hi to Stevie and sometimes when there were group activities, the three of them would work together, but now Molly and Grace paid no attention to her. Stevie sighed. Kacey probably brainwashed them into thinking something that wasn't even true. Now she wished more than ever that Zander was in this class with her.

"Don't we usually say hi to her?" Grace asked in a hushed tone once her and Molly were seated in their desks. She noticed that Stevie followed their actions and looked away once they sat down. Now she was just sitting there with a sad expression on her face. Molly was also looking over to Stevie every couple of seconds too.

"Yeah, but I don't think it was right of Stevie to do that to Kacey." Molly responded in the same hushed tone not really certain with her decision.

"Totally." Grace mumbled not really sure if it was right of them to be doing this to Stevie. Molly looked over at Stevie again putting her arms on the desk in frustration. "What?" Grace whispered trying to figure out what was wrong with her best friend.

"It's just…" Molly started trying to look over a kid's head at Stevie. "I just want to go over there and ask her why she dropped Kacey, so bad!" She groaned out desperately. Her curiosity was killing her! Something told her that Kacey wasn't being completely honest and she really wanted to know what really happened.

"Me too, but wouldn't Kacey get mad?"

Molly groaned propping her elbows on her desk and putting her face in her hands. She rubbed her temples trying to sort out her frustration. "Yeah." Grace sighed propping up her head with her hand slumping into her chair. Today was going to be great, wasn't it?

Stevie skipped into her house happily. She was actually skipping and humming. Her 10 year old brother Max gave her a confused look. "You're happy." He stated sarcastically. Stevie beamed at him snatching the uneaten apple from his hands.

'I know right! Oh, one of the guys whose in my band is coming over so we can rehearse." Apparently the school wasn't having any activity buses so no kids could stay after school.

"Ooh, is he your boyfriend?" Her 14 year old brother, Daniel, teased with his skateboard in his hand while he walked down the stairs. He walked past Stevie snatching the apple from her hands taking a bite out of it before she could throw him on the ground and take it back.

"Hey!" Stevie yelled glaring at him. "I was going to eat that, you know? And NO, he is not!" She shouted getting defensive. He just laughed taking another bite of her apple, well Max's, but she stole that fair in square.

"Whatever you say, when's he coming over?"

"At five…?" Stevie trailed off not really wanting to know why he wanted to know.

"Kay, well I'll come back at that time. Bye!" He smiled riding his skateboard out the door. Stevie blinked not fully understanding why he was coming back at the same time Zander was coming, wait.

So he could mess with her and Zander! Then something else occurred to her. "Wait, where are going?" She yelled. She heard him yell a quick none of your business before she shook her head rolling her eyes. She turned to Max who was still sitting in the kitchen table with a pout on his face.

"You stole my apple."

"Shut up! Here." She opened her refrigerator and threw the apple she grabbed at his head.

"Ow!" She giggled running upstairs to play her bass before Zander came. She wanted to impress him. It never hurt anyone for trying to make an impression.

Zander arrived at her house at 5 o'clock sharp. He talked to Max for a little, but the second Daniel came into the house with a smirk on his face, Stevie grabbed Zander's hand and pulled him with her so he was running upstairs with her to her room. She avoided that awkward yet embarrassing conversation as fast as she could. They practiced her bass playing until it was perfected. Now they were lying on her bed staring up at the ceiling and he was begging her to sing.

"Come on, please?" He begged for the hundredth time. Stevie laughed.

"Like I've been saying for the past hour, NO!"

"Why not?"

"Because no! Now shut up! You're starting to sound like my brothers!"

"NO! Sing a song for me, please?"

"No."

"Please?"

No!"

"Pretty please?"

"Noo!"

"Pretty please with a cherry on top?"

"NO!"

"PLEASE!"

"ARGH!"

"Oh, so now we're playing pirates, huh?"

"Oh, you wanna go?" Stevie shouted hopping up and throwing her fists up in the air. Zander does the same except he starts pushing her playfully while bouncing on his feet.

"Oh, you wanna fight, bro? You wanna fight ME, bro? You wanna go, bro? Huh, bro, huh?" Stevie lets out a laugh not putting her fists down. His 'oh you think you can fight me, bro' voice was cracking her up. "Alright, bro, let's fight right here!" Zander shouts pushing her onto the bed so she's lying on her back.

Stevie sits up not able to stop laughing. "Whatever, Zander." Stevie laughs out turning her back on him to fix her pillows until a pillow lands in her face falling with a thud on the ground. Stevie drops. "Oh, you did not just go there."

"Oh, I think I just did! Snap!" He says with the roll of his neck and snapping his fingers. Stevie tackles him on her bed and grabs a pillow hitting him in the face.

"Do." Thump. "Not." Thump. "Ever." Thump. "Throw a pillow at my face!" Thump, thump, thump, thump. He just lets out a laugh grabbing her wrists, and pushing her on her bed so that he was on top of her... their faces merely centimeters away. Their smiles went away and they found themselves in a trance leaning closer to each other slowly.

"Hey! What's all that jumping going on upstairs?" They heard Daniel shout. Zander immediately rolled off of her.

"Um, I think that's my cue to go." He told her awkwardly motioning to the door.

She sat up nodding her head. "Yeah, um, bye." Stevie said running her fingers through her curls. What just happened?

I FINALLY updated. I don't know when the next time will be though, since I have stuff going on right now, but just know that I haven't given up on you guys and I hope you guys didn't give up on this story. You probably did, but oh well, thank you for you reviews so far!

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