Title: Growing Up

Chapter 3: Homeroom

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the idea of the story and any names you don't recognize as a wrestler's name.

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Stephanie and Trish made there way over to the bleachers after they made sure Calvin found one of his friends and Gail left. They talked a little until they reached the bleachers. Trish and Steph smiled as they walked up unnoticed to the other four. They saw Chris and Paul sitting at the top of the bleachers and Randy sitting one below them. On the same row as Randy Stacy was sitting on Randy's lap. They flirt a lot but they don't go out with each other.

"Hi you guys." Trish and Steph said as they walked up to them.

"TRISH STEPH!" Stacy said excitedly and jumped off of Randy's lap.

"STACY!" Steph and Trish copied Stacy.

"I missed you guys sooo much." Stacy exclaimed happily.

"Stace you just saw them yesterday." Chris said laughing at how Stacy was acting.

Stacy was always the one to make everyone laugh. It wasn't hard and it wasn't easy, all she does is be herself to make everyone laugh. Even though the rest of them are always themselves Stacy is more of the funny one. She sometimes thinks it's because she is blonde.

"Well, sorry Chris, I have feelings and I miss my friends everyday." Stacy laughed as she hopped back up the bleachers.

"Correction Stacy, you miss your friends every second your not with them." Paul said causing everyone to laugh.

"Ha ha, you're funny." Stacy said play slapping Paul in the arm.

"So, can you believe that this is our last year, and then we will be out of school?" Randy said clapping his hands.

"I can't wait till graduation comes." Trish said as she sat down next to Randy.

"Well, some of us, as in me, are going to college." Stacy said proudly.

"Another four years of school." Steph said shaking her head. "Once I'm out of school I'm staying out."

"I agree with that." Paul said rising his hand in the air.

"Don't we all, but Stacy." Chris responded.

"Well, I was thinking about going to college." Trish spoke up.

"Yeah, I'm not alone." Stacy said walking down the bleachers to give Trish a hug.

"Do any of you know what you want to do when we are out of high school, as in career?" Paul asked causing everyone to think.

They all sat there in silence thinking of what Paul had just asked. All six of them had thought of it before when they were younger and didn't really pay any mind to it through out high school. Now it was there last year and they had no clue what they wanted to do. I mean when they were eight and nine years old they knew what they wanted to be.

For example Randy wanted to be an astronaut. He loved space ships and space. Also he wanted to go out in space and see the moon and the stars up close. It was his dream, then he started getting older and that dream started to not interest him anymore.

Then there was Stacy who wanted to be a singer. Whatever she wanted to say, she said it in a singing voice. She would sing everywhere, in the bathtub, in the car, in her room, in the store, even in the library although she was warned about it. Same thing happened to Stacy that happened to Randy. Singing stopped interesting her as a career.

Now, Paul wanted to be an artist when he was about ten. He knew how to draw really well. Everyone thought that he was a great artist. Paul loved the complements he got, but in the end drawing became uninteresting.

Stephanie wanted to be an actress. She would always reenact scenes from a movie and add in her own ideas to her parents. Also, she would make her brother help her with some of it. She was in a school play which she won the lead role. She had been in plays until she turned twelve and acting became boring.

Chris wanted to be in a band. He had the name picked out and new exactly what he wanted to play. The electric guitar. Chris would run around the house making a beat on everything. He would beat pots and pans together, stomp on the ground, jump on the bed, slamming the door, and just anything that would give off a beat. Soon that also became boring.

Lastly but not least Trish wanted to be a hair dresser. She was always doing her mother's hair. Sometimes she would do her father's and brother's, but she liked doing girls' hair the best. She would always do her friend's hair when she or they stayed the night. As Trish grew older she stopped doing hair because it was beginning to be boring an unexciting.

"Paul has a point." Randy said after he was done thinking.

"Yeah, I can't think of what I want to be." Steph said still slightly thinking.

"Well, when it comes to it, we'll know what we want to do." Chris said uneasily.

"Yeah, I agree." Trish said the same way.

"How about we go find out what homeroom we're in?" Stacy said hopping down the bleachers onto the grass.

"Yeah, let's go do that." Paul agreed as they all got up and headed to the school building.

They all walked over to the school building and on the outside there was a list of names. Trish didn't worry about her brother because all 9th graders were to meet in the cafeteria. All six of them looked on the list for their respective homeroom.

"I have Mrs. Byrum." Steph said happy that she got her favorite teacher as her homeroom teacher.

"Shit, I have Mr. Johnson." Chris said unhappily. Everyone hated Mr. Johnson.

"Looks like I have Ms. Kelso." Stacy said as she stepped aside to lean on the railing.

"I have Ms. Kelso too." Trish said as she went to stand next to Stacy.

"Great, someone to help me cause some trouble." Stacy smirked.

"Are you still upset about how she got you suspended?" Trish asked crossing her arms.

"Yeah, she still is." Randy smiled at her which he got the finger in return.

"Well, lucky for you Steph, I have Mrs. Byrum too." Randy said walking over too Steph.

"This is the first year one of us is in the same homeroom as one of us." Steph said hoping they all understood her.

"Steph, Randy, how about we be the three musketeers?" Paul asked walking over to everyone else.

"Why?" Randy and Steph said at the same time.

"Because, I have Mrs. Byrum too." Paul smiled getting a smile in return from Steph.

"Why am I the only one who doesn't have one of you in my homeroom?" Chris asked joking around.

"Sorry you don't have any of us, but look on the bright side you have Joanie in your class." Stacy laughed making everyone else laugh.

"This is just great, you all get stuck with one another and I get stuck with the man beast." Chris pouted jokingly.

"Come on Chris, Joanie likes you." Trish said knowing full well Joanie didn't have a chance with Chris unlike herself.

"Yeah, she has liked you since we were in fifth grade." Steph smiled.

"Well, that's how it's going to stay." Chris said putting an arm on each of Trish and Steph's shoulder.

"Why don't you tell her that?" Stacy said pointing to Joanie who was walking over. "Here she comes."

Joanie walked over to the group of six and smiled at Chris, who in return gave her a fake smile.

"Hi Chris." Joanie smiled brightly.

"Yeah, hey." Chris said hopping she would leave in a minute.

"Well, looks like we have the same homeroom Chris." Joanie Laurer said before frowning. "And it's Mr. Johnson."

"Yeah, I know, I hate him." Chris said politely.

"So do I, looks like we have something in common." Joanie beamed.

"Yeah, I guess we do." Chris said as he looked around and noticed his friends left him. "They did not just do that to me." He mumbled.

"What did you say?" Joanie asked walking closer to him.

"Oh, nothing, but I have to go, so I'll see you in homeroom." Chris said leaving Joanie there waving him goodbye.

Chris walked around looking for one of his friends. He couldn't believe they left him like that. He wasn't mad at them though, that was just how they were when Joanie came around them. He kept walking in search of his friends.

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Stephanie turned around as she felt a tap on her shoulder. When she turned around she found Kurt Angle standing behind her. She cursed to herself knowing that he still had a crush on her. Kurt was one of the nerds and she just couldn't picture herself going out with him.

"Hi Kurt." Steph smiled at him sweetly.

"Hi Steph, um, these are for you." Kurt said handing her the flowers.

"Thanks Kurt, what are these for?" Stephanie asked politely.

"They are a welcome back present." Kurt smiled at her.

"Well, thanks, they are pretty." Stephanie said smelling the pink carnations.

"I was hoping you'd like them." Kurt said blushing a little.

"Well, I'll see you around then Kurt." Stephanie said leaving him starring after her.

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Randy sat on the bench looking around waiting for one of his friends to pop out of no where. He started to whistle and hum to himself, when all of a sudden he felt a pat on his back. He turned around to see Terri Runnels standing there smiling at him.

"Uh, hi Terri." Randy said scooting over some.

"Hello Randy." Terri said sitting next to him

"So, how have you been?" Randy asked feeling a little tense.

"I've been alright, or do you mean how have I been from the break up?" Terri asked her ex-boyfriend.

"Well, both actually." Randy said with a small smile.

"I've been good, I haven't started dating again though, but I'm working on it." She said looking at the other people walking around. "What about you?"

"Same I guess." Randy said thinking of Stacy.

"You mean to tell me, that a guy like you hasn't gone out on a date for six months." Terri asked surprised.

"Hey, you were hard to get over." They both laughed.

"Well, I gotta go, see you around some time?" Terri said leaving but waiting for an answer.

"Yeah." Randy smiled at her as she left.

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Stacy skipped down the back way path of the school searching for one of the gang. She shook her head from side to side while whistling and skipping. She passed a couple of teachers who smiled at her and she smiled back. She shut her eyes and continued to skip down the path way. While doing this she bumped into Andrew Test, the person who had a crush on her for a long while. He smiled at her.

"Hello Stacy" Andrew said pulling his football jacket closer to him.

"Hi" Stacy smiled sweetly.

"What's up?" He asked stepping closer to her.

"Nothing really." She said taking a step back.

"Anything new?" Andrew questioned again.

"Like what?" She asked taking another step back, personally she didn't like Andrew.

"Like a boyfriend?" Andrew smirked hoping for an answer of no.

"Well, actually, I….do." Stacy said lying.

"Who is it?" He asked angrily.

"Randy." She said quickly. "Randy Orton."

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Paul leaned against the school building looking around at everyone walking, talking, and laughing. He smiled at the people then shut his eyes thinking. He hadn't been out on a date for a couple of months. He was thinking of asking her out this year, finally letting her know how he felt. He opened his eyes when he heard someone walk up. He saw his ex-girlfriend Jackie Gayda.

"What do you want Jackie?" Paul asked the woman who played him last year.

"I came to let you know that I'm sorry." Jackie said, she always had a way of thinking things would be better if you just said sorry.

"Ok, bye." Paul said starting to walk away, realizing she was following him. "What?"

"I wanted to know if we could still be friends, I really miss talking and hanging out with you." Jackie said with a sad smile.

"Jackie, I don't need you to be my friend, and I know damn well you don't need me to be your friend." Paul said continuing to walk.

"Please, I just want to be your friend." She pleaded.

"Bye Jackie." Paul said turning a corner and leaving Jackie by herself.

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Jeff Hardy walked up behind Trish who was looking for Stacy and/or Chris. He smiled as she stopped walking and looked around. He put his hands in front of her eyes.

"Guess who." Jeff said with a smile.

Trish pulled away knowing full well who it was. She turned and faced her ex-boyfriend. She couldn't believe he still had the nerve to call her and talk to her like they used to when they were friends and went out.

"What do you want Jeff?" Trish said faking a quick smile.

"What's with the attitude babe? I thought you'd be happy to see me." Jeff said smiling at her.

"What do you want Jeff?" She asked again getting annoyed.

"Fine, I wanted to know if we could start things fresh again?" Jeff asked. "I want to go back to how the way things were last year."

Trish's mouth dropped in surprise.

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So, did you all like this chapter? Sorry it took a while to get up. Please review and tell me if I should continue, because I haven't really been getting any reviews for this story.

~Citcat~