Three

"Can you not smoke in here please Av?" Danielle complained.

"Rhiannon doesn't have a problem with it do you?" Avril asked pointing her eyes to Red haired girl.

"Not really but if Maggie catches you your done for." she answered.

"Fine, I'll smoke outside from now on." Avril sighed putting her cigarette out and opened up a window.

Avril had been put in a room with Rhiannon and a new Year Twelve, Danielle.

Rhiannon was alright and Danielle was a laugh but occasionally got on Avril's nerves with her stupid questions and her non-stop talking.

The three girls were talking and getting to know each other while they unpacked.

"What's that?" asked Rhiannon pointing to one of Avril's cases.

It was a black box with a handle and clasps, it was covered in various band stickers including Paramore, Green Day, The Runaways, My Chemical Romance, The Ramones and Pink Floyd.

"Oh that?" Avril opened the case reveal a green electric guitar, endless pages of sheet music, a stand and a small speaker.

"Cool! You play?" Danielle asked.

"No, I just carry around heavy guitar stuff for the fun of it." She said sarcastically.

This didn't seem to faze Danielle, she was too mesmerised by the green glow of the instrument.

"You guys play anything?" Avril asked looking at them.

Rhiannon shook her head.

"I play drums!" Danielle blurted out.

"Really?" Avril asked surprised.

"Yeah, I don't really have my own set though. I used to play on my friends set 'cause my foster family wouldn't let me have one but I'm saving up my cash now so I can get my own, the only problem would be trying to find a place to keep it."

"So your foster family sent you here?" Rhiannon asked.

Danielle suddenly went quiet. "Um… Well, the thing is, they kick me out. I… accidentally trashed their house."

"How can you accidentally trash someone's house?" Avril said in disbelief.

"By having a party and inviting only a few friends but your friends bring friends and those people bring friends. So basically it becomes a huge party and everybody trashes the place. Yeah, my foster family didn't really appreciate that and in the end my social worker couldn't find a care home or foster placement for me so this place was a last resort." Danielle told her.

"Oh" was all she could say.

She lay in bed hours later.

Her last thought before she fell asleep was the conclusion that nothing had gone wrong yet, that's why she was so happy at Waterloo Road.

It was only her first day though, sooner or later she would come across something or someone that would screw up the luck she'd been having since she had got there.

Her life was never this fun; the disappointment was going to come soon.

It had to.

"So you're gonna ask her out then?" Conner asked washing his hands.

"Yeah I think so; I mean she's been here almost two weeks. How much longer can I wait?" Jack told him.

Connor gave Jack a pat on the shoulder "Go for it mate."

"Aww, how sweet, Jackie Boy has a crush" they heard a voice saying from behind them.

They turned to see Barry stepping out of a toilet stall.

"Piss off Barry" Jack spat at him.

"Calm down I was just trying to say good luck, you'll need it."

"Like you're any better with girls, you've never had a girlfriend more than five minutes. Face it, you're pathetic"

"Really? Well I don't think I'm that bad, at least your mum didn't think so."

Anger flowed through Jack, he charged at Barry but Connor held him back just in time.

"Don't you dare talk about my mum!" Jack shouted.

"Leave him, he's not worth it!" Connor tried to convince him.

"See you later boys." Barry said walking out of the toilets and away from the two.

When Jack had calmed down he and Conner headed to class.

He sat down in his desk and for the rest of the lesson he stared at the blue highlights of Avril who sat in front of him.

RRRIIINNNGGG! Everybody picked up their bags to leave.

This is my chance Jack thought.

"Avril?" he called out to her as she was walking down the corridor with Imogen and Dynasty.

She stopped and turned round to him.

"Yeah?"

He gulped, it was now or never.

"Do you wanna to go out wi' me?"

Smooth Jack, shouting it out in front of tons of people, that really makes a girl like you.

There was a pause, Avril answered "sure."

She signaled Imogen and Dynasty to go on without her to Jacks relief.

She walked over to him "When?"

"Well …umm how 'bout we go see a movie or get something to eat after school?"

"Sure I'll meet you at the gates around half three yeah?"

"Sounds good"

She spun around and walked away.

Yes!