"Christine!" Erik called from somewhere near her. She turned around in a full circle and saw he was standing right behind her.

"Oh, hello!" She smiled happily, not trying too hard to look cute. "Has this happened before?" Christine asked, referring to the 'accidental' fire drill.

"My cousin is a junior, and she is always saying how things like this happen at random. Stupid, huh?"

"Well I'm not too crazy about gym class so I kinda do like this." Christine smiled.

"All we do is play volleyball by the way." Erik added

Christine liked to play volleyball since she was really good at that too, along with drawing and singing. But she really needed help in letting Erik know she liked him, even though they had only been in school for about two days together.

"Let see now…. I know his name, that he has some money, he's hot…" Christine blushed at that last thought.

"What's wrong?" Erik asked as the fire bell finally stopped ringing.

Christine shook her head. "Nothing, just a thought. We should hang out after school or something, how about my house?"

"Sure, how about we meet by the tennis courts after school?" Erik suggested

Christine smiled, now that she could show him the new world of her. "Cool, but where are the tennis courts?"

"You know where all the busses park in the south parking lot?"

Christine nodded. "Oh, over there? Alright good!"

Erik smiled, but Christine could not keep her mind—or eyes off of that half mask he wore. She was dying to ask him, but school was definitely not the place for that. "I'll see you at the end of the day then." Christine waved and walked off towards the gym, wanting the day to end quicker than the three more periods she had left.

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Christine quickly went to her locker, not wanting to keep Erik waiting long. Quickly she set the combination and threw her books in. Ahh, NO HOMEWORK! She smiled to herself as she checked herself in the small mirror that was in her locker. When she looked in the reflection, Jessica was standing right behind her checking herself too.

"Hey Jess!" Christine said cheerfully.

"Wow, aren't you in a good mood. I'm tired as hell!" Jessica yawned.

"Erik is coming over my house; you know just to hang out and stuff…"

"Oh." Jess sighed. She was hoping Christine wasn't busy today.

"Do you want to come too?"

"Uh." Jess studdered. "No thank you, I have stuff to do."

Christine closed her locker and took out her cell phone to turn it on. "Okay then, byee."

"Damn her." Jess mumbled under her breath. "She's known him two days and already there….at second base….."

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"So yeah, that's how I wound up here. All cause of my stupid stepfather. It's okay though, I'd rather be with the real thing." Christine complained to Erik as she dug out her house key out of her purse. Once she inserted it in the keyhole, four dogs of many shapes and sizes came running. There were two large dogs, a husky puppy and a Yorkshire Terrier Mix. "I hope you like dogs."

"I have one, a black lab." Erik noted as Christine opened the door and all the dogs came running out onto the deck area, looking to go into the large field behind the house.

"Go, hurry up!" She opened the gate and they all flew out towards the field. Christine led Erik into the luxury mansion she called home. Erik was not so sure he wanted to show her his house, since it was in kind of a dark location in another part of town.

"This is my new home!" Christine said proudly. "Come on, I'll show you around." Christine began her tour of the mansion. About a half hour later they finally made it to the computer den upstairs. "It's kind of a mess in here, but I wanna show you something really cool in here."

Erik noticed how nice this computer den was. There was a large desk in the corner of the room and then a smaller, but not much smaller baby blue glass desk. Erik was impressed by it all since Christine had obviously either seen MTV's Cribs too many times or really felt comfortable and outgoing around him.

Christine walked into a small room with a bookshelf on one end. "The old, it's hidden-behind-the-bookshelf- trick!" She giggled, entering a combination into the keypad. Quickly, the 'bookshelf swiveled around and went up. "My dad is so techy when it comes to this stuff. Anyways, welcome to the 'lair of music.' My daddy writes music here for singers, and as you can see he's not big on leaving home to write."

Erik looked around and noticed a orange shimmery notebook. Curiously he flipped through it. It was obviously Christine's since the handwriting was big and loopy, not to mention doodles galore on every single page. "Christine, these are great! Why don't you record an album?"

"Well, I really want to graduate high school, than I'll definitely do it. Those lyrics will always be there for me anyways. Why don't we go back downstairs?" Christine hustled out of the studio and back downstairs to the dogs. They played wit the dogs before the sun started to go down.

"I should be getting home." Erik suddenly said when he noticed the time and it getting increasingly darker outside. "I'll see you tomorrow." Erik hugged Christine goodbye. After Erik left, Christine watched him go down the street and smiled to herself.