The boys entered the Senior Classroom utterly laughing their heads off about some joke that nobody could even remember anymore. It was homeroom, so it didn't wouldn't have really mattered in a normal school. It mattered far less in Hollywood Arts. The popular people were too busy chatting about the homecoming party. With a glance up at the end of the room, Jared could confirm that they had their typical seats saved. He walked across and sat down next with Kelli, smiling slightly. He slid his arm over her and watched her turn faintly red. They had been dating for months now but it was still nice to be able to see her do that. With he ran through his hair with the other hand, brushing it back.

Both he and Kelli knew that everybody in the room wanted to be one of them right now. Kelli was gorgeous, and she knew it, thin and curvy with those kinds of startling blue eyes. And that was before you started to talk about the long blonde hair that she was presently twirling around her finger absent-mindedly.

Well, it wasn't exactly absent-mindedly. Kelli knew what she was doing. Kelli was gloating. She snuck a look at Sophie, who was staring at her almost enviously, knowing probably because Kelli was in the 'It Couple' of the school. It was just another thing that made her the undoubted Queen of this area in the first place. She was proud of that fact, and feeling the need to rub it in a little bit more, she turned to face Jared and kissed him, holding it for as long as she possibly could. They only broke apart when she heard a very loud cough from Marc, who had suddenly appeared behind her and took his seat on the other side of Sophie.

"What?" Kelli asked, completely faking innocence. To those who knew her, though, it was pretty obvious she wasn't innocent. In fact, most of them knew that nothing that Kelli ever did was innocent.

"Cut it out with the PDA, we've been in school for what, five minutes? At this rate you're going beat Princess's record over there." He gestured to Aurora in her seat. They had sat in the same seats for years; only rarely making a couple adjustments, when someone new entered the group.

Right now, sitting there in the corner of the room were! Marc, Jared, Asa, Arthur,and Rev, and that was honestly all they needed (or wanted, for that matter). They were the jock crowd and they stuck together, the entire school knew that. It was as exclusive as becoming a cheerleader and there was no way you could shove yourself in.

After Marc's comment to Aurora, Arth leaned over and wiggled his eyebrows at her suggestively. Most of the group wasn't quite sure how Arth managed to wiggle his eyebrows suggestively; in fact, some weren't quite sure how anybody wiggled their eyebrows at all. Aurora shoved him away, but everybody knew that Arth was kidding.

Well, everybody knew that Arth was kidding apart from Arth. Arth had that little burning crush that he would never admit to, as much as he wanted to. The Princess wasn't the type of girl he should be with anyway, or so he had been told. It was all stupid anyway; he wouldn't have a chance with her. She was so out of his league it wasn't perceivable. Or at least that was what Arthur had always talked himself into believing.

"Aww… so you won't give me a kiss then?" He smirked, and Elle rolled her eyes and the ridiculousness of it all.

"In your dreams." Aurora laughed along with the crowd; they were playing a little game. She didn't quite know she was breaking another guy's heart without even meaning to.

"You feature in my dreams every night, baby." Marc joined in, giving her his very best flirty eyes. He was kidding, like the rest of them, and this time, he was actually kidding. None of this meant anything to Aurora. She was used to flirting with pretty much a different guy every day, or even a different guy every hour. It was the type of girl she was and it was easy for her, with the kind of looks which, coupled with her name, had gained her the nickname of Princess.

"And you're in my nightmares." she retorted fast and the whole group around them burst into laughter.

"Ooh! You got owned." Sophie smirked and Marc silenced her with one gaze. It wasn't funny when it was Sophie laughing at him. He couldn't stand having her laughing at him. It filled him with this despicable urge to do something about it and to keep her silent.

Sophie went bright red, wondering why on earth Marc hated her so much. She may not have been the nicest girl in school but she wasn't downright nasty like the rest of them - okay, well, she wasn't as bad as Kelli. But then again, nobody could ever be quite as bad as Kelli. She was definitely a step up from Aurora as well. She just didn't quite get it. She was pretty and popular and perky but he hated her, he always had. They were part of the same group but they spent as little time as possible actually with each other. They hadn't hung out outside of the group in years.

Avoiding all of this at the back were Rev and Asa, just well, avoiding it all. Rev had his reasons to avoiding the flirting just like Jared did. It was fine to flirt with random girls, even Princess, and in some cases, especially Princess, when you were single, but Rev wasn't by any means single. Rev was in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, by his standings. Rev was head over heels for Faye: it hadn't gone on for very long yet, but he was looking forward to the day when he could say that this had only been the beginning of the two of them. Rev would have been able to talk about Faye for hours and fact,he was taking the opportunity to spend that long discussing her at length with Asa.

"Dude, shut up!" Asa finally snapped "I'm so thrilled you're dating Faye, it's about time as well. I can't believe you didn't ask her in Sophomore year. You had to wait until she's a Junior and you only have a year of school left to ask her. But I've told you how happy I am for you approximately a million times now, and I've met Faye, I know how amazingly, wonderfully, brilliant she is."

Rev looked hurt. Obviously Asa knew his Junior girlfriend, but did he really know her? Did he notice every single thing about her, like that way a tiny strand of brown hair would always catch behind her ear? Did he see the way her brown eyes would give out this little twinkle or know that her laugh sounded like a million little tiny bells? Did he know how she was just so unbelievably kind and that he was so lucky to have her and he couldn't really believe that he did? Well, the last bit Asa probably knew.

In fact, Asa knew pretty much everything he could about Faye by now. He had known Faye pretty well in the first place, but this was getting ridiculous. If Rev mentioned that he was taking Faye to the Homecoming Dance this Friday one more time, he thought he was actually going to explode. He was not actually kidding. And Asa was not normally a violent person. Well, you know, apart from the fact that he was on the football team. But then again, so was everybody else there, so it wasn't exactly fair to count that against him. But everybody by now knew that Rev and Faye were going out and had been all summer. It was almost odd that the honeymoon stage hadn't run out by now. But Rev had always been the last to get up the guts to do anything, ever since they had been little kids. Maybe Rev hadn't got up the guts to move on into the actual relationship yet.

You see, this was why Asa loved home room. You did nothing for fifteen or twenty minutes, absolutely nothing. The girls were chatting about holidays now, and 'OMG Who made out with whom'! He could see Marc, Jared, and Arth chatting about the party tonight and who they were bringing. Rev had taken the opportunity to attempt to completely torture him for no apparent reason. But still, Asa loved homeroom. Actually, that had decided it for him, homeroom was his new girlfriend. Now he would have someone to bore Rev to death about.

Elle was the one person who was being just sort of quiet today. She didn't quite know why. Maybe she was just worried about Beck and how he was fitting in. Maybe she was wondering if Beck had remembered those all-important coconuts. Maybe she just didn't care about that much this morning. Or it could have been seeing her ex again after managing to avoid him all summer. It has been three years and it was still slightly painful to look at Jared. Or maybe… it could have possibly been that feeling inside of her that foreshadowed her whole world was going to turn upside down and chuck her out of it.

She told herself that she was being ridiculous, but that never helped the feeling in the very pit of her stomach. She told herself she was being pessimistic, but that didn't make it go away.

And you never know… she may have just been right.


Guys, about the OCs, I know there are a lot of them, but I wanted to incorporate Lyla/Elle and she needed her own friends. On the bright side, JADE comes in next chapter. Those that have Freshman OCs, remember Bade has to happen before Lyla can try and break it up. They should be in about the tenth chapter.

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