hey hey hey everybody! oh my gosh, thankyou soooo much to everybody who reviewed. Absolutely lovely! I'm so sorry to keep you waiting! i just couldn't be bothered to edit this, i actually wrote it last last sunday so im sorry its only out now XD but oh well! hope you guys enjoy this chapter, i think its pretty long...

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It was autumn, Jasmine's favourite time of the year. She and her friends were walking home with her dad from the ice skating rink just round the block. She smiled, tonight had been awesome! It was her 10th birthday party and her dad had finally let her have a big party. All her closest friends were here, and they were sleeping over as well. The night could not get better. Her friends and her walked down the street in a big line, chatting and laughing.

When they turned down the next street Lisa stopped the current conversation by asking, "is this-,"

"Oh my god, it is!" Another girl jumped in.

"What! Are you serious?"

"Yeah, it's definitely one of these!"

The group squealed.

Jasmine raised an eyebrow and her friends just gaped at her.

"please don't tell you have no idea, WHAT we're talking about?" Charlotte said.

The others' eyes got bigger.

Jasmine began to get slightly scared, "um, no."

"WHAT!" they all screamed.

"woaha," Jasmine said, "can someone please explain what's going on."

"well," Selena began, "somewhere down this street lives-,"

There was a rustling behind them. Jasmine turned to see who would've guessed it, Lief, standing on his driveway, a bag of trash hovering above a bin as if he was just about to throw it away before about 10 girls turned their attention on him.

"Um, hi," he said to the group of girls and then grinned sheepishly like, what's-going-on. Then Lief noticed Jasmine and his eyes narrowed. "You," he muttered under his breath.

Jasmine rolled her eyes, "common guys, lets leav-,"

"Lief? Right?" Stacey, Jasmine's best friend, stepped onto his driveway. The rest of her friends crowded behind her.

"Um, yeah, that's right," he said awkwardly.

"happy birthday, Jasmine" one of her friends whispered smugly. Ugh, what was she intending, that meeting Lief was a good thing?

Lief looked at the girl, then glared at Jasmine and then closed the lid of the bin.

"um, yeah… It was nice meeting you! I've got to go, Bye!" He walked/ran back to his house opened the front door and went back inside.

Jasmine's friends sighed dreamily.

Why? She had no idea? Jasmine didn't even want to think about that butt-head. But she couldn't believe how oblivious she had been about Lief living around her area. Of course Lief lived around here somewhere! Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to walk to the park every day!

That just freaked her out more than ever; that she and him, lived in the same neighbourhood! Their houses were literally a street away! Jasmine shivered, ew.

They arrived at her house. She wasn't really in the mood for a sleepover anymore but she went along with it anyway.

Lief had to ruin everything, she thought, including her birthday.

She shook her head to get rid of any thought about him. I guess tonight wasn't too bad, she thought, they've had a lot worse…

It was her 4th grade soccer breakup party and to celebrate their winning season, they were going bowling. Her team had hired the school bus on a Friday afternoon so that straight after school they could hit the lanes. Their team coach, a university student named Lara was meeting them there.

Jasmine peered through the scratched window and watched as they pulled up into the bus lane, right outside the bowling centre. She'd never been bowling before and was really excited to give it a go.

The bus driver opened the doors, and her team eagerly clambered down the steps and out onto the pavement.

They stood on the edge of the drop-off zone and watched the bus drive off. Lara walked out of the glass sliding doors of the entrance and greeted them. She then led them inside towards a separate room where a party table was set up. They placed their bags on the floor and walked back out into the main area.

The centre had an 80s theme. Huge black records with red centres were decorated on all of the walls, neon lights spelled out things like: Snack Bar, Toilets and Rock n Roll baby. The lights were dimmed, a huge disco ball gleamed in the centre of ceiling, igniting fluorescent paintings of pins and bowling balls. The top 20 hits played loudly on speakers and people bustled around in groups carrying rental bowling shoes. It was paradise.

After renting shoes and ordering what they wanted from the menu, chicken nuggets and chips with a small coke for Jasmine, they walked over to their lane which was somewhere in the middle of the 12 lanes. Jasmine heard Hot n Cold begin to play and looked around at her team. They so deserved this, after all the hard work they had put in to win the league. She noticed that a large group had entered the lane next to theirs. She peaked over her chair and saw a group of boys about their age, one wearing a bright blue party hat. She noticed him immediately, it was one of Lief's friends, the one with blonde hair. His name sounded something like Josh, yeah! she thought, that's it! Josh.

Her face fell, if he was there then... she found him, kneeling on one leg, tying up his bowling shoes. A boy began telling him a joke and Lief cracked a smile. Jasmine gaped at him. Does he stalk her or something? He looked up from his shoes and noticed her frowning at him. He walked over to the small barrier of chairs that divided the two lanes, "What are you doing here!" he spat.

Jasmine scoffed and folded her arms, "I was about to ask you the same question!"

Lief could almost feel the venom in her words.

Jasmine glared at him, while he looked away not even trying to disguise his distaste for the situation they were in.

Jasmine realized that she was taller than him now, by about three inches or so. If he wanted to talk to her, he had to look up, whereas she looked down on him. Jasmine liked that idea very much, another thing to the list of things-Jasmine-does-that-makes-her-better-than-Lie f.

The silence was interrupted by Josh who exclaimed, "Hey Lief- is that Jasmine? Jasmine, hi!"

Jasmine gave a small wave.

"What are you doing here!" he asked.

"Um, my soccer team are here to celebrate winning our league," she replied.

Josh grinned, "Cool. We're all here for my birthday party, isn't that right Lief?" he nudged his friend who had been purposefully uninterested in the conversation. He was watching a music video on the big TV screen on the wall, "um, sure, whatever."

Josh turned back to Jasmine rubbing his hands, "so, seeming how we've both got about the same number of people, how 'bout we have a competition? Girls vs Boys?"

Gabby had somehow joined the conversation, along with everyone else in Jasmine's team, and squealed, "bring it on!"

So that's how it went. Girls vs Boys, the team with the most points at the end of the game, won.

The girls were off to a bad start. Carla bowled the ball and before it could reach halfway, it fell into the gutters. No points. Taylor hit down 3 pins, and so it went: A 5, another miss, 4, another 3. It was nearly the end of the round. The boys were doing great, nearly knocking down all the pins in every turn. The group all jumped up at once and the girls flicked their heads around to witness Josh walking away from his first strike.

Jasmine sighed. It was the last persons turn, her. She took a breath and picked up her bowling ball, a marbly green and white streaked one. She stuck her fingers into the holes and held the ball to her chest with the other hand. She looked straight down the lane where the 10 pins stood in a pyramid. She heard someone exhale beside her. It was Lief, holding a bright blue bowling ball.

He noticed her and smiled. Then he stepped forwards and flung the ball down the aisle. It smashed the tip of the pyramid and an explosion of white pins flew into the air. Lief dusted his hands off and watched as the small screen above their heads flashed in bright red writing 'STRIKE!'

Lief, instead of taking his seat again, stood there with his arms crossed. Jasmine tilted her head like, what's-your-problem but he gestured for her to continue.

Right, she thought, she can do this. Well, for starters, she had to do this, she wasn't going to let Lief beat her at anything! But she had never bowled before. She ran through her mind Lief's actions when he got the strike. He stood back, swung his arm, his left leg sweeping behind his right foot, then when his arm reached about knee height, he bent his knees and let go. Simple? Right?

Ok, she thought, here goes nothing, just aim for that first pin.

She swung her arm and let go of the ball.

Jasmine watched as it sped towards the front pin, faster than Lief's had. It smashed the pyramid, and every single pin fell down. She gleamed then turned towards Lief. "Ha!"

"Beginners Luck," he muttered.

Jasmine began walking back towards her seat when Lucy pushed her back, "Jasmine! You got a strike, that means you get another go!"

Oh, she thought, so that's how it works. She turned back to the lane. Lief was waiting for his ball to come back for the second time. She turned her gaze towards the end of his lane. It was empty. Another perfect strike! She mentally screamed. What? How?

She picked up her ball, then stomped over towards the black line that indicated where you had to stand.

I'll just have to get another strike then, she said in her mind determinedly. And she did, miraculously. Jasmine could almost feel the joy bubbling up her body.

It was Lief's turn, he swung his hand back, then let go of the ball. Jasmine gaped. Another. Perfect. Strike.

This was insane, she thought as she grabbed her ball again.

She turned towards the two groups, Lief's friends and Jasmine's soccer team. Their eyes were all on them, watching the two with astonishment.

And this is how it went on, for 5 rounds. Perfect strikes each time, perfection fuelled by what could only be years of resentment. No one else had had a go since her first turn. Lief and Jasmine were so fuelled with anger that they didn't even notice their friends anymore. Somewhere along the lines, Jasmine had beaten the junior girls all time record and Lief, the boys. Had they cared though? No.

It came to the last round, Lief went first, "Ready to loose!"

Jasmine growled, "Oh get over yourself!" She replied, but she was getting worried, her palms were sweaty and her arm was beginning to hurt. What if she stuffed up this one? After all this effort am I just going to mess it up? Jasmine noticed Lief was about to say something.

"Are you saying you're scared?" Lief stepped closer, holding the bowling ball under his arm.

"What? Never! You're the one who should be scared!" She said stepping towards him, grasping the ball on either side with her hands.

"Get over yourself!" Lief mimicked in a high-pitched voice.

"I DON'T sound like that."

"That's how you sound to me!"

Face to face now they began arguing, spitting insults rapidly. Their friends couldn't keep up with what they were saying. Occasionally there'd be an "ooh, that gotta hurt" or "burn!" but most of the time they just sat back, watching.

If her friends were trying to tell her so stop, Jasmine couldn't hear them.

"YOUR SUCH A JERK!" she yelled.

"YEAH, WELL YOU'RE A STUCK UP SNOB!"

"TAKE THAT BACK!"

"MAKE ME-OOOWWWWWW!"

Jasmine's bowling ball slipped out of her slippery hands and landed with a 'plonk' on Lief's foot. She squeezed her lips together and looked up at Lief's face. He winced, "OOOWWW?"

Jasmine scurried over to the ball that was now rolling away and scooped it up back into her hands.

"Lief, I'm so sorry!" she said, 'not really' She added in her mind. It was 100% an accident, but she was glad it happened. Completely and utterly glad.

"What's you problem?" Lief said as he hobbled over to the nearest seat. He put his foot up and touched it; he winced again but didn't cry.

"You!" she spat, then walked over towards her friends. Lara came back from where ever she had been, "common girlies! Foods here!"

The girls forgot all about what had happened earlier and ran back into the party room, chattering and laughing. Jasmine followed after them, just as she was about to enter the door she looked back and saw Lief tending to his foot. She felt a slight twinge of guiltiness but then shook her head. No! she thought, he deserved it. No one messes with Jasmine Grace…

She smiled at that memory and then entered her house. Maybe she was in the mood for a party after all.

Stacie hugged a pillow and landed on the couch next to Jasmine with an ooff. Jasmine laughed and threw a cushion at her. She faked a scowl and then bursted into a giggle fit. Jasmine had gotten back into her sleepover mood.

Stacey's face turned serious, "so…"

Jasmine raised an eyebrow, "so…?"

"There's a party-,"

Jasmine groaned.

"Jasmine! Come on," Stacie threw her hands down at the pillow making a sudden slapping sound. Jasmine jumped.

"You're not getting out of this one. Let me say it clearly. You. Are. Going."

Jasmine flopped onto her back and stared up at the ceiling, "But Stace, I hate going to girl/boy parties. It's just stupid."

Stacey's face softened a little bit, "you won't know till you try?"

Jasmine remained silent.

"Come on," Stacey put on her best puppy dog face, "pllleasseeeeee..."

She sighed.

"fine!"

"Yes!" Stacey jumped up onto her feet, punching the air.

"Truth or dare!"

Jasmine was suddenly beginning to realize her reasons for not playing this game. Ten girls stared at her wide-eyed from a make-shift circle created upon sleeping bags, popcorn and disney DVD cases.

"Truth?" she said uncertainly.

The girls glanced at each other, a kind of code Jasmine didn't know or like.

Gabby squealed, "ok, ok," she put her palms together and breathed. "ok… tell us about…Lief!"

The girls nodding faces got closer towards Jasmine's.

'What's to tell?"

The girls had confused expressions on their faces, "well, you know, that you guys l-,"

"-oathe each other! Oh yeah," Jasmine said in her time-for-some-Lief-bashing voice, "but that's old news! Come on guys. I don't think you're playing this game properly."

The girls' mouths were gaping, but Jasmine began speaking again.

"Now come on, do I get to spin the bottle now! I do? Ok… here it goes- OOOOH, it looks like Sally's up next!"

"um, ok…" Sally said with a wide eyed expression.

"Truth or dare!" Jasmine said excitedly.

Zozo180

haha, thanks (: yeah, Lief and Jasmine will refer alot to things that happened in the past so hoepfully you'll enjoy that. thats why im doing this whole back story thing, its not really up to the real story yet XD thanks for reviewing!

JasmineHoran

haha, awww, another review! Your awesome PM buddy (:

Guest

I present to you, new chapter! (just scroll up) XD

thanks for the review!

Guest1

aww thanks, yes, people hating each other at the beginning of their relationships is my life source, literally! haha, i eat that stuff up XD

ANd i will keep it up! for you guys! thanks for reviewing!

right, thats it, have a great day my dear dear dear readers (: