Hey guys! Thank you to all who reviewed! ^.^ So sorry it took so long to update, but those teachers and their assignments! Can't stop them when they're on a roll (unless you want detention, of course.) By the way, if you guys want a good romance/drama, then visit my good friend Rainelle Rose (also known as Renate)'s page. She has a great story going called The Mist. Here's her url: .net/u/2160826/

Before I knew it, my last 2 days of freedom were gone. No more riding all day and not having to worry about homework, no more spending hours practicing my latest skateboard tricks. These were some of the many thoughts running through my head as I walked down the hallway on the first day of school. That and Shane.

I walk past Tess and her preppy-posse, wondering how they can breathe through all of the layers they were wearing. I mean, seriously?

I'm a sophomore this year, so my homeroom is on the 2nd floor. As I walked up the stairs I spotted Caitlyn, and we chatted on our way up to our homeroom. We had Mr. Martinez this year, and I'd heard he was kind of tough.

Luckily, he gave me a seat next to Caitlyn. Unluckily, at the desk on the other side of mine sat no other than Shane Grey. And guess how our lockers are assigned? Yeah.

So after I finished putting books and stuff into my locker, I started hanging up some pictures. Some were of Gus, of course. There was one from the other night at the party of me, Caitlyn, and Sierra.

Shane leaned over and took a look in my locker. "So I heard that a person's locker says a lot about their character." He informed me.

I looked in his locker. Some magazine pictures of him and Connect 3, and a pile of messy papers and books.

"So, does that make you a self centered, sloppy, egotistical jerk?" I asked him "I'm just curious."

"Yeah, real funny." He started to say something, but I turned to Caitlyn and asked her if she rides English or Western (A/N: personally, I ride Western ^.^). We talked for a while before Mr. Martinez called us in.

"Shane was staring at you again you know." He was walking a few people ahead of us. He looked back at me and when he saw me looking at him he quickly turned forward again. I giggled. "I think he likes you." Caitlyn told me.

"Shane? No way. He's probably just plotting how he wants to show me up again, not that any of his plans have worked. Besides, why would he want me if he could have someone like Tess?" Speak of the devil and she shall stare. Apparently, she saw Shane looking back at me, and wasn't happy. "Although, it might be fun to watch her get jealous."

After school I grabbed my skateboard and started practicing my latest tricks. I was midway in a kick-flip when I heard someone call my name. Luckily I was right next to the grass, so at least I face planted in something soft. I picked myself up and turned to find Shane. He was snickering, of course. I glared at him.

"So what exactly do you want?" I asked, irritated.

"Well, actually, I told Jason and Nate about you and they think your cool… I know! I had no idea where that came from either! Well anyways, they want to meet you." He told me.

I raised my eyebrows at that.

"You told them about me?" I asked

He blushed and started to say something before he was interrupted by my mom calling me in from the doorway.

"Bring them with you to the stables on Saturday, 10:00. And, tell them that if they are overly competitive, like some other people that I know," I looked pointedly at him "then, they should beware."

He smiled at me, and I turned on my heels, picked up my skateboard, and headed to the garage to put it away.

I wondered why he had smiled at me. It wasn't like the smile he gave Tess at the party, noticeably fake. It looked, well, real. Could Caitlyn possibly be right?

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