A/N: And for some stupid reason, I started this chapter with, 'The class started whoohoo-ing'. Wow. I am ashamed. Anyways, here is where you'll meet Jason's love interest!

The class started jeering. Alex instantly backed away as fast as possible, causing her to fall onto the floor. The class started laughing this time. Nate looked at her cockily. He quickly sat on back in his seat straightforwardly, though his eyes still on Alex. Alex glared at Nate as she got up and sat back down.

"You are such a jerk!" Alex said, wanting to slap Nate.

He just smirked. "Don't act as if you didn't enjoy it." Alex was about to hurt Nate when the teacher walked in. Alex sighed angrily while Nate sighed in relief. He had a big smirk on his face for the next forty-five minutes or so.

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Alex walked into the cafeteria, avoiding Nate as much as she could. It was harder than she thought though. When Alex sat next to Heart, Nate slid in between them with his friends. Heart had the sudden urge to hurt Nate also.

"What the heck are you doing here?" Heart asked. Nate put his arm around Alex and squeezed her tightly. Alex couldn't get out of Nate's hug for she was too weak for his muscled arms.

"Well Alex over here couldn't keep her hands off of me. Or lips…" Nate said, laughing. Alex stood up, knowing that she couldn't handle it anymore. She kicked Nate in the balls furiously. Nate yelped in pain as Heart began laughing uncontrollably. Alex grabbed Heart's arm and took her away from the cafeteria. Once they were in the girls' bathroom, Alex started pacing and exploding.

"I hate Nate Gray so much! He is so conceited, a jerk, a perverted jerk, he's a pig, and…and…" Alex said. She couldn't find anymore words to express how she felt though. Heart was leaning on a stall, feeling sorry for her friend.

"I think he likes you." Heart said. Alex gave Heart an insane look.

"Nate doesn't develop feelings for girls. I doubt that he likes me as a friend. The nicest he's ever been to me was…probably freshman year when I first talked to him."

"What happened?"

"Well I heard Nate complaining about something about high school, so I decided to be nice and give him some advice. Then he started hitting on me. I just walked away. I turned around though and he was smiling at me, and he winked at me and…" Alex's voice trailed off, and she started blushing. She wasn't smiling, but she was definitely blushing.

Heart raised her eyebrows. "So do you like him?"

Alex scoffed. "Of course not. I will never like a guy like that. I mean I could, but Nate's too pervy and he's really mean to me."

Heart nodded her head and smiled. We could fix that. She thought.

xx

School ended and Heart was outside, waiting for Shane or Jason to pick her up. As usual, Nate already left with some girl in his car. Heart was sitting at the front steps when she saw Shane's car pull up. At the same time, Mitchie came out.

When Shane saw Mitchie, he instantly got out of his car to talk to her as familiarity hit him. Once Mitchie saw Shane though, she tripped over the stairs and fell on the ground. All of the papers she was carrying flew out of her hands. Heart ran to help her. She found four music and lyrics pieces of paper. The title was 'Don't Forget.'

"What's this?" Heart asked. Mitchie snatched the paper away.

"Nothing." she said, stuffing the paper neatly into her backpack.

Shane walked up to Mitchie and smiled. "Hey, Mitchie." Mitchie slowly moved her eyes to Shane. She looked at him for the longest time. She's still beautiful. Dark, but still beautiful. He thought.

"Um, uh, hi Shane." Mitchie practically whispered. She stood up and looked at the ground. Shane felt awkward and had no idea what to say, not having enough courage to even crack a joke.

"So how's it going?" Shane asked, trying to start a conversation. Mitchie dragged her feet back and forth on the cement.

"Nothing really," she murmured.

Shane nodded her head. "Well I gotta go. Nice seeing you again." He said to try to save him from any further humiliation. Mitchie didn't respond. She just simply nodded her head and walked away. Once Mitchie was out of earshot, Shane slapped his forehead and groaned.

"I am such an idiot." he said walking to his car.

Heart followed behind him. "You are but for many other reasons." Heart mumbled.

Shane glared at her. "I'm gonna pretend that I never heard that." he said. Heart rolled her eyes and sat in the passenger seat. Shane started the engine and started driving back to their house.

xx

At four o'clock, Jason was at South West High. He really didn't want to go, but he knew he had to. (After a long dispute over who was going to go, Jason sadly lost pathetically to Shane.) Jason walked into Addie's classroom. His first reaction when he saw Addie was dumbfounded. He couldn't stop staring at her long light brown hair or her crystal blue eyes.

Addie looked at Jason and smiled. "Hi, you must be Heart's guardian. Jason right?" she said cheerfully. Jason just nodded and smiled, like his voice was stripped away from him. "Alright then, have a seat. I'm Addie." Jason sat on the first desk he saw and looked at Addie whom was leaning on her desk right before him.

"So what did Heart do?" Jason asked.

"Well it's what she did and didn't do. Heart has a gifted mind, but as I read, she never made the honors because of her…destructive behavior."

"Heart's smart?" Jason asked, surprised.

Addie laughed. "Yes, she is. Anyways, in our music class yesterday and today, she didn't participate in anything. I'm wondering why. She couldn't be shy; I mean she was brave enough to, er, insult my shirt. I just don't understand why she doesn't contribute anything to this class."

"Well…I don't know." Jason said. "Honestly, I've never heard her play music or let alone listen to music. She doesn't know anything about rock or hip hop or other crap like that."

"Crap?"

"Oh, my bad. I mean other stuff like that." Jason said, smirking. Addie laughed again. They looked at each other for the longest time, saying nothing. Jason started tapping on the desk, looking down a bit shyly. "So, is that it? I mean, I guess you should just give her time. Her parents did pass away not to long ago."

"They did? That's terrible." Addie gasped.

"I know…" It was another silence.

Addie stood up and Jason did the same. "Well, it was nice meeting you Jason." she said, shaking his hand and smiling. Jason felt a little spark in his stomach, but ignored it. He returned the smile.

"Yeah, it was cool meeting you." He said, thinking about how that was probably the most awkward conversation he has ever held with anybody.

Jason drove home and found that Heart was the only person there, watching TV. Her backpack was sitting right next to her, half open. Jason folded his arms and walked up to his cousin.

"Shouldn't you be doing your homework?" he asked.

Heart groaned. She wondered if anybody has realized how much she hated that question. "I'm done." she said, annoyed.

Jason rolled his eyes and walked into the kitchen. "Hey, where's Shane or Nate?" he yelled from the other room.

"You think I would know?" Heart laughed.

Jason sighed. "They left you home alone?"

"Isn't the answer obvious?"

Jason held in a chuckle as he started ordering their food. "Hey if you're done with your homework, why aren't you out with your friends or something? I mean, it's just 4:30."

Heart shrugged and leaned on the couch with her hands behind her head. "Nah, my friend's a goody good. Plus my parents barely let me go out—actually they never let me go out unless they know the person I'm with and that there's parental guidance and stupid things like that."

Jason laughed. "Wow, Aunt Bailey and Uncle Rodger were pretty strict."

Heart hugged her knees and rested her head on them. She sighed and closed her eyes. "Yeah…" she said softly. Jason walked out of the kitchen, making sure he didn't make her cry. Heart's parents weren't mentioned ever since the day they were buried at the cemetery. Only one would wonder how she's feeling now, hearing her parents' name unexpectedly.

"Kid, you okay? Please don't start crying because I'm not good with little girls and tears."

Heart smiled and softly punched Jason. "That's it, I'm going out." she said walking up.

"You better be back by twelve." Jason instructed.

I won't be surprised if I'm back in two minutes. Heart thought. She put her shoes on and walked outside. Heart grabbed Nate's skateboard and started boarding around the neighborhood then to downtown, where Nate happened to be.

Heart saw him with a girl from a window in a restaurant. He had his hand on her leg, and she didn't look too comfortable. Nate looked like he was urging her to do something, but the girl just kept on shaking her head. Heart looked confusedly at them.

What the heck is he doing?

Nate was smirking at the girl and she wasn't making eye contact with him, causing the blood in Heart to boil as a wave of shame crashed over her. Right now, she wouldn't accept the fact that she was related to Nate Gray, a guy who did this to girls.

"Hey, cute girl," a voice said. Heart didn't respond first, her concentration on Nate and the poor girl he was trying to pressure. "Yo, girl with the skateboard." Heart turned and saw a sophomore boy walking towards her.

"Uh, hi?" Heart said.

The boy looked at her. "Were you spying on Nate Gray and his flavor of the day?" he asked.

"Of the day? I thought it's called flavor of the week."

The boy laughed. "Well for Nate, it's flavor of the day." Wow, he's worse than I thought. Heart thought miserably. "Well anyways, I'm Greg and I'm pretty sure that's my skateboard."

"What? No, this is my cousin's."

"Let me see that." Heart got off the skateboard and gave it to Greg. He turned it over and examined all the stickers and playboy pictures from the internet. "Yep, this is mine…but it got improvised. I guess Nate threw it on your cousin's lawn or something. Last year he stole it from me. Now my mom will start asking questions about the hot girls on this."

Heart laughed. "Well that doesn't sound surprising. I'm Heart."

"Yeah, I heard of you. You're the troubling making freshman."

Heart smirked. "You could put it that way."

Nate turned to the window and saw the sophomore he hated, Greg Burton, hitting on his little cousin. Knowing that that was much more important than what he was about to accomplish in the first place, Nate began to head towards the exit door. Before he walked outside, he turned to the girl he was with.

"I'll be right back." he said with a tone of danger stressed into his voice.

"Burton, what the hell are you doing with my little c—" Nate said but froze before he said a little too much. Greg looked at him weirdly. "My little skateboard. Yeah, what are you doing with that?"

"What the hell Nate, this is my skateboard that you stole."

"Whatever, just go find some other girl to harass. Just not this one." Nate said, without thinking. Greg raised an eyebrow while Heart looked at Nate, surprised and confused.

"Why? Is she your next one? I thought you don't do freshmen, Nate."

"No, she is not my next one! Jeez! Just leave Burton!" Nate demanded.

Greg rolled his eyes then looked at Heart, smiling. "I'll see you at school Heart." he winked then skateboarded away.

Heart smiled and felt butterflies erupt in her stomach. Nate nudged her, killing every butterfly there was. "You are not going out with that son of a…a…whatever just don't go out with him!" Nate stormed back inside of the restaurant with Heart having new feelings for a new guy.