It was Friday. I didn't feel like showering this morning. I showered last night, so I slept an extra hour. Bad idea.

I guess I pressed snooze one too many times, my alarm didn't go off until 6:30 and I had to be at the bus by 6:40.

'Shit.'

I threw my covers off and raced to my bathroom to get ready.

'I really need my car back.'

More then ten minutes later, I ran out of the house in dark blue jeans shorts and a Yankees baseball tee. I ran to the bus stop while pulling my hair into a ponytail, half a granola bar in my mouth. When I got to the bus stop, I saw the bus pulling from the stop before mine and start driving towards us. Nick was standing next to CJ and Ethan, smiling and shaking his head at me.

'Why is he at my stop? He normally gets on before me…'

"Wow Miles, way to be early." Ethan said. I turned towards him and CJ and mumbled something into the granola bar in my mouth. Ethan reached over and took it out of my mouth as I fixed my hair.

"Kept pressing snooze…too tired…ten minutes too get ready." They laughed at me as I pulled my ponytail holder tight and took my breakfast back from Ethan.

When I got on the bus, Nick, CJ, and Ethan sat down in their normal seats and Drew was sitting in my "normal" morning seat. In the morning I sat in front of Sean and in the afternoon I sat across from him. I bit my lip and sat across from Drew.

"Hey Miley!" Drew smiled at me. I smiled back. I haven't seen him in forever.

"Hey Drew! Long time, no see!" I moved to the edge of my seat. He turned around to face me completely.

"I know! It's funny because you live right behind me!" I laughed and nodded.

"You know, you're sitting in my seat." He looked down at the seat and than back at me.

"I sat here all last year, nice try." He smirked and I laughed. It wasn't one hundred percent true. I started driving in the middle of the year, so he started sitting in my seat. Before that, he sat in the front.

"Well, I claimed it at the beginning of LAST year and let you have it when I started driving!" He laughed and shook his head. I glanced at the seat behind him, where Nick sat. He was looking at me and when our eyes locked, he turned and looked out the window.

I put my Beats on my head and started reading through my Mythology notes.

Once the bus pulled up to school, I stood up and waited for my turn to get out of my seat. Nick moved from his seat to the aisle and let me go.

I hopped off the bus, Nick, CJ, and Ethan behind me and we watched the bus start moving towards the community center down the street. I crossed the street and started walking towards the school, all three boys in tow behind me. I saw Beth walk out and walked up to her. She ran up and hugged me.

"Hey, shouldn't you be at NYU?" She nodded.

"I'm heading there now. I'm actually gonna be late for anatomy." I laughed.

"Well, I'll see you after sixth period!" She smiled and walked to her car. I noticed CJ, Ethan, and Nick about to walk past me; Nick wasn't participating in their conversation, he was watching me. When he saw me look over, he looked away. I walked up to them and moved in between Nick and Ethan. Nick held the door for me as we walked in. I smiled as a thank you and he smiled back.

Ethan and I branched off from CJ and Nick, walking towards his first class and my locker.

"So, talk to Connor lately?" I laughed.

"No, apparently he has a new girlfriend." Ethan laughed, harshly.

"Yeah, his right hand." I chuckled as we stopped at my locker. I spun the combination and threw the door open.

"Remember when he stole my Call of Duty collection? And then lied about it?" I nodded. Ethan and Connor were best friends until he stole his video games and lied to everyone about it. We were dating at the time, Connor admitted it too me, and knowing Ethan longer six years longer than Connor, I told him.

"Yeah and your mom asked me too come with her to get them back." We both laughed.

"Yeah, my mom loves you." I smiled and tossed Ethan some gum before shutting my locker.

"I think she wanted to me to go with her because she knew Connor would give me the games." Ethan nodded as we started walking towards his class.

"That's because he will always answer to his heart, you." I rolled my eyes and laughed.

'I wish I was Nick's heart…I mean…what? No."

"I'm not Connors heart." Ethan, being 6'2 and me being 5'7, looked down at me with his little "know-it-all" smirk.

"Mhmmmm." I laughed and shoved him.

We walked up to his class and said bye as I continued to the science wing. When I got my classroom, my teacher asked me to bring something to the office. I set my bag down and walked back out the way I came. I passed Connor, but him also being embarrassed to know me, he ignored me. No big deal. To be honest, if I was shallow like him, I'd be embarrassed to know him too but I'm not the kind of person. I actually don't care what people think of the people I hang out with. Crazy, right?

"Miley? You've been in here like two days, do you want to take the test?" I thought for a second, everyone in the class looking at me.

'If I say yes, I look like a know-it-all. If I say no, I look like a dumbass.'

"Yeah." I heard my eighth grade bully, whom I haven't talked to in two years, snicker behind me. I rolled my eyes as my teacher gave me test.

Twenty minutes later, I turned my test in to my teacher.

"How'd you do, Ms. Stewart?" I shrugged.

"Probably failed, more or less." My teacher laughed.

"Good luck." I smiled and walked back to my desk. I put my headphones on and started doing the Algebra homework I was supposed to do last night.

As soon as the bell rang, I jumped from my desk and ran out to my locker. That class dragged on for hours.

I got my Sociology stuff out of my locker and walked to my room.

Once Sociology was over, I walked back to my locker to switch my books and headed off to the Commons.

"Miley!" I felt someone pull my Beats around my neck and turned around.

"Oh, hey Joe." I looked past Joe and saw Nick staring at us from their table.

"I've been calling your name and you've been ignoring me." I smiled sadly.

"Music up loud, sorry." He nodded.

"Where do we go for theater class?"

"Um…auditorium." He nodded.

"Thanks." I nodded and put my headphones back on, walking to my table.

After lunch was over, Nikki and I jogged to catch up with her crush and accidently ended up walking next to Nick and Joe.

"Hey Miley."

"Hey Joe." Nick looked at me but, as expected, didn't say anything. Still, I smiled at him.

"There he is!" Nikki yelled as she grabbed my wrist and we sped up to get behind him. I laughed.

I climbed onto my bus after school and walked to the back. I then slipped on some water on the ground and fell into my seat. Nick looked at me from his seat across from me.

"Nice." I flipped him off and the noticed white Styrofoam in his seat.

"Why?" I pointed to the Styrofoam.

"I'm gonna shoot it with my airsoft gun." I looked at him and shook my head. He just looked away.

"Someone's cranky." He smiled at me.

"Am not." I raised my eyebrows.

"Uh huh." He put his hand on my knee.

"I'm not." I froze. The only reason he was doing this was because no one was on the bus yet except for some freshmen sitting in the front. He removed his hand when Ethan got on.

"Really Miley? Leave me with the wet seat?" I looked over my seat.

"It's wet?"

"Yes." Nick and Ethan said. I laughed.

"Sorry, kid." He glared at me, then smiled and sat in the seat in front of Nick, instead of the seat in front of me.

A few minutes later, the bus pulled out of the schools parking lot and onto the highway towards our neighborhood.

"So, how'd you do on the test?" I looked at Nick and shrugged.

"Probably failed." His face showed legitimate concern that, like normal, disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"The only reason you failed is because you thought you were going to so you did." I raised my eyebrows.

"The reason I failed is because my mom came home drunk last night and wouldn't leave me alone." True story. My mom came home and made me go to Burger King with her and when we got there I made her pull over so I could drive. She could barely operate her phone. Nick laughed.

"What did you get?"

"A ninety-two." I looked at him, shocked.

"How do you know exactly what you got?"

"I went back to her during study hall and asked."

"Why didn't you come over yesterday?" His head snapped towards me, like he wasn't expecting that.

"Chores." I nodded.

"Can I come over today?" He asked. I smiled.

"My mom stayed home from work, but she's leaving at six." He frowned.

"I'm going to my friends house at 4:30." I frowned. He pushed himself up with his foot, but it slipped on water, most likely tracked in from the middle schoolers, and accidently kicked me.

"OW!"

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry." I faked anger.

"Not okay," His looked at me confused; "You're officially banned from my house." He smirked.

"Like you could actually follow that rule." I smirked.

"Wanna bet?" His eyes widened again.

"No." I laughed as the bus pulled to his stop.

"Bye." I smiled and watched him walk of the bus.