I logged onto my computer as quickly as I could. After what felt like a thousand years it loaded. The moment the desktop came up a message box appeared.

FunkyinBerlin

Requests a video chat with LadyWildcat

I clicked the okay button and turned on my webcam. I saw Alex's room come into view and then Alex came in.

"Hello Nicole the rents are giving me a pain," Alex said.

"Well I can think of someone else who is giving me a pain," I said.

"Who is it Chad I bet its Chad," Alex said. Alex went to school with Chad, Troy and I before her dad got a better job in the Berlin branch of the company that he works for. Her mother however works from home.

"Actually it's both of them," I said.

"What Troy managed to get you mad," Alex said as if it was the most scandalous thing she's ever heard even though scandals are about as popular with Alex as total world destruction.

"Yes but I don't want to talk about it now but Chad is the one I was going to complain about," I replied. She rolled her eyes and looked back at me.

"I don't understand why you tolerate him. You could just do what I do and annoy him every chance you get," Alex replied. Alex and Chad never got along it was like they were born to hate each other.

"Well he's my cousin," I replied.

"So, I'm not that nice to my cousin," Alex replied.

"I'm just so mad at him. He had no right to get upset about me going to Oxford it's my decision and yet he makes me feel horrible about going where I want to go where I feel I have to go," I said.

"Chad's always been selfish I've said that anyway now moving on. What's going to be your major," Alex asked.

"I'm thinking the medical field," I said.

"Oh," Alex said.

"Well what's your major," I asked.

"Law, because I love to argue," Alex replied.

"Well you'll give them hell," I said.

"I should, anyway I gotta go my parents are about to have the biggest hissy fit I've ever witnessed," Alex said as she turned off her webcam and I followed shortly. I wanted so badly to talk to Troy, maybe I should talk to him. But then I remembered that if Chad was this mad then Troy might be the same. I just hope that everything will be okay.

Chad watched as his cousin walked upstairs before storming out. He jumped into his car and sped off for Troy's all the while thinking about Nicole's college choice. She never complained about them hanging out before why now. As he drove into Troy's driveway noticing Troy's car that he got last summer he hoped Troy wouldn't take Nicole's side. He knocked on the door with a passion until someone answered.

"Chad what are you doing here," Jack Bolton asked.

"Is Troy here," Chad asked.

"Yeah just got home a couple minutes ago," Mr. Bolton replied.

"Good," Chad said walking past Mr. Bolton and for Troy's bedroom. He just burst in and saw Troy throwing a basketball up in the air and catching it. Chad slammed the door to get his attention.

"Okay man I just want you to know I'm not Boy George and don't swing that way," Troy said.

"She's going to England," Chad said.

"What," Troy asked.

"She's going to England or was I not clear the first time," Chad shouted.

"Who's going to England," Troy asked trying to calm down his friend.

"Nicole," Chad said.

"What? Nicole's not going to England. Why would she go to England?" Troy asked now fully engrossed in the conversation.

"She's going to Oxford for college and the best part is that she's leaving right after graduation," Chad retorted.

"What," Troy shouted.

"Yeah she's meeting up with Alex in London after we graduate," Chad said.

"Alex? Alexandra Collins," Troy asked.

"Yes the Alex that has always hated us," Chad replied.

"Wow but why would she go to Oxford when we all planned to go to the University of Albuquerque," Troy asked.

"Well she said that we promised to be best friends and basically that we never hang out together actually she called herself a rug for us to walk on," Chad said.

"That's not true sure we rely on her for some things but she's not a rug," Troy replied.

"That's exactly what I was thinking," Chad said.

"But why would she just decide to go to Oxford," Troy asked.

"Do you think I know," Chad asked.

"Didn't you ask her," Troy said.

"Yes of course I did," Chas replied sarcastically.

"Well I guess we're not going to college together," Troy said sitting back on his bed trying to ignore the nagging feeling in his stomach.