Hey guys!! I'm sososooo sorry I haven't updated for awhile!! Just btw this chapters kinda plain, but the next couple chapters are gonna be really good (at least I hope) and this is just kinda like 'introducing' what's gonna happen.

August had flown by. It was now August 31, the day before school started. Lilly, Megan, Sarah, Allie and Caitlin were at Lilly's house out in one of the fields watching the sunset. They started this 'tradition' before fourth grade just for fun, but it was something that stuck and now they do it every year.

"Ugh, I can't believe school starts tomorrow!! I swear, summer keeps getting shorter every year!" Allie whined. Everyone laughed but agreed.

"Oh my gosh," Megan started as she sat up, "k, goals for junior year." Another one of their 'traditions'. Everyone always made up a goal for the school year. Whoever reached their goal always received $5 from everyone else. They knew it was kind of strange, but it was just something they couldn't stop.

"Hmm. This year I am…. Oh! This year, I'm not gonna fail pre-cal!" said Sarah. "K, next is…. Caitlin!"

"Ugh, fine!" Caitlin groaned as she sat up. "I'm going to… loose 15 pounds by February."

"Caitlin!"

"You are so not fat!"

"Oh my gosh, shut up!"

"Why?" Caitlin questioned everyone. "It's not like I'm goin on a crash diet. And I said after the holidays, so I'll have already gained about 7 pounds, so technically, I'm only loosing 8. Happy? Lilly!"

"Ummm, hmm, this year I'm finally gonna do the video for TechEd." TechEd was a computer/basically-everything-digital class that everyone always signed up for for that exact reason (no, it's not a geek class!). Every year a music video is always one of the assigned projects. Everyone is put into groups, and they have to make a video for a song of an artist they are assigned. Every year, Lilly is chosen to be one of the singers. She has an amazing voice and is probably the best singer at the school. But every year, she always drops out of the video.

"K, now it's Allie's turn!"

"Hmm, ok. I'm gonna get a boyfriend and he's gonna last at least, hmm, 3 months." It's not that Allie had never had a boyfriend. Actually, the exact opposite. She was the type of girl who had a new boyfriend every week. She has a serious problem with commitment.

"And Megan!"

"Alrighty-"

"You're gonna stop saying alrighty?"

"No."

"Why?!"

"Cause it's coolio!" Megan always made up her own words. But people don't think she's retarded, actually, you hear a lot of people saying her words at school. It's pretty funny. "I am going to… finally get a Mustang this year!" A Mustang was Megan's dream car. She's been saving up for it since forever; she hasn't even bought a car yet and she's been driving for a couple months. Bus she was finally coming close to having enough money to get one.

I'm only up when you're not down
Don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground

"Hey" Allie answered her phone. "Now?... Really, what time is it?... Ok, fine… K, bye." She stood up, "Peoples, I gotta go. Sarah, you need a ride?"

"Ya." They all hugged and Caitlin and Megan left too.

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Oliver was with his friends up at Spy Cliff. This place was named 'Spy Cliff' because it was a spot where you could see the whole town, but no matter where you were in town you couldn't see the lookout. It wasn't a tradition with Oliver and his friends to come here, this was just like a one-time thing. Jamie was sitting with Oliver in the bed of his truck, along with Nick, Todd, and this girl Tory. Jamie was just flirting with Oliver, who wasn't flirting back but didn't want to be rude either. He kept looking at his friends with pleading eyes but they just shook their heads. After a while Jamie had to go home and Tory went to go talk to some of her other friends.

"Why the hell didn't you help me?" Oliver sighed and shook his head.

"Dude, look, we know you're 'in love' with Lilly and all, but seriously just keep your options open." Todd said.

"What if I don't want to?" Oliver snapped back.

"Oliver, look, we know what you're saying now. But seriously dude, we know you're not gonna be able to take all that crap you're gonna get at school. Just think about that." Todd and Nick got off his truck and went home along with everyone else. Oliver didn't leave immediately though. He just sat there for a while thinking about what his friends had been saying.

K, Lilly's hot and all, but I keep forgetting she's a farm girl. Not only is she a farm girl, she was your target last year. What's everyone gonna think when you show up tomorrow not bugging the crap out of Lilly anymore? And Jamie's really hot, and I already know she's in love with me. Heck I could get any girl I wanted this year. But how would I face Lilly? I mean we have like 4 classes together this year, it's not like I can completely avoid her. I really don't even wanna avoid her! I'm fine with the way my life is right now, why does school have to fucking change everything?! And I gotta take her to school for a while too, so she's gonna notice if something's different about me. And why the hell am I still sitting here by myself?!

Oliver got in his truck and went home, the fight still going on in his mind.

Lilly's POV

I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door and light a cigarette

"Shut up!" I rolled over and started hitting my nightstand, trying to get the damn alarm to shut up. 6:30. Don't think that I should be used to getting up earlier, its never happened. I finally punched something that I think was my alarm. I heard a weird cracking sound, I think I broke it, but at least it shut up. About 5 minutes later I decided I should probably get up. I rolled out of bed and brushed my hair before going downstairs. Mom and dad are already at work, and I don't usually bother with Blake in the morning, so I just got a bowl of cereal and turned on the TV and ate by myself.

"Ugh," I groaned, flipping through channels, "why are the only things on TV in the morning the news and little kid shows? Seriously, what kid gets up at 6:30 just to watch The Wiggles??!" I finally found MTV, Next was on. Not one of my favorite shows, but whatever.

"Damn, she's hot" I heard a male voice behind me say. But I knew my dad wasn't home, and the voice was too deep to be Blake. I screamed and turned to see Oliver standing there giving me a weird, confused look. I guess I don't recognize his voice at 6:45 in the morning.

"Ass!" I threw the remote at him. "How'd you get in here?!"

He shrugged and sat down. "Door was unlocked. I opened it and walked in." he said like it was the most normal thing to do.

"Why are you here so early?"

"Accidentally set my alarm an hour early." His eyes skimmed over my body, actually a few times. I looked down and was reminded that I was still wearing my pajamas: a small white cami and green really short shorts. I crossed my arms across my chest, suddenly feeling self-conscious, but then thought about how pointless it was considering Oliver had seen me in much less. Isn't it weird how you don't mind people seeing you in a bathing suit (well, sometimes), but then when they see you in revealing clothes it seems much worse?

"So, wanna get me some food?" I looked at Oliver and raised my eyebrows. He's been coming here almost every day, all summer, and he always just goes and steals stuff out of the fridge. Since when does he start asking?

"Riiigght" I guess he read my mind again. He came and sat next to me on the couch, eating a piece of cold pizza, ew.

"How can you eat pizza this early in the morning?"

"Like this" he said and took a bite. Haha, donut. I just laughed,

"I'll be back" I walked into the kitchen to put my bowl away then went upstairs, feeling Oliver's eyes on me the whole time. Perv. I went to my closet and just stood there looking for about 10 minutes, trying to decide what to wear. I finally decided on Abercrombie navy and white patchwork shorts, a black Hollister polo, and white American Eagle flip flops (pics in pro). I put on makeup and my new Fantasy perfume, a lot of it, brushed my hair again (which is naturally straight, thank goodness, cause I hate straightening my hair, it takes to long), grabbed my purse and backpack, and finally went back downstairs.

"What the heck took you so long?"

"What do you mean? I was only gone like 50 minutes, that's a new record!" I sat down in Oliver's lap, who was still on the couch glued to the TV. I looked at he was watching; Next, lesbian Next. Ohhh. Why do guys think that's so hot?

"Did Blake leave yet?"

"Yup, bout 10 minutes ago!" he poked me in the side. I squealed,

"Sorry! Well we still have like 10 minutes before we have to leave!"

"And what do you want to do in those 10 minutes?" I turned to see him giving me a very mischievous look. And the old Oliver's back. I'm happy, cause he was just acting kinda strange earlier this morning. I leaned in and we started making out. But when he started running his hands through my hair I came back to my senses and pulled away.

"Hey!"

"Hey nothing! I don't want you messing up my hair!"

"Your hair's down."

"Yeah but you'd still mess it up. We gotta leave anyway." I gave him a quick peck before getting up, grabbing my stuff, and went out to Oliver's truck with him following. We left and my perfume quickly spread through the car.

"Geeze Lils, got enough perfume on?" Oliver said smirking. I knew he was joking though cause Fantasy's his favorite, he told me the other night in the loft when I was wearing it. And I've also learned it makes him pretty whipped. Just a little advantage I have over him. We stopped at a red light,

"So," he looked over at me and grabbed my hand, "nervous?"

I sighed, "I guess a bit." I lied. I'm nervous as hell right now. "You?" He just shook his head. "Oh yeah, how's football goin'?"

"Pretty good. Coach has been pretty hard this year, but it's not too bad." Oliver finally made starting QB for the varsity team this year, I'm so happy for him. "How's swimming and lacrosse?"

I sighed, "I think I'm gonna quit lacrosse."

"Are you kidding me?! Why?"

"It just reminds me of Ryan too much. But swimming's good. I have like A times (really good times) in all my events this year. Oh yeah, did your parents tell you bout their trip next weekend?"

"And that we're gonna be staying together?" he smirked as he said this. Our parents are taking some random trip to New York City next weekend. Not wanting us kids to be alone, kinda, Oliver and Katie are staying over at our house for the five days.

We pulled into the school parking lot and I started freaking out. I'm dating Oliver, a city kid, the most popular and hottest guy at school. What's everyone else gonna think? Sure, they saw us together at my party, but school? This day's not gonna go by easily, I can tell. But I could always be wrong….

I got out of Oliver's car and he immediately walked over to me and wrapped his arm around my waist, practically slamming me against his side. It kinda hurt, but at the same time, I loved it because I knew he was just being protective. I also know the extra force was cause of my perfume. Ha. We walked into the school and practically everyone's eyes were on us. A couple of his friends came over and they started talking, while Oliver was still pinning me to his side. And then to my relief, Allie came over to me.

"Oh my gosh, you're late! We have history first, and it's upstairs at the other end!! Why are you late anyway, you're never late!"

"Yeah, but Oliver brought me this morn-"

"Picked you up late?"

"No, actually he came like an hour early."

"Oooh, I get it."

"Shut up!" I laughed and slapped her shoulder. "We didn't do anything!"

"Then why's your hair messed up?" she asked as she fixed the couple bumps on the top of my head.

"Told you you'd mess it up!" I hissed at Oliver, whose friends had left and was now just listening to our conversation. We locked eyes for a minute, then the warning bell rang.

"Shit! Lets go!" Allie said before grabbing my arm and dragging me away. But Oliver quickly grabbed my wrist and pulled me into a quick kiss.

"I love you." I whispered as I pulled away. It's not something I would usually say at school, but right now I just needed that extra assurance that I could trust him. He smirked,

"Love you, too." And with that Allie started dragging me to history once again. I sighed and looked back at Oliver, worried because I knew I wouldn't see him again until third period. That means two classes without him there to protect me. Shit, when did I become so vulnerable? I wasn't like this last year! Then again, last year I always tried to avoid Oliver. Now I can't even stand being away from him for two classes! Ugh, screw love!!