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Thank you for all the reviews. I'm so glad you guys have liked my story so far. I want to apologize about updating so late. I need to get an updating schedule and stick with it. I'll try to get better at updating. Anyway here's the next chapter. Karen certainly is having an interesting day.

Chapter Eleven: Making Friends Everywhere

Karen's Point of View

I had resolved myself to having the best grade in the class and if that was low I was going to get even higher. Actually I was just going to shoot for nothing less than an A.

After class Embry decided to appoint himself as my new guide. He led me to my next class which was study hall. It was a pretty quick walk and he saw one of the other dark cropped hair guys that he started to talk to. So, I just said a quick goodbye and slipped into my classroom. It wasn't that Embry wasn't nice; because he was really nice it was just that I felt like he had some secret that he was holding over me. The problem was I had no idea what it could even be. I had just met him. And I really just wanted some quiet to try to take a breath.

I walked over to the teacher and handed her my paper. She nodded her head tiredly, directed me to a seat, and went back to a crossword puzzle she had been doing before I had interrupted her. I took a seat and started going through some of my homework getting it in order. Just as the bell rang more guys with cropped hair came in. I recognized Quil from the Supermarket and one of the other guys was the guy who had been talking with Embry outside the classroom. There was one more guy along with a girl whose back was to me.

Quil spotted me and a grin came over his face as he nudged the other guy and made his way over to me. I put a smile on my face but inwardly groaned. These guys are everywhere. I thought to myself.

"Hey Karen, how are you liking your first day of school?" he asked politely. I shrugged my shoulders and widened my grin.

"Not too bad. Most of my teachers are pretty good except my History teacher." I said pulling a face at the mention of Mr. Dreary. Quil laughed at that.

"Yeah Embry told us about your new fan," he said. Wow news gets around fast. "Mr. Dreary, that's a good one." Quil said laughing. I froze my smile still on my face. How did he know…Could Embry possible have heard me? No, I was way too quiet. There is no possible way he could have heard me. Well then how does Quil know what I had said? I squashed my internal debate telling myself I would just analyze it later.

"Yeah," I answered. "Should be a fun class." I rolled my eyes and Quil just shook his head as he laughed.

"Jake's right you do have some fire in you." Quil laughed.

I raised my eyebrow in confusion, "Who's Jake?"

Quil raised his eyebrows before he realized something. "Oh, yeah you didn't meet him officially. Jake is in your Economics class." That explains it. Jake was the guy who was staring at me with the short cropped hair. Wait so they were all talking about me. A shiver of unease ran down my spine. I didn't like it when people talked about me. I didn't like attention in general, which is how I knew this day was going to be stressful.

"Oh yeah, I think I know who you're talking about," I answered Quil keeping the conversation going.

Just then the other boy came up next to Quil. "I'm Brady." He said holding out his hand. I grasped it once again realizing that they all had really warm body temperatures.

"Karen"

"Oh, I know who you are," Brady said with the same smile Embry had when he said those same exact words to me. It took a lot of willpower not to let my eyebrows drop suspiciously.

"I'm Collin," another hand entered my vision. I followed the tan arm up to the face of the other boy with short cropped hair. Again I shook his hand and wondered at the high body temperature. Maybe they were all related and had naturally higher body temperatures. But they all feel fever warm. They couldn't all be sick could they? Another time Karen. Focus.

"Well, I'd say my name but it seems you all know it already," I commented lightly. They all laughed.

"Seth's told us about you," Brady said with that same smile that said he knew something I didn't. Maybe Seth likes me and that's what they're all getting at. But we just met so it's unlikely. My thoughts battled each other behind the scenes.

A snort came from behind the guys from the girl who had walked in with them. She was a beautiful girl with her ebony hair cut short, her tan skin flawless, and brown eyes. She was the girl from my vision. I just stared at her in shock for a second before I masked my emotion. She gave me a funny look before turning back to her books.

She's the girl from that vision thing. How the heck did I see her in that if I had never met her before? Maybe it's not her it only looks like her. No it's definitely her. The only thing different is that in the vision her eyes were full of happiness and love. Right now they're filled with anger and did I see pain? I mentally shook my head of the thoughts filing them away for later.

I saw Quil shake his head as he looked at the girl with a cross between annoyance and sympathy flash across his face. "That's Leah. She's Seth's sister," Quil informed me. I think my eyebrows rose in shock. Leah was so angry and unhappy where Seth was so full of energy and eternally happy, like the energizer bunny but in a good way.

Just then the teacher stood up telling everyone to take their seats before she went back to her desk and became engrossed in her word search once again. Brady and Collin took the two seats in front of me, Quil took the seat closest to me in the column to the left of mine, and Leah stayed in her seat in the column on the other side of me two rows up. The empty seat next to mine was filled by a guy who came sauntering into class late. He ignored the teacher completely and sat into the chair acting like he owned the whole school. He had the dark coloring like the rest of the students and his dark hair was cut and obviously styled. He had a strong jaw, a clear complexion, and you could see he was decently toned. I bet most girls fall at his feet. I mentally rolled my eyes. And I bet he knows he's handsome too. I'll admit he's cute, but he's nothing like Seth. Where did that thought come from? Seth is really hot you can't deny that. Stop it Karen! He's nice and you will not be some silly schoolgirl and fall for some boy on the first day you meet him. That stuff only works in books. I ignored the thoughts in my head and opened up my World History book. Mr. Dreary gave the class homework probably hoping to bury me before I even found my footing. Ha! He'll see I don't easily give up.

"Hey," A voice sounded to my right. I turned and saw the cocky boy giving me a smile I'm sure had put a spell over most of the female population. Karen you hardly even know the boy. You're judging him before you know him. Maybe he's not what you think. Just take a deep breath and give him a chance. My conscience inserted. I took a breath and gave him a polite smile.

"So you're the new girl." He said in a voice dripping with honey. "My name's Luke." He said his name as if I should start gushing about how awesome it was. Be nice Karen. You're letting your feelings cloud your logical thinking. Open mind, Karen, open mind.

"Karen," I introduced myself.

"So Karen, maybe we could get to know each other a little better. Say…my car tonight, babe?" He said seductively as his hand reached over to rub my thigh. Oh hell no. I heard a chair lightly scrape back but I didn't look over.

I grabbed the offending hand and bent it backwards. Luke hissed in pain as he tried to pull away but I had a pretty good hold on him. His handsome face was full of pain and his eyes full of confusion like no girl had ever turned down his advances. Thinking about it I don't think any girl actually had. That thought made me bend his hand back harder. He whimpered.

In a menacing voice I addressed him, "Sorry babe," I put as much scorn and annoyance as I could into that word, "I'm not interested. Now there are two ways this could end: one, I can break your fingers, or two, I can kill you. Now really it's just a question of how much you're annoying me," I said sweetly. "If I could make a suggestion," I paused, "Don't ever touch me again." I said quietly in my menacing tone. "Are we going to have any further problems?" I asked pleasantly although my tone was like the pretty color masking the poisonous frog's deadly venom. Frantically, Luke shook his head silently begging me to release his fingers. With a tiny shove I let his fingers go.

He cradled his hand like a baby and looked at me with more than a hint of fear in his eyes. I just nonchalantly went back to my homework, although I did see him subtly move his desk farther away from me and sit on his chair so that he put as much distance as he could between us. I let a small smile slip onto my face. Well that was one problem I didn't have to worry about anymore.

I glanced up to see Brady and Collin looking at me with twin expressions of astonishment, both of their mouths open. I smiled and tapping the back of my hand under my chin I motioned for them to close their mouths. They did simultaneously and I gave them a wink. I looked over to see Quil trying to stifle his laugh but he did give me a wide smile before he turned back to his desk to continue his efforts. Then I looked over at Leah. I wasn't sure why but in the end I was glad I did. I caught Leah's eye and she gave me a small smirk and nodded her head at me before turning back around to face the front. It wasn't much, but from Leah I suspected it was the equivalent of a round of applause. I smiled before I went back to my history homework. Maybe today wasn't so bad after all.

So I hope you liked it. It was a bit of a longer chapter to make up for not updating in so long. Please review because they make me happy and are almost as good as getting free icecream...almost ;)