Shannon walked around the school, looking for Gavin. She hadn't seen him all day. It might have been a few months since she had caught him cheating on her, but she was finally ready to take him back. With out a doubt in her mind, it was just a mistake and he really cared about her.

"Have you seen Gavin anywhere?" she asked one of her best friends, Peyton.

"Can't say that I have. Why?" Shannon didn't answer. "You aren't taking him back are you?" Shannon nodded. "Shannon! You can't do that!"

"But why?"

"Once a cheater, always a cheater," Peyton said as they walked down the hall. "I don't see what you see in him anyway, he's an ass hole that only thinks with his-."

"Peyton."

"You know he does."

Shannon shook her head. "I know what I'm doing."

"No you don't."

"Shut up Peyton."

"Hey, I'm just watching out for you," Peyton replied. "I don't need you crying all over me again. That was really annoying." Shannon gave her a look. "I was kidding."


In biology, the students were separated into groups of four. In Shannon's group, there was Peyton, Elijah, Misty, and herself. Their job was to make up a planet with all the features and try to sell it to people. This projected seemed elementary, but Shannon was having some fun with her group. Let's just say, they were very creative.

"I think that emos should be put apart from the pimps," Peyton said.

"Why?" Elijah asked.

"Because we don't know if the emos will go crazy and slash the lions with their wrist slashing knives!"

"Ok, but only if Bob Saget gets his own crater."

"Deal."

"I hope this doesn't make us fail," Misty said.

"Yeah, you guys are weird," Shannon said. "I doubt Mrs. Brown will be happy with the pimps and hoes part."

"But you need pimps and hoes!" Peyton exclaimed.

"Yeah! The world would be incomplete with out them!" Elijah added.

"Precisely."

Shannon and Misty exchanged looks. Shannon broke into laughter. "If you guys say so."

"It's a good thing that creativeness is worth a lot of points," Misty stated as she read over the rubric. "We sure got enough of that."

Peyton and Elijah seemed to be getting very into the project, and seemed to be getting along pretty well. It was strange to Shannon, because she had never seen Peyton really talk to a guy this much before. She would usually shy away. But Peyton could easily get any guy she wanted. She had wavy strawberry blond hair with red streaks. Her eyes were an emerald green that sparkled in the light. She was a very pretty girl, but for some reason, Peyton never thought she never looked that good.

"So what colors should we color it?" Elijah asked.

"Pink!" Peyton and Shannon exclaimed together. The started laughing.

"Is this an inside joke or something?" Elijah asked.

"No," Shannon replied. "I don't know why we're laughing."

"Ok then. You guys are weird."

"Look who's talking," Misty said.

"You're just jelouse," Elijah answered rolling his eyes. Peyton laughed. She and Elijah exchanged smiles.


At lunch, Shannon had almost given up looking to Gavin. Everyone she had asked said they hadn't seen him, except one person. They said they say him in their math class. But Shannon's bad luck turned into good luck. She spotted him walking to the courtyard with his lunch tray. She had to wait awhile to catch up, since she was near the end of the line.

"There's Gavin!" Nina exclaimed.

"I know," Shannon said. "I saw him. What do you think I should say?"

"About what?"

Shannon pulled Nina's black and grey plaid newsboy cap over her face. "About us getting back together. We're you paying attention when I asked you where he was?"

"You know I never listen," Nina said fixing her hat. "Just say… I don't know. Listen to your heart."

"What kind of advise is that?"

"Hey, it worked for Pocahontas! Grandmother Willow gives great advice if you haven't notice," Nina exclaimed. They moved up in line.

"What ever."

"Listen to your heart, when he's calling for you."

"Don't sing that."

"You know I can't help it." They were finally up to the front. Both girls picked up a tray. "I always sing."

"I know and it's annoying."

"Psh, you're just jealous."

Shannon rolled her eyes and laughed. Nina and Shannon were walking out to the courtyard, when Nina was called over by a friend. She told Shannon that she would see her later and for her to tell her what happened.


Feeling nervous and a little betrayed that her friend left her; Shannon went to look for Gavin. She placed her tray next to some people she knew and told them she would be back in a second. After a minute of look, she found him. And too much of her despair, he was kissing another girl.

"Gavin!" Shannon screamed at him. Gavin broke his kiss with the red head girl and looked at Shannon.

"Oh, Shannon."

"You said you were going to wait!" Shannon exclaimed. She stomped up to him. "You said when I was ready we were going to get back together!"

"What is she talking about?" Rosalie, the girl Gavin was kissing, asked. "You told me you had no intention getting back with her."

"What?"

"Shannon, Rosalie," Gavin said, about to explain his actions.

"Just don't talk to me!" Shannon slapped Gavin with a loud smack. She was in near tears. "I never want you to come near me again!" Shannon took off back into the cafeteria.

"Same with me!" Rosalie slapped Gavin across the other cheek. "Lying scum," she muttered under her breath as she walked away.


Isadora walked to the elementary school playground where she had heard Shannon had gone. That is where she found the platinum blonde sitting by herself on the blue, red, and green merry go round. Isadora joined her. "Are you ok?" she asked.

Shannon sighed. "Do you know what it's like to have your heart smashed twice?"

"No," Isadora admitted. "I never really had a boy friend. Well, I did back in London, but it was nothing serous. It lasted for like a month." Shannon sighed again. "You can do better then him. Both him and his dad is a creep."

"His dad?"

Isadora went on to tell her about the meeting at the Chinese restaurant. "Ewe," Shannon said.

"Yeah."

They both remained quiet. "You know that Elijah kid," Shannon said.

"Yeah, what about him?"

"I don't know. He's in my science class and I always see you with him after school."

"We like to walk home together," Isadora explained. "We live kind of close to each other."

"So do you like him?"

Now it was Isadora's turn to sigh. "Why does everyone ask me that?"

"You're just friends?"

"Yeah, I guess."

"I wish I had friends to talk to."

"You have lots of friends."

"Not ones I can really talk to," Shannon said. "Autumn and Nicole are ok, but they're bitches. Nina is too ditsy to understand anything except boys and hats. Peyton and I are pretty close, but we never talk about life and how we feel on things."

"What about Aubrey?"

"All she cares about is boys."

Isadora smiled as she thought about Aubrey. It was true, she was boy crazy. It was the only thing that she would talk about. "I know how you feel," Isadora said. "All of my friends are in another country. I have to start all over again and make new friends."

"Where were you from again?"

"London."

"I thought so," Shannon said. "I could tell by your accent. It's cool." Both girls smiled.


Darren was sitting in his little office. He was a PE teacher for Lucky Elementary School. He sat alone in his room, looking over the kids' grades. "Maybe I should fail him, just for the heck of it," Darren joked to himself. He laughed at his joke out loud. "Man I need to get a life." While he went over grades, his mind began to drift back to his high school years…



"What was it that you wanted to talk about?" Ginger asked her boyfriend. It was their senior year and only weeks left till they graduated. Darren had asked her to come to the football field to tell her something very important.

"Look Ginger," he started off. "You know that we are graduating soon, and we probably won't be seeing very much of each other with college and all."

"Yeah? So?"

Darren took in a deep breath and carried on. "To put it bluntly, I think we should see other people."

Ginger stood there confused. "What?"

"It's over Ginger," Darren said. He turned around and walked away.

"So that's what you're going to do? Walk away and never look back. Well I'll tell you Darren, if you ever come back again, you better not be expecting me to be there!" Ginger yelled at him tearfully. But Darren never did look back. He hadn't thought about her till months later. But it was too late. Both he and Ginger were married. Everyday he asked himself why he was so stupid to let her go like that. To him, it was the biggest mistake of his life.




With Love

CT