Westchester, NY
LSAG
11:53 AM
Tuesday, September 9th

The bell rang. Kristen Gregory gathered her stuff as she was hit by paper balls by the Redneck Crew. She ignored it as she walked out.

Kristen started to walk to her next class, Chemistry. She hated this class because Dylan, Alicia, Massie and Claire had the same class. Dread.

"Watch out everyone! Don't let Kristen touch you!" Julie, one of the anerexic girls, yelled. The class, except for Dylan, laughed.

"At least I don't weigh 4 ounces and look like a 'effin toothpick. Newsflash, Julie: when your stick is skinner than a ruler, it's time to eat."

"Ooooooh!" The class erupted in immature manner. Julie rolled her eyes, scoffed and sat down. The same she always does when she gets offended. Kristen, with all her pride, sat down in the front row.

Mrs. Mianelli walked in. "Okay, class. Today we are going to learn about bases and acids. And on Friday, we'll do lab. I'm going to call our your groups today so we can get straight to Lab on Friday. Remember, there will only be 5 people per group. Group 1, Kayla Gomty, Daniela Piercemen, Julie Sasse..."

Mrs. Mianelli droned on as Kristen prayed to Gawd she wouldn't get paired up with the Pretty Committee or Dylan. Kristen doodled a butterfly in her composition notebook. She perked up when she heard her name.

"Group 3, Kristen Gregory, Claire Lyons, Massie Block, Hayley Way and Kati Fuyer." Kristen froze as she heard Massie groan in fustration and Claire scoff. Since when did Claire become a bitch?

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Claire slumped in her seat and scoffed as she heard her and her best friend's name be called out. Massie groaned.

"At least we're not stuck with both Kristen and Dylan," Claire said to Massie, shrugging slightly.

Massie pursed her lips. "Yeah, but we're still in the same group as Kuh-risten." She pulled off her Gucci aviators and stood up, tucking a strand of coffee-colored hair behind her ear. Claire sighed and stood up, adjusting the newsboy cap she'd stupidly decided to wear this morning. She followed Massie to the back where their group's lab table was. Kristen was already there, along with Kati. Hayley finally came and sat down, putting her faux Coach bag on the marble table.

"Class, these will be your groups. You will work together on an assignment today, together. Only because I want all of you to become aquainted. Understood?" The class nodded as she passed out a piece of paper on top of their Physical Science textbooks. "I don't want to see only one person doing all the work, okay?"

All the groups got to work. Except for Group 3. Massie was secretly texting, Claire was biting her nails, Hayley was putting on Walmart gloss, Kati was scratching her head & Kristen was overlooking the assignment.

"Should we get started now?" Kristen said as she flipped to page 40 to find the first answer. Kati shrugged, Hayley nodded while Massie and Claire ignored her.

Claire giggled as she grabbed a test tube. "I wonder how many gummy worms I can fit in that," she whispered to Massie, giggling. Massie grinned.

"You're not helping at all," she declared, seething. Massie raised an eyebrow.

"Suh-orry. Maybe it would help if Dylan were here," she shot back. Kristen curled her fists into balls, ready to give Massie's cheek a good beating.

"Now, let's start. We don't want to break out in a fight now," Hayley said. Massie snickered at Hayley's lisp. Kristen calmed and continued to look for the answer for question number 1. Should you mix acids and bases together? Kristen already knew the answer to that. Just as she put the answer, water splattered all over the paper and Kristen.

"What the hell!"

"Oops." Massie smiled innocently. "My bad." She smirked at Kristen. Claire giggled behind her palm, but didn't say anything else to provoke a fight.

Massie raised her hand. "May we get a new paper, Mrs. Mianelli? Kristen spilled water on the paper." Mrs. Nianelli glared at Kristen.

"Kristen, you know you're aren't supposed to bring liquids into the classroom," she said as she handed Massie the assignment paper.

"B-but, I d-"

"No buts."

Kristen sighed and mumbled her sorry, even though it wasn't her fault. As soon as Mrs. Nianelli walked away, Massie set a cappuccino on the table.

"What are you doing?" Kristen whisper-shrieked. "Did you not just hear what she said?"

Massie rolled her eyes and took a sip. "Just answer the freaking questions, LBR."

Kristen's heart sank. LBR? Me? What? Since when? Oh yeah, when I locked lips with Dylan.

Kati and Hayley laughed, even though they both defined the term LBR. Kristen rolled her eyes and did the work all by herself. Even Hayley was getting more attention from then than Kristen. She felt her Nokia vibrating in her back pocket, she took it out and hid it. It said "One New Text" on the small screen. It was from...Derrick?

DERRICK: kristen..me nd da boyz r havin a soccer game afta skool wanna join?? maybe we can have ice cream at b & j's aftaward.

Kristen though, why not? Maybe it'll deflect the rumors.

KRISTEN: lookin forward to it :)

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