1 Elizabeth
"Lizzy! Get out of bed-we have to catch the bus remember!" Jess yelled. I rolled over, no way did I want to go to school. And I definitely didn't want to see Arieah. Not since Saturday night. The mental image of her in Blues' arms replayed in my mind over and over, it just wouldn't go away. Why did I have to walk out to Mom's car at that exact moment? I thought angrily, realizing I would eventually have to get up and get ready for school.
"Liz!" Jess's impatient voice yelled again.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I yelled back at her, rolling out of bed. I threw on whatever my hands touched first and pulled my hair into a low pony tail. I'd have to do without breakfast or I'd surely miss the bus. When I finally emerged downstairs, Jess stood by the door, ready to go. This isn't the way it's supposed to be, I thought, realizing the stupidity of the situation Jess is meant to be the one who gets all cut up over guys, not me… I took my lunch money from the bench and ran out to the bus following Jess.
Arieah was there, waiting. I glared at her. How could she just stand there, looking like a magazine cover? She was wearing a knee length brown leather skirt and a white peasant top, her sun browned shoulder in plain view. She was leaning against the bus stop pole, fiddling with the ends of her loose dark blonde hair. As we got closer I noticed she'd put thin purple streaks here and there in her hair.
"Hi Jessica!" she said, looking up as we walked up "Hi Lizzy, how are you guys? Ready for another long week of school?"
Jess wrinkled her nose and groaned "I'm never ready to go back to school after the weekend."
I stood silent.
"Are you alright Liz?" Arieah said, concerned. I glared at her. She didn't realize. She didn't know how much pain she was causing me just by being there.
"Of course I'm alright Arieah. I'm glad you had such a good time with Blue on the weekend. Didn't you tell me you weren't going out with him?!" I accused, snapping.
Her face turned downcast, and she actually looked sad at what I was saying. Good. Blue was mine, or at least he was going to be before Ms. Perfect Model showed up.
"Lizzy, I only went out with him as a friend," she began, but I cut her off.
"Yeah, and kissing him was just a 'friendly' thing to do too." Jess's eyes widened. Obviously Arieah hadn't told her either.
"Look Elizabeth," she began, her good-girl cover falling away "whatever you think ok, it wasn't my fault, he kissed me. I had every intention of going out with him as a friend, I was trying to help you."
"You've done way enough already." I snapped, stalking off to get on the bus.
2 Jess
"What's wrong," I said, tailing Arieah all the way down the hall. After her little incounter with Lizzy at the bus stop this morning, she'd refused to tell me anything.
"Arieah, you've gotta tell me."
She continued to walk and I had to jog to catch up to her long strides.
"It's nothing Jess, just leave it." She said offhandledly, turning into the girls bathrooms. She dumped her bag down at the sinks infront of the mirrors and pulled out her eyeshadow.
"It's got to have been something," I said, pulling out my own mascara "Lizzy doesn't just crack at everyone for no reason normally."
She applied the light green colour to her eyelids carefully, pretending to put all her concentration on getting both eyes even. I could tell, or at least guess, that she'd be able to do her makeup in her sleep, after all she was a model.
"So you think she's right for just snapping at me like that." Arieah said, snapping the compact shut, pulling out her brown mascara.
"Well, if you'd just tell me what she was upset about, perhaps I'd be able to say whether she was right or not." I reasoned, hoping that she'd come out with it.
"Fine…" she said, rubbing off a stray fleck of mascara that'd flicked onto her skin
"I went out with Blue on Saturday night, like I said I was, but only as a friend. But at the end of the date he kissed me."
"Oh,…" I said, considering "that was only once but, couldn't you have just said that he didn't realize you were only going out as friends?"
"Twice." She said, finishing off her left eye.
"Twice what?"
"He kissed me twice. That's the problem. And I didn't exactly try and stop him." She began applying lip gloss. Finally finished, she turned to me and shrugged "I don't know what to do now."
"So you like him," I said, trying to come to a good conclusion. Suddenly I realized why Lizzy was so upset, this kind of thing normally happened to me, not her.
"Yeah. Blue's great."
"Well, Lizzy wasn't exactly anymore than friends with him, so I don't think there's any problem with you going out with him."
"Yes there is," she said as we walked out of the bathrooms. "She wanted to be more than friends with him and I took him before she had a chance."
3 Lacey
"…and you all need to pair off," my drama teacher was saying. I rolled my eyes and turned to face Kristin. And was just looking at an empty chair. "Damnit," I muttered "who'll I be stuck with today?"
Mr Hayden tapped on my desk and I looked up, realizing that everyone else was partnered off already. "You'll have to go with Arieah, Lacey," he said and at that moment I hated him "be nice."
"As if I wouldn't," I said scowling at him as Arieah came to sit next to me in Kristin's empty seat.
He walked away and I was stuck with the stupid new model girl. I yawned loudly, hoping to deter her from thinking that I was honestly going to talk to her.
"Look Lacey," she said, startling me. Normally this display of arrogance stopped even Kristin from talking to me. Obviously she didn't have much sense.
"I don't particularly want to talk to you either, but we have work to do so can we just cut this stupid 'fazing me in' thing and get to it?" she demanded.
"God," I said, hiding my surprise "why made you so crabby, what happened did you like get fired from a modeling job or something."
"No," she said snappily "I'm not in America to model. I've done that for five years, I need a break. I'm here to concentrate on running and school work, not that I can see why it's any of your business."
My eyes widened before I could stop them. I groaned inwardly, now she'd have known she got to me. Damnit. "What ever," I said, flipping the sheet of work over "you do the first six questions and I'll do the last six."
"Lizzy! Get out of bed-we have to catch the bus remember!" Jess yelled. I rolled over, no way did I want to go to school. And I definitely didn't want to see Arieah. Not since Saturday night. The mental image of her in Blues' arms replayed in my mind over and over, it just wouldn't go away. Why did I have to walk out to Mom's car at that exact moment? I thought angrily, realizing I would eventually have to get up and get ready for school.
"Liz!" Jess's impatient voice yelled again.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I yelled back at her, rolling out of bed. I threw on whatever my hands touched first and pulled my hair into a low pony tail. I'd have to do without breakfast or I'd surely miss the bus. When I finally emerged downstairs, Jess stood by the door, ready to go. This isn't the way it's supposed to be, I thought, realizing the stupidity of the situation Jess is meant to be the one who gets all cut up over guys, not me… I took my lunch money from the bench and ran out to the bus following Jess.
Arieah was there, waiting. I glared at her. How could she just stand there, looking like a magazine cover? She was wearing a knee length brown leather skirt and a white peasant top, her sun browned shoulder in plain view. She was leaning against the bus stop pole, fiddling with the ends of her loose dark blonde hair. As we got closer I noticed she'd put thin purple streaks here and there in her hair.
"Hi Jessica!" she said, looking up as we walked up "Hi Lizzy, how are you guys? Ready for another long week of school?"
Jess wrinkled her nose and groaned "I'm never ready to go back to school after the weekend."
I stood silent.
"Are you alright Liz?" Arieah said, concerned. I glared at her. She didn't realize. She didn't know how much pain she was causing me just by being there.
"Of course I'm alright Arieah. I'm glad you had such a good time with Blue on the weekend. Didn't you tell me you weren't going out with him?!" I accused, snapping.
Her face turned downcast, and she actually looked sad at what I was saying. Good. Blue was mine, or at least he was going to be before Ms. Perfect Model showed up.
"Lizzy, I only went out with him as a friend," she began, but I cut her off.
"Yeah, and kissing him was just a 'friendly' thing to do too." Jess's eyes widened. Obviously Arieah hadn't told her either.
"Look Elizabeth," she began, her good-girl cover falling away "whatever you think ok, it wasn't my fault, he kissed me. I had every intention of going out with him as a friend, I was trying to help you."
"You've done way enough already." I snapped, stalking off to get on the bus.
2 Jess
"What's wrong," I said, tailing Arieah all the way down the hall. After her little incounter with Lizzy at the bus stop this morning, she'd refused to tell me anything.
"Arieah, you've gotta tell me."
She continued to walk and I had to jog to catch up to her long strides.
"It's nothing Jess, just leave it." She said offhandledly, turning into the girls bathrooms. She dumped her bag down at the sinks infront of the mirrors and pulled out her eyeshadow.
"It's got to have been something," I said, pulling out my own mascara "Lizzy doesn't just crack at everyone for no reason normally."
She applied the light green colour to her eyelids carefully, pretending to put all her concentration on getting both eyes even. I could tell, or at least guess, that she'd be able to do her makeup in her sleep, after all she was a model.
"So you think she's right for just snapping at me like that." Arieah said, snapping the compact shut, pulling out her brown mascara.
"Well, if you'd just tell me what she was upset about, perhaps I'd be able to say whether she was right or not." I reasoned, hoping that she'd come out with it.
"Fine…" she said, rubbing off a stray fleck of mascara that'd flicked onto her skin
"I went out with Blue on Saturday night, like I said I was, but only as a friend. But at the end of the date he kissed me."
"Oh,…" I said, considering "that was only once but, couldn't you have just said that he didn't realize you were only going out as friends?"
"Twice." She said, finishing off her left eye.
"Twice what?"
"He kissed me twice. That's the problem. And I didn't exactly try and stop him." She began applying lip gloss. Finally finished, she turned to me and shrugged "I don't know what to do now."
"So you like him," I said, trying to come to a good conclusion. Suddenly I realized why Lizzy was so upset, this kind of thing normally happened to me, not her.
"Yeah. Blue's great."
"Well, Lizzy wasn't exactly anymore than friends with him, so I don't think there's any problem with you going out with him."
"Yes there is," she said as we walked out of the bathrooms. "She wanted to be more than friends with him and I took him before she had a chance."
3 Lacey
"…and you all need to pair off," my drama teacher was saying. I rolled my eyes and turned to face Kristin. And was just looking at an empty chair. "Damnit," I muttered "who'll I be stuck with today?"
Mr Hayden tapped on my desk and I looked up, realizing that everyone else was partnered off already. "You'll have to go with Arieah, Lacey," he said and at that moment I hated him "be nice."
"As if I wouldn't," I said scowling at him as Arieah came to sit next to me in Kristin's empty seat.
He walked away and I was stuck with the stupid new model girl. I yawned loudly, hoping to deter her from thinking that I was honestly going to talk to her.
"Look Lacey," she said, startling me. Normally this display of arrogance stopped even Kristin from talking to me. Obviously she didn't have much sense.
"I don't particularly want to talk to you either, but we have work to do so can we just cut this stupid 'fazing me in' thing and get to it?" she demanded.
"God," I said, hiding my surprise "why made you so crabby, what happened did you like get fired from a modeling job or something."
"No," she said snappily "I'm not in America to model. I've done that for five years, I need a break. I'm here to concentrate on running and school work, not that I can see why it's any of your business."
My eyes widened before I could stop them. I groaned inwardly, now she'd have known she got to me. Damnit. "What ever," I said, flipping the sheet of work over "you do the first six questions and I'll do the last six."