A/N: Hey all. Thanks for reviews. I really appreciate it. Here's the first chapter. I hope you like it.

*Chapter One*

She sat waiting in the office of her brand school, Degrassi Community School. She sighed. She did not want to be here. It was her own fault though. She got caught sneaking back into the house after she broke her curfew. The worse thing is that she had to tell her parents what she was doing. Her father nearly had a heart attack.

"Dakota Sanchez," Mr. Raditch said coming out of his office, "Please follow me." Dakota got off the chair and followed her new principal, "I know why you got sent here Dakota and we here at Degrassi Community School are going to help you with all your problems." Dakota rolled her eyes. She could not believe she is in this kind of school. Helping kids with their issues. Yippee!

They stopped walking at a classroom. Mr. Raditch opened up the door and he walked in with Dakota following him.

"Excuse Mr. Simpson," Mr. Raditch said, "Students, this is Dakota Sanchez. She just got transfered here from Grandville High School in Michigan. I want you to treat her with respect. Thank you for your time, continue Mr. Simpson." Mr. Raditch walked out of the classroom leaving Dakota standing in front the class.

"Why don't you take a seat next to Craig," Ms. Simpson said pointing to a boy with curly hair. Dakota walked towards the empty seat and sat down at the computer, "Now, back to what I was saying..."

"Hey, I'm Craig," he said.

"Dakota," Dakota said. She put her head down on the keyboard and sighed.

"Hey, don't worry about it," Craig said, "I was knew here in the beginning of the school year and now I have plenty of friends."

"Easy for you to say," Dakota said.

"There's a few people who are just like you," Craig said. Dakota looked over at him and rolled her eyes. The bell rang and everyone got up to go to their next class. Dakota recieved her locker number and lock. She opened up her new locker and put everything in she did not need for her next class.

"Hey," someone said. She looked up and saw two girls dressed in black standing next to her. One had red hair and the other had short dark brown hair.

"Hi," Dakota said.

"I'm Ashley," one of them said, "And this is Ellie."

"I'm Dakota," Dakota said.

"North or South?" a girl with blonde hair said walking by. Her friends started cracking up. Dakota rolled her eyes and went back to organizing her locker.

"Ignore her," Ellie said.

"That's what I plan on doing," Dakota said closing her locker and headed down the hall.

"Who do you have next?" Ellie asked while her and Ashley walked along side of Dakota.

"Um," Dakota said pulling out her schedule, "I have Ms. Kwan."

"Cool," Ashley said, "So do we. We'll walk with you." Dakota smiled and said thanks. This is the first time she has ever made friends that quick. It took her almost a month when she started middle school to make one friend. She's glad she has two people to spend the rest of high school with. Being a loner would suck.