Cinder thought her life was the best ever. Her mom didn't punish
her, hell, she didn't even know she missed curfew. Adam decided he was
gonna be a sweetheart and not open his big mouth. The only problems she
could think of was that Shannon was a little angry that she missed the
first practice of Peroxwhygen. But she knew he'd get over that quickly.
Yep, she thought she was on a roll. She was popular, beautiful, had an
excellent boyfriend, hardly any enemies, great best friends, a wonderful
brother, and just in general a great life. She had her first game as
captain of the cheering squad that day. Monday, always tough days for her,
but she got to cheer and that made her happy. She dressed in her cheering
uniform just like she would for every home game. It was tradition. For
home games the cheerleaders wore their uniforms all day and the football
team wore their jerseys and if they had them, school jackets. It was a
good day to be walking around in something that skimpy. Very warm, about
75, a light breeze, and plenty of sun. Things were definitely on the
bright side for Cinder. She just knew it was going to be a good day.
"Cinder! Jesus!! Get a move on!!!" Adam yelled up the stairs to his slow poke of a sister. Cinder just rolled her eyes and let out a quiet chuckle as she threw her messenger bag over her head so it draped down over her body. She tightened her ponytail and skipped down the stairs. "WAHOO!! Beautiful sis!"
"Thank you," she bowed as she laughed. "You don't look too bad either."
"Whoa, is that Cinder?!" Jay exclaimed as he stuffed a powdered doughnut in his mouth that he had grabbed from the kitchen.
"Don't you ever eat at your own house?" she asked as noticed the ring of powder around Jay's mouth. Adam nudged Jay's shoulder, causing him to drop the doughnut.
"Dude!" Jay whined.
"Jay, hun, get a napkin or something," Cinder laughed as she walked past the two blondes. Adam shook his head at Jay as he followed his sister out to the car. Jay quickly wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
"Hey! Wait up!" he yelled as he ran out of the large house. Adam laughed as he slowly pulled away from a running Jay. Jay high tailed it after them as Adam slowly got faster and faster.
"Okay Adam. I think you've had your fun," Cinder laughed as she looked back at the tall man running behind the car with his hair flying behind him. Adam nodded and came to stop, allowing Jay to jump into the back seat.
"Have a nice run?" Adam joked.
"Very funny guys," Jay replied.
When they arrived at school the guys were greeted by their fellow football players with pats on the back for good luck in the game that nite. Cinder sighed as she slowly climbed out of the car. A slight cold breeze blew up her short skirt and she shivered as she noticed Amy and Shannon walking towards the school to meet up with Rob who was sitting on a bench outside the doors. She ran after them and smiled as she sat down next to Rob.
"How was the party Saturday nite?" Rob asked.
"Dude, it was so lame. Probably the worst Chris has ever put on," Shannon sighed.
"Yeah, but it looked to me like you had quite a good time with a certain blonde cheerleader," Amy teased.
"I had no clue what you're talkin bout," Shannon said innocently.
"Hello fellow citizens," Shane greeted them with a large smile.
"Hey Shane," Cinder smiled at his reference to his beloved comic books.
"Was that party kicking or what Saturday nite?!" Shane exclaimed slamming his body down next to Cinder. He slipped his arm around her shoulders and smiled at everyone as they looked at him like he had 3 heads. "What? Is there something on my face?!"
"Yeah, that ugly mask. Oh wait, that's your face," Amy joked.
"Ha ha," Shane replied sarcastically.
"Dude, did you happen to go to the same party as the rest of us?" Shannon asked.
"Why?"
"It sucked ass," Cinder answered as she looked over at Shane.
"I didn't think it was that bad," Shane said with a shrug.
"Hey guys," Charlie said with a smile as he walked up to the group of them. The guys gave him a friendly nod while Amy smiled.
"Hey baby," Cinder smiled as she stood to stand next to her boyfriend. He placed a light kiss on the top of her head and wrapped his arms around her waist as she stood in front of him.
"Hey hey now, break it up!" Principal Bischoff exclaimed as the evil man walked into the building. Charlie let her go as they watched disappear into the halls of the school.
"Man, I hate that guy!" Rob exclaimed. "Dude is making me clean the class rooms during my detention instead of just sitting there doing nothing but starring off into space."
"He's definitely an evil man," Shannon agreed.
"Hey, where's Trish?" Cinder asked as she backed herself into Charlie's body.
"She's getting me some grub," Shannon smiled.
"She's getting you food? Trish Stratigias?!" Amy joked.
"Yeah, she's getting me some Dunkin Doughnuts," Shannon replied smugly.
"Are you two dating?" Rob asked curiously.
"No, well, kinda, maybe, I really don't know," Shannon replied.
"Awe, Shannon likes Trish!" Cinder laughed.
"Hey now, I didn't say anything when you had that crush on Oscar," Shannon said harshly.
"Shannon!" Cinder exclaimed angrily.
"You had a crush on Oscar?" Charlie laughed.
"Yeah, I did. What's so funny about that?!" she said as she placed her hands on her hips. She narrowed her eyes at him in a glare as he thought carefully about his response.
"Well, there's that height difference. Sweetie, you tower over him," Charlie laughed.
"Grrrrr," Cinder growled as she took her seat between Rob and Shane. Trish ran up to them moments later in her uniform carrying a box of doughnuts in her hand. Shannon gladly took them from her as she smiled at everyone. Not long after the first bell had rung and everyone slowly filed into the large building. Cinder stood at her locker and grabbed her books before she ran off to her first class.
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"Cinder, would you hurry up! We're gonna be late for Chem," Rob rushed as Cinder quickly grabbed her books from her locker.
"What are you so worried about Mr. Everything is cool?" she joked.
"Hey, I'm already in detention for half my life. I don't need to be in it for the rest of it!" he laughed as he started to walk away.
"I'm right behind you," she yelled as she began to shut her locker. She turned in the opposite direction to avoid hitting the couple that were making out at the locker next to her and fell into a hard figure. All her books and the figures books dropped to the floor with a heavy thud. "Oh my God, I'm so sorry!"
"No, it's my fault. I was walking with my head down," the figure replied with a soft deep southern accent. They both bent down to grab their books. Cinder looked over at him and smiled.
"Yeah, I have a tendency to do that too," she laughed as they stood up slowly.
"Here, I think this is yours," he smiled as he handed over her art portfolio.
"Thanks," she said. "You new here?"
"Yeah, unfortunately," he chuckled as brightly colored blue hair fell into his face. "Me and my brother moved here last week. Today's my first day."
"Oh! My friend told me that she saw a couple new guys. You must be seniors. She said she saw you walking around with Mark Callaway."
"Yeah, he was showing me and my brother the ropes. I'm a junior though. My brother, Matt, is a senior."
"I'm a junior too so if you need anything just ask," Cinder said allowing her bright Copeland smile to show. "I'm Cinder Copeland."
"As in Adam Copeland's sister?" he asked.
"Yeah, how'd ya know?"
"Matt's trying out of the football team. We used to play at our old school."
"You gonna try out?"
"Nah, I'm just not into it anymore," he replied. "Oh, by the way, I'm Jeff Hardy."
"It's nice to meet you."
"CINDER!!!" Rob yelled. Cinder rolled her eyes and turned to him.
"Just a second, Rob!" she yelled back. "Where ya off to?"
"Umm, gym," he replied as he glanced down at his schedule.
"Oh, you're totally goin in the opposite direction," she laughed. "It's back that way, all the way at the end of the hall."
"Oh gees. Thanks a lot."
"CIN!!!" Rob yelled.
"Ugh, I gotta go get to Chem. But I'll see ya around?" she asked as she began to walk backwards.
"Yeah, hopefully," he smiled as they both went their separate ways.
"Who was that?" Rob asked as Cinder caught up to him.
"A new guy. Jeff Hardy. He seems really cool," she smiled.
"Oh no, I know that smile," Rob teased.
"Oh gees. Ya know, just because I have this smile on my face doesn't mean I like the guy. I don't know him!" Cinder exclaimed.
"I know, I'm just kidding with you," he laughed. Cinder let out a sigh as they began to sprint to their class. "But what was up with that hair dude."
"It's kinda cool isn't it?"
"Um, no," Rob laughed.
"I like it. I thought it looked cool," she replied.
"You're one strange girl," Rob laughed as they just made it in the class when the bell rang. They took their seats at their lab table and sighed heavily in relief.
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"Oh my God. I talked to that dark haired guy that I was telling ya'll about last week, today," Amy said happily as she sat down at the cafeteria table.
"I talked to his brother," Cinder said casually.
"His name is Matt Hardy and he's a senior and he's gonna be playin at the game tonite and I'm definitely gonna be there," Amy said as fast as possible.
"Breathe girl, breathe," Shannon laughed.
"Sorry but he's so awesome!" Amy sighed.
"Has Amy Dumas caught the crush bug?" Cinder laughed.
"What?! No way," she replied shyly.
"Uh-huh," Cinder and Shannon laughed.
"His brother is pretty cool. I have gym with him," Shannon said.
"Yeah, I ran into him in the hall today," Cinder laughed. "And when I said ran, I meant it!"
"He said he plays guitar and sings a bit," Shannon smiled.
"Okay, Shan, we have a singer, we need a bassist," Cinder sighed.
"Yeah, but I mean Chris doesn't really work well with our music. He's too 80's hair band sounding," Shannon noted.
"True, but Chris is our friend," Cinder added.
"Maybe we can have two singers. And Mike's transferring to Central. So he can't be our guitarist anymore," Shannon said.
"Well, don't tell him he's definitely in it. Have him try out first," Cinder said.
"Oh I will. How about Saturday?" Shannon suggested.
"Can't, Cinder, Amy, and I have to look for dresses for the semi- formal Saturday nite," Trish said as she sat down next to Shannon. They gave each other a dreamy look and looked back at them.
"Okay, how about Sunday?" Shannon said.
"Wait, Trish, no way in hell am I goin to dress up," Amy and Cinder exclaimed in unison.
"You both said you were gonna go so you can't back out now!" Trish laughed.
"Hey, we didn't know it was a semi-formal!" Cinder argued.
"Too bad. Can't back out. You're goin and so are you Amy," Trish said.
"Fine," Amy and Cinder replied as they slumped back into their seats.
"Cinder, you shouldn't care. I mean you are walking around in a skimpy little uniform," Shannon said.
"Yeah, but I'm not comfortable," she replied.
"Well, ya look hot and that's all that matters baby," Charlie said as he placed a soft kiss on her cheek. She smiled as he sat in the seat next to her.
"Okay, so back onto this whole try-out deal. Sunday?" Shannon asked.
"Yeah, sure sounds great," Cinder answered.
"What's goin on Sunday?" Charlie asked.
"One of the new guys, Jeff, is gonna try out for the band," Shannon answered.
"But C, I thought that maybe we could go to the beach before it gets too cold," Charlie said as he snuggled up to her.
"This is important Charlie. I need to do be there," Cinder said as a look of sadness crossed his face. "I'm sorry. I love you though."
"I love you too," he laughed.
"You guys said I love you!" Trish exclaimed in happiness.
"Um yeah," Cinder laughed.
"That's so cute! When did ya first say it?" she asked curiously.
"Saturday morning at 5 in the morning," Charlie laughed.
"Awe, you two are so cute!" Trish said.
"Okay, please stop saying that," Amy requested.
"Sorry, but they are so cute!"
Amy glared at her before throwing a balled up napkin at Trish's face. Amy laughed at her as Trish threw an orange peel at her. Before anyone knew what happened there was a massive food fight going on. Charlie covered Cinder with his letterman jacket and led her to safety outside the cafeteria. They stood in the door way and laughed at all the fools as they got covered in food.
"Cinder! Jesus!! Get a move on!!!" Adam yelled up the stairs to his slow poke of a sister. Cinder just rolled her eyes and let out a quiet chuckle as she threw her messenger bag over her head so it draped down over her body. She tightened her ponytail and skipped down the stairs. "WAHOO!! Beautiful sis!"
"Thank you," she bowed as she laughed. "You don't look too bad either."
"Whoa, is that Cinder?!" Jay exclaimed as he stuffed a powdered doughnut in his mouth that he had grabbed from the kitchen.
"Don't you ever eat at your own house?" she asked as noticed the ring of powder around Jay's mouth. Adam nudged Jay's shoulder, causing him to drop the doughnut.
"Dude!" Jay whined.
"Jay, hun, get a napkin or something," Cinder laughed as she walked past the two blondes. Adam shook his head at Jay as he followed his sister out to the car. Jay quickly wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
"Hey! Wait up!" he yelled as he ran out of the large house. Adam laughed as he slowly pulled away from a running Jay. Jay high tailed it after them as Adam slowly got faster and faster.
"Okay Adam. I think you've had your fun," Cinder laughed as she looked back at the tall man running behind the car with his hair flying behind him. Adam nodded and came to stop, allowing Jay to jump into the back seat.
"Have a nice run?" Adam joked.
"Very funny guys," Jay replied.
When they arrived at school the guys were greeted by their fellow football players with pats on the back for good luck in the game that nite. Cinder sighed as she slowly climbed out of the car. A slight cold breeze blew up her short skirt and she shivered as she noticed Amy and Shannon walking towards the school to meet up with Rob who was sitting on a bench outside the doors. She ran after them and smiled as she sat down next to Rob.
"How was the party Saturday nite?" Rob asked.
"Dude, it was so lame. Probably the worst Chris has ever put on," Shannon sighed.
"Yeah, but it looked to me like you had quite a good time with a certain blonde cheerleader," Amy teased.
"I had no clue what you're talkin bout," Shannon said innocently.
"Hello fellow citizens," Shane greeted them with a large smile.
"Hey Shane," Cinder smiled at his reference to his beloved comic books.
"Was that party kicking or what Saturday nite?!" Shane exclaimed slamming his body down next to Cinder. He slipped his arm around her shoulders and smiled at everyone as they looked at him like he had 3 heads. "What? Is there something on my face?!"
"Yeah, that ugly mask. Oh wait, that's your face," Amy joked.
"Ha ha," Shane replied sarcastically.
"Dude, did you happen to go to the same party as the rest of us?" Shannon asked.
"Why?"
"It sucked ass," Cinder answered as she looked over at Shane.
"I didn't think it was that bad," Shane said with a shrug.
"Hey guys," Charlie said with a smile as he walked up to the group of them. The guys gave him a friendly nod while Amy smiled.
"Hey baby," Cinder smiled as she stood to stand next to her boyfriend. He placed a light kiss on the top of her head and wrapped his arms around her waist as she stood in front of him.
"Hey hey now, break it up!" Principal Bischoff exclaimed as the evil man walked into the building. Charlie let her go as they watched disappear into the halls of the school.
"Man, I hate that guy!" Rob exclaimed. "Dude is making me clean the class rooms during my detention instead of just sitting there doing nothing but starring off into space."
"He's definitely an evil man," Shannon agreed.
"Hey, where's Trish?" Cinder asked as she backed herself into Charlie's body.
"She's getting me some grub," Shannon smiled.
"She's getting you food? Trish Stratigias?!" Amy joked.
"Yeah, she's getting me some Dunkin Doughnuts," Shannon replied smugly.
"Are you two dating?" Rob asked curiously.
"No, well, kinda, maybe, I really don't know," Shannon replied.
"Awe, Shannon likes Trish!" Cinder laughed.
"Hey now, I didn't say anything when you had that crush on Oscar," Shannon said harshly.
"Shannon!" Cinder exclaimed angrily.
"You had a crush on Oscar?" Charlie laughed.
"Yeah, I did. What's so funny about that?!" she said as she placed her hands on her hips. She narrowed her eyes at him in a glare as he thought carefully about his response.
"Well, there's that height difference. Sweetie, you tower over him," Charlie laughed.
"Grrrrr," Cinder growled as she took her seat between Rob and Shane. Trish ran up to them moments later in her uniform carrying a box of doughnuts in her hand. Shannon gladly took them from her as she smiled at everyone. Not long after the first bell had rung and everyone slowly filed into the large building. Cinder stood at her locker and grabbed her books before she ran off to her first class.
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"Cinder, would you hurry up! We're gonna be late for Chem," Rob rushed as Cinder quickly grabbed her books from her locker.
"What are you so worried about Mr. Everything is cool?" she joked.
"Hey, I'm already in detention for half my life. I don't need to be in it for the rest of it!" he laughed as he started to walk away.
"I'm right behind you," she yelled as she began to shut her locker. She turned in the opposite direction to avoid hitting the couple that were making out at the locker next to her and fell into a hard figure. All her books and the figures books dropped to the floor with a heavy thud. "Oh my God, I'm so sorry!"
"No, it's my fault. I was walking with my head down," the figure replied with a soft deep southern accent. They both bent down to grab their books. Cinder looked over at him and smiled.
"Yeah, I have a tendency to do that too," she laughed as they stood up slowly.
"Here, I think this is yours," he smiled as he handed over her art portfolio.
"Thanks," she said. "You new here?"
"Yeah, unfortunately," he chuckled as brightly colored blue hair fell into his face. "Me and my brother moved here last week. Today's my first day."
"Oh! My friend told me that she saw a couple new guys. You must be seniors. She said she saw you walking around with Mark Callaway."
"Yeah, he was showing me and my brother the ropes. I'm a junior though. My brother, Matt, is a senior."
"I'm a junior too so if you need anything just ask," Cinder said allowing her bright Copeland smile to show. "I'm Cinder Copeland."
"As in Adam Copeland's sister?" he asked.
"Yeah, how'd ya know?"
"Matt's trying out of the football team. We used to play at our old school."
"You gonna try out?"
"Nah, I'm just not into it anymore," he replied. "Oh, by the way, I'm Jeff Hardy."
"It's nice to meet you."
"CINDER!!!" Rob yelled. Cinder rolled her eyes and turned to him.
"Just a second, Rob!" she yelled back. "Where ya off to?"
"Umm, gym," he replied as he glanced down at his schedule.
"Oh, you're totally goin in the opposite direction," she laughed. "It's back that way, all the way at the end of the hall."
"Oh gees. Thanks a lot."
"CIN!!!" Rob yelled.
"Ugh, I gotta go get to Chem. But I'll see ya around?" she asked as she began to walk backwards.
"Yeah, hopefully," he smiled as they both went their separate ways.
"Who was that?" Rob asked as Cinder caught up to him.
"A new guy. Jeff Hardy. He seems really cool," she smiled.
"Oh no, I know that smile," Rob teased.
"Oh gees. Ya know, just because I have this smile on my face doesn't mean I like the guy. I don't know him!" Cinder exclaimed.
"I know, I'm just kidding with you," he laughed. Cinder let out a sigh as they began to sprint to their class. "But what was up with that hair dude."
"It's kinda cool isn't it?"
"Um, no," Rob laughed.
"I like it. I thought it looked cool," she replied.
"You're one strange girl," Rob laughed as they just made it in the class when the bell rang. They took their seats at their lab table and sighed heavily in relief.
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"Oh my God. I talked to that dark haired guy that I was telling ya'll about last week, today," Amy said happily as she sat down at the cafeteria table.
"I talked to his brother," Cinder said casually.
"His name is Matt Hardy and he's a senior and he's gonna be playin at the game tonite and I'm definitely gonna be there," Amy said as fast as possible.
"Breathe girl, breathe," Shannon laughed.
"Sorry but he's so awesome!" Amy sighed.
"Has Amy Dumas caught the crush bug?" Cinder laughed.
"What?! No way," she replied shyly.
"Uh-huh," Cinder and Shannon laughed.
"His brother is pretty cool. I have gym with him," Shannon said.
"Yeah, I ran into him in the hall today," Cinder laughed. "And when I said ran, I meant it!"
"He said he plays guitar and sings a bit," Shannon smiled.
"Okay, Shan, we have a singer, we need a bassist," Cinder sighed.
"Yeah, but I mean Chris doesn't really work well with our music. He's too 80's hair band sounding," Shannon noted.
"True, but Chris is our friend," Cinder added.
"Maybe we can have two singers. And Mike's transferring to Central. So he can't be our guitarist anymore," Shannon said.
"Well, don't tell him he's definitely in it. Have him try out first," Cinder said.
"Oh I will. How about Saturday?" Shannon suggested.
"Can't, Cinder, Amy, and I have to look for dresses for the semi- formal Saturday nite," Trish said as she sat down next to Shannon. They gave each other a dreamy look and looked back at them.
"Okay, how about Sunday?" Shannon said.
"Wait, Trish, no way in hell am I goin to dress up," Amy and Cinder exclaimed in unison.
"You both said you were gonna go so you can't back out now!" Trish laughed.
"Hey, we didn't know it was a semi-formal!" Cinder argued.
"Too bad. Can't back out. You're goin and so are you Amy," Trish said.
"Fine," Amy and Cinder replied as they slumped back into their seats.
"Cinder, you shouldn't care. I mean you are walking around in a skimpy little uniform," Shannon said.
"Yeah, but I'm not comfortable," she replied.
"Well, ya look hot and that's all that matters baby," Charlie said as he placed a soft kiss on her cheek. She smiled as he sat in the seat next to her.
"Okay, so back onto this whole try-out deal. Sunday?" Shannon asked.
"Yeah, sure sounds great," Cinder answered.
"What's goin on Sunday?" Charlie asked.
"One of the new guys, Jeff, is gonna try out for the band," Shannon answered.
"But C, I thought that maybe we could go to the beach before it gets too cold," Charlie said as he snuggled up to her.
"This is important Charlie. I need to do be there," Cinder said as a look of sadness crossed his face. "I'm sorry. I love you though."
"I love you too," he laughed.
"You guys said I love you!" Trish exclaimed in happiness.
"Um yeah," Cinder laughed.
"That's so cute! When did ya first say it?" she asked curiously.
"Saturday morning at 5 in the morning," Charlie laughed.
"Awe, you two are so cute!" Trish said.
"Okay, please stop saying that," Amy requested.
"Sorry, but they are so cute!"
Amy glared at her before throwing a balled up napkin at Trish's face. Amy laughed at her as Trish threw an orange peel at her. Before anyone knew what happened there was a massive food fight going on. Charlie covered Cinder with his letterman jacket and led her to safety outside the cafeteria. They stood in the door way and laughed at all the fools as they got covered in food.