A/N: Hey ya'll...........do ya'll still like my work? Cause I've noticed
that I haven't been getting reviews like I used to. Um, if ya'll are
getting tired with my stuff, let me know. I'm fine with it. So, anyways,
here's the next chapter.
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"Matt, I don't get any of this!" Cinder exclaimed as she threw her pencil down on her geometry book.
"Cinder, it's easy if you'd just concentrate," he replied with a smile.
"Just face it, I'm never gonna get geometry. Hell, I'm never gonna use this shit," she said.
"Maybe you will, maybe you won't. But you still have to do it. Listen, if you don't pass this semester your mom is gonna flip!"
"I know. We haven't even hit October and I'm already failing the damn class," she sighed.
"Hey, Matt, are you just gonna spend the nite?" Adam asked as he stuck his head into Cinder's room.
"Um, yeah, if that's alright?" Matt asked.
"Yeah, of course dude," Adam said as he walked into the room and sat next to Cinder on her bed. "How's the studying going?"
"It's not! I quit!" she exclaimed as she stood up frustrated with herself.
"C, you can do it. Come on," Adam smiled as Cinder stood in front of her window.
"I think I just need to leave. Ya know, get out of the house. I've been stuck in here for 2 weeks," she said.
"That's your own fault," Adam laughed.
"Maybe, but I think I've been pretty good," she said as she turned to look at him. She leaned against the wall with her arms crossed over her chest and sighed.
"Well, Mom's taking you out to look at cars tomorrow, so that's a plus. You could be driving back in a car, BY YOURSELF!" Adam laughed.
"Are you makin fun of me?" she asked.
"No way. I would NEVER do that," he smiled sarcastically.
She picked up her pillow and nailed him in the head with it. He grabbed her around the waist and threw her on the bed. She began to laugh uncontrollably as he picked up the pillow and whacked her in the face with it a few times. He looked down at her and laughed evilly as he dove for feet. She struggled but both her brother and Matt had her pinned to the bed. She screamed through her laughter as Adam tickled her feet.
"Cinder?" Shannon asked as he and Jeff walked into her room. They stood in the doorway as she struggled to free herself.
"Are you guys gonna stand there or help?!" she exclaimed. They let out a laugh as they rushed over to the bed. They each took a side and looked down at Cinder. She smiled at them with a pleading look in her eyes. Matt continued to hold down her shoulders leaving her arms free. Jeff and Shannon jumped on her arms and held them down. "Oh you four are so gonna die!!!"
"What is going on in here?" Leeann asked as she walked into the room. Everyone stopped and looked at her. Jeff, Shannon, and Matt all jumped back while Adam helped up his sister.
"We were just havin some fun Mom," Adam shrugged.
"Cinder, you're supposed to be working on your geometry," her mother said harshly.
"We were Ms. Copeland. We were just taking a break," Matt responded.
"Okay, but I want you to get back to work. Adam, Shannon, and Jeff, out, please," she requested.
"Later Cin," Shannon waved to her as they all walked out. Her mother smiled at Cinder and Matt and shut the door behind her.
"Come on Cinder, the faster we do this, the faster we can go mess around," Matt said as they settled on her bed, getting back to work on her geometry problems.
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"Do you think Matt helped you any?" Adam asked as he and Cinder were grabbing some soda for everyone.
"I think so. Everything makes a little bit more sense to me," she answered as Jay burst through the doors with Amy right on his heel.
"Jay! Give me back my sweatshirt!" Amy yelled as she chased him through the house.
"I believe it's your BOYFRIEND'S!!" he teased.
"Jason Reso!!! I'm warning you!! If you don't give it back now, I'll kick your ass!" she screamed after him. Cinder jumped in front of Jay and gave him a threatening look.
"You gonna give it back to her, or do I have to get physical?" Cinder asked.
"Get physical baby! YEAH!!" Jay laughed as Cinder ripped the sweatshirt out of his hands. She smiled and handed it to Amy.
"Thank you very much!" Amy said as she slapped Jay's shoulder while she walked by him. Jay rubbed his arm with a smile on his face as everyone gathered in the living room. "Where's Shannon and Trish?"
"Out," Cinder smiled.
"Out as in date out?" Amy asked.
"I'd say so," Jeff laughed.
"Is Charlie gonna be here?" Matt asked.
"Hell no!" Adam smiled happily.
"No, he's banned from the house for at least a month," Cinder answered.
"Where's your mom?" Jay asked.
"She's out with some friend. Probably won't be back till early morning. The only reason we were allowed to have friends over," Adam answered as the doorbell rang. Adam sprung up from his seat on the couch and jumped over it to answer the door. Alanah walked in and sat on the couch next Adam and Jay. Matt placed his hand on Amy's back and rubbed it gently while Cinder turned on Fast and The Furious.
"Oh yeah! Vin Diesel and Paul Walker! Yeah baby!" Alanah shouted.
"I'm right there with you girl!" Cinder laughed.
"What's it about that guy that all you girls like?" Jeff asked.
"Look at him!" Amy exclaimed.
"Um, yeah, so?" Matt laughed.
"Well my God, he's fuckin hot!" Cinder said as Adam hit her in the head with a throw pillow. Mist walked over to Cinder and placed her head on Cinder's lap. Cinder rubbed the dog's soft head while Jeff reached over and rubbed her back.
"She's a beautiful dog," Jeff whispered.
"Yeah, she's great," Cinder smiled.
"So, I guess you and Charlie are over right?" Jay asked.
"No, she forgave him, like the idiot she is," Adam growled.
"I love him. He promised me he'd never do anything like that again and I believe him. He just got a bit jealous," Cinder said with a sigh.
"I hear you're getting a car tomorrow. What are you looking for?" Amy asked curiously as she moved towards the kitchen from her position on Matt's lap.
"Mustang," Jay, Adam, Cinder, and Jeff replied. They all laughed at each other as Amy came back with double stuff Oreo cookies.
"I should have known," she laughed as she sat back down.
"STAND BACK THERE'S A.............ummmm, well, I'M COMIN THROUGH!" The door burst open and in "flew" Cinder's crazy comic book loving friend. The top of his hair had been newly dyed green, his favorite color, and he wore one of his many Green Lantern t-shirts.
"Oh my God. Did he seriously just say that?" Matt laughed.
"Um, yeah. Matt, I don't believe you've gotten to know Shane like I have since he's attached to Cinder most of the time," Adam said as Shane joined them in the living room.
"Sorry I'm late. My sister needed a ride to a sleep over," Shane smiled as he took a seat on the floor next to Cinder.
"Man, you need a new entrance or something," Jay said throwing a pillow at Shane.
"I know, but that was the best I could come up with for the time being," Shane shrugged. "So, how are my fellow citizen's tonite?"
"Would you speak like a normal person when you're in our presence?" Amy smiled sarcastically.
"What is normal? Is there really a definition to the word normal?" Shane asked philosophically.
"Oh no, here we go," Alanah laughed.
"Are you normal? Is Jeff normal? How can we define the word normal when so many DIFFERENT people think they're normal?" Shane continued.
"Shane, shut up," Adam said hitting the green haired boy in the head.
"Sorry, did I go off on a tangent again?" he asked.
"Um, yeah, dude, ya did," Jay laughed.
"What about this time?" Shane questioned as he stuck his hand into a bag of microwave popped pop corn.
"The word normal," Matt answered.
"Normal? Could you possibly even classify people into that category?" Shane asked as he popped back into his earlier conversation.
"MATT!!!" Amy yelled through her laughter as Cinder smiled, rolling her eyes at her group of friends.
"Just kidding," Shane laughed.
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"Hi, is Jeff home?" Cinder asked as she stood on the doorstep of her unusual friend's house.
"Cinder, come on in. He's up feeding his zoo," Gil, Jeff's father, answered.
"Thanks Mr. Hardy. I know he's not supposed to really see people cause technically, neither am I," Cinder laughed as she followed the older man into the kitchen. "But I wanted to show him something."
"That's fine. You're always welcome in this house. I think you're a good influence on my son. Even if you two did skip a whole day of school together," he smiled. "Jeff! You've got company!"
"Coming Dad!!" Jeff called as he ran down the stairs. "What's up pop?"
"Cinder's here to show you something," Gil replied as he left the two in the kitchen.
"Hey, what's up?" Jeff smiled.
"I, well, come with me," Cinder smiled as she pulled him out of the house.
"Holy shit! Is that your car?!" Jeff exclaimed as he ran towards the large piece of metal.
"Yep. My mom said that I could show it off today. So, I am," she replied.
"I can't believe you actually got a mustang! Shannon's gonna flip!" Jeff laughed as he slid his hand along the side of the dark blue car. "You even got light blue flames! So awesome!"
"I know. It rides so awesomely. Wanna go for a ride?!" she asked excitedly.
"I don't know if I can. Being grounded and all," Jeff sighed as he peered into the car at the tan leather upholstery.
"Well, it can't hurt to ask," she smiled. He gave her a small smile and walked back into the house.
"Dad, can I go with Cinder in her new car to show it off?" Jeff asked softly, fearing the answer he would get.
"Where would you be going?" his father asked looking over at his son from the Saturday morning paper.
"Umm, just to some friend's house I guess," Jeff replied.
"How long will you be gone?" his father asked.
"Probably a couple hours. Please Dad?" Jeff pleaded.
"I suppose. As long as you only go show it off and come right back. BEFORE DINNER!" his father answered sternly.
"Thank you SO much Dad!" Jeff exclaimed as he excitedly ran out the door. "Let's ride!"
"Seriously?" Cinder exclaimed with a look of skepticism on her face. Jeff slid into the passenger side of the car and lowered the top.
"Are you coming or what?!" Jeff laughed. Cinder smiled and jumped in, skidding off down the road.
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Cinder pulled her sunglasses up onto her head of full blonde hair as she turned off her purring mustang. She sighed with a smile on her face as she stepped out of the car. She adjusted her khaki cargos and stretched her tan arms above her head, causing her already short tank top to rise above her midriff. She grabbed her now band patched up bag and walked towards the school. Trish waved at her from their normal spot on the steps as Cinder approached her.
"How was your date with Shannon Friday nite?" Cinder asked as she sat on the stone steps.
"Oh man. It's not gonna work out for us," Trish sighed as she leaned against the wall in her black leather mini skirt. She pulled up her knee high boots and smiled.
"Why? What happened?" Cinder asked curiously as she popped a piece of watermelon bubble yum gum in her mouth.
"I don't know. It's just not meant to be. That's fine, ya know? I'm cool with it. He's just not my type. I need someone more............jock like," Trish smiled with a shrug.
"Someone like my brother?" Cinder asked.
"Um, yeah, kinda," Trish answered.
"Well, good luck with that. I'll stick with Charlie, thank you," Cinder smiled as they were joined by Shane and Rob.
"You guys, I just scored the new Aquaman comic!" Shane exclaimed happily, his eyes wide open with massive bags under them. He jumped up on the step next to me and moved around to the beat of someone's boombox blaring Ja Rule off in the distance.
"Oh my God, what the hell are you on?!" Cinder exclaimed as she looked closely at her friend.
"Don't mind him. He was up all nite doing some paper for physics and had a latte this morning," Rob said coolly.
"Why?" Trish asked.
"Why what?!" Shane smiled as he continued to bounce around.
"Okay stop before I hand cuff you to the bike rack," Cinder threatened.
"Oooooo, I would love that!" Shane smiled as he placed a quick sloppy kiss on her cheek.
"Oh gross!" she laughed as she wiped off her cheek.
"Okay, back to my question, why did you pull an all niter?" Trish asked.
"Cause it's due today, but he was procrastinating," Rob answered as Shane ran off to greet Chris by his car.
"Oh my God, I SO can't deal with him being like this today," Cinder said shaking her head.
"Cinder!" Charlie called to her from the parking lot. "Get over here!"
"I'll catch ya'll later," Cinder said as she stood.
Rob placed his hand on her shoulder and shook his head at her. "You don't have to jump because he all of a sudden wants you," he said.
"I'm not. He is my boyfriend," she replied snobbishly as she shook his hand off.
"She's changed since that fight, hasn't she?" Trish asked as she stood up next to Rob.
"I think so," Rob replied.
"Whoa, who brain washed C?" Mark asked as he and Glen walked up the steps of the school.
"Dude, what do you mean?" Rob asked.
"I just said hi to her and she shook her head at me," he answered. "She's never done that before."
"Yeah, we think Charlie's gotten into her head," Trish sighed as she crossed her arms.
"See you kids later," Mark said as he and Glen rushed passed them.
"Later," Rob nodded as they stared at their friend being groped by the top quarterback.
"I'm gonna kill him Terry," Adam said as he leaned against his car, watching Charlie rub his hands up and down Cinder's back.
"Hey man, what's up with your sister? I said hey to her and she like ignored me," Oscar said.
"Charlie's being an asshole and keeping her on a short leash when they can be together," Andrew announced as he joined the others without Stacy on his arm.
"Where's your counterpart?" Terry asked.
"You mean Stacy?" Andrew asked as he spit out a wad of gum.
"Um, yeah," Terry laughed.
"We got into a fight last nite. So, she's probably off with the other prissy girls. Ya know, Torrie, Dawn Marie, and all them," Andrew replied.
"Trouble in paradise, huh?" Oscar laughed.
"Oh yeah. She's been really pissing me off lately. I need a girl like C. She's just so happy to please," Andrew said wiggling his eyebrows.
"What'd you just say about my sister?!" Adam exclaimed as he pushed Andrew up against a car.
"I just meant that she seems to jump at every little command that Charlie gives her. That's all man! She is my friend. I wouldn't say anything bad about her," Andrew replied as Adam let up on him. He straightened out his shirt and sighed. "Jesus Adam. What's the matter with you?!"
"Charlie's gotten him pissed off. AGAIN!" Terry answered as they watched Charlie and Cinder walk into the school.
"Ya know, I think he's just gotten more attached to her since the new rule about him started," Adam said as he crossed his arms.
"Are you guys talking about Cinder?" Alanah asked as she walked into her boyfriends loving arms.
"Yeah, how'd ya guess," Adam replied letting loose a quiet chuckle.
"Yeah, well, the rest of the cheerleaders are pretty pissed off with her," Alanah sighed.
"Why? What happened?" Matt asked as he popped into the conversation.
"She never showed up for practice Saturday. We all sat around for her for 2 hours before Trish decided to let us all go. We have a competition this weekend. We're so not gonna do good this weekend without practice," Alanah answered angrily.
"I'll talk to her. Although she probably won't listen to me," Adam said as the first bell rang.
"Hell awaitith!" Terry joked as the large group of them walked into the large school.
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"Matt, I don't get any of this!" Cinder exclaimed as she threw her pencil down on her geometry book.
"Cinder, it's easy if you'd just concentrate," he replied with a smile.
"Just face it, I'm never gonna get geometry. Hell, I'm never gonna use this shit," she said.
"Maybe you will, maybe you won't. But you still have to do it. Listen, if you don't pass this semester your mom is gonna flip!"
"I know. We haven't even hit October and I'm already failing the damn class," she sighed.
"Hey, Matt, are you just gonna spend the nite?" Adam asked as he stuck his head into Cinder's room.
"Um, yeah, if that's alright?" Matt asked.
"Yeah, of course dude," Adam said as he walked into the room and sat next to Cinder on her bed. "How's the studying going?"
"It's not! I quit!" she exclaimed as she stood up frustrated with herself.
"C, you can do it. Come on," Adam smiled as Cinder stood in front of her window.
"I think I just need to leave. Ya know, get out of the house. I've been stuck in here for 2 weeks," she said.
"That's your own fault," Adam laughed.
"Maybe, but I think I've been pretty good," she said as she turned to look at him. She leaned against the wall with her arms crossed over her chest and sighed.
"Well, Mom's taking you out to look at cars tomorrow, so that's a plus. You could be driving back in a car, BY YOURSELF!" Adam laughed.
"Are you makin fun of me?" she asked.
"No way. I would NEVER do that," he smiled sarcastically.
She picked up her pillow and nailed him in the head with it. He grabbed her around the waist and threw her on the bed. She began to laugh uncontrollably as he picked up the pillow and whacked her in the face with it a few times. He looked down at her and laughed evilly as he dove for feet. She struggled but both her brother and Matt had her pinned to the bed. She screamed through her laughter as Adam tickled her feet.
"Cinder?" Shannon asked as he and Jeff walked into her room. They stood in the doorway as she struggled to free herself.
"Are you guys gonna stand there or help?!" she exclaimed. They let out a laugh as they rushed over to the bed. They each took a side and looked down at Cinder. She smiled at them with a pleading look in her eyes. Matt continued to hold down her shoulders leaving her arms free. Jeff and Shannon jumped on her arms and held them down. "Oh you four are so gonna die!!!"
"What is going on in here?" Leeann asked as she walked into the room. Everyone stopped and looked at her. Jeff, Shannon, and Matt all jumped back while Adam helped up his sister.
"We were just havin some fun Mom," Adam shrugged.
"Cinder, you're supposed to be working on your geometry," her mother said harshly.
"We were Ms. Copeland. We were just taking a break," Matt responded.
"Okay, but I want you to get back to work. Adam, Shannon, and Jeff, out, please," she requested.
"Later Cin," Shannon waved to her as they all walked out. Her mother smiled at Cinder and Matt and shut the door behind her.
"Come on Cinder, the faster we do this, the faster we can go mess around," Matt said as they settled on her bed, getting back to work on her geometry problems.
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"Do you think Matt helped you any?" Adam asked as he and Cinder were grabbing some soda for everyone.
"I think so. Everything makes a little bit more sense to me," she answered as Jay burst through the doors with Amy right on his heel.
"Jay! Give me back my sweatshirt!" Amy yelled as she chased him through the house.
"I believe it's your BOYFRIEND'S!!" he teased.
"Jason Reso!!! I'm warning you!! If you don't give it back now, I'll kick your ass!" she screamed after him. Cinder jumped in front of Jay and gave him a threatening look.
"You gonna give it back to her, or do I have to get physical?" Cinder asked.
"Get physical baby! YEAH!!" Jay laughed as Cinder ripped the sweatshirt out of his hands. She smiled and handed it to Amy.
"Thank you very much!" Amy said as she slapped Jay's shoulder while she walked by him. Jay rubbed his arm with a smile on his face as everyone gathered in the living room. "Where's Shannon and Trish?"
"Out," Cinder smiled.
"Out as in date out?" Amy asked.
"I'd say so," Jeff laughed.
"Is Charlie gonna be here?" Matt asked.
"Hell no!" Adam smiled happily.
"No, he's banned from the house for at least a month," Cinder answered.
"Where's your mom?" Jay asked.
"She's out with some friend. Probably won't be back till early morning. The only reason we were allowed to have friends over," Adam answered as the doorbell rang. Adam sprung up from his seat on the couch and jumped over it to answer the door. Alanah walked in and sat on the couch next Adam and Jay. Matt placed his hand on Amy's back and rubbed it gently while Cinder turned on Fast and The Furious.
"Oh yeah! Vin Diesel and Paul Walker! Yeah baby!" Alanah shouted.
"I'm right there with you girl!" Cinder laughed.
"What's it about that guy that all you girls like?" Jeff asked.
"Look at him!" Amy exclaimed.
"Um, yeah, so?" Matt laughed.
"Well my God, he's fuckin hot!" Cinder said as Adam hit her in the head with a throw pillow. Mist walked over to Cinder and placed her head on Cinder's lap. Cinder rubbed the dog's soft head while Jeff reached over and rubbed her back.
"She's a beautiful dog," Jeff whispered.
"Yeah, she's great," Cinder smiled.
"So, I guess you and Charlie are over right?" Jay asked.
"No, she forgave him, like the idiot she is," Adam growled.
"I love him. He promised me he'd never do anything like that again and I believe him. He just got a bit jealous," Cinder said with a sigh.
"I hear you're getting a car tomorrow. What are you looking for?" Amy asked curiously as she moved towards the kitchen from her position on Matt's lap.
"Mustang," Jay, Adam, Cinder, and Jeff replied. They all laughed at each other as Amy came back with double stuff Oreo cookies.
"I should have known," she laughed as she sat back down.
"STAND BACK THERE'S A.............ummmm, well, I'M COMIN THROUGH!" The door burst open and in "flew" Cinder's crazy comic book loving friend. The top of his hair had been newly dyed green, his favorite color, and he wore one of his many Green Lantern t-shirts.
"Oh my God. Did he seriously just say that?" Matt laughed.
"Um, yeah. Matt, I don't believe you've gotten to know Shane like I have since he's attached to Cinder most of the time," Adam said as Shane joined them in the living room.
"Sorry I'm late. My sister needed a ride to a sleep over," Shane smiled as he took a seat on the floor next to Cinder.
"Man, you need a new entrance or something," Jay said throwing a pillow at Shane.
"I know, but that was the best I could come up with for the time being," Shane shrugged. "So, how are my fellow citizen's tonite?"
"Would you speak like a normal person when you're in our presence?" Amy smiled sarcastically.
"What is normal? Is there really a definition to the word normal?" Shane asked philosophically.
"Oh no, here we go," Alanah laughed.
"Are you normal? Is Jeff normal? How can we define the word normal when so many DIFFERENT people think they're normal?" Shane continued.
"Shane, shut up," Adam said hitting the green haired boy in the head.
"Sorry, did I go off on a tangent again?" he asked.
"Um, yeah, dude, ya did," Jay laughed.
"What about this time?" Shane questioned as he stuck his hand into a bag of microwave popped pop corn.
"The word normal," Matt answered.
"Normal? Could you possibly even classify people into that category?" Shane asked as he popped back into his earlier conversation.
"MATT!!!" Amy yelled through her laughter as Cinder smiled, rolling her eyes at her group of friends.
"Just kidding," Shane laughed.
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"Hi, is Jeff home?" Cinder asked as she stood on the doorstep of her unusual friend's house.
"Cinder, come on in. He's up feeding his zoo," Gil, Jeff's father, answered.
"Thanks Mr. Hardy. I know he's not supposed to really see people cause technically, neither am I," Cinder laughed as she followed the older man into the kitchen. "But I wanted to show him something."
"That's fine. You're always welcome in this house. I think you're a good influence on my son. Even if you two did skip a whole day of school together," he smiled. "Jeff! You've got company!"
"Coming Dad!!" Jeff called as he ran down the stairs. "What's up pop?"
"Cinder's here to show you something," Gil replied as he left the two in the kitchen.
"Hey, what's up?" Jeff smiled.
"I, well, come with me," Cinder smiled as she pulled him out of the house.
"Holy shit! Is that your car?!" Jeff exclaimed as he ran towards the large piece of metal.
"Yep. My mom said that I could show it off today. So, I am," she replied.
"I can't believe you actually got a mustang! Shannon's gonna flip!" Jeff laughed as he slid his hand along the side of the dark blue car. "You even got light blue flames! So awesome!"
"I know. It rides so awesomely. Wanna go for a ride?!" she asked excitedly.
"I don't know if I can. Being grounded and all," Jeff sighed as he peered into the car at the tan leather upholstery.
"Well, it can't hurt to ask," she smiled. He gave her a small smile and walked back into the house.
"Dad, can I go with Cinder in her new car to show it off?" Jeff asked softly, fearing the answer he would get.
"Where would you be going?" his father asked looking over at his son from the Saturday morning paper.
"Umm, just to some friend's house I guess," Jeff replied.
"How long will you be gone?" his father asked.
"Probably a couple hours. Please Dad?" Jeff pleaded.
"I suppose. As long as you only go show it off and come right back. BEFORE DINNER!" his father answered sternly.
"Thank you SO much Dad!" Jeff exclaimed as he excitedly ran out the door. "Let's ride!"
"Seriously?" Cinder exclaimed with a look of skepticism on her face. Jeff slid into the passenger side of the car and lowered the top.
"Are you coming or what?!" Jeff laughed. Cinder smiled and jumped in, skidding off down the road.
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Cinder pulled her sunglasses up onto her head of full blonde hair as she turned off her purring mustang. She sighed with a smile on her face as she stepped out of the car. She adjusted her khaki cargos and stretched her tan arms above her head, causing her already short tank top to rise above her midriff. She grabbed her now band patched up bag and walked towards the school. Trish waved at her from their normal spot on the steps as Cinder approached her.
"How was your date with Shannon Friday nite?" Cinder asked as she sat on the stone steps.
"Oh man. It's not gonna work out for us," Trish sighed as she leaned against the wall in her black leather mini skirt. She pulled up her knee high boots and smiled.
"Why? What happened?" Cinder asked curiously as she popped a piece of watermelon bubble yum gum in her mouth.
"I don't know. It's just not meant to be. That's fine, ya know? I'm cool with it. He's just not my type. I need someone more............jock like," Trish smiled with a shrug.
"Someone like my brother?" Cinder asked.
"Um, yeah, kinda," Trish answered.
"Well, good luck with that. I'll stick with Charlie, thank you," Cinder smiled as they were joined by Shane and Rob.
"You guys, I just scored the new Aquaman comic!" Shane exclaimed happily, his eyes wide open with massive bags under them. He jumped up on the step next to me and moved around to the beat of someone's boombox blaring Ja Rule off in the distance.
"Oh my God, what the hell are you on?!" Cinder exclaimed as she looked closely at her friend.
"Don't mind him. He was up all nite doing some paper for physics and had a latte this morning," Rob said coolly.
"Why?" Trish asked.
"Why what?!" Shane smiled as he continued to bounce around.
"Okay stop before I hand cuff you to the bike rack," Cinder threatened.
"Oooooo, I would love that!" Shane smiled as he placed a quick sloppy kiss on her cheek.
"Oh gross!" she laughed as she wiped off her cheek.
"Okay, back to my question, why did you pull an all niter?" Trish asked.
"Cause it's due today, but he was procrastinating," Rob answered as Shane ran off to greet Chris by his car.
"Oh my God, I SO can't deal with him being like this today," Cinder said shaking her head.
"Cinder!" Charlie called to her from the parking lot. "Get over here!"
"I'll catch ya'll later," Cinder said as she stood.
Rob placed his hand on her shoulder and shook his head at her. "You don't have to jump because he all of a sudden wants you," he said.
"I'm not. He is my boyfriend," she replied snobbishly as she shook his hand off.
"She's changed since that fight, hasn't she?" Trish asked as she stood up next to Rob.
"I think so," Rob replied.
"Whoa, who brain washed C?" Mark asked as he and Glen walked up the steps of the school.
"Dude, what do you mean?" Rob asked.
"I just said hi to her and she shook her head at me," he answered. "She's never done that before."
"Yeah, we think Charlie's gotten into her head," Trish sighed as she crossed her arms.
"See you kids later," Mark said as he and Glen rushed passed them.
"Later," Rob nodded as they stared at their friend being groped by the top quarterback.
"I'm gonna kill him Terry," Adam said as he leaned against his car, watching Charlie rub his hands up and down Cinder's back.
"Hey man, what's up with your sister? I said hey to her and she like ignored me," Oscar said.
"Charlie's being an asshole and keeping her on a short leash when they can be together," Andrew announced as he joined the others without Stacy on his arm.
"Where's your counterpart?" Terry asked.
"You mean Stacy?" Andrew asked as he spit out a wad of gum.
"Um, yeah," Terry laughed.
"We got into a fight last nite. So, she's probably off with the other prissy girls. Ya know, Torrie, Dawn Marie, and all them," Andrew replied.
"Trouble in paradise, huh?" Oscar laughed.
"Oh yeah. She's been really pissing me off lately. I need a girl like C. She's just so happy to please," Andrew said wiggling his eyebrows.
"What'd you just say about my sister?!" Adam exclaimed as he pushed Andrew up against a car.
"I just meant that she seems to jump at every little command that Charlie gives her. That's all man! She is my friend. I wouldn't say anything bad about her," Andrew replied as Adam let up on him. He straightened out his shirt and sighed. "Jesus Adam. What's the matter with you?!"
"Charlie's gotten him pissed off. AGAIN!" Terry answered as they watched Charlie and Cinder walk into the school.
"Ya know, I think he's just gotten more attached to her since the new rule about him started," Adam said as he crossed his arms.
"Are you guys talking about Cinder?" Alanah asked as she walked into her boyfriends loving arms.
"Yeah, how'd ya guess," Adam replied letting loose a quiet chuckle.
"Yeah, well, the rest of the cheerleaders are pretty pissed off with her," Alanah sighed.
"Why? What happened?" Matt asked as he popped into the conversation.
"She never showed up for practice Saturday. We all sat around for her for 2 hours before Trish decided to let us all go. We have a competition this weekend. We're so not gonna do good this weekend without practice," Alanah answered angrily.
"I'll talk to her. Although she probably won't listen to me," Adam said as the first bell rang.
"Hell awaitith!" Terry joked as the large group of them walked into the large school.