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Part 2

She had gone the entire day without another show down. In fact she hadn't really seen Liz or Isabel or the rest of they're posse. She figured they must be skipping, luckily they took little Pam Troy with them. She hated Pam with a passion, with every fiber in her body. Pam was the worst of the group, she wanted to prove herself to the Ice Bitch herself that she was cool enough, that she was witty enough and so her comments were the worst.

Maria often dreamed of the day she'd come home from camp, beautiful from the inside, but most of all she'd come home confident. And she would make sure to stomp them all to pieces, them and they're little boy toys. She'd have gained the courage to overcome they're nasty words, she would free herself from they're chains.

"Maria." Tess said breaking her from her thoughts.

Maria whirled around her hair flopping into her face as she searched the halls for her best friend, once she'd spotted Tess heading towards her Maria noticed her face was flushed.

Maria whirled around her hair whipping into her face as she scanned the people near by looking for her best friend, once she'd finally spotted Tess she waved her over. Watching as her friend came closer she took notice of how flushed she looked.

"What happened?" Maria asked concern written all over her face.

"Nothing." Tess lied her eyes cast downward.

Maria knew better, Tess had to be lying, because as long as she knew Tess she had been able to tell when she was lying and this had to be one of those times. "Stop lying and tell me what happened." Maria snapped.

"Well.." Tess started twisting her hands nervously. "It's just."

"It's just what?"

"It's just. well." Tess slowly went on.

"Spit it out!" Maria orders anxiously.

"Isabel hit me." Tess finally admitted.

"SHE DID WHAT?" Maria shouted causing people near by to turn and look.

"Yeah." Tess started. "Alex and I were talking and then Alex leans over and kissed me."

"WHAT?" Maria said even more surprised.

"It was nothing like that." Tess rushed quickly to explain.

"What happened then?" Maria asked raising her eyebrow. She didn't even know Tess and Alex liked one another, why hadn't they told her? She would have understood, it just didn't make sense!

"It's not like that, we noticed Isabel staring at us, so Alex wanted to see what her problem was so he kissed me to give her something to really look at." Tess rushed on trying to catch her breath as her cheeks became pinker "And she just came up and hit me." Tess finished wiping the sweat from her forehead.

"I can't believe that. that BITCH!" Maria said angrily. "I hate her!"

"I know. I do too! But it's just weird you know?" Tess said with an evil smile "I don't know why she did that but she'll get what's owed to her, in due time."

"I hope so." She said sliding her arm around Tess's shoulders.

"So what was it like?"

"What was what like?" Tess asked completely confused.

"DUH! Kissing Alex." Maria said teasingly.

"I don't know it wasn't a real kiss." Tess said. "I mean it's kind of weird."

"Oh?"

"Well he's like my second best friend. Its just weird." Tess said giggling as they made their way over to Maria's car.

Maria sighed as the dreams of all the different way's she'd pictured receiving her very first kiss, she longed for someone to take her in they're arms and just kiss her senseless, of course she wanted it to be perfect, to share it with someone special.

She dreamed of many things like that, she dreamed of the day she'd be sharing her life with someone else, the day she walked down the isle staring into the love of her life's eyes. To watch him repeat they're vows, to promise to love each other for the rest of they're lives.

A day in which she would go home completely content, happy with herself, happy with her life. She wanted someone to love her for her, someone who wouldn't care whether she was a size 2 or a size 20, someone who wouldn't care what she looked like now nor what she would look like 20 years from now. She wanted someone who'd love her no matter what because of what she was on the inside.

Maria knew that those things didn't seem likely, she didn't know who could possibly love her, why would they? She had nothing to offer, she knew dreaming was pointless and she did a lot of dreaming but it was better then nothing, it was better then her reality.