As her alarm resounded in the distance of her dream making out to be a drum (don't ask) Kat was aroused by her little brother. "Eric stop it!" Kat said as she tried hitting her little brother in the face with her eyes closed.

"Mom said it was time to get up. And since you wouldn't wake up by your alarm...as usual I get to wake you up," he said still shaking her.

"Fine. Just get out WORM!"

"Kat called me worm!"

"Kat don't call your brother worm and get up you are going to miss your bus!" her mother said from the bottom of the stairs.

"I am getting up! OK...can you get off my back for like, five minutes?!?!"

"Excuse me young lady? What did you say to me?!"

"Nothing Mom! I'll be right down!" she yelled as she reached for her robe and slippers.

She ran down the stairs taking two at a time. As she reached the bottom step she saw her friends waiting for her. Her friend Amber had already picked out some clothes for her to wear to school. "Thanks girl. You are like, a life saver," she said giving Amber a hug.

"I know how you like to mix and match...plus I remember you saying that you wanted to borrow my red shirt and black pants for school today. So you know, I naturally thought it was a win win sichiation," Amber said after their little hug.

"Right. And Rob...nice outfit," she said almost in laughter.

"Just because my mom made me dress in these normal/ugly clothes that I got for Christmas doesn't mean anything," he said defensively.

"Whatevah," Kat retorted.

She went to the breakfast table and grabbed a cereal bar. Then ran up the stairs to her room. In five short minutes she had gotten dressed and everything.

"Ready to go you guys?"

"Yeah," Rob and Amber said together.

As they walked to school ,since they missed their bus, the three started talking about what they were going to do to the teachers and Samantha for the first week back to school from Christmas break.

"Maybe we should put a whoopi cushion in Mr. Pearson's seat (social studies), and a frog in Mr. Linnox's drawer (science) since we don't want to disect frogs, and a fake skeleton in Mrs. Rusher's closet (Language Arts, English, Reading, Spelling, etc.) since she is scared of that stuff. Hey, maybe we can get rid of her like the last teacher we had!" Christian said.

"No, let's not do anything to Mrs. Rusher. She is the only teacher who isn't flunking me...practically," Amber protested.

"Well it is a tradition that after every break we pull a prank on every main subject (social studies, language arts, science, and math) teacher," Rob reminded her.

"Yeah and besides Amber, you like never ever flunk anything. Your like, a straight "A" student, even if they are low "A"s," Kat said.

"Oh I guess you guys are right. Kat do you think you could do my hair?" Amber inquired her friend. "I have been having trouble with the whole little pigtails thing goin' on," Amber told her.

"OK yea. Give me your brush and I will do your hair at the next bus stop sign."

OK...cool," the teen said as she fished through her back pack. "You know what? I might not be able to do my hair because it is so short now," she said as she handed Kat the brush. "But I know I could do something with your hair!"

Kat took out a mirror and looked at her plain brown hair in the same old pony tail as usual, then handed it to her friend. "No thanks. I like the way I am," she said.

"OK this is very touching really, but we are going to be late...again! So can you do her hair as we walk or something?" Rob said.

"I guess I could try." Kat replied.

"OK...we'll give it a try!" Amber said in agreement.

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When the three reached school Amber's hair had been fixed and now the short haired blonde had two French braided pigtails on the back of her head. Unfortunately for Kat, Amber had persuaded her to let her do her hair so now Kat had a bun in her hair with frillies coming out of it and her bangs were hanging elegantly in her face. Actually she looked very pretty but of course as usual.she hated it. They did their thing for the morning classes.pulled pranks on teachers. They weren't rebels or punks or anything, they just liked to welcome everyone in their class back to school by laughing at the teacher after a prank was pulled.

At lunch they sat at a table in the courtyard which was unusual because they usually sat in the grass and ate their lunch. Today though, there was an empty table.so they sat at it. While they were eating the guy, Matt, Amber has a crush on (even though he isn't crushing back if you know what I mean) came by to talk.

"Hey Kat," Matt said to Kat.

"Amber is he gone yet?" Kat asked her best friend. Kat was looking at her Math homework which she was working on, trying really hard not to acknowledge his presence.

"Nope.not yet. Hi Matt," Amber replied. "Why do you ask Kat?"

"Because maybe if I don't acknowledge his presents he will either leave or vanish. Most likely he will leave because I am not lucky enough for him to vanish," she explained.

"Hey dude. What's up?" Rob inquired Matt as he gave Matt a high five.

"Nothing out of the ordinary. Just trying to get your friend here to first acknowledge my presence then go out with me."

"Well sit down and relax because it will take you a while."

As Rob said the word sit Kat fell off her bench to the ground. "ROB!! You know what happens when you say that word. Now I am going to have to look up to get back in my seat and then I will see him and then I will have to have you tell him everything I am saying!"

"Sorry. I didn't mean.I forgot. You know you should stop watching television. Sit is a very common word and I liked it when it was in my vocabulary," he said in defense as she fell yet a second time.

"Shit man. Why do you have to do that!?!?"

"Sorry!" Rob exclaimed as he helped her up.

"Ya know I am just going to go to the bathroom.bye ya'll," Amber said getting up from the table.

"No.don't leave me her-"

Her sentence was cut off by Matt. "So want to go to the prom with me Kitty Kat?"

"Rob, tell the flaming imbecile sitting across from me that my answer is no."

"She said that her answ-"

"I know. Why not?"

"Because your an ASS!"

"Wow she is talking to me again! We are making progress yet!"

He started to move his foot slowly towards hers and try to get her to play footsie but that ended up in her stomping on his foot. "Look I don't know how many more times I am going to have to feed you this speech but I am not getting tired of it. So here I go.again. You are and ass and a flaming imbecile. I don't like you nor will I ever."

"Again," he cut in.

"Nor will I ever!" Kat said trying to get him to shut up and listen to her. "Stop talking to me and just go ask Samantha to the prom and let me get in with my life! Besides.she is your type anyway, you know.preppy, popular, and full of herself. So buh bye!!" Those were her final words as she departed from the table.but not after throwing her pudding in his face. As she was leaving Amber returned and asked, "what happened this time?"

"Oh she fed him the speech.again, and threw pudding in his face. You know.the usual," Rob told her.

" If she does not let up I am never going to go out with him. Never!"

"I will not let up you guys. He IS an ass!" Kat retorted as they both mouthed the word ass as she said it.

The rest of the day was filled with boring speeches and lots of homework.

Please send me reviews.I really worked hard on this chapter.