The evil bad update-y author had RETURNED! With a longer chapter! yey! I honestly now have no idea when I can update I luckily no longer have writers block so a big YEY! Umm that's bout it I was going to update sooner but I got stuck going away for the easter long weekend... and horse camp and :( o and I decided that hey Alanna's a teenager she should damn well be able to talk like one dammit! So ya I moved the rating from pg - pg13 for language. More to come it just it would have taken mew three more days to finish so I split the chapter into two. I hope this is longer then before(chapter wise)

Alanna though about the challenge she faced. She could do all the work giving Delia a decent grade, snitch out on Delia but that would give her a bad reputation, so she immediately crossed that option out. She decided she'd do her half, for now. Alanna grabbed her book and began reading. "Wow this is dull," she though after she had finished the first chapter. "One down, thirty-two to go. Josiane probably warned her about this already." Alanna looked back at Delia who was in conversation with a classmate whose partner was absent. She decided she'd talk to the guys about what to do with Delia. What a bitch.

An hour and a half of boredom later, Alanna headed off the bus and planned to get home and crash. Jon walked beside her and faced toward her moving his hand to her head and moving aside a strand of hair that had fallen on her face.

"You look tired," he remarked, now just staring in her eyes, making her smile.

"Ya, today has been pretty much shit, except...," she started, "just getting all that stuff with Josiane cleared up."

"Well you go home, rest up." Jon replied, not taking his eyes off her. "But do you want to do something maybe later?"

"Seven good?" softly asked Alanna.

"Sure," Jon answered, then grabbing Alanna pulling her into his arms and kissing her swiftly. She reacted and the two stood at the street corner for a short while, not thinking about much.

"Later," Alanna said before heading home. Alanna sluggishly made her way to her house and dropped her bag on the floor and headed to her room. She replied to Coram's "hello" with a grunt. After the journey from the bus to her room Alanna collapsed on her bed and slept. She wasn't entirely sure why she was so sleepy, maybe because of Delia, or possibly because she stayed up late working on her homework...one of the cons of being a procrastinator.

Regardless of the reason Alanna, immediately zoned out. Almost four hours the ringing of the telephone woke up Alanna. Lying in bed, eyes still closed she heard her name being called.

"ALANNA!" Coram yelled from downstairs. "PHONE!" Alanna rolled over grabbing her phone next to her bed, and finally opening her eyes.

"'ello," Alanna asked, voice still quite groggy from just waking up.

"'lanna!" a familiar voice to Alanna, squeked.

"Ky?" replied Alanna, jerking her head up and a sense of happiness struck her.

"Yup it's me!" Alanna smiled as she heard her best friend's voice in the other end. Kylie, or as her friends called her "Ky" was much like Alanna. The two grew up together, both tomboys, both were happy they way they were, never trying to be someone else. The two were inseparable, until the tragic news came to Alanna that she was being forced to move because of her father's promotion. "Alanna it's been so long!"

"So much has changed" Alanna replied, her voice slowly softening, as she remembered the way she used to be, how all the girls were looking a celebrities in magazines, talking about which were the most "hot" and Ky and herself not giving a care about any of it. Now she met Jon, he changed her view.

"I know! High school is so different"

"Ya...hey Ky?"

"Yup"

"How are the guys?" Alanna asked with a smile. Her best guys friends, Jake, Jayson, and Tyler had known her since kinder garden. Jake had developed a crush on Kylie, but only Alanna knew this. Before she left, Jake had told her he would ask Kylie out during high school and Alanna was anxious to know if he had yet.

"Their pretty good, actually Jake asked me out, kind of a shocker."

The two carried on their conversation for an hour, until the doorbell rang. Alanna immediately knew it was Jon, and after a promise to call back, she quickly brushed her hair headed downstairs.