Mads was sat in History, totally bored out of her mind. Kai who was sitting
next to her looked like he was about to slip into a coma. Mads had been
occupying herself by drawing tattoos all along her arms. Being so bored
they wern't exactly the happiest of tattoos. Then again Mads really isn't
the cheeriest of people. Cobwebs and skulls decorated her arm. When there
wasn't any more space on her left arm, Mads lay her head on the table and
decided to daydream. After a few moments she felt something on her right
arm. She guessed correctly that Kai was drawing on her arm, but she didn't
have enough energy to see what he was doing. Knowing Kai he was probably
drawing smiley faces and kittens on her arm just to piss her off. Mads had
Miss Clancy for History as did all her friends. Miss Clancy is the most
boring teacher you can get, she makes battles and executions sound like
physics. Unfortunately for some, like Thorn they also have her for Science.
So you can guess how tedious Science is if shes your teacher. At that
moment Thorn rushed in. Late as usual. Mads laughed when she saw her, Thorn
looked a mess. More so than usual. She had a hand print on her cheek where
she'd been lying on it. Her hair was being held up in a bun by an
assortment of pens. Thorn also looked totally confused, as if she'd just
woken up. Which was probably true. With a mumbeled apology Thorn staggered
to her chair, slumped into it and looked as if she was about to fall
asleep.
For the next ten minutes Thorn tried her best to keep her concentration on History, but she just couldn't do it. All the dates and facts, it was just too confusing. She wasn't even sure what war they were studying, World War 1 or the Crimean War?.
"Madelaine and Kai, have you been paying attention?" Miss Clancy asked the pair who both had their heads lying on the table. A sound that sounded suspiciously like snoring was coming from their table. Mads looked up first, an extremely irritated expression on her face. Miss Clancy was one of those few teachers that insisted on calling Mads by her full name. Mads nudged Kai a few times, before he too lifted his head up. Thorn could hear a few 'awws' at Kais appearance, his eyes were half closed and hair mussed up. He looked adorable. Although not in Thorn's opinion. Obviously. Miss Clancy repeated herself "Have you been paying attention?"
Kai and Mads looked at each other before both saying simultaneously "No"
Miss Clancy looked furious "Then neither of you will understand what we've been doing".
Kai and Mads smirked at each other, before Mads started reciting exactly what Miss Clancy had been telling the class. Kai finished for her. Miss Clancy stood stunned as Mads and Kai dropped their heads to the table again. Thorn sighed, Kai and Mads were so lucky, they had photographic memories or something. They could be messing around for the whole lesson but still have more understanding about the subject then even the teacher.
Thorn resigned herself to giving her full attention to her lessons, she would stop daydreaming and improve her grades. Except in Maths and Science, because no way was she going to do well in them, 110% attention or not. Well at least she had now been informed they were studying World War 2. When was that again?.
As Mads was walking out of History she heard hysterical laughter from behind her. She turned around and faced Mariah, Thorn and her other friends. "What?" she asked. Mariah was laughing too much to respond. Ray explained tentatively "Erm Mads have you seen your arm?". Mads looked at her arm covered in pen and then at her other. MADS LUVS TALA was written in red along her arm. Mads caught sight of her cousin before screaming "KAIIIIIIIII " and chasing him down the corridors.
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It was breaktime and everyone was hanging at the benches. Thorn has alot of friends. Which is actually quite surprising seeing as shes the sort of person that forgets your name four or five times when you first meet her. However everyone seems to embrace her ditziness. Well there are some exceptions, Johnny, Michael and Tala love to tease her whenever they get an oppurtunity. Its light hearted, Thorn knows she can count on them for help. The person who loves to tease her the most is.......... you guessed it Kai. Right now, Thorn didn't know where Johnny, Michael, Tala and Kai were. They usually all hang out together, the most popular guys in the school. Right now the people ensembled at the benches were Mads, Mariah, Ray, Max, Lee and a few others that Thorn always hangs with. This included Tyson, sadly. Thorn didn't like Tyson she didn't know why he was just so irritating. That was one thing she and Kai actually had in common. The only person that Kai loved to tease with as much enthusiasm as Thorn, is Tyson. Kai likes nothing better than to make food jokes about him. Anything that contains the words 'fat' 'greedy' and 'pig'. Preferably all three. Tyson doesn't usually seem to be fazed by it though, Max put it down to his happy nature, Kai says Tysons just too dumb to understand. Mads had been asking Thorn if she'd seen Kai today.
When Thorn had replied "No, thankfully". Tyson had exclaimed in a confused voice (that means his normal tone) " Don't you like Kai or something". Everyone had stared at him. Mads had her eyebrows raised so high they were in danger of dissapearing, she was also scowling. Although that probably had nothing to do with Tyson. She had spent the whole of her second lesson in the toilets trying to scrub the message on her arm off. She had been unsuccessful, Kai had used some sort of permanent pen. It was like in Friends when Ross drew on Rachels face. 'And the fact that i know about Friends, shows i spend way too much time with Mariah' Mads thought to herself.
" Tyson have you actually been paying attention to us these last 7 years" Lee had asked in an amused voice.
Tyson became defensive " Well i always thought you two had a thing for each other".
Thorn stood there shocked, Tyson was even more of a moron than she had thought. "It seems Tysons more observant than we give him credit for" Mariah said quietly.
"What did you say?" Thorn demanded with narrow eyes. She didn't like the way her friends were exchanging knowing looks. She thought they would of started hysterically laughing at Tysons absurd idea. Instead they were being secretive. Thorn was growing increasingly angrier, she didn't like being left out of the loop. When the bell went to signify the start of the next two lessons before lunch, she walked off without saying goodbye to her friends. They wern't worried, it was Thorn they were talking about. A goldfish has a more impressive memory, all would be forgiven by lunchtime.
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They turned out to be wrong. For once in her life, Thorn was holding a grudge. She wasn't talking to any of them, until they revealed what had been oh so amusing. She was taking a long time to look through her locker, mostly because she wasn't quite sure what to do. All of her friends would be hanging out together. Seeing as she wasn't talking to any of them, she didn't know who to hang out with.
" Well if it isn't the Thorn in my side" A familiar voice said from behind her. Thorn didn't bother to reply. She really wasn't in the mood to deal with Kai.
"Are you OK, because your usually trying to shove me, face first into a locker by now" Kai said confused. Thorn sighed, it was just her luck, when shes looking like a sad loner who should turn up, but Kai. For some weird reason Thorn ended up telling him what had happened.
"Well, do you wanna come hang out with me and Tal then?" Kai asked her seriously, head cocked to the side. Thorn stared, Kai was being nice to her? Well this was ................ different. A few days ago he had completely (purposely) splashed her with his car. Which by the way she still hadn't had any revenge for. Now he was being all sweet.........it was way weird.
"Erm are you sure?" Thorn asked.
"Yeah" Kai said "Come on then" he said guiding her torwards his friends.
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Mads had PE after lunch. She had been surprised when Thorn wasn't there at lunch, and even more surprised when she had spotted her laughing with Kai and Tala. Thorn tried to pretend that she disliked Kai but it was obvious the pair would make a perfect couple. Mads heard giggling and was suddenly aware of Whoreleen and her friends (including Becca) watching her. They were laughing and pointing at her arm. Mads groaned, it would be around the school in seconds that her and Tala are an item. She pulled on a long sleaved sweater. She would find a way to get the pen marks off her arm or she would have to amputate it. She casually walked into the hall, the only girl wearing tracksuit bottoms. The others were either wearing shorts or mini-skirts(emphasis on the short and mini parts).
Thorn was in drama with Mariah. Drama was one of the lessons that Thorn was very good at. Thorn was ignoring Mariah's attempts at making up, she wanted her to suffer a little more. To tell you the truth, Thorn's anger had already subsided but she was enjoying everyone acting all worried. Lunchtime with Kai and Tala had been really fun, surprisingly. The duo were really funny and they had actually made her feel better. Maybe Kai wasn't so bad after all, Thorn thought to herself. "Owwww" Thorn suddenly shouted as something hard bounced off her head.
"Whoops, sorry didn't see you there" Kais voice yelled from the other side of the room. Thorn shook her head 'What had she been thinking? Kai would never change'.
Mads was annoyed, usually PE was one of her best lessons. However Whoreleen and her cronies had spent the whole lesson sreaming if the ball came anywhere near them. Mads and the PE teacher, Miss Scott, had shared an exasperated glance when they had to take a time out. Why? because someone had broken a nail. At the end of the lesson Miss Scott had got a few girls to help take the equipment to the PE cupboards. This included Becca, who hadn't been very pleased about it. Hard labour wasn't her thing apparently. Although Mads was sceptical carrying a netball counted as labour.
Mads had trailed behind the others going to the changing rooms. She decided to go to the toilets first. She was about to walk through the door when she heard familiar voices from inside
"I know, shes such a cold bitch" Whoreleen said from inside in her girly, preppy voice. Mads smirked she could guess who they were talking about, they would never have the guts to say it to her face though.
"God knows why Tala likes her" Some giggly girl replied, named Holly or Polly. Or something like that, Mads just called them Crony1 or Crony2.
"Hes apparently crazy about her" Whoreleen replied, as she probably applied a top up of the inch thick make-up on her face. Mads was slightly shocked, crazy about her?. She had always thought that Tala was just joking or something. I mean she had never ever been anything but disdainful around him. Mads shook her head, Why was she eavesdropping? Not just eavesdropping but eavesdropping on Whoreleen, thats just sad.
"How do you know that?" the girl replied.
"Becca" Mads replied.
"Becca?" whatever her name said. Mads frowned, the girl had said Beccas name in a 'dirt beneath my feet' way.
"Yeah i know you don't like her, i mean i don't even like her that much but she does have some benefits". Whoreleen said smarmily. Mads was shocked, Whoreleen was reaching new lows in Mads esteem.
"Why do you think i became her friend?" Whoreleen started again "It meant that i could spend all my time at her Uncle and Aunts mansion".
The other girl made a cross between a 'huh' and a 'what'.
"It meant that i got to spend alot of time around Kai" Whoreleen said in a 'duh' voice.
"Oh" the girl said giggling, before they started talking about the hotness of Kai, which frankly Mads didn't want to hear about her cousin. Mads pushed open the door and marched in, interrupting Whoreleen as she brushed her hair. That girl has an obsession with her hair. Its long and blond, making her look like a very second rate Britney Spears. Whoreleen would faint if she even found one split end. The two cheerleaders exchanged glances. With satisfaction Mads noticed the slight fear in their eyes, 'They haven't seen anything yet' Mads thought to herself. Both girls suddenly seemed in a hurry to leave. As Whoreleen waltzed past, Mads called her back. With a mock kind face, Mads handed her something. Informing her "Heres a quarter-go buy yourself the rest of that skirt".
When the gruesome twosome left, Mads smiled evilly to herself. She had a perfect oppurtunity to break up Kai and Whoreleen. All she had to do was break it to Becca that her best friend is a two faced cow. Somehow she had a feeling that Becca wouldn't be too willing to believe her. Mads remembered that on Friday night Whoreleen would be staying the night at their house. It was time to invite Mariah and Thorn to that sleepover. Mads smiled it was going to be alot of fun.
For the next ten minutes Thorn tried her best to keep her concentration on History, but she just couldn't do it. All the dates and facts, it was just too confusing. She wasn't even sure what war they were studying, World War 1 or the Crimean War?.
"Madelaine and Kai, have you been paying attention?" Miss Clancy asked the pair who both had their heads lying on the table. A sound that sounded suspiciously like snoring was coming from their table. Mads looked up first, an extremely irritated expression on her face. Miss Clancy was one of those few teachers that insisted on calling Mads by her full name. Mads nudged Kai a few times, before he too lifted his head up. Thorn could hear a few 'awws' at Kais appearance, his eyes were half closed and hair mussed up. He looked adorable. Although not in Thorn's opinion. Obviously. Miss Clancy repeated herself "Have you been paying attention?"
Kai and Mads looked at each other before both saying simultaneously "No"
Miss Clancy looked furious "Then neither of you will understand what we've been doing".
Kai and Mads smirked at each other, before Mads started reciting exactly what Miss Clancy had been telling the class. Kai finished for her. Miss Clancy stood stunned as Mads and Kai dropped their heads to the table again. Thorn sighed, Kai and Mads were so lucky, they had photographic memories or something. They could be messing around for the whole lesson but still have more understanding about the subject then even the teacher.
Thorn resigned herself to giving her full attention to her lessons, she would stop daydreaming and improve her grades. Except in Maths and Science, because no way was she going to do well in them, 110% attention or not. Well at least she had now been informed they were studying World War 2. When was that again?.
As Mads was walking out of History she heard hysterical laughter from behind her. She turned around and faced Mariah, Thorn and her other friends. "What?" she asked. Mariah was laughing too much to respond. Ray explained tentatively "Erm Mads have you seen your arm?". Mads looked at her arm covered in pen and then at her other. MADS LUVS TALA was written in red along her arm. Mads caught sight of her cousin before screaming "KAIIIIIIIII " and chasing him down the corridors.
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It was breaktime and everyone was hanging at the benches. Thorn has alot of friends. Which is actually quite surprising seeing as shes the sort of person that forgets your name four or five times when you first meet her. However everyone seems to embrace her ditziness. Well there are some exceptions, Johnny, Michael and Tala love to tease her whenever they get an oppurtunity. Its light hearted, Thorn knows she can count on them for help. The person who loves to tease her the most is.......... you guessed it Kai. Right now, Thorn didn't know where Johnny, Michael, Tala and Kai were. They usually all hang out together, the most popular guys in the school. Right now the people ensembled at the benches were Mads, Mariah, Ray, Max, Lee and a few others that Thorn always hangs with. This included Tyson, sadly. Thorn didn't like Tyson she didn't know why he was just so irritating. That was one thing she and Kai actually had in common. The only person that Kai loved to tease with as much enthusiasm as Thorn, is Tyson. Kai likes nothing better than to make food jokes about him. Anything that contains the words 'fat' 'greedy' and 'pig'. Preferably all three. Tyson doesn't usually seem to be fazed by it though, Max put it down to his happy nature, Kai says Tysons just too dumb to understand. Mads had been asking Thorn if she'd seen Kai today.
When Thorn had replied "No, thankfully". Tyson had exclaimed in a confused voice (that means his normal tone) " Don't you like Kai or something". Everyone had stared at him. Mads had her eyebrows raised so high they were in danger of dissapearing, she was also scowling. Although that probably had nothing to do with Tyson. She had spent the whole of her second lesson in the toilets trying to scrub the message on her arm off. She had been unsuccessful, Kai had used some sort of permanent pen. It was like in Friends when Ross drew on Rachels face. 'And the fact that i know about Friends, shows i spend way too much time with Mariah' Mads thought to herself.
" Tyson have you actually been paying attention to us these last 7 years" Lee had asked in an amused voice.
Tyson became defensive " Well i always thought you two had a thing for each other".
Thorn stood there shocked, Tyson was even more of a moron than she had thought. "It seems Tysons more observant than we give him credit for" Mariah said quietly.
"What did you say?" Thorn demanded with narrow eyes. She didn't like the way her friends were exchanging knowing looks. She thought they would of started hysterically laughing at Tysons absurd idea. Instead they were being secretive. Thorn was growing increasingly angrier, she didn't like being left out of the loop. When the bell went to signify the start of the next two lessons before lunch, she walked off without saying goodbye to her friends. They wern't worried, it was Thorn they were talking about. A goldfish has a more impressive memory, all would be forgiven by lunchtime.
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They turned out to be wrong. For once in her life, Thorn was holding a grudge. She wasn't talking to any of them, until they revealed what had been oh so amusing. She was taking a long time to look through her locker, mostly because she wasn't quite sure what to do. All of her friends would be hanging out together. Seeing as she wasn't talking to any of them, she didn't know who to hang out with.
" Well if it isn't the Thorn in my side" A familiar voice said from behind her. Thorn didn't bother to reply. She really wasn't in the mood to deal with Kai.
"Are you OK, because your usually trying to shove me, face first into a locker by now" Kai said confused. Thorn sighed, it was just her luck, when shes looking like a sad loner who should turn up, but Kai. For some weird reason Thorn ended up telling him what had happened.
"Well, do you wanna come hang out with me and Tal then?" Kai asked her seriously, head cocked to the side. Thorn stared, Kai was being nice to her? Well this was ................ different. A few days ago he had completely (purposely) splashed her with his car. Which by the way she still hadn't had any revenge for. Now he was being all sweet.........it was way weird.
"Erm are you sure?" Thorn asked.
"Yeah" Kai said "Come on then" he said guiding her torwards his friends.
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Mads had PE after lunch. She had been surprised when Thorn wasn't there at lunch, and even more surprised when she had spotted her laughing with Kai and Tala. Thorn tried to pretend that she disliked Kai but it was obvious the pair would make a perfect couple. Mads heard giggling and was suddenly aware of Whoreleen and her friends (including Becca) watching her. They were laughing and pointing at her arm. Mads groaned, it would be around the school in seconds that her and Tala are an item. She pulled on a long sleaved sweater. She would find a way to get the pen marks off her arm or she would have to amputate it. She casually walked into the hall, the only girl wearing tracksuit bottoms. The others were either wearing shorts or mini-skirts(emphasis on the short and mini parts).
Thorn was in drama with Mariah. Drama was one of the lessons that Thorn was very good at. Thorn was ignoring Mariah's attempts at making up, she wanted her to suffer a little more. To tell you the truth, Thorn's anger had already subsided but she was enjoying everyone acting all worried. Lunchtime with Kai and Tala had been really fun, surprisingly. The duo were really funny and they had actually made her feel better. Maybe Kai wasn't so bad after all, Thorn thought to herself. "Owwww" Thorn suddenly shouted as something hard bounced off her head.
"Whoops, sorry didn't see you there" Kais voice yelled from the other side of the room. Thorn shook her head 'What had she been thinking? Kai would never change'.
Mads was annoyed, usually PE was one of her best lessons. However Whoreleen and her cronies had spent the whole lesson sreaming if the ball came anywhere near them. Mads and the PE teacher, Miss Scott, had shared an exasperated glance when they had to take a time out. Why? because someone had broken a nail. At the end of the lesson Miss Scott had got a few girls to help take the equipment to the PE cupboards. This included Becca, who hadn't been very pleased about it. Hard labour wasn't her thing apparently. Although Mads was sceptical carrying a netball counted as labour.
Mads had trailed behind the others going to the changing rooms. She decided to go to the toilets first. She was about to walk through the door when she heard familiar voices from inside
"I know, shes such a cold bitch" Whoreleen said from inside in her girly, preppy voice. Mads smirked she could guess who they were talking about, they would never have the guts to say it to her face though.
"God knows why Tala likes her" Some giggly girl replied, named Holly or Polly. Or something like that, Mads just called them Crony1 or Crony2.
"Hes apparently crazy about her" Whoreleen replied, as she probably applied a top up of the inch thick make-up on her face. Mads was slightly shocked, crazy about her?. She had always thought that Tala was just joking or something. I mean she had never ever been anything but disdainful around him. Mads shook her head, Why was she eavesdropping? Not just eavesdropping but eavesdropping on Whoreleen, thats just sad.
"How do you know that?" the girl replied.
"Becca" Mads replied.
"Becca?" whatever her name said. Mads frowned, the girl had said Beccas name in a 'dirt beneath my feet' way.
"Yeah i know you don't like her, i mean i don't even like her that much but she does have some benefits". Whoreleen said smarmily. Mads was shocked, Whoreleen was reaching new lows in Mads esteem.
"Why do you think i became her friend?" Whoreleen started again "It meant that i could spend all my time at her Uncle and Aunts mansion".
The other girl made a cross between a 'huh' and a 'what'.
"It meant that i got to spend alot of time around Kai" Whoreleen said in a 'duh' voice.
"Oh" the girl said giggling, before they started talking about the hotness of Kai, which frankly Mads didn't want to hear about her cousin. Mads pushed open the door and marched in, interrupting Whoreleen as she brushed her hair. That girl has an obsession with her hair. Its long and blond, making her look like a very second rate Britney Spears. Whoreleen would faint if she even found one split end. The two cheerleaders exchanged glances. With satisfaction Mads noticed the slight fear in their eyes, 'They haven't seen anything yet' Mads thought to herself. Both girls suddenly seemed in a hurry to leave. As Whoreleen waltzed past, Mads called her back. With a mock kind face, Mads handed her something. Informing her "Heres a quarter-go buy yourself the rest of that skirt".
When the gruesome twosome left, Mads smiled evilly to herself. She had a perfect oppurtunity to break up Kai and Whoreleen. All she had to do was break it to Becca that her best friend is a two faced cow. Somehow she had a feeling that Becca wouldn't be too willing to believe her. Mads remembered that on Friday night Whoreleen would be staying the night at their house. It was time to invite Mariah and Thorn to that sleepover. Mads smiled it was going to be alot of fun.