Ashley was sitting in Mr. Simpson's classroom updating her webpage as part of her computer project.

"Hey, Mr. Simpson, I'm finally here!" At deep voice said.

"Hey, Trevor, I wondered when you were getting transferred to this period." Mr. Simpson said.

Ashley didn't recognize the voice. so she looked up. It belonged to a gorgeous boy. He wasn't magazine perfect, but he was perfect to Ashley. His dark blue eyes, his black hair, his cute little grin of a smile; he was built, but not too muscular, and lean. Ashley was smiling. He saw her staring and smirked, and walked across the room to a computer. Abruptly, and IM propped up on her screen.

Paige: Hey, when r u gonna tlk 2 me(?

Ashley: When hell freezes ovr .

Paige: I wuz a jrk. im sry. I saw u checkin out
that guy. he's kind of cute.

Ashley: i no (.

Paige: I could hook u guyz up. u need a rebound boy.
itz 2 hard to get ovr craig, you need sum bdy
2 take ur mind off him. Think about it (

Ashley: I guess we r tlking now.
Simpson's cming g2g.

Ashley logged off. She knew she needed Paige sometimes and this was definitely one of those times. Maybe a fling is exactly what she needed.

This is a new beginning, I can walk up to him, it'll be fun, he's like my boy toy, or at least he will be. Did I just think that? I've been hanging out with Paige too much this week. Thoughts were racing through Ashley's head. After getting coaching tips from Paige, which in retrospect, Ashley realized wasn't a great idea, she was finally going to talk to Trevor. She walked down the steps of the school and sat next to him on a bench.

"Hey, mind if I sit here?" Ashley said nervously.

"Whatever". Trevor glanced at her.

"You're Trevor right?" She was desperate to make conversation.

"Yeah, I'm Trevor, and you're, like, Ashley?" He didn't even look up, he was too busy checking out her legs.

"Ashley, that's my name, um, are you new?" She asked as she crossed and re- crossed her legs. She was tense and he just looked so good.

"No, I'm not, I got my schedule switched around because I changed my electives." He still wasn't looking at her, but staring at her chest.

"Oh, cool." She smiled, got up, and walked away. Part of her wanted to go back and slap him. What gave him the right to check her out, it was gross and he was treating her like a piece of meat. On the other hand, it thrilled her, he was so hot, and at least she knew that he found her attractive.

After doing a ton or homework and eating dinner, Ashley felt stupid for wearing her mini-skirt to school. She threw away the skirt and decided to stick to her own style of minis. She wanted to go over to Ellie's house so, she put on some jeans and her Ramones t-shirt. But as soon as it was on, she remembered who gave it to her. Why didn't I give this back to Craig? Screw it, he'd just give it to Manny or whatever girl he'll date and screw over next. I'll keep it.

Ashley rang the doorbell. After a couple minutes of waiting, the door swung open.

"Hey Ash, come in, you can go up to my room, I'll be up in a sec, just got to do some laundry." Ellie smiled and walked toward the basement door.

Ashley looked around. She saw Ellie's mother passed out on the couch with a vodka bottle, and the house was a total mess. I guess with Ellie's new job, she doesn't have time to clean up a lot, Ashley thought. She climbed creaking the stairs to Ellie's room. She heard some loud music coming from the computer and figured that's why Ellie couldn't hear the doorbell. She opened the door and saw a shirtless Trevor was lying on Ellie's bed. Trevor looked up, probably expecting to see Ellie, and almost fell off the bed when he saw Ashley instead.