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She sat on the edge of her bed, whining to her mom and dad about them not letting her go with them. She had known about that night for the past few weeks and being the average sixteen-year-old, she knew how to get what she wanted, usually.

"Why can't I go with you?" She asked, pleading.

"Look Tori, we want you to understand that tonight's our anniversary and we wanted to spend it alone, at least for the dinner part." Her mom answered.

"Don't worry, I promise we'll be back later." Her dad added.

"Promise?" She looked at them with her wide eyes.

"But don't wait up for us, we might be a little later than usual." Her mom smiled, as she stood there in her black dress, ready for the town.

Her dad stood there in his black tuxedo and blue tie. He looked like a prince with his princess and she was the one who got left behind. She really wanted to go but her parents promised they'd be back for her.

Permanent State: They never came back after, drunk driver and all

Broken Soul: Whoa, didn't know that

Permanent State: There's a lot of stuff people don't know about me

Broken Soul: I want to know

Permanent State: I want you to know but I don't know if I can, it was only three years ago and I don't really want you to see me cry

Broken Soul: That's one side of you I haven't seen:)

Tori watched the screen flicker on and off. It was raining heavily outside and she tried her best to type a response before the power went out.

Permanent State: Hey, talk to you tomorrow?

Broken Soul: Math class?

Permanent State: Yeah, math:)

Tori logged off and popped open a book. She sat by the light of a flashlight and read; the lights had gone off shortly after she logged out. She eventually fell asleep with her book in hand. Her finger rested in the spine of the book, not letting the marked page go.

It was the next morning the thunder had finally let up. The lightning had quit a few hours before but the sound of the thunder echoed for miles. Tori had been kept awake by the sounding of the thunder and although she was listening to it, she had not heard it. Her mind was blank, thinking of nothing but Hunter.

Her and Dustin met up when she stopped by his house before he even had a chance to leave to pick her up. She arrived at the school and walked into gym damp. She left gym not so damp but she was still wet and her hair had gone messy.

"Dustin, do you have that brush you used to use all the time?" Tori asked on their way to math.

"Yeah, just give me like five minutes to dig it out dude."

"Okay."

Tori and Dustin walked while he dug through his backpack. She laughed when he almost lost a few important books for English and what not. He finally handed her the brush and she began to brush her hair as she sat down in her math seat, near Hunter and Shane.

"Hey dudes." Dustin greeted.

"Hi." Hunter smiled at Tori.

"Hi." Tori finished brushing her messy hair and handed the brush back to Dustin.

"Gee thanks." Dustin replied sarcastically.

"What's new?" Shane asked, giving them high fives.

"Nothing." Tori grinned.

"Hey, if it's nothing" Dustin began.

"Sage basically quit." Tori finished.

"Sweet, I can hang in the diner." Shane joked.

"I don't know if Rhonda really wants you around." Tori teased.

"What's that supposed to mean?" He retorted.

"That you're kind of a pig." Hunter kidded.

"Just kind of?" Tori asked.

"Oh, I get it bro." Shane laughed.

"And an idiot it seems." Tori stopped kidding around and remembered something important. "Shoot, my English, I totally forgot to throw something in."

"Hey, you got Hailey, she'll find it and fix it." Dustin replied.

"No, I handed it in right from the printer, she didn't even get a chance to check it, I didn't even get a chance because I was at the dance. If I fail English, I'm blaming you guys." Tori pointed to each of the three guys.

"What did I do?" Shane whined.

"You ditched Dustin and I last year for the popular people, remember?" Tori asked sarcastically.

"Don't worry, you won't fail, if you forgot, it obviously wasn't that important." Hunter joked.

"I guess you have a point but still, I'm going to be murdered by my partner because I forgot." Tori joked back.

They spent the rest of the class joking around, it was Friday and no one really cares on Fridays. Tori finished her homework in class, closely followed by most of her classmates. Her and Hunter walked out of the math room after everyone else.