Chapter 2

Throughout the next few weeks Cassandra made friends. She became really close to two in particular, Tina and Emma.

"Hey guys," Cassandra said when she walked into criminology.

"Hey Cassandra," Tina and Emma said at the same time. "No iPod today?" Emma asked.

"Unfortunately, no. I haven't charged it in a long time so it is doing so at home right now. I don't know how I am going to survive without it," she said.

"So what did you do this weekend?"

"I killed myself and came back to life, how about you?" she replied.

"I went to the Celine Dion concert," Emma said.

"How cool, I saw her in Vegas, she is awesome, what about you Tina?"

"Oh nothing, my grandparents were in town so we were with them the entire time. Now seriously what did you do?"

"Ok, on Saturday I went to Manhattan to visit a girl I knew like a billion years ago and then later that night I raced," Frankie was sitting close and he began to listen when he heard that.

"What?" Emma asked.

"Raced, you know vroom vroom."

"I know but that is so unsafe," She said.

"You'll have to forgive Emma, her speedometer has never passed forty," Tina said.

"Cassandra you really shouldn't be doing that, you can get hurt."

"Yea but what's life without taking chances?"

"So did you win?" Tina asked.

"Duh, this guy in a Range Rover thought he could take me, they obviously didn't know how I drove."

"Did you hear that, she races," Jake said.

"Probably lying," Alyson said, her jealousy rising.

"No she's not, I was there, I knew that G-Wagon looked familiar, she was awesome," When Alyson noticed that Frankie was starting to take interest in Cassandra she got nervous. She didn't like any girl trying to take her man. She stood up and sat down next to Cassandra. Cassandra just kept on talking to Emma and Tina.

"Excuse me." Alyson said. Cassandra looked at her.

"Yea?" she asked.

"What are you doing here?" Alyson asked in a hostile tone.

"What everybody else does in school, I'm learning. Well actually I can't say the same for you."

"Oh shit," Jake said.

"You don't belong here."

"Says who, and please don't say everybody because it is clear to me that I have friends. And wait a minute, who the fuck are you to be telling me I don't belong here? I don't even know who the fuck you are, which I guess doesn't make you that 'oh so popular' girl you think you are. And the fact that you came over here trying and note how I say trying to make me look bad because I seem to be getting more attention than you is pretty pathetic, now please go back to your seat and don't ever fucking come near me again," Cassandra turned her attention back to Emma and Tina.

"Now that is what you call sending someone to hell," Jake said. The bell rang and they walked out of class. Cassandra noticed that Christy was becoming friendly with Frankie's older brother John. That Sunday Christy was going over to John's house, which happened to be next door to her own. Once Christy left she became the main topic along with Cassandra between the Gotti boys and their friends Kevin, Ariel, Julian, Jorge, many, Gaby, Dennis and Carlos, whom were also known as the frat and the most popular boys in school.

"Have you seen Christy's sister Cassandra? I have her for all my classes but Law and Study Hall, and I'm dying to get introduced to her, she's cute as hell and she puts up with no shit, a couple of weeks ago one of Vicky's friends tried to give her lip in class, and Cassandra sent her to hell in front of everyone, a girl who stands up for herself, what guy wouldn't like that?" Frankie finished looking up at everyone. So John liked Christy, Carmine liked Christy's best friend, Layla, and Frankie liked Cassandra.