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Chapter Two- You Can Never Hide
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Sere walked down the hall of Wessington High School and sweetly smiled to herself. She was thinking about what she would say to her best friend Ken when she saw him next. She was pissed; she wouldn't doubt that and was positively sure that she would give him a piece of her mind whenever she would see him next.
Unfortunately that was now.
"Sere wait up!" Ken called from behind her, popping out from thin air.
Sere kept her back turned away from him and continued walking, her destination- the cafeteria.
"C'mon…" Ken started and used his long legs and his strong muscular build to his advantage so he could catch up with her. Sere glared at him angrily as she noticed him standing beside her and not even budging no matter how fast she willed her legs to move.
She gave up and stared at her best friend expectantly, she had still not forgiven him for deserting her at Michelle Simpson's party, leaving her alone with no lift, no friends and no way of getting home. It was 3 am for goodness sakes, and she had to wake up her very disturbed, not to mention pissed mother who gave her a yelling on the way home.
Sere began to fume, as Ken was not getting the idea at all. Getting sick of waiting for him to get the point she decided to help him along.
"Fuck off leave me alone, you bitch" Serena snapped at him as she avoided his gaze.
Ken rolled his deep brown eyes. "Oh so it was about the other night, at Michelle's party."
"Yeah the one you dragged me to!"
Ken looked at his best friend and shrugged, "So I had one too many drinks and didn't quite meet up with you in time"
"Your damn right you didn't" Sere replied and glared at her friend through the corner of her eye. Ken looked defeated as his past party mistake did catch up with him. He smiled friendlily at Sere.
"I'm sorry I dragged you along." He said, apologetically.
"…And?"
"Oh yeah and I'm also sorry about abandoning you there.."
Sere raised an eyebrow.
"..Truly I am and somehow I'll make it up to you."
Sere stopped in her tracks and swept her long blonde hair over her right shoulder.
"Well you should be sorry." She said and led her friend into the Cafeteria.
**
A crowd had gathered around Darien, he stood in the middle of the bunch of high school students. They were looking at Darien with subtle looks of envy and adoration; the girls had gathered around, weighing him up and licking their lips thinking of ways to get their man. The guys were just Darien's friends, as he was pretty friendly to everyone and in return was very well liked. As he would be, he was the perfect person. Darien was nice and friendly, talked to everyone, polite and never put anyone down, that was how most people viewed Darien as which wasn't far from the truth.
Darien's group of friends stood next to him and talked to him about the 50 cents concert that was going to happen in a few weeks time.
Jed looked at Darien with a smirk. He was accustomed to people looking on and watching his conversations, he was rude and cocky and it showed. He was Darien's oldest friend, as they both had met a long time ago, and had been friends ever since. Jed was the opposite of Darien in everything especially looks. With light cloned hair creeping up the collar of his neck and curling slightly; he also had small but playful brown eyes that captivated everyone. His appearance was angelic but his personality was the opposite.
"It will be cool. Can't wait to see them do 'in da club', that song is the best" Jed told Darien and started to do a mock version of 'in da club' to amuse the crowd.
"Trust you to like that, you are a jerk you know" Mal cut in. All eyes had turned to Mal. He picked up his shoulder bag from the floor and threw it over his shoulder.
"Piss off Mal" Jed snapped and looked angrily at his friend.
Mal narrowed his emerald green eyes and looked angrily at Jed. Everyone knew about Mal and Jed's love-hate relationship; it didn't help that Mal was the bad-boy type and was forever picking on everyone.
"Gladly" Mal replied and moved away from the crowd but not before looking in Darien's direction.
"See ya" Darien called as his friend exited the large crowd. He then turned back to his other friends, though his mind was still on Jed and Mal (the player and the bad-boy).
Raye Summers, a leggy blonde that was the captain of the cheerleading, team slithered up to the boys.
"Hey Jed" She slithered up to his side.
Jed looked at Raye and grinned arrogantly.
" Hey babe" He said.
Jed and Raye had a thing going on with each other for the past week. She would be caught openly flirting with other guys in front of Darien, even though she was Jed's 'girlfriend' (yeah right what's the logic of that? actually there was none). They played off each other for popularity and status, which for both of them were really important to have and keep. Raye had been wanting to get her claws into Darien so she could reign undefeated for the rest of their school lives. This could truly be an example of the 'attack of the cheerleaders' story.
Raye looked sideways out of the corner of her eye to see if Darien was watching her. He looked straight into her blue eyes and smiled softly. Looking away he turned his attention to the topic at hand.
"Did you see her?" Raye Summers' friend, Lita Pierce looked at Raye and rolled her eyes.
Lita was a pretty girl with extraordinarily long dark brown hair that reached below her waist. It was always slightly curled, giving her hair the tousled look. Her pale hazel eyes looked into her friend's blue eyes, Raye shrugged.
"I guess it's not our fault that they let people like her into our school"
(Yes, she was the cheerleader's best friend and quite a bitch as well). Now that wasn't an unknown fact, in fact everyone knew that; but being as popular and beautiful that they were they got everything, even if they were the most pretty girls in school and the only ones with a really bad attitude problem. In fact there were many girls prettier than them in the school but they made themselves stand out because of their heavy makeup and sleazy clothes. Yet they were the girls that the all the guys wanted, with their hormones raging and the last year of their adolesces looming ahead they were eager to out do each other with the opposite sex. In brief words Raye and Lita were sex symbols for their schools just waiting to be opened as many times as they can.
Raye smirked. "Tell me about it, losers like shouldn't be allowed to breathe the same air we do."
Oblivious to everything around them, they got into a conversation about how geeks and people below them shouldn't allowed to go anywhere near them. They were both daddies' little girls too, used to getting what they, when they wanted.
"Hey you ladies all right there" Jed smiled flirtatiously.
Raye smiled at him. "No babe, but we were like talking about like what shouldn't be allowed. You know?"
"Yeah nerdy losers suck!" Lita cut in.
Jed nodded approvingly.
"It's not our fault that they're not as popular as us," Raye claimed.
"Now, now girls…"
"Shut up Jed!" the both said.
Raye turned to giving him the evil eye. He backed down and surrendered to the horrible bitching topic. (Sure he was a flirt …but a bitch? Now this was something he had to think over)
"Speaking of freaks, you know who the worst one is?" Raye looked at Lita and smirked.
"Serena Willis!" They both squealed at the same time and chuckled evilly.
Lita was in total agreement. "Definitely, her and her freak of a boyfriend, Ken."
Raye dropped her voice to whisper, "…I heard she was gay with Mina."
They both turned up their noses. "Ewwww!!"
"How disgusting!"
"I know isn't it just yuck?"
"No matter what she's a geek anyway" Raye concluded.
Darien walked through the crowd to reach his friends; he stopped as he turned to face them, his darkly bronzed face smiling broadly.
"Hey you guys," his voice was sweet, pure as it normally was. His facial expression oozed out kindness.
"Hey Darien," Raye cooed as she moved closer towards her prey.
"So what are guys talking about?"
Jed looked at Darien and shrugged, "Don't look at me, man. I just got here"
Lita butted in. "We were just talking about that Serena girl", she smiled eager to enjoy herself as the object for everyone's expression – especially Darien's.
"Did something bad happen?" He asked, worried.
"Relax, man," Jed said patting his friend's shoulder, "They weren't talking, they were bitching."
Raye looked at her soon-to-be boyfriend at the corner of her eyes, and shook her head. "I don't bitch," She declared, "I just tell the truth"
Darien looked at her and shrugged. "Whatever guys, just leave me out of it" He smiled softly and waved goodbye.
"Bye Darien!" came the chorus of voices.
After Darien walked away they both looked each other, swooning.
"He is so hot!" Raye said dreamily ignoring Jed's presence.
Lita squealed. "He looked at me, didn't you see?"
"Hey girl, stop dreaming about my man!"
Lita looked at Raye with a devious stare. "He's not yours yet" She said and looked back at her friend who was standing there giving her a dirty look.
Lita retreated. " He's not mine…yet". She corrected with false sweetness.
"Guys I'm still here remember?" Jed popped in.
**
Sere and Ken were seated at their normal table in the far corner away from all the preppies and try-hard's. It was in this corner that they could escape from them and spend some time to themselves. Right next to their corner was a big window, which looked onto the beautiful leafy garden with lots of different sorts of flowers. There was an assorted variety of dwarf snapdragon filling in the holes between the small hibiscus trees.
Sere gazed out at it, that little garden had always provided with the calm she needed when she really needed it.
"Are you there?" Ken asked, waving a hand over her eyes.
Sere blinked.
Once.
Twice.
Three times.
She then snapped back to reality. "Huh?" She said.
Ken laughed, his brown eyes twinkling.
"Whaaaa…?" She repeated.
Ken took a long sip of his refreshing coke. He savoured the taste for the moment and put the can down. Turning to look at Sere, his laugh turned into a smirk.
"Hey, I recognise that look. You're smirking at me!"
"It's not my fault your so outta it," he protested.
Sere looked down at her drink that she had bought and sipped it slowly.
"This tastes funny," She said, her nose twitching. "Like shit or something"
"…and you would know?" Ken raised his eyebrow.
"No that's your job!"
"Well if it is and you haven't been tasting it maybe you've been tasting my tongue," Ken mocked, rolling his tongue out in the air.
"Screw you!" Sere chucked her apple at him. Ken ducked.
"Hey, you guys" Mina said, as she snuck up and sat down next to her friends.
Sere smiled.
Ken ignored her.
It was the same, as usual.
Mina put her tray on the table and sat down, smiling cheerfully to herself.
"Guess who I have a date with?" Mina smiled.
Sere rolled her eyes, "Who's it with this time?"
"Chad, he is so hot"
She adjusted her black-rimmed glasses out of which her light blue eyes shined brightly. Her blonde hair sat softly on her shoulder in long straight strands. Mina's light blue shirt fitted comfortably on her lean frame and her pants were baggy and suited to her long legs.
"That's cool" Sere smiled. She knew how much Mina had wanted to go out with Chad, and how she had a crush on him for ages. It was so sweet, she thought, they both suit each other really well. Which was true. Chad was a short guy with dark hair the colour of ebony and dark brown gentle eyes. He was rather chubby and had a bit of acne and a truckload of braces on his teeth but he was nice and always talked to everyone- well everyone that wasn't the snobs or the try hards, which ruled out most of the school.
Impulsively, Sere leaned over and hugged her friend tightly, knowing how ecstatic she would be feeling at the moment. She held on for a second too long, basking in her friend's happiness.
"I told you they were gay!" a voice cut in.
Sere turned around and found her-self face to face with the people she absolutely loathed- the preppies. Sere grimaced and looked over to Ken, who was giving them all a greasy look.
The only one who wasn't fazed was Mina, who was smiling happily past them.
**
AN: Hey you guys sorry for the late update, but it's longer about 7 pages or so. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, it means a lot. I promise I'll update quicker next time just need to find out where to go from here. Don't forget to review!
Chapter Two- You Can Never Hide
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Sere walked down the hall of Wessington High School and sweetly smiled to herself. She was thinking about what she would say to her best friend Ken when she saw him next. She was pissed; she wouldn't doubt that and was positively sure that she would give him a piece of her mind whenever she would see him next.
Unfortunately that was now.
"Sere wait up!" Ken called from behind her, popping out from thin air.
Sere kept her back turned away from him and continued walking, her destination- the cafeteria.
"C'mon…" Ken started and used his long legs and his strong muscular build to his advantage so he could catch up with her. Sere glared at him angrily as she noticed him standing beside her and not even budging no matter how fast she willed her legs to move.
She gave up and stared at her best friend expectantly, she had still not forgiven him for deserting her at Michelle Simpson's party, leaving her alone with no lift, no friends and no way of getting home. It was 3 am for goodness sakes, and she had to wake up her very disturbed, not to mention pissed mother who gave her a yelling on the way home.
Sere began to fume, as Ken was not getting the idea at all. Getting sick of waiting for him to get the point she decided to help him along.
"Fuck off leave me alone, you bitch" Serena snapped at him as she avoided his gaze.
Ken rolled his deep brown eyes. "Oh so it was about the other night, at Michelle's party."
"Yeah the one you dragged me to!"
Ken looked at his best friend and shrugged, "So I had one too many drinks and didn't quite meet up with you in time"
"Your damn right you didn't" Sere replied and glared at her friend through the corner of her eye. Ken looked defeated as his past party mistake did catch up with him. He smiled friendlily at Sere.
"I'm sorry I dragged you along." He said, apologetically.
"…And?"
"Oh yeah and I'm also sorry about abandoning you there.."
Sere raised an eyebrow.
"..Truly I am and somehow I'll make it up to you."
Sere stopped in her tracks and swept her long blonde hair over her right shoulder.
"Well you should be sorry." She said and led her friend into the Cafeteria.
**
A crowd had gathered around Darien, he stood in the middle of the bunch of high school students. They were looking at Darien with subtle looks of envy and adoration; the girls had gathered around, weighing him up and licking their lips thinking of ways to get their man. The guys were just Darien's friends, as he was pretty friendly to everyone and in return was very well liked. As he would be, he was the perfect person. Darien was nice and friendly, talked to everyone, polite and never put anyone down, that was how most people viewed Darien as which wasn't far from the truth.
Darien's group of friends stood next to him and talked to him about the 50 cents concert that was going to happen in a few weeks time.
Jed looked at Darien with a smirk. He was accustomed to people looking on and watching his conversations, he was rude and cocky and it showed. He was Darien's oldest friend, as they both had met a long time ago, and had been friends ever since. Jed was the opposite of Darien in everything especially looks. With light cloned hair creeping up the collar of his neck and curling slightly; he also had small but playful brown eyes that captivated everyone. His appearance was angelic but his personality was the opposite.
"It will be cool. Can't wait to see them do 'in da club', that song is the best" Jed told Darien and started to do a mock version of 'in da club' to amuse the crowd.
"Trust you to like that, you are a jerk you know" Mal cut in. All eyes had turned to Mal. He picked up his shoulder bag from the floor and threw it over his shoulder.
"Piss off Mal" Jed snapped and looked angrily at his friend.
Mal narrowed his emerald green eyes and looked angrily at Jed. Everyone knew about Mal and Jed's love-hate relationship; it didn't help that Mal was the bad-boy type and was forever picking on everyone.
"Gladly" Mal replied and moved away from the crowd but not before looking in Darien's direction.
"See ya" Darien called as his friend exited the large crowd. He then turned back to his other friends, though his mind was still on Jed and Mal (the player and the bad-boy).
Raye Summers, a leggy blonde that was the captain of the cheerleading, team slithered up to the boys.
"Hey Jed" She slithered up to his side.
Jed looked at Raye and grinned arrogantly.
" Hey babe" He said.
Jed and Raye had a thing going on with each other for the past week. She would be caught openly flirting with other guys in front of Darien, even though she was Jed's 'girlfriend' (yeah right what's the logic of that? actually there was none). They played off each other for popularity and status, which for both of them were really important to have and keep. Raye had been wanting to get her claws into Darien so she could reign undefeated for the rest of their school lives. This could truly be an example of the 'attack of the cheerleaders' story.
Raye looked sideways out of the corner of her eye to see if Darien was watching her. He looked straight into her blue eyes and smiled softly. Looking away he turned his attention to the topic at hand.
"Did you see her?" Raye Summers' friend, Lita Pierce looked at Raye and rolled her eyes.
Lita was a pretty girl with extraordinarily long dark brown hair that reached below her waist. It was always slightly curled, giving her hair the tousled look. Her pale hazel eyes looked into her friend's blue eyes, Raye shrugged.
"I guess it's not our fault that they let people like her into our school"
(Yes, she was the cheerleader's best friend and quite a bitch as well). Now that wasn't an unknown fact, in fact everyone knew that; but being as popular and beautiful that they were they got everything, even if they were the most pretty girls in school and the only ones with a really bad attitude problem. In fact there were many girls prettier than them in the school but they made themselves stand out because of their heavy makeup and sleazy clothes. Yet they were the girls that the all the guys wanted, with their hormones raging and the last year of their adolesces looming ahead they were eager to out do each other with the opposite sex. In brief words Raye and Lita were sex symbols for their schools just waiting to be opened as many times as they can.
Raye smirked. "Tell me about it, losers like shouldn't be allowed to breathe the same air we do."
Oblivious to everything around them, they got into a conversation about how geeks and people below them shouldn't allowed to go anywhere near them. They were both daddies' little girls too, used to getting what they, when they wanted.
"Hey you ladies all right there" Jed smiled flirtatiously.
Raye smiled at him. "No babe, but we were like talking about like what shouldn't be allowed. You know?"
"Yeah nerdy losers suck!" Lita cut in.
Jed nodded approvingly.
"It's not our fault that they're not as popular as us," Raye claimed.
"Now, now girls…"
"Shut up Jed!" the both said.
Raye turned to giving him the evil eye. He backed down and surrendered to the horrible bitching topic. (Sure he was a flirt …but a bitch? Now this was something he had to think over)
"Speaking of freaks, you know who the worst one is?" Raye looked at Lita and smirked.
"Serena Willis!" They both squealed at the same time and chuckled evilly.
Lita was in total agreement. "Definitely, her and her freak of a boyfriend, Ken."
Raye dropped her voice to whisper, "…I heard she was gay with Mina."
They both turned up their noses. "Ewwww!!"
"How disgusting!"
"I know isn't it just yuck?"
"No matter what she's a geek anyway" Raye concluded.
Darien walked through the crowd to reach his friends; he stopped as he turned to face them, his darkly bronzed face smiling broadly.
"Hey you guys," his voice was sweet, pure as it normally was. His facial expression oozed out kindness.
"Hey Darien," Raye cooed as she moved closer towards her prey.
"So what are guys talking about?"
Jed looked at Darien and shrugged, "Don't look at me, man. I just got here"
Lita butted in. "We were just talking about that Serena girl", she smiled eager to enjoy herself as the object for everyone's expression – especially Darien's.
"Did something bad happen?" He asked, worried.
"Relax, man," Jed said patting his friend's shoulder, "They weren't talking, they were bitching."
Raye looked at her soon-to-be boyfriend at the corner of her eyes, and shook her head. "I don't bitch," She declared, "I just tell the truth"
Darien looked at her and shrugged. "Whatever guys, just leave me out of it" He smiled softly and waved goodbye.
"Bye Darien!" came the chorus of voices.
After Darien walked away they both looked each other, swooning.
"He is so hot!" Raye said dreamily ignoring Jed's presence.
Lita squealed. "He looked at me, didn't you see?"
"Hey girl, stop dreaming about my man!"
Lita looked at Raye with a devious stare. "He's not yours yet" She said and looked back at her friend who was standing there giving her a dirty look.
Lita retreated. " He's not mine…yet". She corrected with false sweetness.
"Guys I'm still here remember?" Jed popped in.
**
Sere and Ken were seated at their normal table in the far corner away from all the preppies and try-hard's. It was in this corner that they could escape from them and spend some time to themselves. Right next to their corner was a big window, which looked onto the beautiful leafy garden with lots of different sorts of flowers. There was an assorted variety of dwarf snapdragon filling in the holes between the small hibiscus trees.
Sere gazed out at it, that little garden had always provided with the calm she needed when she really needed it.
"Are you there?" Ken asked, waving a hand over her eyes.
Sere blinked.
Once.
Twice.
Three times.
She then snapped back to reality. "Huh?" She said.
Ken laughed, his brown eyes twinkling.
"Whaaaa…?" She repeated.
Ken took a long sip of his refreshing coke. He savoured the taste for the moment and put the can down. Turning to look at Sere, his laugh turned into a smirk.
"Hey, I recognise that look. You're smirking at me!"
"It's not my fault your so outta it," he protested.
Sere looked down at her drink that she had bought and sipped it slowly.
"This tastes funny," She said, her nose twitching. "Like shit or something"
"…and you would know?" Ken raised his eyebrow.
"No that's your job!"
"Well if it is and you haven't been tasting it maybe you've been tasting my tongue," Ken mocked, rolling his tongue out in the air.
"Screw you!" Sere chucked her apple at him. Ken ducked.
"Hey, you guys" Mina said, as she snuck up and sat down next to her friends.
Sere smiled.
Ken ignored her.
It was the same, as usual.
Mina put her tray on the table and sat down, smiling cheerfully to herself.
"Guess who I have a date with?" Mina smiled.
Sere rolled her eyes, "Who's it with this time?"
"Chad, he is so hot"
She adjusted her black-rimmed glasses out of which her light blue eyes shined brightly. Her blonde hair sat softly on her shoulder in long straight strands. Mina's light blue shirt fitted comfortably on her lean frame and her pants were baggy and suited to her long legs.
"That's cool" Sere smiled. She knew how much Mina had wanted to go out with Chad, and how she had a crush on him for ages. It was so sweet, she thought, they both suit each other really well. Which was true. Chad was a short guy with dark hair the colour of ebony and dark brown gentle eyes. He was rather chubby and had a bit of acne and a truckload of braces on his teeth but he was nice and always talked to everyone- well everyone that wasn't the snobs or the try hards, which ruled out most of the school.
Impulsively, Sere leaned over and hugged her friend tightly, knowing how ecstatic she would be feeling at the moment. She held on for a second too long, basking in her friend's happiness.
"I told you they were gay!" a voice cut in.
Sere turned around and found her-self face to face with the people she absolutely loathed- the preppies. Sere grimaced and looked over to Ken, who was giving them all a greasy look.
The only one who wasn't fazed was Mina, who was smiling happily past them.
**
AN: Hey you guys sorry for the late update, but it's longer about 7 pages or so. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, it means a lot. I promise I'll update quicker next time just need to find out where to go from here. Don't forget to review!