A few days later Stacey and Brian were settled into
things and she was starting her first day of school in the
big, star studded city of Los Angeles. She still didn't want
to be there, but she figured she could deal with it for the
next two years. Then she'd be free and no one could stop her
from doing anything. The argument she'd had with her brother
just this morning was still fresh in her mind. Brian had
been going on about how much she was going to love it in
California since they had gotten there, and this morning had
just been too much.
'Stace, I' m going take you to school then I'll see if Mia will pick you up, okay?' he said looking at her, 'And I promise, you're gonna love it.' Brian said, for what seemed to be the millionth time, to Stacey. She just couldn't take it anymore. She snapped and lost the passive outlook on the whole situation.
'Brian, Jesus fricken Christ! Will you lay off already?!? I don't like it here, and I'm never going to! You made me leave all my friends, my whole damn life, back in Miami. And did you ever even think to ask how I felt about it? No, you just took all our stuff and packed us up, moving us to the other side of the country. So, sorry if I ain't exactly a happy person right now. And to clear up any doubts, I HATE IT HERE!' With that, she stormed out of the room until it was time to leave. She didn't talk to Brian the whole time and slammed the door to the car shut in front of the school, when he tried to tell her Leon was going to pick her up instead of Mia. As she walked up the stairs in front of the school, Stacey couldn't help but think that maybe she'd been a little hard on her brother. She quickly forgot any thoughts of remorse when she remembered that he was the one who had chose to move them out here in the first place. She then decided that he was going to have to be punished somehow.
Being so preoccupied with her thoughts, Stacey was surprised, to say the least, when she bumped into someone and all her things fell to the ground.
"Watch where you walk girlie." Said the guy that she had bumped into. Before she could even reply, a girl was standing in front of the guy. "Why don't you shut up, Derek." She said emphasizing his name, "And leave the poor girl alone, she ain't done anything to you. Boohoo she accidentally bumped into you. You aren't exactly Mr. Oh So Suave yourself you know. So before you go getting on her case back up and look at your damn self, boy"
Turning on her heel and grabbing Stacey's hand, who had just finished picking all her things back up, walked back to where she had come from. When they got there, Stacey found herself surrounded by a group of people. Finally the girl turned to look at her and said, holding out her hand,
"Hey, I'm Tess Andrews. This is my sis Nathalia, but we all call her Nattie," She said pointing at a girl to her left. "This is Josh Bates, Jade Erickson, Matt Whittimore, Dan Michaels, Madison James, Paige Mason, and these are the twins Hayden and Connor Evans." She continued pointing at people in a line, from the left of her sister.
While Tess had been introducing her to every, Stacey took the time to take in their appearances. Nathalia had red hair that looked to be about the color of blood, and eyes that looked like honey. She was pretty tall standing at about five feet eight inches. Jade had long, black hair that reached just below he shoulders, and had crystal blue eyes. She was the shortest of all the girls and looked to be about five feet four inches. Madison and Paige looked a lot alike. Both were about five seven, with short, light brown hair. The only difference was their eyes. Madison had hazel eyes and Paige had brown. The boys all pretty much looked the same. Tall, all over six feet, muscular, and every single one looked like they could be kind of intimidating when they needed to be. Josh and Dan both had dark brown, almost black, hair and blue eyes. Matt had sandy blonde hair with deep brown eyes that were really intense and made you feel as if he could see all your deepest, darkest secrets. The twins were identical with shaggy, dirty blonde hair and blue-green eyes. But Tess was the one who made her do a double take. She had light blonde hair, that had a slight reddish tint to it and her eyes were the one thing that made Stacey look twice in the first place. Tess' eyes were a jade green color around her pupils, which faded to a deep blue as the color traveled farther out. She was dressed in a pair of light blue jeans, a light pink halter top, and a pair light pink high heeled flip flops.
"I'm Stacey." After a chorus of 'hi's, 'what's up's and a few other greetings they all got to talking.
"So where you from?" Tess asked her.
"Miami, I just moved here with my older brother."
"Parents not around much?"
"No, they're both dead. My mom just died not too long ago."
"Oh I'm so sorry I didn't mean-" she began but was soon interrupted by Stacey.
"Don't worry about it. You didn't know."
"Still that's gotta be rough. I can't imagine what that'd be like."
"So how's the cheerleading squad here?" She asked expecting the worst.
"Oh dear GOD." Nathalia said before Tess could say anything. "Ya'll we got us another one."
"What are you talking about Nattie?" Hayden asked her, thinking she was losing her mind.
"We gots another cheerleader added to our group, here."
"You're a cheerleader?" Josh asked.
"Hella yeah I am. And damn proud of it too. Who is the other cheerleader here?"
"Me and Tess both are." Jade told her.
"Yeah and we actually have an opening on the squad. One of the other girls just moved and we gotta replace her ass." And with those words the three girls broke into a conversation about cheerleading and routines, while the rest of the group looked at them and rolled their eyes. They didn't understand how they could be that into cheerleading.
Soon the bell rang and Stacey found herself in the same homeroom, ecology, as Tess, Dan, Jade, and Hayden. Sitting in the back with the four of them, the three girls quickly started their conversation back up. The two boys, looking at them for a minute, quickly started to talk about cars.
"So yeah, here's the form for tryouts, and we'll teach you a quick routine during our lunch period." Tess whispered to her.
"Okay, that'd be great! Thanks so much for all your help." She whispered back.
"It ain't no thang. We cheerleaders gotta stick together. Not to mention us blondes that's an even worse minority."
"Tell me bout it girl, we're always getting ripped on."
"That's cause you guys just make it oh so easy." Jade whispered to them in a teasing tone.
"Shut up!" Tess and Stacey both said at the same time, making the teacher look at them.
"Is there something you'd like to share with the class Miss Andrews, Miss O'Connor?" She said looking at them like they'd committed murder.
"Nothing that concerns you, Mrs. Franklin. Just trying to help the girl out, you know, get her adjusted." Tess said. She couldn't stand this teacher and didn't hide it.
"Well then, maybe Miss O'Connor can tell me, do you know of any streams or rivers in the state of California that are channelized?"
"Did you not just hear her?" Stacey asked the teacher, pissed that she was asking her a question that she knew she wouldn't be able to answer. "I'm new here. Just came in from Miami. Just in case you didn't know that's in Florida. On the other side of the country. Do you really think I'd know the answer to that question?"
"I'd stop speaking now if I were you Miss O'Connor. It seems that Miss Andrews has already had a negative effect on you and your attitude."
"Oh HELL no you did not just say that! Who do you think you are, huh? Just because your life is a miserable excuse, doesn't mean you can take it out on us. And just because you don't like me doesn't mean you can take it out on Stacey!"
"Miss Andrews, please leave my class room now."
"No fucking problem. I'd be glad to." Grabbing her books off her desk, and her purse off the floor, Tess walked out the door and slammed it shut on her way out.
"Now are there going to be anymore interruptions?" Mrs. Franklin asked clearly mad.
"Yeah, just these two." Jade said as she and Stacey got up and walked out of the room.
Standing in the hall, the three girls were clearly pissed.
"Is she always such a bitch?" Stacey asked.
"Yeah, really shouldn't have said anything though. Now you've just brought yourself into our little war that we've had since my freshman year."
"You guys are screwed. You know that right?" Jade told them looking totally serious.
"No shit. Well this is gonna be one hell of a year for you isn't it?"
"You're so damn right about that. This is gonna be really interesting. I might actually end up liking it here after all." Stacey said.
"Oh man we're gonna be so unstoppable this year. There's three of us and we're gonna kick a whole lot of skanky, stuck-up cheerleader ass!" Jade said, beaming at the thought, and at the mental picture of that actually happening.
"Well ladies I gotta say we better hope for a miracle." Tess said looking behind the two of them.
"What are you talking about? Why?" They asked her at the same time.
"Cause Franklin called in reinforcements. Here comes Gardner walking down the hall."
"Oh shit. Can this day get any worse?"
"Do you wanna test that theory?"
"No, it might jinx Stacey here and we can't have that happening. We're gonna need her this year."
"Ladies, you disrupted class, yet again." He said looking at them with his disapproval. Tess couldn't help but roll her eyes.
"Seriously, it isn't anything new. I don't see why you keep putting me in her damn homeroom. She hates me and I hate her. It's as simple as that. If you'd take me out of her class we wouldn't have this problem almost every morning."
"Miss Andrews, your homeroom can't change it is preset and we can't change it."
"Well then I guess we'll just keep having these lovely morning meetings, wont' we?"
"You three, go to the library for the remainder of your class time. I don't want you standing out here in this hallway for the next half an hour." And with that he turned and walked back towards his office.
The rest of the day passed by uneventfully. Before she knew it was the end of the day, and it was time for her cheerleading tryout. Walking into the gym she looked from her friends to the rest of the squad. She knew that it was going to be tough. They looked like they didn't want her there and she knew she was going to have to work hard to impress them. Soon she was in her element and doing what she did best. She was cheering and she loved every moment of it. It was the one thing that she had left from her old life. Before she knew it, the tryouts were over and they were waiting for the results. Soon the captain, who happened to be Jade came out and said,
"Even though all of you were great we could only pick one of you. And in order to be the best we can we had to pick the best candidate. And that girl just happens to be.... Stacey O'Connor!"
Stacey was so happy she had made it. The tryouts had been closed so they couldn't see how the other people did. She was just glad that she finally had the one small piece of the life that had been left behind back.
Walking out the doors after the announcement had been made; Stacey started the long walk to the store. She had just reached the side walk when a car pulled up in front of her. It was a black RX-7 with dark tinted windows. Watching as the passenger side window rolled down, she soon saw Tess' smiling face.
"Hey chick, do you need a ride."
"Yeah that'd be great. Thanks." She said opening the door and sliding in the car.
"It's not a problem. So, where to?"
"Toretto's café. Sweet ride by the way."
"Thanks, I just repainted it. Now I've gotta get it airbrushed with a design as soon as I decided what I want to do with it."
"I'm sure you'll come up with something."
"Aww thanks girl. Well you ready to go?"
"Yeah, let's roll."
"Oh we're definitely gonna roll." And with that they pulled out of the parking lot. The whole time neither noticed the yellow skyline parked out in front of the school.
A/N: Okay so here's my first chappie! Can't wait for Temp chapter cause we all know that it's gonna ROCK!! I'm just happy to be a part of this. Can't wait to see where this story is headed. It'll definitely be unique and real interesting. Hope you like the chapter. Read and Review!!
'Stace, I' m going take you to school then I'll see if Mia will pick you up, okay?' he said looking at her, 'And I promise, you're gonna love it.' Brian said, for what seemed to be the millionth time, to Stacey. She just couldn't take it anymore. She snapped and lost the passive outlook on the whole situation.
'Brian, Jesus fricken Christ! Will you lay off already?!? I don't like it here, and I'm never going to! You made me leave all my friends, my whole damn life, back in Miami. And did you ever even think to ask how I felt about it? No, you just took all our stuff and packed us up, moving us to the other side of the country. So, sorry if I ain't exactly a happy person right now. And to clear up any doubts, I HATE IT HERE!' With that, she stormed out of the room until it was time to leave. She didn't talk to Brian the whole time and slammed the door to the car shut in front of the school, when he tried to tell her Leon was going to pick her up instead of Mia. As she walked up the stairs in front of the school, Stacey couldn't help but think that maybe she'd been a little hard on her brother. She quickly forgot any thoughts of remorse when she remembered that he was the one who had chose to move them out here in the first place. She then decided that he was going to have to be punished somehow.
Being so preoccupied with her thoughts, Stacey was surprised, to say the least, when she bumped into someone and all her things fell to the ground.
"Watch where you walk girlie." Said the guy that she had bumped into. Before she could even reply, a girl was standing in front of the guy. "Why don't you shut up, Derek." She said emphasizing his name, "And leave the poor girl alone, she ain't done anything to you. Boohoo she accidentally bumped into you. You aren't exactly Mr. Oh So Suave yourself you know. So before you go getting on her case back up and look at your damn self, boy"
Turning on her heel and grabbing Stacey's hand, who had just finished picking all her things back up, walked back to where she had come from. When they got there, Stacey found herself surrounded by a group of people. Finally the girl turned to look at her and said, holding out her hand,
"Hey, I'm Tess Andrews. This is my sis Nathalia, but we all call her Nattie," She said pointing at a girl to her left. "This is Josh Bates, Jade Erickson, Matt Whittimore, Dan Michaels, Madison James, Paige Mason, and these are the twins Hayden and Connor Evans." She continued pointing at people in a line, from the left of her sister.
While Tess had been introducing her to every, Stacey took the time to take in their appearances. Nathalia had red hair that looked to be about the color of blood, and eyes that looked like honey. She was pretty tall standing at about five feet eight inches. Jade had long, black hair that reached just below he shoulders, and had crystal blue eyes. She was the shortest of all the girls and looked to be about five feet four inches. Madison and Paige looked a lot alike. Both were about five seven, with short, light brown hair. The only difference was their eyes. Madison had hazel eyes and Paige had brown. The boys all pretty much looked the same. Tall, all over six feet, muscular, and every single one looked like they could be kind of intimidating when they needed to be. Josh and Dan both had dark brown, almost black, hair and blue eyes. Matt had sandy blonde hair with deep brown eyes that were really intense and made you feel as if he could see all your deepest, darkest secrets. The twins were identical with shaggy, dirty blonde hair and blue-green eyes. But Tess was the one who made her do a double take. She had light blonde hair, that had a slight reddish tint to it and her eyes were the one thing that made Stacey look twice in the first place. Tess' eyes were a jade green color around her pupils, which faded to a deep blue as the color traveled farther out. She was dressed in a pair of light blue jeans, a light pink halter top, and a pair light pink high heeled flip flops.
"I'm Stacey." After a chorus of 'hi's, 'what's up's and a few other greetings they all got to talking.
"So where you from?" Tess asked her.
"Miami, I just moved here with my older brother."
"Parents not around much?"
"No, they're both dead. My mom just died not too long ago."
"Oh I'm so sorry I didn't mean-" she began but was soon interrupted by Stacey.
"Don't worry about it. You didn't know."
"Still that's gotta be rough. I can't imagine what that'd be like."
"So how's the cheerleading squad here?" She asked expecting the worst.
"Oh dear GOD." Nathalia said before Tess could say anything. "Ya'll we got us another one."
"What are you talking about Nattie?" Hayden asked her, thinking she was losing her mind.
"We gots another cheerleader added to our group, here."
"You're a cheerleader?" Josh asked.
"Hella yeah I am. And damn proud of it too. Who is the other cheerleader here?"
"Me and Tess both are." Jade told her.
"Yeah and we actually have an opening on the squad. One of the other girls just moved and we gotta replace her ass." And with those words the three girls broke into a conversation about cheerleading and routines, while the rest of the group looked at them and rolled their eyes. They didn't understand how they could be that into cheerleading.
Soon the bell rang and Stacey found herself in the same homeroom, ecology, as Tess, Dan, Jade, and Hayden. Sitting in the back with the four of them, the three girls quickly started their conversation back up. The two boys, looking at them for a minute, quickly started to talk about cars.
"So yeah, here's the form for tryouts, and we'll teach you a quick routine during our lunch period." Tess whispered to her.
"Okay, that'd be great! Thanks so much for all your help." She whispered back.
"It ain't no thang. We cheerleaders gotta stick together. Not to mention us blondes that's an even worse minority."
"Tell me bout it girl, we're always getting ripped on."
"That's cause you guys just make it oh so easy." Jade whispered to them in a teasing tone.
"Shut up!" Tess and Stacey both said at the same time, making the teacher look at them.
"Is there something you'd like to share with the class Miss Andrews, Miss O'Connor?" She said looking at them like they'd committed murder.
"Nothing that concerns you, Mrs. Franklin. Just trying to help the girl out, you know, get her adjusted." Tess said. She couldn't stand this teacher and didn't hide it.
"Well then, maybe Miss O'Connor can tell me, do you know of any streams or rivers in the state of California that are channelized?"
"Did you not just hear her?" Stacey asked the teacher, pissed that she was asking her a question that she knew she wouldn't be able to answer. "I'm new here. Just came in from Miami. Just in case you didn't know that's in Florida. On the other side of the country. Do you really think I'd know the answer to that question?"
"I'd stop speaking now if I were you Miss O'Connor. It seems that Miss Andrews has already had a negative effect on you and your attitude."
"Oh HELL no you did not just say that! Who do you think you are, huh? Just because your life is a miserable excuse, doesn't mean you can take it out on us. And just because you don't like me doesn't mean you can take it out on Stacey!"
"Miss Andrews, please leave my class room now."
"No fucking problem. I'd be glad to." Grabbing her books off her desk, and her purse off the floor, Tess walked out the door and slammed it shut on her way out.
"Now are there going to be anymore interruptions?" Mrs. Franklin asked clearly mad.
"Yeah, just these two." Jade said as she and Stacey got up and walked out of the room.
Standing in the hall, the three girls were clearly pissed.
"Is she always such a bitch?" Stacey asked.
"Yeah, really shouldn't have said anything though. Now you've just brought yourself into our little war that we've had since my freshman year."
"You guys are screwed. You know that right?" Jade told them looking totally serious.
"No shit. Well this is gonna be one hell of a year for you isn't it?"
"You're so damn right about that. This is gonna be really interesting. I might actually end up liking it here after all." Stacey said.
"Oh man we're gonna be so unstoppable this year. There's three of us and we're gonna kick a whole lot of skanky, stuck-up cheerleader ass!" Jade said, beaming at the thought, and at the mental picture of that actually happening.
"Well ladies I gotta say we better hope for a miracle." Tess said looking behind the two of them.
"What are you talking about? Why?" They asked her at the same time.
"Cause Franklin called in reinforcements. Here comes Gardner walking down the hall."
"Oh shit. Can this day get any worse?"
"Do you wanna test that theory?"
"No, it might jinx Stacey here and we can't have that happening. We're gonna need her this year."
"Ladies, you disrupted class, yet again." He said looking at them with his disapproval. Tess couldn't help but roll her eyes.
"Seriously, it isn't anything new. I don't see why you keep putting me in her damn homeroom. She hates me and I hate her. It's as simple as that. If you'd take me out of her class we wouldn't have this problem almost every morning."
"Miss Andrews, your homeroom can't change it is preset and we can't change it."
"Well then I guess we'll just keep having these lovely morning meetings, wont' we?"
"You three, go to the library for the remainder of your class time. I don't want you standing out here in this hallway for the next half an hour." And with that he turned and walked back towards his office.
The rest of the day passed by uneventfully. Before she knew it was the end of the day, and it was time for her cheerleading tryout. Walking into the gym she looked from her friends to the rest of the squad. She knew that it was going to be tough. They looked like they didn't want her there and she knew she was going to have to work hard to impress them. Soon she was in her element and doing what she did best. She was cheering and she loved every moment of it. It was the one thing that she had left from her old life. Before she knew it, the tryouts were over and they were waiting for the results. Soon the captain, who happened to be Jade came out and said,
"Even though all of you were great we could only pick one of you. And in order to be the best we can we had to pick the best candidate. And that girl just happens to be.... Stacey O'Connor!"
Stacey was so happy she had made it. The tryouts had been closed so they couldn't see how the other people did. She was just glad that she finally had the one small piece of the life that had been left behind back.
Walking out the doors after the announcement had been made; Stacey started the long walk to the store. She had just reached the side walk when a car pulled up in front of her. It was a black RX-7 with dark tinted windows. Watching as the passenger side window rolled down, she soon saw Tess' smiling face.
"Hey chick, do you need a ride."
"Yeah that'd be great. Thanks." She said opening the door and sliding in the car.
"It's not a problem. So, where to?"
"Toretto's café. Sweet ride by the way."
"Thanks, I just repainted it. Now I've gotta get it airbrushed with a design as soon as I decided what I want to do with it."
"I'm sure you'll come up with something."
"Aww thanks girl. Well you ready to go?"
"Yeah, let's roll."
"Oh we're definitely gonna roll." And with that they pulled out of the parking lot. The whole time neither noticed the yellow skyline parked out in front of the school.
A/N: Okay so here's my first chappie! Can't wait for Temp chapter cause we all know that it's gonna ROCK!! I'm just happy to be a part of this. Can't wait to see where this story is headed. It'll definitely be unique and real interesting. Hope you like the chapter. Read and Review!!