The girls and the guys

My name is Roxanne, but most people call me Roxie. I am 15 and in my tenth grade in high school. I live in Castle Rock, a boring old town with only one movie theatre. I have medium length dirty-blonde hair and blue-green eyes. My best friends are all guys. Accept for one her names Jade. She is my only girl friend. She has the same eyes as me and has the longish brown-red hair. I have an older sister named Riley. She is only 3 years older than me. But she acts like she is centuries older, she's a control freak, she hates Castle Rock and hates the fact that I hang out with Chris Chambers.

Chris Chambers is one of my five best friends. He's a great guy. He's Tough, Smart, Dangerous, Cute, Funny and Nice. The only bad thing about him is his reputation. Oh and Jade has this Huge crush on him, which I find so cute.

Gordie Lachance is another one of my five best friends. He's Shy, Sweet, Sensitive, and is an excellent writer. Him and Chris pretty much started the group. His older brother died when he was only twelve. He admires Chris a lot for being so Tuff. He is the one boy I'm the closest to in the group. I can talk to him about anything.

Teddy Duchamp is once again one of my five best friends. But I like him more than a friend. Even though I wont admit it to him or any of the guys. The only one who knows is Jade. He's Cute, Weird, Nice and a Daredevil. All great reasons why, I like him. But sometimes he scares the hell out of me with the stuff he does.

Vern Tessio is the last of my five best friends. He's the funniest kid I have ever met. He's a bit immature but we all still love him. He's Nice, Sweet, Funny, and loves penny collecting. He admires Chris a lot, like Gordie does.

Well they are my best friends. I don't even remember how we got that way…since I moved here we have been friends, all six of us. Best Friends for a year now. I don't remember being in Castle Rock without them.

Not any of the girls in our grade at school liked Jade or me at Castle Rock High. Maybe they all just hated us because of what we wear or maybe because we hang out with the guys, or maybe there jealous of us being so close with the guy. Whatever it is, they really don't like us. I recall the first day of school, they stuffed cheese, and I mean gross rotting cheese in our gym lockers, for no apparent reason. Of course we got them back, after their cheerleading (yes they are all cheerleaders) practice, we waited outside of the hallway and threw cheese at them. We have been enemies ever since.

As Jade and I walked threw the hallway towards our lockers all I was thinking about was how not to giggle at everything that Teddy said. When I like someone its so obvious because I giggle after ever word they said, so I had to tone that down, especially around Teddy. As we reached our lockers, which are beside the each other, we got glares from two girls. They were our mortal enemies, Sarah and Janie. They hated us more then all the other girls. Jade and I still don't know why they do, just one day they decided that there was something about us that they didn't like, so we didn't like them either. Jade and me glared back. I walked to my locker, turned my lock about 6 times to finally get it open. I looked at my pictures on the inside door of my locker. Pictures of Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Pictures of all six of us in one Photo Booth (I still have no clue how we do that) and one big picture of just the four boys. I smiled at the picture of the boys; they looked about 12 or 13 in that picture. It is my favourite picture in the world. They look so innocent, so care free. Unlike they are now. But I will get more into that later. I grabbed my books shoved them into my bag and then closed my locker and looked inside of Jades. It had the same Picture of the boys in it, Pictures of John Lennon, The Beatles, and some of the other pictures all six of us have taken in the photo booth.

¨What should I do…you no I cant do this! ¨ I said to Jade dramatically.
¨Do about what…Oh Teddy! ¨ Jade always knows what I'm thinking. ¨Umm…be the way that you always have been with him. ¨ She answered confused as why I even asked that question.

¨You no what I mean! I giggle every time I talk to him. I don't know how to control it. ¨I replied.

¨Why don't I hit you every time you giggle. Then you will probably stop giggling. ¨ Jade answered slightly laughing.

¨Ah, right I am going to just allow you to hit me. No chance. ¨ I answered.

¨Well you better come up with a better plan, and fast because here they come. ¨ Jade smiled. Then started laughing about the look on my face, as I turned around to see them walking down the hallway.

¨How come you don't have this problem when you talk to Chris? ¨ I whispered.

¨Because I can control my flirting! ¨ She whispered back. I gently hit her as Chris and the boys walked right up to us.

¨Heya Girls! How is your day so far? ¨ Chris asked with his sly smile.

¨We just started the day. But for now, it's good. ¨ Answered Jade, and gave Chris a hug. Yes we all hug each other. It's funny when the boys put their arms around you and random girls come up to you and ask if you're going out with them.

¨Yeah, a pretty good day. ¨ I answered trying to avoid Teddy's eyes, and also gave Chris a hug. Then Chris and Jade got into a deep discussion about how their English teacher must be more then 80 years old. I swear we don't act like 16 year olds. Gordie then came up to me, gave me a hug and whispered into my ear ¨Your acting, weird. Are you okay? ¨

¨Don't worry Gordie, I'm fine! ¨ I answered and pulled away from his hug, and smiled. Next one to give me a hug was Vern.

¨Heya Roxie, how are you today? Peachy? I'm Peachy; I like that word, don't you. Peachy. ¨

¨Yes Vern I love that word. ¨ I answered and giggled as I pulled away from his hug. Next was the dreaded Teddy. Well it actually wasn't dreaded. I really like his hugs, there so sweet and gentle. I just didn't want to say anything stupid.

¨Hey Roxie! How are you? ¨ He asked while pulling me into a tight hug,

¨I'm okay, Janie and Sarah are still pissing me off now and then but, other than that I'm Peachy... ¨

I smiled and giggled to myself.

¨That's good. ¨ He replied still having me in a tight hug. I felt like I was in heaven. Floating on a cloud. That's when he pulled back, but I could still feel his warmth.

¨So, do you have any idea what class we have first? ¨ He asked me with a shy smile. Me, Teddy and Gordie have all the same classes this term. Jade, Chris and Vern have all the same class this term also. So we always split up after homeroom. Which, thankfully we all had together.