A/N- So I cam almost of break so I'm writing as much as possible before I have to leave. I plan to write at least two chapters today so I hope to finish the story by Wednesday but don't count on it. Thanks for the review. I'm not giving anyone really a chance to read it so I don't can about reviews.

Chasing Dreams

Chapter Ten

A Great Deal of Trouble

It had been two weeks since the party and everyone was talking about the party. That night the elementary school park had been vandalized. Today the police was coming to speak to their class. Someone had told Mrs. Kentwood about the Valentine's Day party and now she had told the police who coming to speak to them. The class crowded into the library at their school. The library was old and small; they had small, green couches, in the middle of the room that everyone fought for. Brooke, Peyton, Lucas, Haley, and Nathan managed to claim one of the three person couches and across from them were the other three person couch was Alexis, Carter, Kady, Shawn, and Kendra. Eric sat in a chair next to the couches.

"Approximately two weeks ago on Valentine's Day," the officer began, "the park outside the elementary school was vandalized, now we have heard that there was a party that night and we have great believe that it was a few of you. We are going to talk to you all individually."

"Okay students, get into a three single file lines, about eight people pure row," Mrs. Kentwood preached. The students got up from their spots and made the lines. The lines were uneven, no one listening to Mrs. Kentwood, just lining up in their own groups. Peyton was the first to go from her line.

"Hi, I'm Peyton Sawyer," she introduced herself to the officer sitting in front of her, he was a gray, fat, old man, and his name plate read Johnson.

"So where you that night?" asked Officer Johnson.

"At Dylan King's house," Peyton answered.

"The host of the party?" he questioned.

"Yeah," replied Peyton,

"Can anyone confirm you were there?" he pressed.

"My friends," Peyton said lightly.

"Names please," he asked.

"Brooke Davis, Nathan and Lucas Scott, Kady O'Grady, Alexis Mackenzie, Eric Down, Shawn Harris, Haley James, Carter McCrae, Kendra Falcon, Dylan King, Kylie and Kaitlyn Harper, Tara Pike, Megan Moore, Mike Worth, Randi Barber, Andrea Layden, and Zach Holt," Peyton listed, "even though I'm not friends with the last few they saw me there."

"That is practically the whole class," Officer Johnson said, reading the class list he had in front of him.

"Those are the people that stayed the entire time," Peyton said.

"People left?"

"Yup, Serena Hart, Tia Brown, Danielle Berry, Dustin Horsley, and Chris Dixon," Peyton said.

"Okay, what time did you go home?"

"Around eleven," Peyton said.

"Get a ride or did you walk and with who?"

"Walked with Kenny, Shawn, Eric, and Kady," Peyton listed.

"Kenny, being Kendra?" asked the officer.

"Yup," Peyton replied.

"Okay, Miss Sawyer I think that is all," the officer said not looking up from the papers, "you can go."

Everyone followed telling the same story as Peyton had but with slight variations on they got home. The other two rows had also finished going through the people, the officers all go together and began going over the stories. After a few minutes they went and talked to Mrs. Kentwood. Mrs. Kentwood shook her head and went and addressed the class.

"We have variations within your stories, some people have been cleared and they may go," Mrs. Kentwood began. "Dylan, Randi, Andrea, Zach, Mike, Kylie, Kaitlyn, Tara, and Megan you all may leave."

"What?" Brooke exclaimed. "What the hell did you say bitch," Brooke said getting up and running at Serena.

"Nothing," Serena said sweetly tilting her head side ways.

"Brooke calm down," Nathan said grabbing her arm and sitting her down.

"Everyone, I am sure you have figured out the contradictions, between the stories, basically saying the opposite," one of the officers explained.

"Someone needs to fess up," Mrs. Kentwood demanded.

"They all hate me because Nate and I had a fling on the ski trip and they all were jealous of me and they can't get over he chose me" whined Serena, looking Brooke in the eye.

"Not true," complained Brooke.

"What isn't?" asked Mrs. Kentwood.

"That we were jealous, we were mad, like we hate Serena but not enough to frame her for something, she may not remember but we started the school year off as best friends, you don't just forget something like that."

"You still hate me and you can't deny that," Serena said accusingly.

"And you don't hate us," Peyton exclaimed. She was sick of Brooke always getting the blame for everything.

"Girls, simmer," Mrs. Kentwood demanded. "I seem to remember a conversation we in January, Miss Davis, you said you hated Serena and mentioned something about the park."

"That was because I do hate her, but you didn't believe me then so why do believe it now?" Brooke asked.

"Brooke Davis, what has happened to you?"

"I haven't changed that much, things are different I have new friends but I'm not different," Brooke said. She wasn't going to show emotion again, she wasn't. Mrs. Kentwood didn't have to believe her, but her life was good. "Serena was overheard saying that they were going to leave early, get drunk and high, go to the park, and come back to the party and try to get Nathan again."

"Is that true?" asked Mrs. Kentwood, looking at Serena.

"No we never left," Tia said.

"Not true," screamed the girls from the other side.

"Mrs. K, they left and they came back and I told them to leave," Nathan said.

"What exactly happened?"

"I was with Haley, and we were talking," Nathan smiled looking at Haley, "then Eric came into the room we were in talking about something. Then I heard someone yelling my name, and it sounded like Serena and I went upstairs and told her to leave. Mr. and Mrs. King saw me, just ask them."

"Okay, I will do that," Mrs. Kentwood nodded, leaving to room to go a private phone. She returned minutes later, "Okay Mrs. King said that Serena, Chris, Danielle, Dustin, and Tia left early."

"Okay," replied one of the officers, "all we want you guys to do is clean it up."

"Fine!" exclaimed Serena.

"You all can go back to class," Mrs. Kentwood said, "except for Serena and Nathan. Come with me to my office, we have something to talk about." Serena and Nathan followed Mrs. Kentwood to her office. Serena took the single chair in the room, so Nathan remained standing. "What happened on the trip?"

"We went boarded then kissed," Nathan said simply.

"In the bedroom," Serena jabbed Nathan in the ribs.

"Helpful," Nathan mumbled.

"Okay, so how did everyone find out?"

"They had adjoining room with Brooke, Peyton, Haley, Alexis, Kady, and Randi, didn't you know," Serena said.

"Adjoining rooms," Mrs. Kentwood exclaimed.

"Yeah, didn't you know since you mad the room arrangements," Nathan said innocently.

"No actually," Mrs. Kentwood said.

Only people that were going out was Carter and Alexis at the time, and nothing happened, we mostly watched hockey," Nathan explained.

"Natie, aren't you going out with Haley? And isn't Brookie dear going out with your brother?" Serena asked.

"We weren't then," Nathan said forcefully.

"Well, since I know you guys knew I didn't know, because you don't think I'm that stupid, and obviously you guys stayed in each others room longer that supposed to, and Nathan this the second time something has happened with you on a trip, I giving you all detention for the next week."

"Us, or everyone I roomed with?" Nathan asked.

"Serena, and all of your roommates."

"Don't punish Randi and Mike they did nothing at all," Nathan explained.

"They should have told me," Mrs. Kentwood said grabbing some pink slips, "Nathan you can give these to all of your friends and we'll see you after to school."

"Whatever," Nathan said, getting up and leaving. Serena had screwed them over again, they got her in trouble, and she got them in trouble. He was sick of it. Only four more months until they were free of everything that the small school stood for and the bitch that had it out for them.

A/N 2- The next chapter is going to be fun, its going to be the fun day in the town. When we did it in grade eight it was all time. We had people doing crazy stuff, I have a younger sister and I know all of her friends and we had them doing stuff, and people our age that didn't go to our school but were friends with people I knew, some really hot guys. It was fun. I just recently found out that our teachers didn't know about Noah and Kirsten (Serena inspired girl) sneaking off on our trip. My sister is in grade eight now and its her turn and its coming up like next weekend and she was talking about some of the stuff I told her about, we bitch about of fun lives in a shit hole town, and she was telling people this and one of the teachers overheard and they had know idea what happened. We all thought they knew, our principal had said something to Noah and we all thought someone had tattled. But apparently they didn't know about the sex in the bush. Anyways. Review please.

-Lauren