SARA'S APARTMENT

THE RIVERA LIMO

Wednesday, March 3rd

7:46

Sara skipped happily down her driveway into Alicia's limo. "Oh my gosh! This is ginormous! I can stand up in this ting! That's one of the good things about being short," Sara exclaimed when she got inside. The limo started again and they were on their way to OCD. "Whoa! You even have a sunroof!" She rolled it open and stood on the pop cooler. Only her head and neck stuck out, even with the boost.

"YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY! I JUST CAN'T SLEEP!" Sara sang and the other girls sang along with her. Alicia, Dylan, and Claire thought that Sara was a total loser, but that's what they liked about her. Lance, Alicia's new driver, screeched to a stop. The pop cooler flew forward and Sara flew backward, and she was lying on back on the floor. After a few seconds of silence, Sara started cracking up and the other girls followed.

Lance turned around and glared at the group. "Sara, I know this is you're first ride with us, but our number one rule is NEVER stick you're head out the sun roof."

Still giggling, Sara stood up and sat down on the seat in between Dylan and Claire. "I'm sorry. I've just never been in a limo before so I'm just… you know, letting out my wild side." Lance rolled his eyes and started driving again.

"I thought your wild side was eating a sunflower seed whole," Alicia joked as Sara turned bright red.

"Last time I did that, I choked and went to the emergency room," Sara laughed. "I am totally serious."

For the rest of the ride, the girls told stories about their trips to the ER. Dylan's story about how she attempted trying when she was seven and broke her arm was pretty good. But Claire's story of when she got knocked over by a giraffe and passed out at the zoo topped them all.

By the time they got to OCD, all four girl's make up was smeared form crying but they didn't care. Right when they got out, a few other friends came up to say hi.

"Being in the car with Sara in like watching a one-man circus. And Sara's the one mad." The girls turned to look at Sara who flipped over and was walking on her hands, a trick she learned from gymnastics and cheerleading.

"Whoa, you never told us you were a gymnast!" Claire exclaimed.

"Oh, I just don't like to show off." Sara responded, still upside-down. She fell on her back into the grass, and stood up and brushed herself off.

The girls walked inside in a laughing fit and went to their lockers. Luckily, Sara's was right across the hall from them so she could see what was happing with Dylan. She found ANOTHER note in her locker.

"Didn't you already say no to that kid?" Sara asked, watching Dylan unfold the note.

"I guess…" Dylan said.

TO DYLAN FROM CARL

Dylan giggled at the picture of a beautiful stick-figure girl with big red hair and a big stick-figure muscle man next to her, and they were holding hands. He labeled the girl Dylan and the guy Carl. After Dylan showed the note to her friends, she carefully stuck in her pocket.

This kid ah-bviously wasn't going to give up on liking her, so why try to fight it, Dylan had been thinking. She was starting to lighten up to him, but there was no way she could EVER tell her friends that.

Bye the time it was 3rd period, the girls were in a fabulous mood. Without Massie there insulting Sara's every mood, everything was calm and happy and moving along smoothly.

"Okay class. Today we will be joining the 3rd period gym class at Briarwood for square dancing. So we're going to meet at the Hockey Rink at Carson Park. I'll explain everything when we get there. Now leave you're things and follow me," Mr. Bach said as he led them on the muddy journey to the Rink.

"So are we going to be able to pick our own partners?" Sara asked the teacher, and he nodded back. Sara let out a big smile and the always always always cranky teacher actually smiled back. At every school that she moved to, everyone loved her: students and teachers. She always thought of herself as really lucky that she had such a good attitude. Everyone at her old school said she had the "magic Sara touch" because no one could resist smiling back to her. But she felt kind of bad about what happened with Massie. Even though Sara didn't do anything, she though maybe she should apologize to Massie, because she HATED having enemies.

As she walked over to Dylan, Alicia, and Claire, she said, "I wonder who's in our gym class!" Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Hey, you guys, where's Massie?" A girl named Andrea asked, with her three best friends following.

"Oh, um, she's sick," Claire lied. The last thing she wanted was everyone's attention going to Massie. And even worse, people might even think that its Sara's fault!

"Yeah right. I heard her parents sent her to live with her Grandma, to learn a lesson of generosity," Marissa said.

"I heard she is giving up a week of shopping sprees so her parents will let her stay home from school for a couple of days because she's so embarrassed," Violet said.

"Well, I heard from a reliable source that she is taking a circus train to Morocco, Africa and is going to hide away there," Stacie said, totally seriously.

"Alicia started choking on laughter, seriously choking. Stacie, Violet, Marissa, and Andrea stared at her in confusion. "I, um… a bug flew in my mouth," Alicia lied, still coughing and recovering from her laughing fit, while her friends giggled, too.

As they walked up to the hockey rink, the girls scanned the crowd of guys for someone they knew. Claire leaned over to Dylan and whispered, "Your little boyfriend is here!" Dylan spotted where she was pointing and pretended to groan. Carl was talking to another kid with spiky blonde hair. The moment their eyes met, he smiled really big and his friend smacked him on the arm. She admired that even after she rejected him, he was still in love with her.

Once everyone was in the rink, girls on one side, guys on the other, Mr. Bach started explaining the rules. "Okay, when I say go, you have three minutes to find a partner. Don't worry, there is an even amount of girls and guys. Then spread out and we'll let the dancing begin. Now today, these partners you pick will be permanent for the next two weeks, so choose wisely. And, CHARGE!" Mr. Bach said, being very corny as he covered his head.

"Oh my god. That guy is really hot!" Sara said.

"Which guy?" Claire said, not really paying attention to Sara. She was taking deep breaths and getting ready to go ask Cam to be her partner.

"Hold on, I gotta go ask that guy to be my partner before someone else does," Sara said as she ran off. Dylan was standing on the side with Carl, who was asking her. Apparently, she said yes because he was smiling enormously. Alicia was looking around for someone. She wasn't very interested in many of the guys. She was too concerned about her meeting with Riley today, and who he was going to be partners with.

No one was paying attention to Claire. But if they were they would have seen steam coming out of her ears. Yeah, you guessed it. Sara was asking Cam to dance, and he was smiling… AND NODDING! Claire had never even thought that anyone in all of the world, would ever ever ever even think of asking HER BOYFRIEND to be their dance partner. Especially Sara. Right now, even her "magic Sara touch" wouldn't help right now. All she wanted to do was go over there and punch that kid, and Cam for saying yes! Claire didn't even care if Sara didn't know that Cam and her were going out. It was still the most dirty rotten thing anyone could do.

And now, Claire the innocent, was definitely going to get Sara back.