Hey guys! Sorry it took so long to update! I have so much homework, it's not even in the slightest bit funny.

Reviewers:

Soycaliente: Thank you. I can always count on your reviews to make me feel good.

Emerald-Mistress: You'll find out in this chapter! I love your penname! It's for Starfire, right?

WONDER7star: Thank you very very much. I thought it was crap but, whatever you people say!

RobinStarfire: Awww! I was just kidding but thank you!

breenieweenie: OMG, thank you so much. I think your stories are awesome and I am going to read your new one right after this!

Phishy2: For your info, one of my amazing reviewers told me they loved me so shove that up your ass! You mop me up with a swiffer cloth? How lame can you get? (Not any lamer than you, mate)

lil-wolfgirl: Here it is. I like your penname!

StarfireAngel: This is as good as it gets, mate.

aheroiclove: Thank you berry much.

Nightstar 13: I'll read it as soon as I can!

jjangel9325232: Here you go...

strodgfrgf: Hey mate! Thanks again!

TheRealStarfire: dude.

blossomel91: I know, eh?

rock'n'rollbitch: I like your penname! Thanks!

srt: Wow. You must really love this story...

anonymouswriter: Thanks for the advice!

BlazeFire: Cool penname! Geez, you're just as crazy as srt!

Valda: Aww! I lovz you too!

star411: Thank you berry berry much!

Disclaimer: Don't own characters

"Did you understand the homework last night?" Raven asked BB. He shook his head no.

"I tried calling Kori for help, but I kept getting the answering machine," Raven added. "I wonder where she was…"

"She was getting ready to become popular," BB said, rolling his eyes.

"Is that even possible?" Raven asked. "I mean, in only one night-"

"You be the judge." Raven and BB turned at the sound of their friend's voice. They gaped. Her glasses were off. She was wearing her hair down in loose ringlets, hoop earrings glinting out from under her mass of hair. She was wearing a purple tank top and a denim skirt. A pair of purple sparkly Chinese slippers and jean jacket completed the look. Her big eyes awaited Raven and BB's response.

"Walking talking Jesus…" BB said, still gapping.

"How did you do it?" Raven said, still shocked. Kori shook head and her hair twirled around her face.

"I don't know, it just kinda happened…" Kori said, trailing off. Then, remembering her lesson from the other night, shook her head, placed her hands on her hips and said in tone that spelled attitude, "Got a problem with it?" BB clapped.

"Pretty good, ain't she?" Becca added, coming up behind them.

"…You're right…you did such a good job…" BB said in a trance.

"Thanks," Kori said, blushing.

"Okay, we're at school now. We gotta be all attitude, okay?" Becca said to Kori.

"Sure," she replied. Then she turned to her two other friends. "Guys, um, I might not hang out with you today at lunch, alright?"

"Why not?" BB asked, sounding worried.

"It's just-"

"Your social status, grass stain," Becca said. "You two ain't the coolest cats here-"

"I'm a rebel. Do I look like I care if I'm not a 'cool cat'?" Raven asked, hissing.

"Please you guys. If I ever want this to work out between Richard and I, I need to look cool," Kori said, biting her lip, which she did whenever she was stuck on a difficult situation. Raven sighed.

"Damn conscience," she muttered.

"Cool-e," BB nodded. "Go get 'em tiger!"

"No," Becca said, rolling her eyes. "Not cool, grass stain."

"Hey, who you calling grass stain?" BB demanded.

"Check the do (A.N. Hairdo, remember, his is green), grass stain," Becca said.

"Wish me luck," Kori said, smiling at them. Becca pulled her arm and the two walked away, hips swinging. Raven felt worried.

"Luck," she whispered. BB looked down at his papers and groaned.

"Dammnit, I forgot to ask her about the homework!"

XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX

Richard looked around the schoolyard. Girls were huddled in clusters, bending down and whispered whenever a guy walked past. The jocks were punching each other on the shoulder. The nerds were nervously talking to each other about the importance of asparagus. Damn, school life was so boring. He turned and saw his other friends smoking and checking out girls behind him. Kim began walking up, her clique swinging their hips in her rhythm.

"Hey babe," she said. He grinned and suddenly stopped. A girl was walking up to him. A girl, who happened to have carrot-red hair and green eyes. The girl from the school play! Helena! (A.N. None of the popular clique know her. They haven't seen her around school, they don't recognize her. Richard has only seen her without her glasses on and her green Helena dress on).

"Hi gorgeous," he said as she appeared. She blushed. Damn, did her legs look good in that skirt…

"Richy-poo, shoo," Kim said, waving him away. Richard shrugged and walked back to his group. Kori felt momentarily depressed. "Now who are you?" Kim asked the girl, walking around her like a proud peacock.

"Ko-Uh, Starla Thompson," Kori replied, which happened to be the first name that came to her mind. It was her friend who lived in Alabama's name. (A.N. When Kori is around Raven and BB she will be called Kori. When she is around the popular crowd, I will refer to her as Starla)

"Cool, so you're like…new?" Kim asked.

"Like ya," Starla replied, trying the phrase out in her mouth. Weird.

"Cool. Well, since you're new, we have to…y'know, classify you?"

"Go ahead," Starla answered coolly.

"Melanie!" Kim shrieked. A girl with messy brown hair, a huge amount of makeup spread over her pale face, which, truthfully, made her look more like a clown than a teenager, hurried over from the clan of girls, Kori could see there was at least five, to where the queen bee stood.

"Yes, Kim?" she asked. Starla could tell that the girl was not very confident.

"Classify the new kid," Kim replied, waving at Starla with her hand, not looking up from her other hand, on which she was examining whether the puppy pink nail polish she was wearing was bright enough. Starla decided to become this girl, Melanie's friend. So she kept very still as Melanie circled around her.

"Nerd," Melanie called out. Starla ground her teeth. Biatch.

"Actually," Kim answered, looking up from her perfect nails, "I was thinking-"

"Other?" Melanie suggested. She looked at Starla again. "Jocks?"

"Don't interrupt me!" Kim shrieked, her eyes red with fury. Melanie stood back and used her hand to imaginarily zip her mouth up. "Anyway," Kim said, shooting a furious look at Melanie, "I was thinking-"

"That's a change," Melanie muttered quietly, but obviously not quietly enough. Kim turned on her.

"GO TO HELL YOU LITTLE BITCH," she screeched and pointed towards a bunch of nerds sitting together. Melanie sadly turned and walked towards them. "Goddamnit," Kim muttered. She turned to the rest of her clique. "Anybody else got anything to add?"

It was silent. "Good," Kim said happily, smiling once more and then turned back to Starla. "I was thinking…the queen's helper." The other girls gasped. Kim was choosing this new girl as her best friend, the deputy queen. (A.N. Now don't get me wrong. All those girls are her friends, but Starla's going to become her best friend.)

"What's that?" Starla asked as clueless as BB, for probably the first time in her life. All the girls laughed.

"I like you, kid," Kim said, playfully punching her, still breathless with laughter. Kori swallowed her annoyance and smiled at her crush'sgirlfriend. "So," Kim said as she walked Starla over to the boys, "Have you met my ultra-hot boyfriend?"

XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX

Becca taught Kori (A.N. I'm switching back to her original name now) how to text on her cell phone. Kori had only originally used the phone for emergencies, but Becca had answered by saying 'What if you were about to die from boredom in the lesson? Isn't that an emergency?'

Kori was in English after lunch. The whole day was spent avoiding Raven and BB and finding out info about Kim, besides the fact that her favorite color was pink, which any idiot (A.N. coughBBcough, lol) could have guessed. Kori hadn't seen Richard at all that day, but she didn't mind. She would have plenty of time to seek him out, like rehearsal the next day, where Kim couldn't bug them. Anyway, back to the English lesson. They were going over Romeo and Juliet, with Mrs. Whardon reading to them.

"Romeo, romeo, where for art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a capulet-" Just then, a sound began to play. A ring-tone. A specific ring-tone. It began playing 'Baby it's you'. A few kids snickered. They knew the owner was in for it.

"Who's phone is that?" Mrs. Whardon snapped. Then a horrible thought occurred to Kori. She froze. Mrs. Whardon noticed she was the only one not laughing.

"Kori, what's going on?" she said, looking accusingly at her.

FLASHBACK

"Now, during the day, If I want to text you," Becca dictated, "you should keep your phone on vibrate during lessons. If you keep the vibrate off, it'll begin playing 'Baby it's you' which I set for you earlier and then you'll be in for it."

"Got it," Kori said, writing it down.

END FLASHBACK

Dreading it as she did it, Kori reached into her backpack and pulled out the ringing phone. The laughing stopped. She looked at it. 'Wut up?' Becca had written. Thanks a lot, Becca, Kori thought angrily. She pressed a button and it stopped ringing. She guiltily hung her head.

"Kori?" Mrs. Whardon's eyes widened.

"I'm sorry," she murmured, holding out the phone, tears spilling from her big eyes.

"Well, so am I," Mrs. Whardon replied, eyes downcast. "I'm afraid I'll have to give you a demerit and confiscate your phone."

"Take it…" Kori said, chucking it at her. "I don't want it anymore." Mrs. Whardon sighed, opened a drawer and placed the phone in, resumed her seating position on her chair and continued reading. The only sound was Kori's muffled sobs and Mrs. Whardon's droney voice.

XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX

Kori almost wouldn't respond to Becca when she started up a chatroom with Kori.

I'm GoRgEoUs aNd U kNoW iT says: y r't u talking 2 me? Kori looked at the e-mail hard. She could barely understand Becca's writing. She really hated Becca for making her a hotmail account so she had no other choice but to respond.

SmArT aNd SeXy says: I hate you, Becca

I'm GoRgEoUs aNd U kNoW iT says: 1st of all, don't talk lik dat. Speak in smaller form

SmArT aNd SeXy says: Alrite. U suck

I'm GoRgEoUs aNd U kNoW iT says: y? Kori paused and thought for a moment. She would handle this maturely.

SmArT aNd SeXy says: cause I got in trouble in English because u txt me!

I'm GoRgEoUs aNd U kNoW iT says: lol

SmArT aNd SeXy says: its not funny!

I'm GoRgEoUs aNd U kNoW iT says: Sry, my bad but u should have put it on vib8!

SmArT aNd SeXy says: I got a demerit. I never got 1 be4.

I'm GoRgEoUs aNd U kNoW iT says: welcome 2 popularity-ville Kori sighed. This popular stuff was harder than she thought. Thinking back over the day's events, she remembered her English homework still needed to be finished.

SmArT aNd SeXy says: g2g

I'm GoRgEoUs aNd U kNoW iT says: WTH?

SmArT aNd SeXy says: hwk

I'm GoRgEoUs aNd U kNoW iT says: u haven't done it yet?

SmArT aNd SeXy says: bi

I'm GoRgEoUs aNd U kNoW iT says: bi Kori closed the window and walked over to her school bag. As she walked back, she stopped infront of her mirror and looked at herself. She looked really good, much better than she remembered. Remembering her stupid homework, she groaned and walked over to her desk. No sooner had she taken out all her books and gotten started, the phone rang. Sighing, she picked it up and answered a drab "Hello?"

"I'm not sure what to say." It was Raven.

"How about hello?" Kori said arrogantly. She looked at her watch. Time was ticking.

"Okay, no need to be bitchy about it," Raven responded. "I just wanted to tell you that I have an art show coming up and I really want you and BB to be there when they judge it." Raven's best subject was art. The heck with everything else.

"Whatever," Kori said, yawning and glancing at her watch once more.

"It's on the 23rd. Promise you'll come?"

"Promise," Kori said, looking at her nails.

"By the way, how's it going with-" Kori hung up and started back on her work.

XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX

Raven sat on her bed, astonished at how Kori just hung up like that. She walked over to the closet and looked at her painting. It meant so much to her that both her friends were going. Then she thought about Kori and Richard. She hoped he wouldn't…well…do what he had done a while back to Kori.

But then again, it says that history often repeats itself…

Bye you guys! I gotta go! Review!

Starry