Yeah, this chapter kinda sucks. Stacey was always my favourite so I'm finding it a little hard to be too...facetious with her. I'll try better next time, promise!

Stacey

The last place I wanted to be that afternoon was the Brewer-Thomas den. I would have much preferred to be upstairs in Sam's room. We'd been doing the horizontal mumbo jumbo, as he calls it (he's such a goof!), for a few weeks now and I was really beginning to enjoy it. Who'da thought that Stacey McGill would turn out to be such a whore?

To be honest, I really hadn't wanted to at first. But when Sam told me that all the high school kids were doing it, I knew I had to. I am, after all, the sophisticated one.

I sat up straighter as Jessica entered the room. I'd only just met Jess but already I liked her. She was so beautiful, with her perfect blond hair and perfect size six figure and perfect blue-green eyes. I hoped to turn out like her when I was sixteen!

Kristy was firing questions before she'd even had a chance to sit. "Do you have any suspects?"

"Sure!" Jessica pulled a piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to Kristy. "I wrote you a list."

I managed to catch a glimpse over Kristy's shoulder. The list was pretty long! I raised my eyebrows at the first suspect; Carl, the guy who kidnapped Liz the first time. "So this has happened before," I commented.

"Oh yeah," Jessica said. "This is the… third? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the third time Liz has been kidnapped this year. It's funny," she added with a laugh, "even though Liz is supposed to be the one everyone loves, she's the one with all the enemies. She's been stalked and kidnapped and attacked way more than me."

"Stalked? Attacked?" Mallory sounded pretty scared. Jessi sat next to her, looking black (A/N: that's never going to get old. I apologise in advance for the copious amount of 'Jessi's black' references this story is likely to have.)

Jessica nodded and told us about her previous adventures. They were nothing like ours. The girl had survived numerous attempts on her life, plus werewolves and vampires, and still managed to be Homecoming Queen. And I thought I had a hard life with my diabetes and parents divorce!

The more Jess talked, the more impressed I became. I was beginning to think that I'd found my kindred spirit.

Kristy threw a party that night to welcome Jessica and her friends to Stoneybrook. She invited the entire BSC and a bunch of people from school. I warned her that Jess and her friends probably didn't want to hang out with a bunch of middle school kids, only to receive one of her patented Kristy Thomas death stares.

Kristy can be such a douche sometimes.

I arrived early. Jessica and Lila were already in the den. I took the seat next to Jessica. "Charlie Thomas is so cute," she was saying.

"Don't even think about it Wakefield," Lila snapped. "I saw him first.'

"You did not!" Jessica cried. "And you've got Bruce!"

Lila smiled calmly. "May the best woman win."

I was horrified. It must have shown, because Jessica laughed and patted my knee. "Don't worry, we do this all the time!" she assured me.

"We're always falling for the same guys," Lila added.

"And you're still friends?" I cried. "When I went out with Jeremy, Claudia wouldn't talk to me for months!"

"You obviously don't have a very good friendship," Jessica said, shrugging. "Not like me and Li."

I was intrigued. I'd always maintained that it was totally unfair that Claudia had been so pissed about the whole Jeremy thing. I mean, can I help it that she's so... weird? And now I had proof!

My life would be so much easier if I had friends like Jessica and Lila.

Jessica introduced me to the rest of her friends as they arrived. Bruce was very attractive but way too old, even for me, and I had a feeling that Lila would scratch my eyes out if I tried anything. He seemed pretty taken with Shannon, anyway.

Winston was, in my opinion, Alan Grey in three years time. Just as I was thinking that, Alan did his Little Orphan Annie trick with the M & Ms in his eyes, and Winston clapped him on the back and called him a comic genius. The pair of them were inseparable for the rest of the night.

Liz's boyfriend and best friend, Todd and… Erin? Edwina? I don't remember her name, but the pair of them arrived together. I had a bad feeling about Todd. Nobody's as wholesome as he makes out to be.

Erin/Edwina ended up in conversation with Mallory. Jessi looked pretty upset (and black) about being ignored by her best friend.

Todd lurked in the background. I knew there was something off about him.

Satisfied that everything was going well, I took up my position on Sam's lap and didn't move for the rest of the night. The last thing I remember seeing were Jessica and Lila hovering around Charlie. Charlie seemed pretty pleased.

As you would be.