A/n: thanks for the comments. Especially Noname. You gave me a lot of god ideas for the story. Thanks so much.

Chapter two: Your mom

I walked to my first period class slowly. Alice walked next to me. She waved too many people as we walked. Alice was very popular ad she got along with almost everyone.

Unlike Alice I wasn't extremely popular. I had semi friend like acquaintances, but I only had three people I would count as my true friends: Alice, Joey, and Ricky. Joey was the most like me. He loved 80's music, liked to party, and he mouthed off to everyone. Ricky liked to party like me and Joey but he wasn't as out spoken as us.

Finally after we finished pushing through the crowded hallways we entered our first period history class. Alice and I had made our schedules together. We had three out of five classes together.

Alice and I walked to the back of the room and sat down. She smiled at me. I returned her smile with my crocked grin.

"Troy, your mom's a dyke!" a voice yelled out. I turned to the doorway and saw Joey. He took a seat on the other side of me.

"No, your mom," I said. Joey and I had started a your mom fight in the sixth grade, as you can see its been four years and we still haven't dropped it. It was immature, but I could never stop. It was too much fun; since I hardly ever see my mom it's sort of funny in a sense.

Alice pulled out her note book and flipped through it.

"Troy, did you do the homework?" she asked me. I snorted.

"Alice, do I ever do the homework?" I asked. She rolled her eyes. She pulled out a piece of paper with neat handwriting on it.

"I made a copy of it for you," she said. I grinned.

"Thank you; hey if you keep it up I might get a C in this class." I joked. She narrowed her eyes.

"Troy, you should really spend more time on school work." She said. I shrugged.

"Yeah," I said sarcastically.

"Hey, you made him a copy but you didn't make me one?" Joey asked. Alice rolled her eyes.

"Get a life," she snapped.

"I have a life, that's why I couldn't do the homework." Joey replied. I laughed.

"Hey, want to skip second period?" I asked him. He grinned.

"Duh, I always want to skip biology!"

"-Troy, maybe you should go, I don't want you to get in trouble," Alice said. I smiled at her.

"I won't get in trouble, I have the cool dad," I said. She shrugged.

"Troy, we're project partners and I could really use your help. Can you just please go?" she asked. I sighed. Alice was my only soft spot. It was sort of like that over protective thing my dad had over Sam. Only Alice could break me.

"Fine, I'll go." I said. Joey rolled his eyes. The teacher began talking about civil rights. Joey leaned over to my desk.

"Dude, Ricky got a twenty bag. Want to get together after school and help him smoke it?" he asked. I sighed. I will admit that I have tried pot before. Only a few times, but I still did it regardless. I didn't really like it. Well, there was this one time I smoked it with my ex girlfriend, I liked it that one time.

"No, I told you: my highs aren't as great as yours. It's not worth all the nose bleeds for one lousy high." Every time I smoked anything I would get really bad nose bleeds. I don't really know why.

"Your mom thinks it's worth it," Joey joked. I laughed.

"Shut up," I said. Alice turned to face us.

"Troy," she said softy. I made eye contact with her.

"Yeah," I said. She shook her head.

"Never mind," she said. I shrugged and turned back to my conversation with Joey. The class seemed to go by really fast and before I knew it I was in second period drawing a nucleus on a piece of poster board.

"You're a good artist, maybe you could go to an art college." Alice said. I narrowed my eyes.

"I told you a million times, I'm not going to college. It's a waste of time and money." I said harshly. She shrugged. I knew Alice really wanted to go to college and I also knew she wanted me to go with her. Even if I wanted to go, my grades weren't good enough.

Miss Kelp, the biology teacher, walked by our table and looked smugly at our poster. She studied my intently.

"Troy Winchester, what a pleasure to actually see you in class." She said. I nodded.

"Yeah, I didn't have enough money to buy any drugs and your mother was-," I was cut off by Alice.

"Troy!" Alice yelled. I rolled my eyes.

"Sorry, Miss Kelp," I said. She walked away scorned. I grinned to myself.

"It's not funny, you need o learn how to shut the hell up!" Alice snapped. I nodded. I looked up at her.

"I'm sorry, Alice." I said. She nodded. I finished drawing our project and we handed it in. when the bell rang we went to third period German and then finally lunch. I didn't bother getting anything to eat. Instead I waved goodbye to Alice and walked out side the school and out to the football field. I ran through the rain and under the bleachers where I was greeted by Ricky and Joey.

Ricky was obviously high. He looked completely disoriented and he was giggling at my very presence. Joey was smoking a joint but he wasn't high, yet. I leaned against a poll and sighed.

"There's a planned rave tonight, want to go?" Joey asked. I grinned.

"Yeah," I said. Ricky laughed.

"Bring Alice, she could use some good dirty fun!" he said in a sing song voice. I nodded. I knew Ricky sort of had a thing for Alice. If he ever even tired to touch her I would kill him.

I finished my day out and then met up with Alice after school. I called my dad for a ride home. We waited outside for ten minutes talking about meaningless things and then he pulled in. We got into his ancient impala and drove off.

"Dad, can I go to a rave tonight?" I asked. He pondered.

"Do you plan on drinking?" he asked. I shrugged.

"No sir," I said. My dad nodded.

"Will you be back before midnight?" my dad asked.

"I can be," I said. My dad nodded.

"Good answer, yeah you can go but don't come home completely shit faced or Sam will make me ground you," he said. I laughed. Alice rolled her eyes.

"I'm going, I was invited by Cal," She said. I widened my eyes.

"Whose this Cal guy?" I asked. She narrowed her eyes.

"Cal is a girl. She's the red headed cheerleader I hang out with a lot." She said. I sighed with relief.

"Oh, yeah the hot one." I said. She glared at me. I shrugged. My dad pulled into our drive way. Alice lived right next door so anything we really did like party's or school was really easy to deal with because we could always catch a ride home. She gave me a small smile.

"What time are you leaving?" she asked.

"Eight O'clock," I said. She nodded.

"I'll be here." She said. She waved and then ran across the yard and entered her small white house.

I went straight to my room and lay down onto my bed to catch a quick nap before the rave.