When the girls finally reconvene back in the range rover, it's almost eerily quiet from them being tired from their long first day in high school. After a few moments of silence throughout the car Massie sighs and turns her attention to Alicia "What was your deal in home ec?" Alicia glances up from her phone, taken back by the question "Nothing why?" "Really? Because you normally always pay attention during class and today you seemed very… Distracted" "Oh… Yeah, well I was just texting Samuel…" "Samuel? That junior you were talking about at lunch?" Dylan looks over raising and eye brow, causing a deep blush from Alicia who says nothing, but look back down at her phone. "And what was up with you Claire?" Massie turns her attention to the blonde, who jumps at the mention of her name.

"Huh?" She asks shaking her head into focus. "What was with you and that girl?" "Oh, I don't know, she was just having a bad day I think…" Claire trails off looking back out the window. The rest of the drive to drop the girls off remains fairly quiet, until it's just Massie in the car. "Hi pumpkin! How was your first day of high school?" Kendra jumps up from the island bar in their kitchen to rush to her daughter. "Hi mom, it was good. The school is huge and there's so many more people than OCD. It was a little overwhelming though to be honest, so I'm going to lay down for a bit" Massie smiles sliding her heels off and picking them up because of Kendra's strict no shoes in the house rule. "okay darling, just don't forget about homework" she waves Massie to go upstairs, interrogation over. For now.

Once in her room, Massie quickly changes into her Abercrombie boy shorts and a tank-top that's she's almost positive is actually Kristen's. She jumps into bed and curls up under her huge comforter, surprised by how tired she actually is, so no surprise when she's asleep in just minutes. "Massie" she hears over the intercom by her bed. "Massie darling, it's been a couple hours now, if you don't wake up now, you won't sleep tonight. Come down for dinner" Kendra calls again "Coming" Massie sends back down to her mother. She gets up and stretches briefly still feeling a bit groggy from her nap. She bounds down the stairs to join her parents for dinner.

"How was school Mass?" her father asks sipping his pinot noir from the wine glass. "Pretty good. It's definitely different from OCD but that's a good thing, I think" "What about the people?" "There's a ton more, but I haven't really talked to many yet." "Well you know Massie, high school is all about making new friends and expanding your horizon, I know you love your pretty committee, but try and branch out" Kendra glances to her daughter skeptically. "I know mom, it's only been the first day, I'm still trying to kind of get in the hang of everything" Massie smiles, standing to put her plate in the sink. "Good, buttercup, you'll be fine" William smiles at Massie before she heads back upstairs.

Once in her room she powers up her mac computer. While she doesn't have any actual homework, she needs to register for a couple websites that her teachers use for classwork and handing things in. As she begins the tedious process of filling out the same information over and over again, she gets a *ping* notification from Facebook.

1 new friend request!

Malik Henderson wants to be your friend!

Accept/Deny

Massie hovers her mouse over the accept button for a few moments. She closes her eyes and hits the button, waiting for the response to come.

Alicia

"But dad! It's totally unfair!" "I'm sorry sweetie, but there's no premise behind suing your teacher because she didn't allow you to pick your lab partner" "But isn't that like, discrimination or something?!" "No dear. I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do legally" her father shrugs. The brunette huffs folding her arms over her busty chest. Once dinner ends she heads up to her room and jumps onto her large bed, still slightly annoyed that her father didn't take her side

*ping* Hey babe, what's up?

NM, Wbu?

Nuthing

That sux

Doesn't have 2

How?

Let's have sum fun ;)

?

T or D?

And here I thought u were in hs

Come on

Fine! Truth

R U a virgin?

Duh

Damn. Rly?

Yea? Y?

Doesn't seem like it

Wuts that supposed to mean?!

Nuthin bad…

Rite…

U go

T or D?

Truth

R U 1?

A virgin?

Yea

Hell no!

Oh…

T or D?

Dare

I dare U 2 let me take ur virginity ;)

Alicia gasps, dropping her phone on the bed in front of her. Did that really just happen? She glances at her phone again before another *ping* brings her from her thoughts

Leesh, I'm just playing : )

Haha. Very funny!

But for some reason, Alicia didn't think it was just joking.

Kristen

"Kristen right?" a voice calls behind the athletic blonde. Dropping her ball, she whirls around to see four other girls strolling towards her. The park seems to get eerily quiet, though Kristen knows it's all in her head. "What's up?" a tall mocha skinned girl questions, pretty much looking down at Kristen. "Oh nothing, just kicking around a ball" "Doesn't really seem like a "pretty committee" thing to do" "Ava, clearly she's the only one here" a striking definitely-not-real redhead sighs turning to Kristen. "Why out here all alone?" "Practice" She shrugs picking back up her soccer ball. "You're on the soccer team? I've never seen you" Ava eyes the blonde skeptically. "Well I tried out on the 8th and made the team. Practice doesn't start until tomorrow" "Obviously I know when practice is. I've been on the team 2 years now you—" "Ava, knock it off. She obviously doesn't know you either. Stop being a bitch"

"I'm sorry, but it's only the first day of school, I haven't met anyone yet" "Well let me introduce. I'm Rebecca, you've met Ava clearly, Sarah is the blonde in the pink shirt, and Sophia is the blonde in the blue shirt. They're twins. We're all on the soccer team" "Really?" "Yeah! We were coming over to say hey and ask if you wanted some people to kick around with but clearly someone had another idea" Rebecca shoots a look at Ava who rolls her eyes "Come on, their little group is already like a cancer at school" "What? Why?" Kristen asks more directly to Ava. The girl shrugs "look, I'm not telling you what to do or anything, but let's just be realistic., having a clique is very grade school. In high school it's a lot different, you hang out with people that you're similar to. The soccer players, chess club, theatre junkies, they're all grouped together. You and your friends are close because of social class and the vicinity in where you live. It's a major turn off when you come somewhere and act like you own the place."

"Well I don't—" "Trust me, I know it isn't you. It's your little leader that thinks she's the head bitch in charge, but she'll get what's coming to her. If I were you, I'd keep your distance so when shit hit's the fan, you don't get in the way" Ava looks down at her iPhone and Rebecca sighs rolling her eyes. "Kris, I know Ava comes off a little strong but just think about what she's saying. She's being a tad dramatic, but she has some good points. We'll see you tomorrow in practice" Rebecca waves and leaves with her friends leaving Kristen to wonder.

Claire

1 new email

Class, I know there were some issues with the way I do my class and how I randomly assign the lab partners, but I hope that you'll see this is a good way for you to meet new people. Since I intend on keeping you with the same lab partners the entire year, I will have assigned seating in the class. The assigned seating chart will be as follows:

Jamie/Eric Gavin/Josh

Sam/Kevin Massie/Malik

Claire/Harmony Devin/Matt

Farrah/Stephanie Amanda/Alicia

As for the rest of the year, I think you will enjoy your class experience!

-Mrs. Matthews.

As Claire walks into home ec the next day she's confident in the fact of now knowing her partner's name. As she approached her table, she took a deep breath, willing a smile on her face. "Hey Harmony!" She smiles pulling her notebook out of her bag. Maybe she could prove to this girl, she wasn't bad. "Oh so you read the email the teacher sent?" The girl raises an eyebrow in Claire's direction. The blonde could feel her smile falter slightly. "Uh, yeah I did. Look, I'm really sorry I didn't hear you introduce yourself yesterday. It was rude of me" "No, you think so?" "Yeah I know. I was just a little overwhelmed with the my first high school class" "First? It's the afternoon" "I missed the morning because I had a doctor appointment" "Oh" Harmony seems to consider this for a moment when the teacher calls the attention of the class. Throughout class Claire is almost giddy with how her conversation with Harmony went.

When the class ends and everyone begins putting their things away Claire pulls out her black HG keyboard phone. "Hey, put your number in my phone so we can talk later" Harmony takes a second to look up at Claire for a long moment before chuckling. "Just because we had one civil conversation does NOT mean that we're friends" "But I—" "Are you serious Claire? Just because I talked to you everything is fine? No dear, I still don't like you or your group of she devils. Can you please just understand that I have you in this one class and we are forced to sit and work together, not be friends? Great" She laughs again stalking from the classroom. Claire sighs again looking down at her dejected phone. Just when she thought it was getting better.

Dylan

"DYLAN!" the redhead hears yelled behind her in the crowded school hallway. She turns, flipping her actually-straight-for-once hair to see her sisters shuffling towards her down the hallway. "Hey Ryan, Jamie, what's up?" The two tall seniors stop in front of her. "That's what I want to know! Who exactly told you that you were invited to our party?" Ryan ask raising a skeptical eyebrow "Because it sure as hell wasn't us" Jamie chimes in crossing her arms over her chest. "Well it's going to be at my house so I figured I was allowed to have my friends over. It's not like I invited the entire freshman class." Dylan shrugs looking at her sisters "Dylan, I know you're new to the whole high school thing so let me be the first to break this to you. You are an UNDER classmen, which means you are not invited to anything that involves UPPER classmen" Dylan looks between Ryan and Jamie "Are you two confused about something? Have you not talked to mom about this yet?" Dylan rolls her eyes as the twins exchange a look "What about her?" Jamie asks "Mom was the one that brought it up to ME. She said that since you two BEGGED to have the party at our house this year means you have to let me and my friends go too." The two older girls share a blank stare for a moment before Ryan screams, stomping her foot and taking off down the hallway. Jamie sighs "Fine Dylan, you win this round just because mom feels sorry for you and your friends, but don't expect this to happen again". Dylan shrugs, continuing her way towards the parking lot where her girls would be waiting for her.

"Hey" Dylan says shutting the range rover door behind her. The four other girls chorus back a simple hello, while all focused on their phones. The car ride goes by uneventful, other than the occasional story here and there of something that happened during a class. Dylan kicks her heels off by the door, heading up to her room, while mentally considering what all homework she had to do tonight and what she could put off for a few more days. "I can't believe we have to have BABIES at our party" she hears from her sister's room. Dylan pauses outside of Ryan's door. Babies? Did someone in their class get pregnant over the summer and now they want to bring their kid to the party? The redhead mentally thinks of the gossip points she could get for that story. "No, I'm not kidding. I swear if Dylan and her friends ruin this party I will kill my mother" there was a pause and Dylan figured her sister was talking on the phone. "No Stacey I'm serious. You keep laughing like this is a joke but it's not! These little KIDS are invading my party." - "I know we went to parties when we were freshmen but—" - "Yeah I guess we'll just see. What did Mike say about me in trig today?" Her sister switches the topic of her phone call and Dylan frowns towards her door. Babies? Kids? Really? As she finishes up the stairs and shuts her door Dylan can't help but be hurt by her sister's words. They've always been pretty close growing up and she assumed they thought she was cool to be around, seeing as she's been at other parties of theirs in the past. Maybe high school would be different after all….