I sat on a stool, kicking my feet back and forth slowly. Drew sat next to me, slurping up his chocolate milkshake franticly, as if someone would come and steal it at any second. I took a deep sip of my own vanilla milkshake. Vanilla is so much better than chocolate…

I drank up the last of my coffee with a satisfied sigh. Yum, caramel…

"Finally your done- How long can it take to drink a medium coffee? Can we, like, go now?"

I laughed. "Fine, we'll go. You stay here, I'll go pay." I got up and went to pay, sitting in an empty stool and sliding my credit card over to Peter. He smiled and slid it through the little slot in the cash register with flourish.

Out of the corner of my eyes, I glanced at the two boys sitting a seat away from me. The one closest to me, a tall, muscular kid with black spiky hair, was inhaling a chocolate shake, and the smaller, baby-faced brunette boy seemed to be deep in thought, staring into his own shake as he traced the outline of his beanie cap. I furrowed my brow in concentration… Where had I seen the spiky-head kid before? Then I remembered- That was Drew. Alli's ex-boyfriend. As in, my best friend's boyfriend's little sister's ex-boyfriend. And the cap-kid was Adam, I recalled vaguely. Or was it Alex? But I was pretty sure he was Drew's step-brother. And he hung out with Clare, who had a crush on my twin brother. I had never realized I had so many connections before.

"Fiona!" I jerked my head.

"What?"

It was Peter. "Here's your credit card back, and your receipt. You're free to go now."

I gave him a small smile. "Oh, thanks." Jeez, he must think I'm crazy. I slid off the stool and pranced back over to Holly J, picking up my purse, which I had left on the chair.

"OK, let's go…" I chided.

"OK, OK, I'm going…" Holly J laughed, following me out the door.

I snatched I notebook and textbook from my locker hastily, and jammed a pen into the pocket of my sweatshirt. I slammed the steel door shut, and as I hurried away, I suddenly found myself crashing to the floor. Someone had tripped me.

My heart pounded with fear- Owen? Bianca? Fitz? What were they gonna do to me this time…? But as I glanced behind, there were only some sniggering sophomores, trying to be cool by tripping the neighborhood freak, Adam the Tranny.

I chose to ignore them, grabbing my books and walking off. But as I looked down to close my notebook, as it had been opened when I fell, I ran into someone.

I nearly fell down, and heard my victim cry out softly. I looked up, and found myself face-to-face with the Fiona Coyne. The rich Fiona Coyne. The beautiful Fiona Coyne. And the senior Fiona Coyne. Crap, she was gonna be pissed.

But she wasn't.

"Oh, sorry," she muttered, blushing. I noticed she had dropped some fancy-looking necklace on the ground, and I bent to pick it up for her.

"Oh, um, you're Adam, right?" she inquired as I gently laid the jewelry into the palm of her outstretched hand.

I felt my hopes sink. She knew me, huh? So much for any chance of trying to flirt. "Uh, yeah, why?"

"Oh, it's just that you're Drew's brother." She said hastily, blushing again. She so knew…

"Um, OK, well, I've gotta get to class. See ya' around, maybe…" I muttered, rushing off. Better to break it off and get away while I had the chance.

Jeez, why did I have do try and put on the stupid necklace while walking? I nearly ran over the Adam kid… Sigh… I never noticed how damn cute he is. Especially those blue eyes of his. But, of, course, I would never date a sophomore… even if he was sweet and little like Adam. Would I?

Nope. I'm not gonna be dating at all, not after Bobby. No way. At least for a while.