Chapter 2

Cloe's best friend Amber was already waiting for Cloe, because she did live at St. Helens. When she saw Cloe parking the car, she yelled to her "can't you ever just be early?" Cloe just smiled and said: "You know me, I'm always fashionably late!". Both girls walked into the school, knowing that it didn't matter if they were a couple of minutes late.. The teachers loved them anyways. They were straight A-students, and together they'd made the cheerleading-squad state-champions, so the teachers didn't have any reason not to love them.

Cloe opened the door to her classroom. She had Spanish, which she already spoke fluently, but still had to take for some reason. She smiled at the teacher and said: "¡El tráfico era un desastre, Senora De Lucci!". Her teacher nodded, and Cloe went to her seat. She drifted away, as she always did during Spanish. She was day-dreaming about her very first day of school

Flashback

"Marguerita, why aren't my mommy and daddy bringing me to school?" asked a little Cloe. "Bella, I already told you… Your daddy had to go on a business-tripp, and your mother had a very important meeting with a client" Marguerita answered. "But they're always away for business.. I don't want them to! I WANT MY MOMMY AND DADDY BACK" she yelled, before bursting out in tears. Marguerita held the little girl in her arms, and Cloe said "But you're here for me, aren't you Marguerita?" And all Marguerita could do was nod, with tears in her eyes. How could her parents miss out on such a beautiful girl growing up?

End of flashback

As the day passed by, Cloe felt that there was something different. All the girls were hanging around one room, and giggling all the time. Cloe figured that there probably was a new guy, and by the looks of it, he was pretty hot. Cloe couldn't wait until she met him! But, she told herself, that had to wait. She had cheerleading-practice now, and she really wanted to become national champion this year. When she walked up to the gym, Amber came running up to her. "Cloe, honey, something terrible happened! We have to practice on the football-field, because there's band practice in the gym!" Cloe sighed.. Not again! She hated it to practice on the football-field. It was muddy, and they couldn't concentrate properly, with all the shouting. "Okay, let's go then" Cloe said, putting on a happy face. If she didn't smile, how could she expect her squad to smile?

As they'd expected, it was almost impossible to practice. Everytime they tried to do a new move, either the guys would start shouting things at them, or one of the girls would slip. Just when Cloe was about to explode, the ultimate nightmare came true. While doing a piramide, one of the guys tossed a football, and because of the wind, it hitted the girl in the middle. She fell, and the whole thing collapsed. Cloe started screaming, and reached for the ball. As she was reaching, she saw another hand reaching as well. When she looked up, she saw the most gorgeous eyes she had ever seen…

"I'm truly sorry for what just happened… I guess I'm not used to the wind here yet!" The eyes smiled. When Cloe looked at his face, she saw that that was even more gorgeous then the eyes. She tried to say something, but couldn't find the words. She was saved by Amber. "Doesn't matter, stuff like that happens. You're the first one to apologize for ruining our practice. But I didn't see you around before… Are you new?" The guy smiled and nodded. "Yeah, I arrived here yesterday-night. Well actually, yesterday morning, at 4 a.m. I got a scholarship for football. So that's what I'm doing on the field on my first day!" Amber, who wanted to ask that, closed her mouth. "Wow, a scholarship on st. Helen.. He must be really good" Cloe thought by herself. St. Helens had the best football-team in the country. "But what can I do to make it up to you?" the guy asked. Cloe, who thought he was talking to Amber, checked his body out. Then Cloe felt an elbow poking her. She realized that the guy was actually talking to her. "Well to start with, tell me your name. Mine is Cloe by the way, and miss big-mouth here is Amber" "And to make it up, you could ask her out! She can show you around, and you make that she finally gets out of the house.. Everyone happy" Amber added. "Okay, that's a deal then" the guy said. "And I'm Ved." Amber smirked happily, and Cloe whispered to her "I'll get back to you on this one!" "No need for that, thanks will do" Amber whispered back. Cloe sighed and smiled at Ved. "Okay, uhm, shall I pick you up tonight at 7?" Ved asked. "No, I think it's better if I pick you up.. I don't live here, and you don't know your way in the city yet. In which room are you staying?" Cloe asked. "Room 607" Ved answered, "Okay, I'll see you then tonight!" Ved said, and walked away.

After practice both girls walked to the school together. "Amber, what did you do to me? He's probably some kind of stuck up idiot" Cloe said. "Girl, you need to get out! I'm sorry honey, but if you wait any longer, you'll get stuck to that house! And he didn't seem stuck up.. And even if he was, he's good-looking enough to make up for that!." Cloe sighed. She knew that she couldn't fight Amber. She'd known Amber since she was 5, and she always lost discussions with her. Cloe blamed Amber for that, she just never listened properly to her. She said goodbye to Amber, got in her car and drove home.