Hey Everyone,

Thanks for all the lovely reviews! I will put Josh and Constance in here soon when the Legacy and other events at Easton start to happen. Let me know if I should keep writing and if you want to know what happens with Reed?

EHFAR,

Jenny Lange

Chapter 3

Easton Tea Party

If U.S. History could be any more boring, it would be with a teacher like Mr. Barber. He never stopped, even to take a breath and continued rambling on about the president who did this and the Congress that did that. Like I said fucking boring as hell. And not only that but he was monotone which just really topped off this "great" class. Today was Revolutionary War day, where we talked about nothing but the 1776 defeat of the Britons against the colonized "Americans." I turned around in my seat and saw Ariana doodling in her notebook and passing a note between her and Kiran. I raised my eyebrow at her and got the look back that read: I'll tell you later. I sighed and looked at the clock. Only 30 more minutes of this for the week. I felt Dash's hands on my shoulders giving me a message and holding on to me like his life depended on it, right in the middle of class. He was too cute. I heard a few immature snickers in our direction, but I didn't give a shit about it.

"Mr. Coolidge, put the phone away, or I'll have to take it and suspend your phone privileges for the rest of the month." Mr. Barber threatened. "And besides Gage, you can text your girlfriend later."

I laughed out loud on that one: "What girlfriend Mr. B?"

I tuned to face Gage who was sitting in the desk to my left. "God shut up Lange for once. Kiran's my girlfriend. You of all people should know that" Gage spat back.

"Oh I knew that, it's just sad that Kiran has stooped so low to your dumb ass level that's all!"

I smirked in his direction as he put his phone away in his blue beat up Jan-sport backpack.

"Don't be jealous Lange that you can't have me all for yourself" he said rhetorically.

"Mhm tempting Coolidge, but I'd rather be dead than kissing you."

I turned around and saw Mr. Barber trying not to crack up. "Anyway Mr. Barber you wanted Gage to answer a question for you?" Even though Mr. B ran the class, I had to keep him on topic most of the time. Make that like all the time.

"Yes, Noelle thank you. Gage can you tell me two reasons why the Americans wanted separation or independence from Great Britain so badly?"

Gage slapped his fist on his desk and said, "One we were juvenile dumb asses back then and two none of the hot British dignitaries wanted to get laid with us sexy Americans."

His tone was incredulous. "Obviously if you were born back then we'd still be colonized then." That boy needed some serious counseling for his narcissism.

I rolled my eyes. So like Gage to come up with an answer like that off the top of his head. I heard Dash lean in and whisper, "I'll get him later at Ketlar for this love." I smiled and looked back at the clock: 10 minutes. I heard Mr. Barber correct Gage and go on talking about the Boston Tea Party and the Stamp Act Congress. Somewhere Trey Prescott, Gage's roommate, though it would be funny to talk about how the tea was only being thrown overboard to keep the British people from getting high with the tea leaves. Somehow I knew it was Gage's influence because that was something that only he'd think up.

Ariana and Kiran were still passing notes about who knows what and Dash was still rubbing my shoulders before lacrosse practice, which directly followed lunch. The bell finally rang and everyone in the class stood and gathered our stuff and bolted out of room 101as Mr. Barber told us to check online for our homework assignment. Fuck that. As we walked out into the cool afternoon, the sun shone down blinding us with its reflection off of the buildings.

Gage walked out with Kiran and slapped my ass saying, "Dude what the hell was that for in there?" I raised my eye at him.

"Uhm, just keeping you awake Gage and having a little fun with you."

"Well next time don't make me look like an idiot in front of everyone. Kay Lange?"

"Jeeze Coolidge okay okay. But seriously grow a pair will you?"

"I have one thank you very much."

"Oh yeah? Prove it." I watched as he turned bright red and everyone stated laughing. I had to smile. Boy had it coming to him.

It was then that Kiran interjected and said irascibly, "Noelle quit being a bitch and back off of him." The volume of our group as we walked turned dead quiet as I stopped and turned around to face her. What the hell?

"Excuse me Kiran?"

"You're excused hun. Now you and I need to talk now. Alone." Her tone was irritated and I knew that she knew what the deal with Reed was.

"Fine but make it quick. I'm not missing practice because of this!" I walked with her to the cafeteria line, grabbed a turkey club on wheat along with Fruit Punch Fuze, and walked out with her to the locker rooms for mid-day practice.

"Okay Kiran what is your deal?"

"My deal is that I know what you and Ariana did to my best friend and I am not going to let you get away with it."

"First of all hun. Best friend? And second no one is going to believe you that we killed her. Everyone, but you, knew Ari and I both loved Reed and wanted the very best for her. So you tell the police, my dad, or Cromwell and you might as well come up with a story to cover your own ass on this one."

"Yes Noelle. Hard to believe, but we were more like sisters than anything. I helped her become who YOU wanted her to be but I knew the real Reed down past the façade YOU had me create for her. I did love her and that is why I will live to see you fall. Right on that pretty Estee Lauder made up face of yours."

I could not believe this. The girl who I had brought into Billings because of her loyalty to me was turning on me faster than girls waiting for a private release party of Twilight to open. Gawd irony was such a bitch.

"Kiran you may have been besties with Reed but that won't help you here. The police are going to find her body in town and deem it suicide. Reed was on serious drugs before this whole thing. She told all the Billings girls that she'd kill herself if she had to continue to deal with the strict Easton way of life. If I were you I'd keep my mouth shut because I could have you expelled from Easton and that wonderful modeling career of yours in no time at all. I'm sorry love, but there is really nothing that you can do about it."

"That's where you are wrong Noelle. Way wrong. I will find a way to bring justice to you and Ariana if it's the last thing I ever do." She opened her combination lock and pulled out her practice wear and started to get dressed. The bell had rung four minutes ago and girls were flooding in, in throngs.

"Sure Kiran over your dead body that is." I turned and walked to my locker and opened it in a fit of rage. Today during our scrimmage I would make sure she was on the other team. Just so I could have a friendly little completion with her. I mean I had to fucking show her that I wasn't fazed by her little outbreak earlier.

"Noelle practice uniform or what today?" Astrid Chou asked me as she walked in to the locker room. I smiled slightly.

"Actually girls just throw on a tank and shorts. We're having a practice scrimmage against each other."

I quickly changed into a white tank top with Easton's gold practice shorts as Astrid was telling everyone to hurry their butt out onto the field. I jogged two laps around as a warm-up for the game and as a cool-down from Kiran.

Coach Liasik came out of nowhere and blew her whistle. "Kay Noelle divide up the girls, get on the maroon colored pennies, and start."

"Alright Astrid, Rose, Diana, Tiffany, Amberly, and London you're with me. The rest of you are together." I sighed. Being captain really had its perks. We stretched as a team and I thought of Nationals that were coming up in less than one month. Barton Academy was going down this year. After stretching out my quads and upper arms we grabbed our sticks and headed out to the field. The game was stared and I had never run so much in my entire life. Sweat poured from my body. We were up four to zero and I had the ball and I was about to make a goal when Kiran came up side by side and tripped me. I fell and literally ate dirt. I got up pissed as ever and glared at her with eyes flat black as I brushed off my legs, which were covered in grass.

"Don't you ever do that again to me Kiran," I blurted looking at her practically fuming!

Kiran smiled a fake smile and said superciliously, "Can't promise you anything love."

I narrowed my eyes mouth pressed together tightly and jogged back to center field fuming. I passed the ball to Astrid who passed it to Tiffany who ran downfield past all the defenders. I lifted my stick and caught the ball and immediately felt a stick slam into my gut. I curled over in pain and when the throbbing stopped I was helped up by Coach L and Rose who were already at that end of the field. Rose handed me my Nalgene water bottle and I downed a big gulp.

I then heard coach say angrily, "Kiran pack it up and go. I can't have you hurting our players before the finals."

I turned and saw Kiran picking her stuff up off the bench and mouth to me, "Told you."

I raised my eyes not giving her any type of satisfaction whatsoever. Soon Kiran was going to get what was coming to her and maybe she'll be thrown overboard just like the crap-loads of tea in Boston. Except here it would be the Easton Tea Party. Me being the American. Her being the Britton. And history was about to repeat itself. Again.