Chapter Two:

"Annie, what do you mean there's nothing we can do, we're her best friends," exclaimed Silver. "Silver, I didn't mean anything wrong by it," said Annie defending herself, "Its just…we haven't heard from her in months, clearly she doesn't want anything to do with us and if something is wrong, we can't just pry it out of her. We have to let her come to us."

"Let her come to us, seriously Navid?" asked Dixon while chewing his French fry. "Hey I just don't feel like pressuring Ad into coming back to us. I want her to get all of this out of her system." As Navid finished his sentence, Ivy, Dixon's girlfriend came into the courtyard and joined Navid and Dixon. "Hey you two, what's going on? Is Navid still hung up on Adrianna?" Navid was surprised by what Ivy had said and responded," We haven't broken up Ivy." "Oh…sorry dude, I guess I shouldn't have assumed." "It's fine. Changing the subject, how was Australia?"

Both Dixon and Ivy exchanged looks and said simultaneously, "It was fine." "Did something happen?" Once again, both exchanged looks and said, "Nothing happened." Navid looked puzzled. "Well things happened, but nothing extreme or life changing. Definitely nothing that either of us weren't ready for," said Dixon. Navid caught on. "Did you guys have finally have sex or something?"

"Maybe," said Ivy, avoiding eye contact with either boy.

Back inside the building, Annie was at her locker, arranging the books that she just checked out when Liam walked by and decided to stop. "Hey Annie." Annie turned around and said hello back. "So, how are things? We never really called one other like we said we would," said Liam. "Yeah, I know. I'm sorry about that. Things at home weren't going so well and with the investigation…"

Liam put his hand on Annie's arm and said, "It's okay, and you don't need to explain. I'm just glad that you're okay." As both Annie and Liam stood there still touching one another, Naomi turned the corner of the hall and saw them. She tried to turn quickly before they saw here but Annie managed to catch a glimpse of her out of the corner of her eye. "Naomi wait! Oh crap," said Annie moving her arm out of Liam's reach. "Liam, I have to go." "But why? Me and Naomi broke up three months ago, we're not doing anything wrong here." Annie let out a long, deep breath, "I know, but I have to. I'll see you later."

Naomi was running up the stairs and entered a classroom, not caring where she was, her back to the actual room. "Hiding out Naomi?"

Naomi turned around and saw Mr. Matthews at his desk, with scraps of his lunch spread across his desk. "Oh. Mr. Matthews, I thought your class was downstairs." "Well it was but I requested a room change and I like the view from this one a lot better. So whom are you hiding from?" Naomi walked deeper into the classroom and took a sit in the front row. "Annie and Liam. I saw them getting affectionate in the hall."

"That must suck," he responded. "Yeah, it totally does, but it does suck as much as getting…" she paused, she couldn't blurt it out. "Getting what Naomi," inquired Mr. Matthews. "Getting into legal problems with Jen. How's that going by the way?" Mr. Matthews cleared his throat. "I'm getting a case ready. I have a hearing with her lawyer in a few weeks. How's Jen doing?" "She's fine, getting bigger and bigger everyday. She's also throwing up a lot too." Mr. Matthews's eyes began to water a little. "She's been getting checked right?"

"The baby's fine Mr. Matthews. I think she might have said that it was a girl." "A girl? A little baby girl," Mr. Matthews's began to choke up a little, "You know Naomi, I still need to get something's ready for my next class, if you wouldn't mind leaving…" "Of course not," she said getting up and walking towards the door, "Bye then."

Annie was walking to her next class after her failed attempt of finding Naomi when she literally ran into Navid, dropping his books in the process. "Oh my god Navid, I'm sorry," she said picking up his books. "Annie it's fine. Got a lot on your mind?" "What makes say that?" Navid laughed. "The fact that you just ran into me." "I'm sorry Navid, I'm just contemplating a lot of things." "You know if you want to talk, I can skip my next class."

Navid and Annie decided to skip their fifth period classes and went to hang out behind the bleachers on the field. "So why did you want to skip your next class anyways Navid?" asked Annie. "I have P.E right now and I really don't want to be there." Annie was confused, "Then why did we come to the field?" Navid laughed, "I don't know."

Back inside the actual school building, Dixon and Liam were talking while ignoring their government teacher, who was covering the guidelines and rules like any other teacher on the first day of classes. "So you and Ivy had sex while in Australia." "Dude, not so loud," said Dixon with a worried look on his face. "No one heard, trust me. So why are you making such a big deal about it?" Dixon gave Liam a look. "Well I know why it's a big deal, but did something happen that ruined it or something?" Dixon took a deep breath in and said, "It sort of sucked." "Sucked?"

"Well you see I planned this whole romantic evening for Ivy since she said that she was ready and I plan dinner and all these other romantic things and all of them sucked." Liam nodded and gestured that Dixon needed to give more details. "So dinner was crap, everything was burnt and tasted awful. Then our walk on the beach was ruined by these kids with their motor bikes so we decided just to go back to Ivy's place and do it and then that was the worst part."

"Why?" "So I decorated the room with candles while Ivy was getting ready and then when we did start," Dixon paused and lowered his voice, "we had problems getting in the mood." Liam tried to encourage Dixon by telling him that that was just the beginning. "There's more?" "After we finally did get in the mood, I fell out of the bed and then that's when it got bad." "How bad?"

"When I got up, I sort of knocked down a candle and then Ivy yelled and her mom walked in on us." "That doesn't sound too bad." Dixon's jaw dropped. "I was naked and her mom walked in, how is that not bad?" responded Dixon loudly, making the class and the teacher hear him. Liam covered his face in embarrassment. "Mr. Wilson," said the teacher, "perhaps you'd like to spend sometime in the counselors office. It'd be for the best." Dixon grabbed his things and walked out of the class, hearing the other laughing at him.

"So you want things to go back to normal?" asked Navid. "Yeah and for some reason, Silver feels that going out for drama again will be the right thing to do, but I don't know." "Well, why don't you start there, with drama? You said that things were normal before you met Jasper and drama was before Jasper." "Yes, but drama brought its own drama and so did Jasper," Annie said exhausted by talking about her situation. "If it'll change the subject, I'll go to the audition but I doubt that I'll get a role. It's been a while you know."

"I'm glad that I could help with that," said Navid while the bell rang. "Walk me to the auditorium?" asked Annie. "Sure." As Navid and Annie walked back inside, they talked about Adrianna and her decision to extend her stay on tour with Javier. "I just want her to be happy and if living this pop dream is making her happy, then I'm okay with it. Looks like we're here." "Thanks Navid, for everything," she said hugging him. While Annie and Navid were hugging Naomi walked passed them and said, "Skank."

Annie heard what Navid called her and broke away from him and confronted Naomi. "What the hell Naomi?" asked Annie, turning Naomi around. "Annie, I don't think she meant it," said Navid, trying to intervene. "Oh no, I did mean it. Going form one guy to another in the course of one day is rather skanky." "Oh you're one to talk, or have you forgotten about the suitors during lunch?" Naomi laughed. "Those guys, they mean nothing. Now if you excuse men, I see something I like," said Naomi, walking away from Annie and Navid.

Annie wanted to say something but tried to contain it, until it just blurted out. "Well if I'm the class skank, then you must be the new class whore!" Annie yelled, as Naomi walked and away. "What did you say?" said Naomi turning around and walking back in Annie's direction. "You heard me. So how much are you giving it up for these days Naomi, a dollar? Or are you just letting the guys take it for free?"