AN: Just for some background information, the middle school in my story (Holy Eucharist) is based off a real Catholic school in Rumson, NJ, although I changed the name. No, I don't go to that school, but a few of my friends used to + I've been there before. I changed the layout of it and that it goes from 6th to 8th. This is a co-ed school, btw...just bc I think it makes it more interesting. ;)

Chapter 2-Before Homeroom

Holy Eucharist Middle School

Main Entrance/The Hallway

Wednesday, September 5th

8:09a.m.

After my Mom dropped me off at Holy Eucharist, I waved good-bye to her and blew her a kiss before automatically rolling my shoulders back and putting a you-don't-know-HOW-great-my-summer-was smile on my face.

'Presentation and attitude are EV-ver-ee-thing,' as Lexi had once said. I'm pretty sure that had come from her "Tips for Success" part of her (that is to say that it belongs to anyone who's part of the GGs) infamous notebook, Lexi Shay's Handbook for Success. As I said before, it technically belongs to all of the Glamour Goddesses, although since Lexi has alpha-rights, she gets to choose what goes in it and what doesn't, kind of like veto-power. (As the beta of the GGs, I had the right to give her suggestions, which is slightly better than Brianna and Danielle, who can just read it and give me suggestions that have to go by Lexi afterwards. That is, if they happen to think of any…although since neither of them are extremely creative, this suits them just fine.

Lexi's other alpha-power (okay, fine…so there are a lot of these that are just unspoken, like first dibs with guys and such, that are just common sense…to us anyway. I mean, who would want to get in the way of each other's Potential Boyfriends a.ka. PBFs?) was that she got to keep it for unlimited perusal, since it was mainly hers. The rest of us had to ask to see a specific section when we gave a really good reason for looking at it (meaning that it's never actually been denied unless the reason was pretty stupid).

But on Fridays (at exactly 3:00p.m.) after the last bell for school rang, it was open to anyone in the GGs since we'd most likely be together at one of Lexi's GLU (Girls Like Us) sleepovers after school that day, unless on a date (or in Danielle's case, at her Dad's…where she spent a weekend once a month).

So where was I? Oh…right. I walked confidently into school with my Gucci bag swinging from my right shoulder and skipped off to my locker, hoping to put up some new pictures of Becca, Katie, and I and some classic ones of the Glamour Girls before homeroom.

I had just put a few of us GGs goofing off at Lexi's house and one of my summer friends and I dangling our legs off the dock of Crystal Lake, smiling back at the cute boy who had offered to take our picture, when I heard a familiar voice behind me.

"Kailey Richards! Is that you?" I turned around to see Lexi standing there with a grin on her face. I squealed and gave her a hug and a once-over to see what she was wearing.

"I missed you sooo much!" And I love your new flats…they're Jimmy Choos, right? She nodded once and I closed my locker.

"Yeah…and I totally love your girly-meets-boho look, so cute!" She was referring to my white shirt-dress over a tan cami and brown leggings, with a long gold chain-link necklace and gold-and-brown Coach flip-flops to finish it off. After switching my bag to my other shoulder, we linked arms as the first bell rang, signaling four minutes to homeroom.

"Mind coming to my locker for a sec? I left my favorite pen in it…" Lexi questioned me.

"No prob." We continued walking two rows down and across from where her locker was.

"So, anything new?" she asked me as she turned her combination lock. I bit my lip. What I really wanted to tell her was that Katie, Becca, and I won the end-of-camp volleyball tournament for the second year in a row. Bu I knew she was pretty sick of hearing about them, my "other" friends as she called them, so I picked a different story instead,

I grinned shyly. "Well…I did meet a cute guy at Sierra over the summer."

"Seriously?! That's cool…"

"Yeah, I know."

"What's his name?"

"Drew Layton…" I sighed dreamily. "He's really tan, and had these amazing brown eyes. I stared off into the hallway, seeing someone other than the rush of people actually trying to get to homeroom on time…who were probably sixth graders, I thought to myself.

"What color hair does he have?" asked Lexi, interrupting my thoughts. She had always been more of a hair person…meaning that that was what she usually looked for first in a guy…while I was more an eye person.

"Umm…light tan I think, but it was cropped pretty short, like a buzz cut that grew back a little bit."

"Eww!" she exclaimed, holding nothing back. Gee, thanks a lot, Lexi.

"No…I mean in a cute way" I explained, "Trust me, I'd never go for a guy with a buzz cut in a million years, but it actually works for him. I bet he could make a lot of hairstyles work for him…" I admitted.

"Oh…" she said, distracted. "So does he have a cute butt?"

"Lexi!" I giggle-laughed like I always did when I was embarrassed.

"Well…does he?" she gave me a stern look with her manicured hands on her hips like she meant business. Even though I knew she was just kidding, I could tell she was partially serious too.

I looked down sheepishly, something I didn't do often. "Yeah…I guess." I looked up and she grinned triumphantly.

"I knew it!" she exclaimed. "By the way, do you like my hair like this?" I glanced at her light brown elbow-length hair and the naturally sun-kissed bangs framing her face.

"You straightened it!" I screeched. "That's what was different…" I added as an afterthought. I had been trying to figure out for the last few minutes what was so different about her.

"Yep! So do you like it?"

"Of course!"

The second bell rang and we rushed to homeroom together, not wanting to irritate our HR teacher on the first day back.

AN: Yes, the GLU part belongs to Lisi Harrison as well as the idea for Lexi's Friday-night sleepovers, but everything else is my material. R&R!

Btw, yes this is the same Lexi. She can actually be pretty nice when she's on your side. Keep that in mind for later on...Oh and you'll definitely see more of Brianna and Danielle in the next few chapters, don't worry. :)