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"So. You're Fran?" C.C. turned her head to the side as she studied the woman in front of her. "You know, you look exactly like a cheer leader. Have you ever thought about it?"

She looked down at herself, the uniform that she had received from Eton didn't make her look like much of anything but a Catholic school girl. "Well. Not really. I mean, I was a cheer leader previously. But I never really thought a cheer leading team would be allowed here." Fran tried hard to sound sophisticated, but as she came out of Flushing, Queens, sometimes it wasn't that easy.

"Of course we have a cheer leading team. We're just like every other school. Why? Where did you go to school previous to Eton?"

"I went to a high school back in America, but that's not important," she sighed to herself. "I would love to try out for the cheer leading team. That is, if you don't mind helping me."

Niles nodded toward C.C. as her and Fran talked, "yeah. I'll help you. Anything you need, Fran."

"You know, I've never seen you take to someone like you have Fran. Not even Niles. What gives, C.C.?" Maxwell asked from behind all of them. "I mean, I didn't even think you had a heart." He chuckled to himself. He immediately noticed the glare he received from each in the room. "What? I thought it was funny."

"Well, it's not." C.C. shook her head. "I've not really had a best friend before, besides Niles and if I can call you a friend. I thought Fran would be good as a best friend, you know. She just seems like the type of person who knows how to have fun."

"I definitely know how to have fun," she giggled.

"Oh, that reminds me. Guess what, C.C.! Max is finally getting some from Fran!"

Max and Fran both blushed as they eased away from Niles and C.C. She had never been the type to get embarrassed, but she had never had anyone put her exactly on the spot like Niles had.

"Oh, look at them. Watch Fran blush!" C.C. continued with her laughter. "I'm sorry, it's just – it's just. Max hasn't even had a girl friend and to have someone like you walk in and actually want something with him. That's hilarious."

"What is that suppose to mean?" Fran stepped back forward. "Have you looked at him? He's the hottest thing I've seen. He has a personality and a heart, unlike you. Why do you have to put people down, C.C.?"

She stopped and have Fran a dead face. "Wait. I thought we were going to be friends?"

"Not if you talk like that we're not."

"Well, Frannie. What she meant is someone as beautiful and sexy as you couldn't possible fall for someone like me."

"Why couldn't I? I already have."

C.C. took Fran by her shoulders, shaking her. "Fran. Calm down before a fight breaks out. I don't want to fight with you. I was only doing that to see if what kind of person you are."

"That's not very nice."

"Just stop, all of you!" Niles screamed at the two girls. "We're suppose to all be friends."

"Alright." C.C. dropped her smile to show her sadness. "I'm sorry Fran and Maxwell."

Fran nodded. "Yeah, it's alright."

"You know, I really am sorry about what happened earlier. I didn't mean any of what I said. I just needed a best friend and didn't know how to get one, you know. I've never really been the popular one here, even with me being on Niles' arm. Not even Maxwell could help me. I'm envious of you. You're already popular and you've only been here a day." C.C. continued the walk to the gym with Fran. "I really didn't mean anything by it."

"I understand, C.C. But there are somethings about me that nobody ever will ever know or begin to understand. I've probably already said too much, but... That's why I reacted the way I did. The way you put Maxwell down, well. Let's just say that it's not in my nature to understand that."

"I get it, Fran. But in order for people to not treat you the way I did, you'll have to let somebody know what's going on with you." She stopped and looked at Fran, "you want to tell me about it?"

"Later, maybe. I want Maxwell to be the first to know about it, though. Because we are kind of almost dating, right? So. I'll tell him and then I'll tell you and Niles. It's not anything personal, but he's the first person I met here and talked to. I trust him," she sighed. Fran didn't think she knew how to trust anyone. "But when the time is right I'll tell all four of you. Right now we need to get me to talk to the coach."

C.C. knew something was up with Fran, but she didn't know how to put her finger on it. She didn't want to be rude, again, but she also wanted to know what was so bad in her life. Fran seemed like a perfect person who had a perfect like. Unlike her or the other two of them. Nobody at Eton had an easy life. Yes, they are rich, but when it came to families, nobody had it easy.

"I've cheered the most part of my life. Eight years to be exact. I can do anything you want me to do." Fran smiled at the cheer leading coach. She wanted to make a good impression on everybody since she would be spending her time on campus a lot. "You name it, I can do it."

"Back flips? Fulls? Round- offs?" The coach asked every question that popped into her head. She didn't just let anyone on the team. Eton had been number one for years and she wasn't going to screw that up. "I'm sure C.C. can teach you the routines that we've had going over the summer. If you've cheered as long as you say you have, I'm sure you'll pick it up just fine."

"I can do all of that, ma'am. Just give me a chance. I'm in perfect shape. I've never wanted to cheer more in my life than right now. It's the only piece of me that I'll have left from America," she put on her best sadness face. Fran had always been good at convincing others. "I can learn a routine in about a week, less depending on how many minutes it lasts."

"Good. I think you'll be a good addition to our team. You've already got a lot of spirit, I can tell." Just when Fran thought the coach was going to let her off easy, "let me see you do two back flips, run to a round- off, and finish off with a full."

C.C. laughed at Fran's face – she probably hadn't had to do all of those in a roll, but she is tiny enough to pull it off. Fran began at the beginning of the gym, knowing she was going to need a lot more room than she had expected. She stood backwards to the coach and C.C. as she threw her arms back to land her first back flip, immediately going on into her second. She turned back around to the front and ran, flipping into her round- off and twirling into her full.

The coach stood guarded behind a mask. I didn't think she was going to be that good. "Um, C.C. Who's the captain?"

"Amy, ma'am. Why?"

"Contact her later, she's lost her position." Diane smiled at Fran, "you've just earned captain spot!"

Fran jumped. "Yes!"

"Oh, Fran! I bet you can't wait to tell Maxwell." C.C. was happy they were finally getting a new captain, Amy was a bitch and couldn't get anyone to listen to her. She couldn't wait to see her face when she told Amy she had lost her spot – it would be a moment waiting to be treasured.

"Maxwell! Maxwell!" Fran ran to his dorm room, reaching for him as she barged into his room. "Guess what?"

He looked at her, smiling. "Tell me."

"I've made cheer leading captain!"

Maxwell jumped from his sitting area and picked Fran up into his arms, "oh I'm so happy for you, Fran. You're going to be amazing at it! I can't wait to see you at my games."

"I can't wait either. I'll get to see more of you now. This is going to be great. C.C. has promised to teach me the routines."

"That's good, sweetheart."

He sat her back down on the ground as she wiggled her way out. Fran knew this was the time to let him know what her life was about, why she was at Eton and with her aunt, why she had lied to him about the whole story. What if he's mad at me because I lied to him? Am I really sure this is the right time to tell him! If I wait any longer, he will be mad.

"Max, I actually want to talk to you about something, though. C.C. kind of planted it in my mind that I needed to explain it to someone. She noticed something weird, I guess." Fran took Max by the hand and sat by him on his bed. "You know how I told you that I was here because my parents are always on business and rich?" As Maxwell nodded, Fran put her head down. "I'm from Flushing, Queens. In New York. My parents aren't rich, but my aunt is. She married a man who was a billionaire and he dropped dead three days later. Aunt Frieda got all of his money and is now her own successful person here in England. My parents didn't want me, my mother finally made that clear to me. So. She sent me to live here with Frieda."

"Why didn't you just tell me that, Frannie?"

"Because I didn't want you to judge me, like everyone else. I wanted you to like me and I thought that if I told you – you would be mad and wouldn't want to hang around me anymore."

"Don't be like that. My parents didn't want me either. My mother walked out on my father because he was always so rude. He was never home, he never loved me. The only person I've ever had is Niles. I'm left here on the holidays, Fran. I don't get to go home," he looked into her eyes. "At least you'll get to go to your aunt's every weekend and all that. I don't even get to leave."

"You know, I've got a great idea." Fran smiled, "we could get Frieda to sign papers saying your allowed to come home with me on our days away from Eton. It would be so perfect."

"Frannie. I wouldn't want to impose on you like that."

"How would that be imposing? I'm asking you and she wouldn't mind. You're mine and she only wants me to be happy – unlike my parents."

He ran his finger slowly down the side of her face, "I've never met someone like you, Fran."

"Is that a good thing or bad?"

"Of course it's good." Max kissed her, "you're everything I've wanted in a girl friend, you know."

Fran smiled, "that's great!"

Author's Note: I have something else in store for the next chapter(: And it gets even better. I promise. I really didn't like this chapter, it's more of a filler until I could place the next one, you know what I mean? I do hope you at least like this enough to review so you can get an even better chapter tomorrow(: Since we've been out a whole month for snow and Christmas break! :D Peace.