A/N: I suck at updating, I know. But summer's here and I even promised myself that I need to finish this story before summer vacation ends. So wish my luck. This chapter's pretty short and I was sorta having a writer's block for this one, but I already have some ideas for chapter 10.

And I'd like to thank skipper007, MangooBean, and EclipseLover97. Thanks for the reviews guys (: And so here's chapter 9...

Marie, check your phone and google, Taylor Lautner's girlfriend. You have got to see this!

I closed the text that I just got from Kaylee and closed my phone. I quickly went to sit down on my rolling chair in front of my computer. I went to google and quickly typed, 'Taylor Lautner's girlfriend' and clicked search. The computer was lagging and it was getting me impatient. Finally, it showed some results and I clicked the first one. The page appeared quickly on this one site I wasn't familiar with. I scrolled down and saw a picture of Taylor and me. It was taken on our date last Friday. Crap, I thought. We were holding hands and smiling. I smiled and reminisce what happened that night. I then scrolled down some more and read,

"Last Friday night, we caught Taylor Lautner out with a beautiful brunette girl. They were seen at the movies as well where Taylor was ambushed with screaming fan girls. A source says that they were also seen eating hotdogs near a hotdog stand. But who is this girl in Taylor Lautner's life? When the paparazzi were surrounding them with camera, one paparazzi asked Taylor if the girl he was with his girlfriend and Taylor replied yes. Also remember, Taylor had just started attending Carling High School, so maybe this girl attends that school as well? Well, they look really happy though. We wish them the both of luck then."

I was shocked. Well, now they know Taylor and I are a couple, I thought. I looked over at my clock and it read 7:20 A.M. Oh crap, I'm going to be late for school. I gathered my books, bag, and ran down the stairs. I was getting close to the front door when my moms voice stopped me.

"Marie! You didn't eat breakfast yet!" Lanie shouted as I halted to a stop.

"Uh, Taylor got me food," I lied.

"Hmm, alright. Hurry now, you're almost late." She said, pointing towards the clock on the wall.

"I know, bye." I said, kissing her on the cheek.

"Bye dad," I said, kissing him on the cheek as he was eating his breakfast.

"Bye!" He said with his mouth full. I ran out the front door and ran to the car that just pulled up to my driveway. I opened the door and slid in.

"Hey, you're late." I said breathlessly.

"Hey. Sorry, I woke up a little late. You seem tired, what happened?" Taylor said as he leaned over to kiss me on the cheek.

"I am tired! I realized I was going to be late and ran down the stairs and out here." I explained while Taylor was backing out of the driveway.

"Wow, how come you were in a rush?" He asked, keeping his eyes on the road.

"Umm, cause I was reading an article about us on the Internet." I said, glancing at him.

"Oh, you read it too, huh? I guess they know about us now." He said calmly.

"You're not worried of what they're going to say or do?" I asked.

He made a face and said, "Of course not. If people can't accept we're together then that's their problem."

"You're right. That's their problem." I said, but suddenly had a weird feeling as soon as we drove up to Carling High School. Taylor parked in our usual parking spot and we got out of the car. Taylor walked up to my side and held my hand.

"You ready? Remember, it doesn't matter what people are going to say. Just stay strong." He said as we started walking towards the entrance of the school.

"Ready as ever. And I'll remember that." I said. To my surprise when we entered the school, nobody was glaring and nobody was giving me bad looks as I had expected them to do. The students were just walking to class and chatting among themselves. Well, what was unusual was that some people I didn't even know smiled at Taylor and me. To not be rude, I returned the smile. I hadn't realized I was holding my breath until Taylor and I reached our Health class. Once we entered the class, more people smiled at us. I returned the smile and let go of Taylor's hand. I told Taylor that I would go to my seat now and he said that he would go to his seat as well. When I sat down, I saw Penny walking towards me.

"Hey, the whole school is buzzing with the news of you and Taylor being a couple." Penny said.

"Yeah, it's all over the internet. People keep smiling at me though. It's weird." I said, looking around at all of my classmates.

"I guess they're just happy for you." Penny suggested.

"Maybe so." I said, taking out my folder out of my messenger bag.

"It'll be alright. The school will get use to it." Penny said.

"Yeah, I know. I knew I would have to deal with all of this when I got with Taylor." I said. The bell finally rang and walked in.

"Later," Penny said, smiling and patting my shoulder as she left to her seat.

"Later," I said. I looked over at Taylor who was watching me from across the room.

"Are you okay?" Taylor mouthed.

"Yeah, I'm okay." I mouthed and slightly smiled. Taylor just nodded and turned around to face who was talking about diseases you can get when you have unprotected sex. I sighed and blocked out what was saying and just stared outside the window next to me. This was going to be a long day, I thought.

Lunch time

I sighed before entering the cafeteria, knowing that the cafeteria would be filled with the students eye balling me with either looks of jealous glares or approving looks. Either way, I didn't want to face it. But the approving looks would work better than the jealous glares a few people were now giving me. Though of course only girls were giving me the jealous glares. I sighed again and walked into the buzzing cafeteria. I looked for the table I usually sat at involving Derek, Penny, and of course, Taylor. I quickly caught sight of them and walked towards the table. I seriously felt some eyes watching the back of my head as I was walking towards the table. No scratch that, I could seriously feel all eyes on me. I tried to walk as normal as I could but that wasn't working. I felt like I was walking like a robot. I finally reached the table, which felt like a long time. Derek and Penny looked up from their conversation and smiled. I returned the smile and they continued back to what they were talking about. I sat down next to Taylor and sighed.

"What's wrong?" Taylor asked as he took a bite out of his turkey sandwich. I looked up from my lunch that I was taking out of my bag.

"It's just that people keep giving me looks. They're either looks of jealous glares or approving looks. I don't know, but it's really weird," I responded. Taylor just chuckled.

"What's so funny?" I asked, lighting pushing his shoulder since there was no use in punching him anyway.

"They're all just giving you those looks cause they found out we're dating now."

"I know that, but I just wish they'd stop doing that."

Taylor shrugged and said, "Welcome to my world baby." I just playfully rolled my eyes and tuned in to what Derek and Penny were talking about. Kaylee was actually out for the day cause of some flu.

"I'm serious! That hot, football quarterback, Danny talked to me during English!" Penny exclaimed at Derek who was giving disapproving looks. Danny as you now know was our football quarterback and he was hot to some girls. But to me, he was just another player. A jerk, I should say. He's probably dated around 10 or more girls and he's some rich dude too. Him being buff, blonde tousled hair, his smile, and his green eyes were what caught the girl's attention. Even Penny's in his trap. I just don't see what girls saw in him.

"Whatever you say, but the only reason he talked to you was because you're good friends with Marie and Marie's with Taylor. Get it in your head Penny, he's just using you."

"You're wrong Derek." Penny rolled her eyes and turned to me.

"Marie, please tell Derek over here that he's wrong." Penny asked, pointing her thumb towards Derek.

"Uh, well. What were Danny's exact words to you?" I asked, not liking where this was going.

Penny's face lit up and tried to mimic Danny's deep voice, "Hey Lenny, you're friends with Marie and Taylor, right? Well, why don't we go on a double date with them?"

I had to smiled at the voice she tried to mimic, but that smile disappeared when I realized Danny was really only using her.

"Penny, you know he called you Lenny, right?" I asked.

"See! That's what I said too!" Derek exclaimed out of nowhere, pointing his index finger at me.

"Oh shut up Derek." Penny said to him and then said to me, "It doesn't really matter cause he said he read my name wrong. All a misunderstanding." Waving her hand away as if it was nothing.

He was definitely using her and she's just blind, not being able to see the whole truth. Danny's such a jerk, I thought.

"Penny to tell you the truth, Derek's right. Danny's only is using you. I'm sorry." I said. Penny looked down at her hands that was on her lap and laughed.

"I knew it was too good to be true. You know, a part of me already knew that he was using me, but I told myself not believe that. Gosh, what a jerk." Penny softly said.

"Hey Penny, look at me." I said. Penny slowly looked up at me and I could already see she was on the verge of tears.

"Don't you dare cry over a boy. Especially Danny, he's a jerk. You're going to find a guy out there in the world who's going to love you for you. Not just because he's going to use you. You don't need that. You're a beautiful, strong girl. Trust me on that." I said to Penny, who was wiping her tears with her hand. I nudged Taylor's knee and gave him a look to help Penny.

"Yeah Penny, Marie's right. You're going to find a better guy out there and fall in love with him. You're going to get married to that guy and make babies with him. A hundred babies! Danny's not worth it." Taylor said, smiling at Penny.

Penny laughed and said, "Thanks Marie and Taylor. I really appreciate it." Taylor and I just nodded.

Penny then turned to Derek and said, "I'm sorry I didn't believe you and I was getting you annoyed. I should have listened to you."

"It's all good. I know how girls are, they can be so blind with the guys they fall for." Derek said.

Penny and I both threw our napkins at him and shouted, "Hey!"

"Woah, what was that for? I was just joking!" Derek shouted, raising both of his hands in front of him face, trying to defend himself. Taylor was just laughing beside me.

"We are so not blind. Look, Marie fell for Taylor. That wasn't blind." Penny said, pointing at Taylor and me.

"I said I was just joking. Gee, woman. Calm down." Derek explained, while having a big smile on his face.

"You better be." Penny said and smiled.

"Well know that's settled, what are you going to do about the looks people are giving you Marie?" Derek suddenly asked out of nowhere.

"I guess just to ignore them. That's all I can do for now." I shrugged, putting a piece of bread in my mouth.

"That's all she can do. Just ignore them. Later on, they're going to stop giving Marie looks and move on with their lives. Simple as that." Taylor said.

"That's true, I guess." Derek shrugged and went back to his food. I silently nodded and we all continued to finish up our lunch.

Afterschool

I was walking out of the school with Taylor, hand in hand, talking about our homework assignments that needed to be done when Taylor got a text message from his phone. He got out his phone from his pocket and checked the text message.

"Who's it from?" I asked, looking up at Taylor. He was still looking at the phone when he answered me, "From Nikki."

"What'd she say?" I tried to look over at his phone, but he quickly put it away in his pocket.

"That the Twilight cast is over at her house and they all want to meet you." He casually said, as if it was no big deal.

"Woah, what?" I exclaimed, as I stopped walking.

"They wanna meet you. Nikki said that they found out we're dating online and they were pretty pissed that I didn't tell them about you so they wanna meet you now." He answered with a smiling beginning to form on his face.

"Now? And who's they?" I asked, panic taking over me. I was so not ready to meet them yet.

"Yes, now. It's no big deal. It's only going to be Kristen, Rob, Ashley, Jackson, Nikki, and Emmet. Don't worry."

"No big deal? Taylor, they're celebrities! That's big deal right there."

"Uh hello, you're dating a celebrity."

"I know that! But, that's more than one celebrity and that's just too much."

"Oh come on!" Taylor took hold of my hand and pulled me all the way to his car. He kept laughing at me when I didn't want to get inside his car. But eventually, I had to get inside the car and suddenly; we were in front of Nikki's house already. This is too much stuff happening in one day.

A/N: Sorry the chapter was pretty short, but chapter 10 is going to be long. That's good, right? As I said earlier, I had writer's block for this chapter. So yeah, please REVIEW/SUBSCRIBE! And I will begin to write chapter 10 tomorrow morning when I wake up, so it should probably be posted this week. I promise you that.