As I took my seat next to Chase, I avoided eye-contact with him because I just knew he wanted to know everything that had happened with me and James. Over our vacation together, I literally forgot about him, so I hadn't mentioned anything to Chase, just like he didn't really tell me anything about how his life went at Covington. Mr Charleton, a new science teacher starting this year, was standing at the front of the science lab and we all fell silent as he began introducing himself. Throughout the lesson I looked at Chase and he smiled at me everytime, but I also couldn't help looking at James. I felt a little guilty just leaving him to get (officially) together with Chase, especially after he went to so much trouble buying me a necklace and having "I love you, James" specially embroded on to it. But that is what made me realise how much I missed and loved Chase and that he was coming back so that we could be together. I made it through the entire lesson without Chase asking me any questions about my relationship with James. But I couldn't shake the thought of Chase asking James, seen as they are roommates and god knows what James would say. Chase and I had to go our seperate ways when the bell went, as we both had two different lessons next. As I made my way to English, I realised James was in this class. Despite sitting on the same table, I avoided communication with him and made it to break time. As the bell rung after 50 minutes of silence, I was one of the first out of the classroom and headed straight to my pink Jet X, who was waiting for me outside the English Department and made my way to Room 101, little did I know a huge surprise was waiting for me there.
I parked my Jet-X in the Danver Girls Hall's bike and scooter shed. As I made my way up the stairs and turned in the direction of Room 101 I saw Lola sitting on her hands and knees crying in front of the closed door. "Lola are you okay?" I said running towards her. I could barely make out what she was trying to tell me only "Vince...her" as I lifted her off the floor she was crying into my ear as I turned the key. I opened the door only to find our room had been turned over corner to corner. "What the fuck happened in here! Has someone broke in our room?" I shouted as Lola threw herself onto my mattress which was no longer on my bed. "It was Quinn! I had never seen her so angry!" Lola shouted throughout her sobbing. Why on earth would Quinn do somthing like this? Of all the years I've known her, I couldn't think of a reason why. I asked Lola and she said; "She had another arguement with Logan, and I think that one has actually ended their relationship for good!" I was confused, Logan and Quinn looked like the happiest couple in the world at the end-of-year dance in July (next to me and Chase of course) but I was aware that they have been arguing lately, but never the reason. "Is this why your crying?" I said to Lola, who was now sobbing into a fluffy sea-blue coloured pillow. "No, I'm crying because...because I walked in on Vince and he was...he was having sex with Monica Baker!" I quickly rushed over to her and embraced her into a hug. "I'm so sorry Lola, I know you really thought he had changed". At first I didn't believe Lola when she came to our room last year and said she had started dating Vince Blake after he joined her yoga class, but over time I started believing he had, and so did everyone else. I guess we were all fooled. The only person who I seem to think didn't believe Vince was Michael, even though he was dating Lisa Perkins at the time, he seemed to be showing alot of care and protection towards Lola. I've been seeing connections between the both of them since Lola started at PCA a year after I did, she and Michael appear to have alot in common. But most people believe that is what makes them good friends, but I think it's something more.
Whilst I was reasurring Lola, Stacy knocked on the door of our dorm. Now lisp free, from her minor accident at the end-of-year dance in which she was knocked down by Michael's car she said; "Hey guys, Coco wants to see you in lounge". Lola cleaned herself up while I assured Stacy that the state of our room was nothing for her to worry about and then we made our way downstairs and approached Coco, who was eating a bowl of salad (as usual) and was talking to-oh my god! Non-other than my best friend in the entire world Nicole Bristow! She screamed, I screamed we ran into a hug as we now do everytime we meet up. Don't get me wrong, I am close with Lola and Quinn, but Nicole and I have been best friends since the first day we both arrived at PCA. I was devistated when she told me couldn't come to PCA last year because her mom was concerned about her suffering from Obsessive Male Gender Disorder and sent her to an all-girls school in Malibu. That was too far away for me, but we somehow managed to stay as close as we did by phone calls, e-mails and any other form of communication we could, it was difficult some times with her being in Malibu and me here in Los Angeles but our friendship was strong enough to handle it.
"Okay, I've got some good news and some bad news" Coco said shovelling her spoon deeper and deeper into her bowl of salad, "The good news is Nicole is moving back in with you two". I was over the moon until a sudden thought came to my mind; "Wait, what about Quinn?" I asked worridly,
I hadn't seen her since we departed Room 101 for morning classes and Lola was so distracted with her grieving over Vince, she hadn't seen Quinn since her violent rant when she took her anger out on our room. "Quinn's left PCA, she broke up with Logan Reese and was so angry and upset she completly destroyed your room, packed her stuff and went to tell Dean Rivers she wants to leave right now". Lola and I were shocked, not about the break up, we kind of guessed that was coming weeks ago, but not that it would take so much emotion from Quinn that she would want to leave without saying a word. Nicole knew that Logan and Quinn were dating, and arguing, due to me keeping her updated with what was happening in our gang. "Yes, well my job hear is done, I'll see you guys later" Coco said in a miserable and emotionless tone as she shovelled more of her salad in her mouth and walked away leaving us standing in middle of the lounge with three very different expressions on our faces.
The three of us headed back to Room 101, Lola and I were putting the room back together (luckily Quinn didn't break anything of ours during her rage) whilst Nicole set up her bed on the bottom bunk and pulled her stuff out of her suitcase. The bell went, signalling the end of break when we just finished finalising our room and we all departed our seperate ways to our third lesson of the day.
At lunch time, I was starving and went straight to the cafeteria to put together my tray of selections for my lunch, headed outside to the benches and made my way towards the one particular bench our gang had claimed for ourselves, it was the one out of the way of everyone else and had a beautiful view looking over the atlantic ocean that surrounded us. Chase had saved me a seat next to him and to my surprise everyone was already here. Including James. I once again avoided eye contact with him as I placed my tray down on the table and took my seat in between Chase and Nicole. I looked around the table at my friends, Lola and Michael were sitting quite close and she looked happy, maybe she had told Michael about Vince and he was probably straight there for her (as I predicted). I took a quick glance at James, who looking up and smiling repeatedly in my direction, I started to panic until I realised it wasn't me he was doing it to, it was Nicole! I was completly taken by surprise, when I was distracted by Logan, who looked pleased with himself, even though he had only broke up with Quinn a few hours earlier said; "Okay, now everyone is here, I just want to let you in on something," We were all listening intently. "As you all probably know, Quinn and I have broke up" He hesitated before carrying on, "The truth is, she wasn't happy with my so-called attitude" Logan put his fingers up doing the quote sign as he said this. "But the real reason she got angry was because...it was because I have started going out with Dana Cruz" We were all stunned, except for James, who doesn't know who Dana is. Lola however, has only seen a photo of her, but has never met her in person. Nicole and Dana did not get along at all when she was our roomate in our first year, and I haven't really spoken to her since she told me she wasn't going to be back for our second year here at PCA. We were all mostly stunned because Logan and Dana couldn't stand each other when she was here. They were too much alike, miserable, arrogant, didn't really care much for everyone else's feelings but their own and just plain fed up with life. "You guys just don't really understand, she's changed and since we started e-mailing each other after she said she wanted to get back in touch with all us here at PCA, we kinda connected you know?" I felt like going "aww" at those last words, because it seems to me that Logan and Dana had both grown up during the two years she has been away and now they know each other again, it's like true love has gotten a hold of them and made them realise the love that was hidden in both of them since the begining and it is sweet because none of us saw that connection either.
"And you'll never guess what, she is speaking to her parents about leaving the European Exchange Program and tranfering back PCA" Logan said with an excited look on his face. By the way he said this, he made it sound like he and Dana had began a relationship while he was with Quinn,
and I know she had strong feelings for him and I think he did too until Dana came back into his life. Quinn had every right to get angry because she thought Logan was past his "being a player days" and Quinn never liked Dana whilst she was here and if she knew Dana was coming back to PCA she wouldn't want to be here. I mean lets admit it, who would want stay somewhere where the boy they thought loved them will be with his new girlfriend, who he left you for.
Good god, that's most likely how James feels right now, he loved me but I just threw it back in his face and ran into Chase's arms, which had been open, waiting patiently, for me for over three years. What kind of monster am I?