Disclaimer remains the same as the one in the first chapter.

A Place In This World

Chapter Two

"I'm hot, your cold! You go around, like you know...who I am! But you don't! You got me on my toes..!" I groaned as my brothers voice exploded out of my alarm clock.

Trust Joe to set his own song as my alarm tone. Running my hand through my curls, I stepped into my fluffy light grey slippers that had blue spots on them. I adored them! Kevin got them for me for my birthday and they were still just as soft.

Sleepily, I stumbled out of my room and managed to get down the stairs without tripping. Following the smell of waffles, I sat down on a stool at the island counter in my kitchen, next to Frankie.

"Mornin'" I mumbled. Frankie looked at me incredulously.

"What?" I snapped at him. Frankie jumped back, startled by my tone. "I just wondered why you were so tired, that's all."

His saddened tone immediately made me feel guilty. "Sorry I snapped, Tank, I just had a really bad sleep last night." I said to him as I pulled him in for a hug, ruffling his hair as I did so. He grinned widely as he pulled away from me, a smile I returned as I dug into the waffles my mother had placed on the table in front of me.

Once back in my room I put my iPod on shuffle and danced into my bathroom, humming along to Champion by Chipmunk and Chris Brown, and stepped into a steaming hot shower. I sighed happily and my body relaxed immensely as the water ran down my back. Using my raspberry body wash and matching shampoo, I cleaned my body and hair thoroughly. Wrapping a big fluffy towel around me, I made my way back into my bedroom. Pulling underwear and clothes from my drawers, I loosened my towel ready to change when Joe came bursting through my door and into my room. I shrieked loudly, pulling the towel tightly round my body again. Upon seeing my half dressed state, Joe screamed to and shut his eyes tightly, turning around as he did so. I placed a hand on my chest in an attempt to calm my fast moving heart, grabbed the clothes I needed and dashed into my ensuite, muttering "One moment." To Joe as I passed him, locking the door behind me.

I re-appeared a few moments later, fully clothed with my make up done, a few coats of mascara and a touch of blush, my dark chocolate coloured hair already drying into its natural state. I was wearing dark wash skinny jeans, grey army boots with the laces undone and tucked into the boot, so they were lose, and a ¾ sleeved baggy baseball top, that was white with blue sleeves. Joe was sat on my bed, now joined by Nick, who was sat at my desk on my laptop. At the sound of my footsteps Joe turned to face me. I stood in front of him and Nick as they assessed my outfit. This happened every single morning. Him and Nick would check my clothing choices to make sure I wore nothing revealing to school where "hormone driven young boys" were, according to Joe. Kevin agreed with what they were doing, but never joined for the checking part.

I watched Joe's expression as he looked at my outfit and cocked an eyebrow as he look at me.

"You look nice." He commented. "Aren't those jeans a bit tight though?" Nick questioned as he came and sat by Joe on my bed.

I rolled my eyes at them and turned to head out my door, grabbing my iphone and my purity ring as I did so. My phone had a purple crystal case on and my ring was silver with the band intertwining into a flower with an amethyst stone in the centre. The ring symbolises no sex before marriage and I took it very seriously.

I heard the sound of my brothers following me down the stairs. I picked up my brown leather messenger bag from the front door and yelled out to Kevin.

"KEVO!" I yelled, my voice resonating around the house.

A second later I heard him yell okay when my phone rang, Nick smirked at my ring tone. I stuck my tongue out at him as Big Big Bang by Rock Mafia played, before pressing the answer button.

"Yupp?" I asked. "YO!" Tammy's voice blared through, I chuckled at her enthusiasm.

"Wanna lift?" I asked her for the sake of it, I knew this was gunna happen so I had told Kev yesterday to make sure he knew to stop off.

"Please." She replied. "On it." Was my goodbye before I hung up, just in time to see Kevin come down the stairs, his car keys in hand.

Kevin dropped me and Tammy off at school for 8:50, school started at 9:00. That gave us ten minutes to get Tam signed in and to get our books from our lockers. At 8:59 me and Tammy were strolling down the hallways to our homeroom.

"Isn't it so weird that we are in the same home room? And classes and have lockers next to each other?" She kept repeating.

I sighed exasperatedly. "Yes, Tammy, now calm down, you'll scare the other students." I laughed at her hurt expression.

I pulled her into the seat next to me as Caroline noticed I wasn't on my own today.

"Oh! Look everybody! Little miss Jones made a friend!" She cackled. I dipped my head down refusing to meet my best friends gaze.

"Leave it." I murmured out of the corner of my mouth to Tammy, who was about to pound Caroline's face in.

"What the hell Leesh!" She rounded on me as we headed to our first lesson, gym.

"Urggh, just let it go Tam!"

"But you changed your name! Why?" She asked shocked.

"Because then what happened at Dilgards, won't happen here." A look of dark understanding crossed her face and she nodded at me.

A silence passed between us for a moment when a grin plastered it's self on the auburn's face.

"Soooo.. You've been here a while, any cute guys?" Tammy was a hopeless romantic but being as stunning as she was she got through guys a lot.

I laughed at her statement, shaking my head in desperation. She giggled to, link arms with me as she let out an excited squeal and dragged me to wards something on the wall.

"Ooh! Look! Lets sign up now!" She exclaimed.

It was the signup sheet for the school production of Camp Rock. Scribbling down our names for the parts we wanted, we grinned at each other. As I turned so we could walk to our class, being the klutz I am, I ran smack in to someone, managing to trip over my feet as I did so. I closed my eyes as I braced myself to hit the floor, when two arms, muscley arms at that, wrapped themselves around my waist. The boy hoisted me up and firmly placed my feet on the ground again. I turned bright red as I looked up to the face of my saviour.

"T-thanks!" I stuttered, mentally slapping myself. Wow, nice one Alisha, way to make an impression.

"It's alright, glad I was able to catch you. I'm Tom." Tom smiled at me.

He had blonde hair that was just long enough to hang in front of his bright blue eyes. His skin was lightly tanned and he seemed very well built from what I could tell. I smiled back.

"Alisha." I told him as I took the hand he held out for me to take.

"Pleasure, well must be off, Biology calls." He winked at me. "Nice to meet you Ali!" Tom called as he walked off.

I stared after him as he went, when Tammy's hand secured itself around my wrist.

"Oh. My. God!" She breathed in awe. "He was hot!" I laughed at her.

"Tam, you're drooling." Tammy snapped back to reality, looking me in the eyes. "Damn, he was, but I can't take your guy." She mused.

I choked on my spit. "What?" I managed to cough out.

"He will be yours, I'm sure there's others for me." She told me as she pulled me into the changing rooms of the school.

"Tammy. Seriously, we just met, literally ran into each other." I implored, I did not want her to do this.

"Exactly, I bet you he will talk to you again by the end of the day." She smirked at me.

I stared at her hand for a moment or two. Looking round at my classmates, who were all wearing the school gym kit of a navy blue tennis skirt and polo, back to Tammy, who wore it to. Looking into her eyes, I saw no faking. I plastered a determined look on my face, before grabbing her hand, shaking it.

"Deal."