The girls that were lined up in front of me were all vaguely familiar. They were all the snobbish girls that followed Rachel around. In the middle of the group was Alex. Her hair had lots of blonde in it and she was wearing pink… lots and lots of pink… None of it seemed super weird, but something was off… I felt a bit angry, and a bit defensive. I felt like I did when someone was trying to tell me off or was arguing with me. I looked around me and Illia and Demitra were on my right, and Kelsey, Pheobe and Leena were on my left.

I was obviously confused about what was going on, but this wasn't the only thing that was bugging me, making the current situation a little irrelevant….

The nagging became a sort of discomfort, and it grew to a pain, and when I concentrated on it, it felt worse, and panic added on, and it kept growing stronger…

I sat up abruptly, feeling the panic and pain fade as my heart rate slowed. I tried my best to push the dream out of my mind.

The sky outside was the light bluish gray colour that still manages to be dark. I glanced at the clock on my desk. It said 5:32. That was a lot earlier than my usual 6:20. I was too flustered to try to go back to sleep, even though the dream left me feeling exhausted.

I grabbed my pair of my red skinny jeans and my DIY band tee to be my choice of attire that day. After I'd taken a shower, I went straight to the most fun part of getting ready, doing my make-up.

When I'd finished doing the morning thing it was 7:00, so I woke up my laptop and checked my email. I had a new email from Sara. Guilt trip time…

Haylie, wut school didja go 2 anyway? Ive been so bored l8ly! Mom doesnt do anything but yell n set restrictions n rules so I dont run off somewhere. Plus, ppl have been picking on me more! And I no u told me 2 yell and cuss em, but wut if mom finds out? And the bullies r so scary and mean. When will u come home? Plz write back!

Ugh, I hate it when people type like that unless the message is too long. Anyway, I told Alex this would happen…

Kay so number one, I can't tell you what school, Mom's account is connected to your's. And two, even if mom did find out about you cussing, she doesn't care. She doesn't WANT you to cuss but she never punished me for it. And I'm sorry to tell you, but I'm not gonna come back. I'll still write though.

I'm such a good influence huh?

"Haylie c'mon let's go!" Alex yelled through the door while pounding on it. I looked at the clock. 7:10. I rolled my eyes. I grabbed my stuff and walked out the room.

"Alex, we left at the same time yesterday, we aren't gonna be late."

"I still wanna get to class…" She muttered.

I decided she wanted to see that guy she was flirting with yesterday.

We got to class as expected, and I just made my way to the back to leave Alex up to whatever she was trying for.

I tried to say hi to Rachel when I got to my seat, but she flipped her head away from me a ways. I looked at her, perplexed by her sudden change in mood. What could she be mad about?

The period dragged. I couldn't seem to concentrate on what the teacher was saying. It was really hard to concentrate on anything at all, what with Rachel and her little minion up in the front both turning to glare at me every few minutes.

Rachel's little minion's name was Brenna. She had green eyes and unnaturally blonde hair. She also had the snobbiest face I'd ever seen.

When the bell finally rang an eternity later, I picked up my bag, and started to walk to the front of the room, but Rachel pushed past me and towed Alex away before I'd made 4 steps.

"Yo Haylie!" A voice called from behind me.

I turned and Illia, Kelsey, and Addy were walking my way.

"Oh hey!" I replied, pretending that I wasn't about to rip Rachel's head off.

"What do you have next?" Addy asked me.

"Um… Oh, I have English Honors."

"Heeey me too! C'mon let's go!" She pulled me away from everyone. SHE was in a good mood!

Demitra and Pheobe had that class with is, and they seemed surprised that I knew Mikey.

"You know him?" Demitra whispered after I greeted him.

"Yeah, why?" I retorted at regular volume.

"I don't know… His friends are a bit weird." Pheobe put in.

"They aren't weird their all pretty cool!" I defended.

"I don't know, they keep to themselves too much and there's a lot of rumors goin' around about them…" Demitra nodded to herself.

I was about to say rumors can't ever be believed, but the bell rang so we hurried to our desks.

The day went on pretty uneventfully. Choir, lunch, free period, all a bit boring. It would've been pretty nice, but our math teacher just had to go and give us a boat load of homework. So I got together with Demitra, Addy, Kelsey, Pheobe, and Illia and we all did it together. We were able to finish by 7:00, so we all just hung out for a while.

"Are you allergic to bees?" Demitra asked me randomly.

"Naw, I'm not allergic to anything."

"Oh, I am. I almost got stung today too.

Pheobe turned to Kelsey and said, "Punch that bee in the FACE!" Then the started laughing. I cocked my head a bit to the side.

"They really like Dane Cook." Addy informed me.

"Yeah, and it gets a bit OLD!" Demitra added in obviously trying to make a point. Then she thumped my ear. "Did that hurt?"

"Um… No? Why?"

"Watch." She smirked mischievously.

She turned slowly and lurched toward Kelsey to thump her, but Kelsey jumped away and yelled, "DON'T THUMP ME!"

"Did you just say don't fuck me?" Demitra gasped. Every stopped for a second, then burst out laughing.

"I said thump! Fuck off!" Kelsey defended.

"You so said fuck!" Pheobe giggled.

"I thought you said thump!" Illia intervened.

"Me too." I decided, still giggling though.

"THANK YOU! See, Haylie and Illia are better than all of you!"

"I already know I'm a bitch, so don't try that one." Demitra put in.

"Damn it all!" Kelsey pretended to be angry, but she obviously wasn't.

For the next hour or two everyone made fun of everyone like that, except they went easy on me because I was the "new girl."

When I finally went up to my dorm, I wondered where Alex was, she was supposed to do the math with us. I guessed she was probably with Rachel. She'd told me in gym that she didn't actually like her that much, but just being seen with her was getting her popular. I'd always side-stepped that mine field. Oh well. At least I knew she didn't like her. I hated to admit it, but it sorta made me feel better. Just knowing she wouldn't ditch.

Even then… I wasn't looking forward to the morning when I settled in with a book before going to bed…