Okay, I'm not very into the writing, but I got two reviews, which I guess means something, so I better continue. Gretchen is talking, and I want to adjust something from the first chapter: Spinelli and TJ LIKE each other, Gretchen and Vince LIKE each other, and Gus LIKES Ashley A. (Don't ask why, I just didn't want our favorite dork to be a loner.) Please R&R!!

Gretchen's POV
I can't wait for school!! Vince and I have lunch and P.E. and keyboarding together! That's almost three classes!

Oh, wait…

Sorry, I'm just so excited!! Last year Vince and I only had lunch together. Now, three classes – holy cow! I'm really looking forward to biology, because my cousins Kimmy and Michelle are coming to our high school, and we have biology together. They're fraternal twins. Kimmy is tall, has hazel-brown eyes, and light brown hair. Michelle is a little on the short side, but only an inch and a half shorter than me and Kimmy, has blue eyes, and strawberry blonde hair.

So I guess I've changed a lot since fourth grade. For starters, I got braces. Not that big a deal, but still. And I'm not so much a science geek, though I think I'm going to like biology most this year. Also, my mom let me dye my hair a little darker. Also, I swapped my thick and huge glasses for small little ones; you know the ones – the big frames with medium sized lenses. The ones that look all expensive but really are kind of cheap. And I'm not short, but I'm not the tallest gal around, either.

I just got a text from TJ – funny, last year he said guys don't text – saying that he needs some answers for Twilight. Knowing him, he hasn't picked up a book all summer! Other than Señor Fusion comics, of course. This should be a piece of cake – I read the book in three and a half hours.

"Okay, for starters, the main character is Bella," I said, calling him rather than returning the message.

"Bella," he said slowly as he wrote. Obviously he had paper handy. "Say, isn't that Italian for girl or something?"

"Wooow, Teej! Wow!"

"What?"

"Nothing."

"Okay…so, who loves Edward and who does Edward love?"

"Again, that's Bella. The entire story revolves around her."

"I see…so Bella's like a huge character then?"

It's silent on my end. "I guess you could say that," I say. What a goof!

"So where does this…Bella live?"

"She moves to Forks from Arizona."

"Forks?" he said in disbelief. "Where did she move from? Knives? How about Spoons?"

"Teej…"

"Okay, sorry, sorry…"

I told him every last miniscule detail, even though after a while I didn't put my heart into it.

"So that's it?"

"Yep," I said, chuckling a little.

"Awesome! Two books down, three to go!"

"TJ! You haven't started your summer reading list?"

"Yeah, me, read. That's a good one!"

I rolled my eyes and said, "Whatever."

"Hey…wait, Gretch."

"What?"

"You know Vince, right?"

"Well, if I didn't, I'd be nuts." I smiled. I know TJ was just changing the subject to Vince, but he didn't make that too clear.

"Well, yeah, there's that. But I was kind of wondering…how do you, um…feel about him?"

"Feel? As in feelings?"

"What other feel is there?"

I rolled my eyes again. "Well, uh, he's uh…a friend, you know, and uh…um…"

"I think you like him," TJ said in singsong.

"I think you should shut up," I said, teasing him.

"Ha, ha, real mature, Z," he said. Z is my nickname. Long story. I said I knew Shakespeare A to Z and Mikey started yelling he wanted to be A, joking, of course, so I said, "I guess I'm Z!" Stupid, I know. Yet it's so funny.

"At least I actually did my summer reading early so I wouldn't have to talk to someone to get answers!"

"Whoa, whoa whoa whoa, whoa, hold it!"

"Hold? Okay!" I pressed the hold button, snickering. After a while, I hung up.

And let me tell you –

It felt good.

Not really into a writing mood. But you might tell that I'm not. And let me tell you – I don't usually update so fast, so don't yell, 'Like, zoe my God! She's, like, going to update, like, every day now!' Yeah, keep living in your fantasy world. But thanks to all my wonderful readers who actually click on Passing Period every once in a while to read my newest chapter. It makes me smiley, especially when I see my newest review. Like so: :) Ha ha!! Lol.

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