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Angelica, Susie: 17 (Seniors)

Chuckie: 16 (Junior)

Tommy, Phil, Lil, Kimi: 15 (Sophomores)

Dil: 14 (Freshman)

Chuckie's P.O.V.

Uggh. I moan as I watch my sister and Phil make googly-eyes at one another.

Kimi and Phil have been best friends for years and have never shown any type of affection towards one another. Why do they love each other now?

I can't get these thoughts out of my mind. It does make sense, though. Maybe this has something to do with Kimi's appearence change right before school started.

**Week before first day of school.

"Chuckie! Kimi! Get downstairs NOW!"

I run downstairs as soon as I hear the sound of my mom yelling. Today we're going shopping, since the first day of school is Tuesday.

"Sorry dad!" I call out to him. Soon after I get downstairs, Kimi follows.

"Let's go." She says with a smile. We then go into the truck with dad driving, mom sitting in the passenger's seat and Kimi and I in the back. It takes us about fourty minutes until we arrive.

When we finally get to the mall mom asks, "Where do you guys want to go first?"

"Let's go to PacSun." I suggest. I end up buying a red and blue striped V-neck tee, a dark orange vintage hoodie, a pale green polo, a black and red crew fleece sweater, and four pairs of skater jeans, even though I don't even know how to ride. Then we go to Hot Topic, where I get a grey tee shirt with C-3PO on it, a black hoodie with the batman symbol, about five other shirts and a pair of blue jeans with cuffed bottoms. We then go to Journey's, and I buy a pair of grey and blue hightop Osiris sneakers. After I get my shoes, we go to Aeropostale, where I get a couple of zip-up hoodies, and five pairs of jeans.

I've finally used up my five-hundred dollars worth of shopping money, and realize that Kimi is empty-handed. "Kimi?"

"Yea?" She asks.

"Why haven't you gotten anything."

"We haven't gone anywhere that I like." She responds. She then leads us all to a store called WetSeal. "OOOH! This is SO cute!" She squels while holding up a black and pink floral illusion cut-out bodycon dress, which is really short. I'm shocked. She's never worn anything like that.

Kimi's always been the type of girl that doesn't go with the flow or follow all of the latest trends. Even now all she's wearing are a pair of capris, that used to be skinny jeans which are cut off at the knees, a pair of black flip flops and a worn-out brown Domo tee shirt. Now she's buying dresses that don't even reach her knees, with cut-out backs!

"Kimi?"

"Yea, Chuckie?" She reponds while holding a strapless pink dress in one hand, and a deep blue skater dress in the other.

"Why are you buying all of these girly clothes?"

She gives me an annoyed expression. "Because I'm a girl." She says with a snarl.

"I know that, Kimi, it's just that...,"

"What? I can't dress nicely?"

"No! It's just that you've never dressed like this. What's changed?"

"Well, it's about time for a change."

"Why?"

"I don't know."

"Are you trying to impress anyone?"

She begins to blush a bit. "No... I mean, maybe."

"Who?"

"It doesn't matter, Chuckie! Just drop it!"

I raise my hands in defeat. "Okay, okay!"

Shopping for Kimi's clothes goes on for about two hours, but we're finally done. She ended up buying both dresses that she was holding before, the floral dress, and a black and blue lace skater dress from WetSeal, a white scoopneck sweaterdress, a dark purple crochet dress, a light pink cowlneck dress, and a grey tunic sweater from Victoria's Secret, a pink open knit Raglan top, a grosgrain ribbon tie top, a black floral miniskirt, a black and red plaid skater skirt, black cuffed button tab shorts, a black box pleated tennis skirt, a pair of red lace-up platform booties and brown lace up stilleto boots from Forever 21, and finally, about three pairs of pumps from Steve Madden. I'm almost positive that she paid over two hundred dollars more than I did.

"My god, Kimi. You must really like that guy if you're buying this much just to impress him!" I announce while riding in the truck on the way home.

"Shut up!" She screams.

Mom looks at us from the passenger's seat. "Kimi-san! Who are you trying to impress?" She asks through her excitment.

Kimi shoots me a glare and then looks back at mom. "No one."

**Present day.

Well that makes sense.

The school bell just rang. Time for Art class. "Bye Chuckie!" I hear Kimi say. I turn towards her and see her holding hands with Phil. Ugh. Seeing my baby sister with one of my oldest friends just doesn't sit well with me. I don't know why exactly, but it's just weird.

I walk over to my Art class and sit in my seat towards the back of the classroom. I sit there for three minutes just staring at the door until I see her. Angelica. She's wearing a black sleeveless shirt with a cut-out back, and a white ruffled lace skirt that reaches above the middle of her thigh. She has on white socks that meet her ankles and black high heels. Her hair is curled and her makeup in light.

I start to sweat at the sight of her. She's so beautiful. I keep staring at her until she follows my gaze and looks me directly in the eyes. I feel my face start to heat up and I quickly look away.

As soon as I turn my head, Angelica makes her way to her seat and I start to look again. I then see my teacher enter the classroom.

"Hello class!" She sings. "Please take out your classwork, and continue to work on your projects!"

I get up and walk over to where everone's artwork is. As I wait in line to get my project, I feel a hand on my shoulder.

"AHH!" I scream, causing someone to drop their work, and the hand on my shoulder to quickly retract.

"THE FUCK, CHUCKIE!?" I hear a girl named Emily scream after dropping her vase.

"Sorry.." I say shyly. I look behind me to see who touched me. "Anglica?"

"Hi Chuckie." She answers. The sound of her voice makes my legs weak.

"Um...w-what's up?" I ask nervously.

She smiles. "That was really cool what you did the other night."

"Uh..." I start to sweat again.

"You know, when you hit Josh." She scrunches up her face when she says his name. "God, I hate him so much."

"Uh, yeah. That was, umm, pretty cool." I smile uneasily.

"Yeah, I've never seen you act so, aggresively before." She says with a wink.

My legs are complete jelly at this point. "Haha," I laugh awkwardly. "Y-yeah, something just kind of came over me, I guess."

She puts her hand on my arm, "Maybe we should hang out sometimes."

I feel completely weightless, put something just blurts out. "Why?"

She gives me an offended expression and pulls her hand back. "Why not?"

I guess I should answer... "W-well, it's just that we haven't spoken in years."

"Well, maybe we should change that." She smiles seductively at me again and walks away.

"Wow.." I say under my breathe. I try to walk over to get my project. I can't move my legs.

Finally.

The school bell just rang. I grab my backpack and run towards the exit. When I get to the bus stop, I see the whole gang. Tommy and Lil are kissing, Phil and Kimi are holding hands and laughing, and Dil is inspecting rocks on the ground and putting them in his backpack. Where's Angelica?

"Hey Finster."

I turn around to see that Angelica was the one to interrupt my thoughts. "Uh, hi Angelica." She laughs a little bit. The sound of her laugh makes me smile. "W-what?"

"Did you develope a stutter since the last time we spoke, a couple of years ago?" She asks through her laughter.

"What? No. Why would you think that?"

"Well, you always stutter and say 'uhh,' whenever we speak."

"Um, well.."

"See! Like that!" I blush.

"Well, I'm just a little nervous when I'm around you." I say shyly. I look towards the ground. She starts to laugh a little bit again. I look back at her to see her smiling. "What?"

"Nothing. It's cute."

"Huh?"

"You get nervous around me. That's cute."

"Angelica?"

She stops giggling and looks at me. "Yea?"

"Why did you start talking to me again? I wanna know."

She sighs and looks at the ground. "I don't know. I just- I guess I miss talking to you and the others."

"The others? You mean the gang?" She nods.

"I've missed you guys for so long. Being popular isn't everything, you know. I miss hanging out with you guys, even though I was mean and you guys hated me."

"Hated you?" She looks back up at me. "We could never hate you, Angelica. We've missed you." This causes her to smile.

She pulls me into a hug, and I can feel my knees go weak again. "Thanks, Chuckie." She mumbles. I hug her back and smile.

"Chuckie?"

We release from our hug. I turn to see Tommy looking at me, standing next to the school bus. He's wearing a confused expression. "The bus is here. You coming or what?" I nod and get onto the bus. Angelica follows.

Phil and Dil sit together in the back of the bus, Kimi and Lil in the front, Angelica sits in her usual seat, and I sit with Tommy. "Hey, what was up with that?" He asks.

"What?"

"You were hugging Angelica."

"Oh. Um, well, we were just talking."

"You didn't look like you were 'just talking.'"

I roll my eyes. "Okay, she was thanking me."

"For what?"

"Why all the questions?"

"Curiousity?"

"Ugh. She misses us, okay? She misses hanging out with us like old times."

Tommy looks shocked. "Really?"

"Yeah."

"Wow."

We spend the rest of the bus ride in silence until I get off at my bus stop. "Bye Tommy."

"Bye."

I then wave to Lil as I pass by her seat and she waves back. As I walk home I notice a huge smile plastered on Kimi's face. I smile, too. "What's up?"

"Nothing." She says, still grinning.

"Why are you so happy?"

"I don't really know. I'm just in a great mood. I got a 98 on my History test, I made a new friend, and I finally told you guys about me and Phil!"

"Oh. Yeah, that's cool."

"Alright, why are you so upset that me and Phil are dating?" She aks, her smile fading.

I think about it. "I don't know."

"He's one of your closest friends. You know that he's a great guy. Please, let us be together. I want you to be okay with our relationship."

"I guess you're right. Anyways, who's the friend you made." Her smile re-appears.

"Noah- something. I don't know what his last name is."

I think about the name. "Wait? Noah Kidd?"

"Um, I'm not sure. He has light brown hair that reaches below his ears and wears really baggy clothes."

"KIMI! That is Noah Kidd! He's a junkie!"

She glares at me. "I don't care! I'm not gonna do drugs just because he does. He's really nice and funny!"

"God, Kimi! Why would you even want to hang out with him? He's always skipping class and smoking blunts with his dead-beat friends! Plus, he always smells like a combination of weed, cigarettes and alcohal!"

"Shut up, Chuckie! You don't even know him! It's not like I'm dating him or anything!"

"I know! You're dating Phil, you've made that VERY clear!"

She stops walking. "WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?!"

I stop as well and take a minute before I answer. "I just want you to be safe, Kimi." I answer softly.

She sighs. "Chuckie, what the hell? I can take care of myself, don't worry." She gives me a warm smile. I smile back.

"I know. I just don't know what I would do if something happened to you. I'm sorry."

She then pulls me into a bone-breaking hug. "Aww! I love you, Chuckie! You're the best big brother ever."

I squirm and finally am able to speak. "Kimi! Please. Let. Go."