The alarm on my watch went off at 6:30 BEEP BEEP BEEP. I groaned and rolled over hitting the snooze button. I forgot how much I hated getting up for school. At my old school I had a driver though so I didn't have to be ready early to catch a bus, but in our new town we would ride the school bus like normal kids. School started at 8:25 and the bus came at 7:25, we were one of the earlier stops, it wouldn't make it back to the school until about 7:45. That gave me a little less than an hour to get ready, which was more than enough time since I didn't have much to use to make myself look good, not that I ever used a lot of makeup or hair products. Tori made a point of stalking up right away with the "basics" which was a lot more than you would think, I just got a mascara and a tube of pink lip gloss.

I rolled out of bed and turned my light on, trying to wake myself up. There was a small sink and mirror in the far corner of my room, I thought that was an odd place for a sink,I didn't even see it at first when I got the room, maybe this had been a guest room previously. It was quiet convenient for me right now tho. I splashed some cold water on my face to wash it off a bit. I put a little bit of mascara on to try and make myself look more awake, because my eyes were looking pretty tired, and then I swiped some lip gloss across my lips to give me some colour.

When I got downstairs to try and find some breakfast Simon was already down there. "Morning" I said, giggling at his bedhead. "Hey, it will be gone in no time" he said with a wink, walking downstairs to take care of his hair. I found a granola bar to eat and I took the lunch money that kit had left for us on the counter.

I bumped into Derek as I ws exiting the kitchen. "Hey, how did you sleep" he asked, smiling down at me, " pretty good until I was rudely awakened by my alarm clock" I said winking as I brushed past him, kissing his cheek as I slid out of the room.

Tori ended up running late and we almost missed the bus, not to any of our suprise. I sat with derek, our fingers interwined. We all sat at the front of the bus because it was usually the less popular area to sit. The kids that were already on the bus looked pretty friendly, people from small towns weren't used to having new kids and I was hoping they would be friendly. The last thing we needed was some popular douche bag giving us a hard time.

We pulled up to the school. There was five cars in the small parking lot and little groups of students chatting and having fun near the front of the school. We walked in together, following the crowd of students that got off our bus. We all had the same last name, we were pretending to be siblings, Derek and I being the adopted ones, so me and Derek's relationship had to be a secret. That really sucked considering the improvement in Derek's looks, he was looking better each day.

I was putting my bag in my locker when Derek came behind me "hey" he said casually. I could tell this pretending to be siblings thing was going to be hard for both of us. "Hi, what's your first class?" I smiled at him, making sure it was only friendly. All our lockers were in a row since they went alphabetically by last name. " Math " he replied, if it wasn't for Derek being super smart we would have had pretty similar classes. We have second period art together and third period gym, it was co ed at this school. instead of 8 classes all year this school has 4 and they're split into semesters. " Aweh well atleast we have second and third together." I said. We said our goodbyes and I headed off to my first class, which was english.

I walked in awkwardly and all the seats were full except one next to a blonde haired girl. She was thin with blue eyes and a few freckles on her nose, her hair was in really pretty waves. " Hey do you mind if I sit here" I asked shyly. " Yeah! My name is Marilyn" she said with a bright smile. She seemed fairly nice. I wondered why she was sitting alone. " I'm chloe, nice to meet you" I said sitting down next to her.

The teacher was going on about some book they had been reading and I had no idea what that was about so I just tuned him out. I wondered how Derek's math class was going. For some reason he actually enjoyed math a lot so I'm sure he was liking being back in school. Just then I heard the teacher shout "get into partners and discuss the answers of the three questions on the board, they will be due at the end of the period, you have twenty five minutes.

I turned to Marilyn, she was the only person I had talked to so far. " Would you be my partner?" I asked, "sure!" She replied. We ended up chatting a lot more than actually working. She told me about the girls I should avoid, " chelsea johnson is the school bitch, she's dating brad jackson, who happens to be a huge douche bag. They run the school, them and chelsea's minions, as I like to call them, Mackenzie, Kayla, and Sarah." She explained, filling me in on all the schools gossip. We talked the rest of the period but we still managed to finish the questions, she helped me since I was totally lost.

As soon as the bell rang I rushed to be art class, excited to see Derek. When I walked in he was sitting at the back, saving a seat next to him for me. Simon was on the other side of my seat, everyone was going to think we were a really close family. " I'm so excited for this class, this is the only class that I outshine Derek in" Simon said with a wink. This teacher kept going on about some artist who's work we had to recreate, the painting was simple enough, but knowing my art skills this wasn't going to end very we'll. We had to listen to a lecture on the artist all period and didn't get a chance to work on our piece until tomorrow. I was so happy that it was finally lunch. I didn't miss listening to teachers talk about things no one cared for.

"Hey! Tori caught up with me at my locker. " So I met this girl! And she's really nice but her friends aren't hanging out with her anymore so I invited her to sit with us. Do you mind? She's going to meet us in the caf line so we can all get food" she explained. "Yeah I don't care" I said with a smile. We met Derek and Simon in line for food, Simon was talking to a petite girl with blonde hair. When she turned to us I recognized her " Marilyn?", "hey Chloe!" She replied with her signiture grin. " Well I see you've met my siblings ". I liked Marilyn so I didn't have any problem with her hanging out with us. " Woah apparently I'm not the only one making friends" Tori grinned. I went to stand with Derek, I hated that we had to pretend to be siblings, that meant we couldn't give even the slightest hint that we were dating. " So are you liking your classes" I said, he smiled slightly " yeah math was really good, and you know how art went.". We moved up in line, it was our turn to order.

I got grilled cheese and tomato soup, Derek got an excessive amount of food as usual, and we all sat down to eat. Marilyn and simon were getting along really well, we was also into drawing. Derek even seemed to like her which wasn't like him. Just as we were finishing up a blond haired girl wearing an extremely short skirt, and low cut top made her way over to where I was sitting next to Derek. " Hey, Derek, I was wondering if you wanted to help me with math tomorrow at lunch, since you're sooo smart" she batted her eyelashes. I was disgusted, she had seen him in class once and she was already throwing herself at him, not to mention furious, because he was mine. " Sorry, I'm not interested. But I'm sure the teacher could help you with whatever you needed" he replied with a fake smile. She looked shocked, she turned and stomped back to a group of girls that looked like barbies.

I wanted to hug Derek and tell him how awesome that was but I just got up to throw my leftovers out and get rid of the tray. This was going to be an interesting next few weeks.

Hey guys. So I tried to incorporate a bit of jealousy because you said you wanted that, and I wanted to know if you guys likes Marilyn. I was thinking that she could be a supernatural from the edison project that is coming into her powers but doesn't know what's going on. So the gang will help her through it, and maybe some romance between her and simon?. And someone had suggested chloe and Derek share a room due to nightmares but since Derek has a room already I'm thinking he can just come sleep with her often. Review please!