Part 2: Chapter 7
Sophia and Lily were walking through the high school hallway.
"I'm so glad today is the last day before Christmas vacation," Lily said. "Tomorrow I will be on my way to New Hampshire to spend Christmas with my mom and Andy."
"I'm going to be spending Christmas vacation in California with my Aunt and the person whose name I shall not speak," Sophia said. "We actually leave on Christmas Eve."
"It's okay to say Beth's name," Lily said. "I'm trying to come to peace about what happened. Chuck obviously loves Beth and I'm just the stupid blonde girl who got involved."
"First of all Lily," Sophia said. "Your hair is brown. You look like Megan Fox's little sister."
"I have blonde highlights," Lily said.
"Second of all, don't call yourself stupid," Sophia said. "You are intelligent. Hell, you're smarter than me. I don't even know what 10,000 divided by 10 plus 4 minus 5 plus 4 is."
"1,003," Lily replied.
"Thank you for just helping me finish my math homework for Mrs. Kramer," Sophia said as she got out her math homework and a pencil.
"Why does she give everyone such strange problems?" Lily asked.
"I don't know," Lily replied. "She's just mean. Ever since Jamie and I started dating, she's been out to get me."
Chuck and Jamie walked by from opposite directions.
"Jamie," Chuck said.
Jamie shoved Chuck down and walked off.
"Come on," Sophia said. "We don't want to be late for Kramer's class."
As they walked, Lily and Sophia saw a student they'd never seen before putting books into his locker. He had short blonde hair and wore a black leather jacket.
"Who's he?" Lily asked.
"Beats me," Sophia said. "He must be a new student."
The student turned around and looked at them.
"Actually I am a new student," he said. "My name is Aaron. My parents and I just moved here to Tree Hill. I didn't really want to start the day before Christmas break, but my mom thought I should come today to get to know my surroundings."
"Oh hi," Lily said nervously. "I'm Sophia, and this is my friend Lily."
"Actually, I'm Sophia," Sophia said. "She is Lily. Anyway, she doesn't have a boyfriend."
"Sophia!" Lily shouted.
"I've got to get to class," Sophia said rushing off.
"So Lily," Aaron said. "Do you think you could help me?"
"Help you what?" Lily asked.
"I have Mr. West's class next and I'm not sure where that room is," Aaron said.
"Yeah," Lily said pointing at the east end of the hallway. "All the way at the end of the east hallway. It's on the left. Can't miss it. Funny, Mr. West is on this east."
Lily snorted and covered her mouth. Aaron began to laugh and Lily walked off towards Mrs. Kramer's class.
"Really Lily?" Lily said aloud to herself. "You had to make a lame joke and snort?"