I still think that high school's scary. My schedule totally got switched up and I keep getting lost! There's hardly any freshmen in my Geometry class.

Oh yeah, REALLY IMPORTANT; My mom says that the story's taking over my life, so she wants me to either discontinue it, or update slower. If I don't comply, she just might make me delete it. Seriously, it's not taking up THAT much time. But with high school, and already getting assigned essays, I need to update slower to catch up with my life since I spend a lot of time on each and every single chapter. Okay, continue on plz. J

I wake up to the sound of my extremely annoying alarm clock. My lips still burn from Nate's kiss. I'm still pondering the thought of him running way. It was as if he rejected me. You don't steal a girl's first kiss, then run away! That's like, not right. Simply not right at all. Suddenly, it finally registers in my mind. Nate kissed me. OH MY GOD, what do I do now? How can I talk to him? What about the dance?

My mind is in a constant haze as I get ready for school. I have to put last night behind me since tonight was the dance, and there was the after party. I've gotta be my happy self and look good as Shane Grey's date. I'm pretty sure that Shane's not gonna ask me anything about last night. Boy was I wrong.

"Nate's shirt got ripped," is the first thing he says to me as I open the door to the car.

"Oh, really, did it?" I ask him like I'm totally oblivious.

"And not to sound weird, but his lips looked really different," he says before wrinkling his forehead.

"He probably ate something spicy," I try lying.

"Nate doesn't like spicy food," he points out. Shit, I didn't know that.

"Well then, I really don't know," I say, trying to change the subject.

"You were with him the entire time, Jenny. He was nearly crying when he got home," he keeps pushing.

"Can we talk about this after the dance?" I beg Shane. Damn, I just used one of Nate's quotes.

Unlike me, Shane doesn't disagree, and drops the subject. It's a good thing that Shane's a pretty understanding guy. How can I possibly not feel awkward around Nate now? Right now, all I want to really know is why he ran away. That part really hurt me.

I get into homeroom and see that Nate's not looking at me. He's looking in the opposite direction. It's official, he's ignoring me. I'm so infuriated with him right now. He was the one that kissed me! Then he just ran off like that.

I put my hand on his shoulder and hiss out, "We. Need. To Talk." Ooh, that was a rough approach.

He refuses to even answer me or acknowledge me, so I put my thumb over his pressure point and squeeze tight. He lets out a low scream before roughly grabbing my hand and putting it off of him.

"Don't touch me. Just leave me alone," he mutters.

"I can touch you if I want to," I simply state. He's never refused a touch before, right?

"I never gave you the right," he turns around and glares at me.

"Get up," I order him. This can't be said in class.

"No, I won't," he refuses like a little brat.

"Yes, you are," I say before digging my nails into his arm.

If he's being stubborn, I can only force him to come with me. He winces and finally gives up and walks out of the room, but not before putting my arm back to my side. He really was being a jackass today. Besides, he hurt my arms last night. I was only taking a little bit of revenge. Excuse me for doing what most people would do.

Once we were both in the now virtually empty hall, I finally start asking him the questions.

"Why did you run away?" I ask.

"I have my reasons. Reasons that you don't need to know," he says, looking away from me.

"Yes, I do need to know them. You don't steal a girl's first kiss then run away like it was a mistake," I try to calmly tell him. I was starting to get angry and sad all at the same time.

"As I said before; I have my reasons. You really shouldn't know," he repeats himself.

"Just fucking tell me!" I yell.

"I broke the guy code. I fucking broke it," he mumbles.

"What do you mean you broke it?" I ask him. The guy code? What was he talking about.

"One of the biggest guy rules; if your best friend or brother likes a girl, you don't pursue her. You just can't," his voice was getting high now.

"What friend? What brother?" I whisper. I think I already know the answer.

"Who do you fucking think it is?!" he screams. "It's Shane! When will you get it through your head?!"

Why didn't I see it before? The hidden jealousy, all of those gestures. It was so obvious, and I was the only oblivious one in the whole situation. Nicole was happy with Jason right now, but I have no idea if I like any of these guys like that.

"Why didn't you see it?" he asks me, his voice still high and broken.

"I didn't want to," I finally realize. The whole time, I refused to believe it. I was blocking it all out.

"Look, let's try to put last night behind us, okay? But I don't want to forget it," he suggests after calming down.

Instead of replying to his suggestion, I wrap my arms around his chest and give him one of the biggest hugs I could conjure up. I felt Nate hugging me back. So he ran away just because Shane had feelings for me. Personally, I couldn't blame him, but deep down, it still hurt. A lot. I guess the issue with Nate was somewhat solved, but then there was Shane. I wanted to avoid him for a bit. The bell rang, ruining the moment between us.

"How about we stay in Ms. Thimm's class this time?" he asks me.

"Awesome idea," I say before grabbing my books and heading for Ms. Thimm's room along with Nate.

XoLAGOHxO

I'm heading into Biology, hoping that Shane doesn't catch up with me. Oh yeah, I forgot to pray to mother nature, so he ends up doing just that. Why do all the gods hate me? I'm just about to step my foot into the class when he pulls me out. You know those fake smiles you give when you know you're guilty of something or don't really like someone? Yeah, that's plastered on my face right now.

"You skipped gym again," he says in an annoyed tone.

"Sorry, my ankle is kinda bugging me," I lie. I've been lying a lot lately. My knee was healing up pretty nicely, and my ankle doesn't hurt anymore.

"Are you going to be alright for the dance?" he asks.

"Don't worry, I'll be totally fine," I assure him.

Once he leaves, I let out an extremely loud breath. I was so scared that he would be suspicious! Maybe he is, but he just doesn't want me to know. Or maybe he's just seriously spacey. I mean, really. Jesus, I think way too much.

XoLAGOHxO

Okay, I'm pretty sure that I should be at home right now. Or at least getting ready for the dance. No wait, I guess I kinda am. Imagine being dragged to a some fancy hair salon and getting your hair done. It's just Homecoming! I mean, come one, it's no biggie.

"Girl, your hair is dry," a guy speaking in a very girly voice says. He seriously looks a lot like Kim Vo, that famous hair stylist that's always on E! He's Vietnamese, too! Well, half at least.

"Yeah, Treseme's directions for the conditioner are a bit too complicated for me. Uh, who brushes in their conditioner?" I ask him.

That's actually what the bottle tells me to do. Use a comb to comb in the conditioner. And to not use hands.. Or wear gloves? I get the point that it's salon quality hair, but people only have so much time on their hands. At least it smells kind of nice, either that, or they copy VO5. Or maybe VO5 copied them. Who knows?

"Look, there's a reason why it's called 'salon quality' hair, cuz you have to do all the stuff that hair stylists like me do," he tries explaining as he puts in some leave-in conditioner.

"Do I even look like a hair stylist?" I sarcastically ask.

"Girl, your mood will be fabulous once your hair's done," he says before waving a hand for dramatic effect.

"Nicole, how you doing there?" I ask her, since she was getting her hair done, too.

"They're making my highlights brighter, then straightening it," she replies.

"Ugh, apparently my hair's gonna get curled," I say.

"Nope, more like waves since your Asian hair can't seem to hold these holds," he says as he inspects some of the curls he just did.

"God, Shane sucks so much," I groan and wait for the entire process to be over and done with.

After about an hour, the guy, whose name turned out to be Charlie, finally spun me around so I could see myself in the mirror. Nicole was done long ago. Her hair looked really cute, and I'd assume that it's better than mine. My mouth drops when I see my reflection. It was simply waves, but it was so pretty! I reach out to touch it, to make sure that it's real, but Charlie slaps my hand away.

"Don't touch it! It'll ruin your hair," he instructs me.

"I can't believe that just this took an hour," I say instead of complimenting his work.

"I just had to make it perfect," he says in his girly voice.

"Yeah, it's pretty tight. Thanks dude!" I exclaim.

"Hey, Jenny, I'm gonna arrive at the dance separately with Jason," Nicole informs me. I can almost feel myself frowning before catching myself. I didn't want her to feel guilty or anything, but I couldn't help but feel I was getting ditched.

"Sure, see ya at the dance! Have fun getting ready and everything," I say.

XoLAGOHxO

Now came for the moment of truth. Shane, Nate and I had just arrived at the dance, and we're almost in the gym. I haven't seen Jason or Nicole yet. Shane's tie matched my dress while Nate's unknowingly matched Kate's. I seriously don't know how I'm going to do this. Shane's been giving me weird looks the entire ride, and I'm pretty sure it's because of Kate.

I get behind Nate and give him his ticket before I cover his eyes. I hope this will be a good idea, but I just thought of it up on the spot. Oh, Mother Nature, please let this work out for me!!

"Okay, when you see your date, don't act surprised. Act like you knew it all along. Act like you really like her. Seriously, just act, and act well," I whisper in his ear the instructions.

"Don't worry, I've got quite some acting skills," he reassures me. I really don't think that he won't be surprised.

"No, no matter what the outcome is, no matter who she is, no matter how much you hate her, you cannot show resistance towards her. There could be some serious consequences," I warn.

"Okay, don't tell me you set me up with a girl who's going to commit suicide if I reject her," he jokes. Boy, he doesn't know how right he truly is.

I start leading him into the gym, my hands still over his eyes. Shane's giving me a really serious glare right now. I think he's mad at me, too. I can hear the bass from "Dangerous" by Akon as we enter the gym. I start looking around the large mass of students for the very distinct hair of Kate. After a couple seconds, I easily spot her on the side, drinking some punch. I wonder if it's spiked with alcohol.

I take my hands off of Nate's eyes and quickly spin him around since we were getting close to Kate now. "Okay, Nate, promise me that you will be this girl's date tonight, or else I won't give you a single dance," I threaten him.

"Oh, come on, you don't need to do that. How bad could she be?" he asks before laughing over the pumping music. Ugh, these heels are seriously hurting my feet! Why did Shane opt to buy the five inch ones? I'm pretty sure they were less than that, but it felt like so much more.

I tug on Nate's shirt towards Kate's direction. Kate spots me and starts waving, with a huge smile on her face. Nate's still looking around, trying to figure out who his date was. Boy, I'm hoping this doesn't turn out disastrous.

"Hey, Kate! Nate's right here," I yell to her, pulling on his tux jacket towards her direction. I glance at his face and see a completely horrified expression.

I whisper, "Remember, act like you like her." His face immediately changes to his fake happy one, but it looks much more real. I'm guessing he's had quite a bit of practice.

"Don't forget, you knew all along," is the last thing I say to him before pushing him to Kate.

She looks so happy with him right now. Tonight, I've gotta somehow make Dave end up with Kate, and Nate give Nate one dance. I've also got to be Shane's ideal date. And then there was the after party. I start singing along to "Dangerous" as I walk my way back to Shane.

"Okay, can you dance to this song?" he asks me once I reach him.

"Wait, aren't you gonna ask about Kate and Nate?" I wonder aloud.

"We'll find out all about it at the after-party," he says before dragging me away from the refreshments.

"Okay, the best advice I can give you is; Just dance," he advises before he started dancing. It was the way those guys who were "too cool to act like a fool" danced. The other popular guys were dancing like him, too. Even with teacher chaperones here, the girls somehow managed to grind on the guys.

"You know, where's Lady GaGa when you need her?" I ask him, not joking at all. Come on, "Just Dance" is an awesome song to dance to! Even if you don't know how. Just as I said that, the song started on the gym speakers.

"Wow, it's like people are reading your mind these days," he says as we start dancing. I wasn't focusing on Shane, but I was looking around for Nicole and Jason. After a minute, I have success and I see them dancing rather.. Yeah, you guys should know what I mean. She is wearing this cute light pink dress that bubbled out and got tight around the thighs. What do you call those things?

Okay, now that I've found the happy couple, it's time to look for the not-so-happy one. The song changes to "Fall for You" by Secondhand Serenade before I could find Nate. I can't help but smile, though. I love Secondhand Serenade. I feel Shane put his arms around my waist, so I link my hands behind his neck and slow dance with him.

"But hold your breath, because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again," Shane starts softly singing. I never knew that Shane is such a talented singer. His voice is so soothing when he's singing this soft. Just as I was getting into the song, and Shane, the track changes to "Low" by Flo Rida. I immediately pull away from Shane and start dancing to the hip-hop beat. When the lyrics got to the booty-slapping part, I felt Shane spank my ass. I quickly turn to him and shoot him my glare.

"Hey, not cool!" I yell over the music.

"You're my date, I'm allowed to do that," he replies before grabbing my hands and dancing with me.

I guess I'll let it slide this time, but the next time he does that, his hands are so getting chopped off. I'm still trying to look for Nate and Kate, and I finally found them just as the song was coming to an end. They seem to be having a good time, though Nate still looks a bit uncomfortable. I keep my eyes on them for the next couple songs. When a slow one comes on, I excuse myself from Shane and try to start walking over to Nate.

"Hey, Jenny, where are you going?" he asks me.

"I promised Nate one slow dance," I tell him.

"Why? Kate's his date, and you're mine," he starts protesting.

"A promise is a promise, Shane. I'm sorry," I apologize before I start walking over to Nate.

From where I'm standing, I can see Dave's eyes on Kate's, and once in a while glare at Nate. His jealousy is completely obvious. I slightly wave my arms to catch his attention, and he sees me. He gives me a questioning look, then I motion with my hands, trying to say, "You and Kate, me and Nate. Dance to this song." He seems to get it because he starts walking over to Kate, so I start walking over to Nate.

"I owe you that dance," I whisper in his ear.

"Wait, what's going on?" Kate asks me.

"Kate, may I have this dance?" Dave asks her before bowing. Aw, he's so romantic.

"Dave, I'm Nate's date tonight, so no," she bluntly states.

"Kate, you should have at least one dance with him. Do it for me," Nate tries convincing her.

"Sure, anything for you," she says before reluctantly taking Dave's hand as he pulls her away to somewhere else to dance.

"Looks like you and I are alone," Nate smirks.

"Well, if you can call being in a gym with a bunch of people alone," I laugh before putting a hand on his shoulder and the other in his hand.

"Wow, even with those high heels on, you're still so much shorter than me," he jokes.

"Ah! Jerk! It's not my fault that you and your brothers are tall and I'm cursed with the typical Asian shortness," I say before smiling.

"Oh yeah, we need to talk about Kate," he tells me. My smile drops from my face.

"I'm really sorry. When I promised her that she'd be your date, I didn't know about your guys' past. It was really ignorant of me, but I didn't want you to be alone tonight," I try explaining.

"It looks like her and Dave are enjoying themselves," he points his head to my right, and I follow the direction. There was Dave and Kate, dancing happily together. Her head was on his chest as they swayed. It was such a cute sight.

"Aw, it's like they're perfect for each other," I say.

"She started liking him pretty fast, don't you think?" he asks.

"I heard that the harder and faster you fall for somebody, the longer it's gonna last," I inform him. I forgot where, but I know I heard it somewhere. It's either that, or you're a little kid who's utterly stupid.

"Is two weeks considered fast?" he asks me. I nod my head in response to his question. He pulls me closer to him, and a minute later, the song ends.

"I'm sorry, but I need to get back to Shane," I say before walking to Shane.

"You know, we should take the pictures now," Shane suggests.

"Oh, like those ones with the professional photographer, with the guy and the girl and crap?" I ask, trying to see if I was thinking of the right thing.

"Yeah!" he exclaims before pulling me to where the photographer was.

"Wait, I want to take one with Nate, too," I tell him.

He turns around and says, "But Nate's not your date."

"I think Kate left him for Dave," I reply.

"You mean the Dave who thinks we're having sex?" he asks.

"Yeah, that very one. If I got him a dance with Kate, he'll stop the rumors," I triumphantly say.

"Hey, that's awesome! Nobody will think you're a slut anymore," he says with wide eyes.

"Who said that it'll completely stop? He's just gonna try, but it's worth a shot," I remind him. Rumors don't stop that easily.

After twenty minutes, I had taken both pictures with Shane and Nate, and Kate took one with Dave. Nicole and Jason were getting theirs done while me and the two guys waited.

"You know, we need to get home early since we're hosting the after party," Jason says to the group.

"Being the host people suck," I complain.

"Welcome to my world!" Nate yells before throwing his arms up, then laughing.

XoLAGOHxO

Nicole and I had to change into our after-party clothes. Remember the clothes from Forever 21 that I bought? Yeah, skinny jeans. I don't think I'm ever wearing these things again. They're so uncomfortable! Nicole's blue jeans looked so much comfier, and I liked her striped sweater better than my plain one. She had on a dark tank top under the sweater. My peace sign totally stood out.

"I still don't get the whole point of an after party outfit," she huffs as she puts on her brown belt.

"Shane told me that I needed to look good since I'm his date. I'm pretty sure Jason didn't tell you that," I say, telling her that her situation wasn't really that bad.

"No, he just said that it was a night of dress-up, to look really good. He's so sweet," she replies. Jason and Nate make Shane seem like a huge jerk.

"Well, we should go down and try patrolling the party," I say before going downstairs.

Tonight's party is way more wild than the other ones since the people were already hyped up from the dance. It's almost as if the dance was just a warm up for them. That thought kind of scares me. The girls were dancing much more wildly than they did earlier. Maybe it's because there's no adults around to hold them back.

I see Shane and call him over. When he gets to me, he asks, "So, you still in the dancing mood?"

I was just about to answer him when we hear a large commotion coming from the doorway. I quickly walk over to it. I hear a glass bottle smash, and all color drains from my face when I see Angela and the other girls. She was holding a broken beer bottle, and I see Erica slip out a gun. She's about to shoot before Shane tackles her and grabs it.

Nate's trying to grab Angela's weapon, too. People are freaking out, their drunken states fueling their energy. I run over to the entertainment system and shut down the music. People are still freaking out. I have to call order to this before somebody gets seriously injured.

"OKAY, SHUT UP PEOPLE!" I yell very loudly. The entire room goes silent and all eyes are on me.

"Go home or we'll call the cops," Shane threatens the girls.

"If you call the cops, your parents are going to get fined if there's drunk kids," Cassie says.

"What, you don't think they can afford it? Get out, or we're going to call the cops," Shane repeats.

"Wait, why aren't you guys in jail?" Nate asks them.

"Well, we got out of the DETENTION CENTER and we don't have any consequences," Erica explains. You could tell that she was lying.

"No, you guys should at least be on probation," he reasons.

All four girls get horrified expressions. That's when Nate knew that they were on probation, and if the cops found out that they had guns and weapons, they'd face serious consequences.

"Okay, let's put it this way," Jason starts. "We can afford the fines from the cops, but if you guys get discovered for trying to kill anyone, or even hurting them, we all know that you're going to be spending serious time in jail." He pulls out his phone for dramatic effect. "It's just a couple buttons away," he taunts.

"Wait, so is this party over?" someone from the crowd asks. The brothers contemplate it for a moment before answering, "Sorry, guys. Unless we want a run-in with the law, this thing's gotta end."

We hear jeers from the crowd, but they comply when being asked to getting out. The law obviously threatened them. They didn't want to get involved with the girls who burned down my locker, and nineteen others as well. Most people were saying things like "Nice party" or "See you guys here next week." I'm not sure if there's going to be another one this week. After the crowd left, we all revert our attention back to Morgan, Angela, Cassie and Erica.

"So," Nicole speaks for the first time. "You guys leaving or what?"

"We came here for a specific reason," Angela says. She points to me and continues, "You stole my boyfriend, my Shaney-boo, my Pooh-Bear, and you're sleeping with him, too."

The next thing really surprises me. Shane walks up to her and slaps her across the cheek, hard. "I never liked you. I never felt anything for you. I was just using you," he angrily says.

Angela looks up to him, tears spilling from her eyes. Even though she did all of that stuff to me, I still can't help but sympathize for her. "But-" she starts but gets cut off.

"Look, Jenny didn't do anything to you guys, okay? I never liked you, Angela. How much do I have to say it? Get out before something else happens," he orders them.

"Yes, she did! She ruined everything between us! Shane, I love you. I fucking love you so much!" she cries. She was hysterically sobbing right now. "She ruined me. She got me expelled, my record with the state is scarred because of her. It's all her fault!"

"Leave," Shane grits out. "Get out." Angela's still standing there looking dumbfounded.

"But Shane," she begs.

"GET OUT!" he screams at her.

Morgan grabs her arm and drags her out of their, Cassie and Erica following them. Shane still looks really mad. I can't believe that he hit a girl, even if it was Angela. Guys aren't supposed to do that. To break the tension, I fall back on the couch and say, "Wow, what a night."

"Yeah, sure was," everyone but Shane agrees with me. Instead, he runs up to his room and slams his door. First I had to deal with Nate. Now I have to deal with Shane, too? High school is really tiring me out.

Is it common for the Grey brothers be violent? First Nate with his anger issues and the wall, now Shane's slapping girls. Is Jason the only sane one?

Sorry for the really crappy chapter!! Like I said, high school's kinda torture so far, but it's not that bad. Just a lot of stress, and me missing my bus a lot. Seriously, it always comes early! I'm making it a point to get there at least five minutes early tomorrow. I'll try updating in one-two days or ASAP! I hope this chapter was long enough to make up for the lost days.

Oh yeah, 27 reviews for the last chapter! You guys are absolutely amazing. Can't wait to see how much this chapter will get.. I worked my ass off for it!!