Claire Lyons was popular, sure, but she didn't hold a candle to Olivia Ryan. With her stick-straight blonde hair, ice blue eyes, flawless porcelain skin, and ski-slope nose, Olivia exuded perfection in every sense of the word. Her Tri-Theta legacy extended back to OCD's founding, and Mr. Ryan had once been president of Scout Team. She ruled the class of 2016 with an iron fist and an imported Italian leather wallet full of Daddy's credit cards. Oh, and Alicia Rivera, gossip queen and resident airhead, by her side.

As charmed as her social life was, even Olivia knew that her position was precarious, and nothing startled her more than watching Claire Lyons's morning carpool pull into Ron Block's driveway to pick up a petite, wavy-haired brunette. She knew the girl as one of Mr. Block's granddaughters, but couldn't possibly believe that she had moved up here.

"Hola!" Alicia shouted as she skipped up the Ryan's driveway, scattering Olivia's thoughts. "I've got gossip for youuuu!" Olivia rolled her eyes as she stepped into her family's custom-made Escalade. The second she secured the all-powerful Leticia Rivera as her big, she was dumping Alicia for good.

"Well?" Olivia asked, gently prompting Alicia to dish out the goods.

"Well what?" Alicia responded, a blank look on her face. "Oh! Right! Okay, so you know that brown-haired girl that comes to visit the Blocks, like, twice a year?" Olivia nodded. "She's their granddaughter and she usually lives in Orlando, Florida, which is about as tacky as you can get, but she got some sort of head injury in an accident down there so now she's moved up here to live with her grandparents. Her name is Massie Block, and she's starting at OCD today. And yesterday, Kristen and Derrick and Cam were at her house!"

Olivia's heart hiccupped when she heard Cam's name. Olivia had liked him since the last two months of 8th grade, and they had almost gone out after some heavy flirting, but Claire had had his heart all along. The two were guaranteed to go to the Legacy together. But no matter what Olivia had done to seek revenge on Claire, nothing had worked and she was fresh out of ideas. The girl was like Teflon: every bucket of insults thrown at her was simply shrugged off.

Olivia spent the rest of the car ride to school scowling, alternately listening to a story about Allie-Rose Singer throwing up at the Scout Team holiday party and checking her Instagram.

"Hey Olivia!" Claire called as Olivia and Alicia stepped out of their Escalade and Claire's carpool rushed out of the Lyons's white Chevy Suburban onto the high school's drop-off circle. "I want you to meet somebody!"

Olivia rolled her eyes. Claire had been a thorn in her side ever since their first day of Pine Parks Elementary School. While Olivia had been establishing her popularity with the girls in her grade, Claire had turned to the boys. As a result, even though the OCD girls attempted to emulate Olivia's style on the daily, it was Claire they really wanted to be, as she was the key to OCD's most eligible boys.

Claire dragged over the brunette Olivia had seen this morning. Olivia gave the girl the obvious once over, and the brunette examined her just as closely. The girl was pretty, sure, and those odd amber eyes would definitely make the soccer boys look back twice, but her shoulders were slumped ever so slightly. The girl was uncomfortable. And that was a weakness that Olivia could prey on.

"Hi, I'm Massie," the brunette chirped. "You must be Olivia. I've heard so much about you."

"Funny, I've never heard anything about you," Olivia hissed. Massie twitched ever so slightly.

"That's okay," Massie replied. "Everything I've ever heard about you was never good. See you at lunch!"

Olivia's mouth hung open as she watched Claire, Kristen, Dylan, and the soccer boys drag Massie away.

"I don't think she realizes who you are, Liv," Alicia gasped.

"You're right," Olivia said with a smug smile. "She doesn't."

As she and Alicia strutted into the main building, Olivia fired off a few carefully-worded texts to both Leticia and her pledge chair. Massie was going to be destroyed at OCD before she even had a chance.

-x-

"She's going to kill me, isn't she?" Massie groaned as Claire and Kristen led her away.

"No way, that was awesome!" Derrick cheered. Massie gave him a small smile, which he returned with a goofy grin.

"It wasn't smart," Claire sighed. "Olivia is leader of our pledge class—don't give me that look, I know Kristen told you. She's also got Leticia on her side in most cases. But honestly? She's been acting like her shit doesn't stink for too long. Our pledge chair is getting sick of it and she may appreciate that you took her down a peg."

"Olivia's the kind of person that should really go through Scout Team pledging just so the hazing will give her some ounce of humility," Kemp explained. The group chuckled knowingly.

"On a different note, what's your schedule, Massie?" Kristen asked as she reached for Massie's planner. The group crowded around Kristen as Claire picked Massie's schedule apart.

"Let's see…" Claire began, tapping a royal purple fingernail against her perfectly straight white teeth. "Ah, you're on the Honors track just like all of us! On A days, you have 1st period Journalism with Kristen, Kemp, and Plovert, 2nd period History with me, Cam, and Derrick, 3rd period Yoga with Dylan and me, and 4th period Geometry with Kristen, Cam, and Derrick. On B days, you have 1st period Biology with me, Kemp, Plovert, Alicia, and Olivia. Will someone find out how the hell Duh-licia got into Honors Biology? Anyways, then you have 2nd period Language Arts with Olivia and nobody else, 3rd period Health with Kristen, Dylan, Josh, and Derrick, and 4th period French II with Dylan, Josh, Cam, and Derrick." Claire snapped her fingers, and Kristen handed Massie's planner back to her. "Not bad, New Girl."

"Now if you guys don't mind terribly, we have to go deliver brunch to our sisters," Dylan said before looping arms with Kristen and walking away.

"And we've got to go clean the locker room showers," Cam sighed.

"You'll be fine, I promise," Derrick said as Massie watched her only friend walk away. "The school is easy to navigate."

Plovert grinned. "Yeah, and besides, today's a B day. There's nothing like a full dose of Alicia Rivera stupidity first thing in the morning. She's part Spanish but she can't even tell you what countries border her mother country. 'Um, uhhhh, like, Mexico?'" Plovert mimicked Alicia's slightly accented slow voice, getting a chuckle out of Massie.

The group scattered, and with nothing else to do, Massie made her way to the science laboratory, which was slightly beyond the main building. She was bundled up pretty well in her Burberry trench coat, but Massie caught a sudden chill. She turned around and ended up face-to-face with Olivia.

She really couldn't wait for Biology to start.