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Lacey awakens early Monday morning to start her first day at Green Grove High School. She actively decides what she should wear. Despite the fact that she's a full-figured gal, she has an awesome wardrobe. She doesn't let her reality of being bigger stop her from dressing cute. Since the seasons are starting to change, the air is pretty crisp. She decides on a black and white polka dot dress and red sweater. She sets it off with black tights and black Steve Madden pumps. She gets dressed and heads down to have breakfast with her mom and Clara.

"So are you girls excited?"

"No." Is Clara's response.

"Not really, but I'm cool. How about you, Mom? You're starting your new job today."

"Well I'm excited because I'm the boss." Her mother laughs and they join in. Judy is a Registered Nurse. She was given a promotion to run the Operating Room at GGMC. Although she's a nurse, she'll be overseeing all the surgeons, nurses and instrument specialists. She has been an OR nurse for about 20 years and really loves her job. She was given a promotion and the option to move after stepping up as the interim OR coördinator when her colleague went on maternity leave. So Judy decided a fresh start for her and her girls was for the best. She hated making them leave their home, school, and friends, but it was necessary.

"Are you sure you don't want me to come to school with you, Lacey?"

"Absolutely. It's gonna be hard enough fitting in as it is, Mom. No, I'll be fine. I meet with the guidance counselor before school starts."

"Ok, well I am gonna go in with you, Clara,"

"Awww, man."

The trio finishes up their breakfast and head out to start the day. Her mom drops her off first since she has to go to Clara's school with her. She approaches her new school and starts to get a little nervous. The fact that she doesn't know anybody is kind of scary. Hopefully, somebody will befriend her. She sees many different groups conversing and notices some people are looking at her and whispering. Most just wonder who she is. She finds the office and looks for the guidance counselor, Ms. Cannon. She sits and waits for her. Finally, a petite woman with long blonde hair approaches her. She looks a lot like Kelly Ripa. She seems so nice and gives Lacey a hug and welcomes her to GGHS. They go over Lacey's schedule and she shows her where her locker is and gives her a tour of the school.

Danny hadn't really been paying attention to Ms. Fisk. He was still tired from staying up late to finish his English paper. He was slowly drifting off to sleep, when the door opened and Ms. Cannon walked in with a girl. He noticed that she was sorta chubby, but very pretty. And he couldn't take his eyes off of her, but he didn't know why. She clearly wasn't his type. But she sparked his interest. He noticed she had long hair and was wearing red. It looked really nice against her brown skin. Then he heard Ms. Fisk talking.

"Class, we have a new student. This is Lacey Porter."

A few kids say "Hi" and Lacey smiles and waves. Danny noticed she had a dimple on her cheek. And her name is Lacey, very pretty.

What is wrong with me?

"Lacey, you can take a seat next to Phoebe."

Phoebe raises her hand and smiles at her. When she sits down, Danny notices she smells like roses.

Phoebe, the nice girl that she is, immediately starts trying to make Lacey feel comfortable. Lacey is so happy somebody is already being nice to her. She introduces her to a couple of her friends.

She points to a pretty blonde. "That's Regina."

"Hi," both girls say.

"This is my boyfriend Joe."

Joe clearly looks uninterested in speaking to her, yet manages to wave.

"And this is Danny."

Lacey sees that Danny is gorgeous with gorgeous shoulder length hair. And he looks completely lost in thought.

"Danny! Come in Danny!"

All 3 girls laugh, but Joe says, "Dude, what's wrong?"

"Just tired from staying up late. Hello Lacey, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too, Danny."

"That's Archie."

"Hey Lacey."

"Hey."

Danny realizes that he's in trouble because he's completely enamored with Lacey Porter. He had never in his life been attracted to a fat girl, but he was now. He didn't believe in love at first sight, because that's stupid, but something has taken over him. She looks NOTHING like the other girls he dates.

What is it about this girl that has me going crazy?

Am I going crazy?

Ms. Fisk divides them into groups of four. So Lacey wound up in a group with Phoebe, Danny and Joe. She gets a weird vibe from both guys. Joe looks like he's about to throw up every time he looks at her, and Danny seems to be a million miles away. She's already thankful for Phoebe. She knows that they will be friends.

Ms. Fisk has one person from each group to choose a box.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you must guess the items that are in these boxes without being able to see what's inside. Each box contains 10 items. And there could be anything in them. Let your imagination and thought of perception guide you. The group that gets the most right, gets a surprise."

Joe is already complaining. "How are we supposed to guess what's in these boxes? This is stupid."

"It's not stupid Joe. Quit whining."

Danny still seems lost in thought. What is wrong with this guy? Lacey wonders. Phoebe picks up the box and shakes it. "It sounds like a ball is rolling around."

"I'll write down our guesses." Lacey suggests. Then she picks up the box and moves it from side to side. "I think I hear coins."

Danny finally comes out of his daze and shakes the box. "I think there's a marble in here too." He hands the box to Joe who looks like he just ate sand. He shakes it and says very sarcastically, "I hear tissue."

They all look at him incredulously. "How in the hell can you hear tissue, Joe?" Danny asks.

"I think this assignment is stupid and I don't wanna do it."

Lacey is seriously starting to dislike Joe. All he has done is complain. She wonders if he's like that all the time and how Phoebe puts up with him if he does.

"Well I think it's fun." Lacey adds.

"Me too", Danny says and smiles at her. She hopes he doesn't see her blushing.

They continue on with analyzing the sounds they hear from shaking the box. Their end results are, a ball, marble, coins, tissue, an ink pen, a bottle of nail polish, sand paper, a pencil sharpener, a toy car, and a deck of cards. They submit their papers and Ms. Fisk informs them that Danny, Lacey, Phoebe, and Joe have won by getting 8 out of 10 correct.

"Who in your group has X-ray vision?" The whole class laughs, but Danny pipes up and says, "This was all Lacey. She guessed the most right."

Phoebe agrees and Joe just looks annoyed. Lacey is blushing again after Danny smiles at her. Again. Ms. Fisk gives them all gift cards to Starbucks as their prize. The bell has rung for class to end. Danny can't help but stare at Lacey as she walks out the class. He doesn't realize Joe has been watching him suspiciously.

"What?"

"You were checking out the fatty. "

"No, I wasn't." He lies.

"Desai, I know when you're lying. Wait til I tell everyone you like fat chicks now."

"I'm not and I don't." Second and third lie. "Don't tell anybody that shit, dude."

Joe has known Danny long enough to know he wasn't kidding. He also knew Danny was lying through his teeth.