I was so pumped for my senior year this year, this was the year where I was finally going to be caption of Newport's High's softball team. Thank god I had Bridgette as co-captain to help. I went downstairs to grab some breakfast; mom usually cooks sausages, hash browns, and the Santos special Omelet for our first day of school. I looked out the driveway to see dad's car was gone, thank god. I didn't want to face him this morning; it probably would've ruined my mood for the whole day, I don't want be a sad sap on the first day of my senior year. My relationship with my dad is even more strained now ever since I yelled at him at dinner last week, he can barely be in the same with me for more than fifteen minutes. Courtney told me dad's personal problem with my choices should not get in the way with my own happiness. Courtney's talk really did help that night and I was thankful to have her on my side. Apparently Mom and Dad also got into an argument that night after dinner as well, I'm glad the rest of my family has my back. I was also proud of myself that I've gone four days without crying over him, those days were gone. If he's not going to accept me for who I am, then he has no right being a part of my life.

Duncan drags himself towards the island counter still half asleep. "Good morning, Duncan!" My mom says in a very cheerful voice. Duncan just groans in response and rests his head on the counter slowly drifting off. Mom just snorts. "Looks like someone could use a cup of coffee." She teased.

"Coffee…would be nice…" Duncan mumbles. I roll my eyes, it's fucking 8:30, how is he going to survive waking up at 6 if he can barely keep his eyes open right now?

"Rise and shine, sunshine." I say before pushing him off his chair, he falls to the ground.

"Jasmine!" My mom scolds me.

Duncan rubs his head before glaring at me. "What the fuck, Jasmine!"

I only smile before taking a bite of my omelet. "Don't be such a baby about it." He got an hour and a half to sleep in today; he has no right to be a little pussy about it. He could've gone with Courtney and actually wake up at the normal time.

My mom looks at both of us disapprovingly. "Duncan, please try not to drop the F-bomb or any of those other slurs in this house and for god sake's Jasmine, what have I told you about talking with your mouth full, girl's will not want to be with you if you do that on dates." The only girl I'm interested right now doesn't complain about it but I should probably stop anyway because I don't want my future kids to pick up my bad habits and if I ever get on Broadway, I hear they have a lot of cast dinners.

We head out the driveway to my purple Honda fit; Courtney has one too but in white. My mom works really high up in the Honda Company, we basically get really great deals when it comes to buying cars.

"Your car looks like a fucking vagina." Duncan say's, getting into the passenger side.

I scoff and playfully punch him before hanging my school parking pass onto my rearview mirror. "Your face looks like a fucking vagina."

"Ooooh." He says, waving his hands pretending like I had really got to him. "What a great comeback." He sarcastically says. "So how come Courtney had to leave early?"

"Student council has to go in early for freshman orientation." That was another thing about the first day, the upperclassmen sleeping in for an extra few hours while the student council and faculty welcomed the freshmen. My sister is the student body president this year, you have no idea how fucking excited she was when the results were announced on the intercom during the end of last year. Let's just say Court had a little too much to drink at Geoff's 'fuck yea school is over' party.

I parked my car next to my friend Leshawna's BMW. I got out and gave her a hug, I pulled back to look at her, she's changed a lot since the beginning of July. she was in Chicago for most of the summer visiting family. "Damn girl you look hella good, have you lost weight?"

She immediately turned around shaking her bedazzled jean booty at me. "Only 12 pounds!" I playfully slap it. "You flaunt it girl!" I say. One thing I loved about Leshawna was even though she was a bigger girl, she was still confident with herself. She loved her body and was happy even if she didn't have a thigh gap and had a little belly on her, guys still found her sexy. She was the reason why I stopped caring about my weight; I learned to love my curves because of her. She turned around, her happy expression turned into shock. "Is that the kid that's living with you now?" She asks, pointing to Duncan. I turn around and pull Duncan closer in. "Duncan meet Leshawna, Leshawna, Duncan."

"Hey man, welcome to-hey is that Trent and Gwen?" I turn around to see them all the down towards the end of the parking lot. "Hey guys over here!" Leshawna yells

"Hey guys." Trent says. He looks over at Duncan and immediately wraps his arm around Gwen. God he is so possessive about Gwen. Any guy Gwen talks to, Trent immediately gets jealous, even if it's Noah Gaur and he's gay. You don't even need to know Gwen personally to know it pisses her off, she removed Trent's arm from her not even thirty seconds after. I don't think Gwen likes him that much anymore, she used to be so in love with him, but the past nine or so months, she's just been so distant from him.

"You must be the new kid." Gwen says to Duncan. She looks him up and down and smirks. "Freddy Krueger, nice." She says, referring to his t-shirt, Duncan just smirks. I watch as the two of them talk about horror flicks on the way in, I knew they would hit it off. I looked over at Trent squeezing Gwen's hand, you could just tell he was super jealous and wasn't really fond of Duncan. Pay backs a bitch, I had to suffer watching him be with the girl that I'm in love with for the past two and a half years now, he fucking knew I was in love with her and still asked her out. I took the time to observe Gwen; she had let her hair grow out a bit, her pixie haircut was now a few inches past her earlobes. And instead of having one big blue streak in her hair, she had multiple now. It also looked like she gained a little weight; she was still super skinny though. God, she was so pretty and all I wanted was to be with her, to hold her and never let her go. Whenever I see her, my heart starts to beat really fast and I can't help but smile. The only people who know how I really feel about Gwen are Leshawna, Courtney and Trent…that traitor.

"We have to like make state this year." Katie says referring to our cheer squad.

Lindsay gasps. "Oh my god, I know! Last year at regionals was like so bad!" Last year when our captain, Elizabeth Mercer got into a car crash and couldn't perform for the rest of the year, Heather decided to take over and basically change our entire routine a few days before the competition because the other routine was lame and 'babyish'. Mrs. O' Halloran couldn't be there to stop Heather since she was on maternity leave. Long story short, most of us couldn't remember Heather's routine and we basically made fools of ourselves in front of everyone.

I cleared my throat before I spoke up. "Girls, as co-captain, we need to work our asses off for state. We need to put our foot down if Heather wants to change the routine last minute; she was the reason why we had that humiliated loss last year."

"Oh my god, Courtney. You're so right, just because she's captain doesn't mean she can change everything just like that!" Katie says, snapping her fingers.

"Plus, we have Coach O'Halloran back to stop her if needed." Dakota added.

I looked around the Cafeteria to see if Heather was around. "Where is Heather anyways?"

"Mi-Amor….we can't keep doing this…" he moans as I plant little kisses on his neck."Oh relax, I saw all of the teachers up here go into the staff lounge." My kisses went up towards his jaw line then to his lips. This summer was so nice, I would just go to his house 2 hours away from here and we'd fuck the whole time. Mr. Burromuerto, or as I like to call him by his first name, Alejandro, and I started our little fling last year when he was only student teaching for one of the other Spanish teachers. It all started a few months ago, it was the Friday before spring fling.

*Flashback*

I had to make up a Spanish test after school; I didn't want to take it during 3rd period because I wanted to avoid my recent ex, Justin Morazzari.

"Done." I say, slamming my test on the desk.

He raised a brow at me before grabbing a pen and my test. "Well, let's see how you did, Senorita Bishop."

I waited for about seven minutes before he handed me my test back. There was a big red C on the top of my test, oh what does he know, he's not even a real teacher! "You gave me a C?" I complained, waving my test in the air in anger. Seriously, who does he think he is?

He gave me a smug look, what a bastard. "You are getting contractions mixed you, nosotros is we and vosotros means YOU." He points at me, emphasizing the word 'you'. "Perhaps asking a friend to help tutor you for finals?" he suggested. Fuck that shit, Heather Bishop's does NOT ask for help.

I fucking hate Spanish, I don't know why I have to take it, and I'll probably just forget everything this summer anyways. The only way I'll pass is if I blew him or something…A wicked smile appeared on my face. Mr. Burromuerto looked at me confused until I sat on his lap. "wh-wha—at are you doing…." He stutters. I put a finger over his lips to silence him. His face was flushed. Great, my plan is working. "Or maybe YOU." I point to his chest, mocking him from a few minutes ago. I bring myself closer to him, my forehead resting against his. "Could tutor me." I whispered against his lips before fully planting them onto his. I felt himself growing hard against my thigh, I grinned into the kiss knowing I was going to get a better grade after this and hopefully somewhere near an A on my finals.

*End of flashback*

Alejandro attempts to push me off him. "Heather, not here, we're going to get caught." I laughed at his poor attempt.

I put my mouth dangerously close to his ear; I give it a slight nibble on it because I know that drives him crazy. "Your ereccion says otherwise." Keeping my mouth to his ear, I rubbed his crotch. I knew he was getting turned on, I get off of him and got on my knees to reach for his belt only to be stopped by his strong hands grabbing my wrists.

He looks at me sternly. "Heather, I said no. I don't want to take the chance and getting caught, if I get fired, they might not hire me anywhere else. I think it's best if you should leave, lunch should be almost over with anyways." He gets up and opens the door.

When I head for the door, I look him directly in the eye. "Gilipollas." I spat before marching out the door, fucking men…

Newport wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I thought I'd be a loser with no one to hang with, but I've already made a decent amount of friends, course that probably wouldn't have happened if it weren't for Jasmine and Courtney. Gwen made plans with Jasmine to hang out at her place and asked me if I wanted to tag along. Geoff also invited me to a party he was throwing this weekend. It's actually been pretty nice here, don't get me wrong I still miss Scott and my other buddies back at Skyridge, but ma said if I stayed out of trouble and wasn't failing any classes this semester, she'd allow me to fly out to see everyone.

We finally arrived to Gwen's apartment; it was a pretty decent sized apartment. Her mom apparently worked as a bartender and didn't get home tell later on in the night so she was the one who had to watch her younger brother. Jasmine told me that her dad left them right after Gwen's brother was born without any warning or reason, I kind of felt bad for their family. I went through Gwen's movie collection in her room, man; she had a really good taste in movie. One movie especially caught my eye; she just became my best friend.

"Dude, I can't believe you have Blood Bath II: Summer Camp Reign of Terror!"

Gwen comes down and takes a spot next to me on the floor. "Seriously?" She gives me a big goofy grin like she just won something. "You are literally the first person that likes or even knows of that movie!"

I chuckle at her excitement. "Fuck yea, that movie is one of my favorites. The best scary movies are the ones with lots of bloody guts and gore." I say, looking at the movie cover.

I look up to see her staring at me, did I say something wrong? "You just became my best friend." She says, still staring at me.

"Hey!" Jasmine yells from the bed. I think she might've been offended because they seemed to be really good friends for a long time now. "I like scary movies too!" Jasmine says, taking a spot next to Gwen. "I really liked, when a strangers calls." I think Jasmine was getting jealous that Gwen was now focusing all of her attention on me. Gwen looked at her, unimpressed. "Yea, that's not really scary….Duncan we should totally do a movie night and watch the scariest, vile, goriest movies this weekend!"

I looked over at Jasmine, who looked a little peeved. I think she feared that Gwen would fall in love with me which was ridiculous. "I think I'm going to Geoff's party that weekend….maybe we could work something out?" I tell her. Gwen looked like she was feeling rejected, urgh, I hate this current situation right now. An idea quickly popped into my head. "Maybe you can show Jasmine some of your favorite flicks, like Carrie or The Ring?"

"She can't stand horror movies, her and her sister freak out over the tiniest shit." Gwen says, still looking peeved that I was trying to blow her off. I didn't mean to sound like I was rejecting her or anything; I just didn't want to upset Jasmine either.

"Why don't we do the movie night next weekend?" I suggest. Gwen gives me that big dopey smile, which I'll admit is kind of cute. I didn't even have to look over to know Jasmine was pissed. Gwen got super excited and gave me her number to text me.

The car ride home was silent. What I can't have friends? I really liked Jasmine as a friend and I knew she had a thing for Gwen. I wasn't even interested in Gwen in that way anyways, sure she was pretty hot, she wasn't my type though and sides, friends crush's were immediately off limits and I was Jasmine's friend first. "I'm not going to hook up with her." I finally say, breaking the silence.

Jasmine kept her eyes on the road, her grip on the steering wheel tightened though. "Why are you telling me this, I don't care."

Bullshit. I rolled my eyes and scoffed. "If you didn't care you wouldn't be mad at me."

"I'M NOT MAD AT YOU!" she yells at me.

"I beg to differ…why don't you just admit that you like Gwen? Just say so, I won't go for her, I swear."

We finally pull into the driveway and she parks her car next to Courtney's. "It's not you going after her that I'm afraid of; it's her going after you." Her voice begins to crack. She finally looks at, her eyes are now watery. "You don't understand how long I've loved this girl; it hurts so much to see her with all of these guys. Whenever she dumps a guy, I get really hopeful and thinking, hey, this might be my chance! Then…she'll find another guy soon after and it makes me die on the inside." She starts crying. I quickly reach over and rub small circles on her back. "I know things with her and Trent are super rocky and when I saw her look at you today, I just-"

"Jasmine, even if Gwen does ask me out, I'm going to turn her down just like that." I reassure her, snapping my fingers. "You were my friend first and friends don't go for other friend's girl's crushes or girlfriends. Besides, she's only known me for barely a day; she hasn't seen my cocky, asshole side." I jokingly tell her, hoping it would somehow brighten the mood.

She laughed and reached over to hug me. "Eh, you're not so bad." She lets go of me and sticks out her pinky. "You swear you won't go for her?" I link my pinky with her's. I look her directly in the eye so she knows how honest I'm being. "I swear, God's honest truth." She still looked like she didn't believe me, I could understand, she hasn't know me for that long.

Later on that night I couldn't sleep and decided to head upstairs to watch some T.V. Courtney was also on the couch watching Breaking Bad. I smirked and took a spot next to her on the couch. "Wow princess, I didn't know you were the 'Breaking Bad' type of girl."

I she rolled her eyes and moved over to make room for me."It's a decent show, and why are you suddenly calling me princess?"

"It suits you." She just glares at me and makes an 'hmmph' noise before turning her head back towards the T.V.

We sat there in silence for a bit. She kept glancing over at me like she really wanted to ask me something. "So why did Jasmine come home crying?" She finally blurted out.

"She was crying about your guy's dad again." I lied, I didn't know if Courtney knew about Jasmine's crush on Gwen and didn't really know if that was a secret or anything.

She looks at me skeptically. "She hasn't cried about that for the past four days now and that usually only happens right after dinner." I sat there in silence, I wasn't sure If Courtney knew about the whole Gwen thing or if I should tell her, Jasmine never said anything along the line of, "Don't tell Courtney" though…

"She was afraid I was going to get with Gwen." I finally told her.

Courtney nodded her head. "Yea, she was pretty heartbrokened when she got together with Trent. Before Gwen and Trent became an item, they were really good friends. The three of them were really close actually. Anyways, Jasmine told Trent that she had feelings for Gwen during the beginning of ninth grade; Trent said he would respect her wishes and not ask her out. Three months later he asked her out saying he was suddenly into her when he broke up with his other girlfriend, Lindsay, not even a week before." I knew I got a bad vibe from Trent today, what a fucking bastard.

So that's why she looked like she didn't trust me even after I told her I wouldn't hit on Gwen. "Wow, Jasmine never told me that story. I told her that I would never go for Gwen, I really did mean it. I would never EVER go for another friend's chick. It's my code and people who do that are really shitty in my book." I tell her. Every word I say was 100% honest truth. Jasmine had become a really good friend of mine and I wasn't going to let some girl I barely knew get in between us.

Courtney looks me directly in the eye with the most serious face. "You better not hurt her in any way Duncan, if I ever find out that you hooked up with Gwen behind Jasmine's back, I will rip off your balls and shove it so far up your ass….I'm warning you right now." She gets up and heads towards the stairs, never taking her eyes off me. I definitely believed her, Courtney was aggressive and looked like the type that would kick someone's ass in a heartbeat.