Alright so wow I won't lie everytime I got a review or follow I probably didn't stop smiling for five minutes. I mean seriously that was just the best there. A small note before hand though, I'll try and update weekly, or with in the week for that matter, but if I don't I'm either caught up with school or its an extra long chapter. Now that that's out of the way hope ya'll enjoy chapter 2.

"Hi my names Zoey!" The strange girl said as she walked up to Gwen. Gwen looked her up and down and then said a bit monotone "Gwen." as she extended her arm for a hand shake.

"So where are you guys coming from, Ohio, Michigan, New York, somewhere from the North I'm sure." Zoey asked with nothing but excitement in her voice. "Ya we're moving from Canada." Gwen answered. "Ohhhh Canada, we don't have a lot of you down here, I'm from Louisiana myself, moved here when I was about three." Zoey said, still ecstatic for some reason. Gwen got tired of this excitement and decided to call her on it.

"Why are you being so lively? People have to move in and out of here constantly it's not like were special or something?"

Zoey detecting a bit of scold in Gwen's voice lost her smile. "Well it's just, it's usually old people who move here, and I've never really had anyone to hang out with, so seeing another girl move here finally... I don't know I guess I just got excited."

Gwen felt pretty crummy after hearing that. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to be so harsh. I've just been in this car a really long time today, and this whole things just been really stressful ya know?" Gwen said remorsefully.

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry I'm sure you're stressed out to the max right now! Well if you need any help with anything I'm more than happy to lend a hand!" Zoey said putting her smile right back on.

"Actually after we get moved in I'd love for you to show me around." Zoey looked like she'd won the lottery after hearing this.

"Great! I'll show ya where the bus comes, where all the cool trails are, Poncho the Alligator!" Gwen thought Zoey was just speaking gibberish at this point.

"Poncho the Alligator?"Gwen asked. "Oh ya, we have alligators all over the place here but Poncho is a special one. He gets a pond all to his own because he's so big!"

"Oh is that so?" Gwen sarcastically replied.

"You'll see, no one ever believes at first, but trust me he's there. I'll go ahead and let you unpack I gotta go home and feed my hamster anyway.

It was really nice to meet you though Gwen, and when ever you want me to show you around don't be afraid to knock on my door!" Zoey said as she pointed to her door.

"Ya it was nice meeting you too." Gwen replied not near as enthusiastic as Zoey. Gwen thought Zoey seemed nice, definitely desperate for friends, but nice.

Later that day Gwen started opening some of her boxes in the upstairs. Mainly just books and clothes, even though she didn't have anywhere to put them since the movers weren't bringing the heavy stuff like book shelves until tomorrow. After Gwen unpacked a little she started mentally setting up her room. She decided her bed would go up against the window of the loft, and her dresser would be up against the wall, and other small things would just kind of come into place. Gwen for the life of her though couldn't find one place to put her dart board. Because it was a loft half the roof was slanted so there was very little space, she figured she'd find a place for it anyhow though.

After "setting" up her room Gwen just kind of stared at the ceiling for a little while thinking of her situation. She had just packed up her life and moved South 1600 miles in the span of two days. She figured it would have taken longer. In the midst of her thinking Gwen's mom called down for dinner.

"So I saw you talking with some young girl today Gwen." her mother said.

"Ya her name is Zoey, she's real nice, lives next door to us." Gwen replied. Her mother could tell Gwen was still holding hostility toward her, but she decided to just accept and avoid it.

"Is she your age? Oh and is she in your grade, I'm sure it'd be so much nicer to start school in two weeks with someone in your grade you've met." Gwen froze at this sentence. She had completely forgotten about school! She was going to be the new girl, and she knew it wouldn't be easy. With her short teal black hair, and incredibly white skin she'd stick out like a sore thumb at her school. Now Gwen started to panic a little bit and her mother could tell she was from her voice.

"Uhhh… ya I didn't ask her age or grade. C-can I be excused." Gwen said hastily.

"Honey whats the matter?" Gwen's mom asked very concerned.

"Nothing mom can I please just be excused!" Gwen now said with wrath and fear. Her mom nodded and Gwen ran upstairs. Once upstairs Gwen started to have a panic attack. Everything was hitting her at once, new school, new life, new home, new life, new grass, new life. She would think of every little change, and then have new life follow it. Gwen knew she was about to sob, and got even more upset when she realized she never unboxed her pillow. It was as if all at once everything had gone wrong.

The next morning Gwen woke up feeling much better than she had last night. She'd cried herself to sleep. As she was waking up though all the realizations from last night started to pour in her head again. Gwen quickly blocked them out and focused on simple tasks. Brush teeth, bathe, dry off, find clothes. Another problem had occurred though. Gwen had very little warm weather clothes. Actually all she pretty much had was a dark black skirt, and a black top with blue green sleeves. It'd have to do for now and when she looked in the mirror she realized it looked pretty good. Gwen then went down for breakfast, only to find large men down stairs carrying their furniture. The movers were here.

"Gwen me and your brother are going to Target to get some stuff and get out of the movers way, do you want to come?" asked Gwen's mom.

"I'm fine mom I'll just explore the neighborhood a little bit." Gwen said.

"Ok sweetie be safe I have my phone." and with that Gwen's mother had left the house. Gwen decided now would be as good as ever to take Zoey up on that offer. She walked over to her house and knocked on her door. From the inside of the house Gwen heard "I'll get it!" being yelled repeatedly. Zoey answered the door. "Oh hey Gwen!"

"Hi Zoey, the movers came this morning and pretty much kicked us out of our house so I was wondering if you could show me around now?" As Gwen had expected after saying this Zoey's face lit up.

"Of course I can Gwen! Just give me a minute to get my shoes on." Zoey slammed the door then raced back out.

The two girls walked around the quaint neighborhood Zoey pointing out who was friendly, who was cranky, who were snowbirds, and who she'd really never met. Gwen found out Zoey was 16 and a sophomore as well and asked her about school.

"Well I don't know how Canadian schools are but were a pretty generic American school. Except for the number of students, not a lot of people get zoned for WSHS since Wawanakwa Springs is still developing big time. We've probably got about 100 kids total which is good because that means we'll probably have a lot of classes together." Gwen was relieved to here it was such a small school.

"Ya it'd really be great to have classes with you, since you're the only person I know and all." Gwen nervously chuckled.

"I can't wait to introduce you to my friends! You should be able to meet them all at task." Gwen gave Zoey a puzzled look. "Oh right, we have this thing here called Task, which is basically an hour of free time to do what ever you want. You can hang out in the court yard, go to lunch, go to the track, anything really unless a teacher needs you."

"Oh ok. Are you're friends nice?" Gwen asked.

"Oh ya we all get along real great, well accept for Heather but I'm the only one who's really friends with her." Zoey said.

"Well whats wrong with Heather?" Gwen curiously asked.

"Oh nothing Heather's perfect! She's really popular around the school, she can just be a little mean is all. Here I wanna go show you some trails around Pleasant Acres." With that the two girls were out of the neighborhood. Gwen saw a lot of alligators on the trails, but she did not see Poncho making her even more skeptical. Zoey assured her again that he was real.

Once they got back to Palmetto Forest 5 hours had already passed.

"Hey Zoey thanks for helping me figure out this whole place a lot better. Maybe tomorrow you wanna head up to that mall by the Publix or something?" Gwen knew Zoey's answer before she asked the question.

"Omg I would love to! We can get you some Florida type clothes, and ice cream, and… well actually i guess that's all that's at the mall right now. But still totally yes!" Zoey was practically jumping with excitement.

"Ok cool, I'll talk to you tomorrow. Oh wait let me get your phone number so I can just call you." Gwen said. Zoey gave it to her then the two spilt separate ways and into their houses.

Gwen was happy to know she had already made one friend in Florida.

Again hope you guys enjoyed and please please please, let me know how I'm doing. Also don't worry Duncan will probably be in next chapter so hurrah!