"Elle, come on we'll be late for school!" Will shouted from down the stairs. He has been here for three months now and is showing no signs of leaving. Yay!

"I'll be down in a minute!" I called back. We could be a little later because Will is driving us to school now.

"Ellie listen to the boy, he's very knowledgeable," this coming from a woman who thought he was King Arthur.

Eventually I came down and sat at the table where my mum put pancakes on my plate. I smiled remembering a conversation I had with Will a few weeks ago.

"What?" Will gave me a questioning look.

"Nothing." We ate our pancakes in companionable silence before grabbing our books and heading to the car.

"What have you got last?" Will asked me as we climbed out of the car and headed to my locker.

"World lit with Mr. Morton why?"

"I'd drive you home after school today but I've got football practice so you could take the bus or could stay and watch."

"Watch?"

"Yeah then I thought we could go to the Dairy Queen after with Lance and Jennifer."

This was not an unusual way to spend my time after school now but normally only if I have to stay behind to do a project or something. I have never seen Will practice before.

"Uh ok." We'd reached my locker now so we had to part ways.

"Great, I'll see you then." He kissed me lightly on the lips and walked to his locker on the other side of the school.

"Hey Ellie you ready to go to class?" Liz asked with Stacy right behind her.

"Yeah come on we'll be late." I shut my locker and continued walking with them.

"So how's it going with Mr. Wagner?" Stacey asked coyly.

"It's fine."

"Just fine, you two are the second hottest couple in Avalon High."

"Really, who's first?" I asked only a little interested.

"Jennifer and Lance, duh." Liz said as we walked into our class and sat down.

The day was normal from then until after school. I had lunch with Liz, Stacey, and the other members of the track team, (I'd made it on at the tryouts), because I didn't feel really comfortable with Will, Jennifer and Lance at their table because of all the cheerleaders and footballers around them.

I went to watch Will practice after school and saw Jennifer with the cheerleaders practicing their routines. They were good I had to admit. Sometimes I practiced with the track team here but not this week because the teacher was off sick. I didn't really know what to do so I just sat there watching them until Jennifer saw me and called me over.

"Hey Ellie could you give me a hand with the music the girl who normally does it went home?"

"Sure." I went over and worked the sound system for them. To be honest it was better than watching football except for Will.

"Are you coming to the Dairy Queen today?" she asked me when she was on a break.

"Yeah."

"Good, then I won't have to listen to Lance and Will going on and on about colleges that they are thinking of applying to like when you couldn't come last time. They were driving me crazy."

"It's weird; we're all going to be split up next year."

"What do you mean?"

"Well Lance and Will will be going to college, you will stay here and I will be going back to Minnesota for my final year."

"Oh yeah, I forgot you were only here for a year. Does Will know?"

"I think so."

"It's a shame we're all going to be split up we made a great foursome, especially for double dates."

Great now I'm depressed. I thought heading to Will's car to wait for the others.