"Where were you?
When everything was falling apart.
All my days spent by the telephone."
"You Found Me" by The Fray

Massie Block walked down the halls of CCS, her chestnut hair flailing out behind her. She would never admit that she was lost, even though she obviously was. Classes started at 8:30 AM and she was still attempting to find her first period class at 9:07. All the guys in the hall had just stared at her, seeing as she was still the new girl. Well it is pretty big when you go from seeing only boys all year to four girls. Massie would admit that. She was currently in the Science Hall, Massie thought at least, and she was supposed to be in the History Center. She only knew the different classes by their real names, such as the science hall was Gwendolyn and the history hall was Marcher. Her schedule said she was supposed to be in World Geography, Room 4432 , Mr. Trevor. She sighed and sat at the little stone bench at the end of the long hall.

A boy bumped into her as he sat own next to her. Massie sighed, already mega annoyed. Why was this guy choosing to bother her right now? And then, it happened, something in Massie just snapped and all fury came out.

"What the hell?" Massie snarled.

"I said 'hey!'" The boy smiled.

"You can't just bump into random girls you don't even effing know! Okay? Okay."

"But I want to get to know you," Boy said, his white teeth blinding. "Cause you see, I saw you from across the room and I instantly knew that I had to know you."

Massie stared at him for a few long minutes.

"So I acted on my impulse and asked Mr. Trevor for the pass to the bathroom and he said okay." Boy smiled a cute, crooked smile.

"Your in Mr. Trevor's class?" Massie asked, desperate.

"Yeah its around three buildings over," Derrick pointed the way he came.

"Will you take me?" Massie asked, sighing. She did nawt want this loser taking her anywhere but she needed to find her first class.

"Sure!" Derrick smiled, putting his arm around Massie's thin shoulder, she was 5"6' and he was 6 foot even so they matched almost perfectly with her three-inch-heels. Massie shrugged off of him and continued walking, her head high.

-;-

"She's in my first class so far!" Derrick shouted into his phone, he was talking to Chris since Chris had already taken to the Olivia girl.

Derrick was staring down at his schedule. Down in the bottom corner of the paper were the times of each class and breakfast/lunch/dinner. (most students didn't go to breakfast)

BREAKFAST = 8:00-8:15

1st period = 8:30-9:30

2nd period = 9:45-10:45

3rd period= 11:00-12:00

LUNCH = 12:15-1:00

4th period = 1:15-2:15

5th period = 2:30-3:30

6th period = 3:45-4:45

DINNER = 7:00-8:00

Derrick was heading to Coach Teague now, athletic period. "Harrington!" A shout was heard behind him and he turned to see Cam Fisher, one of his best friends, jogging towards him.

"Hey Cam," Derrick smiled and slapped Cam's hand.

"How's it going, D?" Cam asked, hoisting his large gym bag up higher on his strong shoulders. He tossed his head to the side, successfully doing what all the guys had dubbed "the emo flip" because it made his hair look like emo guys hair. Cam couldn't help it if his hair was black and amazingly floppy.

"I've been better." Cam looked at his best friend quizzically. "Massie, ya know the brown-headed one, doesn't want anything to do with me."

"Give her sometime to warm up, and while your at it buy her some hot chocolate," Derrick looked at him as if he was stupid.

"Hot chocolate? Will that really work?"

"I think so." Cam said, he would know. He was with his girlfriend of three years still, Alicia Rivera.

By this time they were at their destination, the locker room, and they walked in.

-;-

Josh Hotz was still laughing about Derrick this morning. When he got up from his double bed he walked smacked into the bathroom door. Gah, that boy is hilarious. Last night when the four guys had sat in their comfortable chairs and talked about the new girls, everything seemed frozen in time. Chris and Derrick admitted liking Olivia and Massie while Cam and Josh had stayed true to their Octavian Country sister school girlfriends. Derrick thought they were both pansies who needed to fuss up, because these girls were exactly what the four of them needed, while Chris, barely noticeable, nodded his head in agreement.

Josh personally said whatever to all of it. No one was making him do anything he didn't want to. Now as he walked to second period athletics, he had the longest route to take and no one to keep him company. He walked with his eyes half closed and with no determination to get anywhere fast. He barely even saw the girl except for one or two glances of fiery red hair. But now he saw her, looking at her shoes and walking like she didn't know where she was. Which she didn't.

It was to late though. Josh plowed right into her and she fell onto the floor, dropping all her books while doing so. She bent
down hurriedly to pick up her books, he followed more slowly down. She looked up from her squat, her big green eyes watering. No matter Josh's petulance against talking to the girls, his kindness couldn't be held in. "Are you okay?" he asked, letting those deep chocolate eyes work their magic.

"I've been better," the redhead said, collapsing on the floor, her feet spaced out in front of her. She sniffled and wiped away a tear.

"Well, what's wrong?" Josh asked, sitting criss-cross apple sauce across from her.

"I don't know where I am, what I'm even doing here and I already freaking missed first period cause I can't find anything in this godforsaken school!"

Josh laughed. "Calm down, redhead. This is your first day. On my first day I didn't go to m classes the first day cause I couldn't find them, the school is spread out over 5 or 6 acres. It's huge!" Josh attempted to console the pretty girl. She half-smiled, attempting happiness. "There, smile," Josh laughed. A few people had already stopped and stared, Josh pretended not to notice. "I'm Josh." He said getting up from his position on the floor.

"Dylan," she extended her hand for him to help her up.

"Well, Dylan, where do you need to go?"

She offered him her schedule. "Coach Feebler, locker room two."

"That's next to locker room one." Josh said, being completely serious. Dylan's eyes got huge and she started to shove past him. "I'm just kidding, it's next to where I' going. I'll take you." Dylan nodded her head and they were off.

Josh was confused. Locker room two was only used for visiting team, and even then it was like less important sports. It was used for nothing important. Then it clicked in Josh's mind, locker room two was now the girls territory.

Once reaching the large stadium, used for soccer, lacrosse, and such, the pair parted ways. "Just through those doors," Josh pointed to a large purple door labeled 'locker room #2.'

"Nice meeting you, Josh!" Dylan shouted, as she opened the door and stepped inside.

"You too, Redhead!" Josh shouted back, smiled, and then walked to his own locker room.

Wait, wasn't he supposed to be ignoring those girls?

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