Summary:

When 11 year old Ally is bullied by her peers she decides to never again let anyone else be bullied. Bystanders never did anything to help her, but she would be different. She would never be a bystander, she would always fight for the victems. But a year later she meets up with an old friend. A ready made target. The problem is, one of his bullies is Ally's crush.

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PROLOGUE:

Never again. Never again would an innocent victem be bullied. Not if I could help it. It wasn't fair, the preppies and their everlasting popularity could bully anyone they wanted to. They think it's cool. But if I bully someone they'd call me a poser and a wannabe. None of this is fair. My whole life is one unfair insidence after another. The preppies' lives aren't unfair. They all have perfect lives. Perfect lives, with perfect people. With no room for unperfect people like me. My life is unimportant to them, and let's face it, how could it not be? I'm insignificant. A fly on a black wall. No one notices me. Well no one noticed me until one of the newer preppies noticed that I wasn't a wannabe. Which apparently classifys me as weird. Which to me seems stupid. I mean, who would want to be like them. All they do is where designer clothes that just barely meet dress code standards and bully people. None of them play sports, unless you count shopping. Or do any sort of extra curricular like the dance committee, all they do is show up and talk about how the decorations suck then start freaking with their boyfriends. Or if they don't have a boyfriend, a random hottie. Then after they freak for a bit they begin their make-out sessions. Which to me seems a bit sluttish. I mean we're in 6th grade! Honestly I hate to see what they do by 8th. I can picture it now. Them all walking around school rubbing their 8-month pregnant stomachs. Having no clue who the fathers are. Rushing off to the bathrooms every ten minutes to puke. Not fitting in their Seven jeans or their Louis Vuitton sweaters. Or even their Juicy sweats. Then I would laugh at all of them every time their babies kicked, every time I saw them try and walk in heels. Every time they tried to run to the bathroom clutching their mouths then realizing that they couldn't run with babies in their stomachs. Yes I would laugh really hard. And watch them struggle with no help and no money. Just like I was on the day that they bullied me.

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CHAPTER 1:

I'm sure you are all very curious as to what actually happend. It was about half way through 6th grade, January 17th to be exact. It was during lunch. I always bought lunch at school. (Yes, they do still serve the lunches that look disgusting but taste fine.) The preppies, of course, always brought their lunches. So there I was, I had just gotten my lunch and was about to walk over to the table where my friends and I always sat. It was the one to the far left by all the windows. The preppies always sat two tables away, in the shade. Probably so their faces wouldn't melt. (By that time they had almost all gotten at least one plastic surgery on their face.) That's when they spotted me. That day I was wearing light wash jeans with a really thin red long sleve T layered with a New Found Glory band T on top. My shoes were my favorites. On my right foot, a red converse low top with black laces with red stars and on my left an identical one, exept blue. My hair was in a high ponytail and I wasn't wearing any make up.
I waved to my friend Rachel and started to walk over to her.

"Hey Sa-man-tha." The second in command of the preppies walked over and said my name in sylables, with extra pronunciation on the 'man' part.

"Nice outfit." Another preppie, the third in command this time, jeered.

"Yeah, where'd you get it?" The fourth asked "You're big brother?"

All the preppies that had followed the second in command laughed. There were about 15 around me now. Most were new members and two were not new, not old members. Then there was the core four, minus one.

This is how the chain worked:

The Core Four:
Brittany (The head preppie-pretty)
Isabel (Her second in command-athletic)
Megan(Her third in command-insulter)
Julia (Her fourth in command-gossiper)

The Not New Not Old Members:
Laura (The gossiper)
Kathrine (The athletic one)
Skyler (The insulter)
Sophia (The famous one)

The Old Members:
Kim (Gossiper)
Alice (Athletic)
Kristen (Insulter)
Colleen (Ex-Famous)

The New Members:
Sarah (Gossiper)
Emma (Athletic)
Raven (Insulter)
Annie (Pretty)


As you can see, each group of four in the preppies has a gossiper, an athlete, an insulter, and someone either really pretty, famous, or ex-famous. (By famous I mean is/has been in the media recently. Ex-famous is when you were in the media but hardley anyone remembers it.)

Now the core four never changed their members. They were known as the core four through-out the school. And they were the ones who decided who was in and who was out. If you had a knack for gossiping or insulting, you were likely to become a new member. If you were athletic and wore designer clothes then you were likely to become a new member. And if you were famous, had a chance at being famous, or were just really pretty you were 99.999% likely to become a new member.
After the core has used you for a while and trusts you, you become a not new, not old member. And have the most power after the core. Then comes the old members. They have been used by the core for a while and their power is now dying. Once it is useless, the core will most likely kick them out, but that hasn't happened yet, so no one knows for sure. The new members are bottom of the stack. They are always eager to prove themselves but the core gives them very few jobs, and when they get jobs they are very simple.
No one besides my friends and me thought of the preppies this way. At least no one said it. But it was pretty obvious. Everyone knew when a member was getting old and who would be their replacement.


As the girls insulted me I tried to just ignore it. I tried to get out of the circle that surrounded me, but they just closed in. Preventing escape. After about 5 minutes a new member wispered something to Isabel who then turned on her heel and walked off hurling a final insult over her shoulder;

"Try not to cover up your manliness anymore, it's nothing to be ashamed of."

The other girls just laughed and followed her. From then on I was known as Sam the Man or just Man. It hurt. Everyone called me that. Except my friends. But some of my friends wouldn't evenhang out with me anymore. Only two would hang out with me at school, and two others would hang out with me outside of school. The two true friends were Rachel and Kristina. The two that ignored me at school but still came to my house and such were Maddie and Lizzie (short for Elizabeth). That was what hurt the worst. That my friends deserted me. All but two of my friends ignored me during school. Well that's a little bit of an understatement. What I should say is that two of my best friends would hang out with me during school. I had lots of guy friends who still hung out with me. Like John, James, Mitchell, and Cole. So it was the seven of us.

It hurt even more when Maddie, Lizzie, and some of my other so called friends were invited to sit with the preppies at lunch, and they accepted. Rachel and Kristina were invited too, but they declined. Infact this is what Rachel said,
"Eat with you? No offense, but I'd rather eat a spider." Rachel has a horrible case of arachnaphobia, everyone knows about it.

Isabel, Megan, and Julia just stood there stunned. Isabel's jaw had even dropped.

"It's not polite to stare." Kristina told them.

"Or gape." Rachel added closing Isabel's jaw for her. Then the two walked over to where I was sitting and laughing in amazment.

But as I laughed, little did I know that the next day, I was in for it.

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CHAPTER 2:


The next day the preppies ignored me. Or that's how it seemed. Every once in a while I would see some newbies pointing at me and laughing. Even Isabel said nothing. Then after school, it all stopped.

"Hey Samantha!" Isabel came up to me as I was walking out to my bus after school

As usual I just ignored her, figuring she was playing some trick on me.

"Look, Samantha, I know we've sorta gotten off on the wrong foot, I just want to apologize."

She was so convincing! I stopped right as I stepped into the door way.

"Seriously?"

She took a few more steps and I walked with her.

"No!" She laughed right as I stepped outside.

A cascade of cold, red sauce poured over my head. I felt chunky stuff too. As soon as it stopped I looked at the ground; spagetti sauce...just perfect.

Before that day I had never cried in school. But they forced me to it when I saw how everyone was laughing and no one was helping. Even if the laughs were fake, it still hurt.

I couldn't help it, I turned and ran down the hallway and into the girls bathroom, tears pouring down my face.

That day I missed the bus, on purpose. I had the office call my mom after telling them that I had been working on a science experiment involving chemicals.

After my mom gave me a stern lecture about being careful and about how the stain would never come out the car ride was over. I ran to my bathroom and filled the bath with warm water. I also got out my huge jar of bubble bath I had been saving for a special occasion. I poured in about half the jar.

I stripped down and climbed in the tub, letting the bubbles cover me and their wonderful aroma fill my nostrils. I did some yoga breathing technics and then dunked my head. It felt good to wash off all the effects of the preppies.

It was then, taking a bubble bath, that I made my resolution. I would never be a bystander, I would always fight for the victem. I would never do to others, what others did to me. I would be the one that everyone loved. I would be the one people wanted to be friends with. I would be the popular one. Only I would never torment girls the way Isabel does.

The thing about this whole situation was that Brittany never had a part in any of this. She just made her self dissapear. I think that this could be partially because we used to be friends, back in elementary school, before she met Isabel and became popular. I think she still likes hanging out with me, because sometimes we still hang out and she seems to enjoy it. Although, the only reason we hang out is because our moms are friends.

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I stuck to that resolution like glue. I became known as "The Peace Maker". Everyone at school who wasn't a bully adored me. The bullies, of course, hated me. I had better disses then them, I always had. I just always choked when I was being tormented. However if I was defending other people...Man I was good!



I was also starting to get interested in guys. And vice versa. See, over the summer I got curves...And now apparently I was a hottie. At least that's what I was told. I had had a few boyfriends, starting with one of my neighbors toward then end of August. I was moving slowly up toward more and more popular guys. I hadn't quite reached the skaters (the equivelent of the preppy girls in the middle school food chain) but I had reached the jocks. My current boyfriend was named John, he was a baseball and basketball player, and super hot. Prolly in the top 5 hottest guys at my school. Although, I was pretty sure I would break up with him soon. I was starting to like another guy.

His name was Lucas, he was pretty much the hottest guy in school. He had brown hair and electric blue eyes. He was also a baseball player, and a football player. And he was a skater on top of all that.

He had recently dated Brittany and was now dating Megan. Which was funny because Megan, being "the insulter" of the core, was the one that I stopped from bullying people most frequently. He would always come up to her as I was finshing telling her off and tell her that he wanted to talk to her or something like that. Then he would turn to me and wink and flash his killer, non brace face, smile.

Then he would flirt with me in class and act like he really liked me. Also, he started dating Megan right after she became the lead bully and started seeing me more and more.

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MORENESS

"Wait...You're sure?"

"Yeah! I heard it myself!"

"You mean YOURself or yourself?"

"MYself."

"Seriously?"

"Yes!!!!!"

I screamed. Lucas broke up with Megan! This was the best news in the history of good news! Well...At least in the top 100.

John and I were so threw.

I broke up with him that night.

Then the rumors started flying. Everyone in my class knew that Lucas and I flirted all the time. When we both broke up with our 'significant others' on the same day everyone knew that we would be the next new couple.

But would we?

That's when it happened.

See Lucas and I rode the same bus. We usually didn't sit near each other. But sometimes we would talk.

Then the day after the breakups someone got on the bus who would change everything.

Adam.

"Sam!"

"Adam?"

"Yeah!"

"Oh my God! When...Why...What are you doing here?"

"My Dad got transferred back! And we never sold our old house, so we're back in it!"

"Oh my God! This is soooo awesome!"

"I know! It'll be just like old times!!"

"Yeah!"

Adam and I had been friends since birth. Namely, his birth. My parents moved in next to his parents about 3 months before I was born. His parents didn't have any children yet, but they were thinking about it. Adam was born just about a year after I was. And we were inseperable all through our childhood.

Then when I was in 5th grade his dad was transferred and they moved to Ohio. Neither of us had email yet...So we couldn't contact each other.

Now he was back! It would rock!

Except for one thing...He acted gay. Like actually gay...Not just making fun of gay people. I knew he wasn't gay. I had been through his first crushes with him. But no one else bothered to get to know him long enough to find that out.

MOREEEEEEEEEE

Adam sat next to me and we talked. I made him go first, like always, he told me about this girl who'd asked him out, and the girl he asked out, and all his new friends. Then I told him about how I was really popular because I always defended people from bullies. I left out the part where I was bullied, and the whole Lucas thing, I would tell him later, when we were officially going out.

I glanced at Lucas a few times during the ride, he was in the back talking with this kid, Cam. Cam lived near me and we used to be really good friends. But he never liked Adam very much, so I didn't start hanging out with him a lot until Adam moved. Then I realized why everyone hated him; he was a poser and a wannabe and annoying as well. Then he started being mean to earn popularity points so I got pissed at him and we stopped being friends. No one really liked him except the most popular boy in school, Simon. (Who's not a hottie what-so-ever.)

When we reached my stop Adam and I walked off the bus still talking, but I stopped after we got off to wait for Lucas, we always walked about three blocks together before we had to part ways. He climbed off the bus right after some 8th grader, looked around, saw me and smiled. He looked as if he were about to walk over, but then he saw Adam. Cam jumped off the bus right as Lucas stopped smiling. He followed Lucas's gaze over to where Adam and I were standing and then I saw his eyes blaze with evil.

"Look, Lucas, it's the bisex express!"

Lucas laughed.

"Excuse me?" I retorted instantly.

But no one replied.

"C'mon man, let's leave the love birds in peace."

Cam half dragged Lucas around and they started walking toward Cam's house. I felt the anger boiling up inside me again, how dare Cam! He always hated Adam! He always hated any guy I was nice to! I felt like punching him right in the face. But I didn't, I controlled myself.

"Let's go." I shook my head as I turned towards my house. We walked in silence and as soon as I got in the house I ran straight for the bath. I did my normal anger treatment of a bubble bath and figured it out.

Cam was in love with me. It was so obvious. I can't believe I had never realized it before. He always hated anyone I flirted with or became close with. When we were friends he would always tried to convince me that the guy I liked or was dating was wrong for me, or just a bad person in general. He always got me candy at every holiday and was as nice as he could be with out rising suspicion. It was so weird, it was like someone had hit me with a baseball. Just full on in the head, and knocked the sense back into my brain. Maybe it had to do with the bubble bath. Yes, that was it. I had always loved water and bubbles. When I was a baby I was always trying to get wet in any source of water. I even tried to bathe in the toilet once! And bubbles, I loved bubbles, I would always make my mom and dad chew gum so they could blow bubbles for me. I carried a container of bubble soap and a wand with me everywhere. Just like Tommy from RUGRATS carried around that little blue handled screw driver. I was the Queen of Bubbles in pre school. There was something about baths and bubbles that made me relax, put together, it was even better.

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The next few days were torture. And the worst part is, Cam was killing three birds with one stone this time. He rallied Lucas and a few other boys on the bus to his cause and they seemed to have made it their primary goal in life to torment Adam, and by doing that, torment me.
See it worked like this:

Gay jokes
Snob jokes
More gay jokes
Mamma's boy jokes
Even more gay jokes

Yeah, it sucked. I wanted to defend Adam, but at the same time I didn't. I loved Lucas, and I thought that he might hate me if I stood up to him to defend Adam. It might make it seem that I liked Adam and didn't like Lucas. I just ignored it and told Adam to do the same. The situation was eating me up inside. I just wanted the whole thing to stop. If Adam had never moved back, this would all be different. I would be able keep my rep. as "The Peace Maker", which was on the line since I wasn't defending Adam, I wouldn't be tortured, and most importantly, I would be Lucas' girlfriend.

But then, Adam came to talk to me, and I realized, I had to do something.

This is what happened:

Adam came over to my house after school one day and pulled me up into my room so we could talk privately.

"What's up?"

"Why don't you defend me. Everyone says that you're "The Peace Maker", why don't you defend me like you defend others." His tone wasn't angry, it was hurt.

"Defend you from what? It doesn't seem like Cam and those guys bother you that much."

I was lying through my teeth, I knew it hurt him.

"Well they do. I'm thinking about changing schools, or runing away."

"Oh my God...I never knew it bother you THAT much..."

That time I wasn't lying. I really had no clue he was that upset.

"Well it does. So do you think you could like, talk to them, since you actually know them?"

"I'll see what I can do." I smiled at him and he smiled back.

We hugged and I invited him to dinner. He seemed to simply glow with happiness at the prospect of the boys stopping teasing him. I had no idea what to do. So later, after he left, I took a bubble bath.

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My plan was genious, pure genious. Lucas was the answer to everything. Being pretty much THE most popular guy in school, he had a lot of influence over the other guys. Also, he didn't really seem to enjoy bullying Adam as much as the other boys did. I thought that maybe, if I talked to him, assuming he still liked me, I could get him on my side and stop the bullying.

So as soon as I was out of the bath and dressed, I called him.

"Just a minute. LUCAS! Phone call!"

"Who is it?" I heard him ask his sister as she handed him the phone.

"That one girl you told me about, Sam or something."

"Lizzie!! Shut up!"

I head her laugh and him grab the phone away from her.

"Hello?"

"Hey Lucas, it's Sam."

"Hey." I could almost hear his smile in his voice.

"Could you meet me at the bus stop like 5 minutes early tomorrow? I have something I need to talk to you about."

"Umm...yeah, sure."

"Great, see ya tomorrow!"

"'Bye."

I hung up and raced up stairs. Everything would be perfect by tomorrow night.

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It was official, my life had come tumbling down around me like rain from the sky. My life was completely over. Except for the fact that I was still breathing. But I felt dead, I felt worse then dead, I felt...empty. I had nothing left. Nothing at all. My love had betrayed me, my best friend was no longer was speaking to me, my other friends were only talking to me in overly poilte tones, and I was utterly hated by the entire student body.

This is how it happened.

I got to the bus stop before Lucas and was waiting for him when suddenly he popped up behind me whirled me around and before I knew what was going on had kissed me, right on the lips. One of those kisses where you've got fireworks going off in your head. It was amazing. Then as we pulled away, he said,

"The answer is yes."

"The answer to what?"

"Well, didn't you want me here early so you could ask me out?"

"No...well I like you, but that's not why I asked you to come."

"Oh." He sounded embaressed "But you do like me?" he added hopefully.

"Well duh."

He smiled. I started melting.

"Pull yourself together, woman!" I thought to myself.

"So will you go out with me then?"

I started saying yes, but then I thought. So he likes me, I can use this to my advantage.

"Yes, but only if you boys stop being mean to Adam."

"Wait...you don't really like me do you? You just want to protect Adam, your bi little lover."

"That's not true!! I really do like you! That's why I broke up with John, I just couldn't date him because I liked you too much! Adam is just my best friend."

"Oh, okay then. But I can't stop everyone from being mean to him."

"Why not?"

"Because I can't, alright? It would completely destroy my rep."

"Who gives a crap about reps? I ruined mine by not defending Adam against you boys! And now you won't return the favor!"

"Sam...I'm sorry. I REALLY like you. You're the reason I started dating Megan. So I could see you more. Just seeing you makes me happy. But I just can't ruin my rep! I've built it up higher and higher ever since starting middle school, and now that I'm the most popular boy in school I was ready to help you achive most popular girl and kick Brittany off her ever evolving pedastel. I'm not about to give all that up just for you. No matter how much I like you or want you to help me destroy the social food chain in our school."

"I thought you were different then them. I thought you would know. You're on your way, with the whole 'destroy the food chain' thing, but you still don't understand the meaning of popularity."

I could feel tears welling up in my eyes.

"C'mon Sam, don't be like this. We can go out and Adam will be fine." He put his arm on my shoulder.

The tears fell. Not a ton, but like 20.

He bent over and gently kissed a few off waiting for me to give him an answer.

"NO HE WON'T! You don't get it! YOU NEVER WILL!" I shoved him away and stormed off toward the closest bus stop besides our's.

"Sam! Wait!" I heard him yell at me as I walked away, but I didn't turn back. My blood was really boiling now.


So that's how it happened. Lucas betrayed me, Adam was mad that I didn't stop the boys or try and defend him, my friends were mad because I threw away a chance for us all to be popular, and the entire student body hated me for not being "The Peace Maker" anymore.

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I was tired, tired of losing sleep over people who didn't get it, tired of having my mom ask me what was wrong, and tired of my whole frickin' life. I needed escape, I didn't want to die, I just wanted to get away. Maybe not forever, but for a bit. So that weekend I packed my backpack and went to my friend Megan's house.

Megan wasn't really one of my best friends. Mainly because she had gone to private school for middle school. But we had been good friends in 5th grade. None of my other friends really liked her that much, so we had a hard time seeing each other. But once every few months we got together for an entire weekend.

When I got there all I wanted to do was fling myself on her bed and cry out all my problems, but there was a flaw in my plan, actually, two flaws. Two very good looking flaws.

Joey and Jeffrey Duarte.

They were sitting with Megan on her couch playing Super Mario Party 3 and snacking on junk food when I came. Megan knows exactly what I needed. A hot boy, my favorite Game Cube game, and junk food. She was so much cooler then my school friends.
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Joey and Jeffrey were Megan's new neighbors. They were going to start going to my school on Monday and had hoped I would show them around on their first few days.

They weren't identical, but they were both very good looking in their own way. Joey had sea green eyes where Jeffrey had electric blue. Jeffery was the taller of the two, but not by much. He was more lean and Joey was more stocky. Jeffrey's hair was chocolate brown and he had skin that looked permanently tan. Joey's hair was a really light brown and he had a few natural blonde highlights. His skin was not pale, but not quite tan either, more like a peach color.

Jeffrey was the outgoing one and Joey was shy. Jeffrey would be automatically shuffled to a popular group, but he didn't seem like the type who would, 1. leave his brother behind, or 2. let it go to his head, which was good. Even though Jeffrey was the funny one, Joey had the best smile. He didn't smile that often, but when he did, it was big and bright enough to melt me on the inside.

That weekend we all hung out, flirted, and just had a fun time. Then on Sunday night, Megan made an announcement. We were all sitting on the swings at the park, watching the sunset when she jumped off and stood infront of us.

"Last week I asked my mom to transfer me to your school..." She paused for dramatic effect.

"And...?" I asked anxiously.

"She said she'd think about it, which usually means yes."

"Are you serious? Wow, you are like my brain twin!" I jumped off my swing and ran over to give her a hug.

"Yeah, I got your sad vibe, which is why I asked my mom, and then arranged this weekend as the weekend to make you better."

"Well it worked!! I actually can't wait for school tomorrow! Well...I can...but I won't actually mind going to school tomorrow."

Everyone laughed and we headed back home.

Tomorrow would actually prolly be a good day. I may even get a new boyfriend that week. I was really starting to like Joey.

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Monday was the best day ever. When I got to school I looked around for Joey and Jeffery on the lawn in front of the building. When I didn't see them my heart started to drop, maybe they were only nice to me because I was Megan's friend. But suddenly I felt someone wrap their arms around my waist and lift me up. I laughed and squirmed until they set me down and turned to see Jeffrey smiling at me and holding his arms out for a hug.

"Jeffrey!" I smalled and hugged him. Then I let go and turned to Joey. As I did I cought a very supirised and jealous looking Lucas right behind Joey.

"Joey!" I gave him a hug too and then asked to see their schedules.

Jeffrey pulled his out of the back pocket of his jeans (which looked really good on him) and handed it too me.

I stared at in in disbelief, it was exactly the same as mine.

"Woah, that's weird...it's EXACTLY the same as mine..."

"Woah, weird!" He sounded only half convincing, but I didn't notice that until later.

"What about your's, Joey?" I smiled at him flirtaciously.

"Oh, we have all the same classes but different teachers."

"Aww! Well I know someone with your exact schedule, so I'll introduce you guys."

"Thanks." He smiled at me, but it wasn't flirtacious, it was more...friendly and grateful. Like all his smiles, it melted me.

I walked past him and over to Lucas who was directly not looking at me.

"Hey Lucas, I need you to do me a favor."

"Why should I?"

"Because, I can tell everyone exactly what happened and what you said that day at the bus stop if you don't."

He looked ready to die.

"Fine. What do I have to do?"

"You have the exact same schedule as my new friend Joey, I want you to show him around and introduce him to people. He's really cool."

"If you think he's cool, he's probably the biggest loser ever."

"Oh please, you're still madly in love with me, just admit it."

"I am not!"

"I saw your face after I hugged Jeffrey and was about to hug Joey."

"Well...you're still in love with me." He looked uncomfortable.

"Nope."

"You're not friends with Adam any more, why can't we be together now?"

"It's not about Adam, and it never was! It's about the fact that you don't understand about real popularity and how you would have been much happier being with me and being nice to Adam then pretending you hate me and that you like Brittany."

"Whatever, Sam, I don't see what I ever saw in you."

"Yes you do. This is exactly why you like me, and you hate yourself for being so dumb and screwing everything up and being such an idiot. Now I don't like you like that anymore, but can we just forget it and be friends?"

"Fine." He said shortly, and I could tell, it was the complete opposite.

I led him over to the twins and introduced them. Then the bell rang and Joey and Lucas headed off toward their first period, Math with Mr. Johnston. Jeffrey and I walked off in the opposite direction towards our math class with Ms. Redder. Jeffrey talked to me the whole way, mostly about the similarities and differences between my school and his old one, but I was only a quarter listening. I was still thinking about Joey and his wonderful smile and I was also enjoying all the attention from the people in the hall. Being friends with a major hottie had it's advantages.

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That day I came back. I went back to being "The Peace Maker". Partly because I had cracked my promise for too long, it was time to glue it back together. Also because I wanted Joey to get the right impression of me.

So many people apologized and begged forgiveness from me, I don't even remember all of them. The only one's I remember are my former friends. They walked up to me after school where Jeffrey and I were waiting for Joey so we could get on the bus. (They were going to come to my house and I was gonna help them catch up on what they've missed so far this year.)

"Hey Sam!" My former best friend Greta walked up to me.

"Hey Jeffrey!" My other friend Sarah (aka the biggest flirt ever) said from her right.

"Hi." He sounded a bit suprised, but also a bit annoyed. Like, 'why are you talking to me?'

"What do you guys want?" I asked, I wasn't rude, but not really friendly either.

"We really want to apologize." My third best friend, Carmen said from Greta's left.

"Yeah, we were total jerks." Greta said.

"Yeah, we so were. We just want everything to be cool now." Sarah said with a flirtacious glance at Jeffrey.

"Yeah right. Carmen you only want to be popular, Sarah you just want an in with Jeffrey and Joey because they're the school's newest and hottest hotties, and Greta you just do whatever you think Sarah would think was cool."

They all stared back at me dumb struck, except Jeffrey. He put his arm around me and said,

"Look, there's Joey and Lucas, let's go."

"Yeah, alright. See you later, girls. Or if I have my way, we won't."

He steered me past them and toward the bus where Joey and Lucas were waiting.

"Did you have a good first day?" I smiled warmly at Joey.

"Yeah, it was cool."

"Good."

I let them get on the bus first.

"Hold it." I pulled Lucas back by the collar of his shirt.

"Thanks for showing Joey around, I really appriciate it." I smiled at him.

"Yeah, no problem." He looked a little uncomfortable.

I gave him a big hug.

"Mmm! You are the best!"

"What was that for?" He looked really confused.

"I'm helping you make Brittany jealous."

"Er, what?"

"Just trust me. I saw her face when i hugged you. Ask her out tomorrow. She'll say yes. Oh, and also, keep the relationship going slow, she'll love the challenge."

Then I stepped on the bus and sat accross from Joey and Jeffrey. When Adam got on, I got up and walked back to where the boys were. I stood infront of them tapping my foot until they all looked up.

"What?" Asked Cam sorta impatiently.

"Stop being mean to Adam."

"Why should we stop being mean to your bi little lover boy?"

"Because 1. He's not gay or bi, 2. He's not my lover boy, he's just a good friend, 3. He doesn't deserve it, considering he never did anything to you guys, and 4. Because I said so."

"Okay, I'll stop." I was a little suprised when Lucas spoke.

"What?" Cam looked shocked.

"She made a good point, Adam never did anything to us."

Sevral "Yeah"s and "True"s were muttered throughout the boys.

"Fine." Cam looked a bit put out, but he quickly recovered and pulled out his portable DVD player.

"Who wants to watch Family Guy?"

I smiled and turned and walked back to my seat.

"Sam..."

"Don't say anything. I should have done that in the begining." I gave him a hug, then turned to Jeffrey and Joey.

"Adam this is Jeffrey and Joey Duarte." I pointed to both boys.

"Jeffrey, Joey, this is Adam."

The exchanged greetings and I sat back to think about my day and how good it felt to have finally won the battle. Little did I know, a new battle was about to arise.

MOREEEEEEEE

The rest of the week went by alright, I was happy with my newfound old status. As the week went by I found that Jeffrey and I had a lot in common, like music, movies, and other pop culture stuff. One thing that wasn't so good was that Joey started hanging out with Jeffrey and me less and less and was hanging out with Lucas and his gang more and more. But he was always talking about the girl he liked around me, I was begining to get a vibe.

I had a plan. I would get Joey to come to my house one day alone and then I would tell him how I felt. I was sure he felt the same way. I mean, I was the most truely popular girl in the school, plus, I was his first friend here.

So that Friday I took one of his books from his bag then after school I called and told him to come get it from me at my house.

Then I put on my best shirt. It was my power colors, green with a blue lace trim, tight in all the right places and low cut enough to be sexy but not slutty. The I put on a flirty, red, layered mini skirt and splashed a little Victoria's Secret 'Pure Seduction' perfume on my neck and wrists. Just as I was closing the bottle someone knocked on my door.

"Sam?"

It was Joey.

"Just a minute." I replied in my most flirtacious voice.

I waited a minute then opened the door.

"Hey, Joey, come in." I smiled at him flirtaciously then stepped back to let him in.

"Have a seat." I jestured to my freshly made bed.

"Uhh...thanks...you look really...different."

"Oh this?" I made a bland jesture at my ensamble. "It's nothing."

"Do you have a date with Lucas tonight?"

"Me and Lucas? God no, he's so pre-you."

"Pre-me?"

"Well duh, silly." I walked over and sat down very close to him, giving him a full view down my shirt every time he glanced down. "Don't you know how much I like you?"

"Uhhh...can I just have my book?"

"You mean you don't like me?"

"Not romantically."

"What about how you were always mentioning that you liked someone in front of me?"

"I was hoping you'd help me get her."

"Well then who do you like?"

"Brittany..."

"But she's going out with Lucas. Are you honestly going to take her from your friend?"

"He doesn't like her like that! He likes you! He was just hoping she'd make you realize what you were missing."

I slowly handed him the book and showed him the door. As soon as it was shut and fell onto my bed and started crying. I felt the makeup running down my face and onto my blanket, but I didn't care. I heard the ding of the computer as someone messaged me repeatedly. I felt only emtyness in my heart. That was the second boy I'd fallen for who'd broken my heart. Suddenly my phone rang from right next to me.

I didn't even look at the caller ID, I just flipped it open,

"Hello?" I could tell I sounded horrible.

"Sam, are you alright?" Jeffrey's concerned voice came through the speakers.

"Yes...well, no. But that's not important. Why are you calling?"

"I'm comimg over, it'll be better in person." Then he hung up, without saying anything else.


A few minutes later I felt myself being pushed into a sitting position by Jeffrey. He gave me a mug of hot chocolate and wiped my smeared make up off with a soft cloth.

"What's wrong?" He asked sympathetically.

"J-Joey a-and L-Lucas." I managed to stutter before bursting into tears again.

"What did they do?" Jeffrey's face looked angry, like he wanted to kill them.

"It's okay. My fault. Missunderstanding."

"Sam, I, I wanted to tell you something, but maybe now isn't the best time."

"Nothing could possibly make my situation any worse so go for it."

He leaned in and kissed me. The best kiss I had ever gotten, or would ever get. Even better then Lucas'. There was like a whole 4th of July fireworks show going off in my mind. That's when I knew, I knew that as long as I had Jeffrey, everything would be fine.

Jeffrey and I dated all the way through middle school, high school, and college. He proposed to me at our graduation party and we were married exactly a year later. We now have twin thirteen year old kids, Megan and Joey. Named after the two people who brought us together.
Megan came to our school at the begining of 8th grade and started dating Adam, they broke up, but they're still good friends. She's now happily married as well, and lives right next door.
Adam lives next door to us too, he's married and persues a career in directing movies.
Lucas, last I heard, was engaged to a girl he met at a bus stop.
and then there's Joey.
Joey has been divorced twice, but he's about to be remarried in a few months. Like they say, 3rd time's a charm.
Oh, there's also the preppies, if you wondered. None of them became teenage parents, sadly, but most of them are now wannabe actresses or models. Brittany did just recently marry Hollywood Heart-throb, Jack Simon, though, so she's the closest any of them got to fame.
Mmm! I also forgot my old friends. I did eventually forgive them, but we never fully went back to the way everything was at first. Before this whole fiasco. Whcich looking back on, I realize, was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.



"Well duh. That's how you met me."

"Jeffrey! How dare you write on my story!"

"How? Because your story needed a kiss to seal it."

"How is this a kiss?"

"Like this." I bend down and pick her up in my arms then I kiss her passionantly and real fireworks go off, because it truely is the 4th of July.

awww. niceeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyway, IN CASE NO ONE NOTICED, I UPDATED TWO OF MY DRAMA FICS LOL

Wow, I really loved it, especially the ending. I like how you kind of foreshadowed Sam getting together with Jeffrey instead Joey. Brilliant!

thanks guys!!