I've been writing this story on a site called Candy is Dandy and decided to post it here, too.
Summary: Maria grows up with Isabel, Max and Tess on the west side. Micheal grows up with Kyle, Alex, and Liz on the east side. They start to accept each other as a whole group, but will they all stay together when Courtney and Billy try to break them apart?
My name is Maria Rose Deluca. I'm an average girl you see everyday. I grew up in Roswell, New Mexico with my best friends Tess Harding, Isabel Evans and Max Evans. The four of us have been inseparable since kindergarten.
When we reached high school, Isabel, Tess, and I held the eyes of every teenage male at West Roswell High. We all had our share of dates, but never any serious relationships, I mean, we were around 15 at the time! What did we know about love then than the love of a mother... or, for some people, a father... but lets not get into that just yet.
Every weekday was spent in school or at the Crashdown, a food joint just between east and west boarders, so both sides attended. Of course, west thought it was more on our side and east the same, making us all argue about it. A challenge would be reiterated to determine who stayed and who left each day.
Ever since I was a kid, there was talk about the merging of East and West Roswell high, but I never thought they would go through with it! Just my luck, I have to spend my senior year with those east punks! I've heard plenty of rumors about the east slut, Courtney Banks. I've even encountered her a couple of times and we've agreed to hate one another and to make the others life miserable.
It was suppose to be my year, our year, because we were seniors. We were suppose to rule the school. Nobody from West didn't know who we were. We were the "cool" kids that threw the best parties and wore the best clothes. Now we had to share our glory with the "cool" east kids! This sucks!
My alarm clock went off at 6:45, way too early if you ask me. I threw it across the room where it hits the wall and stops beeping. I throw my face into my pillow and groan. The first day of school and I was off to a bad start. I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep after my annoying alarm kept sounding in my ears so I forced myself out of bed. I slipped on my Grinch slippers and started getting ready for the day.
After my shower I sat down to breakfast which was finished in record time, 5 minutes. Getting up, I threw my hair up in a messy bun. I found my favorite red shirt and my nicest jeans. Looking in the mirror, I saw that my red shirt exposed just a hint of my pale stomach. I moved my gaze up to my face and grimaced before I sat down to do my make-up.
I was ready and out into my red jetta to pick up Tess at 7:35. I still had 10 minutes before school started.
"Hey, Ria," she opened the door and slid in, giving me a hug. "You're here early, aren't you? We usually make up lame excuses on why YOU'RE late to my house, but today we might actually be on time!"
"Oh, shut up, Tess!" I pulled out of the driveway and sped down the street. "At least I'm giving you a ride. Don't complain about what time I come to get you; I could just not come at all!"
"Okay, sheesh! Sorry, I didn't know this was going to be a hard subject for you!" she held up her hands in surrender and I nodded. "Besides, we have bigger problems on our hands. The merging of East and West!"
I groaned. "Ugh, just what I need. ANOTHER great thing for me! Yes, all the stares from those ugly east chicks! Goody!"
"I know, tell me about it! Courtney Banks is the sluttiest of the east girls, but I heard she can't nail the one man she really wants," Tess smirked.
I snorted. "Whose that, someone that ACTUALLY wants her for her? I wanna know who this LUCKY guy is that gets my pity," I said hopping out of the car and heading inside.
"Uh, Micheal Guerin. Ruggedly handsome and very built, just how you like them," Tess raised her eyebrows. I could see the wheels turning in her head.
"Oh, hell no, Tess! Don't get any ideas! Your aren't gonna set me up with another guy because one, you suck at it-"
"HEY!"
"-and two, he's an east!" I pulled her toward a frantically waving Isabel.
"Well, there isn't east and west anymore, Maria. Just Roswell High," she explained.
I ignored her and hugged Isabel. "Hey Izzy!"
She pulled Tess to us so we were all hugging. "Hey girls! I'm so excited!"
Tess and I exchanged glances before pulling away. "How can you be so happy? We're at school for god's sake! Or, as I like to call it, Satan's asshole! It's bad enough I have to deal with the east people, but now a freakin' bouncing-off-the-walls- happy Isabel Evans?" I sighed, faking sadness. "I'm never going to survive, Tessie! If I die you can have my jetta, okay?"
Tess giggle and Isabel glared. The bell rang and we went our separate ways to homerooms. I had Mr. McKnight.
"Good morning, class. I want everyone to notice the board where I have put your seating chart, so will everyone stand up and move to your right seat, please," he started. I rolled my eyes and moved to my right seat.
It wasn't so bad; I wasn't in the last seat, but the seat before it in the second to last row. I smiled, this year might not be so bad after all...
Spoke WAY too soon! Courtney Banks sat on my left and Billy Darden on my right while two boys I didn't know were right behind me. "Great," I muttered, "another wonderful year for Maria Deluca."
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