Updated - I've edited the first and second chapters to possibly garner more interest. Not sure how this will go, but we'll see.

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"So, there's a big party tonight," Tony Alva whispered into Ava Mitchell's ear, quietly. "You should come… and bring your friends, you can be my guests." He gently nuzzled her neck, taking in her sweet perfume, as she lightly pushed him away, noting the scathing look she was receiving from a young Mexican girl not 10 feet away, whom she figured could possibly be a girlfriend of Tony's.

"Uhh, yeah." She forced out, she swallowed nervously. "Maybe."

"Zephyr shop, you'll find it." He continued.

"Ava, let's go!" her friends rolled their eyes.

"I gotta go." Ava muttered.

"Tony!" the girl squealed as Ava moved towards her friends, quite hurriedly. "Keep steppin', Malibitch, or I'll rip your eyes out before you know I'm even in your face." She screeched as Ava quickly joined her girlfriends, leaving the skateboard meet. "Slut!" she yelled after her viciously before starting on Tony...

"We'll see you ladies back in Malibu!" Gabrielle Cooper called, waving farewells to their schoolmates in the next car over as she and her best friend Vickie drove off in Gabrielle's gold Mercedes convertible. "Bye!"

"Jesus." Ava mumbled, checking her make up in her compact. "That girl really wanted to rip my internal organs out through my mouth." She snapped the compact closed, placing it back in her Chanel bag, regaining her composure.

Ava's friend, Tia Simpson, giggled from the backseat. "We would have had your back."

Ava snorted. "I'll be sure to count on you next time, Tee."

"So, who was that fuzzy haired Dogtowner you were whispering with? Not your style, Ava." driver, Marissa McIvor, asked, with a curious sideways glance at Ava. "I thought you liked a more blonde and blue eyed kinda guy – that Stacy Peralta dude, he seemed your type, although he had long hair… unless you're deciding to slum it?"

"Oh, that's terrible, Marissa." Ava said critically, putting her long brown hair in a wavy bun and adjusting her shades over her eyes.

"Peralta?" Marissa frowned, taking her eyes off the road momentarily to check her lipstick in the rear vision mirror.

"No, the way you described him. That's rude."

"Look who grew a social conscience." Abbey Holland giggled, beside Tia.

"Hey, don't throw stones at glass houses, Ab. Who was the messy blonde boy you were talking to with Gabi and Val?" Ava turned to her friend who in turn blushed and hid her brown eyes behind her sunglasses. "He looked about 13." Ava scoffed. "Cradle snatching, were we?"

"Eww, no!" Abbey replied bashfully. "He's not my type, he was giving Gabi grief, Gabi said something like, 'you blew my mind!' after his freestyle or whatever it was called and he retorted 'you wanna blow me?' and being the upstanding female that she is, she came back with a coy 'maybe'."

Marissa laughed. "Gabi isn't a huge slut, but she'll contemplate most guys."

"You guys are atrocious, Gabi is lovely." Ava sighed, wishing her friend's weren't giving Gabi such a hard time, especially when she wasn't there to defend herself. Ava wasn't a saint, but she generally wasn't one for idle gossip as she was once a victim of it herself. It wasn't overly harsh, but being the new kid a few years back surely made her a target for the odd rumour or two.

"All right, change of topic." Tee announced, freaked out at her friends disagreeing. "It's getting a little too tense in here."

"You're right, who wants to get dinner before we get home?" Marissa asked. "My treat."

"Sounds good to me!" Abbey exclaimed.

"I'm in." Tia added.

Ava stayed silent. "Ave?" Marissa asked quietly.

"Yeah, I'll come." Ava finally replied.

After paying the check, Marissa announced, "I need to use the little girls' room." She stood up and collected her purse. Tia mimicked her moves and followed her to the bathroom, leaving Abbey and Ava to their own devices.

"So, you got invited to that Zephyr party? Are you gonna go?" Abbey asked.

"No, why would I actually go?" Ava asked, sipping her water. She relaxed back in the booth of the girl's local diner, a perplexed look on her face. "What? You wanna go or something?" she stretched her long limbs, before crossing her arms.

"Well, it would be better than heading to the movies or something boring with Marissa and Tia. I would like the possibility of making out with some random on a Saturday night instead of letting my youth fade in a cinema with my girlfriends."

"I see your point." Ava had to giggled. "Shh, Marissa is coming back – I'll call you when she drops us off."

Marissa and Tia sat back down a few seconds later. "So, what are we doing tonight?" Marissa asked.

Ava lightly kicked Abbey under the table across from her, hoping Abbey would follow her lead. "I think I'm gonna stay in – lots of homework to catch up on. But you guys head out, have fun!"

"Oh, Ava, you're a huge geek." Marissa stated, rolling her eyes as Ava's jaw dropped. "Oh, I'm kidding." Marissa lied with a laugh. "You know I adore you."

"I'm actually not free either, we've got relatives coming to this house tonight." Abbey spoke up as Marissa sighed.

"Argh, you two suck. Fine, Tee, wanna see a flick or something?"

"Sounds great." Tia agreed, only too happy to tag along with anything that Marissa suggested. As the richest girl in the school, most of whatever Marissa McIvor said goes. Ava had grown old of it long along, as had Abbey and were slowly pulling away from Marissa and her one true worshipper, Tia. Marissa was loud, bossy and obnoxious, she was adored through fear, Ava was sure of it.

"Awesome, let's go so these two can go have an early night." Marissa muttered.