Carmen: " Hey Clive…How’re ya?"

 Clive: " Me good. Was that kid bothering you?"

 Carmen: "NO! I mean no no…he was supposed to be sharing my locker, but he let me use the whole of it" 

 Clive: "Oh good" and he pulled me into a kiss. Although making out in the hall way in not really my thing, I don’t protest. 

 I pull away first and he seems a little unsatisfied. 

 Carmen: " I cannot be late for my first period class. I have Mr. Sharmen and you know, that he gives detention if you’re late"

 Clive: "okay sweetheart.."

 Carmen: "Bye"

 I walk off to my first period class. I enter the class room and see Alice and Dana sitting side by side and Jenny sitting on the next row, so I take the empty seat beside her. As usual Al is telling some interesting gossip and everyone is hudling over her desk to listen to what she has to say. 

 Alice: " So guys I heard that Cherie’s parents are taking a foster kid from the foster care.."

 Dana: "Wait Cherie, you mean ‘the Cherie Jaffe’?"

 Jenny: "Well how many other Cherie’s do we know anyways"

 Mark: "True dat"

 Carmen: " I live right next door and know nothing about this..How do you even know these Al?"

 Alice: "I have my evil ways"

 Cherie Jaffe happens to be my next-door-neighbor. And her parents are insanely rich. I went to private school last year but got kicked out for some sexual harassment issue…at least that’s what the gossip says. She’s a dyke and that’s no secret but she’s a hungry predator. She can do anything for sex. But her mask of niceness can be very deceiving. Now I feel sorry for that kid, who’s living with her.

 Alice went on with her gossip….

 Alice: "So they got this girl, from the foster care, who’s supposed to keep her company and bring her out of her ‘Great Depression’"

 Mr. Sharmen entered the class and everyone took their respective seats. He didn’t have any seating arrangements. I had Chem 1 with his last year, and happened to be one of his favorites although chem was not really my favorite. But I took AP Chem anyways because all my friends were taking it. He hated when people were late to his class and they had to suffer a week full of detention, which mean cleaning up stinky chemicals and all sorts of weird things.