EJAY VAN RUSSELL- New Friend

If he did not know any better, that cute girl with the glasses had a crush on him. Dunlap Academy was a huge school, there were lots of students he did not know. He felt bad he did not know her name. He made it a point to find out what her name was before he approached her again.

He spotted her alone in the cafeteria one day and sat at the table across from her.

"Paris Trotter," he said to her.

She rolled her eyes at him.

"Now you know my name? Now you notice me? Whatever." She took a bite of her sandwich and tried her best to ignore him.

"There are a lot of people at this school and I can't know everyone."

"Of course not, we can't all look like Ashley Tremble."

He could not say anything to that. Maybe it was wrong to obsess about a girl he never had a chance with. No other girl was interested in him, except maybe Paris, and he still was not sure why. He was nowhere near good-looking, he was not a jock, or in the cool crowd.

"I thought maybe we could get to know each other, hang out. I don't have many friends," he said.

"Me either," she replied.

"So it's cool, we can hang out?"

"Sure," she said, then smiled.

XAVIER BAINBRIDGE-Cheaters Never Win

It was not cheating.

Getting head was not cheating. Not really. It was not like it was all out fucking some random girl. If a girl wanted to get down on her knees and suck him off, who was he to say no to that? tehy were his fans, and he was going to need them to sell albums.

Everyone knew he had a girlfriend, but that never stopped them. All he made sure of eas they did not run their mouths if they wanted a taste of him.

"That was the best!" he said as he pulled up his pants once the girl finished with him.

"X, can we do it again? Whenever, wherever."

"Oh, definitely."

She tried to kiss him but he held her back. He did not kiss any other girl besides Chrissy. besides, she just had her mouth on his dick and swallowed.

"Yo, you know to keep that shit on the low, right? I have a girl and she doesn't play that shit."

The girl sighed loudly. "I can be your girl X. What do you think I did that for? I want to be your girl?"

The nerve of some of these chicks. He said hello to her, she said, "Let me suck your dick," and he said, "Okay." How was that supposed to make him want her as a girlfriend? Make it make sense.

"As I said, I have a girl. Now either get with the program or I'll just keep it moving."

"Ok, ok, X! I'm sorry!" The girl pleaded with him and tried to hug him but he moved away from her.

"I gotsa roll out," he said as he left the boy's locker room.

He really had to stop. One of these girls was going to mess it up for him.

TONY JACKSON-All Work

He knew Ciara was upset because he rarely spent time with her. He liked her, but he was second-guessing having a girlfriend. He was focused on finishing high school, getting into the college he wanted, and his business.

"I make time for you Tony, it just seems like you don't even try," Ciara said to him.

"I told you, I am trying to help J with-"

"Screw Justin! I work, I have dance practice, I'm student body president, for Christ's sake, and I still have time for my friends and you," Ciara argued while they stood in the hallway at school. "The point is, if you care enough about something or someone, you will make time. I see how important I am to you."

She started to walk away from him.

"CiCi! Come on, cut me some slack." Tony walked up to her. "I'm trying to run a company. I've invested a lot in this. My father did anyway, I can't let him down."

"I get it, fine, whatever!"

"CiCi, I'm trying. What do you want me to do?"

"Just try and spend time with me, that's all I ask. Show me you care."

"I do." He put his arm around her. "You're my girl, babe. You can come down to the studio. I'll be working but you can hang."

"Oh wow! Now I'm dating some hotshot executive. Ooo!"

He did not know if she was saying that sarcastically or for real. Either way, his business came first, she just had to get with the program.

CHRISSY VAN RUSSELL-Don't Believe the Haters

She was minding her own business, at the school's library working on a paper when the resident mean girl and her crew came over to her.

"Little Miss Clueless," Asia said to her.

"Go away, Asia."

"Oh no, I have to share the unfortunate news," Asia said, with a twirl of her hair, then sat across the table from her. "Seems like Xavier is getting around, playing the field, and stringing you along."

Chrissy shut her book angrily. "Okay, whatever. Still, chasing after my boyfriend? He doesn't want you so give it up!"

"Oh, this has nothing to do with me. But every other girl at this school has had a piece of the X man."

She was lying. Trying to get her upset.

"You would say anything to break us up. You're pathetic." Chrissy stood and gathered her things to put away. "X is mine, you can't have him."

She left the mean girl and her crew. Asia was not going to get to her. Xavier loved her.

XAVIER BAINBRIDGE-Keeping Secrets

Chrissy was at his place again and they were in bed. Clothes were still on but it was getting pretty steamy. Chrissy's hands kept going inside his pants.

"Chrissy, stop!" He pushed her hand away maybe a little too hard.

She sat up in the bed, knees up and arms wrapped around them. She laid her head on her knees and started to softly cry.

"Baby, I'm sorry." Xavier put his arms around her. "I told you we couldn't get too far. I want to wait."

"What about the other girls?"

Xavier tensed up for a second. What did she know?

"What other girls?"

"Are you seeing other girls, X?"

"No!" he said too quickly. "I'm not seeing any girls Chrissy, it's just you."

He hugged her tightly, too afraid he could lose her.

"You're the only girl for me. I love you, Chris. You gotta believe it. Stop letting these silly lil girls try and destroy us."

He kissed her neck.

"I have groupies coming to me left and right, you see how they are. But they're groupies, I can't get with that. Lil scandalous girls that don't really want me. Chrissy, come on, stop listening to that."

"Asia said-"

"Asia! You gonna listen to what she says?"

"But-"

"Chrissy, I love you. We're going to get married, right?"

She nodded.

"I want to wait and enjoy our first time on our wedding night."

"X! That's so far away."

"It'll be special." He rubbed her cheek. "I promise."

ELAYNE VAN RUSSELL-Maturity

She wanted Justin in the worst way.

The man was too sexy. She hung out at his penthouse all the time and had plenty of opportunities to get him there, but he never went there.

The most they did was a couple of kisses. He never tried to get in her pants.

She did not try either, and that was not her usual.

Was he secretly gay? He was too damn pretty. She thought that when she first met him because the man could dress better than her. He was all business. That's all he would talk about with her. It was like he treated her like a kid, not a woman.

"Yo T-man, we're getting nowhere with these songs. Great idea, but nothing is happening." Justin was of course on the phone with Tony while she was trying to be romantic with him at his place. She brought pizza and wine, what did he think this was about?

Elayne rolled her eyes and stood from the dinner table with her glass of wine. Yes, she was only seventeen, but she was mature for her age and he did not see that.

"I think we need to at least spread the contest out nationally or something....okay, okay, I guess I will give it time."

She could care less about his business. That's all he even cared about. Why was she trying to be his girlfriend?

She slammed some things around in his kitchen.

"Aye!" he yelled out at her.

Well, that got his attention.

"Yo T, let me call you back later and finish this discussion."

It was ironic it was Tony that was taking his attention away from her. The boy she could not have, and the man she wanted. This was a life lesson for her, but she did not want to learn it. She was Elayne Van fucking Russell, she really could have any guy she wanted. She had the looks, the brains, and the money. She could buy ten Justins if she wanted.

"Elayne, is there a problem?"

"You work too hard."

"I'm building something from nothing, what do you want me to do?" He walked over and took her glass of wine. "No more for you."

"I drink all the time."

"And that's the problem. What's wrong with being a kid and being your age?"

She scoffed at that. "You were not saying that when we were making out."

He just ran his hand through his hair. "And maybe that's my mistake. You're seventeen! You're in a whole other stage of life than I am right now."

She was in disbelief of him right now. "Really?"

"Listen...I like you, Elayne, I really do. But if you can't understand where I am coming from, we really can't hang out like this. You think you are mature, you say you are, but then you go acting like a spoiled pissy ass brat when I want to do my business."

"You know what? Fuck you, Justin!" She pushed past him. "As if you are the only man on the planet that looks good and has money. I can find any one of them I want. Much hotter and much richer. And older!"

She grabbed her purse with her phone in it and then stormed out of his place, making sure she slammed the door.

Fuck him!

DAPHNE VAN RUSSELL-Going for It

She was spending a lot of time with Julios Monzon and she did not feel nervous around him anymore. Nor did she see anything wrong with two adults hanging out and getting to know each other.

Though she wanted more.

She wondered if the hot professor thought of her in the ways she thought of him. It was torture.

The more she got to know him, the stronger her feelings grew. She knew she could not act on them because he was her teacher, but she needed to know if he felt the same way.

"Senor Monzon, there's a documentary at the Tivoli, you really must see," she said to him after class one day. "I'm going tonight, you should come."

There, she asked out the hot professor.

"Uh...I don't think that's appropriate."

"I'm just telling you about the movie that is relevant to the class. You show up, on your own, sit where you like, you don't even have to say a word to me."

"I don't know if I can manage that," he said with a grin at her. "But I will be there."

To her, that meant he was interested in more than a teacher-student relationship. So what he was over fifteen years older than her. She was twenty, an adult, she made her own decisions about what she wanted.

And she wanted him.

A/N: So we have the two Van Russell girls after older guys. Which age gap is the worse? A seventeen-year-old and a twenty-two-year-old? Or a twenty-year-old and a thirty-six-year-old?

Both is my answer, but worse when one of the people is under eighteen, that's why I ended things before they got too far. This will not be the only age-gap situation in this soap opera. One...will shock you!