I walk down the deserted hallway, whistling lowly with a bounce in my step. As I pass by the occupied classrooms, I see students struggling to keep their eyes open. Who can blame them? Mondays tend to do that to people. I hate school.

I stop in front of the English class. I can happily say that I hate English class. I hate all aspects of the arts, and I dislike writing essays. I open the door, and all eyes turn to me.

My best friend Sarah sits at the back of the classroom, her head resting on the window beside her, eyes closed. I stifle a laugh and turn to my teacher, Mr. Riley and smile.

"You're late Ms. Bloom." he says with narrowed eyes. I sigh inwardly. Mr. Riley and I never really got along. He never liked my witty responses, and I never liked his presence.

"I had an emergency." I simply say and hand him a forged doctor's note. Somedays I'm glad to have a Cardiologist as a father. I can oversleep all I want, and claim I had a medical emergency or appointment.

He scans the note and looks at me, his eyes still narrowed.

"This is the fourth checkup in three weeks" he says, folding his arms. I look into his eyes, forcing a smile on my lips.

"My father is particular about my health." I consider showing him the band aid I placed on my wrist, but he caves before I can.

"Take a seat." he says before going back to teaching. I head straight for the back and take the seat Sarah saved for me, right next to her. I lean over and flick her forehead.

"Hey Cupcake," I grin at her "how's it hanging?"

She groans, placing her head on her table. I laugh at her again, it was so clear that she was still nursing a hangover from yesterday's party.

In an attempt to annoy her further, I ruffle her hair. She raises her middle finger at me in response.

I normally would feel sorry for her, but she deserved every bit of torment, especially after what she did to me at the party yesterday. She should be grateful that I'm not screaming in her face with a megaphone.

Deciding to finally put her out of her misery, I discretely throw a pack of pills on her lap, my famous hangover pills.

Just kidding, they're just Panadol.

She opens it and throws one her mouth, chewing it slowly for a while.

"Seriously Elle?" she almost shouts, but somehow manages to catch the attention of the whole class and Mr. Riley. "gum?"

"Is there a problem Ms. Jones?" he asks, arms crossed with an annoyed expression. Actually I think that's his normal face.

She shakes her head. I place my fist against my mouth to hide my smile.

"Do you mind explaining why you're disrupting my lesson?"

She remains speechless and shakes her head again.

"Then I hope detention after school may help you straighten up."

Sarah nods. I think she just agreed to get him to shut up. On a normal basis, she would've argued a bit.

Mr. Riley goes back to teaching. Sarah huffs and throws the pack of 'pills' at me, returning her head to her table.

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"I hate school," Sarah says as she massages her temple "I fucking hate school"

I watch her with an amused expression, drinking in her pain with happiness. I take a fry from my plate and eat it, as she continues her rant to the lunch table.

The lunch table comprises of a few of my friends. Lucas, who happens to be my best friend alongside Sarah. Jake, Samantha, Priya and finally, the douchebag himself, Wayne, Sarah's on and off boyfriend.

I munch on my salad as Sarah continues her speech "I hate the teachers, I hate the fucking subjects, I hate the stupid twats who think they can talk to me." she groans

"I hate my parents who think education is oh so important. Oh I hate my parents again for grounding me. I hate my English teacher for giving me detention, and most of all, I hate you." she then glares at me, her icy blue eyes narrowed.

"Me?" I ask innocently.

Sarah glares further, while Priya rolls her eyes and goes back to eating her fries, her long brown hair curtaining her face.

"What did you do again?" Lucas asks me. I take a French fry from his plate and hit tap him on the nose with it.

I lean back and smile "I may have given her gum instead of painkillers." Lucas bursts out laughing, along with everyone else.

Wayne however, shakes his head in disappointment and snakes a hand around Sarah's shoulder.

Suck up.

"That wasn't cool Noelle." he chastises.

"Whatever dude." I reply with an eye roll.

I never liked Wayne. Never have. Never will. I'm just waiting for the day my best friend sees him for what he truly is.

"What do we have here" A nasally voice interrupts "If it isn't Sarah the little skank. Hungover are we?"

Brittany, Wayne ex, walks to the table. As she sees Wayne, she sends him a flirty wink. As usual, she's dressed to impress in her black bodycon skirt and tight white crop top. She never got over her breakup with Wayne and keeps blaming it on Sarah.

Brittany leans on the table in front of Wayne, her cleavage purposefully in his face. Wayne doesn't push her back as she whispers in his ear, but loud enough for us to hear.

"How about you ditch her and join me in the janitor's closet?" she purrs, sliding a slender finger along his arm.

Oh boy, not this again.

Sarah wastes no time in taking her Gatorade and dumping its contents all over Brittany's head. Brittany lets out a shrill scream as her top changes color to match her red hair.

"You bitch!"

By now, the entire cafeteria is watching intently, silently hoping for a fight to break out. They're used to these by now, Brittany and Sarah fight at least once a week. And I'm sad to say that it's all for the idiot Sarah calls her boyfriend.

"Me? You're the stupid slut who's flirting with my boyfriend right in front of me!"

Brittany pulls at her ruined crop top "This is Gucci!"

Sarah points at her face "This is pissed" she then holds up both palms "You know what? I don't even want to fight today"

"See you guys later." Sarah says angrily before walking out of the cafeteria. I gather up my stuff and run after her.

"Sarah wait!"

She ignores me and continues walking. When I catch with her, I stop in front of her, causing her to stop too.

"Are you okay?"

"Duh" I sigh in annoyance. She breathes fast and cracks her knuckles, something she does when she's pissed.

"Where did you go yesterday? You completely ditched me?" I ask. She shrugs in response. I know it's wrong timing, but it's been bugging me since I got home yesterday

"Do you know how annoyed I was? I had to hitch a ride from Nicolas? That fool tried to kiss me." I shudder at yesterday's memories "What's up with you? You're far from a lightweight and you rarely drink a lot." I ask, but she avoids my gaze.

Sarah dragged me to a college party yesterday hosted by some frat boys. Honestly parties are not my scene, I prefer Korean drama. But Sarah was having problems with Wayne and she wanted to let loose. As soon we got there, she ditched me for her newest fling, Matthew, with the promise of calling me after two hours. After I spent a good half hour looking for her, I decided to go and talk with a few acquaintances I knew, mostly female friends of my brother.

Sadly I bumped into my ex, Nicolas, who happily informed me that my ride already left, drunk off her ass. So he offered to take me home, and tried to kiss me in my driveway.

Stupid ass.

So I slapped him and flipped him off.

"I'm sorry about ditching you Elle." I smile and swing an arm around her shoulder as we continue down the hallway. It's hard to stay mad at Sarah. I think that's because I always prank her after she annoys me.

"So are you gonna tell me what happened between you and Wayne?" She sighs and drops her head without giving me an answer, so I try again.

"Not even if I give you actual painkillers?" I wave the bottle in front of her. Her eyes dart between the bottle and my face.

"After school okay?" she says before snatching the bottle and running down the hallway as fast as she could. I simply watch her run.

It doesn't matter anyway, that bottle was also full of gum.

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And that concludes Chapter 1!!!!! *fireworks explode in the distance, crowd screams, Barney Stinson rips his suits*

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