A teenage girl walks towards the doors of a high school building: Brooklyn high school, feeling despondent.
She was doing great in her old school but her father just had to get a transfer. Now she had to make new friends, gain a new identity and strive to be popular again which was almost everything in high school.
She opens the doors with a sigh and enters the bubbling hallway.
Who was she to ask help from? A boy having a heated make out, a girl ransacking her locker and looking very frustrated, or a girl walking out of a class and typing furiously on phone. She decides to go for the girl ransacking her locker.
"Hey", she began and the girl flipped her pretty pair of marble-grey eyes in her direction. "I'm a new student", she adds and the girl frowns.
"How can I help you?"
"I'm trying to find the principal's office, can you show me what direction it is?"
"Okay", she replies and begins stuffing her belongings back into the locker. "Let me take you there", she sighs when she is through.
"You missed this", the new girl points out and bends down to pick a note lying on the floor. Her brows furrow on seeing the note. "That's what you were looking for?"
"Yeah, thanks", she replies collecting the note and begins walking off.
"I am Hannah, Hannah Porter", the new girl introduces as she follows hurriedly.
"I'm Genevieve"
"So what class are you in? I'm going to be in grade eleven"
"That's my class", Genevieve replies and stops in front of a class where a boy was standing at the door. "Ricky", she calls and he walks towards them to peck her before turning to Hannah quizzically. "She's new here so I'm taking her to the principal's office"
"Oh, I'm Kendrick", he introduces.
"Hannah"
"We'll be going now, submit my assignment for me", Genevieve mutters and presses the note into his hands before walking off.
"Your boyfriend?", Hannah asks and Genevieve nods.
"So this is it, Annie", she announces after a while.
"Annie?", Hannah repeats.
"Most people I know named Hannah preferred to go by Annie"
"I've never thought of that, I guess you can call me Annie", Hannah shrugs and Genny nods then begins walking off. "Thank you!"
'That was not a good start at all', she thinks to herself then exhales heavily and enters the office.
Hannah walks out minutes later and heads to the class Genevieve had stopped at before.
"Annie!", she hears on entering the class and turns to see it was Kendrick who called from where he was sitting with Genevieve.
"You're done?", he asks when Hannah gets to where they are and she nods.
"Is any of you taking anatomy? I have that course in...", Hannah trails off to look at a sheet of paper in her hand. "A few minutes".
"Ah, I was about to leave for that class, let's go together", Kendrick replies, standing up. "See you later, Genny", he says and heads out with Hannah.
They settle in when they get to the class where the lecture was to hold and the teacher enters minutes later. The teacher is about to start teaching when someone strolled in wearing a black hoodie and Hannah's eyes widen in amazement.
His chocolate brown hair fell across his forehead in baby-like curls and his enthralling blue eyes had a confident gleam. His lips were so fresh and so…. totally kissable.
'Wait Hannah, why are you thinking of his lips?', she reprimands herself and gathers her composure.
When she stops staring at him, she realizes she was not the only one. There were several other girls staring at him, some even drooling. He was so worth drooling over.
After the teacher chides him severely, he turns to the class and looks around. His eyes meet Hannah's and he heads towards her. Her heart begins beating erratically despite her efforts to control it. A guy hadn't made her feel this jittery in a while.
He sits on the chair in front of her and turns to her almost immediately.
"You're a newbie?", he asks.
"Is it obvious?"
"No, but I'm sure I know everyone in this class. Even if I didn't, there's no way I wouldn't know a beauty queen like you if you had been in this class all along", he answers and she smiles.
"Fuck off Will, you're distracting the new girl", Kendrick grunts and smacks Will's head.
"I think she likes it", Will replies with a smirk.
"Is anything going on there, Mr Sylvester?", the teacher enquires.
"Not at all", Will quickly answers.
He didn't turn back to chat with her again but he had already distracted her. How was he so handsome? How were the girls in this school surviving with such a hot stuff in their midst? He was like a chocolate cake, it was just so tempting to gobble him up.
"And that is the end of our class for today. I shall now proceed to asking questions", the teacher announces just as the bell rings and everyone starts walking out leaving the teacher who was trying to make an announcement.
Will stands up and turns to Hannah immediately the teacher leaves.
"I'm William"
"Yeah, I figured. I'm Hannah, Genevieve and Kendrick somehow prefer to call me Annie though"
"I like Annie, I'll call you that too if you don't mind. So you are with Rick and Genny…. I'll be seeing you often then".
"Maybe", she replies.
"Wanna have lunch with me later?"
"I don't…."
"I'll look for you myself"
"Thank you but she is not having lunch with you", Kendrick cuts in.
"He's right", Hannah agrees.
"Who does this to their best friend?", Will queries.
"Me", Rick replies. "Annie and I will get going now", he concludes and drags Hannah out. "Will is a player, I don't think you should involve yourself with him"
"He gave me the vibes already. But he's got the look for it, I won't blame him".
"There's nothing that can explain being a fucker"
"I haven't said that it is nice".
"Just stay away from him"
"You guys are best friends?"
"Since childhood. I don't like the whole player stuff though", Rick responds and she chuckles.
"So what extracurricular do you take?"
"Football"
"I'm guessing Will is on the team too"
"Yeah, he's quarterback. The appointment is quite new though"
"Well he has the body for it, of course he will be good"
"Looks like you took a rather generous look at him", Rick taunts and she chuckles.
"I couldn't help it, he's hot", she admits.
"That's what they always say before he breaks their heart"
"Look, I'm just ogling him. I'm not into him"
"Yet", Rick suffixes.
"I know how to handle myself around guys, don't worry"
"You have a lot of confidence. Ever date before?"
"Once, stupid thing"
"Looks like it didn't end well"
"Not at all. What about you and Genevieve? How long have you guys been?"
"Since the beginning of sophomore year. I crushed on her the entire freshman year though, she was tough".
"She looks like it", she comments and he smiles.
"Genny", he calls softly as they approach Genevieve and she turns with a smile. "Guess who is already having eyes for Will?"
"I'm not having eyes for Will!", Hannah protests.
"You really shouldn't do that", Genevieve warns.
"There's nothing like a bad boy to add spice to life", Hannah proclaims and Kendrick groans.
"You're hopeless", he concludes and she laughs.
"Nah..... I'm just a girl who wants to flirt a bit", Hannah counters.
"I give up", Kendrick concedes.
Will walks to his locker after the class and meets his other friends: Kenneth, Dave, Robert and Harrison waiting for him by his locker. Will and the four of them were popularly called 'Le Cinq' meaning the five. They were one of the most popular male students and major players in the school. "Look who is approaching; it's Will, king of the jungle. All the girls are at his feet", Kenneth hails. "Stop messing with me Ken", Will replies. "I just met the hottest girl ever". "It's been a while since you said such, who's she?", Harrison asks. "A newbie in my anatomy class" "Wait you were amongst those in the anatomy class today?", Dave exclaims. "I heard a hot newbie attended class with you guys today. Tell us about her" "She's pitching tent with Rick and Genny"&nbs
Genny and Annie are walking home after school and Annie is deep in thought. "Annie?" "Yes" "What's wrong?" "Huh?", She mutters now perked up. "What's wrong with you? You've been quiet since we left the gym". "Oh… well… I think I may have been the cause of the fight between Will and his friends". "Oh don't bother yourself with that. It's something they do all the time to assert supremacy". "No, this is not that". "Why do you think so?" "When you and Will went to class before gym, Bob and Dave came to talk to me. We had
Carrie and Annie enter a class and seat down.u "I'm Annie, Hannah" "How's that a shorter version?" "Genny seems to think it is" "Well Hannah does seem like a handful, so old-fashioned" "Probably Genny's point" "Ah… you're hanging with Genny. Will is really going to be on your neck" "How?" "She's his best friend's girl, legitimate excuse to hang around you", she says and Annie laughs. "My full name is actually Carrielyn. Carrie came in around middle School and since Will and I attended the same middle School, he brought it here. Being as popular and hot as he is, everybody began to follow suit". "Oh I see, you guys must be
The bell rings and noise immediately erupts in the classroom. The teacher scoffs and continues her announcement ignoring the students who had began to walk out. She walks out when she is through talking and the rest of the class who had remained seated begin walking out also.Will remains in his seat as usual waiting for most of his classmates to leave before attempting to walk out. He still felt debilitated from watching Annie and Jake interact in the cafeteria. Why did she act so different with him? Two hands land noisily on Will's table and he is jolted from his thoughts. He looks up to see Jake staring at him with concern. Damn his silly look, Will curses internally and wishes he could punch that concern out of his eyes, but he knew Jake hadn't done anything wrong to him, yet. "You have something bothering you, don't you?", Jake asks but Will keeps quiet though resisting the urge to tell Jake that he was the reason for his mu
The bell rings and all the students in a class find their way out. It was now time for extracurricular activities. Annie and Genny come out too and walk to their lockers. Their lockers were adjacently opposite. Annie is keeping her books when Carrie walks up to her. "Hey Annie" "Carrie, what's up?" "I'm okay. So I told my sister about you..." "Really?" "She said she wants to see you first". "Oh well here I am", Annie says and shuts her locker. She walks to meet Genny. "Genny, seems like I may be joining the cheerleading squad. Carrie's sister wants to see me". "Oh…. that's nice. So what are you waiting for? You should be on your way" "Oh I wanted to tell you first" "Okay thanks, see you later", she says shutting her locker also. Carrie and Annie l
Annie recovers from her shock and realizes Will was dragging her out of the cafeteria. She immediately tries to resist his pull. "Will, where are you taking me?", she yells. "I don't even know", he says in a surprisingly soft tone and lets go of her hand. She realizes they were in the hallway. "I just want you away from that guy"."What is wrong with you? I don't remember ever agreeing with you or anyone that I couldn't talk to other guys except you" "How can you be laughing with that guy? You were even going to let him touch you!" "And so what? He's my friend" "What of me? Am I not your friend? Why don't you laugh with me? You don't even smile unless you can't contain it anymore",he complains and she stills. "You don't even want to have lunch with me. Did I do something to you?" "No. Get lost", she says and walks away. She returns to the
Annie and Genny walk inside the cafeteria after taking their orders, heading to Will's table. On nearing to Will's table, Bob sights them first."Hey Annie, come sit beside me", Bob invites."Come sit beside me instead", Dave offers."I'll just sit over here", Annie replies heading to the space between Kenneth and Harrison."Hey I'm the one who invited you to this table, shouldn't you sit beside me?", Will says."Umm… okay", she answers and finally sits beside Will while Genny sits in the space she intended to sit. Annie cringes as she sits beside Will. She hated the way she felt around him, all fluttery and befuddled. She just hoped she got through lunchtime without embarrassing herself. She later had no reason to worry as once they began talking, she quickly forgot about her discomfort. They had a great time together and l
Annie and Will are talking in front of her locker on Monday morning. Genny and Kendrick are yet to arrive at school. They are still talking when a girl walks up to them and hugs Will. Annie quickly turns and opens her locker like she wasn't just talking to Will. The girl is about to kiss him when he pushes her off. "Didn't you miss me?", she says. "Bianca, it was just like three days or something" "Two weeks Will". "Whatever, get lost. I'm talking to someone", he snaps and she turns around to give Annie a dirty look. "Who's she?" "Someone, just get going" "I will. My dad is not going to be home tonight, wanna come over?", she says flirtingly and Will pales. "What part of get lost do you not understand?", he queries and she grumpily walks away. "I'm sorry about that, Bianca tends to get clingy" "Oh p
Will finally realizes Bianca's intent as Annie puts up her hand. She wanted to make Annie angry with him. Why was she such a sneaky bitch, he complains internally. "Annie, I really didn't", he tries to explain but she puts a finger to his lips. "I told you to shut up, didn't I? I know what she did. I saw her jump on you immediately we came out. She is trying to make me jealous, I know" "So you don't have a problem with that?" "I would if we were dating, but not with you, with her actually. But since we aren't dating…..", she trails off and shrugs. "So you're okay with it because you know that I won't cheat on you?", he asks. "If you mess around with Bianca, it doesn't mean you're cheating on me. We're not dating", she replies and his countenance sinks. "What can I do to make you trust me?" "It'll take a lot of time Will", she replies and he exhales. "Hey Carrie", Will says after a brief silence. "So you finally notice me now huh?", she replies. "Well it
The cheerleaders are standing in the field two days later to vote for their new head-cheerleader. The previous day's nominations had declared Annie, Bianca, Carrie and a grade ten student named Brittany the final candidates. While Bianca viewed the election as a competition and had been walking around all day asking people to vote for her, Annie and Carrie felt totally unbothered. "Okay I want Annie, Bianca, Carrie and Brittany to stand in a straight horizontal line", their coach orders and they act accordingly. "Now all those voting for them should just stand behind them", she commands and everyone starts choosing places. When they are done, Maddie and other grade twelve students who were on the team count the number of people who stood behind each contestant. Grade twelve students were not allowed to vote, they could only participate in nomination. "Okay. At the end of this voting exercise,I am pleased to announce the results. Brittany has 39, Carrie has 41, Annie has 50 an
Will is turning about in his bed at night. He previously didn't think he would be so affected if Annie rejected his love but now that she did….. he couldn't sleep, he couldn't even pick up his phone without wanting to re-read the message she sent to him just to check if it was real. All his music suddenly seemed annoying to him but he was bored as hell. "Argh…. why did I fall in love in the first place?", he complains and curses. He had already drank three bottles of beer but suddenly lost interest in getting drunk and stopped. He was trying to keep in how hurt he felt but it was consuming him on the inside. He is still tossing about in his bed when his phone rings. He picks it and it was Annie. He tries to ignore it like he did the previous night but she seemed to be more persistent today. He switches off his phone and tosses his pillow away exasperatedly. He groans and continues tossing around in his bed. He is finally about to sleep off when he hears the doorbell. He frowns
Annie walks into school hurriedly with Brenda and Carrie. Annie had woken up late making them late and now they only had a few minutes left till their class would begin. They all rush to their lockers and grab their books before heading to class. Fortunately, they get in just before the teacher enters. "Good morning students", the teacher greets and the students reply half-heartedly while some do not reply at all. Only a few students replied eagerly which was usually Annie's clique but not today. Upon entering the class, she had looked around for Will and found him bowing his head on his desk. Maybe he was really sick like she had previously assumed. She turns to look at him again and catches him staring. She smiles on catching him and he turns away. She felt her countenance sink as he turned away. Will didn't usually turn away when she caught him staring even before he confessed his feelings. He would always wink at her or chuckle and after confessing his feelings, he could ev
The ABC girls walk out of school together heading to the school bus. The cheerleaders were having their final competition in Boston. They enter the bus and head to the backseat together. "Hannah, come sit here with Bianca", their coach orders and Annie frowns. "I'm serious", she adds on seeing she was reluctant. Annie joins Bianca in her seat which was almost at the front of the bus. "Get in, I don't want to seat by the window", Bianca snarls and Annie rolls her eyes. She had already wanted to seat by the window so was glad Bianca didn't like that spot. She sits by the window and sets down her bag. The bus had just started the journey when Annie's phone beeps. She checks it and sees it was a message on WeChat from Will. "Just saw the bus leaving, good luck with the competition", he texted. "Shouldn't you be in class?", she texts back. "I'm in class", he replies. "And you're texting me?" "I miss you already", he texts and she smiles. Bianca peers into her phone and see
Will and Annie sit beside each other inside the dark cupboard. "Why didn't you agree with me? We could have skipped this", Annie complains. "I wanted a few minutes with you, it's been almost a week since we talked", he replies and she is quiet. "I don't know what it'll take to make you accept my feelings" "It's not my fault that I don't trust you" "So you actually believe that I love you?" "I don't know", she admits just as he draws closer to her. "Hey we're already tight enough, why are you drawing even closer?" "Can't you tell?" "Tell that?" "I'm about to kiss you" "No way I'm letting you show off my underwear for a stupid game", she says but he was already straddling her before she finished. "Will, stop", she stutters. "Just let me Annie, for tonight, I won't talk of it after tonight", he pleads then kisses her. She refuses to open up so he sucks on her bottom lip begging for entrance. He breaks the kiss when she doesn't still kiss him back and is
"Football meeting at the locker room, right now", Kenneth tells Will and Rick as they enter school, making them begin heading to the locker room. As they open the door, they are glitter bombed and the football guys laugh at Will's shocked expression. "Time to showcase our newest trophy", someone yells and Will grins. He walks to the center of the gathering where the trophy they earned the previous night stood. He lifts the trophy and they begin to cheer as he takes it to the transparent glass cabinet where they stored their trophies. He keeps it inside and the cheers heighten. He shuts the cabinet and turns around. "Who just won the championship?", Will yells. "The Brooklyn Giants!!!", everyone yells in reply. "I said who just won the championship?", he yells again and they give the same reply in a louder tone. "Damn guys, I'm so happy. I don't even know what to say" "Say you'll attend the party at my house", a grade twelve student, Travis says walking towards Will. "N
Will trudges into his home and collapses into a cushion, shutting his eyes for some seconds before standing up. He walks towards the refrigerator in the dinning area to bring out a beer. He sits on one of the dinning chairs and opens the beer, taking several sips before putting the beer down.He still couldn't believe what happened, it was all a spur of the moment. He really thought that he was still yet to accept that he was truly in love with Annie, but he found himself telling her he loved her in the next moment.He hated the idea of being in love because he felt it was no fun, full of responsibilities and getting hurt was inevitable once you were in love but he had slowly come to realize that love could be fun after Annie had already stolen his heart.He was right about the hurt though, the rejection hurt like hell. He couldn't remember when last he wanted to get drunk but now he found himself wanting to get drunk because
"What is going on with you and Will?", Annie hears as she is keeping her books in her locker and turns. It was Jake. "I don't believe we are close enough for you to ask me such question", she replies and he forces her locker shut to get her attention. "Maybe I messed up. I shouldn't have worked with Bianca, maybe I shouldn't want you back after what I did. But, it happened already", he says with a shrug. "I'm not saying what I did was right, but what I'm saying is that I'm sorry. We can just be friends. I still love you though but I like being your friend better than this position we're in" "Jake please, I don't have the energy for this" "I know you don't, I can see that your disagreement with Will is draining your energy, and Will's too" "Don't get me started with Will, I already feel guilty enough" "What happened?" "We kissed. I've been