Cliques

Charlie

I casually opened the classroom door, shoving my phone into my pocket.

"Decided to turn up this lesson have you Charlie Parker?" Mr. Showell spoke sternly.

"Yeah, I wasn't goin' to. But then I thought, why not?" I winked at him.

Mr. Showell didn't say anything, he just pointed to my seat. A few of my classmates giggled as I headed towards my desk. I hated having English twice in one day.

As I sat on my seat, I noticed that there was some new boy sitting a few desks away from me. I turned to Meggie.

"Who's the new guy?" I whispered to her.

Zander

"Who's the new guy?" the prep asked. Maggie ignored him, not wanting to get in trouble I assumed. He sat down next to me. I could feel his judging stare. My lips turned to a frown. I hated this guy already. He strutted in here like he rules the world. Maybe I should have kept my knife.

"Now, get into groups of three to discuss the previous chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird," Mr Showell ordered. The prep slip over between me and Maggie. She smiles at him.\

"Hey Charlie!" she said. "I heard there's a party at your house tonight?"
Charlie smiled and flashed my a smirk. "Yeah, parents won't be home. Should be fun.Oh, who are you?"

Meggie~

“Zander” Zander muttered picking up the “To Kill a mocking Bird”. It was a deep book, but deep books and me never went down well.

I stared at the symbol Zander had made in my hand. It look really pretty, I flashed him my open palm and grinned. He gave a shy smile than looked back down at the book.

“So what did you think of the chapter…guys?!” Charlie asked grinning a perfectly white toothy smile. I was too embarrassed to grin myself just in case something unfortunate was caught in my own teeth.

“Pretty good,” I said flickering through the pages. “But I don’t think sir will like that as an excuse”
Charlie smiled again, “So are you coming?” he asked.

“Coming where?” I asked stupidly.

“To the party?” He laughed, I glanced behind him to see Zander digging his hands into his pockets. Realizing I was looking her brushed his hair out from his eyes,

“I didn’t know I was invited…..” A book slammed on the side of my desk, making me stutter. Mr. Showell stood behind the desk his thick glasses falling down his nose.

“Something you’d like to share Miss Ritchie?” He asked, coming closer to me so that I could smell his breath.

Charlie

"Obviously not," I smiled at Mr. Showell "That's why she was whispering, it makes sense."

Mr. Showell glared at me as if I'd just asked him to jump off the school building. Mind you, that would have been enjoyable to watch. Especially if Brian joined him...

"Was I talking to you?" Mr. Showell spat in my face.

"I'm just saying," I shrugged.

"Well don't." Mr. Showell gave me one last glare, before heading back to the front of the class.

I turned to Meggie, who'd gone bright red. She always went red when she was getting told off. Even though, techincaly, I was the one who'd gotten into trouble. Meggie hadn't done anything wrong anyway. I didn't like it when people get told off because of something that I'd done. It wasn't fair.

Smiling, I looked at Zander. He seemed like a pretty cool guy. Although, he didn't seem very confident. He probably hated me, all of the new goths hated me. I couldn't blame them though, I was a prcik after all.

"What about you?" I asked Zander. "You coming?"

"Uh... I don't know." He looked at me strangely.

"Please Zander?" Meggie turned to him. "It'll be fun."

"He doesn't have to if he doesn't want," I smiled. "Hey, do you like Escape The Fate, 30 Seconds To Mars or anything like that? You seem like the kind of guy who would."

Zander stared at me like I had two heads. Honestly, I may not have dressed in black anymore, but I still liked the same stuff. Clothes aren't everything.

Zander

I ignored Charlie's stereotyping comment. My hand fished into my pockets. No money. I wouldn't be able to get high tonight anyway. I might as well test my luck at the party.

"Fine."
Fine, what?" Charlie asked.
"I'll go."
"Thanks Zander, I'm sure you'll have fun," Maggie followed.
"So, I don't know about you, but I haven't a word in this entire freakin' book," I began, "And I'm sure as heck not going to." Maggie laughed and agreed. Maybe I could like this Charlie kid. He just had that cocky air about him.

After a long, boring class discussion on the book, the bell rang.
"I guess I'll see you guys tonight." I said.

Lana:

I grabbed my lunch and I went over to Meggie. She was looking around the room. When her eyes stopped I followed her eyes to Zander. I nudged her

"Ask him to sit with us." She shook her head "No, I don't wanna bother him and besides, he's all the way across the room."

"No problem." I stood up and shouted "Za-" Meggie tugged me down "No!" I rose my eyebrows "Why not? It's not like we've got anyone else to sit with." I motioned to the empty seats. Since we were from different cliques no one sat with us except Lanahan but that was rare.

I stood up again and before she could tug me down I shouted "Alex! Zander! What ever your name is! Get over here!" Everyone looked at me but I ignored them. Zander made his way over and sat down across from us.

I rested my chin on my fist and said "So I hear that you and Meggie are going out." Meggie swiped my arm out from under my chin and I almost fell. She glared at me and turned to Zander "She's just kidding. You'll get used to it eventually." I took a big bite of my pizza and wiped my hands on my jeans.

I swallowed and said "Drugs or what?" he looked at me funny but I pointed to the poster the debate team was putting up. He laughed and said "Oh, yeah." Meggie said "Just ignore her. She won't go away and she won't shutup but it'll save you the headache." I slapped her so she flipped my hair. My hands flew to my head and I began arranging my hair.

Lanahan:

I slid next to Lana and threw my arm around her playfully "So who's the newbie?" Lana tossed me off of her and said "Zander." I reached my hand up and adusted her hair. She slapped me and I cried "Don't touch me woman! I'm fixing it." I knew that she hated when it was messed up. I saw Amber and got up "See ya, I've got people to mess with"

Meggie~

I tried to hide my beaming red face with my hair but failed miserably. Lana had no shame what-so-ever. I looked up at Zander to see a small smile across his face, Damn it! I hissed to Lana under her breath, but it didn't take affect as I had hoped. It never took affect with her!

**Sorry its short I have to run...

Lana:

I nudged Meggie and said "So, Zander, tell me about yourself."

Zander

"I usually don't tell people about myself, especially complete strangers like yourself." I answered lowly.
"Okay then...never mind." She replied a bit confused.
"But you were right, Maggie and I are going out," I said and abruptly stood up from the table. Maggie looked shocked but I just gave her a wink and left the cafeteria. I wasn't going to eat anything. My adhd medicine took away my hunger, plus, I wasn't going to waste the money I don't have on the crappy foot the cafeteria offers.

I had no idea why I said we were going out. I wasn't usually this aggressive. I guess I was just tired of the world passing me by, I stumbled into the bathroom and took a dump.

Charlie

That Zander guy seemed all right. With any luck, he'd come out of his shell a bit in my party tonight. He seemed a bit angry at me when I asked if he liked Escape The Fate and 30 Seconds To Mars. Well, I was hardly going to ask him if he liked Britney Spears was I? And anyway, I like 30 Seconds To Mars and Escape The Fate. Nothing wrong with it.

I was supposed to have detention after school, but I'd already decided that I wasn't going to bother. I had too much on my mind. My dad and my sister had gone away for the weekend, thank God. Otherwise, I would never have even thought of throwing this party. My dad wouldn't have allowed it. He hated me as it was.

As I was leaving the school, I noticed Zander leaning on the fence. Smiling, I strolled over to him. When he saw me, I noticed him roll his eyes.

"Hey mate," I said as friendly as I could. "Which way do you walk?"

"That way," Zander pointed towards my neighbourhood.

"Me too," I answered. "Fancy walking with me?"

"No." Zander spoke quickly.

God. Sorry. I was just offering. I thought that he was kind of getting to like me. I suppose he had more sense than that. Good for him.

"Uh, I'm waiting for Meggie." He forced a smile, obviously realising how angry he just sounded.

"Oh, I see." I winked at him jokingly. "Bye then, see you tonight."





I'm not going to be here from this afternoon until about Monday (UK time). I'm sorry that this is such short notice, my parents only decided to tell me that we were going away for the weekend this morning... ¬_¬
You guys are welcome to keep my character involved in the Storybook, if you like that is. Anyway, sorry again.

xoxo Skins

Axley

"You know, new kid, Charlie's not too bad, I mean, for what he is," I sighed, enjoying the slight jump he got from realizing I was right next to him. The make-up worked too.

"See, Charlie, he might look like a freakin' prep, listens to all the basic bands rather than... well, unusual stuff, but, well, he's cool, let's leave it at that, no, we are not dating. By the way, hear you and Miss Megs are going out or something. That's a bit fast. She even know your name or what?"

((Sorry for shortness!))

Meggie~

I walked with Lana out of the school gates scuffing my shoes across the floor. Lana began to whistle in tune with the birds singing in the trees. I began to dance clicking my fingers, I was bored! What did you suspect?

“Ooo lah lah lookie who it is!” Lana sung loudly. I turned to see her pointing towards Zander and Axley who I knew from the gothic group I sometimes hung around with when I wasn’t with Lana. I kept clicking my fingers but I decided to cut the wild dancing.
Lana grabbed onto my palm, pulling me towards the two of them. I liked Axley’s style, it was different that was for sure. But that is what made her individual a very hard thing to pull off.

“Hey!” Lana smiled stopping, I stared at her hair. Again it looked as if she had just stepped out of a professional salon.
I grinned, “hi!” I guess that thing with Zander was actually, very confusing. I mean we weren’t actually going out, at least I didn’t think we were? What happens if we were? What happens if we weren’t? To many damn questions that was for sure!
“Hi.” Axley and Zander said in unison.

Zander

"Hi," I greeted Maggie. She said hey back and we began out walk home. It was kind of nice not doing this alone all the time. Except when people pestered me with questions like Charlie was bound to do. Maybe I was too hard on him. Maybe clothes weren't everything. Nah.

"So, where do you live?" Charlie inquired.
"Um, eastern Hadenfield." I answered.
"Oh, I live in north. Won't be a long walk to the party tonight," He added. I lived with my aunt. My mom and dad were divorced, and both were in drug rehab in Texas. It had been around the house. That's why I tried it first.

"I guess I'll see you around," I said. My house was coming into view. Maggie and the rest said goodbyes. They probably were surprised at how big my house was. If only they knew....

Lana:

I tossed my arms over my head and danced wildly. Meggie laughed at me "You realize we're not even at the party yet don't you?" I shrugged "Course I do. Doesn't mean I can't dance. 'Sides, it's my bedroom." I pulled the straightener through the last section of hair and pressed it flat.

I slicked a coat of my mint lip gloss on and handed it to Meggie. She swiped it across her lips and placed it on my dresser. I looked into my full length mirror and pulled up my neon yellow tank top "I'm thinking about getting a belly piercing. What do you think?"