Malibu Reel

PILOT: Part 2

Waterway High. A big high school home to many celebrity and rich teens in Malibu. The campus is accustomed to valet parking, designer tags and expensive cars. There are people on the bright green grass, and more chatting and laughing about.

As Nebbie pulls into a space, she looks up to see Peter Tanabe in his grey Range Rover, pulling into a space directly in front of her.

She stops pulling off her seat belt and keeps her hands on the steering wheel, shocked.

"Oh no," she says, mouth agape.

"What? What's wrong?" Tara asks confused, as she lifts her sunglasses up a little over her eyes to see Nebbie.

"Peter! That's Peter!" Nebbie yell whispers, ducking down a bit, as one hand hides her face, and another points in his direction.

"..Okay.. sooo," Tara says, laughing.

"So! I can't let him see me," Nebbie whispers again.

"Dude, if you like him so bad, why don't you just talk to him?" Tara asks, while undoing her seat belt, about to get out of the car.

Nebbie grabs her hand to stop her. "No, wait until he leaves first!"

"Uhm, Nebb?"

"What?"

"Uh, yeah he already left," Tara says.

"Oh," Nebbie says as she sits back up. "Well alright then, let's go!" She says, happily getting out of the car, as they walk into the school.

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Elsewhere, Max and two of his friends, Nick and Ryder, from the soccer team are at the outdoor lunch area. The area overlooks the blue, Pacific ocean in the distance.

"Finally! We're seniors man, I can't believe it!" Nick says excitedly.

"Yeah, it's about time! Time goes by so slow here in Malibu. This summer we went to my family's vacation house in Italy and time just FLEW. It was two months, and only felt like 2 weeks man I'm telling you," Ryder said, before taking a sip of his water.

"So what did you do this summer man?" He asks Max.

Nick makes the face like 'no don't ask that' to Ryder. Ryder notices, but is confused.. as usual.

"You know, just keeping up my A-game, practicing on the field," Max said. "And uh, Claira and I kind of broke up," he says, scratching the back of his head a bit, and looking at the herds of people passing by.

"Woah, no way man," Ryder said, taking away from his drink a little, shocked. He was away in Italy all summer and hadn't been keeping up with the latest gossip in Malibu.

"Yeah.. I caught her cheating on me one night," Max said.

"That little..." Ryder said, stopping himself, getting a tad upset. He  looked towards the crowd and then back to Max. "With who?!"

"Asher Montgomery," Nick says, looking in the direction of Asher, who was walking in their direction.

He has on a black V-neck tee shirt, cut up black jeans, black Van's on, a black backpack slung over one shoulder, and black Burberry sunglasses on. Most of the girls look back at him, gawking, and basically drooling over him. Meanwhile, he just walks on with air pods in, minding his own business, not even bothering to look in anyone's direction.

"Wait. I thought you two were like tight man. How could he do that?" Ryder asks Max, trying to figure out what he missed the last two months.

"I don't know. People change man," he says while sighing. His dark blue eyes following Asher with a threatening look.