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#9

                                   (Lola's POV)

         Being with Edward is a routine I love, we see each other everyday at school and almost every weekend. I often feel like finding Edward is the best thing that has ever happened to me, how comfortable it was to be with him without any worries.

      Our fight at the club was quickly forgotten when I saw him at school this morning, he looked so nervous and regretful. My mom was always going on about how different my life in San Francisco is from my life in New York. Many things caused the change, my pain is one of it but I think I'm happy with this change, it has brought me someone who genuinely cares for me.

       As we walked towards the school exit, I spotted Chloe and her group– the school popular girls– she saw me also and gave me a discreet smile then raised her nose up and walked with her friends by her side.
      Seeing her like this, I almost laughed, this was the Chloe who hung out with me laughing and chatting so freely and people feared her at school. I watched as people cleared the road to give them space, some people sneering and gossiping about them, others just staring at them and trying to avoid them.

      Beachview had a no bullying policy which I'm sure they know that student don't exactly follow because I've heard Chloe talk about people she got on her hate list for annoying her and I've heard students talk about the consequences of getting on the popular girls bad side. Chloe always justifies her actions by claiming they acted first and she reacted, all I knew was, my best friend is a softie at heart.

       Sometimes I think about how my two lives collides with each other, my old life in New York and my new one in San Francisco. At my school in New York, I was the 'chloe' of my class and Leo's girlfriend was the 'Chloe' of the whole school, she being the queen b and me being a queen b in the making. Getting invited to parties hanging out with seniors all while I was just a freshman.

         Chloe was known for her meanness in school which I failed to understand because the Chloe I know was extremely simple. I always atributed her mean behavior in school to a façade she wore to keep her position in school, acting like a stereotypical queen bee but my best friend was very nice.

        Her group of friends consisted of two other girls apart from her, they are identical twins whose mother was a famous movie director always working. They were often called 'the triangle', with the twins been the equal slants and Chloe being the grounding factor. Her group was really dynamic but stereotypical in the sense that the three of them were beautiful and 'mean' just like in the movies but there was no blonde girl among them, Ariel and Autumn were red heads with blue eyes, Chloe was a brunette with hazel eyes, each of them had their own personality different from the other so you couldn't say Chloe controlled them because they are their own person.

         I looked up and saw Edward was also looking in the direction which Chloe and the twins just left through with a scowl on his face. I could not understand why those two never got along, Chloe always has a snide remark about Edward and he always had some complain about Chloe but they sometime try to tolerate each other when necessary. I think it might be because they are from different sides, Edward from the group of unpopular Kids and Chloe, was a symbol of popularity.

      I pulled his arm and we walked towards the parking lot where Jason was waiting at the car talking to a girl. He ended his little chat with the girl as he saw us approaching and the girl walked away swaying her hips with her short uniform skirt swishing as she walked, her tie was baby blue indicating she was among the new entries into beachview.

     Everyone's uniform at Beachview was the same, a knee length, plaid, midnight blue skirt with all the colors of our ties forming the lines and button up white shirts for girls, the sleeves depends on the season, while boys wore long, midnight blue tailored pants and button up white shirts also the only difference was the ties, baby blue for freshman, light blue for sophomores, indigo for juniors and navy blue for seniors; just like the one I currently had around my neck. I smiled thinking about the freshman girl who just left and of how she was already acting like the popular girls at the school by flirting with boys and defying school rules by reducing the length of her skirt , exactly Jason's type.