Caught In The Flame

First day back to hell...

Authors Note// here's the next chapter! We're trying to update a lot today so we won't have to do as much this week. I'm always busy with something or to lazy to work on it, so we're trying to write a lot and then post some today and also save some as a draft for later. Today is my only free day for the rest of this week because tomorrow I'll be cleaning and rearranging things in my room. Saturday I have a cook out with my family. And I honestly don't know what I'm doing Sunday but I'll probably call Keymari (my Bestfriend and editor) so we can write some more for you guys! Well, hope you enjoy! Comment what you think and share with your friends!

Merleah's POV

As I was driving us to school I couldn't seem to shake my thoughts about my dream last night. Luckily for me we just arrived at school and I could busy myself with school work. I parked my car and got out with Darcy and Claire doing the same, we walked around school for a bit before we had to get to class at 9:00am. When it was 8:55 we decided we should make our way to our first period. Today was Monday so we had all classes today. For first period I had Ms. Tufty's World History 2. Dang. I didn't have Darcy or Claire in this class. As I walked through Ms. Tufty's door I saw Rachel Simons, a girl I've known since middle school. She used to also live in Manhattan which is how we met when Darcy, Claire and I lived in Manhattan with our parents. Well I lived with my grandparents. Rachel and her parents moved from Manhattan to Arlington Virginia in 8th grade before my bestfriends and I moved to Calabases in 9th grade. So I'm guessing this is her first day at Ridgewood. She waved hi to me and motioned for me to sit in the seat next to her. I walked over to the seat and sat down. "Hey Merleah, I haven't seen you in forever gosh I didn't think it was possible for you to get any more beautiful! How's Claire and Darcy?" She said. "Hey Rach! I know I can't believe you're here though! And you're going to love Ridgewood it's an amazing school. And thank you so much! Oh and Darcy and Claire are doing great. You know we've all been bestfriends only since forever." I replied. Rachel then added "I know! This school looks amazing! I read on Gossip Girl that you, Darcy, and Claire moved in together last year! Is that true?" I told her "Yeah that was last year, we all moved to Calabasas. My grandparents thought it would be a good thing to learn to live on our own. It's a great place we love it there." And then the bell rang and Ms. Tufty walked in. She gave us the usual speech "Hello class, I'm Ms. Tufty and I will be your World History teacher this year. I hope you all picked your seats to your liking because they will be your assigned seats unless I instruct otherwise. This week we will be just getting all of our notebooks organized and I will write a few notes and tips on the board that I expect you to copy down about how we will run this classroom this year. Then the next following three weeks we will be brushing up on what you learned the previous year in World History 1. Now I will go call roll." She went down the list of names in the classroom and marked who are here and who are absent. After saying "here" for my name and the other students doing the same, we all pulled out the notebook we bought for this class. Then Ms. Tufty spoke again, "Now I will write down notes that you need to copy down in your notebook." The following notes read-
•The following three weeks we will brush up on the Peloponesian Wars, the Punic Wars, The Greek Gods and Goddesses, Greek Mythology, we will also touch on the expansion of Rome. The following month we will learn about the history of France, China, Rome, and Spain. The following year we will be learning about the ancient History of the world none of us were alive to learn.

When she finished writing I was almost done copying seeing as I was writing along while she was. After she gave the rest of the class time to copy, she told us to have free time until the bell rang as long as we don't get rowdy. I decided to check and see what class I have next. I saw I had Mr. Rice's drama class for second period. Ooohh yes! I love Mr. Rice. He used to be a History teacher and I had him last year! He was so much fun. After seeing what classes I have for the year, Rachel started talking to me again, I wasn't really listening, just nodding and saying "Mhmm" whenever I felt it was necessary. It was when the bell rang that I got up and walked towards the door to go to my next class. We had 15 minutes on Mondays to get to our next class where as the rest of the week days we had 10. I walked to my locker and decided to put all but a notebook and a pen inside of it. As I was closing it, Darcy came and opened the locker two down from mine, and when she saw me she said "Oh yay finally a locker next to yours! All these other years my locker was always on the other side of the school from yours! Anyway how was first period?" I giggled at her hyperness and said "fine I don't have you or Claire in that class so that kind of makes it wack but Rachel Simons is in there." Darcy gasped "Rachel Simons? I thought she moved from Manhattan to Arlington like 2 years ago." I then commented "Yea but I guess her parents decided to move here. I don't know. Anyway how was your first period class?" She put on her fake smile and said "Oh it was marvelous, you'll never guess who is in there actually." Oh god. "Who?" I asked. She smirked and said "Allyson Perks. You remember her right? The one who used to follow us around everywhere and desperately tried to be our friend?" I shyly smiled and said "Yea I remember her but she never 'followed us around' and 'desperately tried being our friend' she was always so sweet. I wonder what she's been up to." Darcy had that devious glint in her eye and said " Yea... I told her you decided to stay in Paris while Claire and I moved here to Calabasas. She looked crushed! It was so pathetic, but sweet at the same time. And you said she didn't try to desperately be our friend. I sense little miss Allyson has a crush on you. An obsessive 'It girl' crush." I then replied "D, would you stop saying 'it girl'? There's no such thing as an 'it girl'. Also she'll eventually see me and realize you're a LIAR. Anyway what class do you have next?" Then she replied "Drama with Mr. Rice. You?" "Same!" I said with excitement, finally a class with Darcy. We had about 10 more minutes before we had to go to 2nd period so we still remained chatting at our lockers until Claire showed up, "hey girls!" She said as she opened up a locker on the other side of the wall across from mine and Darcy's locker. "Oh my God we have lockers on the same hall near each other, well that's a first." Claire commented. "You're such a dork Claire. Anyway how was first period?" I said. "Oh shut up M. And pretty good, I have James Adams in that class." She said blushing. Darcy and I both laughed saying "Awh your 8th grade crush!" Claire then yelled "Stop it guys it's not funny!" Darcy and I finally composed ourselves and I said "Okay okay but why don't you just talk to him, you've liked him since the 8th grade, and you guys were really close then. So why did you stop talking to each other?" Claire blushed and said "I don't want to talk about it right now. Anyway what about you M? What's been going on with you and Kingsley? Did yall talk last night?" She asked referring to my boyfriend Nathaniel Kingsley, she always called him by his last name, and everyone else called him Nate. I then replied "I don't want to talk about last night, and no I haven't talked to him since yesterday morning." Claire looked confused then said "Then what did you do last night?" Then she whispered "Did you have that dream again?" I nervously looked around and said "No Claire, and I really don't want to talk about it." Claire nodded and said "well I don't know about you girls but I have Mr. Rice's drama class next and I don't want to be late." Darcy and I told her we had the same class to and we all decided to walk together since we only had 3 minutes left until the bell rang. When we got to the door of the classroom we froze. Oh great. Brittany Lee Stevens was in this class. Or as we like to call her, "Bitchy Brittany." She was always so rude to us. Darcy always said it was because she was jealous of us. Claire said maybe she had home issues and decided to take it out on people around her. But I always said, it was plainly because she needed help. We all walked to the three remaining seats which were all behind none other than Brittany herself. When we sat down she turned around giggling and said "Well well well, isn't it wonderful to have a class with someone as wonderful as me?" Darcy sweetly smiled and replied "You know Brittany it is, because whenever we haven't had a good laugh we could always just look at your face. Oh and look ahahahaha... it works." Claire and I started laughing while Brittany, feeling defeated this time, huffed and turned around in her seat. Mr. Rice came in and picked up two cymbals and clapped them together. "Now class, what did I just do?" Jasper, a guy I had classes with last year, raised his hand. "Ah yes Japser!" Mr. Rice said. Jasper then answered "You clapped two cymbals together?" He said as if it were a question. Mr. Rice stroked his long beard and replied "Ahhh yes so it may seem to you. But to me it SYMBOLizes, aha see what I did there, the start of a new day and a new school year to start fresh. So as of 45 seconds ago when I clapped those cymbals together whatever problems you had yesterday, last week, the last month, the last year, are O-V-E-R OVER! It was also to show you, that everyone has different definitions or sees different meanings for everything. Not everyone has the same point of view or perspective on things. Something we will learn this year." The class was quiet. Then Mr. Rice said "you all are too quiet, this is drama class for crying out loud! Drive by acting exercise! You're all debating on who is a cooler teacher based on your own true opinions. Myself, or Ms. Champion the drama teacher next door for 9th graders! GO!" Then we all got up and started arguing with each other over which teacher was better, I had Ms. Champion last year for drama while I had Mr. Rice for History. I personally think Mr. Rice is a cooler teacher, while other students had different opinions. But none the less, I know this class would never be boring. It seems as if Darcy and Claire agreed with me that Mr. Rice was a better teacher but us three decided to make this interesting and debate about why Mr. Rice was better and turned our debate into an argument over why he was and argue about why one of our reasons were better than the other. Man this class was going to be fun. "AND SCENE" Mr. Rice yelled and then we all dropped to the floor. Well most of us, and by most of us I mean the ones who have taken a drama class before and knows what 'scene' means. Our school drama teachers like to have fun so when the drama teacher says 'scene' we all drop to the floor and sit there quietly until the teacher calls on someone and asks them their opinion on the question that was asked and explains what the debate/ argument was about. Mr. Rice started laughing. "Brittany who in your opinion is a cooler teacher, who were you debating with and speak!" Mr. Rice spoke quickly for dramatic effect. Brittany smiled and said "In my opinion you're a cooler teacher, and I was debating with Brett who thought Ms. Champion was." Mr. Rice looked at Brett gasped and said "I am hurt Brett, after all these minutes of class and I'm not your favorite! I thought what we had was special!" Brett laughed and said "sorry Mr. Rice but that's just my opinion, I had her last year for drama. But so far you are a really cool teacher!" Mr. Rice replied "Ehhh don't worry about it!" Mr. Rice looked around the room and said "and now fooooooooorrrrr..... Merleah Winslow there's my favorite student! Who in your opinion is a cooler teacher, who were you debating with and speak!" I laughed and said "Well Mr. Rice you are my favorite and I was debating with Claire and Darcy who also liked you better. We were debating over why you were cooler, and argued over why one reason you are cooler was greater than the others opinion of why you were cooler." Mr. Rice looked please and said in a very odd voice "Ahhhh a twist!" He said twisting his fingers. "I like that Merleah, Darcy and Claire, very different! I sense we will get along great girls!" He added. I looked at Darcy and Claire and we all laughed and said at the same time "Awwhhhh shucks Mr. Rice!" Mr. Rice found our dramatic answer funny and decided to move on to another topic.

•Awhh don't you just love Mr. Rice!? And what about that girl Brittany? She seems snobby and conceited. But Darcy surely did shut her ego down quick. For now anyway. Hehehehe. *Raven Baxter vision* I see drama coming in the near future! I wonder how long Merleah is going to hold out on telling the girls about her dream!? Anyway comment what you think about our fanfiction so far. This fanfiction is about two TV shows mashed up, one of them is Gossip Girl. Have any of you figured out what the other TV show is ? I've left at least one clue as to what the other is. Anyway please comment, and share with your friends!