WHAT GOES AROUND COMES BACK AROUND

CHAPTER ONE : CRY ME A RIVER

 CHAPTER 1

Your bridges were burned, and now it's your turn

To cry, cry me a river

Cry me a river-er

Cry me a river

Cry me a river-er, yea yea

                   -Justin Timberlake

Zoey sat in the assembly hall of St. Marks High School and placed her school bag in the adjacent seat It had been five days since their school had re-opened for the following year after the summer break and it already felt like a month had gone by. That’s how slow the school days seemed to be. Zoey was now a brand new junior along with her twin fraternal sister Jasmine a.k.a Jazz and their two best friends Rose and Skylar.

Zoey looked around searching for her friends. They were going to be late if they didn’t hurry up already. What could possibly be keeping all three of them busy and it hadnt even been over a week since classes had started and they were already super swamped with their various clubs and activities. She rested her elbow on the arm rest and cradled her face in her palm, closing her eyes. Even with the loud background chatter, Zoey could sleep like a log. Just as she was about to completely slip into the oblivion, someone flicked her elbow and she fell forward almost crashing into the chair kept ahead.

“Argh..” She looked up to see a familiar crop of blonde hair standing by her.

“Rough night, I take it.” Chris smirked.

“PISS OFF, stark.” she said irritated. He seemed to have gotten the message and left her alone.

Christopher Stark was a jerk and the worst part – he was the younger brother of Brian Stark, Jazz’s boyfriend. Brian and Chris had moved to LA   during the summer and were the sons of the multi billionaire, Thomas Stark. And since Mr.Thomas Stark was her father’s boss and also the fact that they had enrolled in the same school with Brian being a senior and Chris being a junior, Zoey and Jazz were asked to be their tour guides and  friends to help them adjust to their new life in LA, which was apparently very different from the one that they had lived in Chicago. Though what Zoey didn’t understand was why they needed her and Jazz.  They quickly became popular among their peers, especially girls because of their extremely  “good looks” and had a girl flocking around them wherever they went.

 But then Jazz and Brian clicked and they started dating somewhere in the middle of the summer. The girls had visibly backed off from Brian because none of them wanted to pick a fight with Jazz. Even though she was just a junior, she could be pretty intimidating when she wanted to be. But there was this one girl, who didn’t get the message quite yet. Her name was Shaunee Coles, a junior and the captain of the cheer leading team.

Since Brian was the new hot senior, Shaunee wanted him all for herself but seeing Jazz take the “prize”, she was pissed off and hell bent on destroying Jazz’s life. Yet she couldn’t taken her out in the open because everyone loved Jazz – the teachers, the students, the staff, you name it. So Shaunee had resorted to petty tricks and pranks to trouble her, though they didn’t really get her anywhere.

“Move” Jazz said waking Zoey out of her slumber. She shifted and Skylar, Rose and Jazz took their places.

“You guys are very early, I must say.” Zoey yawned.

“Wow, you are sleepy! Rough night?” Skylar suggested.

“Argh” the sentence reminded her of Chris.” No. What is with you and sex? Always steering the conversation to it..”

“Calm down, Zo. She was just trying to irritate you.” Jazz informed her.

“And you get the most irritated when you are a sleepy head” Chimed in Rose.