Seduction at its finest

The Bet

To: "Honey"

From: "Peaches"

Subject: Re: how's texas peaches? (not how are the peaches in tx, but how is texas, peaches)

hey riley.

your subject is so you.

anyway, still missing life back in the Big Apple... i don't know what it is about this school, but there are a bunch of idiots here. haven't found anything or anyone interesting enough to associate with. *sigh* wish you were here.

i know you said i should reach out to people and try to make the best of this experience, but seriously? it's senior year. did my mom really think i would like it here on my last year? what the fuck is up with that?

anyway, sorry. i just want this school year to roll on by so I can get my damn diploma and come back to you for college. it's just ten months of school. if i keep chanting that, it'll make this year go by a hell of a lot faster.

hey, i sent you a present in the mail :) it was something i saw in a store here and just had to give it to you because it reminded me of you. i sent farkle one too. let me know when you get it.

as for him... honestly, no. i am not holding up well after the breakup. i'm still trying to figure out why he ended things, but i can't. he's your older brother riley. if there's anything you can find out, let me know. (as in, if he was two timing me with some girl at NYU you should let me know so i can come back and trash his dorm room).

but it still hurts.

and it hurts even more that you're not here with me to help me get over it. any chance you can come visit me this week so school isn't so terrible?

tell farks and the others i miss them and that i'll be back to visit you all in the winter.

love you always my honey,

peaches

(sent 7:38am 10/09)

Maya slammed her locker shut, letting out an annoyed sigh under her breath as students bustled by and brushed past her on their way to lunch. She glanced up at the clock nearby in annoyance.

Still three hours left of the school day.

Time was passing way too slowly.

It had already been one whole week since Maya had been subjected to attend this hell of a school and even after a week of being here, she still didn't like it. In fact, she hated it (although that had more to do with the fact that Riley wasn't here with her. Maya hated all schools by nature).

On her first day, she'd had a run in with the principal for wearing jeans with too many inappropriately placed holes in them (there had been one tear, one damn tear, near her crotch)."We're off to a bad start, Miss Hart' he'd said. She wanted to crawl in a hole and die.

She didn't want to be here.

But there was nothing she could do about it. Her mother was adamant that they start a new life in a new city, hoping they would find some happiness after the past rough years. And when the settlement from the divorce had finally been finalized and they'd gotten compensated pretty damn well, that was that. They'd packed up their bags and moved to Austin lickety split.

Maya was all for change and moving and maybe she might have handled this particular change more eloquently if it had been after high school. But it was her damn senior year; why did her mom have to make her leave now of all times? And on top of that, they had moved after a month had already passed of the semester. Her chances of finding and/or making any friends had already been squashed before they even arose.