The Populars

"You going tonight?' Lindsay, my bestfriend asked as she shoved her books into her locker.

"Ricky's party?" I asked. She nodded, picking up a bubblegum pink lipgloss and applying it to her lips.

"No shit, he's my boyfriend," I said, annoyed. I looked in my locker mirror and carefully fixed my hair.

"A little harsh, Riley?" Lindsay slammed her locker and faced me.

"Sorry, I'm just a little mad. Don't take it personally," I told her.

"Why are you mad?" She asked. I shut my locker and we walked side by side to the cafeteria.

"Well third period I got a text from my Dad saying we are having more people over tomorrow." I searched the busy room for an empty table.

"People?" She asked, confused. Lindsay can be a knuckhead sometimes. I talked about this with her like every week.

"My Dad's work friends, Lindsay," I told her, annoyed.

"Again? You just had them last Saturday. Why do they even need to come?" She asked. We walked over to an empty table.

"I don't know. My Dad calls it 'getting to know them better', but think they only come for the wine." I said. Lindsay giggled.

"Speaking of wine, I have a whole lot of it for tonight," A deep voice said. It was Ricky.

"Can't wait," I admitted. He sat down next to me and planted a kiss on my cheek.

"Good," He said simply.

"So how was your math test?" I asked him, knowing how hard he had studied. Ricky was a good student-well okay he was basically perfect. And we loved eachother. For us it wasn't some junior-relationship-where-you-break-up-every-week type thing. That was Lindsay and her boyfriend Nick. We were different.

"Great actually. A+." He responded. His eyes sparkled and I could tell he was proud.

"That's my boy," I said, to which he smiled. Nick sat down next to Linsday.

"Hey Babe," I think he was referring to Linsday but he was a knucklhead as well, so you never know.

"Hey," Linsday smiled up at him.

"So you all are coming tonight, right?" Ricky asked.

"You already know," I told him.

"Totally!" Lindsay squelled.

"How could I miss?" Nick asked.

"Good. It's gonna be the party of the year." Ricky stated.