About a month after the funeral Regan was settled in her grandma's house in California. She has to start school again, all the way across the coutnry. She already misses her friends from Florida.
She realises she woke up an hour late, so she takes a shower and pulls her natural blonde curls in a pony tail, grabs an apple to eat for breakfast, and heads out the door with her grandma.
She gets in the car that smells just like her grandmas house, too much perfume and ancient. They pull up to the school.
"Sweetie do you want me to go in with you?" Her grandma asks her.
"No, umm that's okay grandma. I love you." She says as she shuts the door. She heads for the front doors of the school when she notices a group of three girls staring at her.
"What the hell are you looking at?" Regan says to the brunette girl who looked like the "head" of the group.
"Obvously you, are you new here?" The girl says.
"Yeah, I moved here from florida." Regan says.
"Oh, I'm Jessie, these are my friends Natalie and Erica." She points to the girls.
"I'm Regan." Regan says. She starts walking away, when Jessie grabs her arm.
"Wait, um, I wanted to know if you could sit with us at lunch." Jessie said.
"Oh, um yeah sure." Regan said, trying to hide her excitment.
"Well, there is one condition for sitting at our table." Jessie said.
"Oh, um what?" Regan says.
"We don't EVER wear our hair in ponytails." Jessie says. She grabs a brush out of her bag.
"Oh, um, yeah sorry i woke up late so i took a shower and-" Jessie interrupts Regan.
"Just take down your hair, I don't need the deets." Jessie says. Regan shrugs her shoulders and pulls out her hair. She grabs the brush and burshes her hair.
"Wow your hair is so pretty!" Jessie says as she grabs the brush out of Regans hand and snaps.
"Come on girls." Natalie and Erica start following her like little puppy dogs into the school.
"Um, bye." Regan says after they are gone.
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I get out of the lunch line and see Jessie sit down in between Natalie and Erica. Across from them are three guys. I start walking towards them and I see a really hot guy with shiny brown hair and stare at him as he walks by. He smiles a really cute smile at me and then walks up to me.
"Well, hi there I'm Michael." He says.
"Oh..um...hi. I'm Regan." I say, knowing my face is beet red.
"Hi Regan. Do you want to sit with me at lunch?" Micael says.
"Um..well. I kind of already promised to sit with someone." I say to him.
"Who?" Michael asks.
"Her name Jessi. I don't know her last name, but she's right over there." I direct my head towards her.
"Oh, god. She is so mean." Michael says.
"Why, um, why is she mean?" I ask.
"She does this with every new girl. She pretends to be there friend, learns their secrets and then tells the whole school." Michael says.
"Oh." I shake my head at that.
"Yeah, so do you want to sit with me?" He asks.
"Um, yeah I guess." I say with my face still red.
