Tightrope

"You okay there," he paused trying to remember my name.
"Brianne, but you can call me Bri. Everyone else here does," I answered with confidence I didn't know I had. I took his hand and he helped me up off the ground.
"Well then Bri, my name is Ryker, but you can just call me the man of your dreams," he joked. I laughed with him and continued walking up the path being careful to not slip again. I felt his arm go around my waist and I looked up at him surprised.
"Can't let you slip again, Bri," he chuckled, looking down at me.
Was Ryker Stafford flirting with me? I pondered. As soon as the idea appeared in my head I shook it out thinking it was completely insane. But, I couldn't shake the fact that he still had his arm around me. 
The sound of crashing water reached my ears and I noticed that everyone up ahead had stopped walking. Ryker and I picked up our pace to meet them.
As we got closer, the sound increased in volume. I looked over the ledge with them and saw a thirty-foot waterfall. The beautiful view took my breath away more than the hike had.
"So do we walk back down now?" I asked Mel who was standing dangerously close to the edge.
"Nope," she replied simply, with a mischievous glint in her eyes, "Now, we jump."
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Brianne Carter, Junior at Sanibel High, loser, loner, and as of recently...single. Her life seems to reach its all time low after her boyfriend dumps her for Mel, the epitome of popularity, because she is too boring.
In an attempt to prove him wrong, Brianne is thrown into the world of the popular kids. Everything changes and suddenly the least of her worries is her ex-boyfriend who she now has to face everyday. Not that she cares with the extremely popular and hot Ryker beginning to show an interest in her.
Late night parties and sneaking out become a norm, but will Brianne fail trying to navigate through the foreign lands of popularity?