I hate my school. I'm tired of going to classes everyday and the only thing I'm actually being taught is american history and sociology. I don't plan on having a career that has anything to do with history or sociology. Ugh.

I just hate it. And what sucks the most is the fact that I've pretty much excepted the fact that I'm screwed once I get to college. Majorly screwed.

That's all due to my stupid ass hicktown school. Living in northern Louisiana fucking SUCKS!!! Seriously, there's only so many rednecks that can be handled. I just happen to have an entire family of pretty much nothing but rednecks. Not to mention the ones I have to deal with on a daily basis at freaking school.

It's nearly two weeks into school and we still don't have an algebra 2 teacher. Seriously, what the fuck? Some people do like to learn! Any kind of math has always been my strongest subject and my personal favorite subject, but, so far this year, I've learned nothing new. I hate it so much.

It's just ridiculous, really.

At this point, I'm even considering transferring school. I'm afraid to do that for two reasons:

A) I'm so far behind that I'm sure I would never pass any classes at any of the other schools near here.

B) There are about 400 students at the school I currently attend. All the other high schools near here have 1,000 plus students.

So yeah. Basically these are my options:

Option A: Stay at the school I'm at, continue to get farther behind, and hope to God that I can manage to get through college.

Option B: Ask to be home-schooled and hope that I have the willpower to stick with that.

Option C: Transfer to a different school with a huge student body and have to work my ass off just to pass my classes.

Honestly, none of those options seem too promising...

I shoved my phone in my pocket and looked at Caleb. He looked mad now. All signs of laughter on his face were gone.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” I asked quietly.

“Yeah,” Caleb said, not taking his eyes off the road in front of him.

Silence fell upon us and lasted until we were parking outside of Kyle’s house.

“Let me go in first. Give me five minutes,” I said.

I threw open the door and started to get out.

“But-” Caleb started, but I cut him off.

“Five minutes.”

Caleb reluctantly nodded and I gave him a small smile. I shut the door and walked to Kyle’s door. I went inside and immediately began my search for Kyle.

I found him in the kitchen leaning against the counter, clutching red, plastic cup in his hand.

When I stepped into the room, his eyes connected with mine and he dropped the cup, spilling beer all over his shoes. He didn’t even seem to notice.

“Kara, wow. Did you change your mind?” he asked.

“Not a chance. I came to ask you a favor,” I said.

“What might that be?”

“Caleb’s on his way in here. He’s pissed that you kissed me. Just, be calm when he comes barging in here.”

“Eww, you kissed that,” Jonathan said, looking at Kyle with a disgusted look on his face.

“What? No way. I don’t know what she’s talking about, she’s crazy,” Kyle said.

“Yeah, I’m completely out of my mind!” I turned and started walking away, but stopped after a few steps.

“Oh, and for your information, even if I would’ve changed my mind, that little comment of yours would’ve changed it back faster than you could blink.”

I left the room to Jonathan’s whispers of “I wonder what kind of drugs she’s tripping on?”

I ran into Caleb as I was walking back to the door.

“Where is he?” he asked.

“In the kitchen. Caleb, please don’t do anything stupid,” I said.

“I won’t.”

“I believe you.”

“Good.”

He kissed me quickly before walking into the kitchen. I waited a few seconds before I followed him.

Kyle and Caleb were facing each other, their noses barely inches apart. I had never seen Caleb look so angry.

“Why would you kiss her? She’s with me, not you. You screwed things up with you and Kara. Get over it, and stay away from my girlfriend,” he said a lot calmer than I would have expected after seeing the anger evident on his face.

“Just leave, Caleb. I’m trying to honor a favor I was asked. So, please, just calm down and back away. I apologize for whatever I did. Just leave, before I have to upset someone that means a lot to me any further.”

Caleb opened and closed his mouth a few times like he wanted to say something, but couldn’t manage to find the words.

I grabbed his arm and pulled him with me out of the kitchen as I tried to ignore the urge to burst into tears.

“Shut up! I don’t want the world to know. I haven’t even talked to Caleb about it yet!” I said.

“Sorry,” she muttered.

“Why did he kiss you? We need details! Did you like it?” Addison jumped in.

“What?! Of course I didn’t like it, it’s Kyle for heaven’s sake! I’ve already told you. He followed me to my room and then started looking all sad. Then he told me that he was sorry for everything and then he kissed me.”

“Who exactly kissed you?” a voice that I immediately recognized said from behind me. My eyes widened and I turned around quickly.

“Caleb, oh my God, that must’ve sounded really bad,” I said.

“Yeah, it did. It sounds to me like you’ve got something to tell me.”

“Yeah, I do. Something big! Wait, you’re not mad at me?”

“I’m not one of those guys that just jumps to conclusions. I’ll at least give you a chance to explain yourself.”

“He really is amazing,” I heard Emily whisper to Addison.

“I heard that. Back off my boyfriend, bitch!” I said.

Emily stuck her tongue out at me and I flipped her off before laughing and turning back to face Caleb.

“Let’s go talk,” I said to Caleb.

He nodded and we started walking out of the food court. We didn’t say much until we were outside of the mall and getting into his car.

“So, who was in your room? No, more importantly, who kissed you?” Caleb asked.

“Kyle,” I said, suddenly nervous about what Caleb’s reaction would be.

To my surprise, he burst into laughter.

“What is so funny?” I questioned.

“Kyle? Like Kyle, Kyle. Do you honestly expect me to believe that?”

“Yeah, I do. I’m telling you the truth. My mom invited him over for dinner because she wanted it to be like old times. She told us to go to my room while she finished dinner. He came in my room and started apologizing for everything he has done to me and then he kissed me.”

“Kara, what did you do?”

“I kicked him out. What else?”

Cue Caleb’s laughter, yet again.

“What are you laughing about this time?”

“I would have loved to see the look on his face! You’re probably the first girl that has ever rejected him.”

“You’re laughing. Wow. Are you not mad at him?”

“Oh, I’m furious.”

Caleb turned his eyes forward and started driving out of the parking lot.

“Where are we going?” I asked.

“There’s a little party going on at Mr. Burns’ house and we’re going to crash it.”

This definitely wasn't going to be good. 

I’ll start off with the worst part of the night. We had been standing in line for about and hour before the doors finally opened. Right before they opened the doors, the security people came down the line looking at everyone’s cameras and told me that I couldn’t take mine in because it was capable of taking videos. It really pissed me off because pretty much all digital cameras these days have videos and I’m the only person out of our line that wasn’t permitted to take in my camera. I thought about just walking to the car and having my friend put it in her pocket, but I thought my mom would kill me so I didn’t. Then, once we were inside, my mom said we should have just smuggled the camera inside. So, yeah, enough about that.

Oh, but I will tell you guys the funny thing that happened while we were in line. Some of the people working there were walking around with Guitar Hero on Nintendo DS, letting people try it out. This one guy was walking around with one of the girls that had the game, has a speaker thing, so everyone in the lines could hear him talking. He stopped by me and asked me if I was a rockstar. I started laughing and told him no. Then he pointed to my eyebrow piercing and my fender guitar shirt and said that I looked like a rockstar. Haha. Then they handed me the game to play and I failed miserably at it.

So we went inside and sat there for about another hour before the host started talking. He got this old guy to stand up and do all these dance moves, and it was hilarious. Then, since the sponsor was pop-tarts, a giant pop-tart comes out of nowhere and starts running around. It was funny.

So the first person out was number 10, Chikezie. He sang three songs, but I can’t really remember which ones they were. I think one of them was “Caught up” by Usher.

Next up was number 9, Ramiele Malubay. I can’t remember her songs either. All I know is she did really good.

Next, number 8, Michael Johns. He was so amazing. His performance started off with the first verse and chorus of “We Will Rock You” by Queen. After that, he went straight into “We Are The Champions” by Queen. He did a slower song after that, then "Dream On" by Aerosmith. I think that was all he did.

Number 7, Kristy Lee Cook. I know she sang a song called “Cowgirls,” and then “God Bless The USA” which she dedicated to everyone that was fighting for our country or have fought for it in the past. She did one or two more, but I have no clue what they were.

Number 6, Carly Smithson. She started off with “Bring Me To Life” by Evanescence. I never really was a big Carly Smithson fan during the show, but she did amazing on that song. I don't remember the rest. She did two more I believe.

Number 5, Brooke White. Damn, I’m bad at remembering the songs they did. Her last song was “Yellow.” She did two before that. She did her first song on piano and the second on guitar.

Next, all of the ones that had already sang came out together and sang a song. I don’t know what song it was, but they sang it as the “idol gives back” video played on the screens. It was cool.

Then it was time for intermission. The host came back out and introduced two of the crew members that were going to have a guitar hero competition. It was hilarious. After that the host started walking around and talking to people and the pop-tart came out again.

The host picked two different guys out of the audience and made them go stand in front of some cameras. One of them was probably like eight or nine, and the other like seven. They told the guy what their names were. The youngest boy was really shy as he was talking to the host, and he barely said anything, but it was adorable. His name was Kellam and the host thought he said “kill em.” He asked the boy if his name was Kill em and he told him yeah. He was so freaking cute! The host told them that they were going to have an “air guitar hero” competition.

It had to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen. The shy boy amazed everyone when the “competition” started and he started head-banging like crazy. It was great.

Jason Castro was next. He started off playing his ukulele and singing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” He also did "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkely. All of his songs were sooo good. I just wish I could remember them.

Syesha Mercado was the next up. She sang “Umbrella” by Rihanna. Then she sang an Alicia Keys song, I’m thinking it was “If I ain’t got you,” but I’m not entirely sure. Her last song was the one that was just amazing. It was “Listen” by Beyonce. Her voice is just so powerful, it’s just…I can’t even describe it in words. I literally had chills through pretty much the whole song, and then gave her a standing ovation when she couldn’t get through the last notes of the song because she sat down on the stage and broke down crying. She stood back up and thanked everyone that was cheering for her and said that it was just so amazing that they were able to stand up on stage and pour their hearts out through the songs they sing. It was amazing.

The next one up was David Archuletta. I don’t know what the name of the song he started with was, but he was playing the piano as he sang and it was great. After that he sang “Apologize” by One Republic. I’m so glad he sang that one because it was my favorite that he had ever sang on the show. He sang another after that, but I don’t remember the name of it. I just remember him saying that it wasn’t something he did on the show, but he really like it so he was going to sing it. I think it might have been “When You Say You Love Me.” He finished up with “Stand By Me.”

Then, of course, the last one to sing was David Cook.

The first song he did was “Hello,” I think. I’m really not completely sure. After that he sang his single “Time of my life.” That song is a million times better when he sings it live! I just love his voice so much. I totally don’t remember the next one, but it was really, really good. I wish I was better at the remembering thing. Next was “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing” by Aerosmith. Another great performance. He went off stage for a few minutes then came back out and performed “Billie Jean.” That was, hands down, the best one he did for the night. No, scratch that, all of his songs were freaking amazing.

That was his last one alone. After a few more minutes, all ten of them came back out and sang “Please Don’t Stop The Music.” It was a really, really good performance.

So that was the end of the concert. We left and got in the car and there was a lot of traffic, so I decided I wanted to get a picture of the buses really fast before traffic started moving. So I did that, and when my friend and I got back to the car, my mom told me that they would park and wait for a while if we wanted to go get autographs. So, of course, we took that and ran with it. (Quite literally, might I add.) There were a lot of people going to where the autographs were going to be so we ran all the way around this huge building just so we could try to get close enough. All the running paid off though. I didn’t have anything with me to get them to sign, so my friend says something about getting them to sign my shoes. So she literally had to hold me up while I somehow managed to take off my hi-top converse while standing pretty much shoulder to shoulder with people. It wasn’t so easy. I ended up getting David Archuletta, Brooke White, and Carly Smithson to sign them. I also got pretty close up pictures of Jason Castro, Kristy Lee Cook, Syesha Mercado, David Archuletta, Brooke White, and Carly Smithson. I’ll get all of the pictures uploaded later on today.

That part was sad because I really wanted to get an autograph from Jason Castro, but he didn't come down to our end. Then Michael Johns and David Cook went straight to their buses and didn't come to sign anything.

All in all, I’m really happy with the way it turned out. It was my very first concert, and it was really awesome. I had a lot of fun.

Sorry this is so long, and probably full of mistakes. :]

Step 1: Put your music player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line (or so, some are hard) from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone
guesses correctly (No lyric hunting! That is cheating!)

1. in the winding down hours, I let your heart down again.

2. i got your picture, I'm coming with you. -"dear maria, count me in" --all  time low

3. "no time for goodbye," he said as he faded away.

4. the lips that slip are the lips that press.  -"bounce" --the cab

5. the city is at war, playtime for the young and rich. ignore me if you see me cause i just don't give a shit. -"the city is at war" --cobra starship.

6. said i'd move on and i'd leave it alone, but before i walk out there is something that i need you to know.

7. calm your nerves now and don't worry, just breathe. -"take my hand" --the cab

8. she takes her time with the little things, love notes reminding me. -"everything i ask for" --the maine

9. and you said it would be funny to leave me hanging in suspense.

10. the lights out, i still hear the rain. -"jasey rae" --all time low

11. I came, you went, is there something I should have said? -"i'm a wonder" --the cab

12. hips sway and lips lie, like clockwork she's control of all the right guys and i'm still waiting. -"shameless" --all time low

13. wake the ones and rise tonight, fallen souls we shine so bright. 

14. listen when i say, when i say it's real, real life goes undefined.

15. with this ink in our skin we've sealed our fate. 

16. i tear my heart open, i sew myself shut, my weakness is that i care too much. -"scars" --papa roach

17. he spends his nights in california, watching the stars on the big screen.

18. helpless, my eyes are bleeding from the fear that's inside, you sealed your demise when you took what was mine. 

19. i want you to want me, i need you to need me, i'd love you to love, i'm begging you to beg me. -"I want you to want me" --cheap trick

20. i can see it in your eyes, you're scared. all these things they force you to do aren't fair. -"i'll run" --the cab

21. we both lie silently still in the dead of the night, althought we both lie close together, we feel miles apart inside. -"every rose has it's thorn" --poison

22. sleep well, tucked tight, make sure you hide the knife, this was for the best. -"whoa" --we the kings

23. luck loves me not tonight, i'm running out. this four leaf clover's all but useless now. -"break out! break out!" --all time low

24. somewhere beyond happiness and sadness, i need to calculate what creates my own madness.

25. there's another world inside of me that you may never see. there's secrets in this life that i can't hide.

“I thought it’d be nice to invite him over for dinner. Like old times,” my mom said with a smile.

“I don’t want it to be like old times!”

“Come on, Kara. It will be fun,” Kyle said.

“Fun? I’d rather pull my teeth out one by one and eat them.”

My mom ignored my rude comment and turned to Kyle.

“You two should go up to Kara’s room while I get dinner finished up,” my mom said.

I rolled my eyes and stormed out of the room and up the stairs. I could hear Kyle following me. I slammed the door to my room and hoped to God that he would get the hint.

He didn’t. I heard the door open and then close gently.

“Why would you even come here?” I asked, turning to Kyle.

“Like your mom said, it’ll be like old times. You do remember those times, don’t you?”

“Unfortunately.”

“Ah, so you do remember it, don’t you?” Kyle asked, smiling a little bit.

“Not at all. I’ve repressed all of those memories,” I snapped.

The smile slowly faded off Kyle’s face and he took a step closer to me. I looked up at him, trying to read the expression that had made it’s home on his face.

“Kara…” he started.

“Yeah?”

“I’m sorry.”

Kyle broke the eye contact between us and stared at his shoes.

“For what?”

“Everything. For the way things went down with us before. For the way I’ve treated you. For being a total ass to you.”

“Kyle, don’t..”

“No. I won’t stop. It’s time for it to be said.”

“Just stop. Don’t say anything else.”

He took another step closer to me and I stepped back, feeling my back collide with the wall behind me. This wasn’t good.

“Kara, what would you say if I told you I missed you?”

“I’d say you were crazy.”

He moved even closer to me, slowly raising one of his hands to rest against my cheek.

I knew what was about to happen.

“Kyle, no.”

“Yes.”

I froze as he started leaning towards me. His lips collided with mine and I tried my best to ignore the long-forgotten feeling of electricity that surged through my body.

Kyle pulled away from the kiss and studied my face. I immediately looked away from him and then pushed him out of the way. I walked out of my room and down the stairs. I heard Kyle following behind me, calling my name.

I didn’t stop until I made it to the front door. I opened the door and then turned to face Kyle.

“Leave,” I said simply.

“What?” He asked. He looked genuinely hurt and that almost broke through the anger I was feeling.

“Leave, now.”

“But Kar-”

“Now!”

Kyle looked down at his feet again and walked outside. He turned once he was on the front porch, but I shut the door in his face.

“Dinner’s ready,” my mom said, as she walked past me.

“I’m not hungry,” I replied before running up the stairs and locking myself in my room.

Dun, Dun, Dunnnn!!!! Hahaha. What'd you think?

“How could you even slightly think that? As if I have any feeling other than hate left for that boy,” I said.

Caleb shrugged his shoulders and turned his eyes back to the road.

“No, answer my question.”

“Do you want the truth?”

“No. Lie to me, Caleb. Of course I want the truth!”

“Honestly, it seems kind of like you’re still secretly in love with him, but you’re in serious denial about it.”

“I cannot believe you! Caleb, I love you, and you know that. I have no feelings at all for Kyle Burns!”

“Are you positive?”

“I’ve never been more positive about anything!”

“Okay.”

An awkward silence fell between us and lasted until Caleb pulled into my driveway.

“Are you still mad?” Caleb asked quietly.

“Mad’s not the right word. I’m more hurt than anything.”

“Why hurt?”

“Well, I love you more than anything and it just hurts to think that you doubt that even a little bit.”

“I’m so sorry.”

“It’s okay.”

“No, if I hurt you then it’s not okay.”

“It’s fine. Don’t worry. I forgive you.”

“Okay.”

Caleb walked me up to my door and I turned to face him once we stood on the front porch.

“I’m sorry for making you mad earlier. I really shouldn’t have said anything. It was wrong of me to even let that thought cross my mind. I mean, just cause you have a history with Kyle doesn’t mean anything now. Because, now that I think ab-”

I held my index finger up to Caleb’s lips and he fell silent.

“You’re rambling,” I said.

“Sorry. I just don’t want you to be mad at me.”

“I’m not mad, I promise.”

“Good. I hate when you’re mad.”

“I should go inside now.”

“Okay.”

Caleb made a pouty face and I laughed before being pulled into a really tight hug.

“I love you,” Caleb said. He let his forehead rest against mine.

“I love you, too.”

Caleb kissed me quickly before turning and walking back to his car. Once he got inside his car and started driving away, I walked inside.

“Kara, you don’t want to go in the living room,” my brother, Jason said as soon as I stepped through the front door.

“Why not?” I asked curiously.

“Just trust me on this one, please.”

“Oh, Kara. You’re home. Come in here and see who your mother invited over,” my dad said as he appeared beside Jason and I.

“Run while you still can,” Jason muttered to me so dad couldn’t hear him.

I was thoroughly confused as I followed my dad.

“Mom are you insane?” I yelled as soon as I rounded the corner and stepped into the living room.

“Hello Kara,” Kyle said, looking up at me with that stupid smirk of his.

I wanted to get this up before going to bed so I can have comments from my favorite people ever to look forward to when I get home from school tomorrow. :]

Oh, and Anna. The way I have this planned out, I'll need another character in this for Kyle. So consider him yours. :]

“I’m sorry. It was just too tempting,” Kent said from the backseat. He was trying his best to hold back his laughter.

“Why would you want to dump your popcorn bucket over my head?”

“Come on, Kara, you know it was funny,” Caleb said.

I glared at him.

“Sorry,” he muttered.

“So where to next?” Austin asked excitedly.

“Let’s go to the mall,” Emily said.

“I love the mall!” Addison screamed.

“Okay, no more popcorn for you,” I said as I settled down into the seat and pulled on my seatbelt.

“To the mall!” Caleb said as he started driving us across town to the mall.

“What do you guys think? These or these?” I asked the girls as I tried on two different pairs of sunglasses.

“Do you honestly need more sunglasses?” Caleb cut in.

“A girl can never have too many sunglasses.”

“I like the first ones,” Emily and Addison said in unison.

“I personally think she looks stupid in both of them,” Kyle said as he stepped up to our group, flanked on either side by Jonathan and Marc.

“No one asked you. So I suggest you just run along,” Caleb said.

“And if I don’t?”

Caleb opened his mouth to say something else, but I cut him off.

“Let’s just go,” I said.

Caleb glared at Kyle again before allowing me to pull him away by his arm. I quickly paid for the glasses and walked out of the store. No one said anything until we arrived in the food court.

“I’m hungry,” Austin said as we all sat down at an empty table.

“You’re always hungry,” Emily said.

“So?”

“I’m hungry too,” Kent whined.

“We’re in the food court, go get something to eat,” I snapped at them both.

“Geez who pissed in her cheerios?” Austin muttered.

He stood up from the table, grabbing Emily’s hand and taking her with him.

“Let’s go get food,” Addison said.

Kent nodded and stood up. He slipped his arm around Addison’s waist and they walked off to join the others.

“Are you okay?” Caleb asked me quietly.

I shook my head slightly and put my head down on the table in front of me. I felt Caleb gently rubbing my back.

“You really hate Kyle, don’t you?”

“You think?”

“I hate seeing you like this. All pissed off at the world. You shouldn’t let him affect you this much. It makes it seem like….” he trailed off and my eyes widened in shock.

“Don’t even go there Turman!”

“Just go chill out on the couch or something, I’ll be back down here in a few minutes.”

Caleb nodded and disappeared through the doorway and into the living room. I made my way up the stairs and into the bathroom where I viciously scrubbed at my hands until all the gross toothpaste was completely gone.

I would find someone way of getting back at the stupid blonde freak show.

I made my way back down the stairs quietly. I could see Caleb sitting on the couch, completely focused on the television. I walked through the living room and jumped over the back of the couch, landing next to Caleb.

He screamed like a little girl and fell onto the floor.

“Why would you do that?” he asked, as he stood up. He had his hand over his heart and he looked really freaked out.

“Aww I’m sorry,” I said, trying to hold back the laughter that was threatening to overtake me.

“Go ahead and laugh about it. I know you want to.”

“Thank you.”

Caleb rolled his eyes and I burst into laughter. He sat in silence until I finished my laughing fit.

“All done?” Caleb asked.

“Yeah. All done,” I said.

Caleb smiled and pulled me closer to him. I rested my head against his chest as I felt him wrap his arms around me.

“Try not to worry about Kyle so much. He’s just trying to get under your skin. Don’t give him the satisfaction of knowing that he’s gotten to you,” Caleb said quietly.

“He’s hard to ignore,” I said.

“I know. It’s hard to believe that he used to be cool.”

“Yeah. He’s like the total opposite of cool now. I hate the guy so much.”

“I think we all do.”

“Let’s stop talking about this. So what are we all doing tonight?”

“I thought we’d get the others and go to the movies. Maybe see something scary.”

“You know I don’t like scary movies!”

“I do!”

“Why do you like them so much?”

“Why wouldn’t I? They give me an excuse to hold you.”

“Well aren’t you just adorable?”

“You could say that.”

We both laughed before our lips crashed together. I felt the familiar tingling sensation make it’s way down my spine.

“I love you, Kara. So much more than I ever thought possible.”

“I should take offense to that, but I love you too.”

He started to kiss me again when his phone rang.

“I hate that thing sometimes,” Caleb muttered before flipping it open and raising it up to his ear.

“Yeah. Call the others and tell them to meet us at Kara’s in an hour. Okay, man. Later.”

I absentmindedly flipped through the tv channels as I listened to his end of the conversation. I settled on a cartoon channel, but I turned the volume down so it was just background noise.

“That was Austin. They’re going to meet us here in an hour,” Caleb told me.

“I heard. I’m not deaf you know?”

“Now where were we?”

“Oh, I don’t know. Refresh my memory?”

That smile that I loved so much crept across Caleb’s face as he leant closer to me. Our lips connected in a passionate kiss.

“You are amazing,” I whispered, breathlessly, when the kiss ended.

“Not nearly as amazing as you,” Caleb said.

Okay so I need two characters for this story. I need girlfriends for Austin and Kent. If you want in, just comment with your name, personality, looks, and which guy you want. First come first serve. :] 

EDIT: The guys are both taken now! By Addison (addisonheartsyou) and Emily (xxshamelessxx).