“Jeremy, get your lazy ass out of bed this instance! Are you even my son? Wake up you ungrateful brat!” Thomas yelled angrily, banging his fist against the teen’s door.     Groaning irritable from the lack of sleep, tossing and turning all night wondering how to explain his feelings to Erika, the sudden disturbance only added fuel to his already burning agony. Pulling the sheets over his head, burying himself under the quilts, Jeremy tried to completely ignore the reality of his actions.     After awhile the knocks finally faded, but soon the sound of the door being unlocked with most likely a spare set of keys could be heard, followed by the feeling of cool air upon his shirtless naked upper body as the self-made cocoon covering him was rudely removed.      “Leave me alone…” Jeremy grumbled reaching for a pillow to once again bury his aching head in. &nbs

     ‘God, I hope I didn’t overdo it, there must be at least a handful of people tired of the rein of Miss popularity and would be willing to join the squad. Then again, who would actually choose to sign such a death sentence waring against that psycho? besides me of course.’ Erika was lost in her usual world of self- reasoning, as she managed to once more escape Jeremy’s chase through the crowd of students, anxious to gain freedom from Math class at the end of the day.     In the school’s auditorium, she stood briskly with eyes fixed at the double door entrance filled with wavering expectations, but soon ten minutes turned into twenty without the slightest hint of a shadow approaching. Thankfully band practice was held on the field today along with the football team’s final preparation, how embarrassing it would have been for her to be rejected by a college occupied with hundreds of students, seventy percent being girls yet th

  “No need to apologize Chelsey, your brother and I were just having a friendly discussion.”   “Mr. Richards, I don’t know what he told you but I’m sure he was only kidding.” Unfortunately, she had only heard the latter part of their conversation, but judging from his words it wasn’t good. Usually when someone says with all due respect, they were politely criticizing the listener. In this case the man on the receiving end should not even be on the list of persons to provoke.     “Chels… please stay out of this, I’m dead serious, dad can’t continue to dictate our lives. I need to know if he’s lying to me so I’ll be better prepared moving forward from there.” Thinking his sister had overheard everything, Jeremy stood his ground firmly.      “What are you taking about?” Confused, she quickly turned her attention to the teen with a questioning look.    &nbs

  “Ha! I knew it! You two clueless fools like each other.” Marcus excitedly shook the startled girl beside him and made poor uncle Sam panic at the scene. Although he had not heard their conversation, the reaction of the teen was enough for him to inadvertently reduce his driving pace.     “Young Miss are you alright?” Glancing through the rereview mirror he fearfully inquired.     “Of course she is, heck I’m happy…. This is amazing news! I can’t wait to tell…” Marcus big mouth was about to blurt out what he shouldn’t.     “I got a team for tomorrow’s game, he wants to tell Mrs. Vincent, the school’s cheerleading coordinator.” Hastily placing her hand over his blabbering mouth, Erika awkwardly lied. The last thing she needed was the old man reporting to her dad. “This is between our squad, no need to get involved. You are not going to breathe a word of this to anyone, some surpri

    “Wow!” Abby stared wide-eyed at Erika stepping out from the stall. “I know I don’t like girls, but damn!” She teased.       “Stop exaggerating.” Lisa lightly nudged her friend afraid their reaction might scare the turtle back into hiding.     “Yeah, you look fine Erika. No need to worry, come on, let’s go.” Rose smiled grabbing hold of her arm casting the two a quick warning glare.      “Alright…” still feeling a bit awkward, she nervously clung to the girl dragging her along worried about her performance. How was she going to cheer when she wasn’t even confident enough to flaunt her assets proudly?      However, as soon as she made her way out, Randy too could not help but taking several obvious glances. “If you suddenly lose your eyes, I think we can find a pair at the fish market.” Lisa huffed in annoyance.