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enough.
                  “Is it alright if I sit here?” I asked before sitting down.
                  “Go ahead.” She scooted over to give me more room.
                  “Thanks, I’m Ali by the way,” I tried to make small talk.
                  “MacKenna, but you can just call me Mac if you want,” she smiled.
                  “So are you a junior or senior?” I continued with the banter.
                  “A senior. Let me guess, you’re new here?” She giggled a little.
                  “Yeah, why? Is it that obvious?” My face turned red.
                  “No, it’s just that everyone knows that I’m a senior. I’m the popular one I guess. I don’t know if you’ve met Jake Thomas yet but we’ve been dating since last year. His family is the richest family at this school and both brothers are popular,” she liked the fact that he had money. I could tell. She also seemed like a total airhead.
                  “Oh, yeah, I’ve heard of him.” I really didn’t feel the need to tell her how I knew him.
                  “He’s actually coming now so he’s sitting with us,” she flipped her curled brown hair.
                  “Oh, cool. So do you know Marlie and Justin?” Maybe she’d tell me something I didn’t know.
                  “Those two? They should date already. They’re super cute. They’re with our crowd and you are too, now.” She acted as if it was some sort of privilege.
                  “Awesome,” was all I said.
                  “Oh, there he is! Jake, sweetie, over here,” she rose her voice a little.
                  “Hey, babe. Who’s this?” I couldn’t believe I was stupid enough to think he wanted anything to do with me. 
                  “This is Ali. She’s new, so be nice.” They kissed before sitting down.
                  “Well if you don’t mind, I’ll take the middle seat.” He squeezed between us annoyingly.
                  “So, you don’t know me?” I scoffed.
                  “Sorry about that,” he whispered.
                  “I didn’t think you had a girlfriend,” I pointed.
                  “I don’t. She’s just my longest on-going thing. We know that it’s not serious,” he winked.
                  “No, don’t even try. I’m holding up to our deal.” I crossed my arms.
                  “Maybe that deal can change. I didn’t know you’d look like this all the time,” he gave me a once over.
                  “No way. You know, you’re kind of a pig,” I rolled my eyes.
                  “You’re right. I kind of am a pig but we call that a player in San Diego,” he winked.
                  “I’m not falling for your act, Jake.” I turned my head and ended the conversation.
                  I sat through the assembly listening to a boring speech about the handbook and then at the very end, embarrassingly enough, the principal decided to point me out. How I was the only new one was shocking but of course it would be me.
                  “Now if you’d all please pay attention to this next part. Alice Burns, please stand up.” His voice echoed through the gym and I sat there mortified for a minute.
                  “Alice Burns, please stand up,” he commanded again and finally, my knees wobbly, I stood up.
                  “Everyone, this is Alice Burns. She’s new here. Please help her out and be of service to her. Carter Thomas will be taking you class to class these next two weeks. You’ll have the same schedule. Any questions?”  Could this be any worse?
                  “Alright. Well then, you’re all dismissed. Head to first