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During 7th-8th period, we have to partner up. So since Marissa is the only one I know, I pair up with her. Our assignment is easy and we finish it before any other pairs do. Since we have time, we just sit and talk. "So, why did you move to Miami?" Marissa says as she puts her papers into her bright green folder. "Well, I lived with my dad after my parents got a divorse four years ago. My dad was getting married and they had a baby on the way so I decided I wanted to live with my mom." Marissa looks at me and laughs, "Jealous much?""No, I just got tired of living with him. I guess because of all the chaos over the baby and the wedding." I look at her and she smiles. "Ok." So maybe I was just a tad bit jealous, but who wouldn't? My dad was always gone, either on a business trip with his company or on a date with my future step-mom. I never had time for me and now that they are getting married and having a baby, I decided it was time to get out of there. So when I asked to live with mom he just said, "If that's what you want, Kat." And that's what I did want. So I packed up and moved out. I was just glad I wasn't flying around half the world. I'm not too big on flying.

Miss Smith gave us our homework assignments and we had five minutes until the bell rung for school to let out. "So, do you drive or ride the bus?" Marissa asked as she packed her thing to leave. "Bus," I say, holding my silver little house key up to her. "I drive," she said excited," Hey, you want me to show you around the town?" I thought about it for a minute. Mom would kill me for going with a complete stranger, but then again, I had two hours to kill until she got home. "Sure!" Marissa smiles real big and said, "Great!" just as the bell rung. We walked to her car, which is only a few yards away from the 700 building. She drove an old, beat up car. It was gray and dented and had four doors. When she saw the look on my face she laughed, "You love it, don't you?" I laughed right back. "Oh Yeah." She unlocked the back doors and told me to put my stuff back there and she would show me around the school. I put my bookbag in the backseat and she grabs her jacket, which made me wish I had mine. It was the middle of January and it never got cold in Flordia, but the school was freezing.

Marissa and I headed to the gym, where the boys' basketball team were warming up. I looked at all the guys, where only one caught my eye. He had Jet black hair and from my view a great body. He was stretching with the other guys, when he looked in my direction and noticed I was staring. He grinned and winked at me. I smiled and turned away, embarrassed that he caught me looking. "Who is that guy?" I ask Marissa as I point in his general direction. "Oh. That's Ben Wilson. He's been on the basketball team since 6th grade. He's in our 1st period, ya know." I knew I had seen him somewhere. He sat in front of me in Science. "Oh," I saw as we turn and head downthe hall. We walk into the library and I look around. There were tall shelves with books all around. They had a section for computers and a section of just tables. "You should check out the books here. They are pretty good and I'm not a big fan on reading!" I laugh as we look at some of the fiction novels. "The library stays open until 2:30. Check some books out. I'll be over here looking at Orlando Bloom's sexy face." She headed off toward the section for magazines. She picked up the 'People' magazine that had Orlando Bloom's picture on the cover. She flops down in a chair and begins to read. I laugh and shake my head as I walk towards the other fiction novels.

After about a good thrity minutes of looking, I find four interesting books and check them out. We head back towards the gym, where we watch the boys play a scrimmage amoung each other. We sit there, talking and watching them play until they file into the locker room. We get up and start leaving. We were almost at Marissa's car, when we hear footsteps running frm behind us. We turn around to see Ben, the guy I was looking at earlier, jogging right towards us. Marissa smiled, shook her head, and rolled her eyes as she got into her beat up, old car. "Hey. I'm Ben, and you?" he said as he shook my hand. "Hi. I'm Katherine. Nice to meet you." Katherine was a bit nervous because Ben was totally hot. They stood there, akwardly, still shaking each others hands. BEEP!! Marissa was getting impatient. "Oh yeah, I've got to go. See ya in 1st, right?" He let go of her hand, smiled and shook his head. "Until tomorrow," and jogged back up to the gym to catch up with his friends. I hopped into the car and started to buckle up. Marissa was staring at me, laughing. "What?" I said even thought I knew why. So I had a crush on Ben. Marissa obviously could tell. We both laughed as she backed out and headed towards my house.