"Remember! Come back before midnight Cinderella!" Dawn calls in a half serious and half jokingly tone.

"For I shall go to the ball!" I call dramatically as I head towards Jess who stands outside the gate.

"Man, you and you're sister are weird." She chuckles at our child like antics. I raise my eyebrows at her.

"Look who's talking?" I retort and she gives me a playful push.

"Oi, that wasn't very nice." She complains and now I chuckle

"Wasn't meant to be." We both laugh as we head towards Roxanna's place.

Now, her place is like the random mansion that appears on a normal, regular, everyday street to make all the others insignificant. I think they did it on purpose, just to prove that they have the most money in the area.

"Lex, I'm so excited!" Jess exclaims as we walk up to marble stone pathway, surrounded by exotic flowers, a lot of which I don't know of.

"Yeah, I can see." I say as we open the door and are hit with a wave of lout sound. The music was pumping, maybe too loud for my liking, but it's not my party so I can't really decide how loud the music is played.

What makes it worse is that the people there were trying to talk louder then the music to their friends. I do recognise a lot of people from school, in fact I think the whole grade is here, plus some form the grade above and below.

"Hey guys. Glad you made it!" A voice shouts from our left. Brianna stood at the door arms out stretched ready for a hug. Jess and I both move in and give her what she wanted. Bri, as we like to call her has dark brown hair and dark skin and is a social butterfly much like Jess. She's wearing a dark pink and orange dress which comes down to her knees and has open sleeves. Her long mid-back length hair was tied in a fish-tail braid down her right shoulder.

"Yes! Tonight's gonna be epic!" Jess cries and the three of us pull out of the hug.

"Yeah, the party doesn't seem that bad." I shout over the music. Bri narrows her eyes to try work out what I was saying and her eyes light up in recognition of what I said. She grabbed Jess and i's hands and pulled us out to the back yard.

"That's better" I say finding the music so much quieter out there.

"So anyways, I've done some scoping around the party while you two weren't here," Bri says excitedly "and I found out that Jason Riles is here along with half of his team!" She and Jess both squeal excitedly at the statement.

"Omg! No way!Wait so where is he?" Jess says with joy. Bri points to the pool which is a few yards away.

"He's over there, are you gonna go talk to him?" Bri asks

In all honesty I'm getting tired of this conversation. I hear a similar one every day at lunch but tonight I don't really think I want to hear it again tonight.

"You guys better go before they leave!" I encourage them, but try turn to me with pouty faces.

"Come with us, I reckon Numer 3, Slade Nickel is a perfect match for you!" Jess complains and I roll my eyes, and I give a flicking motion with my hand telling them to go on with out me

"Enjoy yourself girls." I say with a smirk and the two run off towards the pool area. Sighing I head back inside to scope out some food.

I'm am not particularly hungry but if there is party food, I will eat it. Simple as that. It's kinda like a natural force that draws toward it. I make my way through the crowd towards the central room where I though I saw a food table when I came in. An array of typical party snacks were laid out on the table, all waiting to be eaten. My eyes instantly go to the chips there, and by the smell, they must be originals.

I grab a hand full and move off somewhere less quite, which happens to be down a near by hallway. I begin to happily eat my chips when I notice setting in the photo frame opposite me. In it, there was a girl, holding a baby. She had blonde hair and pearling blue eyes, much like Roxannes, so I'm assuming that's her. The baby in her arms seems to have similar features although not a bold as Roxannes. Engraved in the frame were the letters H.In fancy, cursive writing. That must be Roxanne's portrait or something, and maybe the kids name has the initials

By the time that thought finished I realised that I had unconsciously finished my chips. Dang. So I decided to go and get some punch this time. Making my way back through the crowd I go towards the left hand side of the table, which held fruit punch. Knowing Roxanne, there's probably some alcohol hidden around here somewhere but I don't really feel like that, I don't know about others but I like to abide by the law.

I reach for a cup, but some guy beats me to it. Looking up I see a boy, probably in the grade above me with dark brown hair and deep green eyes, which seemed to be hiding something. He was dressed in odd clothing, but who am to question Roxanne's sex buddies.

The guy looks at me and smiles, before grabbing a second cup and pouring punch into both of them. I raise an eyebrow at the odd gesture but don't complain as he hands me the cup.

"Thanks." I mumble, now that I realise that the music has been turned down. The boy cracks a grin and replies.

"No problem." His words come out with a clear British accent. My eyebrows go up in suprise again, as there aren't many British people in our city in Australia, but it's still a big city. "Is there a problem?" He asks arching one of his own eyebrows up.

"No, no it's just...your accent, it's different. That's all." I say awkwardly taking a sip from my cup. It was a small sip, but it still looked awkward.

"Oh? Really? And why is that?" He say grabbing my chin. At his touch I pull away but continue with the conversation.

"Not used to it, that's all." I slightly growl at him, with a small glare. Seeing that he wasn't wanted he decided to leave.

"I'll catch ya later tiger." He says coolly before striding off.

"Weird." I mutter to my self taking another sip of punch. Looking at what was left in my cup I notice that there was bits of pineapple, mango, grapes and what looks like a mint leaf. Odd combo, especially with the mint but no too bad. I head away from the food table down to another hallway after noticing the one I was in before had a couple making out in it.

This one had more pictured of Roxanne in them. From this pic, Roxanne looked so much different. We hair had become much lighter then what it was before, the other picture made her hair look bleach blonde. Maybe it was growing up that made her hair change. Her eyes seemed darker to and she didnt smile as much. The picture beside it though looked to he around the same age as the one beside it, except her features were much brighter.

"What are you doing here?" A voice snaps behind me. Turning I see Roxanne and her gang of mindless followers standing behind me. She was dressed in a hot pink mini dress which showed way too much for the weather we're having. He followers we dressed similarly. One in blue and the other in purple.

"I was invited." I state plainly and se scowls.

"We didnt invite you." She spits at me.

"No, but Jess did. Invite said bring who ever." I retort, and I see her snarl.

"Yeah, bring who ever is cool, popular and hot. I saw you chatting with that guy just before, and he was hot. That's why he came, where as you have no reason to be here. So leave." She demands and I arch an eyebrow.

"And if I don't?" I argue back. Roxanna let's off a smirk of her own and shifts her weight to the right crossing her arms in front of her.

"If you don't get out right now, I will make your life a living hell." She threatens. "That goes for you an your little group. You wouldn't want Jess and Briana's rep to be ruined would you?"

Ok it's one thing to threaten me, but it's another thing to threaten my friends. If someone like her comes anywhere near them, I will punch them in the face. I am this close to breaking the cup in my hand from anger.

"Deal. But you know what? I just don't get it. Why must you constantly target me? Why out of all people, why must you go for me in particular?" I spit at her.

"Easy, it's you. I hate everything about you. Your look, the way you act, your name. All of you." She says with a easy laid back smirk and I growl.

"Take your cup before I break it." I say shoving it into her hands before storming out of the hall.

As much as I wanted to know why she hated me, I don't understand why I feel so upset. My vision starts to blur, so I must have tears in my yes. Why was I crying?

Unluckily for me I began to stumble a bit with my blurry vision when I almost fell over but a sturdy pair of arms caught me.

"Told you I'd catch you." A familiar British ascent spoke out. I look back and gasp at what I see, or what I think I see. This guy had a malicious grin spread across his face.

What? Did he do something to me...

My vision starts to clear up a bit, but not by much. I break free of the boys grip and head for the door muttering the words "I gotta go."