It was just a few minutes to go time. Hannah was already in position in the hall, waiting for me to do my thing before going in.

I was in my spot, a few lockers down from Ms Ramirez's class waiting for her to go to lunch so I could plant the letter.

You must be asking what letter?

Well, lemme explain.

I did some 'field work' and found out that apparently everyone knows she has a thing for Couch Crawford so I wrote a fake love letter to her from 'Couch Crawford'. I am quite the handwriting forging expert.

You must be like, that's it?! A fake love letter. Seen it, done it, watched the movie. Where's the fun in that.

Well I would say you stick around to see the reaction before you judge.

Ramirez is leaving, finally. I wait for her to turn the corner around the hall and I dash into her class room putting the letter under a few folders. Hidden enough to not look suspicious but open enough to be seen.

I turn to leave but spot something on her table. A picture of an orange cat to be more precise and I don't think I've ever seen a more adorable cat, much less one such an odd colour. I look at the picture cooing at the cat when I hear something.

Oh no.

Ramirez is heading back! I scramble around looking for a place to hide and run the back aisle and hide behind one of the chairs. Hopefully she would be too busy gushing over the letter to notice me.

I hear the clicking of her too high heels on the ground as she enters. Though they only bring her up to a 6"2 at best. She sits down on her seat and begins to look at some paperwork when she spots something, the letter.

She stares at it blankly before opening it but I can see her eyes light up as they do. She reads through the latter twice or thrice, maybe trying to figure out if it's really legit. Of course, it's not but she doesn't know that.

She then quickly digs through her bag and pulls out perfume bottle containing her signature scent - wet socks and lavender.

She sprays it excessively as she puts on another layer of pink lip gloss. Her perfume is so suffocating I am tempted to run out that door. I'd rather be in detention than here with this stench.

She finally packs her stuff back up looks at her hair in the mirror and leaves the class. And the letter as I thought she would. In case she comes back for the letter as proof she'll have none.

When I'm sure she's finally gone, I get up and rush towards the window and yank it all the way open for air.

"Sweet relief!" I sigh as I take in the fresh air.

"Next time you'll be more focused instead of gushing over kittens" Hannah says and I whip back to face her.

"It's not my fault I got sidetracked"

"Then whose is it?"

"His!" I say pointing at the cat photo, "Or her. I'm not really sure which it is" I say as I think it over.

"Let's just get the necklace and leave" Hannah saying facepalming at my dumb excuse.

"Oh, so it's a necklace huh?" I ask moving towards the desk.

"Yeah, it's a precious family heirloom" she explains as she carefully picks the lock on the desk and brinks out a beautiful gold ruby necklace.

"It's beautiful" I say looking at it.

"Yeah, it was the last thing my mom gave me before she-" her face darkened, "before she passed"

The room was silent for a while.

"I'm so sorry Hannah" I say putting my hand on her shoulder.

"Thanks" she says.

"So where'd Ramirez go?" she asked, thankfully changing the subject.

"Probably looking Couch Crawford with the water lilies he asked her to bring" I say with an evil smirk.

"Couch Crawford also told her he loves the smell of her perfume"

"But he's allergic to water lilies and he hates her perfume"

"That's the point my dear Hannah"

The first sight to greet us as we leave the school building is Ms Ramirez chasing Couch Crawford with water lilies while professing her undying love for him.

We both burst out laughing so hard we fall over. MJ walks up to us looking at us with a smirk

"I don't even have to ask if you two are the ones who did this" she says saying her head.

"I thought I raised you better than this" she says in mock disappointment.

"When you couldn't even raise yourself?" I ask and the laughter starts all over again.

"You're gonna regret that Tammy!" she says as she starts chasing me

"It's not my fault your so short!" I yell as I run away.

Well I wasn't lying. MJ wasn't really as short as Ms Ramirez but compared to the rest of us she was definitely the shortest.

We ran around until we collapsed on the soccer field a few metres from where we started still laughing. The guys looked at us like we just descended from a space ship but we didn't care.

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When we got back to our dorm we narrated what happened with Ms Ramirez and Couch Crawford for MJ and Grace and they couldn't stop laughing.

"You guys really did that?" Grace asks after calming down from laughing.

"Yup"

"And the mission was a success"

"It mightnot have been if you had been caught, just saying" Hannah adds.

"C'mon Hannah. You gotta admit that that lil kitty was uber cute" I say with a pout.

"He was but not enough to cost us the mission" she adds as she folds her a red crop top.

We had all taken a shower and gotten dressed in our PJs for the night.

"He was too"

"Was not"

"Was too"

"Was not"

"Was not"

"Ha so you admitted it!"

"No, you were the one that was supposed to be confused and say 'Was too'" I say as I give her a playful glare.

"Too bad it didn't work" she counters sticking her tongue out at me.

"I wouldn't mind having him in my arms as I went to sleep. He looked uber fluffy too. He'd be my Kenny the Koala. Just not stuffed" I say holding my pillow to my chest as I sit on MJ's bed, while she's on the floor, Grace is on her laptop, as usual, and Hannah as I mentioned before is organizing her clothes.

"So, what do you guys wanna do now?" I ask as Hannah puts away the last clothing item.

"Let's play a game" Grace suggests and we all turn to her.

"Like...?"

"Never have I ever" I suggested.

"Ooh, cool" Hannah says

"Why not?" MJ agrees

"What's that?" Grace asks

"Okay, lemme explain" I started, "So how you play this game is that your put up ten fingers at the start of the game and someone says never have I ever... You put a finger down if you have and leave the finger if you haven't. If you put down all your fingers, you're out. The person with the most fingers at the end of the game wins!"

"Okay, that sounds fun"

"Everyone got their hands ready?" I ask

"Yup"

"Ready"

"As you can see"

If you guessed the last person to be MJ, then ding ding ding. You got it.

"Never have I ever skipped school"

We all put one finger down except Grace.

"Never have I ever kissed someone before"

MJ and Hannah put a finger down.

"Never have I ever snuck out to a party"

Hannah and I put a finger down. We turn to MJ.

"What? I'm not a party person" she says defensively, "Plus my dad would kill me when he finds out, which he will"

"How are you so sure?" I ask

"My dad's just like that. I don't know where or how he gets his information but you can't slide anything past him. No matter how small"

"Okay, Never have I ever had a crush on someone who was in a relationship"

Everyone puts one finger down, except me. Why would I look at another girl's man?

We turn to Grace.

"Even though Justin Bieber's married, I will always have a special place for him in my heart" we all laughed at this.

"What about you, MJ?"

"My friend's boyfriend in the 8th grade" she says as her cheeks redden a bit.

"Well, he liked me and I liked him first but my friend, Riley, told me she liked him before I could tell her that I liked him. Long story short, they got together, broke up because of me and none of us ever spoke to her again. Not like, if she came up to us we wouldn't wanna talk to her but she avoids us like the plague til this day. In the end, the guy and I didn't even date because we felt too guilty about Riley" she says with a sad smile, "But we're still friends though"

"Who is this mysterious guy?" I ask with a sly grin.

"No one special" she says as she asks Hannah for her own story.

Hannah's story was pretty straight to the point. She saw the dude, liked him and of course he liked her back but she didn't know he had a girlfriend. In the end, she broke up with with him because he chewed too loudly and was a sloppy kisser.

Her words, not mine.

They didn't even last up to a month. Typical Hannah.

We played different games to pass the time and help us bond for a while, which turned out to be pretty fun.

I learnt that Hannah loves country music, MJ loves fire - just like me - and Grace is afraid of zebras. Long story.

Once it was quite obvious we were all waging war against sleep - and losing bitterly might I add - we finally decided to hit the hay.

"Good night guys" I said and they all replied good night. Then, at last, sleep finally took hold of me.

And my dreams were all about him.

What's up my beautiful lillipads, hope you had a nice day/night🌃

Who do you think this 'him' is?😏

All the Bieber fans, I wanna see all of you guys in the comments. I'm not a huge Bieber fan but I do love his songs. Tell me which is your favorite in the comments. Mine is Peaches🍑

I really loved watching Disney's Jessie as a kid so I had to sneak in a reference 😉

Some of you might be wondering, 'What about the guys?'. Well I wanted y'all to get to really know the girls a little better before bringing the guys into the equation but, don't worry, after this chapter you'll be seeing much more of them. Most especially, Matt, Bryce and Logan. I'm sure you're like, 'Who's Logan?!'. Don't bother flipping back I haven't mentioned him before so you'll have to read on to find out😘❤️

Well, that's it for now. Until we meet again (hopefully in the next chapter)💝

Sorry for the extra long A/N😅

Lots of love,
~Your fellow lillipad💖