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Cait breathed a sigh of relief when Josh slid onto the bus. It meant she wouldn't have to sit through Spanish alone with that stupid b***h. Even if he was a dolt sometimes, he was at least nice enough. She hadn't seen him around much before this year, though she thought he must have been her neighbor forever. He was probably just one of those shy boys who stays home playing video games after school... Come to think of it, that was probably why his homework was such a mess all the time. Cait sighed, and drank the rest of her coffee. The bus was pulling up in front of the school, and students weren't allowed to have stimulants on campus. Unfortunately for Cait, that included coffee. As she got off the bus, she caught up with Josh to tease him for almost missing the bus, "Another late night playing world of warcraft?" Cait snickered before walking to her locker. She was kidding, and hoped Josh would pick up on the joke. She had 25 minutes before class started, and she wanted to find her best friend Jay. She was probably in the same place she was every morning, so Cait headed off to Mr. Carney's room.

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"How could you only jump a five-ten?! How? Have I not trained you better than that? It's because you've been up talking to that boyfriend of yours, isn't it! Well don't think about talking with him again until I've seen you jumping nines once more!" Mr. Carney shouted at his daughter. It wasn't the first time. It most certainly would not be the last. Jay had simply gotten used to his abuse over the years, but it always stung when he brought up polevaulting. Jay looked at the floor. He was the only person in the world who could humble her like that. It was no secret that he'd always wanted a son, and he'd had to settle for her. As soon as she became old enough to understand that, she tried everyway she could to make him proud. She got straight A's in school, she was in the BTY program, she was the star polevaulter at DUHS and most of the state. She had more scholarships to colleges than anyone could shake a stick at. God forbid she be on her period and have a bad day! Jay picked up her things and slid her bag onto her shoulder. At least she could always count on Cait, who was inevitably waiting outside the doorway like she did everymorning. She'd probably heard the whole thing, and would, of course, offer her cell phone after school so she could talk to that very boyfriend of hers. He was a cutey, and such a big nerd! He'd never hurt her the way her father did...

Cait welcomed Jay in the hall and put an arm around her waist, "If you want, you can use my cellphone to call him tonight. And tomorrow on the way to BTY. I'll be at school for a while for SAUCY."

Jay smiled. Cait was always so good to her. She always encouraged Jay to do what she really wanted to do, and not just what would make her father happy. "Thanks Cait, I might just take you up on that!" Their first period class was the same, and they walked arm in arm down the hallway to Theater with Mrs. Barber. "Oh! We have to think about what we're going to do for our costuming project!"

"Actually, I have the best idea! You are going to die when I tell you... No one will have seen anything like it when we finish!"

"Great, so what is it?" Jay sighed with relief. She was not exactly theatrically inclined and had no idea what to do. The Drama Club was doing Romeo and Winifred this semester and there was no way she was doing costumes for something like that... Such a kiddy show! Instead of a swordfighting duel they had a pie fight! Where was the fun in that? The story just wasn't the same without all the violence... And nobody died in this one! So lame... "I hope it doesn't have anything to do with Romeo and Winifred...."

"Jay, what do you take me for? I'd never pick something that juvenile for us. We're crazy bitches and hos! We have to do something to make a statement!"

Uh-oh... Here she goes again... Jay rolled her eyes. "Cait, how many cups of crack have you had this morning? Six?"

"Maybe...... I only made two post of coffee this morning! C'mon! don't cut me off, I can quit anytime I want!"

"Ugh, no wonder you are such a shorty!" Jay and Cait laughed. This too, was part of the daily routine. It never got old for the two of them, and they could be just as cheesy and playful everyday. "Oh! Right, the costumes! what do we plan on doi---"

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Books and people crashed to the floor as Rowena and Jay hit. Rowena, with an illegal cup of cappucino, spilled caffinated goodness all over Cait's sweatshirt in the process as she fell backwards. Jay fell opposite Rowena and slammed into a locker.

"How dare you! My coffee!" the shrill cry ran out over the suddenly hushed hallway of DUHS. No one messed with Rowena. Not even accidentally. The threat of Daddy's Money to buy the best lawyers and the freckled dimply smile held even the administration in check. Compounded by her intelligence (or lack of a startling amount of it) everyone at DUHS was under the spell of the pretty dumb rich girl with the influential father. Everyone except for Cait and Jay, that is. Therefore, Rowena lived to make their lives hell. Rumors abounded as to why, from the fact that Rowena had walked in on the two of them making out in the bathroom one day to the stealing of boyfriends, every teen drama imaginable was roped in to the history between these three. Some people think Rowena just doesn't like "the little people". Take your pick of your favorite rumor, because none of these girls are talking.

"How dare me? You're the one who shoved me into a locker you little twit!" Jay stood up and clenched her fists in defiance of Rowena.

Cait soon joined her, face red and lightly burned from the hot coffee. "You know, Rowena, I am getting really tired of all your s**t. You have no right to treat we students as your slaves, and we are not going to bow down just because you have money. It's a shame you can't buy a brain with all that cash..."

"Shame you can't get a restraining order against someone for stupidity..." Jay muttered under her breath, lightly elbowing Cait in the side with a snicker.

"What did you say?" Rowena sputtered, face red with rage. "How dare you speak to my like that! No one speaks to me like that..."

"Maybe not to your face, but we do, let me assure you of that..."

"I am the decendent of a Welsh Prince, and I do not have to take such insolence from such...commoners!" Rowena spat out.

"Psht, whatever you say 'Queen Bitchet'..." Cait tried to bend down to pick up her books to leave, but before she could a loud SNAP!!! rang through the hall. She rushed her hand to her nose and felt the warm dripping down her face. She rolled her eyes and tried to get her senses back before realizing that Rowena has just backhanded her. Enraged, Jay grabbed Rowena's shirt and pushed her into the lockers. "You little b***h! You think you can just choose and abuse whomever you please? Huh? What makes you think you have any right to be so f****** arrogant anyway?! You narcissistic little p***k!"

Woozy, Cait leaned against a doorframe and slid to the floor. she held her face forward and tried to pinch her nose, wishing jay would just leave well enough alone because...well, now they were all going to get suspended. It was only a matter of time before the students rallied on the side of Rowena anyway, Cait thought. But maybe this time Cait would be wrong... Maybe this time things would be different. Her bad relationship with Rowena had never come to blows before, and in fact this was the first time she'd been hit by anyone. "Oh god, I think my nose is broken....Oh god!" Cait cried, tears mixing with blood, "Someone, help, please!"

"How dare you insult my character! I don't have Herpes!" Rowena shoved Jay off of her and marched over to the edge of the circle that had crowded around them. "Who Said that!? Who dares to insult my character! I am a pure girl and I would never do anything half as vile!" Snickers erupted from the crowd at the thought of Rowena being a "pure girl". Everyone knew she'd been down on her knees for half the football team.

Jay knelt down next to Cait. "Hey, what happened? Can you breathe?"

Cait tried not to sniffle through her nose as she wept. "I'm having a hard time seeing..." She shook a little and was bleeding down her shirt, "I think i'm gonna pass out..."

Jay wrapped her arm around Cait's waist and helped her to her feet. "We have to get you into the bathroom to stop the bleeding if we can."

"Herpies? Who said anything about herpies?" Josh struggled visibly to BS his way out of Rowena's wrath. "I was talking about... Umm.. Harpies! Yeah, for my mythology class! You know, they come in twelve or thirteen species in the great myth of... Umm..."

"Hey, Rowena," Penelope cut in. "We were just wondering why, exactly you hate Cait so much. I mean we've all heard the rumor about her stealing Chad Jockingsly from you, but let's be serious. Looking at you and her..." Penelope kept her voice even, a trick learned from her sister, " Well, she'd have to be a bigger whore than you to get him interested in her. I just don't think that's possible."

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Lindsay Morris hastened into DUHS upon seeing the gaggle of interested students around a scene that just screamed "catfight."

Oh my God, I wonder what happened anyway... this had better be just a plain old fight, if something weird is going on here (which I certainly don't doubt, this IS Delmor), I'm beyond not in the mood to go doing The Charge work this early in the morning. Oh, good, it's just a regular fight. Aw, great, Bitchlet and Cait are fighting. I don't know Cait much, but she seems to be the one in worse condition... besides, anyone who would stand up to that snob deserves a medal, Lindsay thought as she walked toward the scene, darting through the crowd around the fight to assess the scene. A small puddle of blood and espresso reached her eye as Lindsay got closer.

"Out of the way, Princess Whine-a-lot," Lindsay scoffed at Rowena with the utmost contempt as she reached the scene once she broke through the crowd, hoping that she could at least . It seemed that not many people actually truly liked Rowena because of her shrewish personality, but Lindsay did have to give it to Rowena that between a large dose of Daddy's Money and what charisma Rowena did possess to cover up the nasty wretch that happened to lie beneath the pretty exterior, she did have a large quantity of followers. She truly wondered who of those followers wasn't just trying, in their own way, to use Rowena and/or get a bit of her father's money. So, in summary, at least in Lindsay's mind, Rowena was an entity who someone either loved, hated, or, as in the case of, she supposed, about ninety percent of the DUHS population, pretended to love her while looking away conveniently from what really happened. Lindsay, thanks to several classes where she had seen the bad side of Rowena, was part of the hated her and had no reason to even pretend to like her minority. Besides, even if Lindsay did want to try to exploit Rowena, she was far too busy between home, school, and work as The Charge to even bother.

"Do you two need help?" Lindsay asked, offering an arm in the chance event that Cait might need more help than Jay could give her. Given Jay's athletic physique, it was doubtful, but Lindsay figured that offering help, however useless, was better than standing there like a dolt.

Rebecca paused as she walked past the scene... normally she didn't pay much attention to commotions in the hallway. They happened, but they didn't really affect her very much... except it was hard to ignore the blood.

She might not have had much use for her peers, but Rebecca wasn't the sort of person to pretend nothing was happening when someone was in pretty obvious need of medical attention. She silently approached one of the boys staring and tapped him on the shoulder. "Get the nurse before she dies." The boy jumped, looked at Rebecca's flat stare and impassive face, and went to do as she said.

Slipping through the press of bodies, Rebecca looked around at the actual participants... the only one she recognized was Rowena, but then everyone knew who Rowena was. The girl helping the bleeder seemed to know first aid. "What can I do to help?"

s**t, this is bad...

"Paper towels. Got it!" Lindsay uttered as she broke into a run, finally stopping right in front of the paper towel dispenser in the nearest girls' bathroom. She pressed the lever until her knuckles turned white, then finally ripped off the long train of hardly-absorbent brown paper towels from the sidpenser, wadded them up, and returned to the scene, dropped the paper towels next to Jay, and uttered, "I'll be right back. I'm going to see if I can either get help or at least some decent paper towels."

With that, Lindsay hurried down the hallways yet again, shoving aside interested throngs of people to get to the closest classroom she could find. Luckily, she ended up in one of the science rooms, so there were paper towels everywhere in the lab. Seeing that there was no one in the room, she hastily scrawled "Need paper towels. Badly. Must clean up blood from fight. Will return what's left soon," on a piece of paper and left it on the table in the front as she grabbed two good rolls of decent paper towels. Lindsay was already trying to return to the scene, angrily chewing out anyone who stood in her way. This was not a good morning, and therefore it made her bad mood worse... She'd deal with apologizing later.

Lindsay handed over the good paper towels. "I grabbed these from Science B... They're better than what was in the dispenser. Just tell me what to do next, I don't want to get in the way unless you ask me to."

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James continued in close pursuit of the three armed men. They gave him a good run and James didn't know when it would end until he saw the school slowly coming closer and closer in the distance. James suddenly knew what they were doing. 'They are going for the school! They are gonna try and take cover in a school filled with teenagers!' DUHS was in for one hell of a morning!

The armed men made it to the front doors, threw their black masks off, shoved their guns into their pants, took off their black tops and revealed very stylish shirts underneath. James came to another conclusion. 'Oh my God! They planned this all along. Their destination was the school since the beginning!'
"In the name of the law!" James yelled. "I beg of you... STOP!" The men didn't listen though, and ran into the school. They were going to blend in with the students there and from that, make their escape! James Cross followed the men and entered the school, but his following plans were instantly foiled. Right when James walked into the school, he was met by two huge groups of students. One group was staring at a verbal fight going on between one weird looking girl and one particularly bitchy looking girl and the other group was gaping at a girl who was face down bleeding profusely. James looked this why and that. Had the men done this? Or was this just some random school fight he had just walked in on? In any case, he couldn't let the men escape, nor could he just let this bleeding girl keep bleeding. Looking for the men once more, James decided to do what his gut told him to. He would just have to worry about the men later.

James ran into the middle of the scene and saw another girl tending to her. This had to be one of her friends. He bent down to the bleeding girl and looked at her supposed friend. "Excuse me..." James said. "My name is James Cross. I am with the Delmor Police Department. What happened here and is there anything I can do to help?"