"Rose! Wake up! We are fucking late for school! Get your lazy ass up!"

"Five minutes more please!"

"Oh hell no! You get up now Missy!"

With that warning, I was kicked out of my bed by none other than my best friend and my world Liza.

"Come on Liza! It's Friday! We can skip school...." My muffled voice echoed through the pillow.

"Oh really? Do you plan on losing your scholarship? Because I will not let you. So get up, get ready and let us get going because we are already late."

*****

It's just so strange when your life is one thing and then suddenly it changes. Maybe that is what happened to me when I got a scholarship to Bruckbane college. I never thought I would but here, sitting in the car with Liza.

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I looked out the window and saw the mushy green trees with scattered bushes here and there covered with snow. The weather was cloudy, not that I minded much because I always loved the rain. Never the cold nor the heat but the rain. Maybe it has something to do with the auspicious season I took birth in. Forks is quite the perfect place for a hideaway. That is the reason why I moved here and anyways it's closer to my college. So it helps I guess.

"Hey, do you mind if I plug in some music?" Liza popped the bubblegum and nodded her head in agreement.

"No prob Rose, but please do not start with Debussy. My ears have started bleeding from listening to those same tunes again and again." Liza said as she steered the car to the frosty road on the left.

"Okay then, Ludwig van Beethoven it is". A smile crept across my face as the melodic tune made it to my ears.

The best thing about mine and Lizzie's relationship is that it's never awkward. We can sit in silence with each other and still be comfortable. We never even talked about each other's past because it's better that way but other than that we are poles apart. She is the more social and outgoing one whereas I am the shy and secured one.

"Hey, did you know that there is a new music teacher coming to our school? I heard that he is kinda hot." She wiggled her eyebrows and looked at me with a naughty glint in her eyes.

"Eww! Lizzie its gross to have a crush on your teacher." The frown on my nose distorted my facial structure as I looked at myself in the rearview mirror.

"You wait girl. I am sure you will start drooling once you see him. After all, you are a young woman with hormones. So just take a chill pill and wait. Anyways music is your fav subject and you will have to spend more time with him and then...you are not that tough Rosie...he would easily get charmed by you and finally, we will be able to have double dates and..."

"Whoa! Stop with that family planning would you? For God's sake, I didn't even have my first boyfriend and you expect me to fall into a guy's arms that easily. Not to mention he is our teacher." The frown rose up to my forehead as I considered Liza's words.

"Well, you never know what happens in life..." Liza said with a distant look in her eyes.

Yeah, no one else knows that better than me.

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There is always that one thing in college that no one can ever hide from, PE.

So think about my condition when I get my schedule and the first thing I notice is none other than PE which happens to be before my favorite class, that is music. So that means I will get all sweaty and tired by the time I reach to my music class. Don't get me wrong, I am not bad in PE it's just that I don't like it.

Lizzie and I went to our lockers to get our stuff when a bunch of cheerleaders were passing by while talking animatedly of the new teacher.

"Geez! He is all over the school. Guess he is very handsome." Liza said while sending a text to Max, her boyfriend.

"What's up with the cheerleaders and mini skirts? Is it like their dress code or what? All they ever wear are mini skirts and skinny tops." I said ignoring her comment. This whole hot teacher thing is too much for me.

"You do know that it's a free country right? You can not control everyone Rosie as much as you would like to. By the way, I and Max are gonna skip the last period, care to join us?" Her lips quirked up in a wicked smile with the thought of a possible crime.

"Sorry, I can't. My last period is music and you know I can not skip it. I thought you did not want me to lose my scholarship? What happened to your I-am-your-strict-nanny-phase?"

"Okay! Okay! I am giving up on making-my-friend-cool-phase. Happy? And anyway I would not want you to miss your little date with Mr hot now would I ?" She winked and chewed on her bubblegum like one of those casanovas who would love to take anyone home.

Babbling this, she scurried away to her class before I could punch her. I don't know what's up with her because no one in their right mind would ever date a teacher. No matter how good he looks.

Right?

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Changing back into my clothes after PE I dragged my body towards music class. I was hundred percent sure that I would fall asleep on the piano even before I hit a tune. And all those laps around the playground did not help the fact that my muscles were tense and sore. Not to mention the fact that I was drenched in sweat.

My tired, lazy hand reached for the door to the music room as my eyes met with green, mossy green enclosed in eyes.