try.to.p r e t e n d____jessica !

[Laine Brookson]

"Alright, thank you, students, I will see you next week, get your things, you may leave." With that, the drama teacher exited the room. Laine sighed as people started racing to get out of the room. She hated drama class. Partially because none of her friends were in it, and because she sucked at acting. Which, she thought, is odd, considering acting is just lying, and I'm awesome at that.

Laine gathered her things from the stage next to where she was standing. She'd been talking to someone who didn't interest her for most of the class, and hadn't actually gotten any of the work they were supposed to do for class done. They were supposed to be doing something that involved understanding Juliet, (of 'Romeo & ' fame), but Laine honestly wasn't interested.

After a second of trying to organize her bag, Laine decided that everything could just be a mess. She shoved her folder and her copy of Romeo and Juliet into the black messenger bag, and lifted it off the stage. She was surprised by how heavy it was. It didn't seem like she had that much in there...

Laine looked around the drama room, glad to see that everyone had left already. No one there to talk to her anymore, tell her things that she already knew. Yes, she knew that Mimi Blackstone had herpes. It wasn't that shocking. About four people had told her that lovely piece of news, so far.

Laine walked toward the door, with her cell phone in hand, typing a message to Lexxy. She wasn't watching where she was going, so it surprised her a little when she suddenly ran into someone. She looked up quickly, and apologized to the tall blonde girl. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't see you. Are you alright?"

[Jessica Stop]

Jessica had just gotten out of her last class of the day, thankfully. It wasn't her most favorite thing to do at times, dance lessons. It wasn't that she was bad at them, it was just that her real focus was on singing and she was a lot more comfortable moving around when she wanted to on stage instead of having something choreographed for her. She just wanted to get back to her dorm so she could take a shower and then mess around with her guitar for a while, maybe go outside to do so. It was chilly out, of course, but sometimes it was comforting to be outside after being stuck inside most of the day, even if it was cold outside.

Humming a random tune softly as she made her way down the hallway she wasn't really paying attention as she walked past people and was suddenly jolting backwards when someone bumped into her. Looking down in surprise she noticed a smaller brunette looking up at her, apologizing and asking if she was alright. It was amusing, to be honest. "Ah'm fine, are you?" She asked, her accent present as she spoke, a smile on her features.

[Laine Brookson]

Laine smiled, glad that the girl wasn't mad. Most people here tended to get all huffy if you ran into them, Laine herself included. The girls' accent made Laine smiled even wider. She loved people with cool accents. "I'm good. Thanks for not being all upset." Laine offered the girl her hand to shake. "I'm Laine. I don't know who you are. I'm guessing you're new?"

Laine always liked meeting new people. Especially if the new people happened to know any good gossip that she didn't know. Plus, she just liked making new friends. Laine was fairly surprised at how tall the girl was, but didn't feel the need to mention it. She was used to tall girls. Her mother expected her to eventually be a tall girl. Laine didn't think that that would ever happen, but no need to make her mother more unhappy with her.

Laine absent mindedly ran her fingers through her straightened hair, making sure it was all laying down, like it needed to be. Luckily, when her hair was straight, it usually just behaved like normal hair, instead of standing up at odd angles like it did if it was curly. Laine folded her arms over her chest, still smiling slightly, and waited for the girl to answer her.

[Jessica Stop]

Jessica noticed the girl's wide smile when she spoke, and she wondered why she was smiling like that? Maybe it was her accent that a lot of people seemed to like it because it was different from the New York accent. Once she had tried to sound like a New Yorker, but it did was give her death glares. "Okay, good." Jessica said in relief to know she was okay. When she thanked her for not being upset she laughed softly, "Your welcome." She said before shaking her hand. "Jessica, but you can call me Jess if ya want." She said as she introduced herself. When the girl said she did not know her and that she guessed that she was new she nodded her head. "Pretty new, I just got here a week ago from Nashville." Jessica said.

She was really missing her home town, it was so different here in New York, and though it was not to say every person here was uptight, they just seemed to be more uptight than people were in Nashville. Jessica also enjoyed meeting new people, especially since there was so many people around here that she hadn't gotten a chance to know yet. "How long have ya been goin' here, Laine?" Jessica asked curiously as she looked down at the girl. She saw how the girl stood with confidence, and that was a good thing. She felt bad for the people who were too self-conscious or shy, she had never been that way so she couldn't really relate. Though she had a few friends that were like that back at her old school.