blackheart

Prologue

"So...a new neighbor's coming." Helga said, throwing a pebble.
As the circle of friends in Hillwood hung out at Gerald Field, their usual spot, Everyone just taking in the lazy August afternoon. It was three weeks before sophomore year, and everyone was looking forward to something--this took the cake. "Say what, now?!" Gerald exclaimed.
"Yeah, this neighbor is going to attend Hillwood High with us; and she's straight from Japan! Can you all believe it?"
Chaos wrought forth from each teen's mouth in the form of intrusive questions when Arnold calmed them down. "Come on, you guys. I'm sure he--or she--will be a good addition!"
As the rest rabbled on, Rhonda Wellington-Lloyd kept on staring at the boy inher screensaver--Maxton Persipps, the junior basketball captain. Both of them had mutual feelings for each other, but there was something--or someone--in the way; Curly. Even about now, he might be gazing off into the skyline, Rhonda never trusted a single thought that went thrrough his puny head.
He just wouldn't stop pestering her! With any luck, she would use this 'new girl' to finally give him someone who loved him...she just had to play her cards right, and successfully lie.