"And then she just started punching me for no reason!" Amber cried dramatically, holding her already bruising cheek. She had a couple cuts on her eyebrow and lip and a slight black eye was forming on her left eye. Her usually dead straight platinum blonde hair was ruffled up and it did a good job of making her look beaten up.

Next to her was Chloe and on the other side sat Brad, who was constantly giving me victory smirks whenever the principal wasn't looking. The three of them sat across from us as Reece sat beside me, squeezing my hand to reassure me. He squeezed my hand gently that was resting on my knee to stop me from saying anything as I needed to wait my turn to tell my side of the story.

The principal sighed, glancing at all of us. "This isn't the first time you guys have been involved in a fight." He then looked at Reece with a questioning look. "Were you involved in this?"

Reece shook his head in response. "Then I don't see why you are here."

Reece rolled his eyes. "With all due respect sir, its 3 against 1 here so why shouldn't Sam have some support. After all you haven't heard her side yet."

The principal looked at me. "You want him here?"

I nodded instantly and he sighed once again, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Ok. Now what happened in your perspective?"

I laughed coldly. "Where do I start?"

The principal gave me a questioningly look. "Well first of all who do you think plastered those pictures all over the school of me?"

Amber gasped like she had nothing to do with it. "I did no-"

"Silence!" He shouted, turning back to me for me to carry on.

"So I went to the bathroom today and there they were. I went to leave as I couldn't be bothered for their shit only to have Brad stand at the door refusing me to leave."

The principal turned to him. "You stood in the girl's toilets?"

Brad looked confused. "Well no- I mean yes but that's only because I had to pull her off Amber and then she attacked me."

I chuckled. "Yeah after you grabbed me painfully." I then lifted up my sleeve and showed the principal the finger marks on my arm that had formed.

Reece's teeth clenched next to me and now it was me squeezing his hand. The principal took a deep breath but then turned to me with a guilty look. "Look I'm sorry Sam but this is the second time you've been involved in a fight in the last 2 months alone-"

Before he could finish, a flash of red hair burst through the door. Mona looked extremely angry as she stood there. She then turned to the principal. "I was also there and as you know these people are my friends." She said referring to the three faces opposite me and Reece.

Amber sighed with relief before her eyes widened when Mona spoke. "You can't expel Sam; it wasn't her fault."

My head snapped to hers as my eyes widened with shock. She gave me a small smile before turning back. "They bombarded her and refused to let her leave. Amber then said some horrible things about her mum and to be honest I don't blame Sam for hitting her. I would've done the exact same thing."

She chuckled bitterly. "And she also admitted to posting those pictures and forcing her down as she cut her damn hair at a party." She smirked victoriously. "I even have evidence!" She exclaimed as she pulled out her phone.

Amber's eyes were twitching as she glared so hard at her former best friend. Mona sighed. "I'm sorry Sam, I had no idea what my ex friends did to you."

She then handed the phone to the principal and played the video. You could hear the entire thing, from Amber admitting that she was the one who did the photos to her calling me an ugly slut. When Reece's name was involved, he looked a little confused but just held my hand tighter for support at the things she was saying. He even muffled a laugh when he heard Amber's screams of me plummeting my fist into her face.

Amber's face was full of complete shock, to horror and then to hatred at Mona. "How fucking dare you, you little bitch!" She jumped up but was held back by Brad.

Mona laughed, but her laugh was filled with venom. "How dare I? Well once I found out that you were sleeping with my boyfriend I decided you deserve to be fucking expelled. You're a fucking bully and a-"

Brad's eyes widened.

"That's enough!" The principal exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air before turning to Amber. "Seeing as I've just heard you admit to being the one who did the photos, I have no choice but to expel you."

He then turned to me. "And for you. I don't condone violence in this school but as I've heard these other things I will let you off. But it cannot happen again and If it does there will be serious consequences, do you understand?"

I nodded eagerly as he said we were free to go. I smiled widely as me and Reece left his office and walked down the corridor.

"I can't believe Mona recorded that." I said happily before I heard someone calling my name. I turned around to See Mona with a light smile.

"Hey."

"Hey." I replied. "Thanks for that." I smiled gracefully as she shook her head.

"Don't sweat it. I may be a bitch but I'm not a bully and I would never wanna be friends with people like that." She then frowned. "Also tell Cole I'm sorry about what I did a while ago, I regret how I acted."

I nodded, remembering when Cole had said that she had tried to seduce him and then lied to Brad that it was the other way around. "I will."

I raised an eyebrow. "Wait how did you get it on record?"

She chuckled lightly. "I was filming myself doing my hair as the mirrors are disgustingly dirty." She smiled. "And then I never turned it off."

She smiled one last time before turning around and walking the other way. "Wow." Reece said softly. "I always thought she was a bitch but apparently not."

I chuckled as I grabbed his arm, pulling him down the corridor. Lunch was over a while ago so we lately arrived to our last lesson which was chemistry. We stood outside the door and I stopped Reece from going in.

"Thankyou."

He furrowed his eyebrows. "For what?"

I rolled my eyes. "You know what."

He gave me a lop sided grin, showing off his perfect white teeth. "That's what friends are for." He mimicked from when I helped him after his fight.

I smirked. "Since when were we friends?"

His eyes twinkled with amusement as he rolled his eyes shook his head. "Let's just go."

We entered the classroom and went straight to our seats at the back where Jake sat there with a weird look on his face but then he wiggled his eyebrows. "Where exactly have you two been?"

"Shut up Jake." We both said in unison.

After explaining to my friends what happened after school, we all celebrated Amber's expulsion the next day at Reece's house as it was a Saturday. Me and Jodie spent hours playing with Ellie as she called us her new BFF's which was just the most adorable thing ever.

Amanda had taken her to see her grandparents for the evening so we had the house to ourselves.

We were now all sat in the living room scoffing pizza that we had recently ordered. We were sat down on that really comfortable sofa that I nearly fell asleep on a while ago as I sat in the corner with my feet resting on Reece's lap. Cole sat next to him with Jodie snuggled up beside him and Jake being Jake was sprawled on the other sofa to himself. He laid on his side as he scoffed his pizza, talking to us.

"I think we should do something fun." Jake said in-between mouthfuls. All of us pulled a face of disgust.

"Like what?" Jodie asked.

Jake shrugged. "I don't know." He then smirked as he glanced at Reece. "You have any alcohol?"

Reece nodded as Jodie clapped her hands excitedly. We acted like we never drank when in reality getting drunk was pretty much a weekly thing.

And that's how we ended up playing beer pong that me and Jake had set up on the ping pong table. How convenient, I know.

We had teamed up boy's vs girls which they had a slight advantage as there was 3 of them and 2 of us. Damn, we should have got Izzy over here.

"You got this." Jodie beamed as I lined up the ball. We had all sorts of alcohol in the cups. Cole stood opposite me, taunting me with a grin. Jake and Reece stood to the side, eagerly watching and eating crisps even though we had pizza about half an hour ago.

I eyed up a cup and threw the ball which landed straight into the cup. "Yes!" Me and Jodie screamed, hugging each other as Cole's face twisted. He picked up the cup and downed what was in it, pulling a sour face as he placed It back down. We had filled up the cups half way full with all different spirits.

Let's just say this night wasn't likely to end well for any of us.

Many rounds later and I mean many, here we all were playing volley ball in Reece's pool. And that's how all of us ended up swimming about in just our underwear. Luckily, I changed my mind last minute this morning and put on a dark purple underwear set instead of the comfortable micky mouse bra I was opting for.

That would have been slightly embarrassing.

This time, the teams were me, Jodie and Jake vs Reece and Cole and we were being severely beaten as the three of us weren't sporty at all. Jake was lean as he did weights and worked out, but was just as un fit as me and Jodie were. Cole whacked the ball which Jake reached for but instead of hitting it, he completely missed and flopped into the water.

Cole and Reece burst out laughing as they high fived each other whereas me and Jodie drunkenly scolded Jake. But we were all laughing with each other and I honestly hadn't had this much fun in a while. With everything going on it was so nice to have a day just full of laughs, not anything else.

"Group call!" I slurred as I grabbed the shoulders of Jake and Jodie.

Jodie's face was full of determination as she pondered how to beat the two extremely arrogant, smirking boys the other side of the pool to us. "I know!" She yelled with victory before quietening.

She turned to me and whispered. "I'll distract Cole and you distract Reece."

I raised a brow. "How do you-"

"Flash your tits!" Jake piped in, laughing. "They'll both go crazy."

I laughed loudly. "I'm not flashing Reece my tits."

Jake laughed even harder and before we knew it we forgot about the plan as the three of us giggled together. "But he'd love it!" Jake grinned as Jodie eagerly nodded.

"H-he would!" She slurred, falling back into the water like a starfish.

Jake's eyes lit up. "That looks like fun!" He beamed as he copied her and I watched with amusement at my two pissed as fuck friends looking like total twats in the water.

That did look like fun though.

Copying them, the three of us laid on our backs and I closed my eyes, before opening them again. "Oh my god. Look at the stars." I commented as Jake floated next to me.

"What the fuck are they doing?" Reece laughed as he swam over to us, pushing Jake out of the way as he just floated off somewhere else.

"Sammy what are you doing?" Reece asked, the grin not leaving his face.

"Looooooking at the stars. Join me." I grabbed his arm and he layed on his back next to me. I have no idea how drunk Sam was managing to stay afloat but it was working so I just stayed in that position.

"Oh that is kinda nice." Reece commented and I chuckled at him. Glancing at him without moving my head, I watched as he just layed on his back staring up at the sky. His green eyes sparkled under the moonlight as his extremely toned and muscly chest raised up and down gently.

I found myself just completely staring at him and I didn't look away when he glanced at me. He smiled softly at me.

Oh god.

That urge to grab the back of his neck and pull him in for a kiss was suffocating me. I clenched my fists in and out the water to stop myself. I was pretty drunk and my head was lightly spinning but I still knew not to do it.

That was until Reece's head moved instead of mine.

His head slowly came closer as his eyes were intensely staring into mine and then down at my lips.

Splash.

Jake laughed loudly as he splashed me and Reece with water. "What the fuck!" Reece yelled as he splashed water back in Jake's face.

And cue a massive water fight between the five of us.