Chapter 2 Senior Year Begins Part 2- Meet Sophia Vanderbilt

(Sophia)

"Sophia-darling," my mom said walking into my room

"Yes, Mom!" I said as I idly combed my hair in the ponytail. My name is Sophia Vanderbilt and I'm a bit of a prodigy. I am a straight-A student, though I always come second place to stupid James Taylor, an elite pianist, and a karate champion. I was also incredibly popular because of my good looks

"Do you want me to drive you to school before I leave for work?" Mom asked

"Don't worry Mom, Nick's picking me up" I said

"Okay. Sophia-darling, remember I'll be out of town for a while. I have a management meeting for a couple of days" Mom said

"Okay bye, Mom!" I yelled before she left. Once again alone I sighed as I got up and walked over to the window looking outside to see Taylor slowly trying to get dressed. The bags and dark rings around his eyes along with his constant yawn showed that he had once again stayed up the whole night. The exhausted look on his face as he sluggishly ran the comb through his hair before he decided to just give up and decided to leave it as was.

I watched Taylor chuckling a bit at his slight misfortune before I heard a horn beep looking down to see Nick sitting coolly in his blue convertible

"I'm coming," I said as I ran down the stairs and walked over to the car, and opened the door

"Hey Babe," he said kissing my lips. That was my boyfriend, Nicholas King. The most popular guy in town and my boyfriend of four years. His parents owned the largest car dealership in town.

"Why were you so late," I asked pushing him off me a bit.

"Sorry Babe I had something to take care of," he said leaning back in the driver's seat

"Well I hope it was important because now I might be late for the first day of the senior year," I said folding my arms and looking out the window to see Carl and Carlos walking up the street

"Hey Sophie," they called out to me

"Hey, guys. You going to see Taylor?" I asked

"Yeah he's driving us to school," Carl said

"Why don't you wait and we can all go together?" Carlos asked

"Sorry guys I-" I said before Nick cut me off

"She can't she's late," he said before he drove away.

"What the hell was that about?" I asked

"I thought you said you were late," he said not looking at me

"Don't you see I was talking to my friends?" I said

"Come on babe, those losers don't deserve to be your friends," he said

"Excuse me, what's that supposed to mean? Who are you to tell who does and doesn't deserve to be my friend" I asked

"I wasn't trying to..."

"It sure sounded like you were," I said

"You know what never mind. Let's just drop it and pretend I didn't say anything" he said.

The rest of the trip was made in silence. Soon we arrived and I got out of the car but he remained in his seat

"Aren't you coming to school?" I asked

"Nah I'm suspended" he joked with a smirk

"It's the first day," I said my face devoid of a smile

"I know. I'll pick you up after school" he said before he drove away.

Not wanting to ruin my mood, I shook my head and walked away spotting Liberty talking with two girls about some new ear pods

"Hey Libbs," I said walking over to her

"Hey girl what's up?" she asked sending off the other two left. This was my best friend and Carlos' girlfriend Liberty Danielle Hall but I call her Libbs for short. She is a musical talent that can do play almost any instrument, sing any genre, and even dance and DJ. All in all the girl was a freaking beast destined for greatness. Her music hadn't made a pretty big splash on YouTube which was a shame because it was really good

"Nothing," I said

"You sure because you look like you're about to pop a vein," she said

"It's Nick," I said

"I should have known. What are you fighting about now?" she asked holding back a sigh

"Can you believe he had the nerve to pick me up late and make up some stupid excuse about having something to do and of course, he wouldn't even tell what it was?" I said

"Is that it? Don't you think you're over-reacting a bit? Are you still upset about yesterday's argument" she laughed

"No. He also said something about Carl and Carlos" I said

"Oh hell no what did he say about my man," Liberty said upset

"He said those losers aren't good enough to be my friends," I said

"Excuse me? What did he call Carlos" she said preparing to put her war face on

"Liberty," I said

"Come on Soph, nobody trash talks my man like that and gets away with it," Liberty said

"Who's talking about me?" Carlos asked walking up to us alongside Carl

"No one," I said

"You sure because Liberty looks angry and she's only angry when someone messes with her music or talks bad things about me," Carlos said

"You know me so well my Comic Book king," Liberty said in a baby talk

"Of course my Shinning Star. You're my favorite topic of conversation" Carlos said slightly kissing her lips

"You two have a weird nicknames but it's cute," I said

"Yeah better than fighting all the time" Carl joked

"Yeah and it's not the cute play fight she did with James," Liberty said

"Where is Taylor anyway?" I asked

"Oh he went inside already," Carlos said before the bell rang.

"I guess that's our cue to join him" I sighed before we all went our separate ways. Carlos walked Liberty to her music class, Carl went to his bio class and I went to my chemistry class managing to make it just before the second bell