&Like a Ghost You'll Be Haunting My Dreams Tonight

[lll]

The girl walked over to Bianca and they both leaned up against the ledge. "I really needed somebody to come out and talk to me..." Bianca didn't expect the girl to say that. For all the girl knew, Bianca could be some mean and cruel person and laugh in her face. But, she knew how the girl must feel. Bianca herself was usually had the same feeling. Bianca only nodded, as if to say she was listening. Her brother...wait, was her brother Joey? "Are you...Ashley?" she asked. "I saw the fight," she said, filling in the blanks.

Now, how did Bianca know Ashley? Well, she personally didn't know her, only by reputation. So, Reed Turner was one of Daphne's friends, and when Bianca moved here a lot of Daphne's friends became Bianca's as well, Reed being one of them. Reed was a cool guy, had interesting stories, and well, Bianca admired him as a person since he had gone through a lot. Well, Bianca and Reed usually had conversations that usually asked stupid questions like, "What is the meaning of life?" Well, Reed had told Bianca a lot about him and Ashley. Bianca had never met her before, but she felt like she knew her when Reed would talk about her.

She looked up at the stars, or star. She nodded, "I agree," her Brazillian accent light, "it is very...unique. Maybe it means someone's watching us." To one that may have sounded creepy, but to her, it sounded protective. She smield slightly to herself and looked back at the door, which provided the two girls with the only light. "Well, are you going to try and convince him?" Bianca asked.

[amanda]

Amanda just stood there absorbing it all as Joey once again poured out his feelings acting like it no big deal. This was what kept happening time after time. They would get together, admit that they loved each other, cry, and complain that they didn't deserve each other. But in the end, they ended up together. That's what happened last time, and she thought that's what was going to happen this time which was why she didn't immediately follow him when he said he was going back to Texas. She thought it to be an empty threat. That was exactly why she stood there practically in shock when he left.

God, did she wish that she hadn't pushed him so hard. She kept pushing him, and challenging him, and yelling at him for every little thing and now he was gone. She mouthed his name as he walked away, not having the strength to yell it out to him. Listening to what Lance had to say she nodded her head and tried to wipe away the tears from her face. "Thanks, but I gotta handle this one on my own" she said clearing her throat before she went in the direction that he left from.

Seeing him walking down the driveway she called out to him once, her voice weak and barely audible. She couldn't tell if he'd heard her, but something inside of her told her that he did. Crouching down she buried her face in her hands while she talked to him, not having the stability to do it standing and looking him in the eyes. "Your wrong. I'm the one that doesn't deserve you. I don't deserve you because I kept lying to you and pretending that you didn't mean the world to me because I didn't want to be the one that loved you more than you loved me" she had to stop because her crying was interfering with her words, "but it's too late now because it already happened, and you can't leave because" she was at the point where she could barely talk, "I'm really sorry"

"I'm sorry that I got so mad when you came with Nikki, and I'm sorry that I got so mad when you said that you kissed Kat, and I promise that I'll never do it again" she was like a little crying and bargaining to get back a parent who had recently died. "You can dance with Nikki as much as you want, and you can hang out with whoever you want I don't care, and I'll never say the word 'rejection' again, and I'll never talk to Josh again if you don't want me to, and" her voice trailed off getting lost in all of the crying, "please don't leave. Don't give up on me yet"

[hannah]

"There is always someone watching us" Ashley whispered. "Whether is be a deceased relative, or friend, or even an old lover, someone is always there for you, in your heart, in your soul, in the Heavens" Ashley said with a nod. She then stopped looking at the blank, black sky and looked at Bianca. She had only added the old lover part, because she had heard about what happened to Bianca, and gosh did she feel horrible about it. Ashley knew the pain that one went through when a loved one died and it had to be the worst pain of all. The worst part about the death of a person close to your heart was the feeling of them not being there. Like when you want to call them and right when you pick up the phone, you relise that they wont answer. And Ashley knew that that was the hardest part.

"Sorry" Ashley muttered, "I mean, I didnt intend to bring that subject up" she whispered. Right then, Ashley decided that it would be best to drop the subjecy and move onto something lighter.

Ashley hopped up onto the railing, she was able to becasue she had shorts on. "Of course, I am going to try my hardest to convince him, but he is stubborn and in love, so my words wont count" Ashley shrugged. "I am sure that he will change his mind though, he will change his mind in the last minute." She said, he voice was now, not sorrowful, but more happy, and...proud? "But if he does leave. I still have my freinds" she smiled. "And Reed..." she whispered. But what she didnt know, was by the end of tonight, she might not have Reed to go to, that was going to hit her hard.

[elliotdavis]

As she snapped at him, the smile erased itself from his lips. He was being insensitive and even though he knew it, the smile couldn’t help but come back. “Nothing’s funny,” he started, shrugging his shoulders. “I just can’t help it,” he shrugged his shoulders again and took a gulp from the red Dixie cup. Ugh, God, that stuff tasted like crap. Turning his attention back to Nikki, he looked at her with a touch of concern in his eyes.

“Are you sure nothings wrong? Because it doesn’t look like nothing’s wrong. It most definitely looks like something’s wrong,” he was rambling and yet he couldn’t help it, but it really didn’t look like everything was fine. He nodded as he finished talking, wishing she would tell him. There was a time when they told each other everything, no matter how lame it sounds now. They were best friends but recently they’d drifted apart. Elliot hated that more then anything else. Even if he couldn’t have her as more then a friend, the last thing he ever wanted was to loose her as his friend.

ooc;; eww, I suck D:

[hannah]

When Amanda didnt stop him. Thats when he knew that she wanted him to leave and thats what he was planning on doing. Forget his sister, forget his friends, and just get on the first flight and leave. Joey pushed passed the groups of dancing poeple. THey were hard to get passed but he managed. Within no time he was marching down the driveway, racing to his car, the hot tears that were streaming down his face were the only thing he had to keep him warm. But as soon as his hand touched the car handle. He heard Amanda. A smile warmied inside of him, but refused to come out on his face.

Joey decided not to face her and to just stay turned around to the car, ready to open it and leave because for all he knew she could want to tell him off and keep ragging on about how much she wanted him to leave and how much he hurt her, and if thats what was going to happen, then he would just get in the car and race off because he was already hurt to much about hurting her.

He took in all of Amanda words, he was speechless.

Then he did the first thing that came to mind. He slammed the car door shut and raced up to her as soon as he reached her, her feel to the floor, comming down to just about were she was.

He brought her head to his chest. "Dont be stupid Amanda. Dont be sorry. Dont be sorry" he whsipered. Tears now flowing quicker out of his eyes. "I'm a jerk" he whsipered "Im the stupid one" he said "Im the one that should bo sorry, not you" he said, his voice was soo shjaky that it was even hardfor him to understand himself. "I love you and I want to be with you for my whole life Amanda" he whispered. Then her backed away a bit an looked her in the eyes. His hands holding her head up, gentally. He then leaned in slowley and kissed her. " Please Amanda, tell me you loved me, thats all I need from you and then you are free o do whatever you want with you life" he whispered.

[faden]

Chase laughed and gave her a gentle squeeze. "Caught ya, you didn't put up much of a fight though." He said with a smirk, leaning in to kiss her again. He slid one of his hands down the arm and into her hand which he took in his before breaking the kiss and smiling at her, "Now, I'm not much of a dancer, you might have to teach me a few things." He said with a grin, gesturing to the dance floor.

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Laura smirked at the whole situation. Drama made her laugh. Kids make so much of it now and days. Jealousy and all the that. There wasn't time for all that. Life was too short and too crappy. You find someone your attracted to, you go for it and then if she or he finds someone else, you go find someone else, no big. Laura wasn't much of a romantic, her father to that away from her, long before her eighth grade math teacher. She attempted not to laugh at how keyed up people were getting. If they were her friends, obviously she would have been a bit kinder in her thoughts of them but still. She looked down at the small bit of clothing she was wearing, she liked her outfit and of course it's something she'd wear, it let her keep her tools with her.
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Eric laughed nervously, "Well maybe, I doubt she's been tested for all of them.." He said, knowing that depression, ADD, ADHD, Bi-polor all of those disorders were chemical imbalences but when he made the comment he was thinkg more ADD. Laura wasn't suicidal or anything, not to his knowledge. "So it was more of a speculation than a joke."

[Min-Sook Park]

A small smile appeared on her face as Nikki saw Amanda and Joey forgiving eachother. Her smile then disappeared at the thought that Amanda might not ever forgive her. 'She will forgive me..' Nikki kept thinking over and over again. 'Right?' Her thoughts were interupted by Elliot speaking again.

"It's just something with Amanda," Nikki said, telling Elliot. She didn't think he would be interested in the story. Plus, ti would hurt to tell him anyways. Nikki wanted to talk to two people right now. Luckily, one of them was here.

[skyehanson]

Skye smiled and squeezed his hand. "Okay. It's really easy." She was glad a slow song was on. It was so much easier to teach someone how to dance slowly than how to dance faster. She led him to the middle and turned around. "Now, first, you put your hands here." She grabbed his hands and put them around her waist. "Then I put mine here." She put hers around his neck. "Then we go in slow circles, like this." She started a slow revolving motion on the spot. "There, see? It's not too hard. But the way we are going right now is much too boring." She moved herself closer to him so that her body was against his. "There. Much better." She was happy right where she was, with Chase holding her. She just wished that someday she would be okay with relationships again. Maybe if she still was okay with them, Chase would not be more than her little guinea pig. But for now, that was exactly what he was.

[joshstewart]

Josh walked into the party, seeing it was already going strong. It looked like almost every high schooler at Valkyrie was there. Who would miss out on a party like this, probably no one. Unless you were the type who though party's like these were stupid. Those people had no idea what they were missing.

Josh couldn't really think of a costume, so he ended up throwing on his football uniforms, without a lot of the pads of course. It wasn't very original, but it wasn't something horribly stupid either.

Josh walked around looking for Daphne. Knowing her, she has probably been here for awhile, and had a few drinks, too. That wasn't a problem with Josh, sometimes though, she wished she wouldn't drink as much. Josh wasn't much of a drinker, he actually never really drank at all. Ever since the incident that happened a few years ago, he never wanted to drink.

(Crappy post! Sorry, I couldn't think of anything!)

[elliotdavis]

“Oh,” he responded, his voice quiet. He brought the cup to his lips, but didn’t take a drink, just bit the outer rim, his eyes looking down at Nikki. He took this opportunity to fully check her out. She looked good all dressed up… or down, damn good. He felt bad for her, he really did, I mean he could tell from her tone of her voice and tear stains on her face something big had happened, and yet he couldn’t bring himself to feel all that sympathetic. Maybe it was the alcohol, or his weird mood, but all he could think about was himself and how much he just wanted to kiss her right now, no matter how much she might not want it.

Bringing the cup from his lips, he tried to muster up all the seriousness he could and opened his mouth to speak. “Do you wanna go upstairs and talk?” he asked raising his eyebrow, even though the last thing he wanted to do was talk. “The music’s pretty loud down here.” Normally Elliot would feel horrible for what he was about to do. Nikki was one of his best friends and he’d never want to hurt her, but here he was taking advantage of her vulnerableness and trust, and about to led her upstairs where the last thing he wanted to do was talk.

[Min-Sook Park]

"Sure," Nikki said, agreeing. She believed him. Elliot was her friend and Nikki didn't think he would do anything to hurt her. She didn't think of all the achohol Elliot might have drank. She just trusted him so much. She was relieved when Elliot was here to cheer her up...Or at least that's what she thought...

Nikki stood up and was ready to go upstairs. She sighed and said,"Let's go," Nikki was kind of confused for a second. She thought that Elliot was used to this loud music. Afterall, he was in a band. 'I guess I don't know him as much as I thought...' Nikki thought to herself.

[krueger]

She sat out in her black Tracer, biting down on her lips as she debated whether or not to actually enter the Summit house. Emilia had snuck out of her house in order to come to the 'hottest party of the year'. She knew that inside, people were already begining to party, drink, and maybe have sex. Although, now that she looked at the clock on her stereo, maybe it was a little early for that. But then again, this was Valkyrie Academy. Anything that could happen, generally does.

After a few minutes, she stepped out of her car, black heels clicking on the pavement. Emilia decided that, being new here, she might as well have fit in a little. That meant ditching her normal, 'cover as much as possible' kind of outfit. Her outfit now consisted of black boots, tight blue jeans, and a red halter shirt. Her shirt came short, showing a few inches of her mid-drift. Her hair was pulled up, and there were large hoops in her ears. The outfit made her a little uncomfortable, but who knows how the night would go.

Stepping into the house, Emilia bit down on her lip once more, looking for someone familiar. She hadn't seen anyone at first glance, but maybe she would in a few. No one would know she decided to show up, for she hadn't decided herself until a few hours ago. It was careful planning to get out of her house, but here she was now. Stepping out of the doorway, she leaned up on a wall for a while, people watching for the time being.

This should be a fun night.

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[amanda]

She couldn't have been any happier when he came back to her after hearing everything she had said. Once again she had poured her feelings out to him, and once again he had still stayed with her, wanting to be with her. There was no doubt in her mind that he was the one she was supposed to be with.

As he held her, she couldn't help but let out a small smile and giggle through all of her tears. There they were, standing outside, holding each other and crying. It definitely wasn't the night that she had thought it would be, but now that they cleared everything up, it was even better. "Joey, I wanna be with you because I love you" she looked him in his eyes to show the true sincerity of her statement. "I always have and I always will" The tears which were steadily streaming down her face had stopped, and she wiped them away sniffling.

"And I don't want to do anything with my life if your not included" she wrapped her arms around him, kissing him slowly on the lips. Stepping in closer to him so her skimpily dressed body was pressed against his, she continued to kiss him, turning on a bit of her more sexual side to end the fight on a good note. "I like your costume by the way" she said with a little smile noticing the green makeup, although most of it had been washed away by tears.

[elliotdavis]

Grabbing her hand, he smiled at her and began to lead her up the stairs. Elliot had no idea what he was going to do when they got up there. He’s not a violent guy, and there’s no way he’d force her to do anything she didn’t want to do, this girl was his best friend and the whole reason he was holding back everything was because there was no way he wanted to ruin that. Looking back down at her as they came up the stairs, he took note of how pretty she was. With the alcohol clouding his thoughts, it was amazing he had held back every urge he had to kiss her.

Opening the first door on his right at the top of the stairs, Elliot saw that it was empty and led Nikki in. “See, it’s much quieter up here. Now I can actually hear youu,” his words were beginning to slur a little bit, but still he smiled at her. His eyes jetted across the room. It was fucking huge, seriously, his condo was maybe only twice the size, and he thought his condo was a pretty good size. Bringing his attention back to Nikki, he bit his lip.

What the fuck was he gunna do now? Was he really going to repeat the beach, only with him fucked off his ass and her all quiet and miserable? Moving closer to her, he wanted nothing more to tell her everything and have her fall into his arms. Instead, he skipped the whole talking part and moved onto the action. Grabbing onto her arms, with a little bit of force, although he had no intentions of hurting her, he leaned in a kissed her, hard. It wasn’t a little peck, it was more of a sloppy beginning of what could be a good make-out session, but hey, Elliot’s never exactly been a great kisser and add his drunken stupor, well, it’s not that pretty.

He didn’t even think about Nikki or how much she might hate him after, and his one hand moved over top of her right breast, cupping it. Jesus, Elliot. He was into it, and was fully willing to go the whole way, but something told him Nikki wasn’t.

[Min-Sook Park]

"Yeah," Nikki said, agreeing,"Now we can talk." Yet, Nikki didn't know what to talk about. She didn't really think Elliot wanted to know, but she guess he cared. Nikki was silent for a moment, not knowing what to say, or how to star the conversation. She was about to start was interupted by a awkward kiss.

'What is he doing?!' Nikki thought, angrily. She said her thoughts out loud,"What are you doing?" Nikki said, almost shouting. She pushed him away, not very gently, neither hard. Nikki was so confused, but at this moment, she couldn't think. Nikki was angry, but her face looekd more confused.

Nikki repeated once more,"What were you doing?" She thought they were going to stay friends, and that was it. At the same time, Elliot and Nikki weren't a couple to begin with. If Elliot didn't give her an answer this second, Nikki would walk right out the door.