"My oh my, someone is happily coming home." Susan said as Hailey walked in. She was arranging the files in front of her and held out her hand for a hug.
"I don't know, should I be sad?" she asked rhetorically as she made her way into her arms, while they laughed.
"Did I miss anything?... I need to laugh too." Ken said as he climbed down the stairs.
"You didn't miss anything hun, Hailey here is quite happy on her first day unlike you.... and we are laughing as a celebration." she said and chuckled.
"How was yours Ken?" Hailey asked.
"Like mum said, mine is the opposite of yours.... so please don't let me recall embarrassing moments." Ken grumpily explained but his mum and sister comforted him with laughter. He glared at them and went away to do homework.
Ken didn't get a cold welcome like Hailey, he was cool and everybody cheered for him. But instead, he attracted a jealous gang to himself and the topping on the pizza was that they made him trip in front of a sassy girl who only said mean words.
"Come down for dinner Ken, we are waiting."
"I'll skip mum."
"You'll trip in front of the whole school by yourself if you skip your meals, don't you think?" she asked mockingly and they laughed quietly.
" Mum, please stop mocking me." Ken said walking down the stairs.
"I'm not sweetie, you're being pathetic...but you have to eat and keep your head high tomorrow, ok?"
Ken just sighed. They all ate and called it night. The next morning was bright and Hailey looked forward to meeting Jeremy.
"Here comes someoneee." Jeremy drawled, his eyes gleaming with happiness like a puppy that saw it's owner.
"Nice to meet you too." Hailey replied with a short laugh.
"I didn't know you'd be an early bird like me, well, that would make it easier for me to do a full class introduction." he said with a wide smile.
"Introduction?"
"The popular boys and girls, influencers and of course, the billionaires" he spread his arms and chuckled.
"Okay, so we're only three in this class. Since you're doing an introduction who is she?" she asked pointing to the girl in the front.
"Your fellow nerd." a voice she didn't know answered her and she looked up to a pair of menacing eyes approaching them from the door.
"Nice to meet you Hailey Bieber, I didn't mean to interrupt Jeremy's introduction.....my apologies." he said with a tone of mockery and headed to his seat at the back.
"He's always like that..... His name is Tyler Corex, he's among "the seven", a basketball popular group, and the girl is Shirley Ray." Jeremy looked at Hailey to know if she's following and she nodded. "Well," he continued, "the seven are all in this class."
"Wow, are they all hot like him?" Hailey asked.
"Hot? Wait till you see the others."
"Don't get my hopes too high." she said and laughed lightly.
"Look at the two girls coming in, the one with straight hair is Madison Courie and the other is Georgia James."
"Is that a Louis Vuitton on Madison?"
"Yeah, actually she's one of the billionaires. Her mum owns a hospital and her dad is a top politician. Georgia is our top influencer, she has the highest number of followers."
"Wow!"
"I have a feeling you'll say that word often till I finish my introduction." he said laughing lightly.
Just then 3 boys entered.
"Alex Green, Edward Gatrix and Barry Hudley, they are among 'the seven'."
"I see." Hailey nodded and watched them fill the back seats alongside Tyler. Just them five set of girls in black tennis skirts came in and she looked at Jeremy for explanation.
"The blonde is Natasha Stoker, Eve Anderson, Chloe Angelo, Becky McHenry and Amy Coles. They are all cheerleading and Eve is Barry's girlfriend. Chloe is a total bitch like Natasha and Amy is the kindest."
"Do they always wear matching clothes?" she asked and Jeremy nodded.
"Here comes Henry Wills, he's among 'the seven' and a billionaire. Quiet and hot."
Hailey saw a pair of warm brown eyes approaching her and she felt her heart thumping. But then, the athletic boy passed her and sat at her back and she went through wild imaginations within seconds. She just looked at Jeremy and he chuckled.
"Here is Roy Baker, our drug dealer." he whispered and Hailey looked at him speechless. "I present to you Ivan McAndy who is also amongst 'the seven'. He's best friends with Henry." he said pointing to where he sat.
"Just wow!!" Hailey took her time to look at Ivan with his dreamy blue eyes and handsome face, not to mention his athletic body. Hailey finally convinced herself to stop looking and Jeremy continued.
"This is Greg Meadows, one of 'the seven' and Jess Porter his girlfriend. And there is Annie Fuller, an influencer but she mostly gets all the gossips...be careful around her." he said and Hailey just nodded.
"Brian Trump, the football captain and Donald Ashman, an influencer that covers all sports gist are best friends...any other questions?"
"Not really, so two billionaires and three social media influencers?"
"Actually I'm one of the billionaires so that makes us three, there might be others in hiding and we have other influencers.... I just told you the major ones." he said and found Hailey staring at him and he looked back questioningly.
"One of the billionaires? And you successfully fooled me."
"I didn't, I told you now didn't I?"
"Well you did and someone could easily think you're on scholarship." she said and they laughed.
Hailey found out she was in the middle of an elite circle and she was nothing from her point of view.
"I don't see Ellie." she asked and Jeremy just shrugged.