Picture Perfect
Chapter 2
By Katie

Casey ran down the street. No use driving her car, her mother would hear it and try to stop her. She kept running until she reached the end of the block, and her boyfriend's house.

She climbed up a tree and then jumped onto the roof, like she had so many times before when sneaking over, and tapped anxiously on the window. "Come on David, it's freezing out here." She screamed in her head.

There was a click and then the window slowly opened revealing David. He smiled up at her. "Hey Case, what's up?" She brushed past him into the room and shut the window.

"It's fucking cold out there." She said and then looked around the room to see her friends Rianna, better known as Ria, and her boyfriend Sam sitting on the bed. She looked at them expectantly.

"Having a party without me?"

Sam smirked up at her "Of course not Casey. Want some?" He asked handing over the cigarette he was smoking. She quickly grabbed it out of his hand and took a puff.

"That feels so good." She sighed and everyone laughed.

"Mother bothering you again?"

"Yes, Stockshit called my mom to inform her that I was expelled from the school and so she got all pissy saying I was throwing my education out the window or some shit like that."

"What'd you do this time?"

"Well, Stocky called me down to his office, like always, and told me I had one more chance and then I'd be expelled. But then miss prissy pants stopped me in the halls so I flipped her off and now I'm expelled."

"Good going Case. Now you can spend more time with us."

"Yeah, thank God. Anyway, I should probably get going I might as well get her bitching at me over with now."

"Have fun Case."

"Oh I will." She rolled her eyes.

"Hey, since you're not doing anything tomorrow, lets all go down to Smoky Hill. Brad's got some new shit for us to try. You in?"

"Hell yeah, I'm in. See ya guys later." Casey jumped back out the window and walked up to her house.

Casey climbed in through the window once again. Right before she was about to shut it she heard someone clear their throat. 'Oh Great' she thought and then turned around to see her mom with a less than pleased look on her face.

"Hello mom." She smiled sweetly up at her.

"Don't pull that 'hello mom' shit with me Casey. Where'd you go?"

"Not that it's any of your damn business, but I went to David's."

Her mom sighed and mumbled to herself 'I should have known'. "Casey, I was talking to one of my friends tonight, telling them about all the crap that you have been pulling and this person agrees with me that you need some straitening out." Casey rolled her eyes and her mom continued.

"I'm sick of this shit you're pulling with me Casey and frankly, I can't deal with it anymore. I'm sending you to go live with Jane Carter."

"What?! You're fucken shitting me right mom? I'm not going to go live with her!"

"Why not Case, you and Nick used to be best friends."

"Me best friends with that...that...Backstreet Bastard?!? Hell no mom! That was a momentary lapse of good judgment. I would NEVER be friends with a Backstreet Boy." Casey spat out as if 'backstreet boy' was a word that should never be used.

"Well, that's too bad because you getting expelled was also a momentary lapse of good judgment and whether you like it or not, you're going to go live with the Carter's!" She yelled and walked out of Casey's room, slamming the door shut.