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spencer emma brandon and jesse smith looked over the shiny blue water emma a-nine-year-old girl asked quickly if her her brother and her twin sister spencer could go surf the big waves on hawaii`s beach of course the mother of two twins would say no but jesse is trusting them she knows that one day they are going to become professionals emma brandon and spencer raced to the sand and cool water spencer fell emma tripped and brandon stood there enjoying the sight jesse watched them as she got a flash-back of her oldest child jamie he died in a car crash at the age of 18 now he would have been 20 jesse wiped her cheek as tears ran down it just then she noticed spencer suddenly rushing towards her jesse had a sign of `death in her mind it was taking away by spencer s loud scared voice i can t find her or see her spencer said weakly she to wiped a tear from her wet tan face oh my gosh nobody could hear jesse but it sounded to spencer just that jesse quickly rushed to the water with her blue rip curl surfboard she was yelling emma come here now as a rush of panic went down her spine she spotted bubbles rising to the surface of the water she also noticed a pink and yellow surfboard near them emma figured that she was close to death she would not even be able to see the own face of her own mother once more emma was attached to something underneath drowning emma s lungs gave up no more bubbles rose and everyone knew that emma s life was no longer with them it was over 4 years later spencer is now 13 years old and is still living with her mother jesse jesse s boyfriend bill and brandon spencer s little brother spencer and jesse are happy with their life and proud that they actually have a life ring ring the school bell rang to enter today was the first day of school for spencer smith she got pushed and she stumbled spencer was the last in she put her hand on the cold silver door handle but jerked it back spencer is used to walking in and seeing her friends smile at her and laugh this was to different for her she was afraid that people would think of her as a nerd or a geek but when she walked in the whole crowd was looking at her all 28 pairs of eyes on her spencer took a deep breathe and said is this mrs t s class the kids laughed until they were almost on the floor spencer just closed the door almost in tears she ran anywhere just then a girl from the class was running her way hello wait up she was yelling the girl had brown wavy hair with tan hot skin she was wearing a blue and yellow dress with black flats her hair flowed down her neck and she smiled as if she needed someone to notice her beautiful outfit well spencer noticed hi spencer mumbled hey your the girl that just embarrassed herself in front of the whole class she laughed but spencer looked down at the light brown hallway floor sorry yeah well who s class was that spencer asked shyly oh that was mrs t s class she answered in return but then why d everyone laugh at me spencer was puzzled but as the girl examined her appearance she kind of figured it out my clothes that s what everyone

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was laughing at uh yeah didn t you noticed what `we were all wearing spencer nodded okay were going to the mall tomorrow the girl said wait what s your name spencer asked quickly mia mia lintin thanks i am spencer smith see you spencer turned to leave but mia poked her shoulder as spencer clued in she span around in laughter they entered again and this time the teacher`s eyes were the only ones looking at them mrs.t this is spencer smith the new girl you know mia said in her small soft voice mrs t made a motion which told mia to take a seat yes i know thank you ms lintin she just kept looking at spencer and spencer finally asked where should i sit mrs t brought an empty desk right beside her desk she patted the chair twice that told spencer to put her yellow and orange back-pack on the hook and sit down there she sat confused spencer guessed that she was going to explain the lesson to her but she just walked around the room looking at the classes papers spencer coughed trying to get the teachers attention the teacher turned to look at her with her foggy grey glasses she pulled them off her dark face ms smith what are you supposed to be doing the teacher put her grey glasses back on uh i am not sure spencer thought that she was in trouble but when the teacher laughed she was confused i am just joking you can just take some tips from my best student i know who your best student is mia lintin the teacher started towards this girls desk she had long brown straight hair and blue sparkling eyes no not quite its her kayla bridges kayla looked up from her paper as the teacher examined her spencer smith this is your helper spencer and kayla s mouth both flung open the bell rang class dismissed hand in your papers at my desk if finished spencer walked away away from kayla oh my gosh you know her she s such a nerd mia was following spencer through the halls don t you ever call her that spencer span around and wiped her hair around her bottom lip trembled running as fast as she can spencer smith remembered kayla was her best friend from the day she was born kayla knew her and spencer knew kayla kayla was the girl that fought with emma and they both hated each other but spencer loved her spencer knew what she had to do that was to go to her parents and tell her everything that happened that day spencer ran home knowing that she had to walk home cars racing past her bikers riding by she ignored everything and finally reached her home her mother jesse was reading the magazine that spencer had bought her for christmas jesse s boyfriend bill was watching the hockey came with his sick and annoying almost step son brandon brandon got the flu a couple of weeks after christmas now it is january 3rd hey honey how was your first day spencer shook her head and looked at her mother a tear tripped from her blue sparkling eyes she ran to her mothers arms spencer was crying for the third time in one day they ended there hug and spencer wiped another tear spence everything is going to eventually work out in our life her mom said to her yeah what mom is trying to say is cough sneeze cough bless me anyway she is trying to say your eventually not going to be a freak spencer ran away up to her room her mother

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followed her up the carpeted grey stair case brandon mitchell smith how could you say something like that to your sister she is having a hard time in school and her whole life is a blur bill came running up the stairs as well spence listen to me her mother was trying to make her feel better it was not working spencer was under the covers of her queen sized bed what do you want she got out of under the covers brandon is your little 10 year old brother he was just kidding around spence spencer maria listen jesse was saying but he was right i am a freak nobody not even you guys love me enough to tell me the truth i hate you spencer stormed out of her small bedroom into the bathroom which has a lock on it spencer locked the door bill and jesse looked at each other jesse was about to take off towards the bathroom give up jess just give up okay lets start with attendance alan here jake here molly here the whole class was here except for spencer and kayla spencer rushed through the school door forgetting where her class was spencer opened the door to mrs t s class lucky thought spencer ms smith your tardy i know and i am sorry spencer scanned the classroom for either mia or hopefully she would find kayla take a seat the teacher looked annoyed at her where now mrs t looked exhausted of being around spencer sorry empty seat right mrs t grinned sarcastically spencer took her seat it was right in front of mia mia flipped spencer`s brown hair hey would you stop that spencer was getting annoyed is someone talking while only i should mia took her painted fingernail and pointed at spencer spencer did not notice because of course mia was sitting behind her the teacher sat down on her desk she took out a yellow slip of paper and a blue inked pen out of her first cupboard ms smith you have a date with mrs brooks mrs brooks was the schools principle the class laughed at the teachers joke as spencer stood up taking the slip from mrs t s hand walking out the door spencer turned and made a mean face at mia in the schools office spencer asked where mrs brooks was the secretary made a motion which said to spencer in the room the tall thin lady was pointing to should i just walk in or knocking would be the polite thing to do the lady announced just stay happy spencer told herself spencer knocked quietly on the blue door mrs brooks my teacher sent me hear to see you am i come in mrs brooks loud thundering voice cut spencer off oh why its ms smith whats up the principle showed her white teeth in a smile spencer returned it with another smile hi i um was sent here spencer was puzzled she was expecting some punishment but mrs brooks just said by who mrs tilonkin division 9 spencer answered yes yes i know do you have a slip yeah here spencer handed her the yellow piece of paper mrs t handed her earlier mrs brooks cleared her throat and looked up at spencer your not in trouble dear mrs brooks was so calm which helped spencer stay calm what really spencer was confused then why am i here mrs brooks your on `garbage duty spencer lightly closed the door behind her oh well that s great i actually used to cool spencer span her head around seeing kayla at the door kayla your here spencer ignored

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the answer and ran for a hug spence i missed you so much kayla was her partner for garbage duty hey so are you in garbage duty they released their hug mother my life is making sense now spencer ran into their blue jeep oh that s great honey her father was driving and her mother was trying to text her friends on her new iphone mom your thumbs are to fat brandon was in the back with spencer oh brandon you know that was not the right thing to say jesse said ugh well your right my thumbs are to fat when jesse s friend angela received the message she saw kppj ys rjys pforo when it was supposed to say look at this photo mom you sent something to me it says kppj ys rjys pforo what are you trying to say let me see that i am surly not that bad she looked at spencer s blackberry oh honey that s not my number mine is 778-866-96one3 not 96five3 jesse looked confused but mom look at all the messages you have sent me its from the same number there were about 20 messages from that number there was be home by 6 to see me and ok have fun see you there was also love you spence be careful the first on was when i was going out with kayla the second one was um well you sent it on december 29 mom what is going on don t worry spence its just a coincidence garbage duty day whoever signed up has to go to mrs brook s room all spencer could think about was the texts mrs t i am signed up right right you got the slip on monday remember mrs t answered yeah but um i thought that was a detention slip or something spencer confused looked at mrs t in silence now why would i give you a detention slip well i was talking and you saw mia point at me and you said i had a date oh spencer that is not what i give out to new students or any students at all well then um spencer closed her eyes and quickly announced do you know this number spencer took out her phone the teacher read 778-8669653 actually yes that s someones number that is in our class the teacher announced really who spencer looked excited but a little worried too i am not sure well spencer you should go to garbage duty right spencer bit her bottom lip as she rushed out the door hey spence over here mia was calling from 3 garbage cans kayla was on the other job spence come here kayla was calling spencer walked towards kayla and never turned back from her the girls talked for a while and heard someones feet stepping near them spencer and kayla turned starring at mia i was told to come to job 3 what a surprise spence my best friend and her little well kayla mia smiled in a sneaky way like she was out to get them oh hey mia i didn t notice you all i saw was a wad of blond curly hair said kayla the girls put on their yellow stretchy gloves and giggled kay guys want to come over to my place tomorrow after school spencer said trying to make them feel less awkward sure i will ask said kayla but mia didn t answer the question instead she went up to spencer and whispered i am not aloud to hang around her spencer was puzzled is her kayla spencer loudly announced shh and yeah oh well i guess me and kayla will just chill alone without you mia spencer said she was trying to get mia to say yes fine i will ask finally mia answered spencer mia and kayla all group hugged and giggled.

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rrr-rrr-rrr in the middle of class spencer s blue blackberry phone vibrated who has their phone on in my class today a substitute was in for ms t mr delonie was here today in division 9 he kind of has anger issues spencer was a type of girl who admits to things and takes the blame when she knows she did something wrong spencer rose her hand up high in the air to admit but when she saw kayla s hand rise and kayla wink at her she realized that she was taking blame mr d looked straight at kayla took out a blue piece of paper and a pen then handed it to kayla kay spencer blurted out accidentally ms smith you will meet kayla in the office as well mr d tried to calm himself he couldn t sorry it was my phone that vibrated but spencer was to slow kayla was already out the door hop in called jesse to spencer mom i have two friends that i would like you to meet first mia stepped in front of spencer and waved hey mrs smith i am mia they shook hands and both smiled well hello mia you can call me jesse jesse replied oh sorry mia hates it when people tell her something that she does wrong mia frowned i believe you two have met mom this is kayla kayla came from behind spencer and smiled hello jesse i have missed you jesse wasn t a big fan of kayla because she disliked her daughter but jesse just said kayla hi mom can they both come over tomorrow after school i suppose so announced jesse yea chanted the girls blah blah blah is all spencer mia and kayla could hear they were staring at the clock in the class it was 2:19 the clock would never move the whole school got out of class at 2:20 it would not budge ring ring class dismissed remember that you have a math test next thursday hey girls said jesse excitedly hey mom where s bill asked spencer as she got into the silver volkswagen bill is buying a new tuxedo for a wedding replied jesse really spencer knew what that meant you and bill are getting married jesse smiled for a yes and looked in the rear view mirror mom i am so happy and excited do you have it planned out can i be the flower girl is brandon the ring man guy oh my gosh i am so excited spencer was smiley and cheerful well yes sure and i haven t talked to brandon about this yet don`t tell him jesse answered where is brandon asked spencer as jesse started the car he is at home with caleb our new neighbor i have met the parents and they are really nice people caleb is 17 years old so he is baby-sitting him the girls were all at home in spencer s basement hey so guys i have someone stalking me on my phone do you guys know this number spencer showed mia and kayla the number kayla said that she had to the bathroom just then mia looked at her phone to see if that number was in her contact list she saw that kayla s number was the same spence kayla has the same number as that one mia

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announced spencer knew that was wrong but she looked twice and it was the exact same kayla re-entered the blue small room kayla have you been texting me every time i text supposedly `my mom kayla just walked away and no one ever saw her again now it was sunday and no one still could find kayla bridges it was in the paper and on the news sometimes they even talked about it on the radio some people say that she haunts their own home jesse bill brandon and spencer all say that kayla bridges is still alive in their house somewhere christmas time has come and spencer is still left hanging not knowing what is going on in her life kayla bridges is gone in some stories but is with them in others mia and spencer are best friends and for jesse and bill s wedding it is over brandon spencer and jesse are happy with their life and proud that they actually have one.

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