This is the Introduction to a completely crazy love story of five people in high school. I figured it was appropriate for all those people out there starving for a good, sickeningly-crazy story that they can relate to. Sooo... enjoy!

Love triangle? Ha! Try a love pentagon!

In a nut shell, Madeline likes Brendan who likes Cassie who likes Thor who likes Shayla who hates Madeline. Follow all that? Yeah… me neither. Not even we really constantly knew what was going on… save the basics. I’m Madeline. Yep, you’re probably saying right now, “Oh! Stinks for her! The only girl who isn’t liked but actually hated!” Yeah… it does stink. But so does love… and that’s where Brendan comes in. If this were a movie instead of something written down, you would see me running into lockers, doing a walk that’s slower than the classic slow of the Million-dollar Man, and gazing dreamily at the tenth grade hunk who is grinning that boyish, completely cute grin of his as he laughs with his sports buddies. Yes, that star-struck, clumsy, dork of a high school girl is me. And even more yes, if that’s possible, that absolutely adorable boy with the huge, blue eyes and dreamy, amber hair is he, the love of my life… And that’s why Shayla hates me. Shayla is Brendan’s sister. There was a conflict from the beginning! She’s like the creepy cheer leader type who runs around capturing every boy’s heart and smiling like a chimp with a banana split every time they do one of their robot cheers to supposively ‘add prep to the student body’ as the principal once put it at a rally. Yeah… needless to say, the man is old, out of date in more than one way, and badly in wanting of a better toupee. Anyways, off the topic of what really matters… Brendan… Too bad Madeline was part of that deal. Every girl in the history of New Gates High to have a crush or relationship with him was known to mysteriously ‘disappear’ and ‘never be seen again’…. Well, not really, but they were usually banned from the social atmosphere of school by having some ferocious rumor started about them. I had even a couple examples up my sleeve:

Andrea Jackson- 2005- seventh grade- rumor started: chopped up trees and ate them.

Surprisingly, that rumor alone was enough to make her switch schools.

Dolly Parks- 2007- Eighth grade- rumor started: Stuffed her… yeah; lived in the local water tower; was a stalker.

On Dolly, it took a triple-strike rumor to get her off of Brendan.

Those two weren’t the worst but the most well-known. I, on the other hand, was well-known for liking Brendan, being hated by Shayla, and still managing to avoid rumors. How? Only because of good fortune and the fact that Shayla was constantly distracted with trying to avoid Thor. So she basically had no free time to ruin my life because she was too worried about her own.

Sooo…yeah.

But I had yet another problem and her name is Cassie. She is my heart’s true desire’s distraction. Translation: Brendan likes her and not me. Therefore, she has successfully made it onto my list of ‘To hate.’ Cassie, a soccer, sporty sort of girl and also extremely proud of every drop of golden blonde on the top of her head, knew I hated her and knew that Shayla hated me and was always trying to egg her on to bother me. But on the other hand, she also was always mad at Shayla for stealing Thor’s heart and, when not trying to convince Shayla to ruin me, was ignoring and hating Shayla with all her might.

Phew! Try saying all that five times fast!

But this, despite all I’ve told you, this is just the beginning. There’s an entire, crazy, soap opera story coming up and I’ve just covered the basics, scratched the surface, if you may, barely penetrated the fog bank, not even begun to… yeah, you get it.

In a nut shell, I’m trapped in the pentagon.