MADE HIM ALL WARM INSIDEIBUT SEEING HER WITH THAT LITTLE AND BONY DAVID
         
         DRAKE’S HEART SPED UP.IT WAS TRUE THAT DRAKE HAD PLAYED FOOTBALL,SO AT
         
         HIS TALL SIX-TWO FRAME AND ONE-NINTY WEIGHT,HE WASN’T EASILY DISCOURAGED.
         
         DRAKE HATED DAVE RIGHT THEN.HE HATED HIM FOR TRYING TO GET CLAE’S ATTENTION.
         
         CLAE WAS HIS.DRAKE HAD BEEN ECSTATIC WHEN CLAE HAD FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL
         
         WHEN SHE WAS SIXTEEN,AND HAD IMMEADITLY COME TO THE ACADEMY IN SEARCH OF
         
         A JOB AS A FUNCTION COORDINATOR.THREE MONTHS AFTER SHE ARRIVED,A TRACI
         
         HAD ARRIVED,HER PARENTS HAD MEGA-BUCKS AND THEY HAD DECIDED HER SINGING
         
         ABILITY SHOULD BE ENHANCED BY ANOTHER TYPE OF VOICES.SHE HAD JUST SAT
         
         THERE IN THE DEAN’S OFFICE,POPPING HER GUM AND STUDYING HER NAILS.SHE
         
         DIDN’T LIKE IT AT THE ACADEMY ONE BIT,BEING SHE WAS THE ONLY GIRL.THEN SHE
         
         HAD BEEN YELLING AT THIS BOY IN THE HALL WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH CLAE.
         
         TALK ABOUT A REUNION.TRACI WAS THIRTEEN,AND CLAE SIXTEEN,BUT THEY HAD GONE
         
         TO THE SAME ACADEMY PREVIOUSLY AND WERE BEST FRIENDS.ALTHOUGH CLAE HAD BEEN
         
         A SEMI-GENIUS,SHE DIDN’T RUB IT IN.SHE ONLY ENCOURAGED YOU TO STUDY HARD SO
         
         YOU COULD STAY IN THE CHOIR.GRADES WENT UP REAL QUICK.MOST CAME TO CHOIR
         
         ONLY TO SEE HER PRETTY FACE AND EXTRA-COOL STYLE.SHE MADE APPOINTMENTS
         
         FOR THEM EVERYWHERE TO SING AND EVERYBODY WAS ECSTATIC TO HAVE HER.SHE
         
         STOOD UP FOR THE BOYS AND WOULD SOONER SLAP YOU IN THE FACE THEN TO
         
         LET YOU SLIP BEHIND IN HER SIGHTS.SHE BELIEVED EVERYBODY WAS EQUAL IN
         
         EVERY WAY,REGUARDLESS OF SEX,MONEY,THE CAR YOUR PARENTS DROVE,OR ANY OF
         
         THAT STUFF.SHE ALWAYS SAT BESIDE THE CHOIR DIRECTOR WHEN THE BOYS

         





         
         WENT TO CHORUS.SHE’D GIVE HER OPPINION ON SONGS,AND SHE COULD PLAY A
         
         MEAN PIANO.BUT ALONG WITH HER LIBERAL,AND NO-NONSENSE ATTITUDE,SHE
         
         WAS ALL FUN AND ALL OUT WILD.SHE TREATED TRACI LIKE ONE OF THE BOYS