Laurie arrived at Junior High and strolled about as if it were her personal garden. She was happy, charming, the centre of the crowd.

Carrie was a nerd whom she ordered to do her homework, but had her own agenda.   She said 'no', but with a caveat;  "I'll do it with you, so that you can learn, but I'm not going home to run off two copies."

She made faces and inferences, and ignoring her sarcasm Carrie replied,

"I know where you live, it's only two blocks from my house. We leave school go to your house, do the homework and I'll go home."

"Doesn't sound fun," she sneered.

However, a week later, after her parents had grounded her, she came to Carrie with a blinding smile and a pack of biscuits and acting ever so warm  said she had decided this was a good idea. 

Although Carrie didn't like anything about Laurie, she would be her entrance into the world of school royalty.   For as the Best Friend of Queen Laurie she would no longer be a nerd, but a somebody.