<div class="floatleft">(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TS4ZgTaPUXc/TfdU6A9KFsI/AAAAAAAAFsg/9wPhJ_2PE-A/s1600/Emmy%2BRossum%2B13.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Raye McDuke</strong></span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Goody Goody/Jock</span><br/><br/>Raye didn’t notice when Red went to check on Dyllan, her eyes on the extremely angry Brad, his tone even making her flinch knowing if things would go much farther she knew things would be beyond anyway for her to try and control.  She crossed her arms turning her head slightly figuring as Red stood up to Brad what he was thinking and pressed her lips into a thin line also remembering when they first entered high school.  The time she spent trying to Brad to talk to Red and in the end as time went on Stefy was the one that he ended up with, but she like Stefy knew that Brad still had that soft spot for Red.  While Raye tried to cover up for Brad Stefy had still figured it out and now was horrible to the other girl.  She watched as Brad lay into Dyllan when he realized the other boy had been pushed to the point of crying, she wanted to say something but didn’t want Brad biting her head off too just in case.<br/><br/>When Brad came to stand beside her while cracking his knuckles and grinding his teeth and she definitely knew why.  Raye laid a hand on his forearm.  “Calm down..”  She spoke in a low voice that the others couldn’t hear.  “Please…”  Raye rarely said please so she hoped that would gain his attention.  Her rant of the school rules done from the moment as she tried to calm the football player enough to make sure things would not turn worse than what they already were.  She noted out of the corner of her eye Red checking on Dyllan and hoped that soon they could everyone out of the room and out of the line of fire of each other, the sooner the better.  Then she had to bite her lips hearing Max’s voice come from the other part of the room taunting Brad again and for the billionth time this year wondered if the guy had all his marbles.<br/><br/>Sure the guy was kind of cute and she had to hide her laughter at some of the things he did, but this really wasn’t the time when she was trying to calm Brad down.  She turned her eyes toward him for a moment watching as he juggled the balls he was throwing with ease almost jolting when he spoke her name.  He was offering her ice cream if she would forget about the rules for a while and shut up and a frown crossed her face torn between staying with Brad and the delicious of ice cream.  Of course she would never just leave her friend she had been loyal too long for that, but the fact that Max knew her greatest weakness for ice cream made things a lot worse.  She was never sure how he found out but it seemed every time she started to rant on him really bad and he mentioned ice cream, her rants when out the window.<br/><br/>Her inner debate stopped though as his tone changed and he became his more cheery bright self making her physically shake her head.  “And I thought I had mood swings…”  She muttered to herself.  Then she heard Dyllan ask what they meant about notes and she frowned again knowing instinctively that would not go over well with Brad.  She didn’t have time to answer hearing Stefy’s voice behind everyone at the door and immediately moved her calming hand from Brad’s arm not wanting the other girl to get the wrong impression.  She crossed her arms again watching things with more alert eyes unsure where all of this was going for having all these people in one room and things would explode.  “Let’s just all get out of here, huh?!”  She said loudly enough for everyone to hear trying to be the voice of reason.