"ROSE!"

Rose's head snapped up as Cassandra turned to face her.

"How can I be an artist when you can't be bothered to do your job? Which, by the way, is fetching me bubbly water."

"Sorry. I zoned out there for a minute. I-"

"You're grounded if I don't have my bubbly water in the next five minutes. Now leave. I hate your energy. It's sad and lonely. " Cassandra said before she resumed talking to some of the dancers who were hired to perform in her video.

Rose walked out of the room into the hallway, grateful that the day was almost over so she could go home. Reaching down to grab the bottle of water, she saw someone grab one if the last bubbly waters.

"Wow. Thank you so much, Rose."

"No, thank you Astrid. Your mum is going to kill me."

"Not our problem." Joan replied. "By the way, they told us to tell you you're holding up the whole shoot. And, just in case you forgot, you work for us."

"How could I forget with you guys reminding me all the time?" Rose muttered. She

grabbed another bubbly water and ran as fast as she could to give it to Cassandra.

"Her mother was one of my dancers. Truth to tell, probably the weak link. But then she died. And I needed some help around the house, so I took her little brat in. I'm really a saint, you know?" She heard Cassandra telling one of her assistants. Rose blinked the tears that were coming to her eyes away and handed Cassandra the bottle of water as quickly as she could so she could get out of there. Memories of her mum started flooding her mind as she ran to grab her skate board. Jackie Tyler. Her mum died when she was 10 in a car accident. Her dad, Peter Tyler, had died when Rose was just a baby so Rose had no where to go. The whole reason Cassandra had taken Rose was to improve her public image. "It's useless to think about it now." Rose thought. She focused on getting home for the rest of the way.

Rose flopped down on her bed thankful for a moment of peace and quiet as she turned on the TV.

"I'm here at Beverly Glen High School, where there's nothing but buzz, buzz, buzz. Fresh from his fourth world tour... Teenage superstar John Smith says that he is returning to school and taking his senior year off."

"Oh my gosh." Rose whispered.

"John! John! Can you give us any information about what you're doing in the future?"

"Just want get back to my roots, take my senior year off, go back to school. I'm just trying to keep it real."

"ROSE!"

Jumping from the sudden screaming of the intercoms, Rose quickly turned her telly down.

"Rose, I need you pronto, now. You forgot to TiVo my soaps."

"I'm sorry Cassandra. I'll be there in a second." She rolled her eyes and scooted off her bed.

"John and his record label are sponsoring a huge dance competition where one lucky student will win the opportunity to sing and dance with him in his next video. It-"

"I said PRONTO!" Cassandra screamed and Rose ran to the house.

"Did you hear the big news? The Doctor is coming to OUR school!" Rose climbed into her best friend, Donna Noble's car. 'The Doctor' was John Smith's nickname. He preferred it over his name, and who could blame him with an ordinary name like his. Rose wasn't really sure how he got it, but it had stuck.

"Yes, of course I heard. It's all over the news. I would have thought that you wouldn't have been this excited about it." Rose groaned. "School's gonna be miserable today, yeah? I mean, we've got a basketball, singer, dancer superstar coming as a student to our school. God, think about how arrogant he'll probably be. I bet he's the most stuck up kid in the country."

"I know, I know. And you're right, I don't usually get excited about stuff like this...It's just this celebrities becoming students at normal, public schools doesn't happen everyday. " said Donna before her eyes widened. "Do you think Martha's excited? She LOVES him!"

"She's probably freaking out right now. Oh, but what about Reinette? I heard her and John broke up!"

"More like he broke up with her! She deserves it, that cow. Speaking of..." Donna trailed off as she pulled up in the school parking lot right next to Reinette. Astrid, Joan, and Reinette sat in their red convertible, pointing and laughing at students walking into the building. Rose had barely stepped out of the van before coke was drenching her shirt.

"I am so sorry, child. I didn't see you there. It was like you were invisible or something." said Reinette.

"Who are you talking to, you-"

"Donna," Rose cut her off, "Come on. It's not worth it"

Rose's stepsisters and Reinette gave a satisfied smirk as they watched Rose and Donna walk away.

Donna was fuming.

"How could you let her get away with that? That git. The nerve she has, dumping her whole drink on you. What's her problem?"

"Donna, it's not worth the fight. Honestly, come on. Would she have stopped doing things like that to me if you started telling her off? Let's just forget about it. You can barely see it now-"

From behind her, Rose heard someone scream.

"IT'S THE DOCTOR!"

A stampede of people pushed past Rose and Donna as cameras began going off and a black car pulled up to the entrance of the school. Donna seemed to be lost in the crowd so Rose didn't even bother looking for her in the swarm of people surrounding her. Not really caring about the new celebrity student, Rose weaved her way through the crowd into the empty hallway. Suddenly, all of Rose's books fell to the ground when someone in a brown overcoat bumped into her.

"Oi mate!"

The boy turned and bent down to help her pick up her books.

"Sorry about that. I'm in a bit of a rush. I have to get to the gym to talk to the coach and then to my homeroom..." He babbled on and on.

"Apology accepted mate, although that was a bit rude..." Rose teased and then froze when the boy's voice finally registered.

"That's me. Rude...and not ginger." He finished with the biggest grin she had ever seen in her life.

"You're the Doctor." She said.

"I know. I was wondering how long it would take you to figure that out. Are you a bit slow- sorry, that was rude again wasn't it? What was your name?"

"Rose. Rose Tyler."

"Nice to meet you Rose Tyler. Brilliant name! Rolls right off the tongue!" He exclaimed as a smile spread across his face. She was about to respond when a familiar voice abruptly cut in to their conversation.

"John! Long time no see. You haven't called." The Doctor spun around to see Reinette speaking to him.

"Well, yeah, I've been a bit busy..." He tried to finish but she yanked his head forwards hers and started snogging him. Rose turned and walked away as quickly as possible without drawing attention to herself. Pushing thoughts of Reinette aside, she realised that the Doctor wasn't quite as bad as she had expected.