Title: Beyond Yesterday

Summary: uh… none at all. If you really, really need one, it's an A/U fic, about what could have happened, if Mulder and Scully have met in high school. Response to a friend's challenge…

Disclaimer: I know it, you know it, and everybody knows it: they don't belong to me. Oh, and Mulder and Scully belong to each other. Just a random thought that I think people should agree.

Feedback: I'm really, really begging you for this story… YES! Please? Please?

Dreamy Child offered her assistance as usual when I plan on doing something that doesn't spoil anything in the show, but… Alice, you should know how it goes! Every time we attempt to write something together, it turns out to be a parody!

Anyway, here we go…

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"Dana? Melissa?" My mom knocked gently on my door. "Time to get up!"

I groaned, and rolled onto my back. A quick glance at the alarm clock told me that it's six in the morning. "Mom, it's just six!" I protested, pulling the blanket over my head.

 "Yes but if you don't get up you're going to be late for school!"

I could hear Melissa turning restlessly in her bed on the other side of the room. She rolled onto her side so that she was facing me. "What does she want now?" she mouthed, looking tired as hell.

 "She wants us up for school," I mouthed back.

 "School?!" Melissa practically jumped out of her bed. She grabbed the alarm clock, and then went over to her desk and stared hard at the calendar, trying to figure out the date.

 "It's August thirtieth, Friday," I announced as I got out of my bed and started rummaging through my closet. No point of going back to bed. I could never fall asleep again once I was up.

 "And school doesn't start until Monday," Melissa said, running a hand through her hair. "Today's your freshmen welcoming ceremony. She must've got it mixed up."

 "Girls?" Mom knocked again, this time harder. "I don't hear any sound that suggests you're up!"

 "Mom for sweet God's sake!" Melissa said loudly, making sure that Mom heard her, "School doesn't start until Monday!"

 "Then why is today marked down on the calendar?"

 "Because it is Dana's freshmen welcoming ceremony tonight at seven!" And then she was under her blanket and cover and all. "Parents," she grumbled, "they mark down the important date on the calendar and don't write down why it is important. And then they just randomly decide what event makes the day special."

I giggled, and she finally noticed that I was fully dressed.

 "Why are you dressed already?" Melissa asked, yawning.

 "I can't go back to sleep once I'm up," I explained. "Anyway, tell me about this ceremony."

She pushed herself up with her elbows. "Okay… if you're really too lazy to read that announcement which has been sitting on your desk for the past week."

 "Basically it's the school's way of annoying seniors to death before they graduate... they usually pair up girls with guys, and vice versa. Tonight your partner will be showing you around the school so you won't get lost on Monday, and you'll learn when each other have free, study, and lunch and if you have a matching period, you're free to ask him any questions regarding to the school only, unless he's willing to talk about himself."

 "That's it?" I asked, quite disappointed.

 "What do you expect? Balloons and flowers and your senior partner dance with you under the moonlight and a beautiful friendship or romance starts?" Melissa said, slipping under the cover.

 "Never mind," I said, opening the door. "And you forgot to pull the curtain together."

 "Pull it for me, will you?" She asked sleepily. "I'm too lazy to get up again."

 "You're the one who wants to sleep," I pointed out, closing the door behind me.

And I could hear Melissa groan and curse from behind the door as she got up again to pull close the curtain.

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 "So, who's your senior partner? Or have you even bothered to look at it?"

It was almost six thirty in the evening; we're having dinner earlier than usual because I have to leave for this "welcoming ceremony." Melissa was stacking up the empty plates and taking them to the kitchen sink.

I pulled out the folded piece of paper from my jeans pocket. "It's someone called Fox Mulder—you know anything about him?"

 "Yeah. He's got the weirdest name in school and he's cute," she left the dishes in the sink, came over and took the paper. "He's from somewhere in Massachusetts, I think... oh yeah, he's kind of freaky, I should warn you."

I raised a questioning eyebrow. "Freaky? How?"

 "Well, loads of people think that he's just a nutcase; his sister had gone missing when he was a kid and he believes that she was abducted by aliens. But never mind that," she said, stuffing the paper back into my hand, "You should get going now if you don't want to be late."

And so, my freshmen year adventure started

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Uh… the ceremony idea came from my sister's high school… they really do that. Anyway, how do you like it? Do you have anything for me? Feedbacks? Reviews? Flames? Anything??? Please! I really, really want to finish this one, not just for my friend, but also for myself, and for YOU, the reader, if you don't think it sucks! So please, tell me everything you think about this story! Suggestion on how it should go on is ALWAYS welcomed, just in case I run out of ideas….