I recently read the host; despite my hatred for the twilight series I absolutely loved it! And I loved Jared even more! I really wish she gave Melanie and Jared a better ending or at least a better reunion. Oh well. This story is going to be very cliché: P

Jared Howe was the bad boy in town. Always getting in trouble with his teachers always being sent to the principle and always getting confronted by the cops and quite frankly he irritated Melanie. Much to her distaste they get paired for a chemistry assignment where Melanie has no choice but to spend an awful amount of time with him. After Melanie spends so much time with him she realises there's more to him than just another teenage thug. Includes; Ian, Wanda, Jeb, Walter and others xoxo

Chapter 1

I was sitting in the third row in AP chemistry waiting for my class to begin next to my best friend Wanda whom I've known since I was 5. We shared a disliking at first but eventually came to like each other; we've been best friends since. She looked at me with a cheery smile.

"Aren't you excited for our senior year?" She said grinning from ear to ear.

"Yes! I cannot wait for senior prank day!" I giggled.

"And going to prom with Ian" she sighed, twirling her midnight black hair and her ocean blue eyes going dreamy.

"And yet again, I'll be boyfriend-less" I sighed not really meaning it.

"Oh Mel! I'm sorry I didn't-"

I cut her off laughing, "Relax, boyfriend or not I couldn't care less."

She rolled her eyes, "You never care about anything."

"That's not true, I care about winning track and soccer nationals, I care about you- well only sometimes-"

"Hey!"

I laughed at her hurt face, "kidding!" I held my hands up in surrender. She looked annoyed so I did the only thing I knew would cheer her up. "So how are you and Ian?"

"Perfect!" She beamed forgetting her annoyance, "Oh he took me to this amazing restaurant and he was so romantic and just- eeeeep! He's perfect!" I started laughing, Wanda always does that, when Ian is brought up she just babbles and just finishes the sentence squealing.

"So have you-"

"Settle down class!" A teacher who I've never seen before stood in front of the class. "I'm Mr Walter I'll be your AP chemistry professor." He paused surveying the class his eyes stopped at one missing seat towards the back and quickly flicked back to the class. "I don't tolerate tardies or any one of you kids acting like misfits, got it?" the class murmured 'yes' and he turned to begin the lesson.

"Today we will begin with-" Mr Walter was cut off by banging of the door and someone rudely barging in.

"Well if it isn't none other than Jared Howe! I've heard of you, they warned me about you." Mr Walter said tauntingly

"Good things I hope" He replied in a bored tone. Mr Walter ignored that comment.

"I hope you know that I do not tolerate late comers in my class. 3 strikes and you're out. Got it?"

Jared set his Jaw clearly something bothered him from this statement, but nodded and flopped into his seat deliberately making noise and dragging his chair along the ground. Argh. The nerve on that kid! If he was going to be such a dick in this class then why choose the subject? I was actually confused for a second. Jared hardly showed up to class last year, word on the street he was dealing drugs and impregnated an underage girl and was taken to court. Disgusting, I know, he has quite the reputation for himself. How is he smart enough to get into AP chemistry? Whatever it's none of my business anyway. Hmm, I wonder what I'll make for dinner tonight? Errm, you know what, I'm actually craving fried noodles. Oh wait we don't have broccoli, dammit. Maybe I'll just get takeout, dammit I only have $50 for the week. No Takeout. You know what? I'll just-

"Mrs ah- Stryder is it?" Mr Walter broke my train of thought, crap I just zoned out.

"Yes?" My voice did not falter. I certainly was not going to let him think that I was scared of him.

"Can you please explain to me what I just said?" shit.

"We're getting an assignment, and he's choosing out partners" Wanda murmured from beside me.

"You were just about to assign us lab partners." I said not missing a beat.

"Very good. Now let's start from the beginning of the role. Josh and Keegan, Samantha and Jacob…"

Waiting for my name I whispered to Wanda, "I hope I get someone descent."

"Me too, I hope we're together"

"Wanda and Lilly" Mr Walter continued.

"So much for that. Well still you got Lilly, you lucky ass" I grunted.

"Sorry" she giggle, moving to sit with Lilly at a lab

"Melanie and Jared" Oh just my luck! God dammit! I can already picture how this is going to play out. I got up from my seat and saw that Jared was already at a lab. I walked over. Geez he was really tall.

"Hello." I said politely.

"Hey." He nodded at me. I looked up at him, he had brown streaked sun-bleached golden hair, with a light tan and honey coloured eyes. Oh god he was gorgeous. Shit, I was staring. He noticed my stare and smirked.

"Stare much?" ass much

I rolled my eyes, "Melanie."

"Jared."

"I know."

"Doesn't everybody."

"Well you do have a reputation, what do you expect?" He opened his mouth to reply but the boom of Mr Walters voice interrupted us.

"Now the assignment. We're going a little old school now, but I don't know anything about you kids and I want to see you're potential. The assignment is called 'impress me'" He saw our confused expressions and began to elaborate, "I want you and your partner to create something, anything to impress me but no volcanoes allowed." A couple of student groaned in disappointment, "I'm pretty sure most of you have done that in 8th grade. Now you all have two weeks to complete this with an additional report on how your creation works. You may begin discussing with your partner"

"Well this is going to be fun." I said lamely, "So do you uh, want to meet up and discuss this later? Maybe after school we can-"

"Sorry can't" he shrugged

"Okay," I drawled, "Maybe a raincheck?"

"Whatever"

"So when are you free?"

"Don't know."

"Listen alright, you think just cos' you got some badass rep that people are gonna do what you say. But frankly I don't give a shit, this is a two person assignment and you're going to put in just as much effort as I am. Capiche?" I declared not hiding my irritation. He stared at me, emotionless. Then he blinked and his lips slowly stretched into a grin. What the hell?

"Feisty one eh?"

I scowled at him.

"Alright, babe chill." He grinned again knowing the affect it would have on me, "When do you want to meet?"

"Meet me at the Library after school" I grimaced, "and don't call me babe."

"Sure thing babe."

I groaned.

So how is it? Please leave comments/suggestions in the review section below xoxo

~milo