A/N Okay there are so many reasons why I shouldn't do this the most major one being I have so much on my plate as it is but once you get a story bug it's hard to ignore. Now as a person born in the 90's I luv Daria and have always been a true blue TrentxDaria fan for years! I used to go to the Outpost website before it closed down to read some. I never liked Daria and Tom together even after re-watching the series as an adult I can just barely stand season five. Now I can admit that Daria and Trent would have never worked out as presented to us but I've seen wonderful fics where the author makes them work in a way that's usually believable. Now TrentxDaria will always have a special place in my heart if they ever brought back the series with Daria and crew being adults/parents about 80% of myself would want to see them together to this day. I never thought I could even like them with anyone else but then I read a fanfic called 'A New Set of Rules' by Dennis it is a…Daria…and…Kevin as in THE QB fanfic. I KNOW surprising but it's done really well and the unaired pilot of Daria is heavy with DariaxKevin. I like writing things that makes me challenge myself each story I have is a different personal challenge and so now I take the challenge of making the QB and Brain work.

p.s. I decided to write in the idea of a floating time line that most cartoons have mostly because this takes place while the main characters are in college and because I don't want to have to keep worrying about references in terms of years. Okay A/N over now!

I own nothing but the plot and my oc's

All that could be heard all around her was loud screaming from cheering fans and clear drunken madness from college kids. One day Daria will look back on this day and still not understand how she ended up where she is now. Football was never something Daria was into back at Lawndale even though it was really important for the small suburban town. In fact she had been so happy when she moved to Boston and went to a school that didn't have a football team or any other sports team for that matter. So why was she at a football game you may ask? Well peer pressure is a bitch that's why.

"You don't have to look so upset." A voice yelled over the crowds. "Wait are you even upset sometimes the alcohol makes me forget you always look like this."

"Maybe it's both." Daria says in a monotone voice, not the best idea though even though her friend was standing right next to her it was likely that she even heard her.

"I'm going to assume you just said something sarcastic and one up it with a biting remark." The other girl tells her friend. "And here it is …biting remark!"

The faintest hint of the Mona Lisa that Daria had coined for herself graces her lips as she shakes her head at Alex who was the reason why she was even at this game. Alexandra Smith or Alex was an African American girl and a fellow Raft student and the first college friend Daria had made one year ago. They had both been taking a history class and had made a few or a lot of eyebrow raising remarks on civil rights and equal pay.

On the surface the two seemed very different Alex was law major, Daria is a writing major, Alex was more outgoing and would be consider to fitting in the popular crowd. Daria while willing to meet new people still wasn't as outgoing and wouldn't or couldn't ever see herself as a social butterfly. Alex had previously lived in a big city and Daria couldn't think of any place smaller then Lawndale though she was sure places smaller must exist. It was only when you looked deeper could you see their similarities though.

"What did you expect to happen it's not like she wanted to be here." A male voice shouts over the crowd.

"But tailgating is a college student must Jackson!" Alex says turning to look at the Asian man standing next to her. "You don't want to look back ten years from now thinking that you hadn't done enough stupid regrettable college things."

"She's got a point amiga." Jane speaks up adding her own two cents.

Daria just sighs rolling her eyes and waiting for this madness to be over. Things had changed in a lot of ways for Daria Morgendorffer in the past two years since her graduation. For one instead of only having one best friend she now had three, Alex and Jackson were a welcome addition to her life. While Jane had always encourage Daria to interact with more of the human race Alex was able to convince her to go places for personal gain and not just to talk over people's heads. Jackson whom she met during a literature class was a calm cool collected Business major whom seemed to be the only person on the planet who could beat Alex in an argument. The first time Daria introduced them to each other they got into an argument about DC and Marvel comics which still wasn't completely over. Despite the fact that Alex and Jackson always seemed to argue Jane and Daria were pretty much sure that the two were not so secretly in love with each other. Though neither would make a move but they always fought even more than usual when the other was seeing another person.

Her relationship with her sister and parents had gotten a lot better though there was still some scars there that might never completely heal. During her senior year Quinn started taking her education a lot more seriously though there was still some backlash from her previous years at the high school so she ended up going to the Lawndale community college for one year before moving to New York to go to fashion school. Quinn may not be as bad as she used to but she still very much liked fashion so this was a good move for her. For their parents their mother after putting in so much work for her firm was finally made partner and their father finally had steady business and was even able to rent an office space for ten employees.

Daria's relationship with Jane was still as strong as ever and although Daria would never admit it this made her happy. There had been a time during their first year away from Lawndale that Daria had worried that eventually the two would grow apart but it never happen despite them both going to different schools. If anything things were even better now that they all could live together, Alex's parents were in real estate and since sophomores didn't have to live at the dorms she convince everyone to rent a home so they could all live together which was pretty cheap considering they only needed to spit one thousand five hundred dollars a month four ways. For a city like Boston that was pretty good.

"Hey that looks like Kevin?!" Jane says in shock breaking Daria from her thoughts.

"What?" Daria asked in confusion turning her head to the monitor that Jane was looking at to see a football player that did look a lot like Kevin Thompson. "I think that is Kevin."

"Wow I guess football is more important than grades." Jane says rolling her eyes a bit.

Kevin Thompson aka The QB had not even graced Daria's thoughts since she left Lawndale behind her. It wasn't even that Kevin was a bad person he really wasn't but he was a victim to popularity and obviousness. Kevin was a text book example of someone who just never saw the world for what it was which in contrast to Daria's personality always bothered her. Last she heard about him was that he had to repeat his senior year and during her talks with Quinn she never mentioned Kevin though to be fair Daria never asked. Well it seemed that luck had turned around once again for the dimwitted football player not only did he make it to college but he was going to Boston College one of the best schools in the state. Probably getting 'byes' here so that he could be on the team.

Two hours later the game was finally over Kevin's team won surprise surprise and now Daria just wanted to get home.

"No way are we going home now!" Alex shouted excitedly. "I know which bar the Eagles will be celebrating at tonight we have to go and take in the madness."

"Alex the last time we did that there was a bar fight." Jackson says shaking his head at the clearly tipsy girl. "Remember that guy pressed charges because you broke his leg."

"That was an accident and the case is still pending!" Alex proclaimed in a huff. "How about it we go in for one hour and have a few drinks it's eight o clock on a Saturday we've got nowhere else we need to be right now!"

The rest of the group couldn't argue it much to Daria dismay and now she found herself in an overcrowded college bar trying to find at least one friend while avoiding a bunch of people that clearly had way too much to drink.

"Daria?!" A male voice yelled trying to get her attention but she couldn't place where it was coming from. "Daria!" The voice said again only this time she felt someone touching her shoulder, she turned around to find herself face to face with Kevin Thompson who had changed since the game into a pair of blue jeans and a red sweatshirt with the BC logo on it. "Hey Daria!"

"Hey Kevin." Daria says in her usually monotone voice, she was completely caught off guard it was one thing to see Kevin at a distance it was another to run into him at a sports bar. Well at least he doesn't wear his football uniform everywhere anymore.

"Wow it's been a while right never thought I'd see you again unless you were on TV because you became a famous writer or something." Kevin says in his usual goofball manner of speaking. "Instead I see you again at a college sports bar!"

"Yes well sports bars are the only places where you can get groped and throw up on at the same time so they're a must go to stop." Daria says sarcastically and then the strangest thing happen Kevin laughed almost as if he understood her joke.

"Let me guess a friend dragged you here for an hour and disappeared as soon as you stepped into this place?" Kevin asked knowingly which further shocked Daria's system Kevin never spoke knowingly about anything other than football.

"Ahem yeah." Was all Daria could managed to say she was having a conversation with Kevin Thompson without having the need to hit her head against something clearly she had walked into a parallel universe were she could speak to The QB without wanting to roll her eyes.

"If you want I can help you find her or him." Kevin offered with a smile.

"It's more like a them." Daria explains to him. "I came here with three other people one of them is Jane."

"Oh that's cool that the two of you are still friends." Kevin says while looking around the bar if it was possible had gotten even more crowed it would be very difficult for Daria to find her friends on her own. "Do you have their cell numbers, I don't think we could get through this crowd?"

"I do but it's too loud in here for them to be able hear their phones ring and even if by some miracle they did it's unlikely that we'd be able to talk to each other with shouting 'what?!' every five seconds." Daria says with an irritated sigh she hadn't wanted to come here in the first place and now she was by herself.

"Well then let's get a drink so that we can catch up." Kevin suggest.

"I'm not so sure about that Kevin." Daria says as nicely as she can manage.

"So you're not one bit curios about how Lawndale's dumbest QB got into a college then?" Kevin says teasingly pretending to walk away. "Suit yourself see you in ten years at the reunion if you bother to go!"

"Fine one drink but then I'm out of here." Daria exclaims giving in with a sigh, she hated to admit it but she was curios BC was supposed to be one of the best schools. So now Daria found herself walking towards the bar with Kevin Thompson planning to just have one drink and then taking off soon after that. The two had found a small opening near the bar and once Kevin was finally able to get them their drinks were they able to talk again. "Alright now let's just get this over with."

"Gee Daria you don't have to be so excited about being near me again you can just tone it down." Kevin says sarcastically. "Well you already know that I didn't graduate with you guys and that was a big blow for me you know. Even more then the time I broke my leg and decided to give up playing football I mean everyone graduated even Brittany but me. So I decided to buckle down I went to summer school before going back to Lawndale High to repeat senior year I got my grades up enough to at least go to a decent college but my parents never put a dime away for college. My dad was convinced that I'd be picked up by the pros and my mom put her hope into a football scholarship because all the money had to go to the bills because dad is always in and out of work. Lucky me Mr. DeMartino has an old college buddy that has connections at BC I got a four year scholarship as long as I play on the team and maintain a 3.0 G.P.A."

"Well isn't it nice to know that you can slack off most of your life, decided to get serious at the last minute and get everything a harder working student deserves." Daria says a clear hint of bitterness in her tone.

"I get it Daria you think it's not fair you think that me and anyone else like me should be left to crash and burn while you get to stand there and finally feel superior." Kevin starts to state in a dark tone. "Sorry I'm not pumping gas Daria or a drunken townie but people can change and grow I have and I hope in time you can too." With that Kevin Thompson took off not even giving Daria a chance to counter back leaving her standing there puzzled.

Half an hour later found Daria nursing her fifth tequila shot, after Kevin had left she decided she needed to forget that she ever ran into the QB again and no it wasn't because she felt guilty…I mean why would she need too anyway right? As the night went on things got even more blurry she could just barely remember talking to some other college students and agreeing to go somewhere with someone but she couldn't remember who before she passed out.

The next morning was the worse though not just because of the killer hangover but because she found herself in an unfamiliar room with Kevin Thompson sleeping next to her in bed. "Eeep!"

A/N and that is the end of the first chapter still trying to decided if I want to make this an M rated story so for now it's T. please read and review.