Chapter 1: Last day of school

"Out of my way, Jason." Riven snarled at the boy that always managed to annoy the hell out of him since the beginning of time.

"Or what? What are you gonna do, huh? Huh?" Jason taunted him and the followers who refereed themselves as his 'friends' snickered behind him.

"I'll only say this once. Get. The. Hell. Out of my way." Riven, who was quickly loosing patience with the boy - and he knew it - in front of him growled dangerously and lowered himself so that he can look him in the eye before drawing back and smirked. "Am I clear?"

"Crystal. Come on, boys." Jason gestured and scurried off with his gang.

"Wow." Brandon blew his bangs out of his eyes as they headed towards the school courtyard to meet up with the Winx, who're dating Riven's friends. "He really doesn't know when to give up, does he? I mean, he's scared of you, yet his life long mission is to annoy you."

"Whatever."

Even before they could see her, they could already hear Stella talking from a distance, that's how loud the annoying blond - in Riven's words - is.

"Tecna, put down your phone for a minute. It's not like your whole world revolves around it. We're going for lunch with our boyfriends and I want you to - SNOOKUMS!" Stella immediately forgot her conversation with Tecna when she saw Brandon and jumped into her boyfriend's arms.

Brandon gave a short chuckle and spun Stella around before dipping her and kissing her passionately on the lips.

"I want you to - Snookums?" Tecna smiled tentatively as Timmy said "Hi" and hugged her.

"Seriously guys, you need to control yourselves." Bloom groaned at the couple - from Sky's arms.

"Get a room!" Layla and Nabu pointed their fingers at Stella and Brandon and shouted in unison.

The couple looked at each other and yelled, "Jinx!"

"You owe me a meal, Nabu." Layla laughed.

"Na-uh, you owe me one." Nabu smiled at his dark-haired girlfriend and leaned down to kiss her.

After a few seconds. Brandon and Stella pulled away to reveal their slightly pink faces. Their friends laughed - while Riven crossed his arms and shook his head - and headed towards the parking lot.

"Wherever are we headed this time, ladies?"

"I'm thinking sushi." Layla admitted. "Nabu is paying."

"Who said I am?" Nabu exclaimed.

Layla shrugged.

"Well, how about we go to that new sushi store that just open?" Flora suggested. "I think they also have a vegetarian menu."

"Great, you know the place right, Sky?" Bloom asked her boyfriend.

"Sure."

"Helia?" Bloom turned to him.

"Yes."

They went in Helia and Sky's SUVs and drove to the new sushi place. Technically, only Juniors and Seniors can leave the school grounds during lunchtime, but since the Winx - Sophomores - are dating the Specialists - Juniors - they have permission to leave the school by the head discipline teacher under the conditions that they're to return at least half an hour before lunch is finished.

They came back to school immediately after lunch much to Stella's disappointment, who wanted to go shopping - as always.

"Why do we always have to come back so early? Class doesn't even start for another 45 minutes" Stella whined for not the first, but more than any of them could count since they entered the car.

"41 minutes." Tecna corrected.

"What?" Stella faced Tecna.

"Class starts in 41 minutes." Tecna smiled.

Stella rolled her eyes and complained, "I wanna go shopping."

"Shut up, Blondie." Riven crossed his arms and muttered. "Quit whining every single time we come back from lunch. It's bad enough that I have to sit there watching you all lovebirds making 'lovey-dovey' faces at each other everyday."

"You know the rules, Stel." Bloom reminded her best friend, ignoring what Riven just said.

"Besides, Stella, if we let you go shopping, by the time you're done, it'll be after the school let out." Sky pointed out.

"No I won't!" Stella instantly replied, but after seeing the looks her friends gave her she quickly added sheepishly, "Maybe."

"You can shop next time, sweetie."

"Or not."

Brandon thumped Riven on the head.

"Ow! What was that for?" Riven ducked and glared at Brandon.

"You and I both know what that's for."

The Winx and Specialists then split up in couples and went to do whatever they wanted to while Riven wandered around the school alone, seeing as he doesn't have a girlfriend - he did, but he broke up with her last week - and he didn't really mix well with other people.

"Riven!"

Riven groaned as soon as he heard that annoying voice he preferred to not know.

"Hey Riven! Riven! Wait up!"

Riven sighed and turned around to face his 'living nightmare in person'. The girl that had called out to him seconds earlier now stood in front of him and beamed brightly up at him.

"What do you want, Veronica?" Riven - not bothered to keep the bored tone out of his voice - asked.

Veronica's smile faltered a little when she heard the bored tone in Riven's question, but she proceeded to ask what she wanted to ask when she looked for him initially. Veronica was one of the richest girls in school - along with Stella, Layla, Bloom and a handful of other girls - and was the school's queen bee. She was sometimes followed by her two 'best friends', the twins - Fate and Destiny.

"You do know that today is, like, the last day of school and you know how we have, like, two weeks off from school and I was wondering if you would, like, like to see this new movie with me which I have, like, free tickets for." Veronica started while twirling a strand of her dark hair on her finger in - she hoped - an attractive way.

"And why would I want to watch it with you?" Riven asked and waited for the answer he had heard many times from her.

Riven was a lone-wolf, does not like to show his emotion and can be a jerk sometimes - or a lot of times -, but somehow a lot of girls like him. Even though he can be a moody person when he felt like it, the Winx and Specialists would always stick by him. No matter how much he and Stella despised each other, or how he and Layla would always compete for the most ridiculous or smallest things in the world, or that he and Helia would debate each side of their rights (or something like that), Riven can be a good and loyal friend - sometimes. But what he doesn't know - and prefer not to know - was why the girls always come running up to him like lovesick puppies. Ever since his mother abandoned him and his dad for some rich stuck up guy when he was young, he had always had an issue with the female species - and only dated once in a blue moon. Except for the Winx, almost every girl - who didn't have boyfriends - in the school practically adored him, and unfortunately for Riven, Veronica was one of them.

"Well... um, you know how, like, I have a huge crush on you for, like, the longest time and how I, like, know you like me too and, like, how we would, like, make a great couple if we went out."

Riven, after hearing her response, let loose a humorless chuckle. Veronica looked up at him, confused.

"Seriously? That all you can come up with? You've been saying that for, I dunno how many times since school started." he crossed his arms and smirked. "And do you really think I would go out with you? I don't even like you. In fact, I hate you. Now, I'm asking this nicely, please stay the hell out of my way."

He sidestepped her and continued on his way to wherever it was he wanted to go, completely missing her face when it dropped.

When the bell rang for class, he went to class not so happily and slumped down in his seat beside Helia.

"Now where is that hell of a dummy we have for a teacher?"

"Riven, language." Helia scolded his friend.

"What about it? She really is a dummy, she can't even speak a full sentence without stuttering."

Even though what he said was true, Helia still gave him a stern looked, to which Riven just smirked - one of his oh-so-famous smirk - at. A few minutes later, a teacher not their usual History teacher walked in and delivered the best news everyone had ever heard, in the class, that is.

"Class, Ms. Phillips will not be in due to family situations, so I suggest you to either do your work or read quietly." Mr. Anders said and took out his notebook and scribbling something in it.

A loud cheer was heard throughout the classroom.

"Last day of school, and we don't need to have History, this is my best day ever." Riven pumped his fist with Helia and put his feet up on the desk.

"This is my worst day ever." Riven groaned.

"You were saying in History?" Helia sent a sideways smirk at his glaring friend.

"I'm so unlucky, why does she have to attend the same school as us?" he complained referring to Veronica. "She doesn't know the word 'give up', does she?"

"I don't think so." Stella replied clearly enjoyed watching him squirmed while Layla sang, "Riven and Veronica sitting in a tree. K-i-s-s-i-n-g! Mwah." and blew a kiss at Riven.

Riven turned to Brandon and Nabu like a wounded puppy. They laughed and shrugged, leaving Riven to his fate.

"Riven! Finally, I was, like, looking all over for you." Veronica bounded towards the Winx and Specialists, who were standing at the bottom of the front steps. "Can I, like, borrow Riven for a mo?"

"Sure. Borrow him for as long as you want." Brandon grinned as Riven glared daggers at him.

"Thanks." she pulled Riven away before he had any time to protest.

"Hey, hey! Cool it, woman. Jeez, what the hell is wrong with you?" Riven swatted her hand away from his arm and crossed it. "Well? What is it this time?"

"I got, like, free tickets to Justin Bieber's concert on, like, next Saturday, and I was, like, thinking maybe you'd, like, want to come with me?"

"Huh, who? Who the hell's Justin Barbie?"

"Justin Bieber, and he's, like, this cute singer." Veronica replied with a dreamy smile. "He's gonna, like, perform this new album called 'The World'. I, like, heard from Fate and Destiny that it's absolutely to die for. So, you ,like, wanna join me?" she batted her eyelashes - fake - at him.

"Sure..."

Veronica's face lit up visibly but dropped after she heard what Riven said next.

"Over my dead body." and he walked away with Veronica trying to chase him in her 6 inch heels.

"Dude, what did she need you for?" Nabu asked his best friend when Riven finally managed to avert Veronica's attention to some other random - poor - guy.

"Don't even start."

The other boys looked at him, the girls had already went home and the boys have their last basketball practice this semester in 10 minutes.

"Seriously, someone need to tell that girl to 'shut up and move out'. She's so annoying, and I hate to admit this, but she's even more annoying than Stella."

Brandon just grinned in response.

"That's a shocker, somebody even more annoying than Stel?" Sky said and quickly added, "No offense or anything, Brandon."

Brandon just shrugged and the boys went to the basketball court.