I hope I'm not breaking any rules or anything...

This was just a random idea that popped in my head that i thought would be fun to write.

DISCLAIMER: The 'Vampire Academy' world belongs to Richelle Mead. This is just my made-up world crossed with hers.

-Deni

My alarm rang. Great. I had to begin school today. It was Monday. The start of the week. Well duh.

I groaned as I reached for my phone which was my alarm. Burnin' up by the Jonas Brothers was playing. Embarrassing I know, but hey, it's a good song. I picked up my phone and pressed the 'ok' button turning the alarm off. I put it back down on the table next to me.

I fell back into the bed, reluctant to get out. It was freezing without the blankets. It was Winter right now. I hated Winter and I wished it were Summer. But then when it was Summer, I wished it was Winter. Hey. Doesn't everyone think that?

'Whatever. 5 more minutes.' I thought to my self cheekily. I fell asleep again.

All of a sudden, my Dad barged in through the door telling me to wake up. He awakened me from my forbidden slumber. Argh.

I finally got up and looked at the clock.

"What! It's 7:45 already!" I screamed. I was about to miss my bus. I had only 7 minutes. My Dad left the room. I closed the door and threw off my PJs. I got out my school uniform and whipped it on. Then I stuffed my phone and other valuables into my pocket. I looked back at the clock.

"What? Only 5 minutes left?" I shouted. Gosh, I hated being tardy. I quickly grabbed my hair tie and tied my hair up into a low ponytail.

I ran downstairs holding onto the handrail tightly. I was so scared of falling down, which I already had, many times. I ran to the kitchen and fetched an 'Up & Go'. It was the only thing that was quick and would make me full for the time being.

I drank the 'Up & Go' in record time and looked at a clock in the kitchen.

"Crap! 2 minutes left!" I collected all my books for the day and stuffed them in my bag. Then I realised that I didn't have any lunch. I groaned and ran back up the stairs. I went into my parent's room and collected the change I needed for a lunch order. They deliberately put change on a table for me, so it wasn't like I was stealing or anything.

I ran down the stairs again and picked up my school bag. I put on my shoes and I was ready to go.

My Dad drove me to the bus stop. There, I saw my friend waiting for me. Judy. She was a very cute character; she brought the child out of me. She was one of my first few friends in high school. Oh ya, I forgot to mention something.

Hi. The name's Denise and I'm 13 years old. I am the most random person you will ever meet, hopefully. I'm in Year 8 and I attend a selective school, though I don't believe I'm that smart, I probably got in by luck.

Judy saw me get out of the car in front of her and grinned.

"Hi Denise." She said in a friendly way.

"Hi Judy." I said back in the same way.

"So, anything interesting happening to you recently?" I couldn't believe she forgot. I was slightly annoyed.

"Well, nothing much, except for looking after Adam."

"Oh ya! Woops. Sorry I forgot." She looked at me apologetically. I laughed. I had a new brother. Adam was so adorable.

"Nah, don't worry." I said. She laughed back.

I looked around the bus stop. Boys were filling up the bench. Judy and I went to an all girl's school, so these boys were from our brother school. Not one of them was cute. I was so relieved.

The bus arrived after a few minutes. I was glad that the bus was late sometimes, but not too late. I looked at Judy's watch. Good. We'd just make it in time for school.

I opened my pocket and digged around for my bus pass. Oh crap. I left it at home.

I nervously boarded the bus.

"Where's your bus pass?" The bus driver looked at me expectantly.

"I accidentally left it at home. Sorry." I was so nervous and embarrassed.

"Ok. Remember it next time or you'll have to pay." I shivered at the word 'pay'. Pay, how? Was he going to beat me up? I was overreacting. Of course he meant by money.

I walked down the aisle and all the seats were taken with only one seat next to a guy left. Crap, this was going to be awkward. But it was just like primary school, right? Judy had already gotten a seat before me, she looked at me sympathetically. I gave her a smile.

"Can I please sit here?" I asked the boy. He had brown hair and looked like he was in Year 9. He was quite tall.

"Sure." He gave me a grin. Damn. Was I attracted to him? I hoped not, or else I wouldn't be able to survive.

I hoped he wasn't going to talk to me either. If he did, I'd probably stutter. I was never good with talking to cute guys. I'd just end up blurting out something that had a hint of smartass attitude.

I looked at him. He was staring out the window; I hoped he wouldn't notice me. He was actually kinda cute. Crap, I was in a tight spot. What was I going to do?

I was so lost in my thoughts that I hadn't noticed that the bus had stopped.

"Excuse me; I need to get off here." He said politely. I stood up and walked to one side of the narrow aisle. He stood up and was about to walk up the aisle when suddenly…

The bus started and then stopped. The guy stumbled over in front of me and almost fell on top of me. Luckily, he caught hold of the seats behind him. His face was about 2 inches away from mine.

I was frozen.

'What do I do? What do I do?' Kept running through my brain like an athlete on steroids.

My heart was racing and I felt like screaming and running away. It was an odd thing to do, since I wasn't that girly. It's like the world stopped spinning and it was just the two of us. He was looking into my eyes and I was looking into his. He had gorgeous sky blue ones that sparkled when the sun hit them, while my eyes didn't really have anything special about them except the fact that they were brown.

He smiled. I was too embarrassed, so I just looked away, breaking the gaze between us. As he walked up the aisle he whispered into my ear.

"Sorry… and by the way. My name's Matt."

Matt. What a cool name. I smiled and noticed that Judy was sitting by herself now. I felt that I was blushing. My cheeks were burning. I hadn't blushed like that in ages.

I sat next to Judy, still shocked and embarrassed about what just happened. I let out a huge sigh. I felt like I got hit by Cupid's arrow… I was just so relaxed. I didn't care if anyone saw what had happened. Judy looked at me weirdly.

"Hmmm? What's wrong?" She asked me, face full of concern.

"Nothing Judy, everything is… perfect…" I probably looked like a doofus. A doofus who might have just developed a crush, a crush on a boy in the bus. Oh crud…

Luckily he wasn't from the brother school. The guys from the brother school, were… all gangster wannabes or wannabe cool guys or just… wannabe guys. I giggled to myself at that thought. Judy looked at me weirdly, but then shrugged it off.

We finally arrived at school. It was raining. Ugh. I quickly got out my umbrella from my bag and ran off to my first period. Judy and I parted separate ways. I had Drama. Yes!

I got to Drama in the nick of time! I then caught up with my friends Bonnie, Lisa, Elizabeth, Erin and Renae. We had to rehearse a little play we had to do for our assessment. I was still thinking about him. Matt. Thinking about Matt. I sighed.

"Denise! What are you doing?" Lisa shouted at me, breaking me out of my daydream. Lisa was the confident and funny one in our group; she and I had many coincidences. It's what made us the best of friends.

"What?!? Oh… sorry guys!" I quickly got into position and focused on the scene. It was so hard not to think about him.

My friends looked at me expectantly, it was my turn. Damn, I forgot my lines.

"Denise do you remember your lines? We've been doing this for 3 weeks now." Bonnie said to me, but in a calm tone. She was always nice. Bonnie was also one of the first friends that I had. We met randomly in a Geography class and were besties since.

"Uh… To be, or not to be, that is the question." I said jokingly. No-one laughed or was even amused just a little bit. A frown appeared on my face.

"Sorry guys." I was disappointed in myself. I was getting distracted, by a boy.

"What's wrong?" Renae asked me. She was the responsible one. She was the perfect girl! I don't mean that in a gross way, but seriously, she's perfect. I always envied her. She was smart, responsible, kind, caring, pretty and so many other things! I wondered how she did it.

"N-Nothing" I stuttered. The others gathered round and looked at me with concern on all of their faces.

"You shouldn't be sad Denise! You have a new brother now!" Elizabeth said. She was the EXTRA smart one. She was so cute. She was like the little sister that I never had.

"No guys. I'm not sad… I just have my mind on something… else." I averted their eyes.

"Come on, tell us." Erin said to me, looking into my eyes. She was the cool one. She was also an amazing singer, but she never admitted it. She was better than me.

"Umm…. Fine." I sighed. I told them about what happened in the bus. They all cracked up laughing.

"I knew you would get another crush soon!" Bonnie said to me. That angered me a bit. Did my friends think that I went around crushing on boys all the time?

"It's not a crush… yet." I whispered the word 'Yet'.

My friends smiled at me.

"It's ok Denise. We're only teasing you." Lisa said to me and she patted my back. I smiled at her. I looked at all my friends.

"It's fine." I told them. We all paused for a moment.

"What will it take for me to get a script around here?" I said jokingly but also in a bossy way. They all laughed. The tension in the room lifted. I was so relieved. I hoped that they wouldn't bring the topic up. I was so confused. I didn't know what else there was to say.

The rest of the school day went by pretty fast. I couldn't pay attention. So many thoughts were running through my head. Did I have a crush on Matt? Was I going to see him again? Was I going to make a move? No way, I thought on the last question. I wasn't that kinda girl. I was too shy.

I got home by bus but Matt wasn't there. I was relieved. I spent the rest of the day doing homework and random stuff like singing in my room. Yup, singing, my own songs too, and playing guitar. I was so happy that my parents didn't mind me causing a racket. When I was done practicing I took a shower and got dressed. Then I went to bed, with my last thought being a flashback of what happened in the bus. It made me feel all fluttery inside, yet at the same time, it scared the hell out of me.

The next morning went by quickly. I woke up at the right time and got to the bus stop efficiently. This time, I had my bus pass, ha-ha showed that bus driver… oh wait, it was a different one. He seemed uninterested that I had succeeded in remembering it, but whatever.

I was disappointed to see that Judy wasn't there. Oh well, I thought. I looked around the bus carefully. Matt wasn't on board. Phew, I thought to myself.

I went and found a seat by myself and took out my iPod. I plugged in my earphones and began listening to 'Crazy' by Stars go dim. I just adored this song. It had such meaningful lyrics and it really warmed my heart. A smile crept onto my face as I listened to it.

That smile disappeared when Matt boarded the bus a few moments later. He must've been late and had to go to a bus stop further down. I frantically looked around the bus and it was crowded everywhere, except for the seat next to me.

He showed his bus pass to the driver and began walking down the aisle. As soon as I realised that I was staring at him and looked away, he had already seen me and he smiled.

"May I sit here?" He asked me politely. I lifted my bag off the seat and rested it on my lap. I nodded.

A few minutes past and I had kept 'Crazy' on replay. I tried to look at Matt using my peripheral vision and I saw that he was staring at me. This was really awkward. I finally turned my head towards him to look at him directly.

"What is it?" My voice seemed to be shaky. I was so nervous.

"Oh... it's nothing." He said and smiled at me. I looked away with my cheeks burning again.

"So what's your name?" He asked me.

"D-D-Denise." I stuttered.

"Are you cold? You can borrow my jacket right now if you want." He was about to take off his jacket. Great he thought I was stuttering because I was cold. Even though it was freezing, I wasn't stuttering because of that.

"Oh no, it's fine. I'm warm." I quickly said before his jacket came off. Wow he was sweet, I thought. He nodded. I focused my attention on my iPod again.

"So what song are you listening to?" He asked me with a cute smile playing on his lips.

"Crazy, by Stars go dim." I replied sheepishly. Then I did something before I could think it through.

"Do you wanna listen?" I asked him while taking out an earphone.

"Sure." He took the earphone from my hand. As our hands touched I felt a jolt of electricity. He must've felt it too. We both jumped slightly from our seats.

"Um…" He said while putting the earphone into his ear. Strange… but maybe it was just static electricity.

"Sorry…?" I said, utterly confused, sounding like it too. He just smiled at me. And just for the record, he had one gorgeous smile. Oh and he was fiiinne… Ha-ha.

The song finished. I never got tired of it. It was just so beautiful. I wondered what Matt thought of it.

"Wow. That song was just… wow." He said looking astounded.

"It's the best song I've heard recently." I replied giving him a warm smile.

"I think I'm hooked right now." He laughed.

"I am too." I laughed back. We ended up laughing until his stop came. Oddly enough, I felt comfortable around him.

He took the earphone out of his ear and handed it to me. We both felt a jolt of electricity when his hand touched mine again. Weird, I thought. But I didn't think much of it, it was just static electricity again… well what else could it have been? He got out of his seat and swung his bag over his shoulder.

"See you later Denise." He said while walking away, still looking at me.

"See ya." I replied giving him one last smile. He smiled back and got off of the bus.

'What had just happened?' I thought to myself. I sank into my seat and listened to 'Crazy' a few more times before getting off at my school.

I felt so good at that moment. It was like I could fly, or jump off a cliff without a care in the world.

Some characters are real, some aren't.

But they're only based on people i know, but with the same names... lol

Unfortunately for me, Matt is fictional... rofl

I hope you liked it! :)