"Mum!" called a voice "I told you! I'm not doing a bloody study group!"
"Yes you bloody are!" came a voice, in response to the one before. "C'mon sweetheart! It's a new school! It'll help you make some friends!"
"I can make friends on my bloody own thank you!"
Then there was the slam of a door. A teenage girl was sitting on her bed, with her arms crossed and an angry scowl on her face. This girl, with long peroxide ruined hair and brown eyes, was named Rose Tyler.
Rose Tyler hated Study Group. Absolutely hated it.
Everyone would judge her for her low grades. No one would want to talk to her. Everything would just get worse.
She began to go through unpacked boxes from her recent change of homes, to find her photo albums. Ones that her old friends had put together as a goodbye gift for her and some she had made herself.
As she flipped through one, she saw a childhood picture of her and her old friend Shireen. They were both smiling brilliantly in party dresses, with both their light brown hair up in small pigtails. It was the party their gymnasium was holding for the gymnastics team. It had been a day of cake and sunshine and one Rose definitely missed. Turning another page, she saw a picture of them at the age of fourteen when they were off to their first school disco. It was the last time Rose and Shireen were happy as friends.
After that, Shireen had become depressed and Rose was starting to become distracted from school by a boy she had met. Jimmy Stone was his name. At first, a brilliant boyfriend. But then? Horrid guy.
He was about five years older than Rose and was looking for an easy girl. Rose being only fourteen didn't really know what to do about it and just played along until it went too far. She slapped him. She downright refused to have any sexual contact with anyone and especially not any lying cheating boyfriend.
This was when he hit her. She put up with the beatings up until she was sixteen. It only happened every few weekends, and they never left any painful injuries aside from bruises. Then her mother found out.
Jackie Tyler. She was just a single mother trying to be happy with her and her daughter's life. Jackie made a massive deal out of it. She even went as far as getting a restraining order against Jimmy for Rose. She then decided to move suburbs and here Rose was. Starting a new school and being forced into a Study Group by her mother.
She hoped it wouldn't be as bad as she imagined it would be.
Rose got up early the next day to get ready for school. To say she was nervous would be an understatement. She was horrified.
Not that she was scared of meeting new people, to her that had always been fun. But it would be the new teacher's reactions to her grades.
Jimmy Stone had caused her grades to drop at her last school dramatically. So much that it caused them to hire a tutor for her.
That was also another one of the reasons Jimmy had hit her. He had been convinced that Rose was hooking up with the tutor, which when Rose found out, was forced to quit because of threats from Jimmy.
After she had gotten dressed and had breakfast, she walked to the bus stop. There were a few teenagers already there, either talking to each other or on their mobile phones.
She didn't have a flash one herself, so she decided not to take hers out. While waiting for the bus to come, she took in the appearance of the students around her. They were all dressed in the school uniform which consisted of a button up shirt with the school symbol on the breast pocket, and either a simple pleated skirt for the girls or simple pants for the guys. All the other girls had simple and clean make up compared to her packed on eye makeup.
She was beginning to feel self-conscious when the bus came around the corner. After she paid her fare, she noticed all the seats were taken except for one.
A darker skinned girl was sitting alone, reading a textbook. Rose assumed it was probably last minute studying.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" Rose mumbled
"Oh? Yeah, sure! Let me just move my bag." She said as she hurriedly moved her backpack off the seat.
"Thanks…" Rose spoke as she sat down, with her own bag on her lap and waited for the bus to take them to school.
After going to the office for paper work and other boring things, Rose was escorted to her home room. The Teacher was reading out the announcements as she walked in
"…. And anyone planning on joining the ever so great Study Group our school holds for all you Science crusaders and English fanatics, come and see me after announcements for the sign-up sheet…" She spoke as she noticed Rose was there "oh! And today we have a new student today! This is…." She gestured to Rose, asking for her name
"Rose… Tyler" she spoke quietly
"Miss Rose Tyler! How about you go sit down…. In between Jack and Chris! Jack, raise your hand!" She pointed to a boy who indeed did raise his hand.
Rose made her way to her desk in between the two teens, and took out a pen and book.
"Jack Harkness, pleased to meet you" came a voice next to her
Before she could look up, a voice came up from the other side of her
"Stop it, I don't think she would appreciate someone hitting on her on her first day."
Rose looked to her left to see an attractive guy sitting next to her. She didn't feel attracted to him, just…. Felt that he was in fact attractive. He held his hand out in a way of asking for hers.
"Rose, and likewise" She smiled as she turned to her right to see the owner of the other voice from before "Thanks for defending me…..?"
"Christopher, but just call me Chris" He smiled slightly and went on to pay more attention to what the teacher was talking about.
Rose took in Chris' appearance while he wasn't paying attention. He had a crew cut hairstyle and was wearing a leather jacket over his school uniform. Rose thought it made him look much older than he really was.
She turned back to the teacher and began to tune out of everything around her.
When she saw the teacher sit down after announcements, Rose awkwardly got up and walked over to her.
"Oh? Hello Rose! How can I help you?" the teacher looked up at Rose with a warm smile on her face.
"I, I need to write my name on the signup sheet for the study group" She spoke,
"Of course! Here it is" She spoke as she pulled it out of a plastic slip and handed it to Rose "Just write your name here and I'll take it to the office."
Rose signed her name as the bell went.
"Rose!" She heard her name being called
"Huh?" She blurted out as she turned around to see Jack and Chris coming up to her
"What class you got now?" Jack asked her
"According to my schedule, science…." Rose answered with a scowl
"What, you don't like science?" Chris spoke in his northern accent
"Not particularly, but the fact that its physics? No way" She laughed as they began walking out of the room
"Physics? I have that next! I'll introduce you to my friends in there!" Jack talked as he began to lead her off
"It was nice meeting you Rose, run for your life!" Chris spoke as he waved his hand
Arriving at the science classroom, Rose got her belongings out of her bag, and sat down at a spare desk next to Jack.
"So, how come you've decided to come here?" He asked her
"To this school? Just some …. Issues ….. in my old home, so we moved" Rose said, looking at the door as more people began to pile in
"We?" Jack questioned
"My mum and I" She spoke as she noticed the same girl from the bus walk in.
"Jack! How was your morning? I hope Chris wasn't being rude again" Came a male voice from behind them
"David! He wasn't as bad as you can be." Jack replied "Oh! Rose, meet my good friend David. David? This is the new girl, Rose Tyler!"
Rose turned to see a tall and lanky teen behind her. His eyes were as brown as hers and his brown hair was sticking up with what seemed to be layers of hair gel. He smiled and stuck his hand out as Jack had done earlier. Rose shook his hand politely
"Nice to meet you Rose! I hope Jack hasn't hit on you yet!" He laughed
"Oh c'mon! I don't flirt with everyone!" Jack responded
"Most people then" David looked to him
"Nice to meet you too…" Rose spoke shyly
David looked to her and smiled again
The girl from the bus came and sat on the other side of Jack
"Made a new friend there? Oh! Its you! From the bus! I'm Martha Jones, Jack and Davids' friend" Martha introduced herself
"I'm Rose" she replied.
It was then that the teacher began to take the lesson
"See you guys later! I've got to go run some errands!" Martha called out as the lesson finished
Rose looked to her timetable to see that it was lunch time. It was surely different to her old school, but nonetheless, it meant she could sit down and eat.
Hopefully the cafeteria had some chips….
David and Jack lead Rose away to the cafeteria where they showed her where they sat and let her go buy some lunch.
After her disappointment of not seeing any chips, she grabbed whatever she could get that would be the cheapest.
Fish fingers.
How could they sell fish fingers, but not chips?
There was also a dessert for sale, but she decided not to grab it, as fish fingers and custard would surely taste weird.
As she got back to the table, she could see David talking animatedly with Jack, Christopher and a red-head.
She placed her tray next to the red head, sitting adjacent from Jack.
"Umm, hello? Are you alright sitting there?" The ginger began to talk rudely to Rose
"Donna! Its okay, this is Rose" said David
"Oh! Nice to meet ya, Jack has told me about you." The girl who seemed to be named Donna spoke, in a much nicer tone.
"Its… Nice to meet you too" Rose smiled
Everyone started to have a conversation together when Chris turned to Rose and said
"So I see you've met my brother"
"Who?" Rose asked , confused
"David, obviously" He replied, sounding almost like Donna
"He's your brother?" Rose spoke, surprised
"Yeah! Why is that hard to believe?" He asked, as if it were obvious that they were
"Well, you don't exactly look alike" Rose spoke, trying to get her point across
"Fair enough" He dropped the topic and moved back to the group conversation
"So, Handy, did you sign up for study again this year?" Jack asked
Rose was confused as to who 'Handy' was, and was surprised when she saw David answer
"As always…. My Mum told me I should do it because apparently it will help me get a smart girlfriend…. I don't really want one, no offense to Donna and Rose though" He spoke with a bored look on his face
That sort of conversation went on until their next class, which was a class in which Rose found herself with David and Martha. Martha was off talking to some other people while Rose and David sat their together, waiting for instructions from the teacher.
"How come Jack called you 'Handy'?" Rose found herself asking
"Oh? I was in an accident as a child and I injured my hand. It looked like my arm had been cut off at the wrist, but when they stitched it back up, it healed pretty brilliantly. Well, when I say pretty brilliantly, I mean pretty okay. My little brother started calling me Handy, which led to Jack finding out. And there the name stuck!" He laughed, playing with his hand "See, you wouldn't even notice!" He smiled as he waved his fingers in Roses face, as if he were using Jazz hands.
"That's a pretty interesting story." Rose smiled to him
"What about you, do you have any nicknames with a cool story?" David asked her with interest in his voice, and his eyebrows raised
"Nah, Mum either calls me sweetheart or by my full name when she's angry." Rose laughed
"And what would that be?" He spoke
"Huh?"
"Your full name?" He repeated
"Oh, Rose Marion Tyler… What about you, what's yours?" She answered and asked
"David Peter Smith….." He replied, not seeming too impressed by his full name
"Hey, at least it's not John Smith!" She joked
"That's my grandfather's name!" He laughed, trying to appear angry but failing incredibly
Rose could tell she would like this school.
A/N: Sup guys? I'm way too lazy to update my other fanfiction, so to pass the time, I thought I would write another! I finished writing this in August but if you see it on here before October, you should hit me or something because I'm supposed to write more chapters.
So! What do you think should happen? I have no idea what to do with this, so its up to you guys!
Eleven is definitely going to be in it, because he is pretty fun to write, so that also means River….
Ah yes, Eleven/River, I ship it almost as much as I ship Ten/Rose…. Okay maybe not.
Anyway, please help me with how to continue!