CHAPTER 1

Oliver took a deep breath as he sat in his car in the senior parking lot. It had only been two weeks since he had returned home from the island. It was only 7 months ago that the Queen's Gambit had sunk. He opened the door of his sleek sports car and grabbed his bag. Immediately greeting him was his closest friend.

"AYE! Wassup Ollie?" Tommy cried out as he and Oliver shared a bro hug. Oliver felt some relief as he returned to his old life. Laurel was standing there too. Their eyes met, and they held eye contact for just a little too long.

"Oliver," she said almost coldly

"Hey, Laurel" Oliver scratched his head. Laurel had seen Oliver make out with her little sister, Sara before Oliver left on the Queen's Gambit. Luckily Sara didn't go on the boat. That would be bad. But the worst part was that Oliver was dating Laurel when he kissed Sara. They just were looking at apartments to move in together. They just stared at each other for like a really long time. He found himself imagining the late nights "studying together".

"Heh heh heh." Tommy paused. "Well this is hella awkward," luckily the bell rang and saved them all. They were all about to start their senior year.

…

"C'mon Wally!" called out Iris. "Ugh were be late now!"

"Sorry, Iris! I'm really nervous! It's my first day of high school" Wally responded.

"You'll be fine, I was nervous last year too!" She said placing a hand on his shoulder. "If you find yourself a sexy girl or boy you'll be fine."

"Like Eddie?" Wally teased

"OMG Wally you KNOW we're not an item!" she rolled her eyes

"Barry!" Joe West, Iris and Wally's father, called to Barry Allen. Barry lived in the spare room downstairs after his mom died and his dad had to go to prison.

"Coming!" he responded, Barry wasn't normal. After the STAR labs explosion, he got hit with lightning and was really fast! But not many people knew his secret. But he used his powers to help people as the Flash. They dashed out the door and to school.

As they left the car Barry hustled to his closest friends Cisco and Caitlin. He had met them at STAR labs this summer. They knew his secret. Iris jogged over to her friends Linda Park and Sara Lance. Leaving Wally kind of lost. He moved from another city after his mom died just a few months ago so he didn't have any friends. Just then the bell rang.

…

Next thing everyone knew it was lunchtime. Oliver took a seat next to Tommy and some other of their bros. Barry sat with his new friends and Iris with her's. Wally stood intimated in the cafeteria. He had no friends and so he went outside to see if there was a place he could sit alone. Then suddenly something caught his eye. He went to the parking lot and ran his hand across a shining blue car. Suddenly a voice came from behind him."Look at it!"

"AHHHHHH!" Wally jumped.

"Chill out man" the stranger responded "Just admiring the car"

"It's a 1969 Maserati Ghibli 4.7," Wally said plainly

"You like cars too?" The stranger seemed ecstatic. Wally nodded yes. "I'm Jefferson Jackson, but folks call me Jax." he extended his arm.

"I'm Wally West" they shook hands. Wally stared into Jax's kind eyes.

"You can sit with me!" Jax said. Wally was happy he wasn't alone with no friends anymore. Jax walked him to their table just outside the cafeteria. "Sometimes I sit with my friends from the basketball team but mostly I sit with these weirdos," he gestured towards the table. "This is Jesse she's a freshman and Kara who's a sophomore. And I think Winn is at ethical hackers club but he sits here too,"

"Yeah he's vice president now so he has to help set something up or something," Kara responded. "But hey! What's your name?"

"Wally West, I'm new," everyone greeted Wally warmly. And they sat and ate.

"So Wally where is your old school," Jesse asks.

"I'm from keystone" Wally responds

"Look over there!" Jesse points at a beautiful young women "Can you believe she's a freshman!" she looked at least seven or eighteen

"Who's that?" Wally asked

"THAT is Lisa Snart," Jax said "Her older brother is a junior and he is not to be messed with. You can see him in the parking lot, next to Mick," They looked over at Snart and Mick talking by a car.

"Who's Mick?" Wally questioned

"He went to juvy with Snart, he's just a high school dropout" Jax answered "avoid them at all costs" Wally nodded in response.

"Some people say that Mick and Lisa have a history but I don't buy it," Kara says

"Suit yourself but something definitely happened between them," Jesse says

…

The last few classes went by quickly. In a few more minutes school would be over. Oliver stared into the distance not focusing. He wasn't thinking about school, he was actually thinking about how to hack into this phone he stole off a bad guy as the green arrow (which is what Oliver did at night). Suddenly his eyes were drawn to the poster near the door, it said:

Ethical Hacking Club:

Want to learn how to hack (ethically)?

Need some help hacking something (ethically)?

Come to the computer lab after school on Mondays and Wednesdays!

A plan began to form inside of Oliver's brain. When the bell rang Oliver made his way over to the computer lab. He opened the door slowly to find just about three or four people sat at computers. 'Great' Oliver thought. 'The fewer people here the better' he walked up to Winn who was typing something madly.

"Felicity, someone's here!" he yelled without looking up. He stopped and looked up at Oliver. He knew who Oliver was and was shocked he was at ethical hacking club. Everyone knew Oliver because he was a senior who was popular and also he was stranded on an island for a while.

"I need some help hacking something,' Oliver said with a smile. Winn, still very confused, spoke again.

"Felicity's back there you can talk to her," he pointed to the back of the room and Oliver walked away.

Felicity looks over at Oliver, she can see his muscles looking like they're about to pop out of his shirt. Oliver walks up to her but Felicity is hypnotized by the sexiness of this god of a man.

"Uh hello," Oliver says

"Oh, what do you need Oliver?" Felicity asked

"Oh, so you know who I am?" Oliver asked

"Well everyone does! Your Oliver freaking Queen you kind of came back to life!" she seemed to regret her words " And um… we have like three classes together and one last year too,"

"Really? I don't remember you," he said.

"That's about right…" Felicity mumbled

"What'de you say?"

"Nothing. What do you need to be hacked?" she asked

"Well, my friend got locked out of his phone and can't remember his passcode!" Oliver laughed a little awkwardly. At first, Felicity thought it difficult to forget your own phone's passcode. Then she remembered the kind of people Oliver hung out with. Little did she know that Oliver had changed.

"Okay" she examined the phone "come back Wednesday I'll have it done then," Oliver smiled at her and walked out. After he left Cisco charmed in.

"That was weird,"

"Yeah…" Felicity said her heart pounding

...

Oliver's heart rate had accelerated. He wasn't quite sure why. He went to go pick up his little sister from the middle school down the road. She was going off about some kid named Roy who had done something or other but Oliver wasn't really focused, he was in sort of a daze.

He finished up his homework. There wasn't anything to do for his "night job" so he went to bed. He dreamed of his old life, of flirting and fooling around with different girls. He had always assumed someday he would settle down and he even thought he might settle down with Laurel. That was never going to happen now. He definitely wasn't going to fall in love as long as he was the green arrow. At least that's what HE thought... The first day was over and if it indicated anything, this year would be crazy.