This is a High school AU. and Characters may be OOC, I apologize.

Rated: T (Rating may be subject to change)

Language, Violence, and Alcohol.

Genre:

Drama, Romance, General, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, and Angst to come.

Chapter: National High

It was finally the first day of junior year for a certain Kara Danvers, she was certainly hoping for another uneventful, ordinary year, like her other past two school years. She didn't have much suspicion on what might this year bring, and she would certainly be surprised by the end of it.

"Kara!", a voice called out from down stairs.

A certain blonde rolled over in her bed, she released a heavy sigh, 'my alarm hasn't even rang yet!', the teen pouted as she faced her wall.

"Kara", The voice called out again.

The blonde was going to turn in her bed to call back to whom she knew was her older sister, she was going to tell her that it wasn't time yet, but of course, as her luck so far would have it, her alarm rang.

"Just my luck", Kara groaned out and swiftly turned over, and she allowed her arm to swing onto her bedside lamp table, and right onto her poor alarm, successfully silencing, but crushing it in the process.

"crap", Kara winced as she saw the damage she'd unintentionally caused. 'oh Alex is so gonna-'

and with Kara almost finishing her sentence, her older sister came bursting in through the door, "Kara, what the heck was that?", A red haired woman entered the room, she stood firm by the door, her eyes narrowed as they set onto what used to be an alarm clock, one that she brought for the blonde just last night.

"Uh-Heh", Kara gave her older sister a sheepish shrug, "It's time to get up?"

Alex pressed her lips into a tight thin line, "Kara", she stared at the girl with narrowed eyes now.

Kara released a sigh, "Sorry, it just happened-", the blonde was trying to explain herself.

Alex released a sigh herself, "try not to make a habit of it will ya', that's the first one this school year, and on the first day. I don't think you want to go through another 20 clocks do you.", the older girl had now crossed her arms over her chest.

Kara nodded, "I know, I know."

The blonde had crushed over quite a bit alarm clocks last school year, she knew Alex spent at least a little over a hundred bucks in replacing them.

"Sorry", Kara muttered as she began to get out of bed, she reached out and took a hold of the crushed alarm clock, she squatted down and set it down along with other pieces onto the rug neatly, "I'll throw it out when I get back.", Kara said as she stood up straight.

Alex nodded, "Make sure you don't forget and leave it under your bed like last time, it was pretty awkward explaining it to Winn when he found it."

Kara sighed, she gave a sheepish chuckle a she remembered what Winn's reaction was. "Yeah", Kara sighed and walked to her closet, she opened it and reached in, picking out a sweater.

"Well, I'll be heading off to work, I made breakfast, it's wrapped and warm on the table, eat it, and don't be late to school", Alex tapped the door and closed the bedroom door to give Kara some privacy as she changed.

"Wait, Alex", Kara said out.

Alex opened the door and looked at Kara, "Yes?"

Kara gave her older sister a warm smile, "Thanks"

Alex returned her the blonde's smile, "No problem, have a good day at school, Kara"

"Thanks, and you have a good day at work", Kara then returned her attention to the sweater in her hands.

Alex smiled once more and backed out of the room again. closing the door.

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"Kara!", a male voice called out from down a packed hallway.

Kara waved a hand, she remained in place so that the male could make his way over to her. "Winn! Hey!"

"Hey-ya", the boy smiled at the blonde as her made it through the crowded hallway, a paper in his grasp, "Mind?", Winn asked as he flashed the paper to Kara.

Kara nodded, "No, I actually want to know if we have any classes together", Kara shrugged a strap from her backpack off her shoulder and used a hand to hold it when it slid off her other shoulder, she held it in front of her and dug into the bag to find her own piece of paper she'd received from the school.

"I hope we have classes with each other again, I met up with James not too long ago and he showed me his schedule, me and him have 1st, 2nd, and 5th period together.", Winn said as he waited for Kara to produce her own schedule from her bag.

Kara hummed, "Got it", she said, seemingly ignoring his comment about the this 'James', boy. "Here", the blonde turned and handed her schedule to her friend.

Winn took the paper and gave Kara a questioning glance, he sorta regretted mentioning the boy now, he looked down onto the paper, and compared both papers to each other, seeing if he and Kara shared any classes together.

Kara lifted a hand and used her finger to push her glasses up a bit, "So?", she questioned.

Winn hummed, "We have Physics, Calculus, AP English and Phys-Ed.", Winn handed the paper back to Kara.

Kara nodded, "Well, would you look at that, we have most of our classes together, Winn!", Kara's eyes seemed to sparkle at knowing her and her best friend were going to be sharing the majority of classes together this school year. "Wait, what about second semester?"

Winn smiled, and stuffed his own schedule into his pants pocket, "We're going to be shifting into the same classes either way, don't worry"

Kara smiled, "Nice!"

The two teens wore smiles, both glad to have each other in their classes.

Kara looked up for a moment, she looked at the clock above a set of lockers, "We still have about 10 minutes to spare, let's check out our first period class"

Winn nodded, "Sure", the boy smiled and allowed Kara to go ahead of him while he trailed behind, "I heard this class was pretty hard"

Kara shrugged, "I think Physics should be common sense really."

Winn's eye narrowed a bit playfully, "Oh really?"

Kara nodded and turned to look over her shoulder as she and Winn continued walking to their first period class, "Yes", she answered a smug smile on her lips.

Winn rolled his eyes, "Oh-Ho, pretty confident there huh?"

"Yes I am", Kara said as she turned back to face forwards, "Annnnnd, here we are, Physics".

both teens stopped by the door that read just that, 'physics'

"Looks like no one's here yet", Winn said as he looked through the small window of the door.

"Yeah, people usually start coming a few minutes before the second warning bell", Kara said, "Anyways, Speaking of which, Mind if we go to my locker?"

Winn nodded, "Nope, Let's go", he said as he gestured towards another hallway.

Kara smiled, and turned around, definitely not expecting to bump into someone.

"Umph!?", came a surprised yelp slash grunt, it sounded really feminine.

Kara reacted fast and wrapped her arms around the person whom she'd just bumped into.

"Woah!", Kara said as she held the soft body of a person against her, preventing the person from falling over, "I am so very sorry!", Kara apologized a bit nervously.

"Ouch", the girl against Kara muttered quite faintly, faint enough that only Kara's ears could pick up the words.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.", Kara continued to apologize, she hadn't noticed that quite a few people whom were wondering the hallways, stopped to stare, This Winn noticed, but remained silently watching.

"It's...Fine", the girl muttered softly again, she backed away a bit, one of her hands were on Kara's shoulders, While Kara's arms loosened from around the girl's waist.

"Golly, I'm such a goof, I'm really sorry", Kara said again, still not catching a glimpse of whom she'd just bumped into.

The girl sighed out a bit, she lifted her gaze and was now face to face with the Blonde, "It's fine, really"

Kara was momentarily stunned, she'd bumped into a pretty girl, a very, very, pretty girl, "I-uh Are you sure?", she stuttered a bit.

The girl nodded and began to break the physical contact with the Blonde, "Yes, I'm sure.", she merely spoke.

Kara allowed the girl out from her grasp, "Sorry", she said once more, she couldn't help but keep apologizing.

a small crowd of students continued to look on.

The girl's lip curled a bit into a very, very small smile, it twitched and then went back to being pressed into a straight line, as if she'd been holding the urge to smile back. "It's really no problem, now if you'll excuse me.", The teen then went around Kara, as if nothing happened.

Kara turned to allow her gaze to follow the girl's back as she slipped into the empty classroom.

"She didn't blow up the school"

"That's a surprise"

a few students muttered.

Kara's eyebrows knitted together as she turned around to see whom had said the first sentence, and to her surprise she found quite a lot of students staring at her weirdly.

Winn was also looking on a bit awkward.

Kara sighed and shook her head, she momentarily pushed out those words from her peers. and turned directly to Winn, "Come on"

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"James"

"Winn!", James spoke a bit more excitedly, "What's up, it's nice to see you again."

Winn smiled and nodded, he and James bumped knuckles as they greeted.

"It's been all good man, how have you been. and same, it's nice to see you again.", Winn said with a smile.

Currently 1st period was underway, students were slipping into the class, some students greeted others, due to being happy about seeing their friends again.

Kara released a small sigh as she look around the room, she found that a lot of students were seemingly avoiding having to sit next to, or around a certain girl by the back, she tilted her head to the side in slight curiosity, they were all avoiding the girl whom she bumped into.

Odd, Kara thought.

Kara's blue eyes scanned the ravenette.

The girl was very attractive, even if she wore a firm frown on her lips. her face was rather expressionless as well, but she was still very pretty.

"Kara", a girl spoke, followed by a male's voice.

"Kara"

Kara hummed and for a moment she turned her attention away from the Ravenette's direction.

"Yo", the girl spoke.

"How's it going?"

Kara's eyes darted to Winn's figure for a moment, he shrugged subtly.

"Hey, Lucy, James", Kara said, "How's it going?"

James smiled softly, "All good, how have you been?"

Lucy smiled at Kara as she sat next to James, James was sitting in the desk in back of Lucy.

"that's good, and I've been good myself", Kara said.

Winn had taken the desk in front of Kara, he knew how uncomfortable Kara would be if she wasn't accompanied by a close friend, which, Winn seemed to be the only one as if late.

Kara continued to give short answers to James and Lucy's questions.

Winn sighed softly, he knew why Kara was a bit on edge with James's presence, just before the end of their sophomore year, Kara figured out James had a crush on her, and she too had one for him, but the problems and small dramas came when Lucy was somehow in the picture, and well...

"-Um, yeah", Kara spoke slightly awkwardly, "Uh, I'm going to move my desk, I think I kinda like the back more these days."

Winn broke out from his thoughts and turned around in his seat to see Kara.

James and Lucy both awkwardly smiled.

Kara got up and collected her bag.

"Kara?", Winn said.

"See you next 3rd period, Winn", Kara said as she walked away.

Leaving Winn a bit stumped, "Uh, yeah, see ya'", he replied a bit awkwardly, he then turned to give James a questioning look, which James just gave a confused shrug to.

Kara couldn't help but notice it, how determined student's were to avoid this girl, and it really spiked her interest.

Something just drew her in.

Kara saw that the surrounding desks by the ravenette was empty, and thought, she might as well take one, she was a bit confused as to why students wanted nothing to do with this girl, but she was sure that she wouldn't care, and so, she picked a desk by the back, next to the ravenette whom merely stared out the window, clearly not paying attention to anything.

"Excuse me, Is this seat taken?", Kara said softly.

and once again, student's looked in Kara's direction, Sparking James's, Lucy's and Winn's curiosity to look on as well.

The teen whom had been staring out the window, slowly turned her head to look up at Kara, her eyes gazing into Kara's clear blue eyes, there was something inside this ravenette's gaze that slightly startled the Blonde.

"Um, No", the teen said as she seemingly stiffened a bit in her seat, as if she unsure about something.

Kara smiled softly and sat down, she put her backpack on the back of her seat, she grabbed a few things out of the bag and placed them onto the desk.

The ravenette turned around to face forwards, her heart seemed to pick up a bit in pace.

which of course, Kara just happened to notice. She tried to not notice things, but it just happened, her ears just picked up the small increase in the speed of the girl's heart thumping.

"Did she just sit next to her?", a student murmured to another.

"She's crazy", another added.

Kara could hear all of these comments being made, it only heightened her curiosity further.

and then she heard a familiar voice, "What's Kara doing, Winn?"

"I don't know", Winn answered.

"She's crazy, someone should go save her", Lucy commented to both guys.

Kara released a small sigh.

"Did someone dare you to come over here?", that feminine voice seemingly made Kara go deaf to all those other voices. She could only focus on that one voice right next to her.

Kara hummed, she turned to look at the Ravenette, clearly confused to teens apparent accusation. "Dare?", Kara's eyes once again met with the ravenette's clear greenish eyes.

The ravenette shifted in her seat, she tilted her head to the side a bit, as if trying to read the blonde, clearly, something about Kara had baffled the teen, "You sat here on your own accord?", the girl spoke with slight surprise.

Kara rose an eyebrow, she was lost, "Um...Is that bad?"

The girl straightened herself in her seat she faced forwards, her eyes seemed to wonder the front of the room for a moment, as if she was trying to process Kara's presence.

Kara reached out and touched the girl's shoulder, whom flinched at the contact.

"Did she just touch her?!", the voices of other students began to fill Kara's ears.

low and harsh whispers bounced about, even Lucy spat a few.

"I'll bring Kara back", Lucy said.

Kara picked up the sound of Lucy's chair being pushed back as she got up.

Kara now gave The teen her attention again, "Are you okay?"

the girl turned to look at Kara once more, "I..I'm fine-"

"Kara", Lucy came about, just as Kara knew she would.

both the ravenette and Kara looked up to the black haired girl.

"Lucy?", Kara's eyebrows knitted together.

"Hey, Winn's all alone, and all, and I heard that for physics we need to be in partners, or well...pairs to do projects and all, The classes is almost balanced out, and Winn'll have no one.", Lucy was trying to justify her coming over to Kara.

Kara hummed slightly and her eyes darted to Winn, whom just looked around, he clearly had no idea of what Lucy was even talking about, not that he knew, but Kara could tell Lucy was trying to cover herself up, which Kara just happened to pick up on when she heard Lucy talking to Winn and James.

"He's a big boy", Kara said, she didn't even think about the words she spoke, she just said them.

Lucy rose an eyebrow as she tilted her head to the side a bit.

Kara's eyes looked passed Lucy's figure for a few seconds, she could see many eyes on them, she sighed, "She doesn't have a partner", Kara pointed a thumb back to the ravenette behind her, "The class is an 'odd', one student'll be left out, Winn can make a trio with any pairing, If anything he can work with me and her, I mean...", Kara Turned back to give the ravenette behind her a glance, her hand was still on her shoulder, "You don't mind right?", Kara felt slightly sheepish for just pushing something along without being too sure about how the other felt.

Lucy's eyes darted to the other teen's figure.

The girl was clearly a bit tense, maybe even a tad bit uncomfortable, her lips parted as if to answer, but before she could, the teacher walked into the classroom.

"Crap", Lucy muttered then turned around to head back to her seat.

Kara removed her hand from the others shoulder, and sat straight in her chair.

as for the other students, they all also straightened out in their own seats.

"Alright, class. Today we'll be setting up our binders and notebook, and then we'll be talking group work, In this class we'll be working in pairs, for the rest of the year. So the partner you choose now, will be your partner until this course comes to an end, understood?", the tall male teacher said as he wrote his name on the board.

The class merely listened.

Kara sighed and turned to the girl next to her, "Mind?"

The ravenette looked at Kara, "I...Don't?", she sounded unsure.

Kara smiled softly. "You don't sound sure"

The ravenette's breath hitched slightly, she turned to face forwards, and it happened again, her lips twitched, as if with holding a smile. "I don't mind"

the blonde the turned to face forwards the smile not dying off her face. She was very curious about this girl, and what it was that Made others so wary of her...but she knew she wouldn't care if she found out...at least she thought.

she was sure.

and she would certainly not know exactly how this girl would come to affect her later on.

"Alright, we'll be starting with attendance", the man said as he grabbed his class roster, he flipped a page and looked through the many names, he then began to call them out. "Abigail Barnes"

"Here", the student said.

and so the list went on and on.

"Kara Danvers", the male teacher got to Kara's name.

Kara rose a hand, "Here", she said.

students all stared at Kara, now they got a name on the weirdo who thought it was a good idea to try and be nice to the other girl.

The man hummed as he stumbled up a few more names down the list, clearly he got a bit nervous, but masked it well, and he continued down the list, calling down the list.

"Lucy Lane", the man said.

"Here", the teen merely responded.

The man then visibly took a small breath, his eyes looked up from the roster for the first time, "Lena Luthor"

The room fell dead silent.

The ravenette whom was sitting next to Kara rose her hand, "Here"

Kara whom was facing forwards, allowed herself to see the girl from the corner of her eye, finally, she got a name to go with that face.

Lena Luthor.

Luthor...

'Wait a minute', Kara's head tilted to the side a bit, 'Luthor...Lutho-', Kara was finally hit with realization.

the realization as to why Lena was avoided as if she were the plague.

'Oh...', the blonde thought awkwardly, 'that's why'

Physics class flew by fairly fast, Kara had tried to ignore all the comments being made about her and the Lena girl.

Speaking of which.

"The expression on your face once you heard my name gives me the feeling you didn't know who I was", Lena spoke as she remained sitting in her desk, the bell rang a few seconds ago, but clearly, Lena was in no rush.

Kara hummed, she looked up from her bag, "What?", she tried to play dumb.

Lena's facially expression changed into an unreadable one, "You didn't know who I was, that's why you were being all nice-"

Kara knitted her eyebrows together, "No, I'm just being me. I don't have to have a reason for being 'nice'. It's just who I am", the blonde said as she stood up from her desk.

Lena almost scoffed, "So you'll continue being around me?", Lena spoke sarcastically, certainly not expecting the blonde to even answer, Lena stood up from her desk, she collected her things and slipped passed Kara.

There was something more to Lena, This, Kara felt, she didn't feel pity, no, but she felt, saddened a bit, Lena seemed like a nice person, why should someone be labeled because of someone else's errors and mishaps.

Kara knew of the Luthor's background, well, only to the extent of which her fellow cousin had shared with her, which was basically all about the male Luthor, Lex.

Kara knew she had to take careful steps when around a Luthor, well, she never thought she'd encounter one, but she had, and even so, she wasn't going to judge someone because of their last name.

she'd be careful and wary, but not to the extent to alienate the girl.

"You aren't your brother, Lena", Kara said as she turned around. Lena stopped in her tracks.

Lena turned around slightly to looked at the blonde, she knew what the blonde was hitting at and she certainly didn't expect the blonde to even touch the subject.

Kara gave the girl a sheepish smile, "I think we can be good friends", Kara shrugged as she kicked at the ground a bit, she looked down to her shoe, then back to Lena, she lifted a hand and used a finger to push her glasses up.

Lena looked away for a moment, "Who's paying you?", she couldn't help but question.

Kara laughed out a bit, not being able to handle it, "No one", she said.

Lena sighed out, "You're really weird, you know that". she clearly still had trouble believing a person actually wanted to be around her purposely.

Kara grabbed her back and slung it over her shoulder, "I get that a lot"

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Whale...hope this was at least, a decent read.

Reviews are always welcomed.Till next update.

Bye!