"Well class, looks like we have a new student today, please be civil to, uh, what's your name again dear?" Gwen's English teacher asked as she walked into her first period class.

"Gwen," she said plainly.

"Ah wonderful. Well you can have a seat right there," the woman said, pointing to an empty seat in the front row between a scrawny guy with long dark brown hair and pale skin who had his nose deep in a book, and a tall, pretty, tan girl with short brown hair, brown eyes, and freckles, who seemed to be more attentive and focused than anyone else in the room.

Gwen merely nodded, shrugged, and took her seat.

"hi! I'm Courtney!" the tan girl said as she extended her hand to Gwen.

Gwen looked at the hand for a moment then hesitantly shook it. Then without saying a word turned her attention to her notebook and started drawing.

"What do you think you're doing?! Class is about to start! You should be paying attention not doodling!' Courtney yelled in a hushed tone while glaring at Gwen.

The quiet goth rolled her eyes as she looked over to the new annoyance, "does it look like I care about what you think IT should or shouldn't be doing? But according to that theory, you're even worse than me, because not only are you ignoring the lesson, but you're also distracting others by talking."

This comment seemed to strike the bookworm's interest, because he looked up from his book to listen better, which was quite a rare occurance.

The teacher's pet scoffed to hide her own embaressment ant said, "oh shut up, weird goth girl."

Gwen smirked upon hearing this. "You realize you're the one who started this conversation. I'll gladly stop talking when you do, and by the way, if you want to offend me you're gonna have to try a lot harder than that."

"Oh great, just what we need in this school, another Noah," Courtney said sarcaticlly before turning her attention back to her work.

Gwen looked at her with a questioning look for a moment before continuing her drawing.

Once the conversation was over the bookworm turned his attention back to his book as well, but not before sneaking a look at our young artist and her drawing.

The class seemed to go by quickly for all three of them, for they were all consumed in their own activities. Though once the hour was up, our Gwen was up for a bit of a surprise.

After the bell rang everyone rushed out of the door, everyone except for Gwen and Noah that is, who were yes, still drawing and reading. once everyone except for himself and the unusual new girl had left, the bookwork stood up and faced her, "your drawings are quite good, you seem to have a real talent for the darker things," our cynical Noah said with a faint smirk and left without giving our surprised goth time to respond.

Gwen shook her head in confusion before standing standing up to leave, but half way through the door she stopped and turned to her teacher, "What was that guy's name?"

The rest of her day was all just as strange and eventful as first period, except for second period that is, which for her is Spanish. Third period was what she had been dreading all day, History. It bored her to death and out of all subjects it was probably her weakest. So when she found out who would be in that class with her, our quiet goth's mood got even worse.

"Alright Quin," her middle aged history teacher started but was quickly corrected by Gwen.

"It's Gwen."

"Whatever. Just take a seat anywhere," he continued.

"But there's only one empty seat left," Gwen dryly corrected him yet again.

"Then sit there before I give you detention!" the teacher snapped while glaring at her

"Whatever," Gwen mumbled as she walked towards her seat, but quickly slowed her pace with dread when she realized who'd be sitting behind her.

"Ah, lovely to see you again, corino," the attractive male teen said smoothly

The beautiful goth mentaly groaned with aggervation as she sat down. "One, don't call me 'darling', and two, please talk to me as little as you possibly can."

"Oh, so you so speak Spanish, wonderful," Alejandro said as he leaned forward, looking over her shoulder at what she was drawing. He would admit only to himself that the image of the grim reaper drawn in great detail creeped him out. "Ah, and what a wonderful artist you are," he complamented.

"Please don't look over my shoulder," Gwen said quite annoyed and a bit exasperated.

"My appologies, I did not mean to-" Alejandro started but was cut off by the History teacher. "I'm going to pass out these work sheets and they will be due Friday. You know the drill, you may work with ONE partner, no more, PLEASE. And because you're new I will assign you to work with Alejandro, considering he has the highest grade average of this class," he said while looking at Gwen as he passed out the papers.

"Wha-, but can't I just work on my own?" Gwen asked a bit nervous.

"I told you to work with Alejandro, so either you work with him or you get detention!" the teacher yelled loudly. He then proceeded to sigh, puch his hair back and sit down at his desk, "now that that's settled, get to work kiddies."

Everyone quickly started to change seats to work with their partners and soon the Hispanic charmer had turned the desk infront of Gwen around to face her and was now sitting there, starring at her.

Gwen simply sat there, trying her hardest to ignore him as she struggled to work on her project.

"Would you like some help, corin`o?" Aleja dro offered, leaning closer to her and noticing how badly she was doing.

Gwen emmited something like a growl of frusdration before glaring at him, "it's obvious by now you're not gonna leave me a lone, but it'd be REALLY helpful if you'd just SHUT UP!"

"NO YELLING!" the teacher shouted while glaring at Gwen.

The frusdrated goth sinked down in her desk and bitterly mumbled something under her breath that only she heard, trying to ignore the fact that just about every student there except Alejandro was now laughing at her.

Alejandro merely smiled. "So much anger built up into one tiny sinorita, you could use someone to take that stress away from you, my dear princesa, and I could be that person" he whispered soothingly as he reached to take her hand in his.

Gwen quickly jerked her hand away from his and glared at him, not noticing at first the pink blush that was forming on her usually pale cheeks. "Don't toutch me," was all she said before ducking her head down, using her frizzy black and teal hair to hide her blush as she worked on her project yet again.

Alejandro smirked with amusement and whispered, "you can't push people away forever."

Gwen growled again and hid her face in her arms on her desk, imagaining that all of this was just a terrible dream and when she woke up she would go to a school where nobody would notice or bother her.

Alejandro watched her in silence for a while. She was so different from any girl he had ever tried to get before, she was so distant and cold, it was clear to him that she had been hurt very badly beore, and right then and there it became his own personal goal to show her happiness again.

The rest of the class was quite uneventful, due to Gwen still refusing to allow Alejandro to help her.

A/N: Yay I got to update this! Hopefully I'll be able to update it again sometime this week but I'm not sure. Anyways hoped you guys enjoyed it, it was pretty fun to write. And don't worry Gwen will eventually soften up. I was rewatching the seasons and I realized that in the first season Gwen was really harsh, but every season she got nicer and more open to being friends with people, I believe Leshawna Trent and Duncan had a lot to do with that. So that's basically how I wanna go about this, only here she'll have Duncan, Alejandro, Trent, and Noah to help soften her rough edges. Well lot's of excited things are planned for my next chapter, so until next time, adios :P.