Chapter 2

It was the next morning and Alice was filled to the brim with glee and happiness. For today was the day she was no longer going to be Alice Smith but she will become Alice Roth. It has a nice ring don't you think? She got dressed into a black off the shoulder long sleeve shirt, a black mini skirt, and a pair of knee high leather boots with buckles at the heel of the shoes and grabbed her Raven messenger bag for school and headed downstairs,but as she was going down the stairs her annoying sister stepped in front of her and eyed her.

"What got you so happy you little cow?" the blonde girl demanded rudely.

" None of your business you fake blonde. " Alice growled out. She ran past her and grabbed an apple for breakfast and a secret stash of chinese food from last night from the refrigerator for lunch.

"Hey where did you get that?" Amanda yelled trying to get the food away from her younger sister but failed when Alice did a side step and watched her sister fall on her face anime style. When she was done watching her sister fail trying to get the food from her, she ran out the door with her food and school supplies in hand and headed towards the school. As she was running a certain guy ran smack dab into her causing her and him to fall to the ground. When she hit the ground she soon realized that ground was much too soft to be concrete or grass and the set of arms around her waist confirmed that what she fell on was not the ground but the man who ran into her in the first place. She slowly opened her dark blue eyes to meet a set of oddly familiar mystic green eyes staring into her.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry." The man said to her and as soon as he did she realized who she fell on. It was the same person she ran into yesterday. Terry McGinnis.

"Yeah sure." She said as she got up and dusted herself off. As she was walking away from him, his voice called out to her.

" Hey wait." He yelled " Please" he went after her and gently grabbed her wrist preventing her from running any farther.

"Let go" she yelled as she tried to free her arm."Let me go"

"Tell me your name please"he said ignoring her demand. He knew her name was Alice because she told him when he was he wanted to know her when he was just Terry McGinnis, not as The Batman.

" Please, I won't forget it. I swear." he said looking into her dark blue eyes "Anyway how could anyone forget the name of a mysterious girl." He gave her a small smile and the gaze he was giving her was soft and sincere. This sentence shocked her because it was similar to the way Batman convinced her to have her tell him her name that previous night.

"Why do you want to know so much?" she asked trying to glare at him but his gaze made it near impossible. But all she wanted to do was to get away from him and go on with her day.

"Because I am curious about the girl I have the fortune to run into two days in a row." He said trying to be charming. "Please. All I want is your name then I will leave you alone for the rest of the day. I promise."

When she looked in his eyes she knew that he was being honest but she also knew who he dated. She didn't want to be attack by that harpy again.

So she sighed and told him "I'm sorry but I can't tell you. But if you want to know my name so much then go ask your bully of a girlfriend Diana" she gave him a sorry look, She then ripped her arm away from him and headed to the school leaving a very shocked and very confused Terry behind.

" Why was she sorry? Also why did she say Diana was a bully and to ask about her name? Diana wouldn't bully someone. Would she?"he asked himself. All of these question swimming around in his head made him decided to take the shortcut to the school and to find Diana and see for himself if Alice was being honest or was she lying to get away from him.

Alice on the other hand was walking the same way as she always does. On the way she was wondering what had sparked Terry's interest in her. She has known him since she was a freshman and he was a sophomore, but sadly she also knew his harpy of girlfriend since then as well. What did she do to suddenly make him so interested in her? All of a sudden all she could see in the soft sincere gaze he gave her in her head. As she continued her walk to the school and found that she had arrived early enough to head to class early and see what assignments they were doing today. But on the way to her class she was suddenly yanked into the girls bathroom and slammed into the bathroom wall hard enough to knock the air out of her for a moment.

"What do you want?" she asked as she looked at the only person she knew who would pulled this kind of stunt in the school. The Wicked Witch herself, Diana who has the cheshire grin plastered on her face like she had found the most juicy piece of gossip.

" So a little bird told me they saw you talking to Terry again. What did I say about how talking to my boyfriend being off limits you little rat?" She had her friends hold Alice in place as she raised her hand to hit Alice when she heard someone call her name.

Correction when she heard her boyfriend Terry call her name. Alice had saw an opportunity and took it. So she grabbed her stuff and ran out of there and head to her first period class as fast as she could.

"Grr." Diana groaned about losing her prey. " We have to find her later." she told her little clique of mean girls and turned back to the mirror fixing her makeup. "But right now I have to talk to my man." Diana gave her little clique a grin before she walked out of the bathroom with a sickly sweet smile upon her face looking at her boyfriend. " Hey babe." she said as she went in to give him a peck on the cheek but he backed away from her. "Baby what's wrong?"

"Diana who was that girl who ran into me yesterday on accident?" he asked straight forward. Diana was now stuck between a rock and a hard place. She knew she had to lie but she didn't what she could do to make it convincing .

" Oh you mean that girl who wears a lot of black. I think her name is Ally or Alice or something." she said with a fake smile lying to his face. "Why?"

"Why? Because she told me to ask my bully of a girlfriend for her name this morning." he responded. This sentence made Diana freeze on the spot. " Not only that but she also seemed scared to even talk to me like a normal person.." Diana knew she had to think fast or she would be called out.

" Why, That's ridiculous." she said laughing nervously. This made him very suspicious of her. "Why would I be bullying her? I don't even know her."

"Then why do I hear the same things from many of the underclassmen" He asked her thinking about how many of the smart freshmen were terrified of her name " Diana what have you done to her?" he asked sternly.

"Nothing. She's a liar." she said on the defensive. "So are the rest of them. They just want someone to blame because their lives are so miserable" This told Terry everything that he need to know. He now knew that Alice had told him the truth about his girlfriend. That she has changed into someone completely different from when he first met her all those years ago.

"Stop lying Diana." he glared at her figure and sighed. He knew what he needed to do so he could show that he wasn't like Diana. That he really did want to get to know Alice and help those underclassmen who were in a way also his victims when he was too blind to help them.

"I'm sorry Diana but we're done. I am not going to date a liar and a bully." he said with his head bowed. "I am not going to have anymore ties to the girl I don't even know anymore."

" Wait Terry please don't" Diana said panicked. "You can't. We are suppose to be the power couple of this school."

This made him disgusted "Really Diana?" he said in a disgust tone. "Do you really think that is important to me? Man being popular has changed you so much that I had become so blind to see that the girl I have been dating for two years has been bullying other younger kids and I did nothing to stop it." He gave her a look of disbelief. Before Diana could defend herself the bell rang signaling the beginning of First Period."Goodbye Diana. I hope you find who you really are soon." he told her as he started head to first period.

When he had gotten there he and his fellow classmates saw a note hanging on the door telling his shop class that they were going to the art class to work with them on a project for the props for the play coming up soon and that they should head to the auditorium. So he went to there only to see Alice painting a wooden carving of a crow onto a fake tree. "Hey." He called out to her to get her attention. She looked up at him with wide eyes and stopped painting.

"Why are you here?" she asked with a shaken voice.

" My class is helping out you guys with the props for the play." he said sheepishly " Look I know what Diana has been doing to you along with the freshmen and I am so sorry that I couldn't help you guys" He told her with his head down.

"Alice" she said. This caused him to look up.

"What?" he said clearly shocked.

"My name is Alice." she gave him an unsure smile and went back to painting the black bird.

"That's a pretty name for a pretty girl." he smiled and helped her.