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A/N: Enjoy! I had a blast writing this chapter.

Chapter 2: I shouldn't feel this way

Roy looked around his physics class from where he sat in the back row because everyone else seemed so familiar with each other, seeing as it was the middle of October. He saw a couple of kids sitting at their desks actually doing the 'do-now'. He also saw a bunch of giggling who kept looking at him. Roy kept hearing a few words from their conversation, "Jaw line… cheek bones…must have…abs…massive…package… totally cute" until one of the girls finally came up to him.

"Hey" She greeted with extra cheer. "I'm Mindy and…" she paused to look back at her friends. Roy looked around Mindy and saw a beautiful girl—Thea Queen. He stopped himself from thinking like that. Richies, as Buster and Rodney his mechanics liked to call them, were awful stuck up jerks. But Thea did not look like any stuck up jerk to him.

"…and I think you're really cute!" Mindy yelled as she ran away. Roy gave the group a quizzical look and was about to reply with something really witty about his 'massive package' when a girl sauntered over to him.

"Whose charity case are you?"

He spun around to face a girl who was pushing the school dress code to its limits.

"I only ask because… well it takes one to one." She said tilting her head ever so slightly. Roy nodded hesitantly as a reply. Taking this as an invitation to join him she sat swiftly in the chair next to his and extended her hand. "Relax, it isn't some dirty secret. Unless, of course you're hiding something." He shrugged and shook her extended hand.

"I'm Selina by the way. Selina Kyles. But my friends call me Cat."

"Roy. Harper" He introduced himself as the teacher walked through the door.

-A-

"Hey! Roy is it? I'm sorry about my stupid friends, they just like to make sure the new kid feels awkward." Thea called falling in step with Roy after class.

"It's okay. I'm fine really, I've been through a whole lot worse. Thanks for the concern Thea." Roy said swiftly brushing off the subject. He practically ran around the corner leaving a stunned and slightly confused Thea behind. Probably because no ever left her standing in the dust. Then he mentally kicked himself for shrugging off 'The Thea Queen'.

"Damn it!" He swore under his breath "I need to get this whole like or dislike thing under control."

He waited outside Felicity's class so they could head to lunch. But he didn't expect her to emerge with Oliver Queen—and they were talking!