A/N: I hope everyone had a great New Year! Time for the second chapter! Woo! We finally have some interaction between Silver and Aurora. I had fun writing this, I hope you'll have fun reading it! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or Pokémon. I only own Aurora.

"Good morning class, I hope you all had a good weekend. Now, please get out your homework I assigned on Friday." Said the slightly greying teacher.

"What was it?" One of the hooligans of the school asked loudly.

"Page 264, 1-29 odds" The teacher responded politely.

"Thanks" Replied the same boy sarcastically. I rolled my eyes at his antics. I was not ready for this at 7:30 a.m. I don't know how the teacher puts up with this crap.

After shuffling through a few papers, I came to the neat heading of Friday's assignment. My scribbly handwriting covered the lined paper in a block, clearly showing that all of the work had been completed fully. Another boy, much to my displeasure, spotted my paper.

"Hey, you." He whispered. I knew exactly who he was referring to, but decided to play dumb. Which was kinda hard considering everyone in the class knew you always got good grades. I then felt a tap on my shoulder.

"Hey. Ginger." May I introduce you to Gold, a cute black haired gold-eyed junior with a deceiving smile that made the girls swoon. But don't let his looks fool you; this boy is a real pain in the neck. He is the school prankster. He is so immature, he acts like he is in about third grade. He's so annoying, he has way too much energy, he's irresponsible, disrespectful; I could go on all day about how he ticks me off. To make it worse, he's also a major perv. He's notorious for flipping up girls' skirts, and Arceus knows how many he's slept with. I have a pet peeve for people like him; their blatant stupidity makes my blood boil. If it was only him, that would be one thing, but no. He has a gang of mini Golds, which he has titled his squad, that acts like he's some sort of genius and follows him everywhere. They're constantly getting on my nerves since two happen to be in my first hour. I started to feel my face heat up, not from embarrassment for once. I took a deep breath, sending my blood elsewhere. I calmly turned around to face the buffoon.

"Can I see your paper?" The gold eyed boy grinned in some sort of weird attempt to charm me or something. Of course this failed as I deadpanned and gave my straightforward answer.

"No." With one simple word I turned around in my chair and started to retrieve a pen from my bag. I may not have a lot of self-confidence, but this was one area in which I didn't let people push me around. I could see out of the corner of my eye the split second look of disbelief on his face that the quiet girl didn't just give in to him. He quickly recovered, though, and proceeded swindle another girl. I also caught a glimpse of Silver in the corner rolling his eyes at his friend's antics. Yes, I said his friend. I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but Silver and Gold are best friends. I guess when they say opposites attract, this is what they mean.

"Ok class, for the rest of the week we will be working on a project. We will be working in groups…" The teacher was interrupted with squabble from the students as they started making groups with their friends. "… Of two that I will be choosing. You can thank Mr. Hibiki for that."

The whole class sighed and groaned, with a few throwing glares in Gold's direction. I started to go into a mini panic attack at the prospect of a random partner. When we had group projects, I usually opted to work alone because I work better without others slowing me down or being irresponsible for that matter. As you can probably guess, I don't have the best time working together as it is very stressful for me as well. Plus, the other members of the group made me do most of the work anyways since I was usually the smartest one there and I never object. On top off all of that, I didn't like most of the kids in this class, because well, you can probably figure that part out.

"I already have the list of groups made up. Once everyone's name is called, I'd like you to sit next to your partner. Then please send one of the members up to grab the rubric off of the front table. Ok, our first group is…" The teacher started listing pairs of people that sounded like a big jumble of words to me as I sat shaking in my seat waiting for my name to be called.

"…Silver and Aurora…" My eyes grew to the size of dinner plates and my brain couldn't decide of the color should drain from my face or rush to it. The worst possible thing that could have happened, happened. Great. I would have taken Gold over him. My nails started to dig into my palms and my heart jumped into my throat.

I was snapped out of my daze when I saw Silver walking past me to retrieve our papers. 'I've got to compose myself. Maybe this isn't that bad…. Yeah, this could be an opportunity to get to know him better! Oh, who am I kidding!? I can't talk to him. Ugh, what am I going to do? Eep he's coming over here! Act natural!' I shyly smiled at the redhead and tried to ignore the blush on my cheeks. He nodded back and my stomach flipped. 'Wait… he's walking over here! And he nodded at me… That means he actually knows who I am! I thought he didn't know I existed!' He set a paper identical to his on my desk.

"Thanks…" I muttered softly. 'One word, new record!' I had a mini celebration in my head before realizing Silver had already sat down and was attempting to communicate. 'Dangit, now I have to say more words…'

I grabbed the paper in front of me and scanned over the text. I was thankful there was a topic of conversation premade so I could focus on that. Silver opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by the teacher. His gaze shifted from me to her and my shoulders immediately unwound.

"For this project, you will be completing different experiments in class…" The teacher explained what we had to do for the project and the usual rules about how everyone should have equal work that I had heard a million times before. "Today will just be a brainstorming day to decide who's doing what and how you will complete your lab, since we only have 15 minutes left of class. Go ahead. I will take off points from your project if I see anyone goofing off or on their phones."

My stare broke away from the petite lady when I turned to look at Silver. He was lazily scribbling on his paper. He obviously hadn't been listening to what the teacher said. Or, at least I thought so.

"So… um are you better with w-writing conclusions or calculations because I-I can do either one." I quickly spit out at the silver-eyed teen.

Silver's gaze traveled to my eyes. My stomach did a flip and my eyes flicked to my paper. I don't know if it is possible, but my face turned redder than it already was.

"The math is easy so I'll do it I guess." I was taken back a little by his response. I was pretty smart myself, but chemistry math confused me. I also just assumed he didn't understand it since it was rare that he did his homework. Silver was either lying because he didn't want to write a paper, or he actually did get it. I jot down an 'S' by the calculations section of the rubric.

"O-ok. Uh, looks like we are ready for tomorrow." A thought occurred to me that made me even more nervous than before. If I was gonna be working on a project with Silver, I needed to have his number… for school purposes only. Definitely only for school purposes, not anything else. "A-and umm…" The sudden louder than expected outburst made his head jerk up and raise an eyebrow at me, saying 'yes?' "I…. uh…. Need your number in case, one of us is absent or something!" My voice shrunk with every word.

"Sure." The red head gave no thought to it and sat up, expecting a phone to punch his number into.

"Oh! Yeah, let me just find it…." I quickly swung around and unzipped my bag. My shaky fingers typed in my passcode and somehow found the contacts. As I handed the device to him, I prayed that none of my sweat remained on it. His fair fingers dashed across the screen, eyes darting behind. He silently returned it and I nodded in thanks. 'I actually have Silver's number in my phone… This is so wrong!' The thought sent butterflies through my stomach. I glanced at the clock; still 5 more minutes. 'Make conversation.'

"So… what's you next class?" 'Lame.'

"P.E." Silver was a man of few words, which was okay by me. I wasn't very talkative myself.

"Do you like it?" Just as the sentence came out of my mouth, an image of him shirtless doing chin-ups popped into my brain. I tried to blink it away, put it was persistent. 'Dangit brain, stop it!'

"Meh, I just took it to graduate." I nodded without words. At least we had something in common. I wasn't a big fan of exercising or sports myself.

"Me too." The casual conversation actually made me less nervous. I had never really had a conversation with Silver at all. I somehow felt… comfortable. Well, as comfortable as a nervous girl can feel talking to her crush, that is. I realized that I had to pack up my stuff, and quickly grabbed it. Without realizing it, one of my pens fell to the ground, right by Silver's foot. He picked it up and handed it to me. I blushed and thanked him. My shaky hand reached out a little too far and slightly grazed his fingers. 'DADDY!' Images and voices flashed through my mind, but I couldn't recognize any of them.

I quickly put the pen back where it belonged. The harsh cry of the bell made me slightly jump. I turned around towards the door, throwing a quiet 'Have a good day!' over my shoulder. I fast walked out of the classroom frantically, my heart rate out running my feet. As I blindly opened my locker, I replayed the events of first hour in my head. 'Not bad. I talked to him, I wasn't that awkward, heck, and I had a conversation with him! I'd call that a victory for me!'

My lips twitched into a smile and a blush dusted my cheeks as I thought about the brief contact of skin. 'Thank you, Silver. I'll try my hardest.'

A/N: Hey readers! I know it's early in the fic, but I'm looking for a ship name for Aurora and Silver. If you could put one in a review that would be awesome! Thank you in advance! Next update: January 21st, 2016

STAY FAB, TORCHICS!

∞Blaziken