"Thanks!" Delian smiled and took the phone. Of all the things she missed at home, it was the twins. Ryan and Rose were great and she loved the people they were becoming. "Hi, Rose!"

McDowell County Kansas, 8:00 pm.

"Hey, Del," replied Rose. She was currently sitting on her bed in front of her laptop. "Listen, I need to run an idea by you. Ryan's ex-girlfriend, Candace really messed him up, right?"

"Well, yeah." Delian stepped outside onto the back porch to have a little privacy. Candace and Ryan dated for two years. The girl cheated on him, talked behind his back about how she was only using him to get popular and various other things. Needless to say, Delian and Rose hated the girl and only refrained from hexing her because Ryan asked them not to. He had trouble trusting anyone since.

Rose quickly pulled up an online dating service on her computer. "The school started an online dating service and I think it's time for Ryan to get back in the saddle. He's been afraid too long, I think."

"Does Ryan know about this?" asked Delian.

"I was thinking it would be more fun to not tell him until it was too late to do anything about it." said Rose.

Delian gaped. Rose was thinking more like her older sister every day. 'She must be spending more time with Mom,' Delian thought. "Sounds like a game plan, keep me posted." Delian hung up the phone and sighed. 'This will be interesting.'

The Next Morning at McDowell High School :

The next day, Rose had her plan all set into action. The school online dating service was pretty neat. Ryan got instant responses; he was very popular. She signed her up for a date every night that week. She and Ryan drove their motorcycles to school as usual. As Rose took off her helmet and shook out her ebony waves, she rolled her eyes at all the girls gawking at Ryan. He would never realize how many options he had. 'Unlike me,' Rose thought. The two walked into first period, AP English Composition and sat down. "Hey, Ry, guess what!" Rose said enthusiastically.

"It's to early for you to be so hyper..." muttered Ryan, laying his head down on the desk.

Rose paused, timing her sentence. "I signed you up for an online dating service. You have one date every night this week." Just as Ryan jumped up, ready to yell at his twin, the bell rang, signaling the start of class. Rose smirked and pulled out her essay that was due.

Allison Williams waited for her boyfriend the Quarterback Nick Nicholson to show up and walk her to class. She waited over 30 minutes and sighed closing her clocker. She was going to be late waiting for him. He probably got stuck with the guys or one of his girlfriends. There was always someone wanting him for something.

She pulled down her long sleeves to cover the bruises she had. They had gotten into an argument the night before on a date, and Nick had hit her. Over something really stupid that she did. Nick didn't like her having a friendship with Ryan Winchester a guy who had been helping her with her studies in math. Allison had told Nick her and Ryan were only friends. Only Nick didn't really believe her.

Walking to class, Allison knew she should probably dump Nick. Ryan even told her that she should. But her friend Ryan didn't know she was being abused or did he? Brushing most of her blonde hair so flowed freely to cover the bruise on her neck, she walked into class. She couldn't find a seat next to Ryan. Allison chose a seat in front of Ryan a few aisles down . She loved English Composition she had no problems with that. What she was struggling with was Math and she needed more help with it. She tried to approach Ryan earlier, but a bunch of girls surrounded him and it only made her walk away. She could never compare herself to them girls. She wasn't popular. When she sat down, she opened her purple notebook and got out her Essay. She spent nearly the whole night working on it. She hoped she got an A. She had lunch, math, and science with Ryan and hoped they would get to speak with each other soon.

Ryan smiled and waved to Allison when she sat down. Rose smirked, until she saw Allison tugging down her sleeves. She hit Ryan's shoulder and when he turned to look at her, she whispered, "Nick did it again. We should do something."

"Rose, Ryan!" exclaimed the English teacher, Mrs. Green. "Stop talking and turn in your essays."

The twins managed to look sheepish and passed up their papers. Ryan nodded to Rose and they resumed their conversation telepathically. 'I'll try to talk to her again, but I don't think she'll listen.' Ryan said.

Rose took out a pen and began to take notes from the board. 'I'll see what dirt I can dig up on Nick. If he's taking steroids we can get him kicked off the football team...and possibly juvenile hall if he's taking anything else.'

Ryan leaned back in his chair, his eyes on Allison. Why couldn't she just dump Nick? Everyone knew he was no good for her. He sighed and eventually started taking notes on the board for the next book the class was going to read, Frankenstein. Contrary to popular belief, class was one of the only things Ryan enjoyed about high school. It was the only time he had that he could ignore the other people that all wanted to talk to him. He wished he could be more like Rose, popular but blissfully unaware of it. She somehow managed to keep other kids at bay, never being rude, but not being overly friendly either. 'If only,' Ryan thought, rolling his eyes.

'What?' asked Rose telepathically, glancing over.

Ryan smirked. He really needed to work on keeping his thoughts to himself. 'Nothing. That one was for me.'

Allison turned in her paper feeling very positive about it. Before she joined the others in line, earlier as she sat down she saw Ryan wave to her. She smiled then waved back at him. The one reason she had problems with Dumping Nick was that he would make her life miserable if she did. If she thought she was a loner now, he'd make School life worse for her after the breakup.

Not that it would really matter anyway. Nick couldn't stand for others to spot them together in public. Like Lunch for instance, Nick liked to sit alone with his football buddies and half of the cheerleading squad. If only I was more like them, she thought. Maybe if I were a cheerleader, Nick would see me in a whole new light.

The prom was coming up and Allison had hoped that Nick would ask her to go. But she didn't count on it, so she didn't buy a dress. She felt kinda sad about it actually. It was the one time in her life where she really wanted to go, to feel like a princess for one night. But since Nick didn't want to be seen with her except alone, Allison let that idea go down the pipe. She wondered if Ryan was taking anyone. Girls should be lining up left and right begging him to be their date. Well, Allison wasn't that desperate. She wanted a date and a really caring boyfriend, but she didn't want to flaunt herself to guys. She had her eyes on a dress at the mall a light pink gown with sequins on it that would show her shoulders. Both her and Mandy had went in to check things out. Allison imagined what she would look like in that gown but she had frowned when she saw the price. $500 dollars. No way would her parents buy that for her and she only had $200 in savings.

In class her mind got back to listening to the Teacher. She had to giggle when Rose and Ryan got in trouble for speaking in class. She had heard them whispering, and wondered what it was about. They were speaking too low for her to find out what they were saying. Allison jotted down the notes and the class's next assignment. When the bell rang, dismissing them for lunch, Allison walked down the Hall, and spotted Nick kissing some girl from the cheerleading squad. Her eyes got a hurt look on them, and Allison had to step outside. She began to cry, how could Nick do this to her? What had she done to him to make him want to cheat?

During the next period, Rose Winchester was on a mission. She went and found Allison's best guy friend (a fellow Nick hater), James Geller. Over the sea of people, she immediately spotted James. He was a tall, muscular guy with dark shaggy hair and eyes that could melt even the coldest heart. James was just as popular as Ryan, if not more so. Rose frequently wondered how he even knew her name...then realized it was probably from Ryan. "James!" shouted Rose as she made her way to him. A few girls that had been trying to get his attention looked upset when he immediately turned and went to Rose. When he grinned at her, she felt a little flutter in her stomach. 'Stop it, you know he's not interested.' Ignoring her churning insides, Rose said, "Listen, I need you to help me with something for Allison. I know you hate Nick," Rose paused as James pulled a face. "I know, me too. I need you to find out his locker combination for me."

"What do you have planned?" James asked, bending down a little bit so he could hear Rose better. James and Allison grew up together and he thought of her as a little sister. He was willing to do anything to get her away from Nick.

Rose motioned for James to come closer. Once he did, she said, "I need to check his locker for steroids and anything else he may be using. I'm going to do my best to get him kicked out of school."

James shot Rose another heart-melting grin and said, "You're a genius. I don't know why I didn't think of that."

"Because you're a boy," Rose said airily.

"Hey!"

"I'm just kidding."

"Doubt it!" Scoffed James. "Anyway, do you finally have a plan for getting Ryan and Allison together?" He sat down on a bench in-between some of the lockers. The halls had mainly cleared out, most people at lunch or in other classes. James and Rose both had a study hall this period.

Rose sat next to James. "I have Ryan going on a date every night this week with someone absolutely crazy. I left Saturday night open so that I can talk Allison into meeting him for dinner."

"How are you going to get Ryan to go on all these dates?"

Rose brushed her cascade of waves over her shoulder. Why was it so hot in the hall? "I'm his twin. He owes me for something. And if he doesn't, I'll just make him. I can be very persuasive." James laughed and the two talked for a while. Eventually, Rose grinned and walked away after James promised to get Nick's locker combination. James was on the football team too, so it shouldn't be too hard. Once away from James, Rose mentally smacked herself. 'I should have just used a spell to make something appear in his locker. I'm an idiot sometimes!' She went to the library to wait for James. He was going to try and get the combination before next period.

Meanwhile, Ryan was looking for Allison. He wanted to get their tutoring schedule straight for this week. He stepped outside, thinking he had seen her. He found Allison on the steps. "Hey!" he exclaimed, sitting down by her. "What are you doing?"

Allison had went off to be by herself a bit and so she could let the tears fall. She couldn't face Nick now, or maybe even never after the stunt he had pulled! She cried harder letting the tears fall. What had she done wrong? She thought she was being the good girlfriend. Both her and Mandy attended all of his games. They even rooted for him. And now it seemed as if Nick had just lost all interest in her. She wiped her eyes trying to hide the tears. Not Hearing Ryan come up near her, she jumped hearing his voice. "Hi Ryan. I'm just sitting here crying my eyes out. I found out Nick's cheating on me".

James entered the locker room. Most of the guys had gone to some of their other classes, some even went to lunch, and some hung around. He went to one of Nick's buddies named Erik and asked him "Do you know Nick's lock combination? I need it so I can get my books from his locker that I let him borrow".

Erik gave James the locker combination. "Thanks man." then he acted like he was going towards the locker, then went to meet up with Rose in the Library. He hoped that by doing this favor for her, she would agree to go out with him this weekend. Getting the Combination had been easy as pie. He smiled at Rose "I got the combination".

"Allison..." Ryan trailed off. He put his arm around Allison and pulled her into him. "Listen, I know that nothing I can say will make this better. I know how you feel though. All I wanted to do when I found out Candace had been cheating on me was cry and scream." When Allison finally looked up at him, he wiped her tears and continued. "Nick's no good for you. You can do a lot better, Allison. You deserve better." Ryan hugged Allison to him and told her to just let it out. It was the best thing for her to have a good cry. Having a twin sister taught Ryan to be patient with girls when they were upset. He continued to comfort Allison and tried to cheer her up for the remainder of the period.

Rose looked up from her book. "Great!" She shut the book and stood up, making sure the librarian and no other students were around. "That works out really well! Now all I have to do is sneak into the locker room after school." Rose stretched and then sighed. "I'm ready for the weekend. What about you?"

James nodded "Yeah, you can say that. Only problem is, this boy here is dateless for the weekend. If we can get Allison and Ryan dating each other, would you like to go on a date with me?" he asked grinning. He hoped Rose would agree to date him. He thought she was a great person and a lot smarter than the girls that tried to get his attention daily.

Rose smiled, trying not to blush, and agreed. "I'll go out with you Saturday if we can get Allison to go out with Ryan that night too." Just then the bell rang and Rose walked to class with James, grinning much more than she usually did during school.

Outside, Ryan took Allison's hand. "Come on. We've got College Algebra next and we both know that you don't need to miss a class." Ryan reached into his pocket making a handkerchief appear. After helping Allison off the steps he handed her the handkerchief. "Come on. It'll kill a guy like Nick if he thinks that this isn't bothering you. How about I walk you to class?"

"It's a deal then", said James grinning back and walked to class with Rose. This made him look forward to this weekend. It sure would be full of surprises he thought. They sat down next to each other in class.

Alison placed her hand in his and nodded agreeing with what he said. Her sobs were dieing down some. As much as she wanted to just sit here and have a good cry, she couldn't sit here all day. Her school work was much more important than Nick was and she had to concentrate on that. And Ryan was right, if she acted like none of this bothered her, it would kill Nick. Her face lit up and she smiled when Ryan asked her did she want him to walk her to class. Allison nodded smiling "I'd really like that.. Speaking of class, when were we going to study together again?" she took his handkerchief and wiped her eyes with it.

"Actually," Ryan slung his arm around Allison's shoulders while they were walking to class, "I came out here to ask you when you wanted to study." Ryan ignored the death glares he and Allison were getting in the halls. He didn't care. Nick hated him and it would just hurt him even more to see Allison with Ryan. Allison and Ryan walked into Pre-Cal and saw James and Rose sitting together. "That can't be good," he muttered to Allison and pointing. "They must be up to something."

Allison "We can study together anytime you want. I'm free today, tomorrow and Friday after School. " When they sat down next to each other Allison listened to Ryan and looked towards Rose and James talking. She giggled. "Yeah, and it can't be anything good either. I bet they are plotting to do a prank on someone." Allison had noticed other people's glares in the hallway to but acted as if it didn't bother her. If Nick could be seen around with a another girl, then; she had every right to be around Ryan. And Ryan made her feel special.

"Any of those is fine as long as it's before six...I'm being set up on blind dates," Ryan sighed, looking unenthusiastic. He glanced at Rose and opened a telepathic thread, 'What are you and James up to? Finally admitted your secret crush on him?'

Rose blushed and looked down at her notebook, hoping James didn't notice. 'Shut up! And we aren't up to anything. We just ran into each other at the library.'

'Liar!' Ryan tried not grin. 'Besides, you two would be good together.'

'It's quiet time, Ryan.' Rose determinedly looked up, a faint blush still on her cheeks and took notes from the board. 'I'm going into Nick's locker after school. So he may not be here tomorrow.'

'Did I ever tell you that you're amazing?' Ryan hadn't quiet perfected the art of looking normal while he was speaking telepathically, so it was quiet obvious he wasn't paying attention. When the Pre-Cal teacher, Mrs. Billy called on him to answer the equation on the board, it took Ryan a few minutes to answer, which was unusual because he was best in the class, other than Rose. "Uh, 42." He finally said. Ryan glared at his twin when she snickered.

Allison nodded and wasn't surprised at all that Ryan was going on blind dates. He was a popular guy in school besides Nick and could have any girl he wanted. And who wouldn't want

Ryan? He was sweet, and a caring guy. When the teacher began teaching, Allison paid attention. She didn't want to be unprepared when the teacher called on her like she just did with Ryan. That would be embarrassing. She briefly took notes.

James in the meantime wasn't paying any attention. He took notes of course, and wrote down their assignment. But he wasn't paying attention in class. He stared out the window wishing he was at home chilling in front of his stereo and listening to some tunes.

Every so often, James would look at Rose when she didn't think he'd be looking. She was beautiful with her long dark brown hair. And her skin was almost porcelain like. He'd rather gaze at her than pay attention to class any day. He grinned at her just thinking about her.

After class, Rose had another free period. She used it to sneak into the boys' locker room. After easily finding Nick's locker, Rose opened it and found exactly what she'd expected: steroids. 'Let's just make it look a little worse...' With a snap of her fingers, other drugs appeared in the locker and in Nick's car. Rose closed Nick's locker with a satisfied smirk. She stepped outside to make an anonymous call to the school principal on her cell phone. "Yes, hello? I have reason to believe that a football player, Nick, is using steroids. Mmhmm.." Rose listened to the principal and then grinned. "Good, I hope you do nail him." Still grinning, Rose waltzed back inside the building. 'And now onto Step B of the plan.' While plotting, Rose bumped into something very solid. The solid object happened to be James Gellar. "Oomph. Sorry, James," she said sheepishly. 'I forgot he has a free period as well..'

James looked at her grinning. He seemed to be bumping into Rose a lot recently. Not that he didn't mind, he really didn't. She was hot. "That's okay. I seem to be bumping into people lately to. So how did it go with getting into Nick's locker? Find anything interesting?" he hoped she was able to bust Nick. If she did, then everyone in school would know soon.

"Yeah, actually. Found drugs and steroids. I just hope he doesn't find out I'm the one that caused his bust." Rose smiled up at James. "So what are you up to this period?"

James looked at Rose and he asked: "Why should he accuse of you of doing that? He has no proof that you did. I got Gym this period. Not really looking forward to it, but exercising is better than sitting around listening to some teacher lecture for an hour. At least that is doing something".

"Nick's crazy and he knows I don't like him..." Little did Rose or James know, Nick was around the corner listening to their conversation. Rose opened her locker and switched out a few books. "So have you talked to Allison yet about going out with Ryan on Saturday?"

"That's still no proof that you did that to his locker." said James. "Lots of students here don't like Nick because he's a hothead. No, I haven't talked to Allison yet about Ryan. I was kinda hoping you would. You two seem to be really close friends and you spend way more time with her than I do. Why don't you invite her over for a overnight, and talk her into dating Ryan? He's way more better for her than Nick is".

Nick overheard everything they were saying. He was behind a corner not far from Rose and James. So it was was Rose that got him busted? He would have deal with her. When James left, Nick approached Rose "What were you thinking, busting me with drugs like that?!" he yelled at her. And what was this deal about hooking Allison up with Ryan? She wasn't supposed to date anyone but him!