The bell rang and Fred found himself wandering the corridoors alone. He couldn't think. Everything just seemed wrong, and he didn't know how to fix it. He sighed as he looked up at the clock, he was already 5 minutes late, but he just couldn't bring himself to see Red flirting with Daphne anymore. So until he felt he could gather the strength to see such a sickening sight, he decided to hide by the trees outside and think things over.

Daphne sat in a cubicle in the girls toilets, her knees pulled up to her chest as she sobbed uncontrollably. Her eyes were red and her throat was sore, but no matter how much she tried to calm down, she just couldn't. When she finally managed to stop herself from crying, she opened the cubicle door and walked over to the large, cracked mirror above the row of sinks. Wiping off the mascara that had run down her face, she picked up her bag and pulled out a small make-up bag. She began to reapply as she thought bout what to do next, she was 30 minutes to her next lesson, but didn't feel like going just yet.

15 minutes before the end of the lesson, Fred strolled into class. After a weak excuse of being at the doctors and a poorly written note, he sat down at his desk next to Shaggy.

"Like man, where have you been?" He whispered, "Velma got a phone call this morning, we've got a mystery to solve, we've been trying to call you all morning!"

"Oh, sorry I was busy." Fred said in a hushed voice.

"I, like, told Velms we'd talk about it after class"

"Right." He replied simply, glancing at anxious looking Velma at the front of he room, but Daphne, was no where to be seen.

The bell rang for 2nd lesson and the class packed up their things and left. Velma rushed up to Fred and Shaggy, excitement and curiosity written across her face.

"Guys!" she gasped, "We've got someone who wants to help us solve mystery for them!"

"Oh cool," Fred murmured, obviously not as excited as his small friend.

"It's the Wilsons, they said that they've seen someone sneaking around their house at night, apparently whoever has been sneaking about has been leaving some odd footprints."

"Like, w-what kind of footprints" Shaggy asked, growing wary of the new mystery.

"Glowing." Velma said, a strange smile creeping cross her face.

Upon hearing this, Fred found himself putting his problem of Daphne and Red to one side, as the mystery loving part of him started to take over.

"Okay gang," Fred smiled, "Tomorrow night, we're going over there to see what's really been happening."

The group turned to enter their next class, biology, still discussing what they were planning to do tomorrow night, when Fred turned and noticed a familiar face on the front row.

"Daphne." He breathed.

Looking up, Daphne simply blinked a few times before smiling warmly at him.

"Move it Jones!" A voice hissed as Fred felt something push him from behind. Then, Red emerged from behind him, ginning in triumph.

"Red Herring." Fred growled, eyes narrowing.

"I told you Jones, you're not to talk to her anymore." He sneered.

Clenching his fists, Fred grunted and walked past Daphne's desk.

Velma looked over at Daphne whose warm smile had now faded into a tearful gaze in Fred's direction. Red slid into the seat next to Daphne and put her arm across her shoulders, while Daphne bit her lip fighting back the urge to cry.

She felt a small nudge in her back and turned around to see Shaggy staring down at her.

"Just go,like, I think I know how we can help her." He said,his voice barely above a whisper as Velma just looked up at him, wondering what the lanky teen could possibly be planning.

Authors note: okayy so thanks again to the people who have reviewed, I'm really enjoying writing this and I'm happy that people like it ^_^

the next chapter is partly written so that should be up sometime soon :D

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