I'm back with another chapter. I hope you guys know that this is still in the past and that it's a flashback scene. I'll tell you guys when were back in the present. Now enjoy…

Chapter 3

"Hey Ray" called Mariah from their usual seats in the cafeteria. Both Ray and Mariah were in their last year of school and were seniors now. They would soon be off to university and on their separate ways but Ray and Mariah were such good friends that they made a vow to be best friends forever, no matter how far apart they were.

As Mariah continued calling Ray's name, Ray just ignored her and walked off to where this chick was standing. It was Emily, his newest girlfriend. Ray could never stay with a girl for more than a week. Mariah become furious that Ray ignored her. She went after Ray to give him a piece of her mind. She got up and started walking towards to where Ray and Emily were standing, she would ruin all his plans.

"Hey Emily, you are the only girl who has been able to steal my heart and that's why I want to give this to you and only you" smiled Ray as he took out a promise ring and placed it on Emily's slender finger. Emily accepted it and quickly hugged him. Mariah stood behind Ray and saw that his backpack was open. She looked in and found a pouch containing a dozen promise rings. Mariah tapped Ray on the shoulder.

"Hey Ray, here are the promise rings that you ordered" Mariah said as she dangled the clear pouch that contained the dozen silver rings in front of Emily's face.

"Huh! Ray, your such a cheater. I never wanna see your face again and you can take back the stupid promise ring" yelled Emily as she threw the ring in Ray's face. Ray was shocked at what Mariah had just done and Mariah just stood there laughing her head off.

"Emily, come back. Those aren't mine" yelled Ray as he watched Emily stomp off.

"What did you do that for?" yelled Ray after Emily left. "I really liked her!" he said as the glare in his eyes grew stronger as Mariah laughed harder.

"Yeah right, Ray! You know how it is, you'll like her for one week and than you'll get bored with her and move onto another pretty girl. You're so predictable. Why can't you just find one girl and make a commitment to her? A girl that you really like and would wanna spend your whole life with" said Mariah as she and Ray started to walk to class. They had a few minutes before fourth period started.

"Because I haven't found the ONE yet" said Ray as he waved at this bimbo.

"The one! Oh yeah and who would that be?" asked Mariah curiously.

"I dunno but when I'll meet her I'll feel something special. I'll know that she's the one for me and than we'll fall in love and be together forever" said Ray as he started to day dream. Just than he bumped into this beautiful girl. She had auburn hair that ran a little bit past her shoulders. She had amethyst coloured eyes and was wearing a red tank top with a short jean skirt. Ray fell back on Mariah and the girl fell back in the opposite direction. Mariah pushed Ray off of herself and got up to help the girl that Ray bumped into.

"Hey, are you alright?" asked Mariah as she held out her hand to help the girl get up. "My name is Mariah and yours is?" enquired Mariah as she watched the girl brush herself off.

"Hi my name is Serenity" she said as she stared at the Ray who was still on the ground and was staring at her strangely. This freaked Serenity out and so she decided to ignore him and said bye to Mariah and headed towards the office. Mariah than realised that Ray was still on the ground and walked over to him and snapped her fingers in front of his face to snap him back to reality.

"Huh… oh… what?" asked Ray as he got up from the ground.

"So?" enquired Mariah curiously.

"So what?" asked a confused Ray.

"Did you feel something?" asked Mariah as she got her books from her locker.

"What? No way! She's not my type" said Ray as he ran his fingers through his raven hair. Mariah just sighed knowing that Ray was not the type to instantly fall in love or to ever settle with just one girl.

"Oh God, your never gonna find anyone. You'll die an old, lonely man" stated Mariah as she started to walk towards class.

"Hey, at least I have you. You're my back-up plan. If I don't find someone than I'll just marry you and with the way you act I bet that you'll never get married" said Ray as he put his arm around Mariah's shoulders.

"Ewwwwwwww… me marry you? I don't think so! Never in a million, billion, bazillion years" yelled Mariah as she emphasised on how she would never get married to Ray.

"Oh come on, I'm not that bad. And you don't wanna die alone now do you?" asked Ray with his arm still around Mariah's shoulders.

"I'd rather die alone than have to live in the same house as you. I don't know how your family puts up with your garbage" said Mariah as she pushed his arm of her shoulders. And with that she and Ray walked to their classe making fun of each other on the way there.

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"Good morning class" said Mrs. Arora as she walked into class with a pile of Romeo & Juliet study guides. "I have some good news for you all. We have a new student. Her name is Serenity. She comes from London and we're lucky to have her here with us. Serenity will be joining us shortly after she registers with the school and gets all of her courses sorted out. Now on with my lesson. Today we're starting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" said Mrs. Arora. She than started calling out everyone's name so they could come get a study guide. As she handed out the books Serenity walked into the classroom and the teacher greeted her. She told her to sit beside Mariah and told Mariah to help guide Serenity around school. Mariah was clearly her favourite student. Ray just snickered at Mariah knowing that the teacher would choose her and Mariah stuck her tongue at Ray when the teacher wasn't looking.

"Ray is there a problem?" asked Mrs. Arora as she saw Ray sticking his tongue back at Mariah.

"No miss" said Ray innocently.

"Now class, before we start reading Romeo and Juliet, I wanna ask you all a question. What is love? How does one fall in love?" asked the teacher who stood at the front of the class waiting for a reply from someone. Ray just sat there not even paying attention to what the teacher had just asked. He was too busy writing an apology letter to his recent "girlfriend".

"Ray, what do you think?" asked the teacher as she eyed Ray.

"Huh, What?" asked a startled Ray.

"What is love?" asked the teacher once again.

"Well, I think love is friendship" said Ray as he looked at the teacher. "She would have to be my best fiend because friendship is the foundation to love" continued Ray. Just than Mariah put down her pencil and listened to what Ray had to say. When Ray said that his one true love would have to be his best friend Mariah felt something. Maybe Ray had a deeper side to him than she knew he had and for the first time she felt something that she had never felt before. As the teacher continued on with the lesson Ray passed back a letter to Serenity. On the letter Ray had written: 'Would you like to become friends?'

Serenity showed the letter to Mariah and Mariah just laughed it off.

'What I'm feeling is probably nothing. I probably ate something bad at lunch and now its upsetting my stomach.' thought Mariah as she continued writing notes on Romeo and Juliet ignoring anything she started to feel for Ray.

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YAY! Me is finished! I hope you guys liked it!