1 September 4, 2001

Sera entered the halls of West Roswell High School searching for a friendly face.

She had five particular faces in mind, but at this moment anyone from the cheerleading squad would suffice. Except maybe Pam Troy.

"Hey Chica! Over here."

Sera smiled as she recognized Maria's voice. She scanned the hall and saw the blond pixie waving at her. Sera picked up the pace and quickly reached her friend, who was standing near her locker with Michael, Liz and Max.

"Hi everyone." Sera said with a small smile.

"Hey Sera, ready for your first day?" Liz asked

"I'm a little nervous, being the new kid and all."

"You'll be fine. West Roswell is a great school. I know you'll fit right in!!"

Liz smiled warmly at the girl. Sera returned her smile.

"Let's see your schedule girlie." Maria said reaching to pluck the paper from Sera's hand.

"Oh you have Drama, with me first period, Yeah! Then AP English…you have that one with the smartie super-couple over here. Then Trig with Liz, AP Physics with M and L again…geez you smart people. Then lunch…good you have the same lunch period as the rest of us. Study Hall with Max AND Kyle!"

She paused to wink at Sera.

" I expect many Eraser Room visits during that hour. Max you probably won't see a whole lot of those two."

Sera looked at her friends.

"What's an Eraser Room?"

"Oh you'll learn," Maria said with a smile. "Next we all have Government together, and then you leave us for P.E. which you don't even have to participate in because you're a cheerleader. Its so sucks that you get to practice instead of being forced to run track with the rest of us."

"Maria we're not running track in P.E. we're playing volleyball. You like volleyball," Max reasoned.

"Max, I'm just saying that I find it unfair that Sera here gets to work on creating the perfect human pyramid while the rest of us get all sweaty and nasty."

"Maria, I know you would have made the squad if you tried out." Sera placated.

Michael mumbled, "She's got the mouth for it. Oww."

He touched the back of his head where Maria smacked him.

"Hey 'bro'!" Maria called out as Kyle walked past.

Kyle stopped and turned around. "Hey 'sis'. Hey guys." Kyle nodded to each of the group.

He paused and regarded Sera for a moment. "Hey!"

Sera beamed. "Hey."

"Hey? That's how you greet your girlfriend? This cannot be the same couple who was heating up the back row of the movie theater the last night."

Thanks Maria." Sera said, utterly embarrassed.

Kyle moved closer to Sera and kissed her lightly on the lips. "Don't let her get to you, its her goal in life to mortify as many people as possible!"

"Mission accomplished," Sera said with a grin.

"Besides, she doesn't have a whole lot of room to talk!"

Maria smirked at Kyle while Sera "So, what's first on your schedule?"

"Spanish."

"Senor Valenti, I'm in your class!" Liz exclaimed

"Great. You wanna head there now or you want me to save you a seat?"

"Um…" Liz paused looking at Max.

"Go, Michael and I should probably head to Minorities anyway." Max said.

"I'll see you 2nd period." she said before meeting his lips with hers in a long kiss.

Kyle looked at Sera and rolled his eyes in their direction, she giggled.

Michael coughed, forcing Max and Liz to pull apart. Liz flushed and hid her head on Max's shoulder. She leaned up, whispered in Max's ear, and kissed his cheek before waving to the rest of the group.

Kyle met Sera's eyes and asked "I'll see you at lunch."

"Yeah." she said smiling. He kissed her once more before departing to Spanish with Liz.

"Sera we should go. Mr. Hammond doesn't like his students to be late.

"Yeah we're leaving too. See you guys later." Michael said as he began to walk off.

"Ahhhem," Maria cleared her throat loudly. "Aren't you forgetting something?"

"Oh, sorry" Michael apologized as he wrapped his arms around Maria and pulled her in for a kiss.

"See ya later."

Maria arched her eyebrows suggestively at him "Count on it."

Max smiled and waved goodbye to Sera and Maria. The girls made their way to Drama just as the bell rang. Mr. Hammond gave them a look as they reached two seats in front.

"Good Morning. For those of you who don't know me I am Justin Hammond, you will call me Mr. Hammond, I expect prompt attendance everyday, " At this he looked over his glasses at Maria and Sera. "And total preparation and concentration. Today we will begin with some icebreakers. Everyone please stand up and one by one introduce yourselves to the class. Your name, class, and one significant event in your life."

Maria rolled her eyes at this. She had some significant life events that would curl the hair of every person in the class.

//Where should I start? Let's see: Two years ago I watched my best friend, Liz die and be brought back to life by Max, who it turns out, is an alien. Not only is Max an alien, but so are his sister and my boyfriend. As if three aliens roaming the halls of West Roswell weren't enough, then we got Tess…The stupid skanky slut who went after Max even though he had a serious girlfriend. The bitch who murdered my sweet Alex, mindwarped my "brother" into helping her dump Alex's body and who would have delivered my Michael into the hands of his enemy, as long as it meant she got to sit on a throne.

Michael, I could talk about Michael. He started our relationship by kidnapping me and taking me to some sleazy motel. He broke my heart about 100 times telling me that he couldn't feel human. That the biggest reason he couldn't be with me was because he loved me too much. Michael who ultimately came back to me, stayed for me, because he realized that he couldn't live without me, on any planet. AHHHH No! I can't talk about The Pod Squad or Tess' manipulations. I can't talk about Michael either. One, I'm not sharing the most intimate details of my life with these people. And two, Michael would kill me if he knew I was discussing our relationship in front of the entire class.//

Maria was jolted out of her reverie when she heard Sera calling her name.

"Maria, Maria it's your turn."

"Hi, I'm Maria DeLuca, I'm a Senior. FINALLY! Um, one significant event in my life." I guess that would be the day that my dad walked out on my mom and me. I was only seven but I remember it like it was yesterday. The day he left I sat on the front stoop waiting for him to come back. He never did. But now I think that may have been for the best. His leaving made us stronger. My mom and I became close and we learned to take care of ourselves. We were Independent Women before Destiny's Child ever had an inkling about that song."

Very nice. Miss Davidson, you're next.

"OK. Hi everyone. My name is Sera Davidson, I'm a Senior as well. I guess the most recent significant event in my life is transferring here to Roswell from San Diego. So far its been a huge adjustment, but its been entertaining thanks to the help of some really great friends."

Sera looked at Maria and smiled.

"Thank you Miss Davidson."

Mr. Hammond said before turning to Brent Carter who was seated behind Sera.

"Mr. Carter you know the drill by now."

Sera took out a piece of paper and jotted a quick note to Maria.

S: Did I sound too Dawson's Creekish?

Maria wrote on her own paper, so Mr. Hammond wouldn't catch them passing notes.

M: No, is that what you were going for?

S: No, I just thought I may have gone overboard a bit. Just making sure I wasn't pulling a Joey Potter!

M: You were fine. Besides, what is all this about significant life events. What one person considers significant could be totally irrelevant to someone else.

S: Yours was great! You'd be a wiz at improv!

M: Sweetie, you have no idea!

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The bell rang, Maria and Sera sprinted out the door. They took the stairs two at a time to reach the hall were everyone was meeting before second period. When they reached their group they were alarmed to see Kyle dancing about with a small pair of maracas.

"What is he doing?" Sera asked Liz.

"Senora Via gave a prize to the group who translated her daily paragraph perfectly. We were in the winning group." she held her pair of maracas up for Maria and Sera to inspect.

"And he felt the need to celebrate?" Maria asked.

"He figured out most of the translation, so he was a little excited!"

"As he should be. He usually can't string together two words in his own language, much less a foreign one." Maria deadpanned.

Kyle's dance had brought him near his almost-sister and girlfriend. He leaned down and kissed the girls on the cheek before shaking his maracas at them.

"Are you drunk? Cause its only 9:00 in the morning, you should at least wait until lunch!" Sera chided.

"Nope, I just have a really good feeling about this year!"

"Not to mention the fact that the coach's just told him that the football team picked him to be captain." Liz confessed.

Sera's eyes widened and she turned to her boyfriend. "Oh my God! When were you going to tell me."

"I was going to let you sweat it out a little! I needed to know if you were dating me for me or the because you liked the idea of dating the CAPTAIN of the football team!"

"Well, its for the title of course." Sera joked.

"You have been spending way too much time with Maria! That must end soon!"

"Worried she's going to corrupt me?"

"I thought that was my job." Kyle said leering at her.

"You do your fair share." Sera said laughing at him.

"And on that note, lets go to English shall we?" Max said steering Liz toward the open door.

"I'll see you at lunch!" Sera said, kissing Kyle on the cheek "Have fun in Algebra."

"Yeah, I'm sure it will be a delight!"

"See ya!"

"Bye."

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