Wow, five reviews in one chappie, thanks guys! :D You keep reviewing, and I'll keep the chapters coming! Okay, here's chapter two!

Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi or any of the characters associated with the show. I do own Lissa, though.

In this chapter: Lissa (of course), Ellie, Ashley, Marco, Paige, Spinner and Lissa's driver, Charles.

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After that rather embarrassing Media Immersion class, Lissa made it her privilege to stay as far away from Marco as possible. As she headed out to her locker at the start of the next period, she saw a rather familiar blonde and her boyfriend passionately kissing next to her locker. Lissa scowled.

*Just what I need, prep girl and her jock making out next to my locker… perfect.* Lissa thought. She didn't know why she was going to her locker, since she forgot to ask someone to help her get it open, but she decided to try it again. She tapped the kissing couple on the shoulder.

"Excuse me? Could you kindly move. I need to get in my locker." Lissa asked, really annoyed. The blonde girl stopped kissing her boyfriend and gave a teasing smirk at Lissa.

"Well, look who it is, it's the new school vampire," The girl said arrogantly, "Hun, shouldn't you be locked in your room? I thought vampires only came out at night." She smiled, obviously teasing Lissa. She didn't have time for the stupid bitch, though.

"Look," Lissa started, "I need to get to class, so move." Lissa said. The blonde didn't move, so Lissa pushed her out of the way.

"Hey, don't push my girlfriend, you freak." Came the voice of her jock boyfriend. Lissa rolled her eyes and ignored them. She was concentrating, well, begging her locker to open.

"Come on, honeybee, let's go." the boy said, and the finally left Lissa alone, struggling with her locker. She stopped and looked at the clock… two minutes until class started.

*Shit! If I hadn't been wasting time with that perfect little prep girl and her stupid ass of a boyfriend, I could've had my locker open by now.* Lissa again was struggling with her locker, when she heard the voice of the person that she'd been trying to avoid.

"Need some help with that?"

Lissa immediately froze. *Oh crap.* Was the only thing she could think. She slowly turned around and came face-to-face with the guy of her dreams (AN: Corny, I know…).

"Y-yeah. Umm…" Lissa stuttered. She knew she sounded like an idiot. She nervously pushed her bangs out of her eyes. Marco lightly pushed by her. "What's your combination?" he asked Lissa nicely.

"10, 35, 42," Lissa said nervously. *God, why me?* Lissa thought.

Her locker came open immediately. Lissa was impressed. "Gosh, that was fast! Umm… thanks." Lissa said, feeling really stupid that Marco had gotten her locker open so quickly when she had been struggling with it for awhile.

"Yeah, no problem. You have to remember to turn the dial to the right three times before you do the combination." Marco said, and winked at Lissa again. *Why does he have to do that?* She thought, *Unless he just wants to embarrass me…* Lissa felt her face grow even hotter than it previously was.

"Umm, I've got to get to class." Lissa said, her gaze fixed on the floor. She didn't dare look at him.

"What's your next class?" Marco asked her trying to meet her gaze, but Lissa's eyes stayed fixed on the floor.

"English," Lissa muttered, wanting desperately to get rid of him. She was almost positive that she couldn't have two classes in a row with him… that would be torture. To her dismay, he answered:

"Great! That's what I have! We can walk together." Lissa looked at him out of the corner of her eye. He smiled at her. She could see that he had two rows of braces.

Lissa sighed and knew that she had no choice but to walk with him. They entered the classroom (with

Marco showing her where it was, of course) just in time.

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Marco took a seat next to Lissa, after Ms. Kwan told her how pleased she was to have her in her class and that she hoped that Lissa would have a great year here at Degrassi.

*Shit, why does he have to sit next to me? This is so annoying… I guess trying to avoid him isn't going to work.* Lissa thought, glumly. She tried to pay attention to Ms. Kwan's lesson, but her thoughts kept drifting to Marco. She thought of the way his dark hair fell into his beautiful dark eyes, she thought of the way his aforementioned eyes crinkled up when he smiled at her. It was quite obvious that she liked him.

Lissa decided that she'd better pay some attention to Kwan's lesson if she wanted to prevent her face from turning bright red because of her thoughts of Marco. She could feel someone tap her on the shoulder. It was Marco.

"Hey, I saw you were being harassed by Paige out there," He whispered.

"Paige? Who's Paige?" Lissa asked, "Do you mean that arrogant little blonde out there?" She whispered, barely audible, to him.

"Yeah," he replied, "You'd better stay away from her…" Marco whispered back to her.

"Believe me, I'm not trying to be her friend or anything. Her or her stupid ass boyfriend." Lissa laughed, but Marco didn't laugh with her.

"Umm… Lissa? Spinner's kind of my friend." Marco said, looking away from Lissa and now staring at the board that Ms. Kwan was now writing on. She looked shocked.

"What? You actually communicate with him?" Lissa asked, really shocked. How could Marco, her love, actually talk to people like that? It was kind of obvious that he would be popular because of his looks, but he was much nicer than Paige and Spinner were.

Marco didn't answer her. Lissa thought that was rather rude. She didn't press him on the subject though, as she finally decided to pay attention to Ms. Kwan, just as the bell rang.

"Remember, class, the essay will be due on Friday, at the start of class!" Ms. Kwan shouted after the class as they exited the room. *Oh crap, essay? What essay?* Lissa thought. Maybe if she had been paying more attention instead of talking to Marco, she would've heard. Lissa was mentally kicking herself.

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It was now time for lunch, (AN: Yes I skipped a few periods… for those of you that are wondering, Lissa has Algebra III 3rd period, and then she has Advanced Biology 4th period. Also, Marco doesn't have those classes with her. Okay, on with the story…) and Lissa had no idea where to sit. She searched around for Ellie and Marco, and saw them sitting in a corner with the dark haired girl… she couldn't remember her name… that Ellie was talking to earlier that day. She smiled and walked over to them.

"Hey, Lissa." Ellie smiled. She looked pleased to see her.

"Hey," Lissa said back. "Can I sit here?" She asked.

"Of course!" Ellie said, and motioned to a chair next to Marco. Lissa was reluctant, of course to sit there, but she had no choice. She pulled out the chair and sat awkwardly next to Marco.

"Oh Lissa, I forgot to introduce you to Ashley," Ellie pointed to the dark haired girl, "Ash, Lissa. Lissa, Ash." Ellie said quickly.

"Nice to meet you," Ashley said nicely. Lissa still wasn't used to being greeted nicely. But she still greeted her back nicely, also.

"Nice to meet you, too." Lissa said.

"So, Lissa, did you have English yet?" Ellie asked her, "That assignment Kwan gave us sounds brutal."

"Yeah, I had it… with Marco. But I wasn't really paying attention. Could you tell me what it was?" Lissa said, quickly. Maybe she shouldn't have added the 'with Marco' part, because a blush creeped up her cheeks.

"It's a 1,000 word essay on 'If you could change your life, how would you do it' or something like that," Ashley said. "I could think of a least 100 ways I would change my life. Maybe it's not going to be as bad as it sounds." She laughed. They all laughed with her.

"Why weren't you paying attention, Lissa? Too busy flirting with Marco?" Ellie asked teasingly. Lissa felt her face get as red as a tomato as it had for about the 100th time today. She tried to hide it with her hair.

"Umm… no. Flirting? Why would you say that?" Lissa asked. *Eek, this is so embarrassing! Is Ellie trying to be funny? This is not funny.* Lissa thought.

"Actually, we were talking about Paige." Marco said and rolled his eyes.

"Ugh, why would you want to talk about her?" Ellie asked. She started to make choking sounds and Ashley giggled. Lissa was far too embarrassed about the 'flirting with Marco' comment to laugh at that.

"Yeah, she's all like, 'Hi, I'm Paige Michalchuk, ruler of this school. I have like, perfect hair, a perfect body and a like, perfect boyfriend, my sugar bear, Spinner.'" Ashley said, imitating Paige. The group continued to talk about Paige and school until lunch ended. Lissa got up, bid farewell to Ashley, Ellie and Marco and headed to her next class.

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As school ended, (AN: Skipping ahead, the rest of her day is boring and I don't want to bore you all. 5th period: Phys. Ed., 6th period: Painting II, 7th period: Advanced History, 8th period: Study Hall… and she has Phys. Ed. and Study Hall with Marco, Ellie, Paige, Jimmy and Ashley. Anyway…) she bid farewell to Ashley, Ellie and Marco and stepped out of Degrassi Community School to meet her mom. To her dismay, her mom had brought the limo to pick her up. Lissa rolled her eyes. The whole point was to keep people from knowing she was rich. Why couldn't her parents have sent the Lincoln or the BMW? Lissa walked over to the limo as her driver, Charles, pulled the door open for her.

"Here you are, Miss Alissa." Charles said courteously. Lissa rolled her eyes again. *Why does he have to call me that?* He slowly got into the limo and started up the engine.

"Hurry up, Charlie. People are starting to stare." Lissa said to him mockingly. She knew that he hated her calling him that as much as she hated him calling her 'Miss Alissa'.

"I don't see why you care what people think, Miss Alissa," Charles said, "I'd think it would be nice to show off your wealth." He smiled, probably wishing he was as rich as Lissa's family was.

"Yeah, yeah, come on. Let's just go." Lissa said, and she waved Charles on. He sighed and they pulled out of the parking lot and were off to Lissa's house. She was really glad that the window's were tinted. She didn't want ANYONE, especially Marco, to know she was rich. Lissa looked at the floor of the limo, and reached and opened the secret compartment, not even her parent's knew was built into the limo. Inside was her diary. She reached into her book bag and pulled out a pen and opened to a new page and began to write.

Dear Diary,

Wednesday, the first of September, 2004.

As you probably know, today was the first day of school. It was rather embarrassing (because of a certain someone… I'll get to that later), but it was also exiting at the same time. You know, I thought Degrassi was going to be just like my old school and I was right. We all have labels, and I'm the gothic vampire. No surprise. But I also met a lot of nice people. I already made three new friends, which is more than I've ever had. I bet if I flashed around my wealth like Charles just said, I'd have more friends than I do now… my clothes would probably be the new fashion trend. I don't care, though because I don't need popularity. I mean, who wants to walk around like an airhead all day? I surely don't…

Anyway, back to the topic (I hate when I do that)… I met some really cool people. Ellie, who like me, hates labels and preppies. Ashley, who is probably the same as Ellie, and Marco, who is the new love of my life. I know I'm rushing into things, I hardly even know the guy, but he seems like a really nice person. And what a looker! :D Everything about Marco is perfect. His hair, his eyes… yummy!

But there is one downside to the guy of my dreams, (which I'm now calling him, please don't tell me how corny that is…) he's actually friends with some of the popular people… but you know, he's not rude about it or anything. When he told me, I absolutely couldn't believe it. At the same time, I could, you know? I mean, he's HOT. He probably has a girlfriend… I'd absolutely die! Well, I've got to go. We're home.

Lissa xoxo.

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Okay, you people got a treat because that chapter was especially long… I think it was boring, I mean, nothing much happened, but you tell me what you think! As I said, you people keep reviewing and the chapters will come sooner.

Till next time,

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