Alright, I've finally finished writing up my beloved "The Jinxed Journey" story so I can concentrate on this one. Umm… I've thought about making a sequel to the jinxed journey and I'm not sure if I will. I usually try to avoid making sequels because everyone knows that sequels are never as good as the original… So at the moment, my answer is no, I won't be making one… but we'll see. Anyways, next chapter… so here we go now.

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Title: Mystery Girl
Author: Crystal Saturn
Rated: PG 13
Chapter: 4- A Chance Meeting

She quickly looked away and bent down to pick up her surfboard, lowering her baseball cap.

"I'm sorry" Whispered her muffled apology. "I'm so clumsy."

I blinked a few times and let go of her. She reminded me of Serena, if only her eyes were a darker shade of blue. I wondered if Serena had a twin sister. No one had mentioned her to me if she did. In my moment of idiocy, yeah I must've looked like an idiot staring into space while I was thinking (I admit, I can't do 2 things at once… can't think and eat at the same time… totally hopeless…) I failed to notice the girl start to run off in the direction she was initially heading in.

So what do you think I did? If you chose 'run after her and ask her for her number' then you're wrong. I'm not that smart, children. No. Instead I chose to stand there for a few more minutes with my mouth gaping wide open, thinking about the girl I just ran into. It took me a while, but eventually I snapped out of my trance and realised that the girl I had just crashed into was none other than the beach girl I had been searching for all this time.

This place is insane. Honestly, is it just me or is there an excess in beautiful blonde women in my life. Really! Not that there's anything wrong with brunettes or any other types of girls, but the ones that seem to be getting to me the most are all blonde with blue eyes.

Alright, so after thinking about all that, my brain finally made the wise decision to chase after the girl. No I'm not dense, and I'm not slow either. My mind is just a little… delayed. It just takes me a while to process all this information. I'm like Windows 95 with cheap dial up internet. I can't multitask if my life depended on it and I need an upgrade. But I'm working on it!

So I ran towards the general direction in which she was heading. I figured that since she was holding a surfboard and since I see her at the beach every morning and afternoon, that that's where she'd be. I have to stop letting fate rule my life. It gave me a chance but I was too preoccupied to grab it. This chase will be the death of me. I don't think I'm destined to find out who she is. I ran down the street and looked around hoping to catch a glimpse of her. No luck.

"Cursed manliness." I smacked my head against a nearby bus stop pole. "If I was a woman I wouldn't have this problem!" I caught glimpse of an old lady in her front yard with a newspaper in her hand staring at me strangely. It's true though! If I was a woman, my women's intuition would kick in and tell me where to go, not only that, I would be able to multitask a lot easier and I wouldn't have been standing there staring into nothingness while I thought, and I probably wouldn't be stuck in this situation, chasing after some mysterious ghost girl on the beach. Well… not a ghost… she felt real enough in my arms. But as if I didn't have enough issues. Being in love with 2 different girls at once? Can it get much worse? Wait… please tell me I didn't just jinx myself again.

I sat in my usual spot on the beach and waited for her to come to me like she did every other day, but nothing. No sight of her whatsoever. Maybe it was because I ruined her routine by running into her. Still, I couldn't help but wonder why she was trying to look incognito. Maybe she's famous? If she is then that'll be just my luck. Infatuation with the school nerd AND a famous star that I can never approach. Wonderful. Have I mentioned how messed up my love life is now?

I sighed in defeat and decided I should probably start making my way home. I walked past the corner store, past the old lady's house, over the small hill, neighbours houses. As I slowly strolled closer and closer to my house, I caught sight of a familiar blonde girl out the front of her house, leaning over to pick up her newspaper.

Andrew was right. She does have nice legs.

Ok so sue me! I'm a guy and she has long legs, what am I supposed to say? That her pants made her butt look big? Not that they did. It's just, women seem to ask that question so excessively that I'm starting to think maybe they WANT to hear that the pants make their rear ends look larger than life.

"Hey there." I calmly walked past. She turned around, pushing her glasses back securely onto the bridge of her nose.

"Hi! Did you like the cookies?" She smiled at me and I stopped at a safe distance for a little chat.

"Yeah! They were… really… delicious!" Lie. They may have not been the best cookies ever, but I can't win her heart by telling her I almost had a cardiac arrest when I bit into a blob of melted butter in one of her cookies. Her smile broadened into a wide grin. I think I just made her day. At that moment, I would've eaten a million of her cookies if I could keep that smile on her face for the rest of the day.

"Great! Maybe I'll make you more sometime!"

Damn it!

I smiled. What else could I do. Stare at her again? Well at least I wasn't going to trip over my alarm clock this time.

"I'll see you around." I winked and walked up my driveway, into my house.

By the time I got to school, word had gotten around to Chad, Greg and Ken that I had a 'thing' for Serena.

"Dude… really… look around!" Ken threw his hands up into the air. "There are lots of cute girls around! Why Serena?"

"Cut him some slack Ken, he's only new. And besides, she's... alright, I guess." Andrew defended. I sat and just stared at nothing.

"Alright? She's… she's… No… that's just so wrong man." Chad shook his head. "You just can't go out with Serena. That's… oh man. I don't even want to think about it!"

"Oi, Darien, what about your beach angel aye?" Greg interrupted and the others stopped bickering for a moment to look at me.

"Beach angel?" Andrew looked at me sceptically.

"So who is this angel huh?" Chad raised an eyebrow seemingly interested. Thanks Greg. You're a great pal. Awesome. Flippin' awesome.

"Well…" I began. "There's this girl I see at the beach every morning and afternoon. She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. She's got long blonde hair and blue eyes. I accidentally ran into her this morning but didn't get chance to get a good look at her cause I was… busy." I frowned.

"So why don't you just go up to her and ask her out?" Ken questioned.

"Because every time I get close to her she disappears." I sighed and clasped my hands over my face. I sounded insane. I knew it. Why do things always sound better in your head? Things always sound better in my head. Especially this situation.

"Disappears? What, like an optical illusion or a mirage or something?" Andrew asked.

"No no, she's real… She seemed very real when I held her to stop her from falling this morning."

"Ohh so you've held her…" Greg nudged, giving me a sly look.

-Sigh-

Why do I get the feeling today is going to be another long day?

Ok… not much happened in that chapter, but I'm trying to make them longer and more eventful. Bear with me while I fix up the holes in my plotline and… stuff. Don't forget to review! I promise it'll start getting more interesting very soon. Yes and I know I was meant to pos this up yesterday, but I got distracted playing Sailor Moon on SNES… Sorry!

Crystal Saturn

Ps- Check out my newly completed story The Jinxed Journey