(Thanks for the reviews, VelvetShadow. It's nice to hear that someone still is reading this old story ;) – JoBO)



The New Boy

Dana was walking up the stairs to the school's front door, when she suddenly heard someone call out her name behind her. She therefore turned around and discovered Blade, who was walking behind her.

"Hi Dana, there was this very important party in weekend, which I just had to go to, so…"

Dana, who knew where this was going, finished Blade's sentence.

"So you want to "borrow" my homework."

Blade smiled.

"I knew that you would help me. It's just that Nelson is such a Dreg. He actually thought I was going to come back to him after all that with Mina, but I do have morals. Still he…"

She was interrupted by someone behind them.

"It's actually really sad, that we don't have any cool guys here on the school, so we need to be contented with ones like Nelson."

Dana and Blade turned surprised around and discovered that Chelsea was standing behind them. Dana shrugged her shoulders.

"Well, I don't care."

Blade looked surprised over at her.

"You don't care! Please, don't tell me that you still are thinking about Terry!"

Dana looked down on her hands.

"What if I do?"

Blade rolled her eyes.

"Look honey, they threw him out and no one have seen him for months. I say it's about time you get over him and starts dating again…"

She looked over at Chelsea.

"…By the way, Chelsea, have you found out something about the new boy?"

Dana looked up.

"A new boy?"

Chelsea nodded.

"Yeah, the rumours says that there are going to start a new boy here today, so I have just been down on the office in a attempt to find out who he is, but either nobody wants to talk about it or nobody knows who his is."

"I think we are going to find that out very soon."

Chelsea and Dana looked surprised over at Blade, who was staring down at the school's parking lot. They followed her glance and saw a black sports car drive up to the school's driveway. In the same moment came Nelson out of the door. He walked over to Blade and laid an arm around her.

"What's up, babe?"

Blade shook his arm away without taking her eyes away from the car. Nelson followed her look and saw the black sports car. He shook his head in admiration.

"That is what I call a car!"

The black sports car parked in front of the school as Dana was about to walk away. Why should she care who this boy was? She had just turned around and was about to walk away, when she heard the other's surprised gasps. She cast a glance back at the sports car and recognized him at once even though he had changed a lot. Her heart began to beat faster as he began to walk up the stairs. Their eyes met for a second and she was surprised over how different the look in his eyes was. She couldn't read it anymore. He walked passed her and vanished through the front door.

None of them said anything for a while, but then it was Chelsea, who broke the silence.

"Was that really…?"

Dana nodded.

"Yes, that was Terry."

o-

Terry walked into the classroom just as the bell rang and found a seat in the back of the class. He had smile as he remembered the last time he had been there. Only months had past since then, but he had changed so much. Back then he had been so afraid of what they others had been thinking, but after the whole Marco-thing he didn't cared about that anymore. At least this was better that just sitting at the hospital and wait for his mother to get better.

His eyes landed on Dana's back. He had thought that he was over her, but as he had seen her out on the staircase all the feelings had come back. Maybe the only reason he hadn't thought more about her in the last months was that he really missed her.

Mrs. O'Brien came into the room and cast a quick glance out on the students in front of her, before she walked over to the blackboard, where she started writing something down. The students sighted as they realized was she was writing.

"Yes, my bright students, we are going to have a surprise test today, so I really hope you have listened, because it's not going to be easy."

She walked over to her computer, where she typed something on the keyboard.

"Okay, you have until the end of this class and everyone, who so much as think about cheating, is going to write me a essay over the subject."

She cast a quick glance out of the class, before she pressed "okay" and the test was sent out to the students.

Terry opened the test on his computer and smiled with relief. They had just had about the same subject on the boarding school, so he answered the questions easily and was finish way before the time ended. After answering the last question he sent the test back up to Mrs. O'Brien, who looked surprised back at him. He sent her a smile, which she dimly returned.

The rest of the time he used to look through the stuff he had got from the school's office, which were lists over what they others had read while he had been away. He quickly read it through and realized that he had read almost the same things at the boarding school.

The bell rang and Terry walked out in the hallway to his closet, which he opened.

"So it's really true!"

He closed the door to his closet and saw to his surprise that Max was standing behind it. Her hair was a little longer and it wasn't pink anymore, but still you couldn't mistake her for anybody else.

"What are you doing here?"

She smiled and rolled her eyes.

"Well, that wasn't the reaction I was hoping for, but still its nice to see you too, Terry."

He laughed.

"Of course it's nice to see you, but I just thought you still were in Hong Kong with your father."

Max smile became a little tight.

"Well, to make a long story short. Like the last time he forgot all about me after a while, so I thought it was better if I just went back to Gotham. And that brings us back to you! What is this thing about you have been thrown out?"

Terry smiled evasively. He had emailed together with Max through the last months, but as he still thought she was in Hong Kong he had then never actually told her that he had gone away to Japan.

"Well, I wasn't exactly thrown out. It's more like I was ask to find another place for a while."

Max was just about to say something, when Dawn came smiling over to them and hugged Terry.

"Welcome back!"

Terry caught Dana's eyes from the other end of the hallway as he and Dawn ended the hug. He instantly regretted that he all those months ago at almost the same spot had turned her down.