Hey guys and gals, well I hope ur all enjoying my fic. It is an alternate reality type so Serena and Darien only just meet, there's no past life stuff and there's a bit of a twist so assume nothing and expect everything. I no my spelling kinda dodge by hey I'm not perfect. Keep Reviewing enjoy chapter 2.

Rena

"Yes." Ren said tersely as she looked up from her book two fond two of her best friends staring at her in admiration. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Well…" Raye started "Its just that our best friend, meaning you, has heaps of classes with the newest major hunk-"

"-plus you two are practically already going out."

"WHAT?"

"Well its rather obvious you're the only girl who has caught his interest. So how dose it feel…having the hottest guy in school after you?" Mina finished giggling along with Raye.

Ren rolled her eyes in annoyance and said "Guys your dreaming. Darien Johnston is an insect and he annoys me. I wouldn't go out with him if you paid him to."

"Oh! So you are thinking about us…together." Replied a voice from behind her.

"I was mealy correcting an assumption. I wasn't thinking you. Why anyone would is beyond me." As she said this she went back to reading her book signalling that she didn't want to talk about it anymore.

"Dam!…Dam!…Dam! No NOT again!" Ren almost screamed as she stood in the door way of her English class, the last class of the day.

"Ren, what's wrong?" Ami hissed at her friend. Ami was in Ren's English buddy.

"I'm sorry Ami" she apologised to her friend as they made their way to the last double seat left in the classroom, luckily for them it was in the back corner. "You see that guy over there, the one with the dark hair and eyes, who is surrounded by all of Anne's friends."

"Oh yeah you mean spunky old Darien! Or should I say new Darien" she giggled at her own joke

"Yes…NO…" she stoped and shot her friend a dirty look before continuing "well he has been in all of my classes for the past two days and he is driving me mad." Ren finished while throwing evil death glares at Darien.

"You mean to tell me that, that fine specimen of a male is in all of you classes." When she received a confirming nod she continued dryly "Oh, you poor soul. I mean it must be so hard for you too put up with being around a guy whose smile causes every female in the vicinity to melt. I mean the pressure sigh you have my up most sympathy."

"Out of all my friends I would have thought you would have been the most understanding, but no all I get is sarcasm. Thanks."

"Come on Ren, he's not that bad. I got talking to him before school; he seems really nice and down to earth. What's going on anyway this isn't like you?" She shot her friend a questioning look.

"I don't know…what I don't…don't look at me like that. He just rubs me the wrong way tis all"

"Alright, I'll believe you, thousands wouldn't but I do" before anything else could be said Miss Mitchell called out to Ren.

"Thank–you for volunteering Miss Pierce." Ren just looked at her teacher blankly before Miss Mitchell answered the half formed question that she was just about to ask. "Had you been listening you would know that you just volunteered to help Mr Johnston over here, until he catches up."

"W-w-what?" came Ren's stammered reply as the look of pure fear was past being replaced by frustration mixed with anger.

"Yes, that right." She nodded her head once like she was confirming that this was indeed the right thing to do. "Mr Johnston if you could move next to Serena, she will explain exactly what we are doing." As Darien moved towards the back of the classroom all of the girls fixed him with their most flirtatious gaze which, as soon as he had walked passed them, turned to flaming daggers that were all directed at Ren.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." With each vowel sound Ren's head made violent contact with her desk. "Why me?"

"Ren your gonna loose even more brain cells if you keep hitting your head like that" Ami reprimanded dryly, then her eyes started to sparkle with laughter. "Sorry Ren…but your stuck with him" giggled Ami until Ren shot her a glare that could shatter glass.

"So, your going to be my new tutor" Darien smirked standing in front of her "this plan to be interesting. Well now that we-"

"Look if your going to sit with us then sit down and shut up!" With that last comment still ringing in the ears of the entire class Ren promptly buried her head in her book and started working, too embarrassed to say anything to anyone for the rest of the lesson.

"Guys can you please drop it. I have to spend five days a week, six periods a day with that…that-"

"Gorgeous hunk of eye candy…I'm so jealous…but then again I do have Matt. Speaking of that hunk…there he goes now…HEY MATT!" Lita said all this before running ever so gracefully over to Matt. The other three girls just sat there shaking their heads at Lita, they were used to her antics by now having known her since year 7.

"Look guys just stop okay!" Ren pre-empted the comments but making this desperate plea. "Its been 2 weeks since he came to this school and he is driving me up the wall without any help from you, my best friends. He dose it on purpose just so he can get me riled up…I don't know its like he's trying to start a war between us or something."

Sigh "Its classic male behaviour." Ami diagnosed as she moved round the table to the same side as Raye and Mina so that all three of them were facing Ren now. "The little boy teases the cute little girl to show how much he likes her."

"He dose not like me and I don't like him!" she repeated for what must have been the hundredth time since that little episode about her dreams in their English class.

"So in other words it means-" Ami continued as if Ren had never interrupted her in the first place. "-he's got it bad for you and you've got it bad for him."

"I do not"

"Yeah ya do" added in Mina. "We've all seen the way you look at him when you think no ones watching you."

"Not to mention that way you glare at all the girls when there all over him, flirting with him." Raye stated this very factually.

"I don't guys and that's all there is to it." With that final comment Ren got up and began to walk away not daring to believe that her friends had actually believed her last comment.

'How can they even think that I'd be attracted to someone like that egotistical pain in the ass? How can they think that nice eyes and a hot body can sway my judgement? Do they really think I'm that shallow? Even I'll admit that he's no that bad to look at but his personality needs some serious work. I sware hes mean to me on purpose. I really don't understand what kind of sick perverse pleasure he gets out of it but its got to stop…' All these thoughts and many more were travelling through Ren's head as she made her way to the grassy green hill above the car park. '…he's so nice to everyone else but me. What have I done to offend him?… I have been nothing but nice to him since day one. So this is all his fault, not mine. He's just so confusing and annoying and-' she stopped in mid thought as she heard the sound of voices coming towards the tree she was currently standing behind. Thinking it was the girls looking for her, she hid behind her tree as not to be seen.

"Look Vincent, I thought she'd be there, she normally is."

"I don't care Darien, we already know about the others all we have to do is confirm her. Though from her description she seems nothing like 'her'."

"Well you don't seem very much like your alais either" sigh "just trust me on this one. I know its her. I feel it, its like something I cant quite explain. She is…"

That's the last thing that Ren heard as the two guys made their way down the hill. 'What were they talking about? 'Her'?' Ren shook her head and decided to head towards her locker, sure that the bell was going to ring any second.

"Hey where did you disappear to at lunch?" Raye asked, 5 minuets later as they headed to the last two classes of the day.

"No where, I just needed some time to think, so I went walking."

"Ok…well Darien was looking for you, he said he had some questions for you about some English work I think, but that dosen't matter because he had this majourly spunky guy with him. He had long greyish hair and really cool eyes. I think Anne's jealous that were getting all the good looking boys attention instead of her." Raye finished this speal with a giggle.

"Yeah" was all Ren managed as her mind was working overtime. 'So this guy Vincent that Darien was talking to up on the hill must be that same one that Raye was describing to me. He must go to this school as well, but I've never seen him. Why were they looking for me? Who or what is this 'her' thing? And dose this have something to do with the fact that Darien's in all of my classes? These thoughts occupied Ren's thoughts all through her last two periods and stopped her from sleeping well into the night.