Previously:

"Bye Meatball Head!" Darian called out.

Serena rolled her eyes as she left. She started walking towards home when a strong hand reached out from the nerby allyway, grabbed her and pulled her in before she had a chance to scream.

The person attached to the arm slammed her against the brick wall and covered her mouth with his hands.

"Hello Serena. Its nice to finally meet you," a cold voice sneered.

Serena began to feel terrified and she started to squirm, trying to get away but the man had pressed his weight against her so she could barley move.

"If you scream, you will be punished," he said. He pulled out something silver and shiney.

Serena relized in horror that it was a knife. It looked about eight inches long.

"Will you scream?"

Serena shook her head and tried to hold back tears. What did this man want?

He pressed the knife to her collarbone and began to press on it, which caused her to shake uncontrollably,"

"Wh-what do you want?" She stammered.

"You have something I want. But I'm not going to ask for it. Do you want to know why?"

Serena didn't speak or move.

"Thats something you will probably find out within the next week. I've been watching you for the past month. From the looks of it, you're an average all american girl. Sadly though, your not anymore,"

Here he chuckled. "My names Micheal. Since I'm stuck with you for awhile, you might as well know my name. I know you well enough to know that you care about your friends very much. Surely you wouldn't want them hurt right?"

Serena shook her head. She wanted so bad to stop shaking. To show that she was brave even though she didn't feel it.

Micheal moved a little. Not very much, but enough to know that he was about 5'10, had wavy brown hair, shockingly green eyes, and looked very strong.

"You will not tell anyone about me, Ok? If you do, that guy you like, Darien, will be killed. And I'll let him know it was your fault. Now I'm going to let you go. Don't forget, I'm always watching," Micheal said.

Serena finally found some courage and brought her knee to his groin. Micheal yelled out and Serena ran. Instead of running out the ally like a normal person, she ran deeper into the ally. Once her common sense rolled in, Micheal had already jumped on her and rolled her over. He sat on her stomach and pressed the knife again to her neck, only this time, pressing it so it cut her.

"Nice try," Serena, surprisingly, couldn't feel any pain. Micheal leaned over so his face was no more than a few inches away from hers.

"Do that again and see worse will happen," Micheal pulled the now blood covered knife away from her.

"Remember, don't tell anyone. If you do, Darien will be killed," Micheal got off her and walked calmly out.

Serena sat up and put her hand to the place where the knife had cut her. It was covered with blood. She walked to where her backpack was and got out her scarf. She tied it around her neck in a way where it hid the cut. She walked out of the ally and straight home.

"Serena, I know you got your math test back. Let me see it," Her mom said the second she saw her. Serena wondered what she was talking about when she remembered faintly. She took out the test, handed it to her mom, and walked to her room without saying anything. When she got to her room, she plopped down on her bed and began to wonder. Who was Micheal? What did he want? Why wouldn't he tell her what he wanted? Serena grabbed a white turtleneck and went to the bathroom to clean the cut. She took off her scarf and stared at the reflection. The cut was about four inches long and had dried blood all over it. She quickly cleaned it and put on the turtleneck, just as her mom came in.

"Serena baby I'm so proud of you!" she said as she hugged her.

"Thank you mom. I don't even know how I got it. I didn't study or cheat," Her voice came out dry and forced

"I know but thats so good! Tonight, we'll go out to eat to celebrate. Where do you want to go?" Serena decided on Japenese.

"Yoshinos would be nice,"

"Ok. We'll go as soon as your dad comes home!" Later, after having a wonderful time at the resturant, Serena got ready for bed. She was afraid he would come back so needless to say, she didn't get much sleep. The next day, there was nothing going on except that there was a newlong term sub in her seventh periodEnglish class named Mr. Cardoza. Serena walked with Mina later to their seventh period class.

"I hope Mr. Cardoza is cool. Not like the other teachers. I wonder how cute he is?"

"That would be fun if he was both cute and cool. They walked into the class where the teacher wasn't anywhere to be seen. Since Mina sat right behind her, Serena turned around and started chatting with her.

"Sorry I'm late class," an all too familiar voice said.

Serena whipped around to see Micheal, smiling at the class.

A/N: I know that it is being rushed, but I was in a hurry to get this chapter up. This chapter is dedicated to raye85, my first reviewer!