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Raven's POV:

I bounded down the stairs and almost made it past my parents but I had to stumble over the living room rug. It gave my mom just enough time to see my shirt.

"Excuse me young lady! Where do you think you're going dressed like that?!" My mom yelled.

"School..." I mumbled.

"Put on a sweater or I'll make you change your shirt. Then get back in here for breakfast. Trevor won't be here for another fifteen minutes."

I growled and stomped back into the hallway. All I need to do is put up with the sweater until I'm out of my mom's site. After pretending to eat my mom's sludgy oatmeal, a horn honked outside.

"That's Trevor Raven. Get outside."

Finally! Even school and Trevor's car is better than my home. I ran out the door and practically dove in Trevor's black mercedes.

"Excited to see me monster girl?" he laughed, pulling away as I buckled.

"No just excited to get out of the house." I was finding it suprisingly easy to talk to him even though I supposedly hated him.

"I know what you mean. My mom thinks she owns me." His additude was calm and thoughtful and nothing like his 'I'm infront of my friends so I hate you' additude.

For a few minutes, neither of us said anything. I was about to tilt back the seat and sleep on the ride to school but my stomach growling ruined the silent moment. I should have eaten my mom's Slop O' Oatmeal.

"Hungry for blood?" Trevor joked.

"No!" I yelled, hitting his arm.

"Watch it, I'm driving!" He reached over and hit my knee and I felt a spark shoot up my leg. What is wrong with me? I love Alexander! NOT Trevor!

"You're so annoying." I whispered, pouting like a little kid.

"And you're blushing. Have I embarassed you my little pariah. (A/N: I thought it would be the perfect nickname for Raven because a Pariah is an outcast; or person who is regected.)

"You're little what?!" I yelled.

"Hey! Don't be mad. It's also a type of rare flower." He turned a street that led us the opposite way of the school and pulled into the local McDonald's drivethru.

"Why are we here? We're gonna be late for school." He is starting to really tick me off.

"School doesn't start for an hour. You don't need to show up early just to hang out with Farm Girl. You have classes with her. Besides, I thought you were hungry."

"Only one class and she's always hanging out with Matt. School mornings are what I look foreward to. And don't call her that!"

His smug look faltered for a second but came back full force. "You'll live. Now what do you want?"

"You're buying me breakfast?"

"Ya." He looked genuinely sinsere. "Unless you'd rather not eat."

"No, uh...breakfast would be nice." I mumbled, feeling my face heat up as my stomach growled again.

"You're blushing again." He didn't say it in a mean way. He almost sounded nice. We ordered our breakfast to go and headed for school.

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You'd think the apocalimse was comming that way people reacted when I showed up to school in Trevor's car. I would have liked to punch all the starers in the face. Why did Trevor have to offer to drive me to school? One of Trevor's fellow soccer snobs decided to make an appearance just as we were about to go our separate ways.

"Yo Trev! What are you doin' with vampire girl? I thought you hated her." Justin, an overly ripped, overly stupid left fielder yelled loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Tell you about it in gym. First I need to get Raven to her locker and then her first hour class." Woah! Since when did Trevor call me by my real name?

He gave Trevor a skeptical look but left with a wave nonetheless. I turned to Trevor and glared at him. "I knew it Mitchell! You've got something planned don't you?! Spill you idiot!"

"Hey! Maybe I offered to spend the day with you because I really want to. Has it ever occured to you I wanna make amends and be friends?" He looked genuinely hurt by my accusation which made me wanna bite my tongue.

"Trevor I'm sorry..."

"Save it. Let's just get you to class. You obviously want nothing to do with me and I can get that. I have treated you unfairly in the past." He said all this without looking at me and hearded me to my locker with his arm barely touching my lower back.

I grabbed my bag full of gym clothes for first hour and my math book for second hour and began walking to the gym with Trevor. I shockingly have the same gym class as him now because until last year, all the gym classes were never coed. We went our separate ways in the gyms to the locker rooms and began preparing for class.

I met up with Becky at her gym locker next to mine. "Hi ya Becks."

"Hey Raven. Looks like Trevor took you to school after all."

"He said he would, why wouldn't he?"

"Matt told me Trevor talked about possibly driving away from school about 15 miles, saying he was gonna pick up a friend, and when he asks you to get out and get in the back to make room, he'll drive off. I tried to get ahold of you but I guess you left your cell phone at home."

That's it. All compassion I felt towards him this morning is now gone! "I can't believe he would try to do that!"

"Um, Raven?"

"Ya?"

"What's with the tacky sweater. It doesn't really look like something you would condone."

Oh crap. I forgot to take it off. Stupid Trevor distracted me! "My parents made me wear it to school. I forgot to take it off."

I shed my school clothes and put on the school's gym uniform of red short shorts and a white t-shirt. I made a deal with the principal. If I followed gym dress code, I'd get to wear whatever I wanted to regular keep black in my gym look, I put on black socks and black gym shoes.

Becky and I decided to keep busy chatting on the gym stairs next to the boys locker room while we waited for Matt.

"So Matt and I were thinking about...the next step in a relationship...I told him I wasn't sure and he said I can take as much time as I want but...I think I'm ready." She whispered.

"Oh Becky are you sure? This is something big and you don't really know much about the subject."

"That's where you come in!" She chirped under her breath. "You can tell me all about it and I'm even willing to go as far as looking up visual aids on the internet."

"Really? Wow you're serious about this." If Matt dumps her after this or ever, I'll make it to where kids will NEVER be in his future. Or walking for that matter!

While Becky and I quietly discussed the matter of what she would wear when the time came, Trevor came out of the boy's locker room with Justin. I motioned to Becky to keep herself hidden while we listened into their conversation.

"Now tell me why you and vampire girl looked so close this morning."

"It was nothing. I just told her parents I would take her to school."

"It didn't look like nothing. Why did you tell her parents you would."

"Get this! Last night..." oh no! "I was walking home from the park after our baseball game and I noticed Sterling and her walking to the cemetary. She reached over to touch him and he threw her to the ground and straddled her. I hit Sterling over the head with a baseball bat and he passed out. She almost cracked her head open so I had to take her to the hospital."

"You mean vampire girl was almost raped?! By Alexander Sterling?!"

"Ssh! If she finds out I told anybody, she'll probably drink my blood. Or worse." Trevor warned. I could feel Becky's eyes boring into my back. The two walked off and I slowly turned to face my best friend. She looked scared to death.

"Alexander tried to rape you?" She whispered.

"I don't know. I'm not sure if it was a misunderstanding. He's been under so much stress lately."

"Raven did you talk this out with him?"

"I haven't had a chance. I will tonight."

"Did you tell your parents?"

"No. If I do, they'll tell me I can't talk to Alexander anymore and he'll probably go to jail." I whisper-screamed.

"What are you gonna tell him when you see him."

"I don't know." I really don't.