I just want to thank everyone who has been keeping up with the story and following. Thanks for all the feedback and comments so far, keep them coming, I appreciate them. Enjoy the chapter. :) ~theDJK

The whole day at school both Daren and Krystal were on edge. Both of them were thrown off by the dreams they had, which they didn't know that they were sharing. Daren and Krystal, in their own ways, were trying hard not run into each other and ignore each other as much as possible. It didn't help that the both of them shared four classes together, despite Daren being a senior and Krystal only being a junior.

It was their first actual class together, home room, and Daren was sitting at his normal desk with Mouse right beside him. Daren was lost in his own thoughts, like usual, as Krystal walked in. Krystal headed into the class room as normal: head down, arms tightly around her books close to her chest, and quickly to her desk, but today was different. She, uncharacteristically, looked up and saw Daren seated and looking out the window. She stopped and gasped, as if he was staring at her. She quickly was reminded of the dream she had that was so vivid. She remembered how provocative she was, how she had a lack of her own intelligence the way she was talking, and how the kiss with Daren was. She caught her breath and sat down in her desk

The two didn't even look in each others direction through the majority of the class. Granted, they were on the opposite sides of the classroom, but they didn't dare let the other notice that they were looking in the others direction.

Krystal kept thinking to herself "Why am I acting like that dream was real? It was just a dream; I shouldn't be acting so nervous. It wasn't like it was real. I don't even like Daren like that." As she was finished with her thought, she took a quick glance at Daren. At that moment, her eyes were met by Daren's. They locked eyes and stared at each other. Krystal was the one that broke the stare, as she buried her face in her text book. "Oh my god, how did he, it's like…" Krystal kept mumbling to herself under her breath as so no one could hear her, but that was the thing, someone could hear her.

The reason that Daren was already looking at Krystal when she looked at him was because he began to hear Krystal's voice in his head. As he was staring out the window, in total disregard for the instructions of the home room teacher, he began to hear a girl's voice behind him. He didn't recognize the voice, nor did he really pay any mind to it. He figured it was just a girl sitting behind him talking to her friend next to her about some weird dream she had, but then he heard his name. Daren quickly turned around and looked back, and realized that there wasn't a girl that sat behind him, or anywhere near him. That's when he looked over to Krystal, and sure enough, caught her as she looked at him.

Daren plays the cocky, confident roll a lot. But a few people, Mouse included, know that Daren is definitely not that guy, but can play it very well. If Daren was to handle the situation of locking eyes with Krystal the way he really is, he would've been the first one to break the stare. Since Daren feels he must portray a different attitude, he refused to break the stare until she did. The whole time he was staring at her, all he kept thinking was, "Don't look away, don't look away. You're the guy, don't seem intimidated by her. She may think you have a crush on her…" That's when Krystal looked away and Daren drifted his eyes back outside the window and said under his breath, "I don't have a crush on her, I just make out with her in my dreams." Daren laughed at himself and Mouse looked over at him.

"What the hell did you just say?" Mouse asked.

"What…uh nothing." Daren replied as he waved off Mouse.

"Who do you have a crush on?"

"I don't' have a crush on anyone."

"But you just said…"

"Well mister "I ease drop on other people", why don't you mind your own fucking business?"

Mouse began to smile and point at Daren. "Oh…you do have a thing for someone? Let me guess, is it Ashley Jensen, or Rebekah Mumsen?"

"Dude shut up!"

"Is she a senior? No she probably isn't. You're the type of guy to go for the younger, cute, less experienced ones. Hum…let's see, I don't think you're going lower than sophomore, so let's start there."

"Let's not and say we did."

"I know who it is…you have a thing for that new student secretary girl…uh what's her name…uh Rochelle Martinez is it?"

"Dude seriously, shut the fuck up!" Daren said a little bit louder, but not loud enough to attract the attention of the teacher.

"Why do you want me to shut up? Is it because the mighty Daren King has a thing for a girl?"

"I told you I had a dream about a girl that's it."

"What kind of a dream…a wet dream?" Mouse laughs at his own humor.

"In my dream I made out with someone at the club."

"Ok…" Mouse becomes confused. "That's not anything new. You do that in real life."

"But in the dream I was having, I was making out with…" Daren began nudging his head over in Krystal's direction.

Mouse looked over and then looked back at Daren. "You were making out with the freak of nature?" Mouse started laughing out loud and drawing attention. Krystal looked up and began paying attention to what was going on. Up until this point, she was completely oblivious to what was happening. "Mouse, I'm going to give you the count of three to shut up." Daren added in between Mouse's laughing. "One…"

"Dude, I can't believe you."

"Two…" Daren continued.

"Who has a dream about making out in a club with…"

"Three!" At the mention of the number Daren reached out and decked Mouse across the face, laying him out on his desk. The whole class got crazy, the teacher instantly ran over to Mouse to check on him, and almost simultaneously, started sending Daren to the principal's office. But in the midst of everything going on only one thing stood out in Krystal's mind, "Who has a dream about making out in a club?"

Once Krystal heard Mouse say that out loud, she instantly thought that Mouse had somehow found out about her dream, which was impossible. Then she realized that Mouse was putting Daren on the spot in front of the whole class, and that Daren had a dream about kissing someone in a club. She didn't know what was going on, but then saw that it was time to take a dose of the new serum that Daniel made, so she slipped out of the class while the craziness was still occupying everyone's attention.

A few hours later, both Daren and Krystal were in their biology class. Daren had already been to the principal's office and got the ass chewing of a life time. Krystal was sitting right beside him with her back towards him. Daren was propping his head on fist as if he were thinking, but he wasn't thinking anything. He was using the unique ability that all men have in being able to think about absolutely nothing. Good thing for him too, because if he was thinking about something, Krystal would've heard it. Krystal, on the other hand, was thinking, and over analyzing everything. Daren would've been able to hear her thoughts if his mind wasn't shut off.

The teacher realized that Daren was zoned out, so he decided to call on him for the question he just asked. Naturally, Daren didn't hear the question and snapped back into reality with "Huh…what?" The teacher asked Daren the question again. Daren began to try to think of a bullshit answer to throw out, but couldn't think of a good enough one. Just then he heard "along the sternum" in his head, so he went with it. "It's along the sternum Mr. Randell." Mr. Randell glared at Daren before responding with, "That's correct Daren. It seems you are paying attention."

As Mr. Randell continued with the lesson, Daren thought to himself "Wow, can Mr. Randell be any more of an asshole?" Without missing a beat, Krystal said out loud, "That's not nice to say!" Daren looked over at Krystal confused.

"What the hell did you say?" He asked.

"I'm just saying…that you shouldn't say that about Mr. Randell."

"Say what?"

"You shouldn't call him….what you called him."

"I didn't say anything. What are you talking about?"

"You called him…" Krystal pauses. "You called him an asshole." She whispers even lower than they were in the first place.

"I didn't say anything out loud." Daren becomes confused because he knew for a fact that he didn't say that out loud. "You are some type of freak aren't you? What, you can read minds and shit?"

Krystal becomes startled. "Huh, no, I can't read people's minds."

Daren stares at her for a few seconds as Krystal tries to hide her face from Daren by giving him the shoulder. Daren keeps an eye on Mr. Randell as he quietly continues the conversation. "What makes you so weird? Why are people treating you like shit?"

"I don't know, why don't you ask them?"

"I have and they've all told me some crazy shit. Like why are some guys in the mental ward because of you."

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Come on…what are you hiding? Are you like some crazy high school serial killer?"

"I said I don't want to talk about it!" She instantly snapped as she turned towards Daren. Daren was surprised that she responded the way she did and still was quiet enough for no one else to realize what was going on. Daren looked at her and thought, "Geez, did someone eat Bitch Flakes this morning."

"I'm not being a bitch, you're being annoying!"

"Wait, you did it again!"

"Did what?"

"You responded to something I just said in my head."

"I did?" Krystal calms down and stares at the desk. "Can we just forget about this?"

"No…no you can read fucking minds. That was your voice I kept hearing in my head, wasn't it?"

"What do you mean?"

"You're the one who told me the answer to Mr. Randell's question. I didn't know it, but I heard it in the back of my head. That was you wasn't it?"

"I didn't do anything. I thought about the answer but I didn't do anything. And I can't read minds!"

"Huh…I'll figure you out. I don't like freaks of nature fucking around in my head."

Daren turned towards Mr. Randell and began paying attention to the rest of the lesson. Krystal was scared, confused, and for some reason disappointed. She raised her hand and asked Mr. Randell if she could go to the restroom, which he allowed her to do.

Krystal left and sat in a corner of the hallway, making sure no one could see her. She took a dose of serum and relaxed her head back on the wall. The new version of the serum has been making her very drowsy which makes it very hard for her to try to go through the rest of the day. After the initial dizziness was gone from the serum, Krystal reflected on how Daren was obviously just like every other guy, every other person in the school. She couldn't kid herself anymore; she had a crush on him. The dream she had of him actually made her very excited in more ways than just one. But now that she realized that he was acting the same exact ways all the other guys have acted with her, she figured it was best to get away from the situation as quickly as possible.

It was later in the day and school was almost over. Krystal was anxious for the school day to be over just because so much had happened throughout the day that she just wanted to forget about it, but that wasn't going to happen as easily as she thought.

As Krystal was walking through the hall, three popular girls, cheerleaders, came out of nowhere and surrounded Krystal. "Well, well, well, if it isn't little miss freak of nature." One of the girls said. They began to circle around Krystal as they continued to talk to her. "We all know what you're doing. Look at you, acting like you don't know you got a body that every fucking guy in school wants to bang." Another girl chimes in and says, "Yea, and don't think we didn't figure out that you're waiting to be a senior to join the cheer squad and take over as captain." Krystal didn't know what was going on. She didn't think anything like what the girls were saying she was. Krystal had heard over and over again that she had a body that rivaled the hottest girls in the school, not to mention that her natural facial features were on the mind of every guy as well, but never believed it.

The three girls backed Krystal up to where her back was on the lockers. She had nowhere to go, she was scared. "Oh my god, please don't, please don't hurt me." She said to herself as she started to sob. "Oh look girls, the little princess freak is crying. Let's give her a reason to cry." The three girls grabbed Krystal and threw her on the ground. "Hey!" was heard from behind. The three girls didn't stop. "What the fuck! Get the fuck off of her." The girls stopped and stood back. Krystal opened her eyes and noticed that it was Daren.

Daren walked right through the girls, eying them down as he knelt down to Krystal. "You ok?" He asked. Krystal nodded with a small smile on her face. "Why did you help me, how did you know I was here?" She asked.

"Apparently you're not the only one that can read minds." Daren said with a smile. "I was walking a few halls away, but then heard you saying "please don't hurt me". I figured I'd take a look around.

"You heard me…?"

Just then the moment was interrupted. Out of the corner of his eye, Daren saw the boyfriends of the girls that were messing with Krystal walk into the hallway from outside. Daren began doing his math and came to the conclusion that he was going to have to defend himself against these three guys.

Daren stood up and got ready to confront them. "Don't fight them." Daren heard Krystal's voice in his head. He looked down at her and, almost in a hesitant way, said back in a verbal way "I gotta do what I gotta do." Daren turned back, but was stunned because everything at that moment was slowed down, and the punch coming directly at his face was slowly inching forward to him.

To Krystal and everyone else watching Daren was moving quicker than any of them had ever seen. The first guys punch missed and Daren laid him out with one punch. The second guy tried to jump Daren from the side, but Daren moved and threw him into the lockers. Before the third guy could do anything, Daren had kicked the guys knee, causing him to fall to the ground. Daren had his fist up to punch him but Krystal yelled out verbally "Stop!", which he did.

The three girls helped their boyfriends up and ran off. Daren turned to Krystal and helped her once he saw that everything had calmed down. Once Krystal was up, she was standing in front of Daren looking up at him. He was not that much taller than her, but enough for her to have to look up to look in his eyes. "Thank you." She told him.

"Yea, no problem, but we're going to need to talk about whatever is going on between us."

Krystal hesitated. "Yeah, I do believe that you're correct."

Ok so now you guys get to see something beginning to start between our two main characters. :) Also, because some people pointed it out that it's kind of confusing when the mental talking is happening and the verbal conversation is going on, next chapter will have all mental conversations in Italics so they can be differentiated from one another.

Thankx everyone!