Sorry it's been taking me sooo long too update, but I've been really packed with work lately. So, thanks to all my readers for sticking with me. This chapter will be a little short but hopefully good. This is also just a slightly changed chapter.
Also a warning for future (maybe in a few more chapters) sexual content, you are warned and I'm not going to be changing the rating to R.
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Chapter Three: School Sucks (!) Stanton's POVSunday Morning
Stanton woke thinking he was back at his apartment alone in his bed till he felt Serena in his arms, and the memories of the night before came flooding back. He opened his eyes slowly as if making sure it wasn't a dream. He had Serena cradled in his arms, her curly dark hair was covering her face; she looked so peaceful and beautiful in the light reflecting off of her alarm clock. 'Crap' he thought looking from Serena to the alarm clock which read 4:45 am, 'I have get out of here before her father wakes up and sees us sleeping tighter.' Stanton looked back down at Serena. He complained to himself about not wanting too leave but he didn't want to get her into even more trouble, he thought back to when he met Serena's father at Jimena's Birthday and remembered how Mr. Killingsworth didn't seem to like him.
Stanton turned into shadow and reappeared by his black t-shirt that he had taken off the night before. He was pulling it over his head when he heard Serena whisper "Stanton", he finished pulling on the shirt and turned around to face her "are you leaving?"
"I have to it's almost five, and I don't want you to get into trouble." 'And for your father to completely hate me' he thought.
"He doesn't hate you," she protested then added, "per say." Serena gave him a reassuring smile then yawned, "Will I see you soon?"
"Yes, but not tonight because I have some work to do today." Stanton walked silently over to Serena and gave her a quick kiss goodnight. Serena laid back down and closed her eyes, Stanton took that moment to turn into shadow and leave through the balcony doors into the night air. He reappeared hidden in the silhouette of a tree in Serena's yard. Then her voice drifted through his mind 'Bye Stanton, see you tomorrow.' He could feel her leaving his mind, his thoughts began to drift, almost forgetting what the Atrox needed him to do and thinking about Serena.
Serena's POVMonday Morning (before school)
"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP." The alarm clock sounded. It was 6 am. , Serena had to get up early today because Jimena was going to pick her up before school. It didn't matter getting up early; she didn't sleep last night anyway.
"Aaaggghhhhhhhh" Serena groaned as she made her way to the bathroom, eyes half closed and stumbling into the door. Finally reaching the bathroom, she turned on the light and started the shower. What happened over the weekend was still disconcerting. Serena stripped off her Marilyn pj's and stepped into the shower; not wanting to look in the mirror this early, it would be too scary. The spray of hot water on her face and back woke her up some; at least her brain was working now.
After Stanton left in the morning yesterday, 'I wonder what the Atrox had him working on', the day had been pretty much a bore. All of them hung out at her house for a while, watching movies, talking, and stuff since they couldn't go shopping outside seeing as it was raining. Jimena had to leave early to help her grandma, Vanessa went over to Michael's to practice, Tianna went skateboarding with Derek, and Catty stayed and drew Serena for what seemed like hours. 'Today ought to be a good day because I might end up seeing Stanton. I'll tell him then. Yah… tonight, if I see him. Stanton deserves to know my choice, I've been thinking about it for a while now and I think I finally have it figured out. Yes… I'm defiantly going to…'
"KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK" Serena nearly jumped out of her skin when someone knocked on the bathroom door, and she slid a little so she had to use one hand to grab the wall.
"Whoever you are your going to pay, you scared the living sh out of me!" Serena shouted at the door while she turned off the water and grabbed a towel from the folded stack on the stand by the shower.
"It's me," Collin said on the other side of the door "Jimena just called and said she'd be here in about 25 minutes, you'd better hurry."
"Ughhh…Thanks, I'll be out in a minute."
She heard Collin go downstairs, so she ran into her room to get dressed. She put on a black t–shirt with a purple skull & crossbones, a short plaid purple & black schoolgirl skirt, with black fishnets, and knee-high combat style boots. She put in a black belly button ring and nose ring. Running quickly back into the bathroom to put on some eyeliner and lip-gloss she heard Jimena get let in by Collin. 'Oh well,' she looked at her half dry smooth and curly hair 'I guess I'll let it dry naturally'.
Serena ran down the stairs and grabbed her bag through it over her shoulder then balanced her cello and music over her other shoulder. Jimena was giving Collin a kiss when she reached the car.
Vanessa's POV
(Between 5th and 6th hour)
Vanessa was staring absentmindedly into her locker thinking about what had happened over the weekend when Catty and Serena came up to her locker, neither talking much. So she grabbed her books for sixth hour and closed her locker. They just stood there in a very uncomfortable silence. Both Vanessa and Catty tried to push back their thoughts so Serena wouldn't examine them.
"Well, aren't we all talkative today." Serena said not smiling but in confusion. "What's with you guys today?" when neither of them answered Serena added "I have to go to class… see you guys later…"
Serena walked away looking worried 'you have every right to be' Vanessa thought. Catty and Vanessa began to talk about their plans for after the soccer game that night on their way to their sixth hour biology class.
Mr. Bower had been lecturing about the electromagnetic spectra for 25 minutes now and even though Vanessa had been trying to pay attention all she wanted to do was go to sleep. '2:00. Aghh, I don't think I will be able to last another 40 minutes of this crap' turningback from the clock she noticed Catty passing her a little piece of folded up paper. Opening it up, the note read…
"Nessa,
This is soooooooooo boring! Didn't we learn about this stuff like in freshman year? Whatever, I was thinking about Serena. I'm worried about her.
-Catty"
She stared at the paper and thought 'I know, I do to' writing it down and passing it back to Catty.
(Future warning: it's going to jump characters a lot more till the end of the chapter.)
Serena's POV
'Finally, this day is over!' Serena thought after the bell rang. 'All I want to do is see Stanton then go to sleep. Hope I get to see him today, because everyone else is acting really odd…'
Practically seconds after Serena walked out of her language arts class David, one of her friends from orchestra, walked up, and started talking about a new song they were working on.
"Hey Serena." David said excitedly not noticing the miserable look on her face.
"Hey", she said giving him a mediocre smile. "What's up?"
"Nothing. Besides the ton of homework I have tonight, all six classes. You?"
"Same here. Lets be optimistic." David gave her the are-you-crazy look. "Only month before we graduate!"
"Yah" he responded, then pushed the door open to outside "but until then we've got this" pointing to his overfilled navy blue book bag "and finals."
"Yippy." She said with fake enthusiasm. Vanessa, Michael, Tianna, Derek, and Catty were talking together in a circle when Serena and David walked up. Out of nowhere she got the feeling as if someone was watching her. Looking around she spotted the gang of followers by the parking lot, they looked a mix a nervousness, fear, and anger. But they weren't the ones staring at her. Then her gaze drifted about 25 yards away from the followers, she saw…Stanton!?
"Sorry guys I've got to go, someone's here. Bye." Serena said hurriedly, cutting off the conversation she wasn't paying attention to. She ran over to him, bag hitting her hip as she tried to walk casually over to him. When Serena reached him she dropped her bag and Stanton wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into a hug.
'You okay?' Stanton asked across her mind.
'Just had a very long day'
'I wanted to pick you up today, do you have a cello lesson?'
'No, but can we go somewhere besides here? I have something to tell you.' She hid the conversation that had been running inside her head all day, every single scenarioplanned out for after she told him.
'Okay, do you want to say goodbye to them?' Stanton said pointedly toward her friends. She would call them later, now she just wanted to be with him.
Picking up on her thoughts Stanton picked up her bag, kissed her forehead, opened the door for her, and climbed into the driver's seat of his car.
Catty's POV
Catty looked over to David, who was looking at Stanton and Serena driving off. 'Too bad he doesn't like Serena, he seems normal enough'.
"Bye you guys, I've got to get going too" David said, everyone waved; Just as he left Jimena showed up.
"Hey, was that Stanton picking Serena up?" Jimena asked looking worried.
"Yah, it was." Vanessa said then turning to Michael "Can you go get the car?"
"Sure, bye everyone. See everyone later." As soon as Michael was out of hearing range Jimena said something…
"Stanton es muy peligroso. We need a plan!" she said the anger and distrust apparent in her voice.
They were all kind of silent for a while, thinking. 'If only we could get Serena away from Stanton till her birthday… wait…'
"I've got an idea, I'll tell all of you tonight if you can come over." Catty said proud of her new found genius. They all agreed and left.
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