Chapter 3! ENJOY! :) disclaimer: *I DO NOT OWN THE CHARACTERS OR THE SHOW*

They had just entered aisle four, the dairy area. Only wearing shorts and a tank top, Annie was freezing her butt off. Liam, on the other hand, was wearing a leather jacket over the white t-shirt he had been wearing all day. Along with the jeans and sneakers he had on, it was needless to say he was perfectly fine in the refrigerated dairy aisle.

"Liam, will you stop walking quickly" Annie huffed as she tried to catch up with a speeding Liam. He had been avoiding her since she followed him into the market and she had been chasing after him ever since.

"What?" Liam said while turning around quickly and pretending to just now realize that Annie was behind him, "Oh, you were following me?"

"What? No" Annie said turning a shade of pink. It wasn't really that she wanted to follow him, more of the fact that he wasn't going to get away with cutting her off so easily. "Not exactly, I just need you to apologize."

Liam turned around perplexed, what the hell was this girl talking about? "Apologize?"

"Yes." Annie stated confidently.

Liam looked at her with raised eyebrows. He stayed silent for a moment and then asked, "For what?"

"For cutting me off!" Annie almost yelled. The more he ran away from her and the more innocent Liam acted, the angrier she got.

"When did I do that?" Liam asked innocently. He watched as Annie's expression grew livid. He stifled a laugh as she looked at him annoyed. It was fun to toy with her.

"When you took my parking spot!" she explained slowly and angrily. "You know, when you found out I lack in parking skills?"

"Oh, hmmm, it seems to be coming back to me." Liam said scratching his head looking thoughtful.

Annie shook her head and crossed her arms over her chest. She waited impatiently for Liam to cut the crap and take her seriously. The silence seemed to go on forever, but she noticed that Liam finally looked her way. Instead of apologizing or even admitting to being wrong or to acting stupid, he laughed. His laughter echoed through the empty aisle and even caused Annie to jump a bit. He was laughing! That bastard was laughing! She was being completely serious and he ended up laughing at her!

Liam saw Annie's face freeze as he broke down laughing. He just couldn't hold it in anymore. How could she expect him to apologize for something so stupid? This was Beverly Hills and she needed to get used to that. He turned halfway and grabbed the non-fat milk carton his stupid stepfather preferred. He then turned to Annie, but instead of toying with her one last time, he just walked away.

As Liam walked away, Annie's fury grew stronger. She was determined to get an apology from him even if it took all night. She turned halfway, grabbed the soy milk her stepfather preferred and ran after Liam. He was definitely not going to get away with this.

Liam watched as Annie ran through the aisles looking for him. He was situated in a small corner on the opposite side of where they had just been. Surprisingly, Annie had walked in the right direction to look for him when she had left aisle four. As he stood in the corner watching her, Liam realized that this girl wouldn't give up without getting what she wanted. For some odd reason, it turned him on. The girl was determined and he liked that. He then realized that he might not be able to go home unless he apologized. Liam rolled his eyes and discretely made his way toward aisle nine, the bread aisle. He would apologize, but not without ragging on her first.

Annie finally found Liam in aisle nine, the bread aisle. He seemed to be contemplating on what type of bread he would buy, honey wheat or white. He finally decided on the honey wheat and turned to walk away. Annie smirked as she watched Liam freeze when he spotted her. She slowly walked up to him and grabbed a bag of honey wheat bread.

"So how about that apology?" Annie mentioned as she looked at Liam.

He smirked, "You see, the thing is, I don't really owe you one."

"What?" asked Annie in surprise.

"Yeah, I mean, this is Beverly Hills. If you're too slow at parking your car anyone will take the spot from you."

"Okay, but you knew who was in the car, which means that you took the spot away from me just to irk me."

"Irk you?" Liam mocked Annie. He was not only impressed by her determination, but by the brain she held between her ears (as Ivy had said). For the second time that day, Annie had figured him out without a second thought. She saw through his crap and was determined to call him out on it. Once again, Liam was feeling turned on and it irked him that she actually had a strong effect on him.

"Yes, irk, you know. To bother, to annoy?" Annie explained and Liam nodded.

"I know what it means."

"Oh." was the best response Annie mustered.

They stood there in silence, neither willing to add to the conversation. Finally Annie, annoyed with it all, said, "Will you just apologize?"

"Why?"

"Look, if it was any other person, I probably wouldn't care as much, but it's you. I met you today, turned you down, and you got your revenge by halfway killing me. All I want is an apology." Annie explained.

"Fine."

Before she knew what he was doing, Liam grabbed Annie by the waist and pulled her against the bread displays knocking some over in the process. She dropped the bag of bread in her hand and breathed rapidly. Annie's heart was racing. Liam was pressing hard against her and running his hand over her thigh, which he had situated so that it wrapped around his waist. Goose bumps erupted from her skin and a shiver ran up her spine. She had lost her voice and all process of thought ceased. At that moment, Annie had no idea what her name was, where she was, or better yet why she and that gorgeous blue-eyed god whose name escaped her at this moment had gotten into such a compromising position in the first place.

Liam knew this would have an effect on her. What he wasn't prepared for was the effect it had on him. His heartbeat grew faster and faster and his breathing was harsher. He felt the goose bumps on the thigh he was rubbing and a shiver ran up his spine, something that never happened. At that moment it took all of his will power not to rip her clothes off and just take her there and then. He felt his lips inching closer to hers, but before he was able to brush his lips against hers he stopped. Centimeters away from Annie's face, Liam finally registered thought and realized why he had done this in the first place.

He moved his lips toward her right ear and whispered, "I'm sorry I stole your parking space." With that, Liam let Annie go and walked away. He left her staring after him while she caught her breath.

As Liam walked away (his heartbeat returning to normal speed and the craving for her disappearing), he felt himself wanting to look back at Annie and take in her reaction. He knew he couldn't though. He wanted to leave her wanting more and he knew that he definitely had. At least he now knew that she had a physical attraction toward him. All he needed was to get her emotionally attached and he would be twenty dollars richer. He smirked as he paid for his groceries and walked to his car.

She didn't know how long she had been standing there staring at the spot where she had last seen Liam (after he had walked away), but she knew that she needed to get home. Annie grabbed her bag of bread among the other bags that had fallen and went to pay for her groceries. It was already dark outside when she left. She noticed that Liam's car was gone and a hint of disappointment drifted through her, but she immediately ignored it and got into her car. As she drove home Annie couldn't help but picture the image of her and Liam at the grocery store. She laughed at the thought of someone catching them and then she realized that she had let him get to her. She had gotten her apology, but she knew that it was insincere. She also knew that this time, probably just like all the other times, Liam would get away with it.

When she got home, her parents were still watching TV. Annie walked into the living room even more exhausted than when she had come home from school. Debbie looked at her quizzically.

"What took you so long?" Harry asked without taking his eyes off the TV.

Annie stayed silent for a while. She didn't know what to tell her parents. "Umm, nothing, just some trouble with parking spaces. I couldn't find one so it took a while."

Debbie and Harry looked at each other and then back at Annie. They nodded at their daughter's response, but didn't know whether to believe her or not. They chose to do so, after all, why would she lie?

Annie breathed a sigh of relief as she noticed her parents believed her. She got up from her seat before a fusillade of questions were thrown her way and went to her room where she closed the door and collapsed on her bed.

Erin Silver searched frantically for her two best friends. She had just spent the last half hour with her boyfriend, Teddy, and wanted to desperately vent about her growing feelings toward him. She didn't find them upstairs so she ran frenetically down the stairs. Without paying attention to where she was going, Silver bumped into someone causing them to drop all their books in the process. As much as she wanted to keep looking for her friends, she felt considerably guilty for causing the person to drop their books therefore making Silver momentarily put aside her friend search and bend down to pick up a few books. As the person stood up, Silver noticed it was the new girl. They only had one new girl this year and she had heard from Teddy that this was Liam's new prospect. Poor her.

"I'm sorry about that." Silver apologized to Annie and she smiled politely.

"It's okay." Annie responded looking up at the blue eyed, brunette haired girl finally glad to find that someone actually had a conscience in this place. At least this girl was nice enough to help.

"Yeah, um, sorry to ask, but have you seen two girls, about my height, one is blonde, the other is brunette. Both have long hair and you might recognize one of them from a CD cover or something?" Silver added quickly and Annie shook her head in response.

"Sorry, no, but I could help you look for them if you want?" she offered.

"Um, sure, that would be great." Silver said and the two girls walked together toward the cafeteria. Silver hoping that her best friends would be waiting in line for food.

"Silver!" A tall blonde haired girl yelled from the middle of the long line. Silver immediately grabbed Annie and skipped people pulling her toward her now found friends.

"Hey, where were you guys?" Silver asked. Annie stood there awkwardly watching as the friends talked. She had no idea what to say.

After the friends talked briefly about some guy named Teddy, the second brunette in the group looked at Annie.

"You're the new girl right?" she asked. She didn't sound mean or accusing just curious.

"Um, yeah, I'm Annie." She responded a little nervously,

"I'm Adrianna." The brunette introduced herself and then looked to the blonde to signal that it was her turn to introduce herself.

"Oh, right. I'm Naomi" the blonde said and looked down at Annie. The three friends were all considerably taller than her.

"Oh, I don't actually think I've introduced myself." The third friend said, "I'm Silver."

"Um, nice to meet you three." Annie stated and they stood there as an awkward silence engulfed them all.

"So what school did you transfer from?" Silver asked wanting to make things less awkward.

"I actually moved here from San Francisco. I went to a school called Mission High."

"Mission High?" Naomi questioned judgingly, seeming perturbed by the name of the school.

"Um yeah. It was a good school." Annie answered feeling belittled by Naomi.

Adrianna gave Naomi a warning look. "I'm sorry, it's just the school has a weird name." She apologized and it actually sounded pretty sincere, "I'm working on my harsh responses. I seem to judge people before I get to know them first."

"It's okay." Annie responded, "The school does have a weird name." With that Annie and Naomi laughed. Silver and Adrianna, thankful that their pickiest friend had somewhat approved of Annie, joined in the laughter too. As Annie laughed with Silver, Adrianna, and Naomi she realized that she had just made her first friends at Beverly Hills High.

A/N: Thank you sooo much for the reviews, it means a lot! Please keep them coming! :) Anyway, i actually like this chapter and i enjoyed writing it. I hope you enjoyed reading it! :)