Rose smiled and they hurried out the door then ran toward the bus stop. They didn't let go of each other and sat next to each other on the bus. The boy and girl in front of them, both darker skinned, turned to them.

"So, what's with the holding hands?" Martha asked with a smirk.

"Well, be about time though," the boy, Mickey Smith, joked.

David's face flushed and he regrettably removed his hand from Rose's. Martha and Mickey just had to ruin this moment for him didn't they? "We're just friends, you know that."

"Sure, sure," Mickey smirked, which got an eye roll from Rose.

"So what classes do you guys have?" Martha said, getting her schedule out.

David shrugged. "I don't have mine on me."

"You know where you're supposed to be though right?" Rose asked, but she already knew the answer; she handed Martha her schedule.

David smiled and nodded. "Of course. Brilliant me."

"Hello," Jack Harkness, who was sometimes called Captain, said as he sat down across the aisle from them. He smiled handsomely at the freshmen, he was a year ahead of them and in the same year as David's elder brother Chris.

"Jack," David said with a warning, unconsciously taking Rose's hand again.

"I was just saying hello," he said as Mickey moved a little closer to Martha.

"For you that's not just a hello," Martha said, giggling at Mickey's actions.

Rose smiled at her friends antics, she then glance down to see David's hand resting lightly on hers in a protective manner. David didn't seem to notice and just looked out the window of the bus while Rose, Jack, Mickey, and Martha talked. Rose carefully slipped her hand out of David's; she felt guilty doing it but she dismissed it as really being worried about her first day of school. David noticed but acted as if he didn't. His heart dropped when she released his hand but he supposed he deserved it for releasing her hand earlier. They arrived in front of the huge high school building. Rose felt her worries from yesterday return with interest.

David picked up on this and gave her a small reassuring smile. "Trust me, you will be brilliant."

She smiled back nervously, "thanks."

Jack smirked and followed the younger friends off of the bus. In front of the school, leaning against the wall, was Chris. Donna was standing near him as well but talking to him rather than with him. When Donna saw David she waved and called for him. David smiled and waved back. The five of them walked up to Chris, and Donna. Donna handed David his backpack.

"Thanks," David said to his twin.

"Yeah, don't expect me to do it next time," Donna said but it was more joking than serious.

David rolled his eyes and watched as Jack moved closer to Donna.

"So classes yeah?" Martha said, reminding them that first period started soon.

The group looked over their schedules together. David and Chris had PE together, Jack and Donna shared art, Donna also shared Latin with David, Mickey and Martha didn't share classes but had the same lunch, the girls all had PE together, and David and Rose had the first and three last classes of the day together which were Science, English, History, and music. David smiled as he realized that most of his day at school would be spent with Rose and every day he would see his older brother at school, not to mention his twin sister. Rose smiled a little when she too saw much of her day would be with David. She wasn't sure exactly why that made her happy but she figured it was just because they were best friends.

"You lot better head to class," Chris told the younger group, "You'll probably need more time finding things." Chris seemed to have a tendency to sound rough but he was just protective of them most of the time.

The group nodded in agreement. Mickey took Martha's hand as they walked inside. Jack stayed behind to talk to Chris for a while. Donna, David, and Rose walked towards the building together. David got slightly ahead of them and Donna took the chance to whisper to Rose. "So how was last night?" Donna asked, her voice dripping with mischief.

"What do you mean?" Rose asked her, confused.

Donna huffed in frustration at how dense her best friend and brother could be. "Nothing."

"Ok," Rose said, clearly not following the conversation.

At that moment Donna decided she would have to have a heart to heart with her twin later on. The three of them headed inside and Donna left Rose and David to find their first class as she went to find hers.

David smiled. "So how fun is this year going to be?" he asked, playfully nudging her.

Rose smiled back; she was still nervous but she's likely to be that way the first few days.

David noticed and his smile faltered slightly. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Rose told him, "Just nervous I guess."

Before he could reply their teacher began talking. David saw that Rose was fiddling with her hands and took one into his hand, giving it a gentle squeeze. This seemed to have become a ritual for them every year. Rose would be nervous the first few days of school and David would be her comfort; though that is how it always started, it always ended with Rose making a lot of new friends and David seeing her less and less. He would make friends of course, but he always came back to his main group of friends: Donna, Chris, Matt, Melody "River", Mickey, Martha, Amy, Rory, Jack, and of course Rose. Rose smiled at him before they went back to listening to their teacher. David and Rose made side comments the entire time. The teacher shot them a warning look a few times but they acted innocent until she turned away and they chuckled quietly together. The class ended an hour later.

"If that went on much longer may have gotten yelled at our first day in class," Rose giggled softly.

David laughed with her. "Wouldn't be the first time," he said with a sparkle in his eyes.

Rose smiled shaking her head at him. "So I'll see you in a couple hours yeah?"

David smiled lightly. "Yeah. Make sure to save me a spot at lunch," he called as he walked the other way as Rose.

"I will," Rose called after him before heading off to her next class.

David smiled as he walked to his next class which happened to be Latin with his sister Donna.

"You and Rose get yelled at yet?" she greeted him.

David flushed at his sister's comment and tried to wipe the smile off his face but only managed to tune it down to a smirk. He realized that Rose was his best friend but he knew he loved her as well, though if asked he wouldn't admit it. "Maybe."

Rose found a seat in the back of class room, being separated from David her worries seemed to come back again. She tried to ignore them though as she watch as the other students start showing up.

While Rose was sitting in the back of the class room a boy with brown wavy hair and light brown eyes walked up to her. "Mind if I sit here?" he asked, motioning to the empty chair next to her.

For the briefest of moments Rose thought it was David but quickly realized it wasn't besides having brown hair and eyes they didn't look similar at all really.

"Sure," she told him.

The boy smiled and sat next to her, holding out his hand. "I'm Jimmy Stone."

"Rose Tyler," she replied, shaking his hand.

"It's nice to meet you Rose Tyler. Why is a pretty thing like you sitting in the back where no one can see your gorgeous face?" Jimmy said with a soft smile.

Rose blushed, "it's my first day so kinda nervous."

Jimmy patted her shoulder gently. "It's ok; I'll show you the ropes."

"Thanks," Rose said, he looked to be the same age as Chris and Jack so that meant he had to be in the same grade as them, 10th. Jimmy continued to glance over at Rose multiple times throughout the hour of class; she really was gorgeous, but unfortunately he had a feeling she was already spoken for.

"So, if you're so nervous about your first day, how did you get through your first class?" Jimmy asked, truly curious.

"A friend of mine was in it, he usually helps me on my first."

"He sounds like a lucky guy if he can calm you that much," Jimmy said with a sweet smile.

"What do you mean but lucky?" Rose asked slightly confused.

Jimmy gave her a confused look. "Aren't you with him?"

"Oh, no David and I are just friends," Rose shook her head slightly.

Jimmy smiled slightly at this.

David found Latin interesting but his sister seemed to not understand the concept of learning by reading the myths and tales of the Latin culture and continued to annoy him.

"So happened with you and rose last night?"

"What do you mean?" David asked. Donna knew that he cared about Rose, but he didn't think that he had let on how much.

"Oh come on, you spent the night of there something must have happened between you," Donna said an exaggerated sigh.

"No, why would it?" David asked, hiding the fact he wanted something to happen and his disappointment that nothing did happen.

"You two," Donna sighed, "you're so thick you know."

"What's that supposed to mean?" he snapped.

Before Donna could replied the teacher glared at him quieting them. David gave his teacher and small smile as an apology before shooting a glare at Donna. Donna ignored his glare going back to vocab word search the teacher had given them. David went back to the assignment as well, counting down the hours until he would see Rose.

David groaned as he walked out of his class. After Latin with Donna he had gone to art and that ended up horribly. It wasn't that he wasn't any good at art, his teacher just didn't see the creativity in the art he did. David looked at the locker room door for a moment before entering. At least he would see Chris, but he didn't know if he could concentrate knowing that in the other half of the gym would be where Rose was and after that he would see her at lunch. He knew he was hopeless but they were only supposed to be friends so he stubbornly insisted that that was all his feelings were.

Meanwhile, Rose had finished changing into her outfit for PE. Jimmy seemed nice but she was still hesitant on talking to him, maybe it was just first day jitters still. So far Spanish had been the worst class for her because her anxiety gripped her so badly that she didn't concentrate at all. She had PE with Donna and Martha right now but it didn't seem to calm her nerves like David could. That's what she gets for being best friends with a guy.

Rose headed back out into the gym once changed to find Donna and Martha waiting for her. Martha saw Rose and smiled, waving to her friend.

"Hey," Rose smiled as she headed over to them.

"Hi, so how are things going so far?" Martha asked her.

"Pretty good so far," Rose shrugged.

Donna smirked as she saw the guys coming into the gym and walking over to the other side of the gym.

"Why is Jack here?" Donna asked.

"I think he said something about talking to the councilor and changing his schedule," Martha replied.

"He probably wouldn't mind changing all his classes to gym," Rose said, Jack was good at sports but more than likely it would because he enjoyed seeing the girls. Or boys as they suspect Jack was attracted to both genders. The girls laughed in agreement.

"Well, I have no problem looking at him," Donna said with a smirk.

"Oh my God. You like Jack!" Martha said with a smile.

"Yeah, but he's too much of a flirt, the bonehead," Donna laughed.

Donna elbowed Rose as Chris and David came into the room. Chris was slightly taller than his younger brother but it was obvious that David would end up being taller in the end. Chris was more defined and had a broader, filled chest then David; David didn't seem to have much muscle on him when you looked at him, but looks could be deceiving. Rose smiled waving over at the boys who had looked there way. David saw and waved back, almost self-consciously. Chris gave a lazy smile and waved before putting an arm over his brother's shoulders and directing him to the rest of the group.

"Can't say I'm looking forward to when Matt starts here next year," Donna said as a side note.

Martha covered her mouth in a laugh. "Those three are going to be a right terror," Martha said. "I'm afraid that Mel, sorry River, will be joining in on their antics as well."

Rose shivered, "don't even mention it, those two are bad enough sometime without Matt and River.

"I do recall you and David getting into quite some trouble yourselves," Martha said with a smirk.

Rose couldn't hide the smiled or the faint blush that crept into her cheeks. The girls laughed at their friend's reaction. They just loved teasing her about her and David, even though they were not a couple they sure acted like one. The girls went over to where the couch had walked in to figure out what they would be doing today. They did relatively little in gym on their first day and were soon dismissed to get change back into their normal cloths. Rose met up with Martha and Donna to wait for the boys so they could go to lunch together. Soon enough David, Chris, and Jack walked out to join the boys.

Jack smiled at them. "Ladies may I take you to lunch?" he joked.

David had already been moving towards Rose and after Jack said that David had grabbed Rose's hand.

"I don't think Mickey would be too happy with you taking Martha to lunch without him," David said in a sharp tone.

Martha rolled her eyes. Chris smirked at his little brothers actions.

"Who is doing what without me?" Mickey said as he joined them.

"Hey Rickey!" Chris said.

"It's-," Mickey started but was cut off Donna.

"Don't even bother after 7 years don't think he gonna stop now."

Chris smirked.

"Are we going to get food?" David asked after Martha took Mickey's hand and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Yes we are," Chris said leading the way to the cafeteria.

David rolled his eyes but couldn't help the smile that played on his lips. He walked after his brother, dragging Rose along by their connected hands. Mickey and Martha followed, holding hands as well. Jack turned to Donna.

"May I escort such a lovely lady as yourself to lunch?"

"You don't know when to give up do you?"

Jack smiled. "I will never give up on you my dear."

Donna smirked giving her head a shake, "come on then."

Jack grinned widely and gave her his arm to hold onto as he escorted her to lunch. She hooked her arm with his and they followed after the others. The seven of them got their food before sitting at a table. Donna sat down between Rose and Jack; David was between Rose and Chris; and Mickey and Martha were between Chris and Jack.

"How's classes been for you lot so far?" Chris asked as the settle into their lunch.

"Molto bene," David said happily, practically vibrating in his seat.

Martha spoke before David could go on one of his rambles. "It has been pretty good. The classes seem straight forward and the teachers seem to get along with you as long as you don't get on their bad side," she said, giving a pointed look at Rose, David, and Donna.

"What?" Donna glared slightly.

Martha shrugged. "You have a class with David and the only class he doesn't get into trouble in is PE, I just figured."

"Hey!" David said in retaliation, taking a bite of his chips.

Rose laughed softly at him, Jack and Chris also laughed harder.

"Oh like you two are saints," Donna told them.

Chris smirked. "Never claimed to be right Jack?" he asked his best friend.

"Nope," he smiled broadly. "No fun in that."

"So besides classes, what happens at this school?" Mickey asked, not looking forward to school just being classes; he was hoping there would be carnival days, or days that people could do what they wanted as long as they were in school, or something similar to that.

"Well, there are dances," Jack said, wiggling his eyebrows at Donna.

"Jack, stop," David and Chris said sternly at the same time.

He opened to reply but Donna had punched him the arm, "keep that up and you'll be dateless got it."

Everyone else at the table laughed.

"So what happens at the dances?" Martha asked, hoping Mickey would sweep her off her feet.

Chris shrugged. "I don't go to them."

"Don't know how to dance?" Jack teased.

"Me? Been around a while, I know how to dance."

"Mhmm," Jack hummed smirking before turning back to the original question, "basically they clear out the gym, decorate it, hire someone to DJ and there you go. There's sometimes a drink but I wouldn't touch it if was you."

"Why?" David asked in curiosity.

"Good bet someone else got there first and spiked it, it's usually just a bunch of Hawaiian punch any way."

David smiled. "It sounds like fun!" he said happily. He looked at each one of the people at the table before looking at Rose a moment longer. The bell interrupted their discussion. "I guess it's class time again," David said; he was having a good time just talking to them.

"Sounds like," Mickey said then gave Martha a kiss on the check, "see you on the bus, yeah."

Martha smiled. "Of course."

The group headed off in different directions, David walked with Rose as far as they could before they had to part ways to.

"So, see ya in an hour," Rose smiled at him.

David gave her a small smile that didn't reach his eyes. "Not if I see you first."

Rose smiled at him standing there a little longer before she forced herself to go to her next class. When Rose entered she spotted Jimmy sitting at an empty table. She still wasn't sure about him after lunch but it was better than with a complete stranger; plus it would seem rude to purposefully avoid him, so she headed over to his table. Jimmy looked at her and gave her a bright smile.

"Hi Rose. Did you have a good lunch?"

"Great, you?" she asked as she sat beside him.

"It was pretty good, though I think I enjoy talking with you quite a bit more than my other friends," Jimmy laughed. "You're interesting."

"Thanks," Rose said smiling shyly.

Jimmy gave her another smile before the teacher began to speak.

"Alright class, I hope you read the syllabus because we are diving in right now. I will put you all in pairs and you will work together on your first art assignment which is to find items can make the letters of the alphabet. For example, a tire could be used for the letter O or a light post that is curved can be used as an R," he said as he walked around, pointing a people that were to be paired together. The last pair was Rose and Jimmy. "Make sure to swap contact information and get to know each other. Take digital pictures of each item. We will do small in class activities in the meantime so you will need to meet up outside of class. This project is due in 3 weeks." Their teacher turned back towards the black board and began writing out a few words on the board: Masculine, Feminine, and Future. "I want you all to draw whatever comes first to your mind for each of these words, go."

The class began chatting amongst themselves as pairs learned each other's names and traded cell phone numbers. Jimmy smiled as he got Rose's number and gave her his.

"I promise I won't give it out to everyone," he said with a chuckle, trying to get her to relax a bit.

"Thanks," Rose smiled, "and I promise not to give yours out either."

"Thanks," he said, leaning towards her he whispered, "I wouldn't want people randomly calling me."

"Yeah be a bit of a surprise that," Rose smiled.

Jimmy turned back to his picture that he was drawing, glancing over at Rose every once in a while. After a couple minutes of the glancing at her, Rose had become nervous enough to ask. Looking back at him, she immediately got her answer without having to. Jimmy noticed she was looking at his paper and flushed slightly, not knowing what to say to her.

"You're pretty talented," Rose said when she realized she'd been caught.

"Thanks," he said happily.

Looking at his paper there was a drawing of how he saw himself under the word masculine; under feminine was a picture of Rose; he had yet to work on the picture for the word future. Rose went back to her own work; she's drawn a mother and child for feminine, but what she drew for future confused Jimmy. It was a blue police box; he had British history last year so he knew what it was.

"Rose, it's beautiful but why did you draw a blue police box?" Jimmy asked; a little confused.

Rose smiled at it, "when I was little, my friends and I a made police box out of boxes and would pretend it was a time machine. We called it the TARDIS."

Jimmy still looked confused but he had the twinkle of amusement in his eyes. "Is that so? Where did you and your friends pretend to go?"

"Everywhere, the moon and back, forwards and backwards in time," Rose smiled.

Jimmy chuckled. "Did you meet the queen of England?"

Rose giggled, "We did actually."

"Oh really? And how is the royal family? Learn any secrets?" Jimmy asked, raising an eyebrow.

"They're werewolves," Rose smiled.

"What?" Jimmy asked in mock surprise. "No way."

"Yep, Queen Victoria was bitten by an alien werewolf."

Jimmy laughed at this before noting the time. He began to pack his bags up. "I will make sure to call you later and set up a time for us to meet," he said with a smile before leaving.

"Right, meet," Rose said softly, well she was feeling better after this second hour with him so it would probably be ok.

Rose packed her things and head to her next class with David. David was waiting at the door to their class for her. He was rocking back and forth on his heels when she turned the corner. As soon as he saw her he gave her his megawatt smile.

Rose smiled back at him brightly " 'ello."

"Rose, I do believe that is improper English. Tsk. It is ok, I have the perfect solution. Mind walking with me to our English class?" David said in false seriousness.

Rose grinned, her tongue caught between her teeth to keep from laughing, "Shall we?"

David offered her his arm. Rose slipped hers into his and they headed to English. The two of them entered but their smiles fell as they saw that there were names on each of the tables. Both of them were at different tables in the back row, but luckily they just had the isle separating them, but they wouldn't be able to talk to each other like they did is science class earlier.

"Guess we're going to have to go back to a journal like in Mr. Baker's class," Rose said.

"I have a better idea," David said with a smirk.

The two of them went to the back where their seats were. David was to the right of Rose; to her left was the window. David searched through his back pack before pulling out a stack of sticky notes. He split the deck in half and gave one half to Rose. He crossed his right leg over his left so that his ankle was resting on top of his thigh. David grabbed his stack of sticky notes and put them on the bottom of his shoe before grabbing a pen. He looked forward as he wrote out: We can talk like this and when we are done with the note we can just pull it off and stick it in the notebook we are writing in or book we are reading.

Rose smiled mirroring him she wrote: we are going to use up a LOT of post its.

David smiled and opened his back pack so she could see in in it. Rose smiled; David's whole tote bag was filled with stacks of sticky notes. She wrote him another note: you so planned this.

David tugged on his ear. "Not exactly," he wrote.

"Mhmm," Rose wrote smirking, "then what with all the post its?"

David flushed and rubbed the back of his head before writing: Ok, maybe it was planned.

"Thought so," she wrote, "you won't tell me how you knew though will you."

"Chris may have mentioned that this teacher is bad about watching his class."

Rose smiled shaking her head. The rest of the class period the two of them continued to write notes back in forth and true to Chris's word their teacher didn't notice them. Once English was over they headed to their next class, history. Rose had a feeling this would be an interesting one. David walked in with an air of arrogance. History was probably his favorite subject; he was brilliant at all the subjects but if he had to choose his favorite it would be history.

"Everyone, take your seats," their teacher, a red headed female said to them.

There wasn't assigned seating so David and Rose sat beside each other. David had a goofy smile on his face. He always had a weird thing about liking red heads. Rose knew that David was going to do whatever he could in order to get her attention. It's not like anything would happen between them. She did worry that his attempts to get her attention may end with him in trouble.

"Welcome everyone to international history," their teacher, Mrs. Bennett, announced. "We will be starting with the Salem Witch trials that occurred in 1692."

Rose glanced at David who sat up slightly, she knew that look on his face. It was that look when a teacher said something wrong, that usually led to his correcting them.

"Don't," she hissed in warning, too late though David had already raised his hand.

"As you all know, the Salem Witch trials occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in the United States. 20 people were put to death by the methods of stoning, drowning, hanging, and burning at the stake," Mrs. Bennett rambled. She paused when she noticed David's hand up. "Yes?"

"Actually, in the Salem Witch trials, there was no burning at the stake and very rarely was someone stoned or drowned to death. Their preferred method of execution was hanging," David corrected smugly.

The teacher faltered for a moment. "Mr.?"

"David," he said.

"Mr. David, I do not like being corrected, especially when I know that the facts are based on truth," she said, crossing her arms.

David ignored the signs and pushed on. "Yes, but based on truth and truth are not the same thing. I would double check your sources before you continue on with your teachings. You wouldn't want to mislead us would you?"

Rose sighed, 'there went his interest in her,' she thought, not that bothered her it was just he would likely get in trouble in this class now. The woman was fuming.

"In that case how about you tell me what other myths you know," she said, tapping her foot.

David was oblivious that this was his final chance to get out of trouble. "You know in 1492 that Christopher Columbus traveled to prove the world was round correct?"

"Of course, during that time period the common belief was that the Earth was flat," she said matter of factly.

David made a buzzer noise. "Wrong. During the 1400's the flat-earth theory was taken about as seriously as, oh say, the Time Cube theory we have today. In fact, Columbus's navigational techniques were based on the fact that the Earth was a sphere. In addition, Columbus never actually found North America. Yes he got lost; yes he found new land, but he only explored South America," David rambled.

"Well, aren't you just Mr. Einstein then," she snapped, her patience disappearing.

"Oh, if you want to talk about Einstein, I'm sure you wouldn't know this with you being unable to correctly gather facts, but Einstein never actually failed math! Isn't that brilliant? He actually was very gifted in the subject and it was due to a rumor started by the Ripley's Believe it or Not series that Einstein failed at math," David said smugly.

The teacher's face was entirely red. "You have just earned yourself 3 detentions." With that being said she turned towards a stack of books she had and began handing them out. "This will be your new history book. Your assignment tonight is to read chapters 23 to 26."

"Did you really need to be rude," Rose whispered to him.

"I wasn't trying to be. I was just trying to help her be better at her job," David pouted.

"Yes but maybe wait till after class to tell her she was wrong."

"But then she may have forgotten what she had said and wouldn't really know what to correct," David said shyly, knowing that Rose was right but not wanting to admit it.

Rose smirked at him, "if you say so."

David smiled at her. "You know what would be better?"

"What's that?"

"You being in detention with me."

"Till we got a detention while in detention."

David smirked with mischief.

"Do you need help getting into detention?" he asked her, wadding up a paper.

"I think rather not be in it at all."

David pouted. "But I will be bored."

"Shouldn't have been rude then," she smirked.

David was about to respond but stopped at the look from the teacher. Rose smiled at him before getting started on reading. David grumbled but began reading as well but he started on chapter one. Not 5 minutes into the reading had he read 20 pages and every page had at least 1 marked correction.

"David," rose whispered.

"What now?" he asked, slightly annoyed.

"Why are you marking in the book," rose glanced toward the teacher to be sure she didn't see.

"There are so many historical inaccuracies, frankly it's disturbing that they teach from this book," David said in horror.

"You're still trying to figure out what you want to be yeah?"

David gave her a confused look.

"What you want to do when you leave school I mean."

David thought for a moment. "Besides travel with my best friend?" he asked with a smile towards her, knowing she picked up on their secret code. "Maybe teach. I'm not sure if I will teach history or science."

Rose smirked, "who says you couldn't do both."

A wide smile spread across his face. "Rose Tyler, you are brilliant. What about you?"

"I'd like to help people, police officer I suppose."

David smiled at her. No doubt she would make a wonderful police officer. After class was over, Mrs. Bennett gave David a slip that told him his three detentions would be served tomorrow before school, during lunch, and after school. Rose and David walked to music class together. David for one was excited about this class because Chris had told him that they would have to learn at least two instruments this semester as well as perform a solo in one of the concerts that the choir held.

"So how do you think your mum and dad are gonna take you getting detentions on your first day?" Rose asked as they walked.

David groaned. "I don't know and I'm not looking forward to finding out. Maybe I won't tell them."

"Then what are you going to tell them when they ask why you need to go to school early and stay late?"

David smiled. "Chris had soccer."

"Have they started that already?" Rose questioned.

David shrugged. "He could want to practice for tryouts."

"That'll work for earlier, how about later you hang out with me," Rose smiled at him, he should tell them but he'd help her out before so this was payback.

David gave her a small smile. "Well I wouldn't want to lie to them so why don't I actually hang out with you after detention?"

Rose smiled. "How are you getting here early though?"

"I will cash in one of my favors in with Chris. He will cover with coming to practice soccer and is taking me with him because I want to watch," he said like he was clever.

"Which favor is this for?" Rose asked curiously.

David smirked at the memory. "He almost forgot to take a banana to a party and with his low potassium levels it would have been a disaster."

Rose laughed softly as they reached their room. David opened the door for her. "Ladies first."

"Thanks," Rose said, heading in.

David followed after. Their class was fairly small so the teacher arranged the desks in two semicircular rows and allowed the students to sit where they wanted. Their teacher was young and had dark brown hair.

"Hello," Clara said to her class with a smile.

"Hello," the class responded.

"Welcome to music where I hope all of you can have a fun but educational time before the school day ends."

Rose smiled softly; so far she liked this teacher. Their teacher wrote her name on the bored and informed them just to call her Clara. Clara began to hand a piece of paper out to each student. It had a list of assignments and projects that would be done throughout the year and when each due date for certain levels of their projects were due. At the bottom there was a rip able part that asked for two instruments they would like to learn to play.

"As you can tell, this is last year's schedule. I've done some changing around. You are only required to learn one instrument and the solo is optional, but you will receive extra credit by doing a solo at assemblies. If you would like to learn more than one instrument then you may but it is not required and will have to be done on your own time. Any questions?"

Rose glanced around the room but no one raised they're hands. David had a mischievous smirk on his face; thoughts could be seen going through his head.

"David?" Rose whispered.

"What?" David whispered back.

"You're up to something, what are you thinking?"

"I just wanted to show off my brilliance."

"And you remember what you got last time yeah?"

David flinched and paled slightly. He already had 3 detentions under his belt and it was only the first day. He thought for a second and agreed with Rose that it would be best to just lay low for a while and not get into any more trouble, but Rose was jeopardy friendly so he knew that wasn't going to last long. David tapped his pencil against his lips. He couldn't figure out what instrument he would like to learn. He knew how to play the piano already because his mother insisted in all of them learning, but Chris knew how to play bass so maybe he should learn how to play the guitar. David smirked at the two thoughts that entered his mind. Women dig guys with guitars, maybe Rose would too; this thought was stopped as soon as it entered because Rose was his best friend. His other thought was maybe if he could get Matt to learn drums him and his siblings could start their own band, but that would be a long shot. Rose was looking over the list also, she was thinking about learning the piano. She didn't have a piano though so she would have trouble with practice, but there was a piano at David's and if she was having trouble she could probably get him to help her. David wrote down guitar and smiled at seeing Rose wanted to learn piano.

"It's alright if I use your guys' piano to practice on yeah?" Rose asked catching him looking.

"Of course! Wouldn't have it any other way," David said excitedly.

Rose smiled at him, "thanks."

Clara collected the papers and looked over them. "Since I don't have anything planned you all are allowed to talk among yourselves for the remainder of the class."

"So did you have any homework in you other classes?"

David looked up, obviously thinking. "No science homework today, I got Latin done in class, art I have to finish my drawing, math was easy and got that finished quickly, I finished the reading for both English and history, so just art," David said, moving to get his paper out of his bag but froze. He remembered what he drew and he felt slightly embarrassed.

"I should probably finish that too."

David pulled his out, it was only fair that he got to see his if she got to see his. If he was honest with himself he knew he was just really interested and curious t see what she had drawn.

Rose retrieved hers for she looked over at his. She smiled at the picture for feminine, it was his mother holding a baby Matt, "he was so little then."

"Yeah, we were lucky that he was able to survive being premature a few weeks and with all the complications. I think that's where most of his quirks came from."

"You don't think some of his big brother's quirks may have rubbed off on him?" Rose nudged him smirking.

David forged a hurt look. "Are you saying I'm weird Rose Tyler?"

"But that's what makes you who you are isn't?" she smiled.

David gave her an adoring smile. He looked at her drawing and his smile widened when he saw the picture of the TARDIS.

"Don't you still have it in the attic?" Rose asked.

"Would you like to find out? You can come over after school," David said, taking her hand in his.

Rose nodded, "sounds like fun, I'll call my mum to tell her when schools out."

David squeezed her hand before letting go to draw. By the end of the class Rose had finished both the future and the feminine pictures but still couldn't think of what to put for masculine. Well not quite she had thought of drawing David but with him sitting right next to her she felt too embarrassed to. David and Rose got their things from their locker and walked outside to wait for Chris, Donna, and Jack.

"I'll go call my mom real quick," Rose told him.

David nodded. He watched as she walked away slightly to call before turning towards the front of the building where the three people they were waiting for came out. He smiled and waved at them.

"Ello?" her mum's voice answered.

"Hey mum."

"Ello sweetheart, how was your first day?" Jackie Tyler asked her.

"Fine, I was just calling to let you know I was going to David's for a bit."

"Ok dear just call when you want me or your dad to come get you."

"Okay, love ya."

"Love ya too dear. Have fun."

Rose hung up and smiled at David. "She said it was ok," she said as she walked over towards the group.

"Eh, what gives you the right to offer rides in my car home without asking me first?" Chris asked with a glare.

David smiled at him with his puppy dog eyes, knowing that Chris was just messing with him.

Chris sighed. "Fine, just this once you stupid ape," he said, fondly ruffling David's hair.

"Thank you," Rose told him.

Chris gave her a small and rare smile. Chris dug his keys out of his black leather jacket and they began walking towards the dark blue DeLorean. Not many knew about his obsession with the Back to the Future series. The five them got in the car, Chris drove and Jack took shotgun while Donna, Rose and David squeezed into the back.

"Oi, Donna scoot over," David said with a bit of laughter in his voice as he playfully crushed her to the door.

"Oi, watch it space boy," Donna barked back at her twin.

"You sure you still don't want sit up here with me?" Jack smiled back at Rose.

It instantly got David's attention but he tried not to let it show as he continued to banter with Donna.

"I think I can make it to the house," Rose smiled back.

David inwardly relaxed. During the drive home he continued to tease both Donna and Chris and they all talked about their day. Sometime during the ride David's hand unconsciously took Rose's hand.