A/N: Only 9 chapters and 108 reviews...you guys are the absolute BEST! Thank you so much! :D

p.s. You might want to have Google translate ready ;)

Chapter 10

"Hallo, Klasse!"

"Hallo," we responded.

Fraulein (Ms.) Schneider smiled at us. "Today we are only going to review for tomorrow's quiz. I want you all to pair off in two's and work on Aktivität zwei auf seite zwanzig."

I mentally translated that she wanted us to work on Activity Two on page twenty.

Nick was absent today, and even if he was here I doubt Fraulein Schneider would let him work with me. Since he's new, the teacher wanted to get him caught up with us as quickly as possible, and that required him to go to her whenever we worked in speaking activities.

Without Nick, I had no friends in this class. Jimmy wanted to take French (something about wanting to be like Charles Boyer), and Alex ventured into the Spanish world, claiming that it'd be the easier language to learn.

German is hard to learn; it's different and not many people can speak it in our country. That's why I was eager to take it.

"Want to work together?"

And I'm guessing that's why Darren wished to take it as well.

I had no one else, so I let him be my partner. He sat down in the chair in front of me, turning to face me.

"Möchten Sie zuerst gehen wollen, oder sollte ich?"

I stared blankly at him. "Huh?"

He smirked, "would you like to go first, or should I?"

"Um, you can go," I replied, slightly embarrased. I only knew the basics of German, what Fraulein Schneider has taught us so far. But somehow Darren was a whiz at it, he was the best speaker in the class besides the teacher. I couldn't deny that deep down I was impressed.

Darren's eyebrows furrowed as he looked down at the book in his hands, concentrating on what the book wanted us to say. I kind of liked his 'thinking face.'

Snap out of it, Rose! You have a boyfriend! Someone should just paint a scarlet A on your chest right now!

Okay...maybe I tended to go to the extreme in my mind a little.

When I looked up from my book Darren was staring at me.

Oh crap, did I just completely space out? What did he say?!

"Do you need me to repeat it?" he grinned.

I sighed in dejection, "please."

He chuckled, "mein name ist Darren, was ist Ihre?"

My name is Darren, what is yours?

Okay, easy! I smiled almost triumphantly, "mein name ist Rosalyn."

"Schön sie kennen zu lernen."

I knew this too! Nice to meet you.

"Ebenso." Likewise.

"Ich bin ein zauberer."

I'm a what? "Huh?" He wasn't getting this from the book.

He grinned, "und du bist eine hexe, eine sehr schöne noch dazu."

I had no clue what he was saying. "Ich mag zu lesen," I responded lamely. I like to read.

Darren snickered, "du bist auch sehr unerfahren, wenn es um magie geht, und natürlich Deutsch. Na ja, man mit der Zeit lernen Sie."

"You better not be insulting me in German," I glared at him.

He chuckled, shaking his head. Then he sobered, looking in my eyes and lowering his voice.

"Warum sollte ich Sie beleidigen, wenn Ich liebe dich?"

I had no idea what he said, but it sounded serious and sent a chill up my spine...the good kind.

I gulped, "um...danke?" I guess saying 'thank you' to someone when you don't know what they said is a safe enough response.

Darren grinned mischievously, the top row of his white teeth being exposed in the process. "Du bist willkommen, meine Königin."

"And then he was speaking in mad fast German to me, but I have no idea what he said," I explained to Jimmy and Alex at lunch.

"Can you repeat it? Maybe we can look it up on Google translate," Jimmy suggested.

I shook my head, "I can't. I don't know the meaning of his words...or remember what the actual words were. It's killing me!"

"He probably insulted your swimming or something," Alex rolled her eyes. "Just forget about it."

Maybe she was right, maybe he was just being stupid and insulting my swimming. So why did every fibre of my being protest against the idea?

"How does he even know all that German?" Alex questioned, "I mean, he started learning it at the same time you did."

"Maybe he takes lessons," I shrugged, "I doubt it was magic, he was too quick at the language. In the beginning of the activity he was switching from German to English with ease. There's no doubt that he knows it very well."

"I wish I was as good at Spanish as he is with German, this stuff is hard!" Alex complained.

"Pauvre fille," Jimmy mused in French, smirking at Alex.

"Shuto upo!" she growled.

I laughed quietly to myself.

At the beginning of swim practice, Nick texted me, apologizing for his absence. He said he had a family matter to attend to. Before I exited the locker room, I quickly sent a text back saying that it was okay and I hoped everything was alright.

Coach Barbara, or Barb as we called her, made us do the usual laps and strokes. When it came time for our drink break (did you actually think we drank the water from the pool? That's just gross.) I talked to Jimmy quietly.

"Are you good in French? Like, do you know a lot of words?"

He gave me a confused face, "I guess I know some phrases. Why do you ask?"

"I was thinking of when Darren was potentially insulting me in German. Since he can't possibly know French too, can you tell me an insult in French that I could call him?"

Jimmy thought for a minute. "Hmm...well, I do know that porc means pig."

"Anything else?" I asked. I really didn't want to call him something that would make me sound juvenile.

"Ooh!" he brightened, "I remember Paul was looking up random words on Google translate, and one of them was secousse, or jerk."

"Secousse," I repeated to myself, "secousse." I had to master the word if I was going to call Darren it.

"Good luck," Jimmy chuckled as I walked back to the pool.

At the end of practice, I had just come out of the locker room when I noticed Darren and Coach Barb talking. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I assumed it was about swimming stuff.

"Is she coming along well?" Barbara asked.

I smiled, "very well. Agamemnon told me so."

"Wonderful. Do you think she'll be ready?"

"Definitely. As long as she agrees, of course."

She groaned. "I don't understand why you don't just tell her how it is, Darren. She needs to realize her role in this."

I sighed, closing my eyes and pinching the bridge of my nose with my thumb and forefinger. "I simply made my choice, she never agreed to it. Hell, she doesn't even have a clue of what's going on. I'll tell her when she's ready, and also tell her of my request."

"Request? Why don't you just force her into the role?"

I glared at her, gritting my teeth. "I will never force her into anything she doesn't want to do. I want her to love me and enjoy her role, not hate me and feel trapped."

Barbara sighed, "fine. But please try to hurry, we're running out of time. It could happen any day now."

"I know. You three tell me so everyday."

Barbara gave me a good-bye and good luck, then walked away. Then I saw Rose herself walking towards me, wearing a scowl. I grinned, anticipating of what she was going to come at me with.

She poked a finger on my t-shirt clad chest. "Secousse!"

Hm, I guess Jimmy must have taught her that word. I smirked, it would take a lot to one-up me.

"Et vous avez de jolis yeux," I replied in perfect French.

She looked shocked at my response. I knew she was most likely thinking how in the world I knew three languages. The thought enough made me snicker.

"Dummkopf!" she retorted in anger, switching back to German.

I leaned in close to her face, enough to make her breath hitch. "Ich liebe dich."

Her eyebrows furrowed, "Ich liebe dich, too!" she bit back, then grinned in apparent victory.

I smirked, a chuckle escaping from my lips. "super, jetzt alles, was ich zu tun ist, hören Sie es auf Englisch sagen."

She looked dumbfounded, I knew she was wondering what I said. I smiled and shook my head, "come on, let's get you home. Providing you want to walk with me, that is."

I thought about it. Darren may have been annoying with me all day with all the German and just now some French, but overall he's been, dare I say it, nice. He's even letting me choose of whether or not I wanted to walk home with him. I knew Nick wouldn't mind, after all, nothing was going to happen.

"Sure."

A/N: I bet you're all wondering of what Darren was saying in German and that one French line! How does he know three languages? Does he know any more? Is he just interested in learning new languages, or is it something else? ;)

I got all the German and French words from google translate. However, dummkopf means 'idiot' or 'stupid head' in German...I didn't mean it as the word that shows up on google translate.

lizzydreamlove: But Nick seems like such a nice guy ;)

lovethatignites: Thank you! Honestly I felt that it wasn't that great, so I was relieved when you said that XD Hmm, I'll try to fit in Gigi and Sebastian! Maybe I'll have a PTA meeting chapter? :)

tierrayaoi: I can only imagine what this chapter did to your feels XD

5mairer: Maybe? I don't know ;)

TotallyCray-Cray: Yep, Darren is his name!

Roseren Shipper: I think it's obvious who you ship XD

Guest: Thank you! :)

alli211: Thank you! :D

ILoveEWW: They're not really that important to the story, I might feature them in a future chapter. EWW is having a season 4. I don't know the other answers to your questions, though.

delightisadream: Sure, you can refer to him as that XD

Every witch way jemma fan: Thank you! :D

Jemmalover1: Rose is being pretty hard-headed ;)

Guest: Sorry, I can't answer that ;)