Disclaimer: Same as chapter 1.

Chapter 2: New

Over the next week, Zander had completely ignored Sky. He was acting like a complete baby, in her opinion. She had upset him about something but he wouldn't talk about what had him so upset with her. He acted like her asking him was such a huge inconvenience and she was apparently nagging him. He had been completely different when they first started dating three months ago. She thought it might have something to do with the fact that she has refused to take their relationship to the next level, as he put it.

By the time she arrived to the school, her car not acting up at all since she and her father had looked at it the day before, he was no were to be seen. She didn't know it yet, but he skipped school that day, probably trying to avoid Sky once again.

She caught up with Chloe and the girls inside the school gym, which was kind of the popular hang out if you weren't eating whatever the cafeteria was serving that day.

"Oh, my god, Sky. Did you hear?" Charlotte started, over dramatically as she almost always was.

"No," Skylar answered laughing softly, "…hear what?"

"There are new students." Penny said bored, Sky guessed this same conversation had been brought up before.

"Okay." Sky said slowly before she changed the subject. Sure her school was small and didn't often get new students, but her mind was distracted by two guys and new student's didn't seem all that interesting to her at the moment. "Have you seen Zander? I need to talk to him." She asked Chloe or anyone who knew.

"No." Chloe answered simply. She really wanted to ask what Sky need to talk to him about, get all the gossip she could. Gossip was what teenagers lived for after all.

"Never mind that, you should totally go check out the new kids." Charlotte attempted to change the subject once again to the new students in school. "They are all gorgeous."

Sky shrugged. "Not as gorgeous as the stranger I made out with, I bet." All thoughts of Zander and possible repercussions of letting her secret out left her mind altogether as she thought of the complete stranger once again.

"Wait, what?" Penny brightened up at the new, juicy gossip Sky had provided her.

Yes, technically, she had cheated on Zander. But in her defense that stranger was incredibly hot and impossible to resist. She didn't care what people thought of her; she has been living her life the way she wanted to, and at that moment, she really wanted to kiss him.

"Yes, it was so wrong, and so hot!" Sky whispered rather loudly to her small group of friends. She had a giant smile on her face, just thinking about that kiss.

"What? Why didn't you tell us before?" Chloe exclaimed excitedly.

"I don't know, I was too busy trying to figure out what was shoved up Zander's ass to think about anything else."

"Give us all the details." Charlotte said excitedly.

Sky did not have any more time to gossip with her friends, the bell rang demanding students to get to their classrooms. Her first class of the day was English, but it wasn't until her third period, which happened to be Chemistry class, that she was faced with one of the new students. She had to admit: she was jealous of the girl's beauty, her flawlessness. The new student was sitting in the seat beside Sky's usual one, the exact seat that Chloe often sat at, when she arrived in the room for her science class.

Skylar took her seat beside the flawless beauty. She didn't expect the new girl to strike up a conversation with her, so she was surprised when the dark, pixie haired girl turned towards Sky and said something in a voice that was like melted honey on toast. "Hi, I'm Alice."

"Yeah, you're one of the new students, right?" Skylar didn't really wait for an answer though, of course she was new. "I'm Skylar, everyone calls me Sky though."

Alice smiled brightly at the other girl, if Skylar wasn't completely sure of her sexuality, she'd swear she had a crush on the girl beside her. Her golden eyes reminder her so much of the stranger she felt so connected to.

"So you're a cheerleader?" Alice asked, referring to Sky's outfit for the day.

One of the biggest football games of the year was happening that afternoon, they were hosting their rivals. Because of this, the school had decided to hold a pep rally in their last period of the day. For some reason, the team was required to wear their cheerleading uniforms all day on pep rally days.

"Yeah, thought it would be fun." Sky shrugged.

"Is it?"

Sky smirked at Alice, "It's fun enough for me to stay on the team." Shy would never admit it, especially to a person she just met, but she really does enjoy cheerleading. It gave her a sense of normalcy after she woke up from a coma.

The answer seemed to please the other girl, at least it ended her questions. Both of the girl's looked back towards the front of the classroom. The lesson passed by quickly and soon the bell was ringing.

While Sky was packing away her books, she caught Alice looking at her once again (she had been occasionally glancing at the girl throughout the lesson). Sky looked up and caught the other girl's eye as she raised an eyebrow at the tiny pixie. "You know, it's usually the new girl getting the stares." Sky joked with the girl and gave a small laugh to let the pixie know she was just joking.

"I'm sorry." The way the girl was acting, Sky thought she would be blushing but Alice's cheeks remained the same pale complexion. Sky noted the lack of color which seemed to contrast with her attitude, assuming the girl was over exaggerating her embarrassment. "You just look exactly like my sister did."

"Did?"

"She died a few years ago."

"I'm sorry." She had wanted to mention about her close call with Death as well, but she didn't think it was appropriate to bring it up at the moment either. So she left it at the simple 'I'm sorry,' as the two left the classroom and split ways.

Sky couldn't shake the feeling the news of the demise of Alice's sister had given her, throughout her Calculus class she kept thinking of how the other girl in their world, who looks like her, had not made it to see it today. She was returned to the moment she woke up and how incredibly happy she had been, but this other girl had either been taken from this world without her approval or otherwise. She could never get the second chance as Sky had been given. It was a little unnerving how they apparently looked similar and had experienced similar situations.

All too quickly, the bell that signaled lunch was beginning. Skylar backed away her things once again as she headed for the gym. She and the other cheerleaders were going to eat a quick lunch there before they had one last practice for the day's events.