For Rose, school had become easier. Subjects were slowly becoming less annoying, and the students were all really friendly. Well, almost everyone.

A boy, in the same grade as her, was horrid as can be. His name was Harry Saxon. Rose knew hardly anything about him, except for what she picked up from Martha and Jack.

He was a blonde, with a habit of wearing hoodies and tended to act terrible. But somehow, he had a girlfriend. Her name was Lucy, but Rose knew nothing about her.

Harry had apparently used to be David best friend. According to Jack, they had acted like brothers once upon a time. For some reason, they had a falling out, and Harry now hated David with everything he had.

Rose first met him, when David, Jack, Martha and her arrived to their Music\Drama class. The teacher, a Mr McGann, was busy preparing instruments for their practical lesson, when Harry sat next to Rose.

"Harry Saxon" He said, pushing his hand into hers, to form a hand shake. "I haven't seen you around before, are you new?"

Rose was a bit put off on this, but greeted him politely in turn.

"I'm Rose. And yeah, I moved a couple weeks back." She smiled

"You got any friends?" He looked around "I hope not with girly and the freak there" He said, pointing to where Martha and Jack were standing, "I gave them those nicknames ages ago, but I'm still not sure which is which."

Rose was shocked. She didn't expect someone to be rude to her friends.

"Actually, yeah. I'm friends with them." Rose spoke, bluntly.

"Damn, next you'll be telling me you're friends with the Smith idiots." He muttered

"As a matter of fact, I am. Do you have a problem with that?" Rose asked, standing up to move seats.

"Yes I do, actually" He spoke strongly, grabbing Roses hand, pulling her back down into her seat.

This was the moment David came along, after helping the teacher. He looked to Harry and then to his grasp on Roses hand.

"What do you want Harry?" David asked, standing in front of his desk, his eyes darkening by the second.

"Oh you know, the usual. Just trying to warn this girl from your stupidity." Saxon said, leaning back in his chair after letting go of Roses hand.

"Leave her alone." David said hardly.

"Let me think about it….. Uhmmmm. No, your not the boss of me Smith. I talk to whatever blonde chav I want!" He laughed out loud, before crossing his arms

"Well, this blonde 'chav' is going to slap you if you don't leave her the hell alone." Rose said quite angrily.

"Ah, the lovely teasing between lovers" Harry sang as he stood up and moved away. "'Till next time, my fair Rose."

Rose ignored him, and looked to David, asking for an explanation, which she never got.

"Sorry about him," David said as he walked around to sit where Harry was before. "Hes a bit…. Different."

"Yeah, I noticed."


"Rose! I got your report sweetheart!" Roses mother called from the kitchen "You've done so well!"

"That's great Mum!" Rose smiled, hugging her mother as she came in the room

"Now aren't you glad I told you to join that study group? I knew you would do better, but are you going to give me a word of thanks? Probably not! So do you know what happened today? Ben from the newsagency said…"

Rose was no longer listening to Jackie prattle on about something Ben had said, but rather looking through the mail. She noticed she had a letter.

"Mum, you didn't mention I had mail." Rose spoke

"Well, no, but I was going to tell ya after dinner!" Jackie replied, before starting off on her story again

It was an envelope, just plain white with the postal stamp, Roses initials, and her address on the front.

She opened it up to see a folded up piece of paper. She unfolded it, to see the words 'VOTE SAXON'.

That horrid boy was running for student council president, and needed the votes of the majority of the student body to win. Regardless of the fact that he's an insolent prick, he was most likely to get the role.


The bus was the most annoying way to get to school. If the school was closer, Rose would rather walk. The only good thing about catching it was that Martha was there. The darker skinned girl would still sit in the back of the bus, with her medical textbook out, and mostly not talk to Rose unless Rose started the conversation.

But today, Rose was happy to find that David was leaning against his car near her bus stop.

"Hello" Rose smiled brilliantly towards him

"Hello" David replied, moving from where he was sitting, to open the car door for Rose

"Do you usually pick girls up? Or just me?" Rose teased as he shut the door behind her, and moved around to his side of the car.

"Just you…. Well, I used to take…. Oh nevermind" David began, as he got in

"No, I wanna hear it" Rose elbowed him in the side as he started the car

"I used to take my exgripferand.." David mumbled

"Huh?"

"My…. Exgirlfriend…." David spoke a bit clearer, but was still mumbling.

"Oh…" Rose said

"Yeah" David mumbled "She was from France, and didn't know too much about the bus service here…. And also hated going near 'commoners'. She was from royal descent and thought she was better than everyone else… That's kind of why we aren't together" He said, scratching the back of his head.

"That's good," Rose laughed "Not that its good that she thought she was better than everyone else! Just, that is good that you aren't stuck with someone like that!"

"What about you?" David asked shyly" "Are you with anyone?"

"Nah, I was with this one bloke, but he was a downright douchebag. He almost caused me to drop out of school!" Rose smirked "I'm glad I broke up with him when I did, otherwise, I'd just be a shopgirl with no A Levels for the rest of my life."

"That's good, that you got out of that relationship when you did, I mean." He spoke, embarrassedly "Is, is that why you moved?"

"Yeah, everything got a bit out of hand, and in the end, I had to move." Rose looked away, trying not to put too much memory of the incidents to come out.

"I'm sorry to hear that, but surely it was because of good reason."

And with that, they had arrived at school.

"Did you hear that Harry Saxon is running for Student Council President?" Rose asked him

"Yeah, got sent his usual poster in the mail… I'm assuming you did too?" He assumed

"Yeah I did. He does that every year?" Rose asked, confused

"Ever since he found out that I was president one year." David said

"And how was that? Being president I mean." Rose pondered

"Well, to be honest, I don't remember much… I quit as soon as I found out." He spoke

"So what, everyone voted for you without you knowing?" Rose asked, greatly confused

"Well, yeah. I'm pretty oblivious, you know that."

"Yeah, that's pretty obvious" Rose laughed while David looked at her.

Soon they were both laughing.

They continued to laugh, until it cause Rose to snort, which in turn, cause them to laugh even further.

Rose looked to David while they slowly stopped laughing over something that obviously wasn't funny. David saw Rose looking at him, when he started smiling, and slowly began to leave.

"I'll uh, see you later?" He asked

"Yeah" She smiled

"Yeah" He smiled back at her before leaving for his first class.


A/N: Short chapter… sorry

I'm stuck on what to do, and I don't know how to put the lovely Ponds in…. I'm probably gonna put Rose into a troubling situation and have them save her… somehow…. Hopefully something Roman…

Anyways, thank you for all the support with this fanfiction! You are all so very lovely!

Oncoming Eternal Storm Wolf: I'm going to have to choose Ten for Rose… I just, love them so much! I love Nine and Rose together though!
Jackie being Jackie, wouldn't really approve at first, but I sure she'll come around when she sees how happy Rose will be. And yeah, tension all round!

Nortega: Thank you a lot!

allonsy-wolf: I spent a lot of time trying to work out where to put the Ponds in… I guess it'll have to wait :C

Goddess97: I try to put references in, because I'm extremely lame and can't think of any other jokes