"Ok from now on no more detention!" She nodded to herself at her own declaration. "But that's what I said last week…"

She straightened out her hunched back, lifted her chin, and tightened her grip on her school bag. It was Friday on a fresh Spring day but while her friends were off at the arcade or something she was off to schlump home and do the extra practice sheets her Math teacher had assigned her. She balled up her fist and thumped herself in the head a few times, "Stupid Math, its too hard!"

She paused, it had been a long time since she hadn't walked home with her group of friends, they always had clubs and could stay with her. Lita with cooking, Amyin her extra biotech classes, Mina and volleyball, and Raye didn't even go to there school but she would still come over sometimes. She could just cut around the parking lot and take the back road home, it would be even lonelier to go and take the long way home.

She did an abrupt three sixty and marched towards the back of the school her back towards the setting sun. What right did the teacher have keeping them this late? It was almost dark!

As she crossed from the pavement, to the grass, to the asphalt of the parking lot she heard a haunting tune.

As late as it was there were only a few parked cars that were placed in discarded corners of the area, the place was empty.

She scanned the surrounding area and then looked up behind her at the roof to see a figure standing on the edge, twirlin , playing the flute.

"Sir, please stop you'll get hurt!" The sun only cast his face into a dark shadow and he stood to the very edge daring her, beckoning her for a further action.

"Please. Don't hurt yourself! If you want me to leave I'll go but stop doing such dangerous things! You should get down from there!"

The figure stopped, though the haunting melody played on, and suddenly flipped of the roof.

Serena's hands fell to her mouth, he would die.

But instead he landed perfectly fine on the black ground in front of her hand still placed in playing position. It was beautiful but definitely not human.

"Alan?"

"Your wish is my command, Princess."

She gasped, "Princess?"

"Well, you're like a princess to me."

A deep blush rose from her neck to her temple. "You always flatter me too much…", She spoke half into her shoulder because she had turned so far away from him, too nervous to see his face.

"I take it you had detention?"

"Yes…people say I've been there longer than the gum under Mr. Tayoshi's desk." She laughed softly to herself.

His eyes softened. "That's not nice for people to say. Who said that?"

She waved her hand in front of him, "Nobody, everybody, it was so long ago even I don't remember but its true. Math, Science, I don't study enough, don't do my homework. I'm even failing dance I'm so clumsy."

"Clumsy? But you're the most graceful person I know."

"Alan. You don't have to lie to me to make me feel better. I know it true, everyone says it and I do fall, all the time, really."

He stepped back and placed the flute at his mouth, "Dance."

She laughed, scratching the back of her head, "I can't, it's getting late and I hate when people watch me I get nervous, I can't move, and then-well-you know I fall."

He closed his eyes, "No one is here. Dance." He played the same melody again just softer, slower.

She just stood there watching him to see if he was being serious and took two loud steps back seeing if he would peek. She turned and ran in place but his eyes didn't even flutter, he just continued to play.

"Well I guess…if no one is watching."

She circled him in long awaked steps before she closed her eyes and listened to the music.

Its almost like a song they would play in the Silver Millenium

She could see herself waltzing, turning, and laughing in the long flowing dress that was her favorite to wear to balls. He feet finally coordinated with the memory and she rose on tippy toe spun leapt, and turned, caught in the vision of her old life.

Alan played louder, picking up the pace of the music, and she continued dancing around him so fast her hair created one seemed to be one continuous golden loop.

As she bounded into the air once again for one long note she landed awkwardly and fell bracing herself with her palms and knees.

"Ouch."

The music suddenly stopped, and Alan dropped the flute to rush to her. "What happened?"

"I'm clumsy, I just tripped."

"Who says?"

"I say. I just tripped, just now."

He smiled softly at her, "Who says your clumsy?"

"Everyone. I do. Its true."

She brushed off the bits of gravel in her hands and winced when she stood on skinned knees.

"Let me help you."

"Its ok Allen. You don't need to help. I'm fine, really, so don't look at me with such sad eyes. Please. It makes me sad." She turned to look up at the sky which was turning a shades of violets and pinks. "Its late anyway I have to go home, my Mom's probably worried and my phone is dead."

"But your not clumsy you dance like an angel, if you would only-"

"I thought you said you weren't looking?" She let out a heavy sigh picked up her bag and limped off, "See you."

"Serena I-"

He what? He didn't know what to say, Ann was never so…delicate. She ran his fingers through his light brown hair, frustrated. He turned to pick up his flute, his instrument that had until very recently never touched the ground. He heard steps behind him but before he turned around he felt her finger tapping him out of the breath.

She bowed quickly, her breath a little uneven from the run.

"I forgot to say thank you. So thank you." She suddenly turned and ran of towards her house, slowing down so she could cup her hands around her mouth and yell: "We should do this again next time I have detention, OK?"

He smiled waving to her. "Next time"

-Chapter End-

Thanks so much for the reviews, visitors, and favorites in my last chapter. I thought Allen and Serena really didn't get much of a chance with his whole alien thing and what not so I decided to give them a little time. Tell me what you thought! Read and Review.