AN: Sorry! I’m still on writer’s block, so I haven’t been updating BL or DN…*someone chucks a shoe*Noooo! Forgive me! Anyway, I wrote this. It’s AU and Holly and everyone else are human. There’s no fairy involvement at all. Hey, I had to take a break from writing supernatural stuff…and sorry for the lame title!

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Atlanta, Georgia, Riverwood High School

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“Holly! Wake up! If the teacher catches you sleeping in class again…” Someone shook Holly’s shoulder hurriedly. “Oops. Too late!”

“Miss Short! What to you think you are doing?” Holly felt a sharp blow to the head and jerked up, only to meet their cranky math teacher, Mrs. Phillips, staring furiously at her. The gaze Mrs. Phillips shot felt intense enough to singe a hole in the wall, but Holly just yawned and put her head down again.

“What does it look like I’m doing?” Holly smirked. “You have eyes. Use them” A couple of students in the back snickered. No one messed with the Holly Short, as this substitute teacher was about to find out.

“All right” The teacher snarles. “Let’s see how you like it…in detentio-”

Smack!

Mrs. Phillips fell to the floor. Holly sat, tucking away a slingshot.

“Wow…she tripped over a binder, or at least that’s what I saw…right?” Holly cracked her knuckles threateningly.

“Y-yes” The rest of the class stammered in unison. Holly fell asleep and napped for the rest of the period until the bell rang. Gossip ran through the halls.

“Wow. She’s scary…”

“You mean you didn’t know? She’s Holly Short who moved here two days ago. And she’s currently the co-captain of the karate team and captain of the wrestling team! Or at least from what I heard”

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After school, Riverwood school parking lot

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Holly strolled over to the bike rack, hoping to get home early.

“You stirred up quite a ruckus, haven’t you?”

Holly whirred around. “Just who…”

“I suppose I would be someone you would call a transfer student”, said a pale boy with stunning blue eyes He flicked through a copy of Sense and Sensibility idly. “I arrived in Atlanta just yesterday. I must say, though…These courses in the U.S. are quite a bore”

“What do you want?” Holly grumbled as she folded her bike’s kickslide. “And when I asked who you were, I meant your name”

“Alan Barrie” He lied so causually that even Holly couldn’t pick up any suspicions. It was no surprise, really. His whole life was a lie in the first place. “I was in your math class earlier this afternoon. Quite a spontaneous display”

Alan’s calm composture was really getting on Holly’s nerves. “So? What are you going to do? Turn me in? Good luck with that” Holly snickered.

“Actually, I was wondering if you’d like me to walk you home today” This was a serious blow to ‘Alan’s pride, but it was a neccesary precaution.

“Er…what for?” Holly seriously doubted that Alan was some sort of stalker or voyeur, but it was just too odd.

“Thanks to your little performance in fifth period, I didn’t get a chance to inquire about the project that is due tommorow. I supposed that you were the most appropriate person to atone for your misconduct. In Layman’s terms, I want you to fill me in on the assignment”, he drawled. “What else did you think I wanted to walk you home for?” He chuckled.

“N-nothing in particular…” Holly mentally slapped herself for not thinking of it herself. “Fine…”

Soon, Holly found that he was entranced by Alan Barrie. He carried himself with the utmost authority, even if he was a bit arrogant at times, and soon found herself lost in a conversation with him (even if she couldn’t comprehend half the words he was saying…his vocabulary was beyond the level of a typical high-schooler).

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“Dammit!” The man cursed as he lowered his gun.

“What is it?” A static voice enunciated from the radio.

“The Fowl kid’s brought a witness” He hissed. “I can’t shoot him here! One shot and the kid would be silenced, but one scream from the girl…” The voice considered this for a moment and sighed.

“All right, but we can’t postpone this any longer. If this kid spills the beans, we’d be getting a lot more than some prison sentence”

“Yeah. But all that girl’s done is buy him some extra time. He’ll be dead soon enough”

And so Holly walked back home with ‘Alan’, unaware that she had just saved his life…

AN:Yay! This chapter is just a teaser. There’s going to be a REALLY good plot too…and there really was no plot significance to the last scene, it was just to give you a good idea of ‘Alan’s’ situation (if you haven’t figured out who he is by now…-_-…). I made Holly a human because I always notice that the day is always saved by fairy technology…just look at the eternity code! So I excluded the fairies. And my style has changed too…all from spending all my time on FF.net

Some other stories by Star Jinin:

• Short Update!
• The Unknown Audience
• Reason to Live
• Death Note
• Untimely meeting ;)

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