Hi everyone! This is my new equivalent to Frankenstein's monster. This is a Serena and Darien story written mostly from Darien's point of view.

All my other stories (except maybe The Jinxed Journey) have been more serious sort of fics so I've opted for something a little more different this time. I'm trying to stretch my writing boundaries so tell me what you think ok? Any suggestions are welcome!

Disclaimer: You know the deal

Title: Mystery Girl
Author: Crystal Saturn
Rated: PG 13
Chapter: 1- The Angel

Ok, so this is my story. My name is Darien Chiba and I've just moved from the slow, sleepy town of Maple Oak. Life there was easy. 'Twas a small town, everybody knew everyone else, corner stores that closed at 6. Life was good there. That is, until my parents decided to uproot me from my cosy town and cosy home that I've lived in all my life, and shift me into a big rural community.

HELLO? Can anyone else other than me see the immediate problems with that situation?

New house, new neighbours, new places, new shops, more traffic, new people, new school. Yes, that was the part I loathed the most. School. I mean really, come on, my old high school had a total of 300 students all up, probably half of them related by blood. Our computer room consisted of 5 computers and our cafeteria was pretty much a janitor's closet before and after lunch hours.

So you can imagine my surprise when I transferred to the slick polished new hallways, classrooms and lockers of Ocean View State High. Uhhh, can we say overly government funded? The place had its own Pool! The closest thing I had seen to a pool at Maple Oak high was the low budget sprinkler system they placed on the front lawn a week before inspection time. Or maybe when the playground flooded every time it rained.

So anyway, I was having an early mid-life crisis. You would be too if you had to soak up all the new information, sights and sounds I had to in such a short period of time. I had one week to get everything prepared before I started my new life. One week before I attended my first day at Ocean View State High.

But that's when my life took an unexpected change. That's when I met her.

"Class I would like to introduce to you our new student, Darien Chiba. He's moved all the way from Maple Oak, please make him feel comfortable."

I honestly thought my first day of school was going to be hell. I had never ever seen so many good looking people, or people trying to look good, in one place.

"Hey man. Sup." A blond teenage guy with rather broad shoulders, sitting in the back row greeted.

Oh goddess. Save me.

"Hi."

Oh, nice Darien. Very smooth, dumb ass. So much for first impressions. I can almost see my head being flushed down the toilet bowl now

Alright so I tend to overreact. The first day went by rather well. It could've gotten rather nasty if it weren't for Andrew and his buddies befriending me. You remember Andrew don't you? The blond I was talking about earlier. Anyway, so now I'm one of them, and they're popular. Anyone other than me see the apparent problem with that? No? Well… you will soon enough.

Living in Maple Oak all my life had kind of, sheltered me. A small town in the middle of nowhere, hours away from the sea, but now, I lived 5 minutes away from the coastline. So understandably, I spent most of my afternoons, and sometimes even mornings, catching up with the beauty of the coastline that I had never experienced before.

So the next morning, I got up at the ungodly hour of 5am just for a run on the beach. And there I was, doing my thing, clad in my daggiest sweat pants and shirt.

-Run, run- gasp, gasp -run, run-pant pant

Then I fell.

Well, actually, I kind of stumbled. My heart stopped for a second. My breath caught at the back of my throat. I couldn't help but stand and stare. I looked out into the ocean and I swear I saw an angel. There she was, sitting on her surfboard, running her fingers through her long golden locks, oblivious to the fact that I was watching her with my mouth gaping wide open.

-Beep-beep, beep-beep-

"Ahh crap." I muttered as I gazed down at my watch alarm, frantically beeping away. It was now 6:30 and I had to hurry home, hop into the shower and get ready for school. I looked up to where I found my angel before, but she was gone. Cliché as it sounds, I couldn't find her! She wasn't anywhere in sight! The beach was totally secluded and there was no trace of her anywhere. So I frowned, rubbed my eyes to make sure I was awake, jogged back home and got ready for school.

"Ok, so that's the gym, meet us there for next period. Over here we've got the cafeteria, we showed you that yesterday, toilets, hallway, lockers…" Andrew's friend, Chad gave me the grand tour of the school, and I looked around, determined to be a sponge and soak up as much as I could.

"Now as superficial as it sounds, who you hang out with is everything here. You don't want to be talking to just anyone. Especially when it comes to girls-"

-SMACK-

I looked down to see a junior girl before me, her books sprawled all over the floor. I Knelt down and helped her gather her books.

"Are you alright?" I asked and she nodded.

She smelled of a delicious vanilla and rose fusion. Her golden blonde hair was up in a way that I had never seen before. Her frame was small and her cheeks flushed. Her eyes, which I couldn't see at this very moment, were framed by thick lenses held together by gold coloured frames.

"Sorry. My fault." Her head was bowed as she frantically gathered all her books together.

"Sure is! Geez Serena! One would think a four eyed nerd like you would be able to calculate the rate of speed at which a body is coming towards her and avoid it." Chad rolled his eyes. I helped her up to her feet and she looked up at me, giving me a small smile of gratitude before whisking herself away and blending into the sea of people.

"Dude you don't wanna be doing that again. You wanna be avoiding her kind as much as possible." Chad warned before continuing his tour. Although Chad had made it perfectly clear that dating an alien would be more preferred than dating Serena, the depth and clarity of her beautiful blue eyes were all I could think about right now.

Ok… short chapter… but this is only the beginning… Will Darien be able to bend the rules for Serena? Is he in love? And what about his mystery beach angel? Stay tuned for the next instalment. (don't forget to review please!)

Crystal Saturn