Serena's POV.

Boston, a city on the east coast of America. It's been my home since I was 8. My current school, well it's alright I suppose. The people here are a mixed bag. Let's start with my gender, the females. Honestly, a lot of my friendship group in terms of girls, are very close to me. They aren't toxic, they are my best friends. I made it my intention early on in this school to distance myself some from the brats of the school. The sluts of the school, I never actually see much of them. I am a very active teenager, being in the athletics team and I recently tried to become a cheerleader, mainly for the soccer/football team (honestly, switch been the both in everyday life). However, some of the leaders are absolute assholes. What was I saying before? Ah yes - my friends. Let's start with my best friend - Shauna. Shauna is a bubbly girl, very gossipy, but she's so damn loyal to me, she knows all about me, including the fact I am head over heels for Ash Ketchum, who is the captain of the school's cricket team (probably since he set it up and co-ordinates fucking everything). I'll talk more about him later though. Iris - such an amazing individual, an inspiration, she takes so much shit in her life, and she's so damn strong. She doesn't allow herself to be brought down, in fact, it's quite the contrary, she can easily put a guy in the hospital if she wants. She's always been open to me about her situation, whether it be about being racially abused at times (why would anyone be so rude to her, she's so amazing), and well another issue which I do not wish to discuss, out of respect for Iris. Iris is also very caring, she is open to talking at any time. She's also very intelligent, smarter than me, that's for damn sure. Iris wants to become an actress if she can when she's older. She's very careful to give herself a fallback option, which is becoming a personal trainer. Iris is a good friend of mine, which is sort of why I'm in a precarious situation right now.

Next is Dawn. Dawn Berlitz; daughter of the fashion designer Johanna Berlitz. She's fabulous, and one of the absolute beauties. One thing that is a secret between a lot of the girls in the school is there is a lot of sex between the females. Hell if you're straight, bi, lesbian, whatever the fuck you are, you're inevitably gonna get intimate with another female. I've heard whispers that some of the males are like that, probably the rugby and the gridiron players. Dawn has been a member of the cheerleading team for 4 years, she's come off a rough relationship recently with a guy no longer at the school. What happened to the guy? Expelled - reason: well that's something, everyone finds awkward to most of the students. Maybe I'll tell that story one day. More on Dawn. Her birthday is the same month as mine, that being, September. She's 18 like I am. What I find very curious is her nationality: she is Swiss - you would hardly notice, she's fluent in English, French, German and Italian. She has the plan to become a top-class lawyer when she is older. She was one of the first friends I made when I came to the school, and she's never really done anything to threaten our friendship. She has never really gotten on well with some of the males in the school though, as previously mentioned she was in a toxic relationship for a while, and she lost a lot of male friends, but when she broke up with the guy, she lost his friends. However, she's friendly towards us females. She's very popular amongst us females, she's very sociable. I forgot to mention that Dawn herself is bisexual. She told me this info a few years ago when we took a vacation to Brazil. It's not something that really anyone pays attention to, since she just prefers to be known for her personality. 

I'd talk about more of my friends right now, but sadly the four of us right now are stuck between the biggest misogynist in the school, Tierno Hendricks. This guy wants to get his dick inside a girl so fucking badly, wouldn't be surprised if that bastard becomes an incel one day. He was trying to chat me up, I wanted to just get my books from my locker, along with my friends wanting to do the same, however, this guy interferes and slaps my books to the floor and he and his friends start touching us up. Tierno was getting real close to me, and as soon as he began to lift my skirt, well wouldn't you know it, Ash is there. Ash always has impeccable timing and appears when I need help against bullies. My twin Calem isn't very fond of Ash though, I don't know why, but that's his problem I suppose. Ash saw how tightly me and my friends were being gripped and then him and Gary started a fight with Tierno's group. However, this all comes to a halt pretty quickly since Oak saw what was going on. Ash of course gets sent to the dreaded principal's room and subsequently suspended. I know Ash's dad did try and defend Ash, but to no great victory. I've met Ash's father a few times, Alastair Ketchum is actually very good friends with my dad. They both went to the same uni back in Britain. They both share a lot of common interests and well, it was thanks to my dad that Ash's Dad and his mother Delia, got together and eventually married. 

Speaking of the devil himself, Ash. All of my friends at the school know that for the longest time I've been crushing on him. And by crushing, I mean I've completely fallen in love with him. He's so fucking hot, it's almost a crime for him to be so damn attractive. Let's talk more about him. He is literally my prince charming all the time, every time I am in trouble, he just seems to be there to save me. His British accent genuinely turns me on. Many of the girls question me on why I find his accent so attractive, I don't know myself, I guess I just have a thing for British guys. I know a few of them, but Ash is the best. His accent, I don't know whereabouts in the UK he's from, but who cares, his voice is comforting too. Let me be clear, I genuinely feel like I could listen to his voice for the rest of my life, or that I can kiss him for the rest of my life. Earlier I mentioned his sporting ability. He is really good at sports, he is on most teams. However, unlike most of the jocks, he's not a dickhead, he genuinely cares for his friends and well I keep going to his matches. He doesn't ever seem to mind. We met in my first year, and well we're good friends. Fuck that, we're really good friends. I've recently tried to take things a bit further between us by beginning to flirt with him some more, show my body around him a lot. Now he's getting suspended, I'm going to be so bored in school. I love learning in school but honestly, it's better with Ash in the room. This is probably why I want to skip school to work on our project together. Ok, yes I want to get a good grade on my work and I know Ash can help, but I also want to see more of him, as well as trying to finally confess how I feel about him. Ash himself is well built, extremely attractive, and his personality is one of the best in the school. Out of all the girls in the school though, he hangs around me the most. Probably because I'm always getting myself into situations. Ash's fashion sense isn't the best, to be honest, but that's fine with me, I would happily force clothes upon him, my taste in fashion is superb. I don't live too far away from Ash, so I can always go to his place if I want. Overall, Ash is a gentleman, and I definitely want to marry him in the future. I'm pretty confident that he feels the same way for me, but between us, yeah there's a lot of tension including the biggest sexual tension in the school. 

I text Ash a few hours later, notifying him that I was going to come round later in the week to work on the project. Hopefully, he'll be ok with that. I should probably decide what I want to wear that day, maybe something revealing but I can't risk that in public, judging by the number of assholes you can find on the street. I'll decide on it later, I think.

I head out of my house around 10 minutes later, just to get some exercise. I picked out my favourite running outfit, so I can keep my brilliant body in perfect shape for Ash. I was running for around half an hour and had reached one of the local parks, where I encountered another person I really hate - Ursula Saxon - she is always really horrible towards me, I don't even try with her, I'm just trying to mind my own fucking business, but no...... she wants to fuck with me.

'Hey there you whore.' She shouts.

'Get over you slut.' One of her friend shouts.

Fuck right off please. Ignore them, Serena, focus on your running.

I wish I could say that I was able to carry on and avoid trouble. Sadly, life isn't always peachy. It's actually pretty shitty. Ursula and her friends, notice that I am not paying them any attention and, that clearly offended them. They ran towards me and Ursula shoved me to the ground violently. That wasn't the end of that, of course not, why would they give me the luxury of just being thrown to the ground. Ursula began stamping on my legs, one of her friends was punching me in the face and the others were well, abusing other parts of my body. To be honest, thank god none of them were males, otherwise, my situation would have been much worse. As much as I am glad this was not the case, my situation at present still was pretty horrible. I was knocked out completely within a few minutes, fading in and out of consciousness. I could hear the familiar yelling from time to time. One of the voices I could hear was my twin brother, Calem Yvonne. Unlike me, he has brown hair. His hair is not raven brown though or raven black. We are very closely bonded, although he has never liked Ash too much, probably cause he only wants the best for me, since we're twins. However, he always knows when I am in danger, same as how I know if he's in danger, that's how we work as twins. Anyways, it was him and a few others who I recognised, that came to save me from these bullies. However, I was still unconscious, so yeah I was unable to get up.

The next time I woke up, I was in the hospital. Sitting near my bed was, of course, Calem. He's going to be annoyed and upset I guess.

'Good you're awake.' He says.

'How long was I out?' I ask.

'Couple of hours.' He responds.

'What happened?' I ask.

'You got beaten up by Ursula and her gang. Very violent. You were quite injured when we found you.' He replies grimly.

'I'm sorry.' I say weakly.

'I'm not the one you should say sorry to. You will know who to apologise to' He replies jokingly.

'Can't believe I'm in the hospital, and you're making a joke out of me.' I say.

'We're twins after all.' He replies.

'I am such an idiot.' I complain.

'We all are.' He responds.

'Do mom and dad know?' I ask.

'Yes, and well, they want to press charges against the group who attacked you, however, it's going to be tougher than expected.' He responds with a sombre tone.

'Well, this is just fucking fantastic.' I shout, pissed off.

'Doctors are coming in to check up on you.' My brother says reluctantly. 

Calem leaves the room allowing the doctors to check up on me. The doctors themselves give me a grim look as they enter.

'Well, you certainly got yourself into a complication, Miss Yvonne.' The first doctor says.

'If your intelligence is on the same level as your humour, then I have no idea why you have your job.' I say with intense abuse.

'Miss Yvonne, you suffered some bad injuries, although thanks to your brother and your friends, you got off with it all lightly.' The second doctor states grimly.

'What sort of injuries?' I ask.

'Broken wrist. Broken arm. Sprained ankle. Blisters required near your nose and your eyes. Also some scars in other areas. You will miss some school, sadly. Your parents and the school have been informed' The second doctor responds.

'Well, at least one of you focuses on their job.' I say humorously. 

The two doctors leave the room shortly after. Calem couldn't have saved me all by himself. He's strong, being a keen boxer as well as being good at martial arts, but handling about 10 people would be too much. Guess I won't find out anytime soon. I wish Ash was here to comfort me through this pain, to tell me it will all be ok. Sadly, he is not here at present, and sadly, I have to sit in my hospital bed all alone, for now, sitting with the pain gripping me damn hard. I've cried a few times in my life, most of those times when I was younger. However, now, I cannot help myself but fall victim to a fit of tears. The pain is too much for me. I cried for what seemed like hours, at least until someone else entered my hospital room. It was none other than Fin Walker, a friend of Ash's, from memory, we were mutual friends, he never showed particular interest in me romantically, partly because the guy has eyes for other women. 

'You might want to throw a shoe at me or something for what I am about to say.' He begins.

'What?' I ask.

'Reminds me of the time I broke my collarbone playing rugby, what 5 years ago now.' He says reminiscing about himself.

'Are you literally here to let me know how big of a dick you have?' I ask.

'Witty response. However, I am here to be supportive. At least until your boyfriend comes to you' He responds. If there was one thing that guy was good at, it was reading between the lines, and making a joke from it.

'Tell me, wise guy, what do you know about the pricks who put me here?' I ask.

'All I know is what I've heard from locals. Ursula is a stuck up rich kid. A snob. A member of the country club. She thinks she's so high and mighty. Picks on those she thinks are easy targets.' He responds.

'So, how long do you intend to stay here?' I ask him.

'Like I said, till your prince charming punches a hole through the wall and enters this room to take you off to his palace.' He responds.

'Guess you're going to leave now.' I say.

'Yes. Just checking up on you, as a friend.' He responds. He then leaves the room,  leaving behind a note. Clearly hinting about something or someone.

I was left alone for another 2 hours, it was around midnight when I next woke up. In front of me was the person who I most wanted to see - Ash Ketchum.

'Hey Serena, I'm sorry about what happened.' He says apologetically.

'What do you mean?' I ask, confused about his words.

'Well, Ursula has had a crush on me for a while. It's really annoying for me. This is the 20th time that someone close to me has been attacked by her group, she views anyone close to me as an obstacle to her love for me. I don't replicate those feelings, I'm scared of her. I fear she may take it a step further next time and potentially kill you. I don't want anyone to die.' He confesses with tears clouding his eyes.

'She sounds like a psycho. Reminds me of the Ava Max song, Sweet like a Pscyho' I respond.

'I can't take it, I want me and my friends to have a future, but with her around, I just... I fucking hate it.' He says still in tears.

 'Solve it. You're smart enough to counter her' I say.

'Look what happened to you, you're in fucking hospital because of my fucking inability to stop that crazy son of a bitch.' He responds.

'There is always the old fashioned option of fighting fire with fire.' She says.

'Are you suggesting that I rely upon violence to get rid of her?' He asks.

'I want revenge on her, she's put me in the fucking hospital. I know I am Canadian and all, but it's time to show that there will be no more miss nice girl' I say.

'You aren't going anywhere in your situation.' He says concerned.

'Oh I am not suggesting me or you go anywhere near her.' I say grimly.

'So, I am to go about my business, and only come here to visit and work on the project.' He suggests.

'Yes, that is what I am suggesting, Ash.' I respond.

'So who's going to deal with Ursula?' He asks.

'Someone who knows how to get under the skin of someone like her.' I say.

'Someone with lots of money.' He suggests.

'Miette is the answer' I say.

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The third chapter is done and dusted. Serena focused chapter, and a lot of violence. I imagine people thought I was going to make Ash and Serena a couple early on, wrong. A few more hints towards their relationship. I would judge this to be the first phase of the book. Hope you enjoyed the chapter, vote and add to reading lists as well as commenting on the story.  Any suggestions are welcome.