I walked slowly across the quad. Everyone at this school was so... prep.

Well, almost everyone. I watched the tall blonde walk towards me.

"Alex, I must say, looking goooood," she said. She wrapped her arms around my waist and kissed me. Incredible. I was too surprised to resist. Not that I would have anyway.

She pulled away. "What brought on the self improvement kick? You know I like you just the way you are?"

I smirked. "Do I know you?"

She looked at me. "Alex?"

"Quel. Who's this lucky Alex guy?"

She shook her head. "This is a joke right? Because you can't have a twin, too. Too big a coincidence."

I thought about it, but not for long. "You're right." I was leaning forward to kiss her again when I heard a pair of strangled gasps.

Esperanza came up and put her arms around me from behind. I could practically see the air crackle between her and the only sensibly dressed Roswell native I'd seen. "Who is this Quel?" she purred into my ear.

"Maria?" the girl asked in confusion. She looked over her shoulder to where a strawberry blonde and a brunette girl were sitting. The strawberry blonde was Esperanza's twin.

"I'm Quel, and this is Esperanza," I corrected. My girlfriend, but not for long if I could help it. Maybe I could set her up with whoever this Alex guy was, as soon as I succeeded in displacing him.

"Lonnie."

*****

Alex walked into the quad, saw Lonnie kissing some punked up menace to society, and let out a strangled gasp before turning around and running back into the school.

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