Christ squeaked loudly as the projectile utensil rocketed right passed his head. He shook visibly and ran two shaky fingers across his lips as if to say, 'zipping it' and promptly shut his trap. Sal laughed and shook his head slowly. Brendon nearly strangled Mari. Not that anyone was watching or anything, but damn it he was pissed. Spitefully he mouthed, 'lesbo' and glared at her evilly contemplating weather or not to flip her off.

Mari just giggled and gave him a hug. "Aww how sweet! You say the nicest things Brendon..." She wasn't going to let him win. Valone looked at the two of them strangly.

"Should I even ask..." She muttered shaking her head.

"I wouldnt," Chris said with a laugh, quickly getting over his near death by flying fork experience with ease. Brendon just grumbled and let her hugg her, still scowling as he did. He gave her a look that said, 'If i didnt love you so much i would kill you'

"You two are weird," Sal said with annother one of his booming laughs.

Mari smiled gratefully at him and laughed. Kiro nudged both Sal and Chris and muttered, "Betcha they're both closet lovers..."

"OOOOOH! Arreeee youuuu?" Chris leaned into the two and asked with a loving smirk and an arched brow. He was so close that Brendon could feel his breath on the back of his neck. This, obviously, made him blush like a tomato, but Chris thought that it was because of his lovely little prodding question.

"OOOOH you arrrreee arnt you?" Chris cooed.

"NO!" Brendon squealed.

"Oh you dont have to lie to us! We wouldnt have held it against you two now would we?" Chris asked and hugged them both.

"Actually we probrably would have," Sal said with a laugh.

"Thats besides the point" Chris said subbing his cheak against Brendons, making him turn to goo underneath him.

Mari saw trouble, "Damn....guess the gig is up Brendon..." She said secretly nudging him to go along. "Wow you guys are good....but could you please let go Chris..."

Kiro, Valone and Misa high five, "Yes! The loner finally has some one to love score!" They all cried in triumph. Mari gave a weak smiled and mentally banged her head.

"Y-y-yea...."Brendon managed to squeeze out of his boneless lips. Christian let go happily and threw his hands up in the air with utter joy.

"YAY! Now every one in the gang is unsingle! Isnt that great?" Chris said with a smile.

"I guess..." Sal said.

"Oh you" Chris laughed, "Of course its good! You know what this means? QUADRUPLE DATE AND A MASSIVE ORGY!"

"Wait...Valone and I dont have anyone..." Josie said confused.

"Riiiight" Chris and Sal said at the same time. Ignoring the groups shananigans, Brendon turned to Mari with utter panic. What the hell were they going to do now? They couldnt act like a couple!

Mari gave him a look that confidently said 'don't worry I'll think of something.' But then she bit her lip completely ruining it. Valone nodded at Josie's comment.

"Yeah really..." She said looking at him.

Kiro rolled her eyes, "Okay Three couples and one pair of friends with benefits? Happy?" She asked looking at the two.

"Yea i guess that works," Josie said with a nodd, blushing just a little bit as he did. Chris smirked happily. He liked having people together and happy. Even if one of said relationships wasnt real, not that he knew that of course.

Just then the bell rang and Chris let out a long disapointed Awwww. Sal laughed.

"What do you guys have next?" Chris asked, to just about everyone, "I have Play"

"I-i-i think thats what i have," Brendon said in horror, not wanting to be around any of them.

"Cool! Three periods together!" Chris chirped, and Brendon shit himself. Not really,"You have that too?" He asked Sal.

"Nah, I have Band" Sal said with a shrugg.

"Josie?" Chris asked.

"Nope. I flunked Geometry again. Mostly from skipping. So id love to join you guys but if i dont go theill suspend me again" Josie said, not bothered at all at the fact that he might be booted from the school.

"Aww..."

Valone laughed, "I bet that's one dare you wouldn't do Skeletor...." She laughed refering to getting suspended.

Misa rolled her eye, "Well bye Sal..." She said turning to him and giving him a tight hug.

Kiro grinned happy she still could be with Chris as she hugged him tightly, "I'll be there love..."

Mari sighed, "Well we have play..."

Misa pouted at Mari, "It's not fair you have all your classes with you boyfriend..." Kiro nodded blankly. Misa turned to Sal, "This is why you should have join Drama like your dad said to!" She pouted.

"No your right i wouldnt do it. But only because i fear for my life if my mom found out...and told my dad..." Josie said and shivered visibly.

"Yay!" Chris chirped and hugged onto his girlfriend with a big smile.

Yea, Lucky... Brendon thought to himself sarcastically and pushed away from his "girlfriend" with a frown. Sal just grinned at Misa the same way he always did.

"Maybe but i love music too much Misa. Maybe next year," he said with a chuckle.

Valone shuddered herself, "Yeah...are you sure your dad isn't an ax murderer? He looks like someone who would nail you to a cross and let you die..."

Kiro smiled happily holding on to Chris tightly.

Misa sighed, "Okay...besides...I don't think you should listen to you dad too much....he's crazy..." Misa frowned.

"Honestly I think he might be," Josie said getting up from the table and heading out to his other classes, the rest of the group following behind in tow. If they didnt pick it up they were likely to be late.

"You think i dont know that?" Sal chuckled, "He means well though. You know that. And didnt you just tell me to listen to him? Your contradicting yourself again Misa. You need to work on that"

Chris shook his head at the two. Odd balls, he thought. Brendon followed them slowly, clinging to Mari again as they made their way to the classroom.

"Well, I have to get going see ya love," Sal said and planted a kiss on Misa's forehead before taking off down the hall agian.

Misa frowned watching them go before running up to everyone else. Valone was laughing while saying bye to Josie. Kiro and Chris walking hand in hand. Mari sighed patting Brendon on the head, "Don't worry."

"Ill try not to..."Brendon said with a sigh. After a few moments they finally reached the room. Brendon hesitated before entering. Luckally he didnt have to push himself to do it as Chris, being inpatient, charged though the doors all gung ho and what not. The room was abuz when they entered. There werent as many people as you might have guessed but the ones that were there were loud. Slowly. Brendon looked around the bright green colored room at all his new classmates that he would be sharing a good chunk of the day with.

The girl with the red bow in her hair was there, but she was just about the only one that he had seen before. There was a chubby boy with curly black hair much like his own, only without his little goatee, but that was besides the point. Annother was a skinny boy with a short golden hair that fell over his ears in gorgeous bangs, was he wearing lipstick?, and several other people too.

"Wow..." was all he could say.

Kiro smiled, "Pretty cool huh?"

Mari nodded her eyes glimmering. Misa and Valone laughed as they took there seats and Kiro was dragged off by Chris. Mari sighed, "It's soo cool..."

"Cool...right..." Brendon said, his stomach sinking into his toes.

After a minuet the second bell rang, telling the students that the class was to begin. Brendon huddled next to Mari as he saw Mr. Ronald walk into the room, this time without his fake glasses and looking very tired and quite frankly bored. He flopped a bunch of papers down onto the nearby stage and looked up at the rooms inhabitants with a sigh. Clapping his hands once he seemed to perk up a bit.

“Good afternoon everyone. This is Play. You'll be joining us here every day for the rest of the year for three periods. This is just a general acting class and honestly id doesn’t have much curriculum to speak of. Therefore I love it. I hate coriculum and the jail cell that is the american institution. There is no homework other than to practice lines and work on your acting skills. Me and some other teachers who are unfortunately not here yet will help you if you need it. So to start off id like everyone to get into groups of four.” He said with a smile. Brendon gulped. This was going to be utter hell. Three periods of acting. Oh God help me.

Mari grinned this was gonna be fun. She started to look towards Kiro, Misa, Valone, and Chris. To join one of them. Until she realized they were all in a group together. "Shit..." She groan. Okay the fun was gone. Mari couldn't pick groups she sucked at it. She bit her lip. Shit shit shit. She didn't know anyone else what was she going to do? She couldn't use her 404 plan in this scenario.

She sighed, "Okay....okay Brendon...find us two people please..."

Brendon looked over at her with big eyes. What on earth was she thinking!? He couldn’t ask to be in someone’s group for both of them! He could barely talk to people let alone ask them to put up with him and someone else for three periods! Did she even realize who she was talking to?

Ok, Ok Brendon get a hold of yourself... he thought to himself. He looked around the room. As far as he could tell, everyone already had a group. Shit.

"Is there a reason you two aren’t in a group?" Mr. Ronald said suddenly appearing next to them standing tall and looking very inpatient.

"Uh...we only have…two..." Brendon stuttered out.

"I can see that," Mr. Ronald said, with more of a bite in it then his usually cheery tone when he realized that it was Brendon. It made him tremble visibly. He obviously hadn’t forgiven him for making fun of his name yet. So much for being a nice guy, he thought, cursing Chris for telling him that he was.

"You’ll need a group of Four unless you intend on just sitting around all day," Mr. Ron said.

"A-actually sir...Id k-k-kind of like to do that..." Brendon said and the teacher raised a annoyed brow, "I cant act..."

"Find. A. Group. Mr. Trenton. Or ill write you up," Mr. Ron said, deathly serious.

"Uh...I...I-I-I tink everyone already has a group sir..." Brendon stuttered out nearly shitting a brick at his tone. Mr. Ronald didnt say anything to that and looked around the room, searching for an open group.

"Ah...why dont you work with Lorry and Alex, I dont think they have a group" He said, regaining some niceness in his voice.

"Who?" Brendon asked.

"Get over there Mr. Trenton," And the meanness was back.

"Y-Y-yes sir..." He said and turned to obey but then quickly returned to face him, "Um...were are they?"

Ron shook his head and pointed off to the far side of the room where, lo and behold, two girls without a group were standing. Well, that was good at least. He didnt know if he could deal with any more 'manly' shenanigans today. He wondered though, why they where backed all the way in the corner. Maybe they were a little like him. Afraid to talk to new people. He wasnt an outcast, he had friends after all, but he wasnt socially sound and that screwed him up with most group work. Maybe this was a good thing. Maybe meeting some new people would make him more confident? Well, there was only one way to find out.

Brendon sucked it up and strutted across the room, not even bothering to see if Maricela followed behind. He reached them after only a few strides and stopped a good foot away from them. They didnt even notice their arrival. Aaaand there went his confidence. Pull it together Brendon, you can do this. Slowly, he reached out his hand and let if hover over one of the girls shoulders. The two of them seemed to be talking about a story that one of them had made, the readhead he assumed by the way they were talking. Hey! He recognized her! She was in a bunch of his earlyer classes. Cool. She had long reddish orange hair that was tied up into a loose messy pony tail and sparkling sea green eyes. She was very pretty, her name was Alex if he recalled right. He would have said something to Maricela about her but they still handt notices them yet, and talking behind someones back was rude, especially when you where right next to them. So he let his hand fall as he tapped the blond girl on his shoulder.

"Um...Excuse me...Are you Lorry?" He asked. The girl turned to face him, looking a bit peeved that he had interrupted their conversation. Brendon's heart nearly stopped, because she was obviously a he. From the back it was easy to see how he had mistaken him for a girl. His dirty blond hair was pulled back into a neat, shoulder length pony tail, but he was warring a pair of knee length cargo pants, a goofy shirt with a tree on it, a pair of long black cloth gloves with holes cut out for the fingers, and a pair of old Birkenstocks that smelled to high heaven which he had sprayed with a generous amount of Lemon Pledge to attempt to hide the smell. It wasn’t working. And on top of all of that he sounded like a boy. Jesus how had he missed it!? He couldnt take his eyes off him as he took in everything on the boy.
He was tall, but not quite as tall as himself, with a distinguished kind oval face that somehow reminded him of Christian, though they looked nothing alike. This boy didn’t have Chris' sweet, yet somehow very manly, baby face that hadnt quite lost all of its puppy fat and probably never would. But he noted a familiar feeling about him, though he couldnt register it at the time. He certainly was handsome, the only flaw on him was that his nose was ever so slightly crooked, but that almost made him look better. More human really. But those legs! Was it possible for a human to have such magnificent legs!?

The boy cleared his thought, snapping Brendon back into reality and forcing to look at his face rather than his lower regions. The boy gave him a inpatient look that seemed to say, 'Yeeeesss?' He gulped.

"I-Im sorry...I mistook you for someone else..." Brendon said thoroughly embarrassed.

"Really?" The boy asked, giving him a disbelieving look. He had the smallest of accents, but he couldnt put his finger on exactly what kind it was, "Because you called me by name."

"Your names Lorry?" He asked in awe. Lorry was a girls name. Wasnt it?

"Well, no. It Laurent. But people usually call me Lou or Lorry," he shrugged and then looked over at his redhead friend sharing a deviant smirk, What are they telepathic?, before looking back at him, "And if your really daring Chuck Norris"

"Chuck Norris?"

"Yup," Laurent chirped with an expression somewhere between boredom and amusement.

"Why?" Brendon asked. Lorry looked over to Alex and they exchanged yet another smirk. Ben had a feeling that he would be regretting this. Suddenly, Laurent struck out, leaping into the air and whipping his foot around in a spectacular roundhouse kick. The blow missed his face by a single hair. His foot was so close that he could smell the sweat and Lemon Pledge so well that for a minute he thought that someone had shoved the whole shoe up his nose. Which Laurent almost did. Before Brendon had time to register what had happened, Lorry was back on the ground grinning smugly at him. The bastard hadnt even broken a sweat.

"Thats why" He said with a grin.

"I see y-y-y-your p-point," Brendon said, still in utter shock and staring at him like a deer in the headlights.

"Show off," Alex said shakeing her head and chuckling.Lorry just grinned at her, not disagreeing in the slightest. Then, suddenly, Brendon recognized Laurent. He was in his classes too. He was the longhaired kid who hated Shakespeare and flipping around in Stage fighting class like a freaking acrobat! How hadn’t he seen that sooner? It might have saves him from nearly getting kicked in the face. And crapping himself.

“You…You learn that in Karate?” Brendon asked, getting a hold of himself.

“Nope. Ballet and Youtube,” Laurent said with the same bored/amused expression as before.

“No way” Brendon said after imagining this kid in a tutu and almost laughing his ass off.

“Yes way,” he insisted, “Why? You got a problem with a dude in a leotard?”

As a matter of fact he did, but only because that image would be haunting his sex dreams for the next year. “No,” he said.

“Good” Laurent said, satisfied with himself.

“But still…No way…”

“Yes way,” Alex said with a smirk and pushed her puffy red hair back a bit.

“What she said,” Lorry said.

"Cool..." Mari said as she walked over. She stopped right at Brendon's side and gave him a long look. "Calm down your fine..." She nudged him. Then she gave a weak smile to their new group mates. She didn't do well with new people. But she'd have to try for Brendon's sake.

"Uh I'm Marisela...and this is Brendon...Ron told us to join your group..." She smiled lightly.

"Hi there," Alex said cheerily and rested herself against the wall lazily, "Im Alex and as this is Laurent as im sure you know." She looked at Brendon when she said that. He sunck back blushing at the mistake he had made.

"Well Congrats your stuck with us," Lorry said and shoved his hands in his pockets.

Mari nodded, "Yeah..." She already knew who she was gonna blame. Chris. Because he would feel really bad with out her having to do anything. Just look at him sadly and like the puppy he was he would feel bad. And maybe bake me a cake...SWEET Twofer! (meaning two for one) "Well it's nice to meet you both..."

Lorry just nodded, not bothering to greet them propperly. Alex on the other hand smiled and said, "Nice to meet you both too"

Brendon didnt bother to pay atention though. He spaced out and looked at Laurent, or rather his shirt. It was a brown shirt with a picture of a large tree with a sink foset coming out of the side with a full bucket under it and at the botom it read, "Sap Nin?" What on earth did that mean? Brendon, for some reason, coudlnt hold in the question.

"Whats 'sap nin?" Brendon asked. Laurent looked up at him, his honey brown eyes sparkling laughingly.

"Not much. Whats sap nin with you?" He asked with a smirk.

"...What?" Brendon asked, not getting it. Laurent just laughed.

Mari smiled at Alex. She like her already. Compared to her partner she was friendly. She looked closely at her. Red hair and green eyes. Irish maybe? She thought. In any case she loved Alex's hair. She secretly had a thing for girls with red hair. And Alex's green eyes seemed to glow making her like a cat. Way cool. Oh crap. She said catching herself. Great. Now I'm gonna get as love sick as Brendon.

Luckily Brendon's comment on the T-Shirt broke Mari's train of thought. Mari laughed, "It's a auditory pun a play on words when said out loud..." She explained to Brendon. He never got these types of things. And just to make her point she pulled out a peace of paper and wrote several names down. "Say these out loud Brendon..." She ordered.

Alex smiled at her, fully aware that she was checking her out. She didnt mind in the slightest. It wasnt a well kept secrate that she was a flirt, regardless of the gender of the flirtee. It was fun regardless. So, she just smiled and gave her a sexy, sexy look.

"A play on what now?" Brendon asked, interupting Alex's look O'Sexyness. Lorry kept on laughing and decided to use Alex's shoulder as a crutch untill he could catch his breath and sober himself. Brendon looked at the two of them, Alex just shrugged in reply, and opened the piece of paper, reading them out loud as instructed.

"...Ivana Humpalot, Ben Dover, Hugh Jass, Mia V. Gina, Harry Dick, and Izaw G. Zus..." Brendon said, "Ivana is from Austin Powers...But...whats Mia V. Gina and Izaw G. Zus?"

Laurent jumped right into annother bout of hysterical laughter. Alex roled her eyes.

"OH MY GOD!" Lou spit out between bouts of laughter and gasps, "this guys! H-Hes an idiot!"

"No im not!" Brendon spat.

"I b-beg to difer ahhahahha" Lorry cackled and Alex pushed him off her in annoyance sending him into the wall. He slid down it, still laughing and crumpled to the floor.