"Ryan hurry up you don't want to be late! Remember you have to pick up max!"

"I know mom I'm on my way now!"

Ryan picked up his backpack off the couch and slung it over his shoulder and walked to the garage, he got in the car and started driving towards max's house, in two short minutes he arrived at her house to be met by a freshman happy max, who nearly ran to the car.

"Thanks for driving me,again."

"It's no problem" He replied.

In another few minutes they arrived at Ny public high school, after a short bye from each they went separate ways towards there first home room Ryan had , for the whole class it was the usual first day speech going over the rules and classes. The bell rang and Ryan headed off to his next class which was social studies, one of his favorite classes, but just like home room it went on the basics for the rest of the year. All the rest of the classes went by in a blur the same thing after same thing until lunch. Lunch was the one place were he could just eat and socialize, he also had lunch with Max who saved him from searching for a new table since things with mike weren't necessarily on speaking terms. Ryan met with Max who was already at her locker with Gina,and Deborah, they were a close net of friends but we're reconnecting since Max mainly spent her summer with Ryan. Ryan approached her locker

"Hi Max."

" Hi Ryan!"

Max smiled, she had obviously had a better morning then he did,

"So how were your morning classes? Mine were great I can't wait till I start in robotics!"

"Boring just a whole bucket of nothing"

Ryan skulked,

"Oh that's to bad."

"Hey can we head down to lunch I don't want to wait in line?"

Gina asked,

"Sure lets go."

Max smiled and started walking with the rest of the group towards the lunch room, they all headed towards the lines for the different restaurants the girls all heading to the salad bar while Ryan went to chipotle.

" So there's a lot of hot soft mores here"

whispered Gina letting out a soft laugh,

" Oh yes we all know you got the hots for Jana."

Deborah laughed,

"Shut up I don't want her to hear!"

"Oh please we've all seen the way she looked at you."

Max said letting out a little whistle, they all laughed at max's gesture.

"Well unlike you Gina I prefer MEN."

"Well there's not many around here"

Deborah laughed,

" So Deborah then who are the MEN here in your terms?" Max replied,

"Well there is, hmm lets see well there's Jon, umm Rick and Ryan, oh and Mike!"

" Mike?! Oh please he's just a jerk."

" I don't know where you got that from, but you guys would be a cute couple."

" In your dreams Deborah!"

" Omg omg you would be maxton!"

"What!?"

" Your ship name! You know like what you would be called if you were dating."

" Guys were holding up the line lets get are salads."

Gina said urging them to walk forward.

"Okay I'm getting my salad!"

Max laughed, all three girls stepped forward and grabbed there vegetables from the boxes and placed them in the black plastic containers, and headed towards the only table left that would fit them which was already 3/4 filled. It held a group of boys, many that were familiar from there middle school and some they never met, but one caught max's eyes, the infamous Mike Weston, the Mike they were just talking about, the Mike that her cousin used be her cousins best friend, until he lashed out and was being a total jerk. She cautiously sat down placing herself farthest away from him hoping he wouldn't notice, but a group of three giggling girls, how could you not. Max made a quick glance at Mike to only notice that he also made one at her to, she quickly turned her head and glared down at her food infuriated by the thought of what he had done. She was deep in thought until interrupted by Ryan sitting down across from next to a boy she didn't recognize, before max could say hi he had already started shoving food down his throat so she didn't bother. She was about to start on her food when she was interrupted by Gina,

" Hey what happened to Ryan and Mike, didn't they use to be like best friends? Now they don't even talk to each other, why is that?"

Gina whispered to prevent unwanted attention,

" It's a long story."

" Well I've got time."

" Yah well I have salad to eat Gina okay?!"

"Yah, okay."

Gina replied unsatisfied. Max dug into her salad, acting as a que for the others to start eating as well. Soon after all of them finished eating there lunch the bell rang and they all hurried to get to there next class. For Max her next class was AP science, and it was also honors science for soft mores. When Max got in the room she walked to the back sitting in the seat farthest back, Max liked science but since of the recent events at lunch she didn't feel like being bothered. For science she had ,

" Hello everybody I will be your science teacher this year, now I have took it upon me and have created a seating chart, the person you will be sitting next to will be your lab partner for most of the year and will be who you do you most of your projects with, do I make that clear?"

A murmur of

"Yes"

came from the whole classroom.

" Ok for table 1 it will be Richard and Katherine, table 2 Kevin and Jon, table 3 Emma and Neil, table 4 Molly and, pi?"

"Yep its pi like the number"

table after table until finally

"And table 12 Maxine and Michael."

"It's Max." "It's Mike."

they both shouted together, there heads snapped towards each other, Max sighed rolling her eyes, a little angered by this mere coincidence, Mike smirked the sheer irony of this event humored him, she desperately wanted to stay away from him but they still ended up together.

" Now please take a seat"

Max walked over to the table with the opposite of a smile.

"You okay? You look a little to angry just for having to sit next me."

" Yah and how can you tell that?"

"Well the fact that you look like you've been hit by a bus"

" Oh thank you!"

She sarcastically replied,

" I didn't mean it as a bad thing."

"Well I've just been having a bad day okay?!"

She replied defeated and slumped back in her chair. The rest of class went by routine to morning along with the rest of her routine schedule. She hurried to her locker after the dismiss bell hoping not to run into her friends who she didn't feel like talking to at the moment as soon as she turned the corner she saw them descend down the stairs towards her locker. Max rushed towards Ryan's locker to where he was waiting,

"Let's go."

She said grabbing his arm and pulling him forward towards the exit. Ryan didn't hesitate cause he could tell she was a little in edge, Ryan started walking toward the car followed by a grumpy Max, they both got in the car and Ryan drove out of the school parking lot.

"What's up with you?"

"Today is September 6, and tomorrow is September 7."

"Your dad."

"Yah,and I thought I could just ignore it, but instead I was mean and took out of my friends, even though it was small and may have meant nothing to them, it meant something to me. The day before my dad died, in the fire, I had a fight with my dad, a real stupid one, but it's just I don't want something like that to happen to my friends and not be able to apologize for it, I know it sounds stupid but-"

"It's not stupid."

"Well bye see you tomorrow."

"Bye."

Max hopped out of the car and rushed into the house, a soon as he saw her make into the house, he started towards his house which was only two minutes away. He made it to his house and made his way in, he was met by his mom who was doing paperwork for her job,

"Hey kev, how was the first day of school?"

"Boring as usual."

"Did you get any homework?

"No."

"Ok well dinners at six."

"Ok."

Ryan hopped up the stairs, and walked to his room, and once inside fell onto his bed.