"Thank you. And good night!" Lavi shouted to the excited crowd as he walked off stage. He let out an exhausted sigh as he walked to his dressing room. He plopped into his chair and removed the head band and eye patch as his manager walked in. He turned the chair around to face her.

"That was a great show tonight Deak," she said. He just nodded and grinned nervously when Bookman came in. His manager greeted Bookman and then looked at Lavi.

"I will see you tomorrow after you're done with school," she said before leaving. Lavi looked at Bookman and could tell he was upset.

"I found your report card you failed miserably to hide from me," Bookman said. Lavi scratched the back of his head nervously.

"If I had showed it to ya, ya would've told me to cancel the concert," Lavi replied. Bookman hit him in the head. Lavi whined and rubbed his head, pouting.

"You will bring that grade up before the next concert. Now finish up and let's go. You have to get up early," Bookman said walking out. Lavi stuck out his tongue childishly at Bookman's back before the door shut. He quickly changed into his other clothes and ran after Bookman. Knowing full well he would leave him if he didn't hurry. He honestly wouldn't mind. He didn't want to go to school in the morning.

Lavi walked into the school and kept his head down trying to avoid looking at anyone. He made it to his locker without incident or so he thought. Right after he opened his locker door, it was slammed shut. Lavi looked over and saw it was one of the kids from the soccer team that had done it.

"Do you have my homework geek?" He asked looking angry. Lavi nodded and reached into his backpack and pulled it out. The student snatched it out of Lavi's hand and slammed him into the locker. Lavi whimpered slightly at the pain and the student laugh as he walked away. Lenalee came over worried.

"Are you alright Lavi?" she asked. Lavi smiled at her and opened his locker again.

"Yeah I'm fine Lena," he answered pulling out what he needed before shutting it. Lenalee frowned and placed a hand on her hip.

"Don't lie to me," Lenalee said firmly. Lavi sighed and looked at her.

"The old panda found my report card," Lavi said heading in the direction of his creative writing class. Lenalee followed since her class was in that direction too.

"So?"

"So I failed one of my classes because I'm having to do not only my work, but two other people's," Lavi said.

"One was that jerk of a captain from the soccer team right?" Lenalee asked. Lavi nodded.

"Who's the other one?" she asked. Lavi didn't answer her. Instead he was staring dreamily at the most popular boy in the entire school, Yuu Kanda. Lenalee followed Lavi's gaze and giggled quietly. Lavi snapped out of his daze and looked at her.

"What?" Lavi asked.

"He's the other one isn't he?" Lenalee asked with that all too knowing look on her face. Lavi blushed and looked down in defeat. Lenalee patted him on the back.

"It's okay. But let me guess, Bookman said that if you didn't bring that grade up, you couldn't perform as Deak?" She asked keeping her voice low.

"Yeah…" Lavi said pouting. Lenalee laughed a little and smiled at him.

"Everything will be fine Lavi. I'll see you later okay?" Lavi nodded and she went off to her class. Lavi walked into his class digging into his backpack to pull out Kanda's assignment. He closed his bag after he pulled out Kanda's assignment. Lavi slowly walked over to Kanda's desk and held it out to him. Kanda looked up at him uncaringly and took it from him. Lavi was just glad to, one, be standing near him, and two, that he hadn't ripped it from his hand.

"It better be done correctly," Kanda said lowly.

"I-It is," Lavi said stumbling over his words. Kanda huffed and looked away. Lavi went and sat at his desk in the back of the class room. He pulled out his own assignment to have it ready and a journal. He reached back into his bag and pulled out his favorite pen. Lavi opened the journal and began writing in it. He glanced up occasionally to make sure no one was coming towards him. The bell rang to signal that class was beginning and he closed the journal as the teacher came in. Lavi noted that it was a different teacher. Most likely a sub.

"Alright class. I know I'm not your normal teacher, but I will be with you for the rest of the week as your teacher is out sick. My name is Aaron Romano," he said. Some of the class groaned at having a substitute and other were happy about it. Lavi could care less if it was their actual teacher or a substitute. The sub called roll and marked them as they were called.

"Lavi Bookman?" Mr. Romano called. Lavi didn't hear him since he wasn't paying attention.

"Bookman?" he called again. Lavi looked up and thought the old panda was there and then he realized it was him.

"Here," Lavi called as a few students snickered. He sank lower in his chair trying to hide. Soon Romano finished and set the roll book down.

"Alright class. Now that that is done, I can tell you what your teacher left for you," he said. The students groaned, not wanting to do any work like always.

"You will be paired up to work on an interview with each other," he started. The students started to look around trying to pick who they wanted.

"But I will be pairing you up with someone," he finished. They students frowned. Lavi tried to hide behind his journal. He hated be paired up with someone. They always made him do all of the assignment while they did nothing. Romano started calling out the pairs and students began to move over to their partners.

"Lavi you will be paired with Kanda," Romano said. Lavi nodded and slowly stood and walked over to Kanda's desk and sat at the one across from him. Lavi could feel the stares he was getting from all the girls in the room. They were all jealous of him. Lavi looked down at the desk like it had caught his interest.

"You will interview each other for two days. Then you will each write your own report based on the interview. The next day after that you will write a combined report based off the two reports. And you will present them on the last day," Romano said. Some of the students made noises of disapproval.

"You may begin," Romano said sitting down behind the teacher's desk. Lavi looked up at Kanda.

"I'm not doing the stupid interview and I'm not going to answer whatever questions you ask. So make something up," Kanda said bitterly. Lavi nodded and got to work writing the questions down that he would ask and what he thought Kanda would say. Lavi made sure to take the entire class period writing his questions and Kanda's made up answers. When the bell rang Lavi quickly got up and walked to the back of the room and gathered his things. Lavi quickly headed out of the class room and to his next one.

Lavi was sitting by himself at lunch eating quietly while writing in his journal. A few members of the soccer team came over and snatched up his journal.

"What's this? A diary?" One asked laughing. Lavi tried to grab it back. The team started to laugh at him.

"That's so gay," another said. That made them laugh more. Lavi got up and tried again to grab it. One boy pushed him to the ground roughly. Lavi flinched as he landed on his butt. The same boy that pushed him down, took the journal and was about to open it when it was taken out of his hands. They all looked to see who was and paled when they saw that it was Kanda. He glared harshly at them and they ran off. Lavi got up and wiped himself off. Kanda held out the journal to him. Lavi slowly took it back.

"Thanks," Lavi said.

"Tch. Whatever," Kanda muttered walking away. Lavi slowly sat back down and put the journal in his bag so no one else would take it. The bell rang for them to go to class and for the next group to come eat lunch. Lavi stood up with his bag and grabbed his lunch tray. He walked over to the closet trash can and tossed it in. he sighed and headed towards gym. Hating it more with every step he took.

Lavi was relieved when the day was over. He walked out of his history class and headed to his locker. Lenalee caught up to him smiling.

"What's with the big smile?" Lavi asked.

"My crush just asked me to the spring dance," Lenalee said gleefully.

"That's great Lena!" Lavi said smiling at her. She nodded. When they turned down the hall where Lavi's locker was, she stopped him and pointed. Lavi looked to where she was pointing and was surprised. There at his locker was Kanda. Yuu Kanda. Lavi blinked a few times to make sure he wasn't losing it. He wasn't. Kanda was really there at his locker. Lenalee pushed Lavi forward and he looked back at her.

"Go on. Find out what he wants," she said. Lavi gulped and prayed that it wasn't to hit him. He had a photo shoot after he left. Lavi slowly walked over to his locker and Kanda looked at him.

"Do you need me for something?" Lavi asked cautiously. Kanda pushed off of the lockers and crossed his arms.

"Yeah."

"What is it?" Lavi asked.

"Go with me to the stupid dance so I don't have to deal with girls asking me to it," Kanda said grouchily. Lavi, without thinking, answered yes.

"Good," Kanda huffed and walked away. Lavi stood there in shock until Lenalee came over.

"Well, what did he want?" Lenalee asked curiously. Lavi looked at her, a blush on his face.

"He asked me to go with him to the dance," Lavi replied. Lenalee started to hug him, but stopped.

"But you can't go. Remember, you have that concert," Lenalee said. Lavi let his head hit the lockers.

"I'm screwed…" Lenalee patted him on the back.

"Good luck explaining this to your manager and Bookman," Lenalee said before leaving. Lavi was definitely going to need good luck alright. He just knew it. As he trudge to the entrance of the school, where Bookman was waiting for him.