The Magic School bus gang need one more high school credit to graduate, and of course they take a science…however not the science they were expecting. In front of them stood a short, wrinkly woman with dyed auburn hair. She definitely had the librarian look going on. She had large square glasses and a red sweater over her white shirt, contrasting with her black pencil skirt.

"Hello class, welcome to Senior Family Science. The first few days or weeks is all about building a stable marriage. Your generation is predicted to have the most divorces than all the generations before. That's why it's up for your generation to work things out through thick and thin, and you learn all this through family science! Men, you will choose your spouses randomly through a hat, it is up to you by tomorrow to have a proper and unique proposal for your fiancée. You can even give her a special item as a symbol of love, as long as the ladies promise to return them. And Ladies, yes-you are to say yes. Now please be silent while I walk around with the hat." Ms. Gribble said. She walked around the fairly small classroom of 10 students with a hat.

"Come on, come on," Carlos thought to himself "let me get Portia Swiggolli." Carlos reached into the hat and pulled out the name he least wanted to get. "Dorothy Ann Nelson, come on! This is going to be hell!"

Carlos looked up at the desk beside him and saw Ralphie's face light up.

"Yo Ralph, whose name you got?" Carlos whispered.

"Wanda dude, this is gonna be interesting. It's gonna be like Mia Hamm with Tony Romo." Wanda could hear Ralphie talking, she looked up and smiled at him.

"Dude, please trade with me!" Carlos pleaded.

"No, Wanda already knows she's with me. Who are you with?" Ralphie asked.

"Ugh…DA." Carlos whispered back.

"You and DA!" Ralphie yelled, only to start bursting out with laughter.

"That's enough Mr. Tennelli! Anymore and you're in detention." Ms. Gribble hollered.

"Yes Ms. Gribble." Ralphie said while sliding down into his seat embarrassed…though still smirking at the thought.

Carlos looked up in front of the classroom and saw a blushing, evil glaring DA looking right at him. Carlos gulped wide-eyed like a deer looking into headlights.

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After class, DA walked up to Ms. Gribble and complained.

"Ms. Gribble, I can not be put with an immature imbecile like Carlos. He's obnoxious, loud, and down-right incompatible!" DA said firmly almost yelling.

"Well, here is your chance to get along. Who knows, you might learn to tolerate him." Ms. Gribble said, closing her books and leaving.

"Why me!" Dorothy Ann moaned.

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At lunch DA sat with her two best friends while the rest of the gang sat with their other friends. Wanda sat with the girl jocks of soccer and volleyball, Keesha sat with her step team, Ralphie and Carlos sat with their male jock friends of basketball and baseball. Tim sat with his art class posse.

"I don't know what to do guys," DA said to Arnold and Phoebe "me and Carlos have been acquaintances but not really friends since 8th grade when he hit puberty."

"Just rough it out DA, who knows he might surprise you." Phoebe said while taking another bite of her tuna fish sandwich.

"Who did you get grouped with Arnold?" DA asked bluntly staring into her vegetable soup.

"Um…I got grouped with Phoebe." Arnold said smiling avoiding to make eye contact with Phoebe.

"Aww…this is going to be fun Arns!" Phoebe said smiling, blushing.

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"Hey Portia, who's your new husband?" Keesha said while eating her rice cake.

"Michael Carpenter! EEH!" Portia said gleeing, "he's sooo hott!"

"Lucky," Keesha said frowning "I got stuck with Tim Taylor."

"Talk about an art freak he is, that's like all he does. Doodling into his little book." Portia said staring at Tim across the cafeteria.

"Well…he's not all that bad. He's really nice and sweet. For valentines day in 7th grade he doodled a picture of me and him together." Keesha said smiling.

"That's when you became ex-friends, right? Gosh, he's so…so…weird! Whatever, I'm gonna join my man for lunch. Bye guys!" Portia said, completely deserting Keesha.

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"How are you gonna propose tomorrow man?" Ralphie said digging his face into a sloppy joe.

"I don't know yet. I want to make a good grade on this, not propose and give her a whoopee cushion or something as a token of love."

"A whoopee cushion! That would be hilarious man."

"Well, I really want to make things right between us, we haven't been friends since 8th grade when she first dated that 9th grader. I should have kicked his ass when he said I couldn't be her friend."

"Why didn't you become her friend again when they broke up?" Ralphie asked.

"I met another girl." Carlos said smiling glancing off towards Portia.

"Dude, forget Portia. She doesn't want you. You've asked her out 3 times, if she wanted you, she would've said yes. True she's a honey, but she don't want you."

"I can't help it man, she's tall, lean, has chocolate brown hair…" Carlos rambled on.

"And…she's a bitch Carlos." Ralphie interrupted smiling.

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"Okay class, today is proposal day. Gentleman prepare to form a bond. Let's start with Michael Carpenter." Ms. Gribble announced. She moved a chair in front of the classroom for the girl's to sit at while being proposed to in their presentation.

"Umm, here Portia. You know how much I love my truck and hunting, so here's my favorite John Moose keychain. Will you be my Jane Deer?" Michael asked dully.

"I'd love too!" Portia screamed enthusiastically, sticking the keychain into her purse.

"Great job Mr. Carpenter, however you could be more enthusiastic, Portia you could be a bit…less. Let's move onto Tim and Keesha." Ms. Gribble announced sitting at her desk.

Keesha moved to the chair in front of the classroom while Tim ripped a paper out of his notebook. It was a hand drawn human heart.

"I know this is cheesy Keesha, but I'd like to give you my heart. I worked on it all night. Will you marry me?"

Keesha looked blankly at the paper and smiled.

"Of course I'll marry you." Keesha said taking the paper and putting it into her folder.

"How creative Tim, kudos. Next Ralphie and Wanda." Ms. Gribble announced.

"Wanda, I'll like to give you my favorite baseball. It was the ball I had my first home-run with, and it's a lucky ball. Will you marry me?" Ralphie asked pleading. Wanda looked at the baseball and then at Ralphie.

"How can I say no to you." Wanda smiled taking the baseball and putting it into her bag.

"Oh, how special Ralphie, okay next on the list is Arnold and Phoebe." Ms. Gribble announced.

Phoebe moved into the front of the class wearing her usual yellow sundress. Behind her walked Arnold with a guitar. Arnold grabbed a chair and starting tuning his guitar. For the next 3 minutes he sang a song he wrote for her leaving the class in awe. He even managed to get a tear from Ms. Gribble.

"That was magnificent Arnold, Phoebe we know after that performance you want to say yes. You will receive extra credit for that beautiful composure Arnold, okay class…last but not least Carlos and Dorothy Ann." Ms. Gribble announced.

"Oh great," thought Carlos "out of all the guys, I have to come behind Arnold!"

Carlos and DA walked into the front of the classroom and got into their positions. The class was silent while Carlos took something from his book bag.

"Um…I may not have a special object or a special talent…though Ms. Gribble said we can still share a symbol of love. My symbol for you DA is a violet." Carlos said, he took a single violet from behind his back and gave it to her. "I know it doesn't seem like much, but it's the symbol of our relationship. I hate to tell you DA, but it is blue not violet. We fight a lot, and contradict each other like a Violet. It's supposed to be violet, yet it's blue…though in the end…it's still beautiful. Will you marry me DA?" Carlos announced nervously on one knee. He looked into her gray eyes and almost saw a tear.

"Carlos, it is perfect. I'll be honored to marry you." DA announced smiling, looking down at the violet then back at Carlos.

"Well that was truly sincere and beautiful Carlos. Good job!" Ms. Gribble said cutting in between their moment. "Now that everyone is engaged, we will start the engagement plans. You all are to create a dream wedding, each with a different max budget. Ralphie and Wanda: $12,000, Keesha and Tim: $17,000, Portia and Michael: $25,000, Arnold and Phoebe: $22,000, and Carlos and DA: $7,000. It is up for you and your partner to compromise on the budget. Perhaps you want to spend part of it and save the rest for future projects. Spend wisely class…start preparing…now.

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Wow! It's been a while since I made a new fanfic, though I hope this story is fresh. I'm trying to do something totally different. Also I'm trying to mix up the couples while still keeping my favorite. Sorry, but yeah. You can't split them up. ;) Hope you like it, please review!