Guess who owns nothing... This guy *Points to self* well almost nothing anyhow. Actually you know what, I own everything... In this chapter.

LAURA

Jessica poked me again on the shoulder. Not for the first time today either. There was just something about Math class that sent me straight to sleep. I was known for it actually. Alex was the smart one. I'd always just steal his notes just before a test and somehow I pulled through. Mrs. Jordan simply ignored me by now, nothing had worked to get me to pay attention before and as long as I passed and did not distract the other learners we had come to a mutual understanding.

Jessica poked me again. Harder. I continued to ignore her. For some reason she never gave up on me. She kept pushing me to 'Live up to my potential'. That had made me laugh. I stopped quickly after I saw the look on her face though.

Another sharp poke to my side made me gasp in pain. I glare at Jake who is sitting across the passage at the desk next door. "Don't help her!" I moan at him keeping my voice low so as not to disturb the class.

"You gotta pay attention. You don't want to fail our final exams do ya?" He smirked.

I rolled my eyes. "You forget that unlike somebody I have yet to fail a test."

The bell put an end to any response he might have thought up and with our teachers reminder to study for the upcoming exams ringing in our ears we fled the classroom. The weekend was now the only thing between us and the start of exams. Alex caught up with us at the gate to the school, He attended more advanced mathematics lessons. He had always been the top of the class, his hard work had paid off year after year.

Jessica was mid lecture on how I never took things seriously and that I would never be able to provide for myself after leaving School.

Alex just shook his head at me as we started off for home. He was disappointed in me too but didn't say it. For some reason that bothered me more than Jessica's lecturing. She would have kept the lecture going but luckily for me Jake was there to save the day. He winked at me before throwing an arm around Jessica's waist and pulled her towards him. All thoughts about giving me a lecture left and she smiled lovingly at Jake.

I whispered my thanks to Jake from behind her back and he winked. With the constant drone from Jessica finally at an end we were able to move on to more important topics. Which naturally means the exams. "Are you guys finished revising for the exams yet?" Alex asked.

"Nah man, haven't even got halfway" Jake informed us, his arms still around Jessica. The two had just got together three weeks ago. It was about time too, there had actually been a bet at one point about how long it would take for them to get together. I came close but lost to somebody else's lucky guess. Shame, there was quite a large prize pool.

Alex tutted disapprovingly. "There is too much simply to go through it the night before! I hope you are going to work hard this weekend."

"Yeah, after the game tonight I really gotta do some work." Jake said seriously.

Alex stared for at him few seconds and then turned on us. "What about you two?"

"Hehe, I've been studying for weeks already, and so has this Oaf. He just won't admit it." She said giving Jake a soft punch to the shoulder. Then everybody turned to look at me. They knew my answer so I don't know why they still asked.

"Guess I'll just have to go through it the night before" I sighed.

Jessica resumed her lecture.