'Look at him doodling on that paper, he can't concentrate for more than a few minutes' Kuki smiled to herself and rested her head on her arm as she juggled her attention from the teacher at the front of the classroom, to the shaggy haired blonde sat on the desk in front of her.

"Mr Beatles, I hope that that's a trigonometric equation that you're writing in your book!" Mrs Finster projected, her eyes still focused on the board as she continued to write.

Wally jumped and looked up. "er, yeah, course I am miss…" He nodded.

Kuki gave a small giggle to herself.

The teacher turned to face him and raised her eyes. "Focus please!"

Kuki gave another grin. Even the teachers had a soft spot for Wallabee, despite him never paying attention and rarely doing work.
The bell rang. Lunchtime. Kuki closed her book and stood up, trying to take in the instructions of her teacher regarding homework as she watched her long term crush race out of the door.

She beamed as she entered the cafeteria, seeing that her best friend was already present. Abby waved to her and motioned for her to join her in the lunch queue.

"Hey! No cuts!" A girl behind Abby moaned as Kuki stepped in front of her athletic friend.

Abby glared at her. "Chill out or get lost!"

The girl scoffed and chose to shut up.

"How's your day been girl? Numbuh 5's not seen you all day." Abby sighed as they took their trays along the line.

Kuki smiled to herself. Even though they were no longer in the KND Abby's use of her own number in third person had never rubbed off. With a shrug she replied. "Double science, electronics and maths...what do you think?"

Abby chuckled. "Sounds okay to Numbuh 5! The only decent lesson she's had today is phys ed, where we played lacrosse and Numbuh 5's stick 'accidently' hit Minnie Higgins over the head!"

"Abby!" Kuki laughed. They were next in the queue. Kuki handed her tray to the rather large and scary looking dinner lady. She secretly prayed that the woman's giant chin wart wouldn't fall into whatever they were serving today.

"She was asking for it!" Abby exclaimed, now handing over her tray as they walked down the line.

Kuki scrunched her nose a little as she received hers back...Some sort of slop...she looked up at the menu. Cottage pie. So that's what it was meant to be.

"What did she do? Breathe?" Kuki cheered up as she looked back over to Abby.

Abby took her tray back and gave a similar look of disgust as she observed what she was given. "She turned up to phys ed wearing a skirt! Not a gym skirt with shorts under...a tiny, black, miniskirt. Just so that she could have a possibility of flashing her too small, slutty thong and fat ass butt cheeks."

Kuki gave a squeal. "Thongs? Seriously?!"

They got to the till and payed then headed for an empty table so that they could finish their discussion in peace.

"Numbuh 5's got no problem with thongs, they look nice when you wear them right. Sure, everyone wears them. But don't wear a pair that's a size too small because you look like a heffalump trying to fit into a leotard!" Abby sighed as they sat down.

Kuki looked up at her in shock. "You've worn them?!"

Abby gave her a 'no big deal' look back. "Sure, it's not like Numbuh 5 got a basque or something."

"Aren't they uncomfortable?" Kuki mused. Taking her first mouthful of slop and regretting it. She put down her thought and decided to drink her milk instead.

Abby shook her head. "They were to get used to but they're okay really. Guy's go nuts for them for some reason."

Kuki gasped. "You mean you've…?" Her face asked the rest of the question with raised eyebrows and a glance around to check that nobody was close enough to hear.

"No." Abby laughed. "Numbuh 5 hasn't gone that far! You know she'd tell you! Numbuh 5's just saying, bend over that little bit too much so they look, then stand up and pull up your pants to cover them. You've got guys hooked!"

Kuki laughed. Beginning to dig her useless plastic fork around in the meal. "I can't believe you'd do that for a guy! I'd never go through pain like that!"

"It ain't pain!" Abby laughed.

"Still. That discomfort!" Kuki looked up at her. "Guy's aren't worth making that much effort for!"

As she looked up, she saw her crush and close friend walking past her with his friends. Looking for a table.

"Hi Wally!" She smiled shyly as he passed her.

The blonde looked down at her and gave a smile. "Hey Kuki."

She beamed, Wally was one of the coolest guys in their class, she wasn't so popular. It made her feel so special that he didn't care that he was cool and she wasn't. He still treated her like the close friends they always had been since the age of eight,

"Urgh, We got history next?" Wally asked as he walked backwards, following his friends but still paying attention to Kuki.

Kuki nodded. He smiled, half turning around. "Great, save me a seat!"

Kuki grinned and looked back at her food. A little blush forming on her cheeks.

"Not even that guy?" Abby chuckled.

Kuki narrowed her eyes at her jokingly. "Shut up!"

Abby laughed and dug in her bag. She'd obviously given up with trying to eat the school meal too and had come prepared as she picked out a large packet of salted potato chips. She opened the bag and took a handful out. Offering the bag to Kuki. Who smiled gratefully and picked out a chip, she nibbled on it thoughtfully.

"Do I act like a complete idiot around him?" Kuki asked her best friend.

Abby shook her head. "What makes you think that? You act like you always have with him."

"He's just so cool and I'm just...not." Kuki sighed.

"Girl, don't be a fool!" Abby laughed. "Just because you ain't a Minnie Higgins minion doesn't mean you ain't cool."

Kuki looked up. "I'm not. You're sporty and athletic. So you're cool...I'm just a nerd. People only tolerate me because you'll pound on them if they don't!"

"Wally don't think that. He wouldn't have asked to sit next to you in next lesson otherwise, doofus!" Abby grinned.

Kuki shook her head. "He hates history. He doesn't get it. he likes to sit with me because he knows it's my best subject and I'll help him with it. It doesn't mean anything."

Abby laughed. She'd always known about Kuki's feelings for Wally. Possibly before Kuki knew it for herself. Kuki had only recently confessed during a sleepover between to two of them.

"Your only problem is that you ain't obvious enough girl! You know how oblivious he is to everything! You got to flirt more! Show him you like him, make him know that he wants you!" Abby grinned at Kuki.

The thought terrified Kuki. "What? No...I...I can't Abby!"

"Why not?" Abby asked. "You're a cute girl and trust Numbuh 5! Wally knows that too! You just got to make him realise how much he wants you. Be sexy!"

"I'm….I'm not sexy Abby!" Kuki exclaimed.

Abby raised her eyes. "Yes you are!"

The bell rang. Kuki looked over to Wally, who was still seated with his friends, hurling the school meal at each other.

Abby smiled. "Go to class. We'll talk about it later!"

Kuki stood up and headed to her history lesson.

She stood outside the room where they were all meant to line up. Quietly she leant against the wall. Watching her classmates messing around and thinking about what Abby had said.

'I'm not sexy' She thought to herself. 'She has to think that, she's my best friend. Surely Wally doesn't think I am. He could get any girl he wanted in the whole school!'

"Wow, that's a thoughtful look!" An English accent invaded her trail of thought. She looked over and gave a small smile.

"Oh, hi Nigel." She said.

Nigel gave a grin through his signature glasses. Nigel, like Kuki, wasn't highly thought of in school. His intelligence exceeded most of their classmates and that mixed with his bald head and awful fashion sense gave him the title role of class nerd. Luckily for him, again, like Kuki, their KND friends who began generally more popular than them stood out for them and gave them a safety net from class ridicules and bullies.

"What were you thinking about this side of class?" He questioned, leaning next to her.

She shook her head. "Nothing much, just thinking."

He shrugged. "Okay. We're starting on the battle of hastings today. Want to sit together in case we get group work?"

"Erm." Kuki bit her lip. "I already said I'd sit with…"

"Okay class, come in please." Mr Halter. Or as the children knew him...Mr Hitler said as he opened the door.

Kuki looked back at Nigel as they started to walk in.

"Oh, okay." Nigel said, sounding quite low. Kuki felt bad, she was about to suggest that they sat on a table of four when…

"Hey Kuki." Wally said as he rushed in. "He didn't realise I'm late did he?"

Kuki shook her head. "No, we were just sitting down."

"Great. I can't do another detention with him!" Wally sighed as he headed over to the two person desk at the back, right hand corner of the room. He sat down and looked up at her expectantly.

"Oh I see!" Nigel grinned knowingly. "Go ahead! I understand."

Kuki gave him a smile. "Come sit by us?"

Nigel nodded. they both made their way to the double desk in front of Wally. Kuki took her seat by her crush.

"Er, the back of the room is reserved for cool people Uno!" A dark haired boy scowled as he walked towards Nigel.

Nigel gave a sigh, "Do we really have to do the seat possession thing in every lesson we're in Jacob?"

The boy was one of the jocks. He wore a blue varsity jacket with a white top and ripped jeans. He glared at Nigel. "We will until you learn where you do and don't have the right to sit!"

"And he has the right to sit where he wants to Sampson! There ain't no name on the chair!" Wally projected to him. Narrowing his eyes and lifting one side of his mouth into a scowl.

Jacob was about to reply but decided against it. He wasn't going to win an argument against Wally. He rolled his eyes and chose to sit on the four person table to Wally's left.

"Thank you Mr Beatles and Mr Sampson!" Mr Halter groaned as he settled into his desk. "We have a lot to do so let's just get on with it without the soap operas!"

"Thanks." Nigel whispered as he turned to look at Wally.

Wally smiled and shrugged. "You used to do the same for me mate."

Kuki smiled at Wally. 'He's so sweet!.

She then sat quietly throughout the lesson. Thinking about her conversation with Abby.

"You okay?" She heard. She looked at Wally. He was staring at her cautiously. He must have seen her zoned out.

"Oh." Kuki shook the thoughts out of her head. "Yeah, just thinking about something Abby said to me earlier."

Wally blinked. "Okay, well do you know the answer to this? Hitler's looking at us!"

Kuki looked over to her teacher, who was glancing about the room. She then looked at the board and realised that there were a list of questions to research. Wow, she must have really blanked out.

"Yeah." She sighed. "Let's look on this paragraph."

She opened their shared book and glanced up at Wally, who looked like he was trying to make sense of the wording inside. She was sure that she was right at that point. Wally only wanted to sit by her for her answers.

There was then a buzz on her thigh. A light, tinkling tune then aired around the room.

"Crap!" She whispered. Her eyes darting up at her teacher. Who was glaring around the classroom looking for the culprit.

"Phone's off please!" He scolded to the whole class when he decided that he couldn't figure out who the ring belonged to.

Wally chuckled. "Was that you?"

Kuki looked at him and took her phone out of her pocket. "I thought I'd put it on silent this morning."

Wally laughed again. "Wow, I've never known you break a school rule before! No phones miss Sanban!"

Kuki smiled at him and glanced at her phone under the table. Making sure to turn her phone to silent before reading her text.

Sleepover tonight? Loaded with homework I'm stuck on.

We can talk carry on with our talk too :p

-Abby