Fletcher Quimby finished yet another picture of Chyna Parks, the girl that he really liked. He held up the painting, examining it, and setting it to dry. Then he cleaned up all his paintbrushes and stuff.

Chyna walked into the ANT room. "Hi, Fletcher," she said brightly. He jumped. "Hi, Chyna."
Olive Doyle walked in after Chyna. "Hi, Olive," said Fletcher. She said hi back.

"What are you up to so early?" said Olive to Fletcher. He immediately felt flustered. "Oh, nothing."

Olive raised her eyebrow while Chyna went to the couch to play on her ANT pad. Olive walked over to Chyna's painting and raised her other eyebrow. She lowered her voice so Chyna wouldn't hear her. "Well. I see you're painting another picture of Chyna. When are you just going to tell her that you like her?"

"The problem is, I can't!" And Fletcher just can't believe that he was confessing this to Olive.

"Why not? Why don't you just…say it to her?" Olive said.

"Well, have you ever tried saying that you like someone?" Fletcher felt angry. Olive never had to say it, did she?

"Not exactly, but I bet I could if I ever did like somebody," said Olive.

Fletcher had nothing to say to that, so he turned back to clean his paintbrushes. Behind him, Olive shrugged, and walked over to Chyna. She watched Fletcher with an analyzing expression. How was I going to make him say that he liked Chyna? Or make Chyna like him? What would that take? she thought.

The computer genius in the ANT farm program, Angus, rode up in his wheelchair. "Hey, what's up," he said, mostly to Olive. "Oh, look, I sent you a text, Olive," he said, pointing to his ANT pad.

Olive read it. She rolled her eyes in exasperation. "No, for the last time, I will not marry you," she said.

Nigel came into the room in his robot form. "Hi, guys," he said in his British accent. Everyone laughed, even Fletcher. He had known for a long time that Chyna no longer like liked Nigel, and that she and Nigel were just friends. So now Fletcher and Nigel were good friends, too.

Gibson strode in. "Hi, ANTs. Today's going to be great. There's a top secret announcement Principal Skidmore's gonna make."

"What is it?" everybody asked eagerly.

"I just told you that it was top secret. I'm not about to spill the beans, as you kids would say," Gibson said, and went off.

"I don't think anybody here says spill the beans anymore, do you?" Chyna asked. Everyone shook their heads, even Nigel in his screen. Just then Olive checked her ANT pad time, and yelped. "The bell's about to ring. Everybody, run!"

Everybody grabbed their bags and Angus reached for his joystick as Nigel said, "Well, even if it does, you can all ride on me. Remember last time?" Everybody thought back to when they were caught in a bunch of high school kids last time, and everyone stepped on Nigel. Apparently he had a super-fast speed, and plowed through the high schoolers easily.

"Oh, yes, we definitely remember last time," said Fletcher. "But I'm going to hurry anyway. So see you!"

Chyna, Olive, and Fletcher all ran out, while Angus rode out and Nigel rolled out. Everyone hurried on to their next period.

As he ran behind Chyna and Olive to music class, Fletcher thought about what Olive told him. Should he really reveal his true feelings for Chyna? Or should he just wait and see if she'd like him back?

Besides him, all of the other ANTs were thinking, What's the special secret Skidmore's going to tell us?