Something loud was ringing throughout his head, filling his ears obnoxiously. Slowly he lifted his head from his arms, unaware of where he was. What a waste of good sleep as the noise just stopped.

Felix decided he'd just go back to sleep for now but just as he wanted to lower his head back down, eyes still closed throughout it all, something hit his head on the back. Or well, not hit but more like grabbing him by the skull and slamming him down. His entire body recoiled and lashed back. He ended up with his back straight and his head hanging backwards over the back of his chair.

His eyes were slowly opening now, painfully adjusting themselves to the high volume of light coming from the ceiling. A figure with long satiny hair bended forward and over him. It was Piers, his his friend and classmate. "You've got to be kidding me. Don't tell me you slept through another class, Felix." he said as Felix got up from his chair, his legs a bit wobbly from suddenly moving after such a long time. "Hey, I'm not going for straight A's here. C's will do just fine for me, contrary to you." "Well excuse me for trying to explain to you that we just received instructions for our projects, whilst you were sleeping." Piers lashed back as he walked back to his table two to the back and grabbing his backpack.

"Shit." That was just about everything that went through Felix's mind. How could he have missed that? That project would be worth thirty percent of his final grade and he's can't ask the teacher for the instructions again, the man hates him! Damn that Mr Vares for being such a jerk every time. All he wanted was to sleep and the man would never let him if he noticed.

"Crap, Piers, how important was that instruction? You know I can't afford another low grade." "Let's just say that you're going to get a F either way without them. Mr Vares has been telling us for days that he'd give the instructions today and you still managed to blissfully clueless. You should take this up as your profession Felix, 'a professional screw up'. The girls would be all over you." Piers mocked him, the bastard.

He got up as well and grabbed for his backpack but missed. He realized that he had in fact left it behind at home out of sheer laziness. Piers sighed as he noticed that and Felix grinned guiltily at him as he started walking out of the classroom next to him. Just in the corner of his eye he noticed Mr Vares cracking a grin in his direction just before they passed through the door out of the class room.

"Piers, man, you've gotta help me!" Felix pleaded. "You know I can't ask Mr Vares, he'll chew me up and spit me out to the principal and I still wouldn't get any help from them." "Not a chance Felix, you brought this one on yourself it's you time you learned to swim on your own for a change," Piers sneered. "I can't hold your hand through everything dammit. You have to do stuff on your own as well."

Piers had been his best friend along with Isaac since halfway through elementary school when Felix transferred there. Right from the start, the both of them had always been there for him no matter what. "Come on man, I need help! Do-" Felix tried to convince him but Piers cut him short. "No! I told you, I'm not going to save your butt this time. Get Isaac to help you." "Don't be ridiculous Piers, you know he's probably off even worse than I am." Felix rebutted. But it fell on deaf ears and with Piers not willing to to even opt it, they fell silent as they walked along the hallway, passing the other students along the way as everyone shifted to their usual spots for lunch break.

Felix raised his hand In a wave as he passed three particular students, namely his sister, Jenna, and her friends Sheba and Mia. The latter two were neatly in school uniform and Jenna was in her PE clothes, she never cared to redress for lunch break and just ran around in her PE clothes. Other students did the same thing though and nobody frowned on it as odd behavior.

His sister waved back at him, smiling, and Sheba and Mia quickly followed form. Piers kept it to a formal greeting: "Girls.", as he nodded his head towards them.

But Felix noticed what was really going on. Piers had made that nod and everything but the entire time his gaze had been locked on Mia and when she looked at him with her smile a blush spread across his face. "You sly little..." Felix had struck gold. He nudged Piers in the ribs with his elbow just after they passed the group and didn't leave a second to waste. "I can get you a date with her you know." he said, just soft enough that the girls wouldn't hear it over the ruckus in the hallway but just loud enough for Piers to become unsettled by it. "What? What are you uh, talking about?" Piers responded nervously. This was child's play to Felix! "Don't act like your nose is bleeding. It's too obvious as it is. You like her." They stopped walking as Piers turned to him, mouth wide open for a rebuttal but when he saw the devious grin on Felix's face he knew that there was no use to it. And if he wasn't lying... "Did you mean that?" "Mean what?" Felix teased him mercilessly. "The date!- You know what I mean! Can you really arrange something like that..?" Piers responded. "Of course I can! She's one my sister's best friends and Jenna and I get along really well, and it's not like I haven't talked to Mia before. I'm sure Jenna would even help me with this if I ask her to. But... Such a thing doesn't come without a price, as you're well aware...~" Felix had him now and they both knew it. Like a mouse in a maze and the only exit has a mouse trap.

"Fine, I'll help you with the project... But you had better not screw this up Felix..." Piers raised his index finger up at Felix, enforcing his words with the movements. Felix held both of his hands up aside his shoulders in a surrendering fashion. "Hey man, you know you can trust me on these things. I won't leave you hanging, promise." Piers stared him in the eyes for a few seconds but he already knew Felix wasn't lying. He'd never let him down in a promise like this. "Fine then." he said as he grabbed a textbook out of backpack and handed it to Felix. The two of them started walking again, towards the school kitchen to buy their lunch. "Page seventy-six. You'll need to explain that page in the project for starters. It's an important bit." "What part exactly? There's a continuation from the last page." Felix asked. "This here." Piers said as he pointed at the text in question.

Despite him giving instructions however, there was only one thing on his mind at this point...

Lunch. Damn, he was so hungry he could eat a horse.