"No way, Vortex! It's Sherlock Holmes! There was never a cute, spunky, girl partner named Shirley Holmes!" Jimmy complained in yet another fight with his rival.
"How do you know, Nerdtron?"
"Because! It just wasn't!"
"Was, too!"
"Was not!"
"Was, too!"
(And so on and so forth but if I continued like this you'd get bored and click the exit button immediately!)
"Have you ever noticed how they fight over the STUPIDEST things sometimes?" Libby asked Sheen and Carl as they sat down at the lunch table beside their friends.
"And even if there was a SHIRLEY Holmes, she wasn't nearly as good as Sherlock, anyways!"
"Was, too!"
"Was not!"
"Was, too!"
"Yeah. Sometimes you just want to put earplugs in and pretend you're in a field of llamas! Run little llamas run!" Carl said, suddenly, smiling happily from ear to ear and doing a llama dance around the lunchroom.
Libby and Sheen gave each other an odd look and continued their talk about Cindy and Jimmy's "relationship."
"So, are we still meeting at the Candy Bar after school?" Libby asked the group.
"Was not!"
"Was, too!"
"Sure, Libs! See you there?" Sheen asked, smiling at the two still arguing.
"Ok, Sheen!" she said, also smiling as Cindy and Jimmy got up and walked to throw their trays away, still arguing continuously.
What Libby thought was so funny was that they spent almost all their time together. Sure, they were arguing, but they were still together ALL THE TIME! Which was the way she liked it. If Cindy was arguing with Jimmy, that meant she got to spend time with Sheen.
Libby walked beside her best friend down the hallway, greeting occasional people and smiling at others. But her mind was on the Candy Bar. She loved the afternoons that she and Sheen planned without Jimmy and Cindy's consent. They would drag their friends to the hot hangout and "casually" bump into one another. But Jimmy and Cindy would start arguing when they got there so they never knew the difference. And Carl? Well, he was trying all of Sam's flavors so he never paid much attention either.
"So Cindy? We going to the Candy Bar after school, girlfriend?"
"What? Oh, yeah, sure, Libs," Cindy replied. Libby could tell Cindy was still fuming over the argument with Jimmy.
Libby smiled. This was the way their life should be and she liked it that way. But life as they knew it was about to change. And soon....