Disclaimer: I do not own 39 Clues or any of the characters.

A/N: Hey guys. Decided to write another fic. I don't know if It's good but I hope it will be. Anyways, R/R guys :D . Oh, and sorry if Jonah isn't in this fic. I dont know why I didn't include him. But pls. enjoy :)

Room 12, Class 7-A

"Okay? So who's up for the role?" the teacher clearly said.

Dan Cahill quickly looked away at the woman in front. "Don't make eye contact. Don't make eye contact." His head was repeating.

"No? Come on. Anybody?" The teacher looked around the room, disappointed. "What's wrong with it? It's just a play. Come on, no volunteers?" The teacher cast one last glance of hope for her students but…

"Okay, if none of you wants to volunteer. I'll have to pick one. Let's see." The woman looked down at her class record tracing the names with her finger. "Ugh. Hmmmm." The woman kept looking at the names.

"Oh this. Daniel Cahill." The teacher said, and looked at the boy sitting in the corner.

"Whaaaaaaaat?" Dan stood up. He heard a laugh from one of the students sitting in front. It was a very familiar laugh. From beside him, his friend Nick was trying hard not to.

The teacher, Mrs. Bills, just looked at Dan. Then she smiled. "Moving on, for the female role."

Torture. It was torture. Dan was not in it for the role. Not ever. He preferred to be a ninja, behind the shadows, not in the spotlight. He was ready to go home now, really ready to leave the room and play video games at home and sleep and never to come back to school again. He wished he can, that is. Then, a girl raised her hand. Her name was Monica.

"Yes, Monica?" The teacher asked.

"Ahhm. Ma'am? How about we let Dan pick the girl. Besides, he'll be working with her. It'll be much better if he can get along well with her. If not, practice is gonna be a disaster. So, it's much better if he'll be the one to pick who the "she" will be."

The teacher considered this. "Very well, nice thinking Monica." The girl looked back at Dan, smiled, and then sat down. "What the?" Dan was thinking. "Could she. Does she-?" But he was interrupted by Mrs. Bills' voice.

"So, Daniel? Who will be the lucky girl?"

Dan looked around the room. Hell no. He's not into this in the first place, and now he's searching for someone who will be with him in this misery?

"Uhm. Mrs. Bills?" Dan asked. "Could I- ah – I don't want to be in a play. Can I switch roles?"

"Sadly, I can't Mr. Cahill. Wait. Does anyone here want to have Daniel's role?" No nods. No hands raised up. No volunteers. No nothing.

"That confirms it. Besides, looking at your records, you're always late. Don't you think this is a good opportunity to cope it up?"

"Do I really have to choose the girl?" Dan asked.

"Yes."

Dan closed his eyes. Why? Why is this happening to him. But enough thinking of that. He tried, and he failed. He can't change his teacher's or his classmate' minds. Right now, he had to choose. He looked once more at his classmates. Then he saw her, the girl who was paying no attention to anyone or anything at that moment. The girl who laughed when Mrs. Bills picked him to participate in the play. The girl who is probably enjoying his misery right now. "If I will be suffering from this script-filled madness then so will she."

"Natalie. Natalie Cobra." Dan said. "I choose her." For a second Dan actually forgot how bad the situation he's in is. Natalie's face was filled with shock and disgust. Dan could almost read her mind saying "I'll kill you."

Dan heard someone say, "Natalie and Dan?" Then laughter.

There were a few murmurs and surprised faces around him. At first he thought why. But then he knew. He isn't in good terms with the She-Cobra. His friends and classmates know that well. So when he stood up and pronounced the girl's name, it must have brought a shock to them. Well maybe except for Reagan and Madison, who were busy laughing their heads off. Then Monica stood up.

"Mrs. Bills. Dan!" She turned to face him. "Why her? I mean. Sure you're okay with her? She's you're enemy, we all know that. Can you assure that we won't be having trouble keeping you two… together?"

"Uhm." Dan never thought of that. He just thought "CRAP" the moment Monica said it. He didn't think that by saying her name he declared a few days of them working together.

"Monica, sit down." Mrs. Bills said. "It's his choice. Besides, if that's really true. What you said, that they're enemies, isn't this an opportunity for them to know each other well?"

There was silence for a moment. Monica sat down. Natalie was looking at Dan with rage. Dan smiled nervously at her. Then the bell rang.

School Library

"Really, Amy. I think you should stop hating him. I mean, come on. Sure he's always pissing you off. But I think he's trying, you know." Sinead Starling said from behind a tower of physics books.

"Trying what? Aggh. He's just so annoying sometimes. Sooo annoying." The red-haired girl replied.

"If it gets really troublesome, just tell him to stop." Sinead suggested. "Anyways. I'm really getting frustrated right now. I mean. Sophia. Agh,-"

"Sophia?" Amy asked.

"Yeah, the girl from my class. She's like. She hates me Amy. Like, she contradicts everything I say. And what's worse is that she'll be running for President too. I mean, come on. She has everything, why won't she let me have this one."

"Oh yeah. You're really going for it? For the president position? I thought you were just kidding about it."

"Well, yeah. Maybe. I was. But I decided I should pursue it. You know."

"Yeah. I think it's good. But, how is it doing? Are you already putting posters of your face and stuff and handing out flyers to every single one who enters the campus?"

"Ugh. Yeah? Didn't you see me? Gosh, Amy you need to look around the school more. It seems like the only place you know here is the library."

"Yeah. Sorry. It's just, I feel more comfortable here."

"Really? Here?" Someone from behind Amy said. Sinead looked behind Amy and mouthed the name "Ian" for her. Amy rolled her eyes and turned around.

"Do you have to be so annoyingly stupid as to follow me everywhere?" Amy said.

"Whoah, Whoah. Hang in there, Ames. I don't follow you anywhere. I just happen to be wandering here at this time of the hour and coincidentally, you two are too." Amy rolled her eyes again. Sinead seemed to be enjoying it.

"Well I think I should leave you two alone." Sinead said.

"Wait, Sinead. No. Please." Amy demanded.

"Why Amy? Why are you afraid of me?" Ian said.

"I'm not afraid of you. I just don't like being alone with you." Amy answered.

"Okay then." Ian grabbed a chair and sat next to Amy. "What are you guys reading?"

"Machines Through the Ages" Sinead said.

"Oooh. How bout you, Ames?"

Amy didn't answer.

"Owwwkay." Ian gave up. Then he caught sight of Hamilton. "Hey dude, in here."

Wow, does this guy know he's in a library or is he just plain stupid? Amy thought.

Amy saw Hamilton walking towards their table. She looked at Sinead. Sinead looked at her. They were thinking of leaving. Just as the two stood up, Hamilton sat down.

"Woah you guys. I just got here." Hamilton said. "Why you leaving?"

"I know right?" Ian said. "When I came here, Amy was like that too. It's almost like, they hate us, man."

Amy smacked Ian in the head.

"Woah woah. No violence in the library." Hamilton said. He looked at Sinead. "Sinead. Hey, could you ah. Help me with math again this time? It's… so confusing."

Sinead was now returning books to their shelves, not looking at Hamilton. "Yeah. Sure." Still not looking at him. "Amy, let's go get lunch."

Amy was saying "Thank you" to Sinead in her head. But it was cut short cause Ian said. "Yeah, I'm hungry. Why don't we all get lunch together?"

Cafeteria

"I know man. Like this morning. Chad Bupplestan was talking about his new invention. The robot thing, yeah. He said it's an Alarm Robot. He calls it like, Alarmobot. Lame right?" Ned Starling was saying.

"I don't know, I think it's cool. What does it do anyway?" his brother, Ted Starling replied.

"Basically, it's just an alarm clock, but it's shaped like a robot. And it splashes you water when the third ring goes and you're still asleep. Kinda creepy for me." Ned said.

"Oh. Hahahahahaha." Ted laughed. His eyes landed on the people walking behind Ned. "Hey, Sinead!" He called. "Over here." He stood up and waved his arms.

"Oooh. Hey dude," He sat down and looked at Ned. "Our dear sister's with Ian and Hamilton."

"Really?" Ned looked around.

Amy, Sinead, Ian, and Hamilton reached the twins' table.

"Hey. So. What's up?" It was Ned who asked. Asking no one in particular.

"Well, supposedly." Amy started. "Me, and Sinead here, were having a nice time in the library when these two showed up. Basically, we were trying to get away from them cause they're annoying but they followed us here."

"Ohhh." The twins said.

"Come on, Amy. It's our first time, you know. Us. All . In the same table. For lunch."

"As much as I admit this is not ordinary, Ian is true." Sinead said. "But don't you two ever interrupt our conversations in the library again." Sinead was pointing at Ian and Hamilton.

"Hey guys. You wanna know what Ned and I are up to now?"

The others wasn't very curious as to what it is. So no one answered. Ted said what it is anyway.

"Well, you know. This coming-"

What Ted was about to say was cut by Dan's voice calling out to his sister.

"AAAAAAAMMYYYYYYYY!" Dan was running towards their table.

"Dan. What's wrong. Why are you running?" Amy put her hand on his brother's back. Dan was panting.

"Natalie." He said.

"What's with my sister?" Ian asked.

"THERE you are!" Natalie yelled from the cafeteria entrance.

"Woah." The twins said.

Natalie walked towards their table. Dan was now getting down so that he can crawl underneath the table. Closer. Natalie was now. Closer. Just as she was about to grab Dan, her brother stopped him.

"Natalie. Hey. What's wrong?" Ian asked.

"What's wrong? Ask him that." Natalie said, looking at Dan.

"Owkay." Ian said.

"Dan, what's wrong?" Amy asked Dan.

"Weeeeeeeeell." Dan stood up and sat next to Amy. "Our teacher, Mrs. Bills, appointed me to participate in a…" Dan doesn't want to tell them about this but… no choice. "a play." At that, all the boys in the table laughed. Except for Dan, of course.

"Oh. Soooo.? What's with this chase scene?" Amy asked.

"Well. The teacher kinda let me pick who the girl, or my partner in the play would be and I chose She-Cobra." Natalie kicked him.

"Owww. Yeah. That's pretty much it. I was just thinking you know that she should be doing this too."

"Why should I? You little"

"You laughed when Mrs. Bills said my name."

"Yeah? So did Reagan and Madison."

"Well. Its just."

"I think I see something BIG happening here." Hamilton said. Emphasizing the word big.

"Yeah. I think it's the start of something…" Sinead continued.

"Guys STOP." Dan said.

Just then, the Holt twins sat down with them.

"So." Reagan started. "Do you guys already know about Dan and Natalie's lovey-dovey play show?"

"Reagan!" Hamilton said.

"What?"

"What do you mean lovey-dovey?" Dan said. "We still don't know the topic yet. I think it would be perfect if I'm like a detective you know, and Natalie would be killed. And I would be hired to investigate about her death."

Then Madison's stomach grumbled. Actually, everyone's stomach did.

"Guys?" Sinead said. "Why aren't we getting food yet."