Hey, I know I haven't written for NDSSG for a long time, but I had a cute idea and it didn't fit well with Phil of the future... and at this point, I'm not writing for iCarly... so yeah. Besides, I'm still holding on to hope for a high school spin-off! =D Oh and the end movie thing never happened in this story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. Monkeys have aposable thumbs =D

It had been three years since they spoke a word to each other. Moze and Cookie talked, Ned and Cookie talked as well, but they, being Ned and Moze, haven't spoken a single word to each other.

Ned and Moze's relationship tumbled due to the presence of Suzie Crabgrass. She wasn't mean or anything towards Moze, but they just stopped talking.

Moze was the kind of girl who would back off when a guy she liked had a girlfriend. Suzie and Ned resumed their relationship once they discovered they were going to the same high school.

"Moze, have you seen Lisa? I was just about to ask her to go to a movie this weekend and then a goat ran by... and well you know... a goat is a big distraction."

"Okay, there are so many things wrong with that sentence that I don't know where to begin. First of all; why was a goat in the school?"

"Oh, Seth brought his goat to school so he could prove he had a goat."

"You know, you'd think I'd be used to answers like this by now."

"Anyway, have you seen Lisa?"

Moze turned her head to see that Lisa was flirting with a kid that she'd never seen before.

"I think your answer is to the left of you."

Cookie seemed to take notice of this with a usual Cookie face. Suddenly his face went into a look of deep thought and he ran off cackling, leaving all eyes on Moze. "I don't know him."

Everyone resumed to their conversations and Moze returned to retrieving books from her locker. She pulled out the middle school version of the Guide that Ned ended the last day of school. He'd given it to her as a kind of end of the year present.

These memories brought on so many pestering emotions that were huddled together in the back of her mind. She'd never meant to pull it out of the locker, let alone keep it in there all of these years.

Moze sighed as she closed her locker. It was torture that they grew so far apart while she still had feelings for him. She couldn't break down, not now anyway. Maybe when she was alone in her room cuddled in a corner with a pillow. No, she wouldn't stoop as low as to let him win.

Moze turned the corner to find a kid, his back facing her direction, sobbing. She'd never seen a guy cry before.. but that excludes Coconut Head and Cookie.

"Hey, are you al- Ned?"

"Oh, uh, Moze, hi."

As much as she resented talking to Ned, she'd never seen him cry... in public anyway. She knew something was really wrong.

"Sorry to make you stop and talk to me... I should go."

"No, wait, what's wrong?"

"Do you really want to know?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Okay, but first things first. As lame as this apology may be, I want to let you know that you don't have to forgive me for letting our friendship go over these last few years. I'm sorry for not talking to you and I think it may have been the stupidest thing I've ever done."

Moze just stood there and listened to his apology. She wasn't ready to forgive him, not yet. But she was ready to listen to his problems, after all that was the main definition of being a good friend to someone, wasn't it?

"Ned let's just go and talk for now."

"Where? There's still school going on you know... I can't just leave."

"You've got to be kidding me. You've ditched school before to get a freaking hair cut."

"Good point. Well I guess we could leave, follow me."

"I knew you'd have some secret pathway out of here."

"I was just going to the front door..."

"Really?"

"Pfft. No. Here you can get through the Janitor's closet, through the vent, which are luckily a lot bigger, and through the back door."

"I knew you'd never give up your crazy antics."

"Of course not... mainly because I don't know what antics means, but I will find out, oh yes, I will find out."

"Oh please, let's just go now."

"Alright."