ME: So sorry, I was planning on putting word on my new lappy but we lost the code so I'm getting it down over the weekend.

PIPPIN: So many excuses, so little time

ME: Shut it.

PIPPIN: Raven owns nothing except the plot and my OCs.

(Thorston household, 4:15 Pm)

"What's X?" Asked a confused Tuffnut, who was sitting at his desk trying but failing to do his homework.

His twin rolled her eyes and peeked over her magazine "Why are you asking me? I did mine with Astrid in class"

Scoffing, Tuffnut turned back to the still empty sheet and glared "What am I supposed to do then?"

His sister muttered something before going back to her magazine. Tuffnut, who lost interest in his homework pretty fast, looked around his desk until his eyes stopped on a small piece of yellow paper.

The male twin snatched the paper up and reread the note.

"What's that?" Ruffnut leaned over the bed edge to see what he had.

"Nothing" Muttered the blonde male, stuffing the paper into the drawer.

"Sure, whatever weirdo, I'm going to watch TV" Ruffnut said rolling her eyes again before standing up and left the room. Tuffnut watched her go then drag his cellphone out of his pocket and grabbed the paper.

Typing in a message before punching in the numbers, he waited for a replied

'Hey Tuff, what's up?'

'Nothing much, doing maths HW really hard :('

After a few minutes his phone buzzed 'Lol i know it's a really tuffy ;P'

Tuffnut smiled at the pun and replied 'Lol you're funny Mag'

'Thnks, do you want help?'

'yeah that would be great'

After a series of texts and 'lol's Tuffnut had finished his homework and was still texting Magpie.

'So are you always this bad at maths or….'

'yeah I suk'

'Lol, me too, we should hang out sometime and do our Hw together'

Tuff gave himself a high-five in his head and sent another text

'yeah that would be fun'

'Cool cool meet me at the library tomorrow and we can do our maths then'

'Awesome, see you tomorrow'

Closing his phone, Tuffnut left his room and down the stairs. Walking into the living room, Tuff plopped down on the sofa next to his father and sister.

"What's with you?" his sister asked, noticing the weird grin on his face.

Tuffnut just ignored her and watched the TV where a very large man tried to bounce across four huge red balls.

On the inside though, Tuffnut was excited, him and Magpie would sometimes hung out but with other people but not just them. They would sometimes text or pass notes in school but he was slightly worried that he would do something stupid, probably because he didn't knew where the library was.

'Oh yes' he thought 'I'm gonna screw it up'

(School theatre, same time)

"Okay, good, very good people! Now let's try act two scene five from the top!" A short woman yelled, her messy brown hair waving as she paced in a row of seats, she turned in the other direction and looked around for someone "Astrid?"

The woman called again before a tall blonde run up to her "Sorry I'm late, I had to go home and give my keys to my brother because he forget them"

The woman began fussing "Doesn't matter, now go get your costume"

Astrid nodded and ran along the row of seats then ran up the steps of a large stage and behind the curtain, where others were reading there scripts and trying on costumes. The blonde ignored them and climbed up a narrow stair case and up to a crowded room filled with clothes rack with costumes hanging on them.

She looked through the outfits, muttering to herself, until she gave up.

"Do you need help?" Asked a quiet voice

Astrid peeked over the rack to see a rather chubby boy messing with his fingers.

"Hey Fishlegs, but don't you have to on stage soon?" She asked

Stepping forward, he walked passed her and started looking through a different rack "No, I go on when you go on, remember?"

She smiled "Oh right, well thanks Fishlegs, it's a red and green dress with a golden trim"

"You mean this one?" Fishlegs said taking the dress off the rack and handing it to the blonde.

"Thanks" She said awkwardly, embarrassed about how easily he found it, and walked out of the room "See ya"

"Bye Astrid" He said but she had already gone, he sighed heavily and looked for his costume.

(Next morning)

"Tell me" whined Magpie

"Yeah tell us" Agreed Freya leaning closer to Fishlegs

He shook his head "N-nothing happened"

Both the girls smirked and looked at each other before looking back to the larger teen "Sure, okay" Then turned back to their seats.

"We got to get something out of him, my fame of being the school's gossiper is going down and I need something juicy!" Whined Magpie as they moved closer to each other so no one else could hear.

"You're not the school's gossiper" Freya rolled her eyes "I didn't even know the school had a 'gossiper'"

"Excuse me" The smaller girl huffed "Everytime I come up to you, 64% of it is about gossip!"

"Yeah sure" She muttered "But there is something going on between Fishlegs and Astrid"

Magpie nodded "Yep, Astrid is super nice with him lately and you know, the play and all, the kissing scene" She winked and smirked.

A wailing bell cut through the room as a tall, balding man entered the room and dropped a pile of books onto his desk with banged loudly, quietening the class.

"Turned to chapter 5 and answer questions 1 through 28" He said before leaving the room again, glaring at them slightly as he past.

"Damn he's hateful" Whispered Freya and Magpie nodded in agreement.

Freya thoughts drifted off as she looked around the room, unsatisfied she looked at Magpies who was drawing a robot riding a monkey.

'I need new friends' She thought.

ME: Well that was-

PIPPIN: Horrible?

ME: I was going to say short.

PIPPIN: Oh…..

ME: Thanks for reading, please review! ^U^