Still don't own any part of Nick, or Ned's. I might take lines from the series Field Trip, but the plot is still mine. Also, for any mega fans of Ned & Moze together (and haters of Ned & Suzie), I guarantee the ending will not be Nuzie or Sed or however their names can be combined. (I personally think Sud is funniest). Also, some characters now have last names and a few have both first and last names, I will continuously repeat them to make it less confusing, or have a reminder like for iTeacher.

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"Alright everyone, just because I'm allowing you to sit next to whoever you chose right now doesn't mean I'll let you stay by that person for the ride back," Crubbs announced signing his "I'm watching you" look to no one in particular. Moze and Cookie were quite disappointed with Ned at this point. Usually on long bus trips, the rest of the class just sort of let the trio take the triple-seat at the very end of the bus; however Ned had chosen to sit with Suzie.

"What does Suzie have that I don't have?" Moze looked to Cookie who was rummaging through his backpack. "Ned," Cookie calmly replied. Finding what he was looking for he turned to look at Moze. "Thank you, Cookie," she whispered coldly giving him a glare. "Forget about your Ned problems for a second, okay, you and I are friends too, remember," Cookie nudged her and the glare melted.

"So, what is your latest 'win over Lisa scheme,' anyhow?" Cookie's brown eyes filled with excitement, he didn't think Moze would even want to hear the plan, she usually said he was wasting his intelligence on stupid schemes. "Well, here's my plan, I didn't tell anyone but, a small part of the reason we're going to the university is because Sweeney entered one of my experiments in their annual 'Young Einstein Fair.' See, it's an invention that can calculate everything from your BMI, height, weight, iron levels, and determine what your heart's desire is at that moment in time, all by shaking your hand."

Moze gave a puzzled look, "What does that have to do with winning over Lisa?"

"I'm hoping her heart's desire is to be with me, but if that doesn't work, I have a Plan B," Cookie gestured towards a small brown bag labeled "Plan B." "Brilliant and what is Plan B?"

"I can't tell you." Moze rolled her eyes at Cookie and gave him a stare he recognized as her "you've lost it" stare. Cookie concentrated on his plan while Moze tried not to concentrate on the couple only a few seats ahead of her laughing and smiling.

Ned was actually pretty bored by all of Suzie's stories about James Monroe Junior High School. He hadn't told her random stories of what happened at Polk; however some were definitely not for her ears anyhow. "Larry was probably the funniest guy I'd ever met, I still can't believe his wore a hula skirt that one day," Suzie giggled as she thought of her former classmate.

Ned tried to laugh, but of course the situation wasn't nearly as funny when you had no idea who Larry was. It had happened that both he and Moze had ended up in the aisle seat, he glanced back to see a sad Moze looking in his direction. She blushed and tried to pretend to be listening to Cookie ramble.

Ned turned back to Suzie who hadn't even noticed him look away. "Hey Suzie, could we talk about something else, what are your plans this summer?" Suzie was a little angry that Ned had cut her off as she had begun another story about Larry or someone. "Summer plans, actually I haven't really given much thought beyond graduation, Ned," Suzie's brown eyes appeared lighter as the sun hit her face.

Moze's eyes just sparkle in the sun, they never lose any part of their color. Hold on, why am I thinking about Moze while looking at Suzie, this is not good, I'll just smile and maybe she won't notice. Immediately Ned's classic smile spread across his face. "What are you going to do this summer?"

"I'll hang out with Moze and Cookie most likely. Even though we'll all be going to Michael Dukakis HS, we still want to spend as much time as possible being middle-schoolers." Suzie seemed disappointed with his answer.

"Ned, what about you and me, us, aren't we going to hang out over the summer?" Ned began to ramble saying he would of course hang out with his girlfriend over the summer, although he didn't actually say Suzie, just girlfriend.

The rest of the trip was quiet between both Ned and Suzie and Moze and Cookie; however there was a lot more tension between Ned and Suzie, Moze was just uninterested in the details of Cookie's plan.

An hour of quiet talking around both groups and the bus ride was finally over. The Polksters eventually reached the hotel and were escorted into separate groups to hear their rooming assignments.

"Girls, we have a lot of trust in you now, only three rooms have an actual chaperone, otherwise you are entrusted that four of you can handle a room," Mrs. Burgeson (iTeacher) announced quite nervously to the small crowd of girls that surrounded her. Moze managed to find Lisa and Claire Sawyer "future lawyer."

"Wouldn't it be great if we all roomed together?" Lisa cheerily replied to a tired looking Moze as Claire fixed her jacket and dress shirt. "That would be cool," Moze agreed. Suzie had found the three girls; she tapped Moze on the shoulder and showed a cheery smile. "Jennifer, I haven't talked you all that much lately, how's it going?"

You don't know do you, well you really want know how it's going, I'm in love with Ned, but no, he's with you-you… "I've been good, just a little pre-occupied thinking about the next few weeks and graduation," Moze plastered a smile on her face despite how she felt being around Suzie.

Honestly the people she was absolutely closest to, besides Cookie or Gordy, were the two people she couldn't talk to, Suzie had been one of her closest friends.

"Jennifer Moseley, Claire Sawyer, Evelyn Kwong, and Oboe, Tracy, room 204," announced a woman from across the crowd. "See you later Suzie, you too Lisa," Moze grabbed her suitcase and headed after her fellow roommates into the hotel. "Crabgrass, Meany, Zemo, and Oboe, Stacy," Moze heard as she reached the hotel door. Poor Lisa, I hope she doesn't suffer too much.

"Cook, Bigby, have mercy on the other students, Powers, and Harking," Mr. Sweeney announced in another section of the parking lot. Cookie and Ned gave each other a high-five as Seth and Coconut Head followed their lead to the hotel. "Coconut Head, your last name is Harking?" Ned was quite puzzled; however his friend had never really had any other name since as long as he could remember.

Coconut Head nodded, "I have an actual name besides Coconut Head, it's Jeff, Jeff Harking," he glanced to each of his fellow roommates. "Jeff, cool name man, it's shorter too, I like it." Seth held a math book under his arm, but the shape of a basketball was visible in his duffel bag.

"Thanks Seth, so you'll call me Jeff now?" a look of hope gleamed in Coconut Head's eyes. "Sure, man," Seth casually replied. To Ned and Cookie's delight, Loomer and his friends were the roommates of Crubbs; the three boys looked like they had received a death sentence at the news.

Twenty minutes later everyone had their room assignments and had unpacked a few items. Each room, both boys and girls, had two sets of twin size beds in bunk-bed format. Cookie and Ned had agreed to take the top bunks since Jeff was afraid of heights and Seth didn't want to accidentally drop his basketball from five feet in the air.

Moze had also received the top bunk, along with Tracy. She was above Claire while Tracy was above Evelyn. Even Lisa had ended up on the top bunk, above Suzie. Missy claimed bottom bunk complaining that heights ruined her hair, thus Stacy was on the top bunk as well. The students all met in the lobby of the three star hotel and prepared to leave on a tour of the Old Capitol Museum.

"What if we sit in the same row, across from each other?" Ned was trying to come up with a plan for seating since Suzie insisted on being with him as much as possible. "When do you get time to hang without her? You're like her only friend right now, isn't there anyone else she wants to talk to?"

Cookie didn't hate Suzie, but he knew that Ned was basically not his friend with her around, he rarely cared about hanging out with Cookie or Moze when he had dated Suzie before. "Maybe I can hang with you and-well at least you later, I'll just mention the idea to Suzie so she doesn't feel abandoned." Cookie sighed and nodded. "Whatever let me know what Suzie says."

Ned, Suzie, Cookie, and Moze did sit in the row on the bus ride to the museum, much to Moze and Cookie's displeasure. "Ned, we should look at the paintings in the Capitol Gallery, I read in the pamphlet that they have quite an amazing selection," Suzie had been rambling to Ned about what they should do in the hour the students would be given to roam the museum for most of the bus ride.She had reluctantly taken the aisle seat, across from Cookie. Moze chose to stare out the window and did her best to block out Suzie's voice.

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I realized after re-reading the first chapter that I promised a lot more action, it's coming.