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Thanks to everyone who reviewed my story! You guys are awesome! Keep up the encouraging work! Oh, and: WARNING: For this chapter, you might want to have watched the movie Transformers before reading this. If, in the likely case that you haven't watched it:

The main character is Sam. He had a little dog named Mojo. He has a severe crush on this pretty girl called Mikela. Also, he gets his first car after getting three As at highschool. His father also makes him pay some of the money for the car. Transformers is about super-advanced robots from this other planet. They're called Auto-bots and they can transform into cars. Sam's car was one of the Autobots. Weird things happen to Sam and Mikela. I don't have time to read this over so I'm sorry if I spelled some stuff wrong. That's all. Good day.

Chapter 2: Falling in...Like?

The next day, Lief walked into school and nearly slammed into Doom while closing his locker.

"Whoa, dude," Doom said. "Still mad?"

"Don't talk to me," Lief snapped.

Doom snorted. "Attitude, dude." Then he paused, pondering. "Hey, that rhymes. Oh yeah, fifty points for the Doom Boom!"

"Man, you are obnoxious!" Lief said, pushing past him. Then he smacked right into...none other than Josephina, that girl who obviously had a severe crush on him.

"Oh, hi there," Josephina giggled, twirling a little and tossing her head. "How are you, Leafy?"

"Leafy?" he groaned. "Oh, we are so notgoing there, Josephina."

"Well, anyway, handsome one, wanna hold hands?" She held out a hand.

"Um, to be honest..." Lief shifted to the side, "...not really."

As he ran away, Josephina called back, "You shall never escape from my clutches, Leafy!"

"Yeah, you keep on thinking that," Lief muttered, rolling his eyes. He walked into science class and took a seat at the back, where nobody was sitting...yet.

But then the door burst open and tons of kids came in, including the Cool Group. They immediately went to the back and took seats surrounding Lief. Lief found himself in the middle of Jasmine and Barda.

"Hey, look, Lief," Barda said, leaning in to talk before the science teacher called roll. "You know how you got mad at Doom yesterday?"

"Don't we all?" Lief muttered, doodling Doom being hanged on his science notebook.

"Well, anyway," Barda continued, looking flustered, "your computer must've been messed up or something, because he wasn't talking to you."

Lief squinted at Barda. "Are you...uh...alright?"

"He was talking to that weirdo called "Marryme", okay?" Barda finished. "So anyway, Doom's really sorry, you know?"

"Oh yeah, yeah, he's just the sweetest guy," Lief said sarcastically.

"Mind telling us who is so sweet to you, Lief?" a sharp voice asked, slamming a book down on Lief's desk.

Feeling a mounting dread, Lief slowly looked up. It was Mr. Danhey, the mean science teacher who always seemed to overhear.

"Uh...my uh...my dog!" Lief stammered, and the whole class burst out laughing.

"Oh, really now?" Mr. Danhey said. "Why don't you tell us the name of this sweet guy-dog?"

"Ummmmm...Mojo!" Lief said.

"Now, then?" Mr. Danhey smiled as the class laughed again. "That is not the name of the dog in the movie Transformers, is it? Mojo?"

"I uh...named him after that dog," Lief stammered.

"So, do you like super-advanced robots?" Mr. Danhey asked. "Perhaps you could make a robot for the Science Fair?"

"N-no, sir," Lief mumbled. "I don't like robots."

"What do you like about Transformers, then?"

"Umm...uh...yeah, the guy in it...Sam or something," Lief said, breathing a sigh of relief. "He's uh...funny."

"Hmmmmmmmm," Mr. Danhey pretended to think. "Or maybe you like Sam's girlfriend, Mikela?"

"C-can we be getting on with Science now?" Lief whispered, drained of confidence or power to think.

"Okay," Mr. Danhey said. "Why don't you tell the class a little about super-advanced robots like the ones in Transformers?"

"No thanks," Lief stammered. "Leave me alone, sir."

Mr. Danhey pulled Lief by his sleeve and dragged him to the front of the room. "Start, boy!" he said sharply.

"Um," Lief mumbled. He looked at the Cool Group for help, but Jasmine just shrugged and gave him a thumbs-up.

Great. He wasn't going to get any help. He'd just have to remember everything about robots in Transformers that was scientific...no, there wasn't anything. It was just fiction, after all. He had a lot more to say about the characters, but that'd just be pretty embarrassing.

"Go on," Mr. Danhey urged him.

"I didn't know you watched movies," Lief tried. "After all, you're a science teacher."

"This is irrevelant to what I was talking about, boy!" Mr. Danhey snapped. "Now, have you learned your lesson?"

"Um...sure," Lief said, not really sure what his lesson was.

"Good," Mr. Danhey said, pleased. "Sit down, Lief. And class, please take out your science book, Advanced Science is Fun!"

Groaning, the class took out their books. As he made his way to his seat, snickers erupted through the room. Muttering, Lief took out the book and tried to listen to Mr. Danhey.

When lunch finally came, Lief trudged out of math class and, when he got to an empty lunch table, slammed his tray on the table and slammed himself on the seat. Grumbling, he stared at the nasty contents of the lunch.

"Hey," Marilen said as the Cool Group took seats around him. "You got the tables mixed up, but that's okay since you're a newbie and some other guys already took our usual table."

Lief didn't reply; he gave Doom a murderous glance. Finally, he said, "You told me to go away!"

"I told you to explain to him!" Doom muttered to Barda.

"I did!" Barda protested. "He thinks I'm a liar..."

"Look," Doom sighed, "your screen must've been messed up or something, because I was not talking to you. I was talking to Marry-me or whatever! And if I really did say it, then I'm really sorry!"

"Okay, fine!" Lief said, sighing. "I just want to be friends again."

"Coolio," Jasmine high-fived him. "Now, on to the next topic: Why is Ranesh trying to date Anna?"

"Because she's hot," Doom said. "More than you'll ever be."

Jasmine stared at him blankly for a moment. The next moment his nose was quite mangled and Jasmine was wiping her hands off on her napkin.

"You've got skills," Lief complimented.

"Well, I try," Jasmine said, blushing. She fluttered her eyelashes at Lief, but he didn't seem to notice because at that same moment Ranesh and a pretty girl that was probably Anna sat down at the table.

"What are you doing here?" Marilen growled. Then she looked around and saw that there were no other lunch tables open. "Oh."

"Well, my little bunny and I had to sit somewhere," Ranesh pointed out.

Anna let out a small laugh. "You do not know how much I'm not you're little bunny."

"You can be mine," Barda burst out, and he turned red. "Woops."

"Sorry," Anna said. "I don't dig motor-cycle freaks." Barda loved motor-cycles and had about ten.

Anna tossed her head of beautiful dark hair to her shoulders, and Lief's heart went to his mouth. This girl was hot.

"Want to come to my house tonight and do it?" Ranesh asked.

Anna stared at him. "You know, I think...I think I'm done eating." She rose and left, one of her bracelets tinking as she walked away.

"Nice," Sharn laughed. "So...she dumped you?"

"Nah," Ranesh said. "She'll come back. She digs strong arms."

"Meet me at the gym tonight," Barda said to Sharn. "I've got to lift some weights." Everyone laughed.

"So...you still don't have a car yet?" Jasmine asked Lief. "C'mon, you're a sixteen-er like all of us! You're supposed to have a car!"

Lief rolled his eyes. "I have to get three As, and somehow I think my mom is getting these ideas from the movie Transformers...actually, it looks like everything is going Transformer-like. Sara and Ranesh just said two lines from the movie."

"Creepy," Doom admitted. "But at least you don't have to pay for some of the car."

"Yeah," Lief said. "I just hope the car transforms into some cool one like it did in the movie, if I have to get a bad one." This was followed by laughter.

"So Ranesh, what happened with you and Alice?" Sharn asked. Alice was some other girl in their grade.

"I told her the relationship wasn't working," Ranesh said innocently.

Barda laughed. "Okay, what really happened?"

"She told me she didn't like boys who burped a lot," Ranesh whimpered, and everyone erupted in laughter.

"That sounds more like it," Marilen laughed.

"So Lief, who do you like?" Barda asked. "Camille is so mine, by the way. She's not even close to the hotness of Anna, but who is, anyway?"

"Uh...well...to be honest, Anna," Lief admitted, not seeing how Marilen and Jasmine's faces fell so pitifully.

"I've gotta go," Marilen said, and she ran away so that nobody could see the tears that were starting to fall on her face.

"M-me too," Jasmine whimpered, and she left too.

"Did I say something?" Lief asked worriedly.

Shrugging, Doom dived into a very-messed-up piece of egg with his fork. "Who knows when it comes to girls?"

"Hey," Sharn giggled, punching him so that a small piece of his egg came flying out and landed onto Ranesh's head.

"Oh, you are going to pay!" Ranesh yelled. He stood up, shaking with rage, and he grabbed the so-called "cool Doom who is always so slick and awesome" by the scruff of his shirt and dragged him out of the room.

...Doom was not heard from again that day.

"Ugh, I can't believe I have to get three As to get a car," Lief groaned, looking out the window. Barda was driving him, Sharn, Jasmine, Ranesh and Anna to their houses that day.

"Man, you're missing out," Barda said, turning in his seat while still driving to see Lief. "Driving is one of the coolest things about life, and I'm serious."

"So Anna, coming to my house tonight?" Ranesh asked hopefully, putting a hand on her arm.

Anna immediately pulled her arm back and glared at him. Then, sighing, she stared out the window.

Barda turned on the radio to some weird rock song with plenty of bad words and he and Ranesh began to sing along to it.

"Oh, shut up," Sharn groaned.

"Very well," Barda said, "if you can answer the following questions correctly."

"I hate you!" Jasmine said. "I hate you and your stupid quizes!"

"Att-i-tude," Lief muttered as they pulled up in front of Jasmine's house, where Doom was sitting on the lawn with an icepack over his nose.

"So that's where he ended up," Ranesh laughed. He rolled down the window and called out, "How's our little precious, adorable Doomie doing? He's not so doom-bringing-looking now, is he, Anna?" he asked, jogging her with his elbow.

"Get off of me," Anna hissed, huddling up closer to Lief, who suddenly couldn't take off the silly grin on his face.

Jasmine huffed and slammed the door, and on her way into the house kicked Doom for the fun of it. He howled in pain and pounced on her, but they didn't get to see the rest of it because Barda roared the engine and they took off.

"How old are you?" Lief asked Anna after a long silence in the car.

She moved her pretty purple eyes from the outside to Lief. "Sixteen."

"Oh," he said, and he was too spellstruck to say anything else.

Rolling her eyes, Anna looked the other way. Lief felt like kicking himself.

"You're new here, aren't you?" Anna finally asked him.

"Oh! Oh-" Lief began, quite startled. But she interrutped him before he could finish.

"Is that all you say?" she said, looking amused. "Oh. Oh! Oh..." she looked at him like he was some circus animal, and he felt like disappearing.

Damn, she's hot, he thought silently, looking at her with his mouth opened and his head tilted to the side, as if in a trance.

"Well?" she asked. Then, shrugging, she rested her head on Ranesh's shoulder and closed her eyes.

Damn me, Lief thought miserably. I'm falling in...like.

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