Disclaimer: I don't own Mush, or Crutchy. I do own the original characters though.

A/N: I'm so happy you guys loved Snitch, because we love him dearly. Thanks for the reviews, and I'm glad you guys are enjoying this. I hope you like this chapter, its a little insight to the Mush and Tru semi-angst. And please, review to tell me what you think!

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Mush counted down the minutes until he could get out of AP Bio, not because of the double lab they had that day, but because of the Lindsay girl hanging on his arm and ogling at him. Usually Mush was the last one out of class, but that day he couldn't sit there and he sexually assaulted by Lindsay, when he was thinking about the girl who wouldn't even talk to him.

"Crutchy!" Mush ran up to him, "Talk to me. TALK TO ME."

Crutchy raised an eyebrow and nodded while smiling, because that's what you do to crazy people, "Hiya Mush."

Lindsay grabbed Mush's arm for the last time, because after that experience Mush planned on switching his class.

"Oh!" Mush jumped in Crutchy's face, "Snitch finally talked to Brandyn. That dork, he was so nervous, it was priceless those facial expressions of his."

"Nice." Crutchy nodded.

Crutchy always smiled, because he knew who all the guys liked, he knew who the girls were going to like, and he stood as the best friends of both different gender groups. Crutchy, the best friend; for several years that was his name to the girls, but he liked it.

Tru interrupted his thoughts when she ran up to him in the middle of the hallway, just to give him a hug and have a quick conversation, "Crutchy. I have to call you later, just feel like talking to you. Miss you, kid." Mush smiled at her as she hurried by and she mumbled, "Mush."

Mush frowned, "How do you do that?"

"Do what?" Crutchy shook his head, thinking all his friends were crazy, and he was the only normal person.

"Be friends with all of them."

Crutchy laughed, "Well in your case, don't hit on her. Prove to her that you're not only trying to get her as another girl on your list. I mean you finally talked to her- Wait, why didn't you talk to her before?"

Mush shrugged trying to say something, but it wouldn't come out.

"Right, because she's Tru and not chasing after you like every other girl?"

"That sounds kind of right."

"Didn't she give you your nickname, too?" Crutchy laughed at the boy, who told Snitch to talk to Brandyn for years, but didn't realize how they were so alike. "I remember now, it was in fifth grade when we all were hanging out then you were all trying to get these lines to say to her, and she said she'll call you Mush because you are just so Mushy. Then she walked away."

Mush blushed, "How do you remember that?"

"I didn't, just remembered it now. I must say, it was funny, the expression on your face."

Mush glared, "Ha-ha. Very funny. After all these years, she's still the same."

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Tru stuffed her black binder into the back of the locker, and just stared at Brandyn's papers that created an indoor locker jungle. She sighed, grabbed the edge of the locker, and slammed it shut, to find a face, smirking at her, leaning his body against the wall of dark red metal.

In surprise, Tru jumped slightly, and closed her eyes. She gritted her teeth, put her hand over her heart to make sure it was still beating, and mumbled, "Hi Mush."

"You're super cute today. Can I walk you to class?" Mush asked, as he did everyday.

Tru opened her eyes, smiled at him, and opened her mouth, "Uh, no."

Tru turned around on her heel of her converses, and Mush followed, "Why don't you ever let me walk you?"

Tru groaned, "You ask that everyday, and you follow me everyday."

"And you never answer." Mush continued to follow, which was daily routine.

Tru rolled her eyes, stopped walking, and looked at Mush, "Because I'm not that girl that begs you to walk me. I can walk myself, and I'll be fine. You have the whole school pining for you, kid; maybe even some guys. Just," Tru shrugged, "Walk them."

"Hey Mush," A girl flirtatiously whispered into his ear, as she passed by. Mush watched her walk away, and Tru smiled to herself.

"There, go with her. I'll see you later, Mush." Tru walked away, and Mush watched her go. It was the first day he didn't just follow her all the way to class. It was the first day he didn't actually walk with her.