It wasn't until Lenore got home that she realized her drawing was missing. "Ugh. Great."

And what followed, of course, was a post about said missing picture. She sighed.

~u~

The next day, Lenore entered the school with Corona and Deidra.

"Man, it's only Wednesday, and I feel like this week has been utter crap for me." Lenore groaned. Maybe it wasn't utter crap, since detention the first two days hadn't been as bad as she thought it would be, but… "I just hope that getting detention doesn't become a regular thing for me." She said, not seeing the "wet floor" sign, slipping on it, and accidentally tumbling down onto another student.

"Miss Monday!" oh wow, what a surprise, the vice principal, yet again, walked up, giving Lenore detention, for tackling a student.

"I spoke too soon."

~u~

Lenore, now slightly sore, and with a detention after school, walked into her first period class, taking a seat and sighing.

As usual, the school news was on, Lenore didn't pay attention, and again there was laughing, and even Lee was in on it a little bit. Lenore continued drawing this time.

She overheard something about a student of the week, as well as the male anchor being annoying, as usual. Right when class ended, she took a glance at Lee, leaving with his friend.

~u~

Lenore was heading to lunch, when she saw Lee walking to detention. She walked over to him.

"Hey." She greeted

"Uh…hey?" Lee actually seemed pretty surprised to see her.

Bitch-I mean Brandy walked over, shoving a button into Lee's chest, making him exclaim in pain. "Leaping!"

"It's Lee Ping." He said, removing the button and giving it back to Brandy. "Not-"

"Who is she?! Are you cheating on me?!" Brandy seemed offended by Lenore's very presence.

Lenore glared at Brandy. "Get a life, if I was trying to steal him from you, I'd be doing a lot more than standing next to him innocently."

"Listen, I know your reputation," Brandy glared at Lenore "And don't think I'm okay with you, like, totally macking on my man"

Lenore was enraged. "Don't you dare bring my reputation into this! You don't know me!"

"Really? Cause I think the whole school knows about it." Brandy smirked. "Especially Be-"

Lenore lunged towards Brandy, making her scream. "TAKE THAT BACK! DON'T YOU DARE BRING UP BECKETT!" Lenore screamed at Brandy.

"Oh please! We all know nobody's boyfriend is safe around the likes of you!" Brandy quipped back.

"GIRLS! Break it up!" and the vice principal walked over, again.

"Miss Monday, I didn't expect to have to give you detention twice today. Attacking another student, again? Double detention for a week." Vice Principal Victoria crossed her arms. "Miss Silver, you may go to lunch."

Lenore groaned.

Lee was shocked by what he pretty much had witnessed.

Lenore, who'd just gotten detention for a whole week, sat on the floor, on the verge of tears.

"Hey…Uh…Lenore?" He stood a bit closer to her, holding out his hand, to help her up.

She sniffled.

"We should get to detention before Barrage-wait, crap…I have to look for the skaters…" Lee had just remembered what he'd forgotten, since that unexpected cat-fight, plus Lenore's misery about getting detention, had made him temporarily lose his train of thought. He took out his cellphone and called one of his friends. "Hey Holg, can you do me a solid?"

There was an answer on the other side.

"I'm not sure where Cam went…I need you to keep an eye on Barrage right now."

Another answer on the other side.

"Yea, sure…I need a sidekick to tail Barrage…"

Lee finished his call.

"C'mon." He held his hand out to Lenore again.

"Huh?"

"Come with me."

She took his hand, and he helped her up.

"Where are you going?"

"I have to follow these skaters for some answers…"

"What about detention?"

Lee sighed. "We have to go, now." He pulled her with him, but not gently in the slightest. They headed out to the parking lot, and hid behind a car.

"We're gonna get in trouble, Lee." She said with a flat expression.

"Don't worry about it."

"That's like asking me not to breathe!"

"Shh!" He spotted the skaters, and slightly stood up.

"Ping!" one of them called out to him.

He walked out from behind the car, pulling Lenore with him. "Hey, guys, about the prank…Can we rewind a sec? Did you really-"

"Catch me if you can!" one of the skaters said, another handing Lee a skateboard.

He groaned. "I've met SQUIRRELS with longer attention spans!"

He got on the skateboard.

"What am I supposed to do?" Lenore asked

"Get on, and hold onto me."

"W-what?!" Lenore blushed

He sighed. "C'mon!"

She did so. He skated after the skaters to catch up. Lenore held on tighter, the faster Lee went, because she was so scared of flying off the back.

"You're not gonna fall off, Lenore."

"MmmmmmmmmMMMmmm" Lenore was so scared of falling off that she couldn't even verbalize her fear.

Lee caught up. "Hey! The prank on the first day of school? You did all of that?"

"Just the paint part" one of the skaters answered.

"Nice choice of color! Radioactive booger green!"

"Choice? I didn't choose anything!"

"Yeah right! The E-mail!" said one of the skaters, slapping Lee on the shoulder, making him wobble a bit.

Lenore screamed.

"You're not gonna fall!" Lee reassured Lenore. "E-mail? WHAT E-mail?"

Another skater shook 2 cans of soda and sprayed Lee, which made him wobble again, and skate straight into a car. Lenore screamed again, luckily landing on top of Lee.

"SEE! I fell!"

Lee just groaned.

Then Lenore's worry kicked in. "Are you okay?!"

He groaned again.

The skaters skated over.

"Bro, your mom's SUV!" the skaters all laughed. What dicks, oh my god.

"SHE'S GONNA KILL ME!" Lee said, holding the broken mirror in his hand.

Lenore worried more for Lee. Lee tried putting the mirror back on.

Lenore remembered. "Lee, I have some superglue!" she took it out of her pocket.

Lenore had the habit of breaking her pencils in frustration when she drew sometimes, so she always kept a way to fix them.

"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Lee snatched the tiny bottle of glue and started gluing.

The skaters were bugging Lee about the "next prank".

"Yeah, uh, sorta in the middle of something here?" he snarked "It happened 2 seconds ago? You probably forgot."

"What do we do?"

"Yeah, tell us Lee!"

"Lee?"

"I DON'T KNOW!" Lee snapped. "Look, you and the paint guys, dump some of it on the student of the week or something." He finished gluing the mirror back on, smiling a bit.

"Dude? On Live TV? Totally clutch! But…it's missing something…"

But the glue wasn't setting for whatever reason, so Lee pulled it off and started smacking the mirror onto the car.

"Lee, that's not how superglue wor-" Lenore got interrupted

"How are we gonna do it?"

"Whatever! Rig the ballot box, make it whoever you want, Barrage, even!" He got it to stick finally.

"That's perfect!"

"Yeah! But it's still cracked…"

"You kinda cracked it more when you were slamming-" Lenore got interrupted again.

Lee's phone rang. He gasped. "IT'S BARRAGE!" Lee panicked.

There was a faint sound of Metallic stomping coming closer.

Lee's friend waved to Lee from far away. Everyone ran, Lee and Lenore ran together since they were both supposed to be in detention.

Lee called his friend. "Holg, turn Barrage away!"

Lee pulled Lenore into a bush, and they both crawled, to head back to detention.

When they bumped into Brandy, who was with another of Lee's friends.

Lenore groaned.

Brandy gasped. "LEAPING! YOU'RE HERE! AND WITH HER AGAIN?"

"Shh! Keep it down!"

"Don't shush me! You told me that you have detention! But you were really running around with…with this girl! CHEATER!"

"I do! I snuck out so I can-"

"I'm waiting! Hello! Why are you-"

"Shh! Please! You have to-"

"ANSWER ME! CHEAT-"

Lee kissed Brandy. Lenore growled. Lee's friend just looked shocked.

"Oh, boy…"

Lenore saw a shadowy figure in the distance pop up, and appeared to take a picture, then run away.

"What was that?"

Lee stopped kissing Brandy, and grabbed Lenore's arm. "Gotta go." He ran off with Lenore.

~u~

The rest of the day, Lenore kept replaying Lee kissing Brandy. She groaned each time. She couldn't even explain how it made her feel. She shouldn't be bothered by this, but yet, here she was, replaying it in her mind, and feeling a pain deep down each time. She felt like it should have been her. But this could have been irrational. After all, Brandy was the one running her mouth, loudly, trying to get answers from Lee.

But Lenore still felt that tingling feeling of jealousy, pain, and almost rage, bubbling inside of her. It made her feel ugly. She didn't want to feel this way, for crying out loud, she barely knew Lee. But she also felt drawn to Lee, in another way she could quite explain. Almost like, she felt that they were meant to stick together, and that she was meant to be around him. Almost as if fate was trying to give her some sort of sign. Some proof that she and Lee were supposed to have met, supposed to be together, even if not necessarily romantically-although Lenore felt herself questioning if it was romantic feelings she felt for him.

~u~

Lenore entered the detention room, and was apparently frowning.

"What's the frowny face for?" Biffy asked.

"N-no reason that you need to know." Lenore just took a seat and put her head down.

"Boy troubles, huh?"

"What? How did you even know that?"

"I know everything"

Lenore sighed. She put her head on her desk again, and started crying. She didn't question the cat noises coming from Biffy's general direction.

Cat noise that suddenly stopped when Barrage dumped Lee in the detention room again.

"I wanna see suffering! OPEN FIRE! Clear?" yelled Barrage.

Lenore happened to loudly weep.

"She gets the drill." Barrage said before slamming the door.

"Are you crying?" Lee expressed concern for Lenore, frowning a little bit.

"No, leave me alone."

"Boy troubles" Biffy added in.

Lenore lifted up her head and glared at Biffy.

"Is it about Beckett?" Lee asked

"No…and I don't want to talk about Beckett."

Lee frowned again.

Biffy pulled out a cat.

"Mr. Rumplekittycat, this is Lee and Lenore." He said "Or as I like to call them, Smoochy-face and angst-girl" Biffy laughed, and then started voicing a kissy scene between Brandy and Lee, punctuating in his impression of Lenore's cries of sadness.

Lee gasped. "H-how'd you know about that?"

"Dude, it's me, I know everything! It's scary sometimes!" then Biffy did a play-gasp, pulling out a sweater, "This is for you! It's gonna look great!" he chased the cat around his desk trying to put on the sweater. "Hold still!" he put the sweater on the cat. "Okay, lemme get this straight, you're in love with Tina,"

"How do you?!"

Lenore groaned. Oh, Tina Kwee. Lenore despised her before learning this development about Lee's interest in her.

Lenore always had a bad vibe about Tina-something just felt…off about her. Something fake, something grating about her very existence. She thought of Tina like that cold spot in a tv dinner that you know you cooked correctly-she felt like the discourse and cold, callous, casual destruction of the universe in the form of a person-and that was saying something since her co-anchor, Chaz, was doubly worse. Chaz was the human form of a migraine.

"…But you kissed Brandy, and you're gonna let Tina get nailed by paint, while she'll be interviewing student of the week? And don't even get me started on Lenore's feelings for y-"

"Yellow bananas. I need potassium and I refuse to eat a non-ripe banana." Lenore cut in with the first bullshit she could think of.

Biffy glared, as if she'd ruined his entire day by keeping him from spouting her little problem to the one person who really couldn't know.

She glared back.

Biffy continued talking to Lee. "Dude, kinda harsh. But, on the plus side, Barrage gets totally splattered. But he's gonna blame you, and you'll have detention forever."

"So…no matter what, I have to stop this…"

"But that means having to deal with those hyper-active squirrel brains again…"

"Just go tell them to drop it. They worship you. Then you'll be back right in time for tea and crumpets, because that's what smoochy-faces eat when they're not SMOOCHING!" Biffy added in more kissy noises.

Lee glared.

"Wait, Barrage confiscated my pal Holger's phone…can you track him through that?"

Biffy set it all up, and Lee left.

Lenore sighed again. She was much too sad to draw. She almost felt like she'd lost all inspiration, just from the sheer pain she felt in her chest.

She'd been with too many guys to count, and yet, one she hadn't even hooked up with made her feel this way. Lenore started crying again. This was so ridiculous. It was only 2 day's she really had known him. This was unreasonable. It couldn't be real…But yet…

Lee even expressed concern-sure it might just mean he's a nice guy, after all, he wasn't THAT hard to get along with-but maybe he felt something for her? She still doubted it. She tried not to entertain the thought that he'd be into someone like her.

It was just like Brandy said, she was a no-good boyfriend-stealer-well, actually…maybe it wasn't. Lenore wasn't that bad. She considered guys who were spoken for off-limits. So maybe Brandy WAS wrong…but still. She'd been with too many guys, so why would Lee have any reason to trust her, or like her that way? What if he thought she'd cheat on him? She would never dare-again, she wasn't like that. She was faithful and loyal. But no one really wanted to believe that just because of her reputation.

She despised Beckett for what he'd done…Art club just wasn't worth this pain.

~u~

"You gotta stop those guys before your could-be girlfriend, becomes your never-be girlfriend." Said Biffy, too Lee on the laptop. "Trust me, she won't look good in green."

Lenore groaned at that.

Biffy looked over to Lenore. "Trust me, he's hopeless. I'm just saying that to him to get him to hurry it up."

"Yeah, but…what even are the odds he's gonna stop being into Tina? I mean…I don't have interest in Lee, don't be ridic-"

"You don't have to pretend, I know you like him."

"Okay fine."

"And just because he likes Tina doesn't mean you don't have a chance at all."

"What do you mean? Like I said, he's not just going to stop being into her…"

"Believe me, he doesn't have a chance."

"Hm."

Lenore looked at her desk, and sighed again.

"Why don't you chase after him?" Biffy suggested with a smirk.

"What? No, I wouldn't, I could get in trouble…"

~u~

Lenore found herself walking down the hallway Lee was supposed to be in, looking for him, when she saw him enter the news room. She entered.

"You only did…part of the prank?" Lee asked the skaters, in confusion.

"Lee?" Lenore asked.

"Lenore? What are you doing-"

The thumps of metallic stomps were heard.

Lee pulled Lenore behind a box with him, which made her fall across his lap. She immediately shot up into sitting position, feeling that if she had stayed that way, he'd just think she was trying to throw herself at him. Her face was red with embarrassment. "S-sorry.."

"Aren't you on Barrage duty?" Lee asked Biffy through his phone.

And then a skater entered, and the skater's foot was stuck in a paint bucket.

"Hey guys! Up here!" the other skater called out

Some skaters started climbing up.

Lee darted over to his friend, who was almost unrecognizable in that superhero outfit.

"Holg, this is getting out of hand…"

Lenore just stayed sitting behind the box, thinking about how she'd fallen onto Lee so awkwardly. She clutched her knees.

"We need to-"

"Set prank up! Like fast bunny?" his friend asked him

"What? No! The opposite!" Lee crossed his arms. He glanced over to Lenore. "Hey…are you okay?"

Lenore was startled. "H-huh?"

Lee frowned. Then he told Biffy to make Barrage come down to stop what the skaters were doing from happening.

And then, metallic stomping.

"Guys! Forget the prank! I think I hear-Barrage!" Lee hid.

"Well! What do we have here?"

And then a bucket of paint fell.

Lee snuck out of Barrage's sight. He happened to end up right behind the box where he'd been before, where Lenore still was.

Lenore still seemed to be in some weird daze.

"Are you okay?" he mouthed.

She barely shook her head.

He frowned.

The news crew came in, bickering.

Then Lee's friend said something about running for your life on three. Which was a plan only he was in on. Lee gasped.

Paint was dumped on Chaz and Barrage's heads, offering Lee a chance to escape, however Lenore was still in her weird state. Lee sighed, and picked up Lenore, and started running.

"Biffy, what's the best way to get back?"

And Biffy told him. Lee went down the stairwell, carrying Lenore, moving as quickly as he could.

Lee busted into the detention room, set Lenore down in a chair, and took a seat himself.

Barrage was in moments later.

"Did you hear hoodlums running amuck?"

They all answered no. Biffy's cat mewed, and Biffy covered its mouth.

"ME WHAT?" Barrage demanded.

"I think he said ow, didn't you?" Biffy said punching Lee.

"Ow!"

"And also sometimes we talk like we're cats. Meow."

"DISMISSED!"

~u~

Lenore was just about to leave, when Lee stopped her.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Lenore gave a non-committal gesture.

"You just seemed, out of it…I mean…I don't know." Lee rubbed the back of his head "But…if you ever wanted to talk…you can talk to me, okay?"

"Okay."

Lee reassuring put his hand on Lenore's shoulder for a moment, causing her to blush a little bit. He blushed too, slightly smiled a bit.

"So um…I'm gonna go home now…see you at lunch detention tomorrow?"

"Y-yeah…See you…" Lenore trailed off.

She went home and laid back on her bed, feeling frustrated. Why was she feeling this way about him? How will she deal.