The, I cross my hands together. Dance, I throw my arms away from each other. Is tonight. I hold my hands up to my eyes like I'm staring through binoculars.

Amelia stares at me from across the room like WTF?

I pretend to rip my heart out dramatically and accidentally fall onto the floor. A few girls giggle. One reaches over and pulls down my pant leg, where it had lifted up some when I had fallen onto my back.

Grabbing her hand, I hold it up to my face and stare into her eyes. She blushes.

We have a sparkly moment.

The class hears the squeaking of wheels and we all turn our heads just in time to see Stein fall into the classroom with his rolling chair thing.

"You wanna cowboy hat with that bull?" I mutter, getting up.

Some kid in the front row flips me off. I raise my pencil, about to impale the guy with it, but Lizzy, who sits in front of me, grabs it out of my hand. I allow my pencil to get away, but not his hand, which I am now joyfully intertwining and untangling our fingers.

"…who is sick at the moment. So while they're gone, you are to do a basic quiz. Your teacher will be the one correcting this." Stein finishes his intro as if nothing had happened and starts passing out papers. I get my newly Lysander-touched pencil back.

Puffing out my cheeks, I look at the first question.

1. What country are we in?

"Wow these are basic!" I almost shout that out.

So then, the answer would be, well, we're not in Egypt, nor Greece, and I am seriously doubting Rome and China at the moment, so, um, oh, there was that one country that kind of immigrated to a new one... ha. The answer is only so obvious. It's Mexico.


"I aced it." Amelia and I are sitting in the cafeteria, eating lunch. Lysander had to leave to go get his, because for some reason it had to stay cold. Whatever that means.

"You don't know that." says Amelia.

"Oh yeah? I got it right here!"

"Why do you still have it, you were supposed to turn it in!"

"Only lame people do that."

"Excuse me?" Amelia pushes her glasses up her nose.

I shove my paper toward her. "Then why don't you correct it."

She glares at me and looks at my paper. "OK- First of all, why did you scribble 'My name is Lex Luther' all over the page when you clearly put Tutankhamen here in the upper right corner?"

"Don't question awesome people. Continue already."

She rubs her forehead. "Why do I hang out with you. Fine. Question one..." She looks at it. "We're in America dumb-ass."

"What!? That's not a country!"

"Idiot!" Amelia hits me over the head with her encyclopedia.

"You've RUINED me, you, you.." I look at her defiantly. "You know what I'm going to say."

"It better not be, or else that piece of sushi won't be the only thing going down your throat."

I cover my neck in mock surprise. "I knew you weren't a woma-" Amelia hits me again.

"You didn't turn your quiz in?" Lysander comes over and sits next to me. "You were supposed to."

"Okay, okay, I get the fact that you guys are out for by sexy body, okay? So now let's just eat lunch." Lysander reddens slightly and Amelia glares at me, but otherwise we begin eating our meal.

I watch Amelia as she eats her sandwich. Oh yeah, there's been something I've been meaning to ask her. "Hey Amelia, what's your last name?"

"Earhart." She continues eating.

"Airheart? What kinda name is that?"

"Don't think I don't know what that little idiotic mind of yours is thinking. It's E-A-R-H-A-R-T." She says it really slow like I'm stupid. Pfft, I can't believe she called me stupid, I mean- yeah, never mind, I get her point.

I make a derp face. "Whatever dude." I turn to Lysander, who's picking at his salad. He is a vegan. Haha, that's such a funny word, vegan, haha.. Anyway. "Where are you from again?"

"Um..." Lysander looks around uncomfortable. "I'll... tell you later, we should probably get ready for the dance tonight, you know," He looks away. "When we leave."

"Yes, we should." Amelia gives me a look, as if telling me: Don't say any more. "We have the rest of the day off, for some reason, let's just relax until then. And no hot springs," She adds, watching me. "Let's spend some time in solitude."

I sigh. "Fine, Mother. I guess I'll see you guys later." Getting up, I begin walking to my dorm. I hate being alone.