Author's Note: Let's be honest, these are just fun. Thank you guys for the reviews, they make me all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Anyways, I was expecting to have an update sooner but there has been a series of truly crappy events and I've kind of just been hiding from humanity for awhile, but I felt you guys…er gals, mostly deserved another chapter. I have also realized threats work really well. Haha. No, really I was threatened and it made me realize that I have put this off for far too long, but I also won't suggest everyone threatening me because then I may become paranoid. Sorry again for the delay. On with the show or uh, story, whatever.

Melanie trudged toward the cafeteria with her arms crossed and her eyes set straight in front of her in a glare, she tensed as she felt a weight come across her shoulders and caught the whiff of cigarettes; she paused briefly, tightly closed her eyes, and sucked in a deep breath. When she opened eyes he was still there, she sighed and warily looked him in the eye and tried to shrug his arm off her shoulder. "What?" She asked in a calm voice that took even her by surprise.

Jack threw on his signature smirk and shrugged nonchalantly keeping his arm across her shoulder despite her attempts to be rid of it. "Well, it just so seems that we already have our first date." He said hugging her close to him.

"Ugh, get off me." She struggled to get away from him by putting her hands on his chest and pushing him. "It's detention, not a date you freak." She said finally getting away from him she speeding up her pace but then turned around, walking backwards she said, "Besides, I wouldn't be stuck in detention if it wasn't for you being an ass." Then turning back around she continued on her way in her faster pace.

Jack smiled as shook his head grinning from ear to ear. "Whatever you say, Mel, either way I will see you at three." He shouted after he and his grin grew wider when he heard a loud groan come from her but she did not correct him calling her Mel.

Melanie groaned again knowing he was smiling like an idiot, she just felt it. She rounded the corner and dug her phone out of her bag; she quickly found Andy's number and texted her.

Please, please, please say you have lunch right now.

Ya I do. Why? What's up?

Ugh, nothing. Just need a friendly face, I guess.

Ok. Where r u?

Just walking in the cafe right now.

Ok I'll find u.

Kay.

Soon after ending their conversation Melanie felt a presence beside her and soon after a hip hitting hers she smiled at the contact, she knew it was he sister even before the hip hit hers. Melanie turned to Andy to find she was already facing her; she smiled again and pulled Andy in for a tight hug. "Hi, sister."

Andy giggled lightly as she hugged her sister back. "Not having a good day?" She asked rhetorically, already knowing the answer as she released Melanie from the hug she looked her sister square in the eye. "What happened anyways?"

Melanie shrugged, taking in a deep breath biting back the anger from just a few minutes ago. "It's not really a big deal, I'm just being a little dramatic, I guess, but I do have detention today."

Andy clicked her tongue and shook her head with a cocky smile on her face. "Well, well, well. Who would have guessed Melanie Rae would beat me to getting a detention on our first day at a new school."

"Just catching up, sis." Melanie smirked and bumped her twin's hip, slinging an arm over her shoulder.

Andy responded first by snaking her arm around Melanie's waist and pulling her closer, she then spoke up. "What did you do anyways? It's usually pretty hard to get a detention on the first day."

Melanie shook her head looking down at her feet. "You would know." She smiled when Andy stared at her wide-eyed for a millisecond before composing herself again. "Anyways, what happened, long story short is my pre-calc teacher is a bit of a bitch and Jack Mercer seems to like annoying me and now getting me into trouble."

"And I'm sure you didn't enjoy it one bit." Andy said throwing a snide smirk on her face as she watched her sister's eyes darkened and narrowed at her. She removed her arm from Melanie's waist at the same time as she removed her's from Andy's shoulder, her smirk faded when she saw that Melanie's glare had not softened. "Okay, I get it you hate him or whatever, Mel. Let's just get something to eat, I'm fucking famished." She said linking arms with her twin and dragging her toward the lunch line.

"I don't hate him, I just want to hit him." Melanie said nonchalantly with a shrug, letting Andy drag her along, not paying attention to where they were going but ran into her sister when she came to a sudden stop. She looked at her questioningly for a second then followed her eye line and saw Rob standing in front of them she smiled at him. "Hey, Rob."

He nodded in her direction, smiling, not breaking eye contact with Andy. "Hey Melanie, Andy." His smiled grew as he said Andy's name, she looked at him seductively then smirked. Melanie crossed her arms letting out a short, quiet laugh as she watched the two's exchange. Rob cleared his throat. "So, uh, where are you girl's headed?"

"Well, my sister here," Melanie patted Andy's back for emphasis. "is headed to the lunch line and I'm off to the restroom, point me in that direction and you two can go on your own way to get something to eat." Rob finally broke eye contact with Andy and point toward two off to her right. "Thank you. I'll catch up with you guys later." She smiled and hurried off on her way to the restroom. She jumped as she felt a pair of hands on her hips. As soon as she caught the smell of cigarettes she knew who it was and began swatting his hands away before turning around giving him a stony glare. "What the hell is your problem?!" She hissed. "Are you naturally this socially inept?" She asked stepping back crossing her arms refusing to soften her gaze, even looking into his soft blue eyes and seeing his trademark playful smirk.

He shrugged. "Nah, you're just cute when you're mad." He smile widened when she huffed, turned on her heel and started back on her trek to the ladies room until he grabbed her wrist lightly and turned her around to face him. He looked at her seriously, taking his hand off her wrist he raised both in surrender. "Look, I was just messing around with you, I'll stop if you want."

She looked at him unsure, crossing her arms, she narrowed her eyes at him and licked her lips nervously. "Why should I believe you?" She asked cautiously.

"Because I'm really not a total asshole, I just liked teasing you."

Her gaze finally soften but she still looked at him confused. "So, what's this, a truce?"

He shrugged once again, looking anywhere but her eyes. "I guess." He mumbled, his eyes set on a poster just beside her head about the affects of smoking, he laughed internally at the poster, but didn't even crack a smile on the outside, he just stared at it.

Melanie bit her bottom lip considering for a moment. "Well, then, I guess I'll take that truce." She offered her hand to him and when he gave her a confused look she sighed. "Let's shake on it." Her voice full of exasperation.

Jack sighed warily and rolled his eyes at her but took the offered hand anyways and shook it only once, but still held onto her hand foe a second and rubbed his thumb across the soft skin of the back of her hand before releasing it. "Okay, truce."

Melanie would die before she told a soul about the electric shock she felt as his thumb ran across her hand. "Yeah, truce." She stood with him for a few seconds in an awkward silence before clearing her throat. "Um, well I was on a mission of sorts." She said stick her thumb out behind her toward the bathroom doors.

"Oh, yeah, right. On your way." He said watching her walk away he smiled before taking one large step to stand directly behind her with a hand on her waist and whispered in her ear. "I wasn't joking when I said you were cute when you were mad, Melanie."

She jumped as his words tickled her ear and the scent of his breath reached her nose when she turned around to say something Jack was nowhere to be seen. She bit her lip, secretly enjoying the flattery but hid it well as she walked into the women's restroom. She sighed when she made it through the door, of course there was a line, she leaned against the cool tile wall with a sigh, she checked her phone for the time, sighing again, at this rate she'd never get a chance to eat, but luckily the line moved rather quickly. After getting a chance to finally to actually put one of the stalls to her use and washing her hands she leaned against the cool tile once more, the restroom now near empty. Melanie took a deep breath running her hands through her hair she pushed herself off the wall and made her way out the door only to be ambushed by Andy.

"What the hell took you so long, sis?" Andy asked not sounding particularly concerned and linked arms with Melanie and began leading her back into the cafeteria.

Melanie simply shrugged nonchalantly. "Long line." She said knowing that Andy wouldn't push it any further. She looked around their general vicinity and saw no sign of Rob. "Hey Andy, what happened to Rob?" She asked trying to change the subject.

Andy smirked devilishly at her twin. "Well, your little friend Jack came by and off they went, to smoke I think. Jack said you two had a nice little chat before you went to the bathroom. Care to share?"

"Nope." She said matching her sister's smirk and added a nonchalant shrug removing her arm from Andy's she continued on her path back to the cafeteria leaving her sister a few steps behind her shaking her head.

Andy sped up a little to catch up with Melanie smiling broadly. "You always were one to keep secrets. Jus tell be if you two start fucking." As soon as she said it the bell rang and her twin had disappeared leaving Melanie frozen in the middle of the hallways with an annoyed look on her face.

She inhaled deeply with frustration and reached into her bag digging out her schedule, before looking over it she ran her hand over her face with another deep breath she looked over she schedule. Now knowing her way around the school a little better she was able to tuck her schedule away and find her way to her next class without a problem. As she sat down she let her mind drift to anything other than when was happening to the class, she figured it would all be introductory and before she knew it the class had ended. Taken aback by the shrill sound of the bell Melanie jumped slightly before composing herself and getting up and running off to her next and final class, which also went by with out event. Considering the fact that she didn't know anyone in either of the classes and she wasn't feeling too friendly today she didn't bother introducing herself or even attempting to look like she wanted make any new friends.

Melanie wasn't sure as to why the day had finally began to pass by so quickly but she wasn't about to complain. She quickly gathered up her bag and walked out the door of the classroom to find Jack leaning against the wall of lockers across the hall and she let a small smile play across her lips. Taking a few large strides toward his form to see his signature smirk plastered on his face, she could only shake her head as she lean against the lockers facing him.

"How in the world do you do this?" She asked as she met his eyes and crossed her arms.

Jack looked at her with an incredulous expression. "Do what?" He questioned furrowing his brow with a tilted head smirking once again when he saw Melanie roll her eyes. She threw he hands up and huffed with exasperation making Jack's smirk grow wider.

"What do you think? How do you find me all the time?" She inquired. "Are you stalking me or something, because that is in no way flattering, if anything it's creepy beyond belief."

Jack simply shrugged and a look of understanding came unto his face. "Oh, that. Yeah that's just a gift." He paused to pull up his long sleeve shirt to see his watch. "Well, we have detention in a few minutes, shall we?" He asked her stepping back against the lockers to give her the advantage.

She nodded in response to her queue and took a step forward toward Mrs. Tanner's classroom, she shivered at the feeling of his large, warm hand on the small of her back leading her in a way. Jack smiled when she shivered.

"Are you cold, Melanie?" He whispered softly, almost inaudibly into her ear. She shivered again biting her bottom lip, she shook her head no not wanting to respond vocally afraid that her voice would deceive her. "Are you sure?" He asked teasingly, she nodded this time still unsure of what her voice would sound like. "Then why are you shivering every ten fucking seconds?"

Finally gaining some semblance of composure Melanie nonchalantly shrugged. "I don't know." She lied, biting her lip, happy that her voice didn't crack. She was internally doing a happy dance and silently thanking the heavens.

"I'm sure." Jack replied skeptically just as they made it to Mrs. Tanner's classroom, once again he let her go first, holding the door open with a soft grin showing ever-so slightly as he watcher her hesitate before entering shyly, there was no sign of Mrs. Tanner at first and when Jack fully entered the room after Melanie he still saw no sign of her, but he did see Melanie turn to him.

"So, what's up with you acting like a gentleman all of a sudden?" She asked playfully as she sat on top of the nearest desk Indian style.

Jack leaned against the wall with cross arms and shrugged his shoulders. "Just figured with this whole truce thing we have going I'd be a little nice, but if you don't like it," He paused making eye contact with her. His sapphire eyes stared intently into her green-ish browns. "I'll stop." He finished softly, still not breaking eye contact.

His gaze was so intense that Melanie finally looked down to her shirt cleaning invisible lint off it. When she looked back up he was still watching her. She shook her head in response at last. "No. No, I kind of like it." She said nervously breaking their gaze yet again.

A Cheshire Cat like grin spread across his mug. "Really now? Then I guess stopping is far from an option, now isn't it?" At that juncture the classroom's door creaked open to reveal an impatient looking Mrs. Tanner.

"Miss Peterson, off the desk. Mr. Mercer, in a seat. Now, please." She demanded gruffly. The two quickly responded taking seats next to each other. Mrs. Tanner took out a newspaper from her oversized purse as she sat upon the lush swivel chair but before taking to reading it she looked up at the two. "You two seem to be getting along better then you were earlier," The duo nodded. "Good. Less trouble for me. How long have you been in here?" She asked with disinterest evident in her voice.

Melanie looked at Jack who showed no signs of responding so she was the one to speak up for the both of them. "Only a few minutes, Mrs. Tanner." She said softly.

Mrs. Tanner nodded in understanding and began reading the newspaper. "Very well. Now please do something productive for the next forty-five minutes, thank you. I hope you both familiar the rules, Mr. Mercer I know you should remember them." All this was said without a glance that either of them. "No talking, no leaving the room, no food or drink, no phones, just don't bother me, okay?"

Jack and Melanie looked at one another simultaneously both biting back laughter as they both agreed with Mrs. Tanner. Melanie retrieved her spiral notebook and a pen from bag the was still resting on the desk she was currently sitting at. Once again she began to doodle mindlessly, she brought the pen to her mouth, thinking of what to draw next. She closed her eyes and stretched her arms above her head, she then felt the pen being plucked from her mouth her arms fell and her eyes flutter open to reveal that her notebook had also been removed from her desk, she looked over the Jack to see him hunched over his desk with her pen and notebook. Just as she was about to take her belongings he placed the notebook back on her desk and was attempting to put the pen back in her mouth but she took it from his hands shaking her head. Looking down at what Jack had done, she saw he opened it up to a clean page and scrawled a note to her across the page.

Don't you know it's rude to ignore people? I'm hurt.

Melanie looked at him trying to look reprimanding but her smile deceived her attempts. So she settled for a response.

Oh, poor Jacky-poo needs attention. I'm sorry, I almost forgot how much you needed. What can I do to serve you?

She passed the notebook and the pen back to him.

Come get something to eat with me after this. I'm pretty sure you didn't get a chance to get anything to eat at lunch today.

As she read what he wrote she was surprised that he has noticed, she turned a light shade of pink.

Thank you but I'm really not hungry. Just as she wrote that her stomach growled loudly, so she scribbled it out. Thank you, Jack but my sister will probably be waiting.

Passing it back to Jack she saw him smile when he saw what she scribbled out.

Tell her to go home. Tell her you're going to eat something with me. Tell her or I'll do it for you. You need to eat something, plus I'm paying.

She didn't know what to say, she bit her bottom lip the entire time she wrote the response.

Fine. It was the only response she could think to write, plus soon as she lifted the pen from the page Jack had taken it and the pen from her hand.

Good choice. It's a date. Go back to ignoring me with your silly doodles now. Don't forget to tall your sister.

Melanie glared at Jack even though she knew he wasn't looking. She took out her phone and quickly texted her sister hoping that Mrs. Tanner wouldn't notice but she seem far too enthralled with the newspaper in front of her.

Andy, I'm going to get something to eat with jack. No need to wait.

Wasn't planning on it sis. Have fun. Stay out of trouble.

Oh, how annoying her sister was.

Author's note 2: Yes FINALLY! Sorry, again it took so long but I thought I'd give you all a longer chapter and move things along a little quicker. I hope to have the newest chapter sooner than this one but I'm not too sure how long it will be, let's all expect for not waiting months. Also reviews are my favorite.