MPOV

"Jeopardy time!" Mr. C shouted gleefully.

A collective groan erupted from the class- besides for me. I was going to excel in this. Oh, just you wait, Fang.

"What?" Mr. C asked, offended. "You don't want me to help you study for the test tomorrow?" Everyone's heads jerked up. He had not told us we were to have a test. The class sighed, shook their heads and reluctantly split off into two groups: the boys, and the girls. Mr. C rubbed his hands together in excitement, and started the dreaded game.

"Ah, so. Your test tomorrow will be on the fifty states and their capitols. Let's get started! Choose your team captains." After a brief dispute, I was chosen to be the team captain, and much to my distaste, so was Fang. I wasn't quite sure of how I felt about him, and I had settled for being disgusted.

"Girls, go first. Choose your category," Mr. C said, bursting with excitement.

"We'll go with states to capitols for five hundred," I said. He nodded, and revealed the question. What was the capitol of Ohio? (AN: By god, who the heck knows these things?)

All eyes turned expectantly towards me. If they didn't know, then how the heck did they expect me to know? Well, right about now was when I turned to my trusty companion: Voice. They had implanted the Voice when I was about to be 'launched' into the world so that I wouldn't be so far behind everyone else. The Voice supplied information that I would otherwise not have known; like the capitol of Ohio.

"What is Columbus," I said confidently. Everyone raised their eyebrows at me, while Mr. C replied.

"Uh, huh. Fang?"

I soon found out that Fang didn't have a Voice. Apparently this wasn't the kind of think that you could buy at Walbums. Well, that basically set the stage for how the rest of the period.

"Ten extra points for the girls tomorrow on the test!" Mr. C shouted to our retreating backs. The girls shot me grateful looks, and I caught a few of them muttering, 'The only ten points I'll get,' or 'God, what a show off!'

"How did you know all those answers? I didn't even know that half of those states existed," Fang murmured, making my heart speed up.

"Yeah, I didn't either," I replied, making him give me a funny look. I smirked. "Mm, lunch."

Now he smirked, which I think was the closest thing to a laugh or a smile that he could muster. The gloop was slashed onto our plates, making my nose wrinkle. We paid, and walked over towards Nudge and our new friends.

"Max," Nudge said sternly. "You can't wear the same shirt twice in a row- it's just not right! Well, okay, you're wearing it in purple with a silver waist belt, but still! Black converse? No! Not a fashion statement! No way! I mean, like," Nudge started blabbing away about her clothes, only making my head snap back up to her face when a certain name slipped out.

"Okay, Max, Fang is gone now, so you can confess your deep attraction to him. I mean, like, you and Fang would make such a good couple! He's-"

"Nudge, if you value your life, then shut up," I hissed. It was only her and this sweet girl Angel here, but anyone could be looking. "I don't like Fang, and that's the end of it."

"I'm going to keep talking until you admit that you like him and that you are deeply attracted to him so you better start talking or I'm just not going to shut up even if you put your hand over my mouth and now since I'm done talking about this I'll start talking about clothes because I know how much you hate clothes and now I'm wearing-" Nudge blabbed- all. In. One. Freaking. Breath.

"Fine, Nudge! I like him!" I cried, throwing my hands up. I will never listen to anyone talk about fashion or clothes. That's worse than the school- much worse.

"Who?" Nudge asked, voice dripping with honey. "Who do you like? And how much do you like him? And you have to mean it!"

"I like my hamster very much, thank you!"

Nudge scowled. I sighed, and said, "Fine. I like Fang. A lot. Happy?" I was surprised to find that my voice was genuine- did I really like him?

"You what?" came a shocked voice. Oh, shoot. Fang was standing right by my shoulder. Nudge smiled angelically. Oh, was she so in trouble.