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(Sheen's POV)

Ah, one month 'til homecoming week, the perfect opportunity to pull off my master plan.

Well, one of them. But, I'll think about the other one later.

Back to my master plan for homecoming week. I have my pranks planned for each day of that week.

Monday, put a whoopie cushion on Mr. Harris's chair; Tuesday, make my recipe for fake vomit to use to get out of a test; Wednesday, glue Butch to his chair at lunch; Thursday, start a game of dodgeball in the hallway; and then there's Friday.

Friday night is the football game and I have a special plan in mind to top off the week to use during halftime. I grinned to myself as I looked at the final addition to my own halftime show.

This is gonna be awesome!

(Jimmy's POV)

I was trying to finish something up on my computer as I downed the last of my flurp.

I shook the can slightly to make sure it was empty before setting it on my desk and as I kept typing when I felt a scratch on my leg and a slight whine as I smiled to myself.

I looked down and saw Goddard scratching at my leg and looking at the empty can . I smiled as I grabbed the can and turned my swivel chair to face him. I fed the can to him and pat him on the head, "There you go boy."

He licked me and I laughed before saying, "That's a good boy, Goddard. You're such a…" "Jimmy! Cindy Vortex is here to work on your school project. She said she'll meet you by the clubhouse." My mom calls out.

I rolled my eyes and let out a groan as I responded, "Thanks mom!"

I looked at Goddard and pat him on the head a couple times before saying, "I'll be back, boy. Just go into sleep mode until further notice."

After Goddard went to his rest area to recharge, I made my way out to the club house.

Tonight Cindy and I are going to finish our chemistry project early so we didn't have to worry about it for the rest of the week and just turn it in to Mr. Taylor early. We were practically almost done with it anyway.

Even though the whole time Cindy's been nothing but… difficult with me for no apparent reason.

I mean, we usually clash a little like we always have, but we were always usually able to get past it and work together. But ever since this school year started she's just been very short with me all the time and I have no idea what the reasoning she had for being that way was.

I just try not to make it worse and try to avoid talking to her too much.

Like when we were in that cable car at Retro-Land with just the two of us. I tried to not look at her or talk to her but… I don't know, a couple times I thought she was looking… never mind, there's not even concrete proof for what I just thought.

It was all hypothetical assumption.

With that I finally grabbed my notes from class and made my way out to the lab.

2 hours later

"I think that just about wraps it up." I say and look to her to get her input before I printed the report. "I'd say so." She agrees and then she walks off to one of my lab tables that has all our notes on it.

It was almost like she was purposely trying to not acknowledge me.

I pressed the print button but I stood up from my control chair and looked at her in deep thought as I tried to process what was going on. I just didn't understand what was going on with her exactly.

She was the one who wanted to be lab partners with me at the beginning of the semester. She could have paired up with anyone.

Britney was in our class but she insisted that we should be lab partners saying it was the most logical choice that made the most sense. And I really didn't care since Carl and Sheen were already lab partners.

Also… look when we were 11, I never would have admitted it, but I've really come to respect Cindy. She was the only person I knew that seemed to challenge my intellect. Sure my IQ still surpasses hers by about 67 points, but I can truthfully admit that Cindy is an intelligent person and... I respect that.

But… I just still don't understand what has been up with her these last couple months.

Cindy's been on my case since kindergarten, but she's taken it to a whole new level these past couple months with how sharp she's been around me. And I wasn't about to let it slide anymore… I was going to find out why.

I walked over to her as she started to gather her stuff and put it back into her messenger bag.

I decided to give her one more chance.

I started to help her gather up her notes and was about to hand them back to her when she all of sudden aggressively snatched her papers away from me. I looked in her direction, about to give her a confused response, when I was stopped.

"Neutron, I don't need your help. I'm fine, okay?!" She snapped at me, completely blunt. I gave her a beyond confused and perturbed facial expression.

"Cindy, wha.." "Look dweebtron, I just want to get my phone, leave, and call it a night." She interrupts and walks toward where she left her cell phone, continuing to try and ignore me.

Look, as an intellectual genius, it is barbaric and highly illogical to lose your temper over something like this. But she is being a contradiction right now.

Cindy wants to act illogically with me… very well then Cindy, you've asked for it.

"Look Cindy, what's wrong with you? What did I do to..." I was interrupted when she turned around as she was walking with an intense glare in her eyes. "Nothing's wrong, just leave me alone, okay?!" She snaps at me and was about to turn back around as she was walking.

My eyebrows were furrowed in frustration and I was about to lay it on her… until my eyes widened and my expression turned to panicked and it was almost as if space and time were unrealistically going into slow motion as I watched her current charted course and where she was headed.

She was heading in the direction of a loose extension cord wire laying on the floor and if she were to trip the trajectory of her fall would cause her to land on and encounter my unstable isotope experiments.

"Cindy! Stop!" I shouted in warning, trying to stop her. "What is it Neu… Ah." She stopped when her left foot caught the wire.

Look, am I beyond irked and frustrated with her right now about her shortness with me for no apparent reason as of late… yes. But those isotopes are totally not stable at all and I'd rather not find out what happens when a human comes into contact with them, even Cindy.

I strode forward and was able to catch her arm and yanked her toward me to shift the momentum of her fall.

But then something happened next that I both did and did not anticipate. I did anticipate keeping her from falling into my chemical beakers, that was a given. But what I didn't expect was her momentum now taking over me as an equal and opposite reaction as I started to lose my balance and she was unintentionally trying to drag me.

She was acting on a natural human response as she kept on using more force to try and attempt to stabilize herself, but instead ended up dragging me down with her. I tried to contort my fall so I could cushion myself by landing on my back and that did end up working, but nothing could've prepared me for what happened next.

Apparently as I changed my position to fall on my back, Cindy ended up following me and she was literally going to fall on me as I braced myself. I closed my eyes as I prepared for the inevitable when… my eyes sprung open at what really ended up happening.

Our eyes were making direct contact and both of us seemed to have similar reactions to what was currently happening at the moment with us.

When Cindy fell on me, that wasn't all that ended up coming in contact. Well, mainly the fact right now that upon our impact… so did our lips.

I didn't know exactly how to respond right now, and I don't think Cindy knew what to do exactly either as we were both tensed up into a state of minor shock to the current situation.

My heart rate was steadily increasing, my forehead and palms felt the slight onset of perspiration, and my mind was in an intense state of indecisive confusion.

Then I was pushed into another state of confusion as I kept looking at Cindy, both of us still not making any attempt to separate.

I kept looking at her but then I noticed her eyes shutting slowly and I thought I felt her pressing her lips more into mine and it made my eyes widen even more initially as she slowly started to move her lips a little more over mine.

My brain was still trying to come up with something... anything; a thought, a response. I was just still trying to mentally process what was currently happening.

But this was a different kind of confusion for me. This took me back to when we were 11 and I inhaled that pheromone that caused me to fall in love with her that one Valentine's Day.

The feeling felt similar but also... different.

Okay, as confused as I am right now as a scientist, the 17 year old teenager side of me… actually really liked it. I slowly closed my eyes too as I started reciprocating her advance as I took in this whole new set of sensations.

I was trying to take in air during the slight separations while we were kissing to breathe.

Her hands started to wander up from my shoulders to the back of my head and I let out a slight involuntary groan in response when I felt her fingers brush over the hair on the back of my head, trying to make the proximity closer between us.

I started to test myself too when I put my right hand on the side of her face as we continued in our… session of sorts.

I didn't want this to end and I wasn't about to let what was currently happening stop.

I was about to wrap my arms around her back to keep her close to me until she forced us, well me, into a semi recumbent posture and her sitting between my legs as we continued.

I slowly wrapped my left arm around her back to pull her closer to me and I heard a sigh come from her as her arms wrapped around my neck. Both of us still not breaking away from each other.

I've never been in a situation prior to this, well I've never really, actually kissed a girl in this sort of way before now and I wasn't about to let this end. I gained more confidence as I let my right hand slowly wander from her face to the back of her head to maintain the close and slightly intimate proximity between us.

We kept going about this current situation and I was contemplating my next move as I felt her hair tie beneath my finger tips, but then she stopped and pulled away from me abruptly.

Both of our breathing was picked up way beyond normal tidal volume. Cindy was looking at me with wide eyes and her face was reddening steadily.

I tilted my head at her, trying to figure out what was going on, but she just kept her eyes locked on me. I tried to slowly lean in to try and kiss her again, when she immediately scrambled away from me.

I remained sitting on the floor as I watched her run and grab her messenger bag, not even looking back in my direction, as she continued to sprint toward my lab entrance door.

Finally, I felt the synapse from my brain finally travel to my correct nerve endings as I finally got up and yelled, "Wait! Cindy, where are you going?!"

I ran after her, but by the time I reached the threshold of my lab... she was gone.

I just stood there in a state of total confusion, before I whipped my head around when I heard something come from inside my lab.

I looked around until I noticed a device vibrating and sitting on one of the counters in my lab. I walked over and picked it up as I glanced at the screen and saw there was a new message from Libby.

It was Cindy's phone.

I studied it for a moment before looking back at my lab door, still in a total state of confusion about what just happened.

(Cindy's POV)

I ran into my house, sprinted to my room, and slammed my door shut behind me.

My back was leaning against my door as I slowly slide down to the floor, now sitting and pulling my knees close to my chest. I was trying to calm myself down and I'm pretty sure I was really close to rocking in a fetal position on my bedroom floor.

My eyes went wide as I started to pat my pockets frantically and say in realization, "No."

I couldn't find it.

"No, no, no…" I kept saying as I started to practically gut out my messenger bag.

Well, I forgot my phone, but to heck with that.

What did I do? Why did I do that?! Did I seriously just do what I just did?! UGH! Did I actually just… make out with… Jimmy? I felt my fingers go to my lips for a moment as that thought lingered.

I shook my head and put my hand down to get a hold of myself.

Ugh, why did I do that?

If anyone finds out about this, I swear I will never ever hear the end of it.

Well, looks like Jimmy and Cindy are really in a pickle now. I hope you guys liked Jimmy's analytical, scientific thought process of what he thought when he and Cindy were kissing. Why did Cindy run away exactly? Find out next time! Thanks for reading and please review, your feedback and thoughts are always appreciated.