Wow! I am alive! Yay for me! I win the smrt award for the day! LOL sorry, I've been extremely busy lately! And with all the confusion I really haven't had time to write a lot! Thanks for stayin with me, you are the brave, the strong, and the true. :D All my love, -katie- Hopefully this chapter measures up:D

Simple Equations

After a long weekend of no sleep, Cindy Vortex came rolled out of bed barely in one piece. Her eyelids drooping, her make up working against her, she felt like she had been hit by ten thousand bullets going five million miles an hour. She stared at the sky, sun rising on the horizon. Why should she care if he liked Miss Honey? It was a free country, he had every right to like who he wanted. Yet, something inside of her screamed when she thought of them together. She thought of him, looking at Miss Honey the way he was supposed to look at her. It was aggravating in every sense of the word. Even the thought of his blue eyes eyeing that slut made her absolutely furious! It made her want to scream so that every house in every corner of the earth could hear. Sure the jealousy thing wasn't really working out since she had pretty much single handedly gotten her boyfriend a new girlfriend. But she wasn't going to give up this easily. Maybe he didn't care after all, but then she thought about the game, and the heated, passionate, sweep you off your feet kiss she had shared with him in front of the entire class. He had to care!

Just then her cell phone rang loudly in her ear and consequently she poked her eye with her mascara.

" Hello?" She answered the phone angered and blinking from the pain.

" Hey Cindy, this is Jimmy, am I interrupting something?"

Jimmy! She almost forgot how to speak.

"What do you want Nerdtron?" She snapped trying to hide that she was secretly glowing inside.

" I was just wondering if you took any notes on my presentation on Friday."

" Yeah, I have a few, "she lied through her teeth.

" Sweet! Because Miss Honey said you seemed to be taking excellent notes and she wants to give a quiz this morning."

" Well don't you have a paper? Notes?"

" I chucked it."

" Well that was smooth." She bitterly replied, somehow this wasn't making sense.

" Accidentally of course."

" This isn't like you, did you write something about Miss Honey in the margins that you couldn't get rid of?"

" I didn't write I love Honey over and over, but it's not worth much."

" Hah, I knew it," she laughed.

" Will you please just go see what you have?" He was desperate now, time to mess with his mind a little.

" Just so you can impress our bimbo teacher? You only have half an hour anyway, what kind of questions do you think you can come up within that time period?"

" Hey, you know Cindy, you do sure sound jealous!"

" Yeah, me jealous? We've been through this already Neutron! Sheesh."

" And yet, you almost single handedly helped your boyfriend get a girlfriend."

" So?"

" Well Cindy, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I went over the chemical balances again and again and I couldn't find how the love potion could be that much stronger then the last time. It's a simple equation really. I don't think you were... affected as much as you were."

" You are getting cocky now aren't you?"

" I'm just saying it smells fishy, and Miss Honey seems to agree."

" Are you saying that she backed up this insane theory?"

" I'm simply stating that the kiss seemed too real to be brought on by a chemical balance this uncomplicated."

Cindy's heart raced.

" As I said it's a simple equation Cindy with one solution, it seems as though you wanted to kiss me."

" Oh my gosh! Are you saying that I actually enjoyed that disgusting show of affection? Have you truly gone INSANE? That I Cynthia Vortex wanted to kiss you? Are you trying to make me say that you made my head spin? Well you can't!"

" Miss Honey said different."

" Oh my word, enough about Miss Honey already!"

" She said you were totally getting into it, you had your eyes closed, she said it was OBVIOUS you felt something for me."

" Is this what this phone call was about? To embarrass me by telling lies about what or what I did not say? Well James Isaac Neutron, Miss Honey lied to you. I don't know why, but I can guarantee you the kiss wasn't enjoyed one bit."

" Well I was just curious!"

" You jerk! There is no quiz today is there."

Silence.

" IS THERE?"

" No," he ashamedly replied. " I'm sorry I bothered you, why did she lie to me?" He sounded so down and Cindy instantly felt regret.

" I don't know, maybe she just wanted to make you mad."

" Right."

" You really do like her don't you?"

" Yeah, even more then at first, I really do."

Silence again.

" Sorry I bothered you Cindy, see you in forty-five and a half minute, now forty-five," he responded quietly.

"Yeah, bye." Then he hung up and for a moment she listened to the dial tone, it was an empty sound without his sweet voice on the other end. She softly began to cry.

" Holy bananas, you look like you've been shot." Libby's voice said from the back of her. Cindy rolled her eyes, she was not in the mood to deal with this today.

" Well I feel like it." She retorted.

" Oh sorry, what's wrong?"

" Nothing is wrong okay sheesh! What is this interrogate Cindy day or something?"

" Okay now I know something is wrong!"

" Jimmy called me this morning."

" Oh my gosh girl! Why?"

" Because he wanted to ask me about the love potion incident, but he did it under the cover of the lie that he wanted questions for the presentation today."

" And what did you say?" Libby asked, obviously suspicious.

" I told him he was crazy because he is!"

" Well, you know it was pretty weird, even for a person UNDER a potion."

" Are you saying you are backing up his insane accusations?"

" Well it certainly appeared weird!"

" I don't care what it appeared, how rude can you get? I mean hello!"

" Were you affected Cindy?" Libby crossed her arms across her arms.

" I don't remember this kiss that everyone keeps talking about, so I must have been."

" You do too." Her arms were still crossed. She was serious!

" Do you honestly think I would attack him like that out of free will? This is Jimmy Neutron we are talking about here."

" Yes, both you and I know you are crazy about the kid."

" I may be crazy about him, but that would not suggest that I was not affected."

" You love him."

" What? No! I don't!"

" You loved every minute of that kiss, you think about him day and night! You are in love with him, everyone knows it but you!"

" No! I will not admit to such lies, to such fabrications!"

" Come on, I'm your best friend, I know you better then anyone else, and even I know you are lying. It's a simple equation Cindy."

" You've been talking to Jimmy." Cindy knew it almost immediately.

" He's trying to get you to get me to admit that I want him!"

" So, maybe he told me his theory, and maybe I agree with it! Come on Cindy, just admit it, you weren't affected."

" Fine." She grumbled so that it was barely audible. " Fine, I wasn't affected and I didn't know what else to do, so I .. Attacked him." She blushed. "And if you really must know, I did like it, and I do, love him. More then I've ever loved anyone before."

" Hah!"

" Yeah, you caught me, now will you just leave me alone!" She stormed off, leaving Libby next to her locker. But Libby caught up with her.

" You know, more has happened in the course of a few days then it has in eight years. It's amazing!"

" Libby, please! I'm not in the mood!"

" Did you ever consider that he might've liked it too? That he might like you back?"

" NO! That's too good to be true!"

" Well honey, you should at least consider it. Because he seemed to enjoy it just as much as you did, and we both know he's liked you in the past, I bet just like yourself, like has grown to love and he doesn't know how to face it."

"How would you know?"

" I'm not stupid, I can see the little moments you two have together. They are visible. Like I said the only person that doesn't know that you love him is him, and the only person who doesn't know he loves you, ironically, is you."

" That made absolutely no sense to anyone." Cindy snapped, even though it made perfect sense in reality.

" Right. Well I'm off, have fun in Advanced Chemics, we'll talk more later right?"

" Okay." Cindy replied quietly as she turned into the Advanced Chem. Room.

Instantly Jimmy's eyes met hers. She smiled.

" Good morning loser."

" Yeah, sorry about this morning, that was really stupid of me."

" Ya, you think Nerdtron?"

" Well, I know it was, and I was hoping you could forgive me." He smiled his ice melting smile.

" Okay, I forgive you, I mean I know how it feels too really, really like someone." She looked down at the desk so she wouldn't have to look into his eyes.

" Yeah, it's not fun is it?"

" NO! Because all you think about is that person. Night and day, you breathe them, you dream them, all you want," she paused looking up into his eyes. Her heart was screaming, can't you understand it's you! I love you James Isaac Neutron! " Is them."

" I know. She's so perfect in every way, her eyes, her smile, her smarts."

"Oh she can't beat him."

"Yes."

" No, she can't! He's such a dream, smart, hot, funny, adorable, sexy."

" Why are we arguing about this?" He asked laughing.

" I don't know Neutron."

" Well tell the guy he's lucky."

" And you tell the girl she's lucky."

" I will do that," he responded.

" Good morning class!" Miss Honey's annoying voice chirped and Cindy tore herself away from his beautiful face and the green-eyed monster roared inside of her.