Hey, everyone! This took me a while, but this is the first part of the whole day in TDHS!. The whole team arrangement thing is the same as the ones on TDI. I hope you enjoy. See ya!

Courtney POV

Today is the day that we finally get our first assignment from 'Chris'. He already wasted our time with setting up new rules and explaining our new teams. The bad news for me was that Gwen ended up in the Screaming Goofoffs' team while the good news was Bridgette was with me on the Killer Preps' team. Everyone was waiting for Chris to hurry up with the assignment!

"Okay, everybody! Today is your first assignment and your first experience of reality." Chris announced wearing his goofy smile.

"So, what is our first assignment?" Heather asked exasperated.

"Your first assignment is to build a classic science project: a volcano!"

"And what does this have to do with reality?" I spoke up agitated.

He took out a index card and started to read off of it, "'This assignment will increase your creativity and boost your enthusiasm as well as your interest in science'." He rolled his eyes and shouted, "Boring! Chef, put these cards in the shredder, would ya?"

Chef took the cards and shredded them with the shredder next to the desk.

"Let me explain it in my own words, this assignment will increase your chances of becmoing the king/queen of the school or make you ten times a loser than you already are. How does that sound. Now, the building materials such a paper-mache and other things are somewhere here in this school ready to be picked up like a scavenger hunt. So, split into your teams and get busy. When you're finished, bring your volcanoes back here in class." He and Chef left us in the classroom while we were busy getting into our teams.

"I guess this is the first time I won't be with you two." Gwen said sadly looking down at the floor.

"Don't make it sound like we're moving away, Gwen." I said.

"She's right, it's just for today and we're going to be in our other classes anyway." Bridgette added smiling away.

"Yeah, besides I can spend some time with Trent while we're on the same team."

"That's the spirit!" Bridgette cheered.

"Just make sure Heather doesn't use her tricks." I warned her.

"I won't. She's not going to ruin this for me." Gwen said with a strong determined look in her eyes.

DJ POV

The guys and I were talking to Trent, who was sitting at his desk, as he put his hands on his face in frustration.

"What's your problem, dude? You got Gwen on your team, right." Geoff questioned confused.

"I'm happy that Gwen's on my team, but the fact that I'm with Heather and her sidekicks, that I'll probably never spend time with Gwen." Trent explained groaning in his hands.

"Take it like a man and don't get Heather in your face." Duncan told him, "Don't let her ruin your life just because she has a crush on you. Spend time with Gwen and don't even talk or be near Heather, then you'll be okay."

He took his hands off his face and stood up smiling at us. "Thanks, guys. You're the best."

We watched him walk towards the other side of the class where the Screaming Goofoffs were. Duncan shook his head while Geoff and I were staring at him befuddled.

"I want to smack the crap out of his dad for not doing his job right."

"Yeah, you know you're like our dad in our group." Geoff added happily.

Duncan turned towards us with a flabbergasted look, "I'm like the 'dad' of you three? Don't make me laugh."

"It's true." I stepped in, "You always giving Trent advice and you're always getting Geoff and I out of trouble all the time."

He scoffed, "Like when?"

Geoff thought a something before he said, "Like that time when we almost got in trouble with Coach Madeline."

"That was because you were peeping in the girls' locker room in a empty locker and almost got caught by Sadie when she tried open the locker." Duncan rolled his eyes at him.

"So? At least we got out."

"I had to pull that fire alarm and bail you out before anyone saw you."

"You know, you didn't have to set that tree on fire." I said remembering him setting a tree on fire with his lighter.

"Hey, if there was no fire, then they would have looked at me as the prime suspect. So, I had to set 'something' on fire to not get in trouble." Duncan said taking out his lighter and looked at it.

"What about that time when we broke accidentally Mr. Polanski's golf club while we were using it to play crochet?" I butted in.

"You were lucky that my man, Ironworks, gave us that golf club and replaced that old junk for free."

"Still, dude, you act like a second father to us." Geoff shrugged.

"Don't act all sappy around me, okay?" Duncan said rolling his eyes.

Normal POV

Everyone was split into their groups and had forty-five minutes to complete their science project and present it to Chris and Chef to get an A. The Killer Preps were getting a good start first.

Courtney started to order around, "Okay team, we need to get those materials in order for us to build the volcano." She took out a long list of materials and read, "We'll need some paper-mache, chicken wire, liquid dish soap, baking soda, a film container, and food coloring."

"Me and Sadie will get the paper-mache from Mrs. Easel's class." Katie volunteered cheerily.

"I could get the chicken wire from shop." Duncan added.

"We'll get the soap, vinegar, and the baking soda. It'll be easy to find with my mad finding skills." Harold said standing next to Ezekiel.

"We still need the food coloring and the film container." Courtney said.

"I think Mrs. Redeyes will let me borrow her film container for a while." Bridgette brought it up.

"I doubt the kitchen has food coloring on the shelves." DJ said looking unsure.

"Fine, then someone has to go to the nearest store and buy some. Any volunteers?" Courtney looked around for any hands.

She looked around and found no hands coming from either teammate, not even Tyler.

"Fine, I'll go get the food coloring." she sighed defeated.

"Want me to go with you, Princess?" Duncan offered.

"No! You stay here and work on building the volcano before I get back." She ran towards the classroom door and continued to say, "I will be back in a second!" With that, she ran out of the class and dashed outside towards the nearest store.

"Hey! Where is she going? Is she skipping school?" Heather nosily asked watching Courtney run out of the classroom.

"None of your business, Heather." Bridgette retorted calmly.

Snogging Closet

"Heather is such a brat. She always watching for an opportunity to get in trouble or blame us for anything. One time in middle school, she smashed the mirrors in the girls' bathrooms with her brush and said that we did it because our faces broke the glass." Bridgette stated sitting on the stool with her legs crossed over.

While the other teammates of Killer Preps were starting their search for the materials, things were not going so well over at the Screaming Goofoffs' team.

"Okay, how are we supposed to build a volcano?" Heather asked looking at the list.

"With materials, duh." Gwen retorted rolling her eyes at her stupidity.

"I know that, dumb Goth. I mean, where to get these things from?!" she snapped angrily.

"Chris said that the materials are all around the school, so let's go find them." Trent intervened calmly.

"You're right, Trent. I don't know why a smart guy like you, would hang with a dumb girl like her." Heather said pointing at my irritated face.

"Whoa! Don't think you're the almighty goddess of beauty and smarts, Miss Thin-and-Skinny Toothpick!" LeShawna backed up Gwen and shoved her face in front of Heather's.

"As much as I love to see you girls fight over stupid, idiotic things, I would like to pass this easy class instead of failing it like some flunkie." Noah interrupted rudely.

"Yeah, chill out. It's an easy science project. It'll be a piece of cake." Cody assured them.

Owen chuckled hungrily, "Piece of cake."

"Fine, there are 11 of us and we'll split into teams of three while Cody and Noah wait for the paper-mache and chicken wire and begin building the volcano." Heather said.

"Why do we have to build the volcano?" Noah questioned raising his eyebrow at her.

"Because I asked you to do it, that's why."

Snogging Closet

"Asked us? More like ordered us around like the queen bee she is." Noah commented reading his fantasy book.

"Fine, fine, I'll do it."

"Good. Justin, Trent, and I will be getting the dish soap, baking soda, and vinegar. Gwen, Lindsay, and Beth will be getting the chicken wire. Owen, Izzy, and LeShawna will be getting the paper-mache and the film container." Heather listed the people and read off the list of materials.

"We're going to get the chicken wire! Come on, Gretta!" Lindsay sang cheerily as her and Beth dragged Gwen out before she could protest about the arrangements.

"Let's go to get the paper-mache from Mrs. Easel's room." LeShawna suggested.

"Yeah, let's get it and make a huge volcano!" Izzy cheered excited.

"I'm in!" Owen cheered along.

They ran out of the classroom and headed towards the art class.

Before Trent could go to get the supplies from the kitchen, Heather lunged forward and grabbed his left arm in her hands happily.

"Come on, Trent, let's go get the stuff before they win." she said flirty.

He let out a depressed sigh and said, "Okay, fine."

They both start walking out of the classroom with Heather still clinging to Trent's arm as Justin was walking behind them. Duncan, who was watching them walk out, was shaking his head at them disappointed.

Snogging Closet

Duncan was carving a skull on the wall saying, "No matter how much I told him not to hang or be around Heather, he still does it. No wonder Gwen is acting all overprotective around Trent and possibly have low self-esteem like Bridgette told me. Heather, she acts like some kind of crazy fangirl hanging off of him. I wasn't surprised when Justin didn't react to his girlfriend hugging his friend, he was probably fascinated by looks to notice anyway."

Meanwhile at the store

Courtney was running around trying to find the food coloring in the all-in-one store. She looked in the aisles and didn't find any food coloring of any type. She didn't bother to go in the appliance section or any section that doesn't hold food coloring.

"Why can't I find a small bottle of food coloring in this place?!" she exclaimed frustrated getting many stares by people passing her.

She was about to give up and go to another store when she spotted one of the employees coming out of the deli section. She ran over to the employee and asked her.

"Excuse me, but where do you put your food coloring at?"

The freckle-faced short-haired blonde with pimples on her cheeks looked up at her and slowly said, "What?"

"I said what aisle is the food coloring in?"

"I don't know. Ask one of the employees." she shrugged her shoulders.

"But you are one of the employees. It even says it on your red vest," she looked at the name tag, "Yvette? It says here that you've been working here for a year now. So, you know where it is if you've been working that long."

"So, I don't know where it is. Go ask Henry at the fishing section."

"You don't understand. I need food coloring! FOOD COLORING! Food coloring is not in the fishing section! It's in the cooking section!" she said frustrated at the dumb blonde.

"Look in the cooking section, then." Yvette yawned bored.

"I did and I can't find it! So, that's why I came to you to ask where it is!"

"Well, you're out of luck because I don't know I don't know where it is."

Snogging Closet

Courtney stomped on her feet while sitting on the stool saying, "I'm not going to take this any longer. This whole project is being on hold because this ditz is either dumb or acting stupid to make me mad. If that's her little 'plan', then it's sure working!"

"You listen here, Yvette! If you don't cut out that crap out, I'll sue this store for every penny because of oblivious employees like you not working and not knowing where everything else should be!" Courtney threatened.

Their little squabble caused a huge gawking crowd to form around them while the manager at the cashier's station noticed this and went to investigate. He pushed through the crowd until he was near Courtney and Yvette.

"What seems to be the trouble here?" he asked professionally.

"I can't find any food coloring, so I asked 'Yvette' here to help. Except that instead of helping me, she just tells me to go somewhere else and get help from an inexperienced employee in the fishing section to help me find one simple bottle of food coloring!" Courtney explained calmly until she exploded in the end.

"The food coloring you say? They're right next to the 'Sugarman's Pure Sugar' in the cake isle. It's on sale." he adjusted his glasses calmly.

"Thank you. Now, I can go get some." she said smiling.

"By the way, aren't you supposed to be in high school?" he asked curiously.

"Isn't she?" she retorted pointing to clueless Yvette.

TBC

That's the first part. The second part will come right after New Year's. Happy New Year, everyone!