Sitting in Professor Branchflower's history lesson and listening to him carry on and on about the line of Kings and Queens of Vale was making Andrew wish for his bed. He felt it eyelids becoming heavy with each blink becoming slower, wishing that he had some form of caffeine to wake him up.

"You had better pay attention Andrew. This class is important to our overall grade here." Said Ulysses who was sitting next to him. He felt a small serge of adrenaline course through him and almost woke him up completely.

"Sorry, just finding it hard to concentrate right now." He replied back

"I hear that, really can't wait for him to shut up." The other voice came from the other side of him.

"At the rate he's going I doubt he ever will." Andrew said as he looked towards Qrow Branwen and they both chuckled with Ulysses shushing them afterwards. He was becoming more open with the other students around him and had been introduced to team STRQ a few weeks ago. Out of all of them he started to form an attachment to Qrow, he found him to be an honest and strong-willed person but was still funnier than any other person he'd met before.

"Well if your even having trouble sleeping then I recommend recording his lecture. Instant knockout." Qrow continued which made Andrew chuckle some more.

"Could you two shut up, some people are trying to concentrate." Came Taiyang Xiao Long voice from the other side of Qrow.

"What? It's not like we're missing anything important. Who cares who the 13th Queen of Vale was and why she was so crucial to the formation of the kingdoms aqueduct system." Andrew let out a sigh as he completely agreed with Qrow, how any of this could be helpful to a hunter was beyond him. As they sat for the next forty minutes only half listening to what was being said, Andrew caught sight of something familiar a few rows in front of him. A girl wearing a long brown cloak

"I recognise her." He didn't even realise he was speaking aloud.

"Who we are looking at?" Andrew was startled when Qrow leaned across him to see where he was looking. When he saw her Qrow paused. "Well hello there. She looks very nice, so when did you first see her?"

"Erm, a couple of days ago. Bumped into her one morning, well more like crashed into her actually."

"She give you a name?"

"Yeah, Carissa." Qrow looked back at her with a sly smile on his face.

"Carissa. I think I'll go and introduce myself once this class is over." For some reason Andrew felt angry over that, the thought of Qrow "introducing" himself to her made him what to stop him.

"No you don't, she wouldn't like you." He said trying to dissuade him.

"Oh really and why's that? I'm handsome, charming and the coolest guy in this school. What's not to like?"

"I just don't think you're her type, that's all." Qrow went silent but his face never changed. For the rest of the class neither of them said a word as the teacher continued to drone on and on for what felt like an eternity. When the bell went signalling the end of class Andrew started to collect his things together but Qrow was already up and walking away. Andrew felt that same feeling again and really didn't want Qrow to talk to her because he knew exactly where that would lead to, even after only knowing him for a few weeks.

"Oh no you don't" he said

"Pardon?" Ulysses asked as he pulled his bag up around his shoulder.

"Grab my stuff." And with that Andrew leaped over the desk and then the next and the next. When he was vaulting over the last row of desks to get to Carissa the professor called out

"Mr Tinman, would you mind not turning my classroom into your own personal assault course?" As Andrew landed next to Carissa he paused to look at professor Branchflower.

"Sorry sir. Won't happen again." Professor Branchflower simply gave him a stern look as he turned to start wiping his blackboard clean. Now Andrew was sitting next to Carissa with no real understanding as to why he was there. He then heard her chuckle

"Is sorry your catchphrase, you do seem to say it a lot."

"You know I'm really beginning to think that it is." He turned to look at her and now he could see her face fully with no hood covering her head. She was something else, he'd never seen anyone like her before and just like before he was drawn to her amazing eyes.

"Something wrong, I'm guessing you're here for a reason."

"I think so, just let me figure out what it was?" Andrew said as he began to ponder why he was in fact here. This elicited another laugh from Carissa

"Well you can't knock me down this time, I'm prepared for that now." Andrew felt his face begin to go warm and as he turned to look at her he noticed Qrow walking down pass them but he didn't stop. He just kept walking out of the classroom with his hands in his pockets and a smirk on his face.

"I try to make it a habit of not knocking people down more than once."

"Glad to hear it. So, what then?" she was looking straight at him and he couldn't think of anything to say back to her. His face must have been a picture because she said, "I'm beginning to think you've not got a clue as to what you're even doing."

"That about sums up my life to this point. I didn't think this far ahead, to be fair I doubt I ever do."

"I see, well when you figure that out then please do let me know." She started to pack up her things

"Okay I will, I'm guessing we're in other classes together so it will be easy enough to find you again."

"And you also know my dorm number." After a pause, she added in a more serious tone "You're not stalking me, are you?"

"No! Definitely not!" Andrew was now wondering what the hell he was doing. He'd never acted like this before.

"I'm just kidding you idiot. Honestly I'd be worried about your mental health if I cared enough."

"Ha ha. I take it you're still sore about that crash?"

"No. I don't hold silly grudges I just want you to figure out what you're doing so I can be on my way." She was now fully packed up and sat staring at him with her arms crossed and a curious look on her face. Before Andrew could say another word, Ulysses had appeared behind him.

"Here you go Andrew, I have all of your things for you. Oh, hello Miss, my name is Ulysses Straw and my I ask your name?" he said stretching out his hand. Carissa smiled and offered her hand back.

"Carissa Remus, pleasure to meet you. I take it that this idiot is a friend of yours?" Ulysses smiled

"Indeed he is! Oh, wait I meant that to the friend part not the idiot. He is quite an adept huntsman already so he is definitely not an idiot."

"Thanks Ulysses." Andrew sighed.

"No problem Andrew." Ulysses replied, failing to notice Andrew's sarcasm in his tone of voice. I really must explain sarcasm to him one-day Andrew thought to himself.

"Well it was nice to meet you Ulysses and you were interesting as always Andrew." With that she stood up and walked away and as she did she called back "When you figure out what you wanted then let me know." Andrew was feeling quite stupid now and still didn't know what he was doing other than getting here before Qrow did. He made a weak smile and waved back at her while Ulysses said

"A pleasure to meet you too Miss Remus." Now he focused on Andrew who was still seated. "She seemed nice, when did you meet her before?"

"A few weeks ago. I was as skillful with my actions then as I was today."

"What do you mean?" Andrew shook his head and stood up.

"Don't worry about it. Let's get out of here before Professor Branchflower kicks us out." They then left the class room with Andrew getting more confused by the minute.

A few days later in the canteen while he was queuing for his lunch he was standing next to Qrow talking to him as they waited.

"How did your little chat with Carissa go then Andrew."

"Badly and I don't know why."

"Well you didn't let me have a chance at her so I just thought you had something important you wanted to say."

"I thought I did but as soon as I got there, it was like my mind forgot why I went over to her in the first place."

"Ha! You idiot."

"You're not the only one who's called me that."

"Ah so Carissa thinks you're stupid as well. So she's on par with the rest of us then." Andrew rolled his head and made a disinterested noise with his throat.

"Remind me why I talk to you again?"

"Because you want to look like you know me. It's alright your only human." Andrew didn't bother replying to him as they were now collecting their food. Andrew waited for Qrow to finish getting his lunch together and then they both walked over to the tables looking for their friends.

"So now you've had time to think about it, what would you say to her?" Qrow asked causing Andrew to almost freeze in place.

"I don't know, hello." Qrow laughed as he shook his head

"I suppose that's a good start, where would you go from there?" After taking a breath Andrew answered

"Something like can we talk, for some weird reason I want to get to know her. Every time I see her now I can help but stare and all I want is just to be next to her." Looking at Qrow who had a stupid smirk on his face he added. "O.K I'm an idiot."

"Not so much an idiot, just naive in certain things such as female interaction."

"What?!"

"I'll explain later, just sit down here." Andrew placed his tray down and then sat into place on Qrow's demand. Once he was seated he was about to start eating when he looked up and didn't recognise a single person around him, then he realised that Qrow wasn't sitting down next to him either.

"Figured out what was so important that you wanted to tell me yet?" The voice came from next to him forcing him to spin his head round only for his eyes to meet Carissa's. He felt himself get warm around his face at the same time as a cold shiver ran down his spine.

"Here's your chance to say it. Good luck." Qrow said in Andrew's ear and walked away to where they were both supposed to be sitting.

You bastard Andrew thought but was immediately brought back to his current situation by Carissa saying

"Anyone home?"

"Sorry, but this is my friends fault. Actually he's my former friend now." He said with a scowl aimed at Qrow.

"I see, what was he doing then?"

"Getting me annoyed." Carissa didn't look impressed at that

"Very well. You can leave if that's the case, I'm not forcing you to stay."

"Not at you at him! Sorry, that came out wrong."

"Not very good with your words are you."

"I'm getting better with practice after speaking with the people here."

"So are you practising with me then?"

"In a way, talking to you gives me some hope that I can talk normally with everyone." She smiled

"You've clearly got some problems." And she continued to eat her lunch. Andrew followed her lead and carried on speaking.

"I really don't know what's wrong with me, I can talk to anyone else just fine but every time I try to speak to you I can't find the right thing to say." Once again, she didn't look happy about what had said.

"You have a problem with me then? What have I done to cause that if you're fine with everyone else."

"Not in the way you think." This changed her look to that of confusion so she asked

"What way do you mean then? I swear you don't make sense." Andrew took a deep breath as he collected his thoughts and decided on what he was going to say. Hopefully this time he could make it through without making himself look like a bigger idiot than he already felt like.

"Right bear with me here." He paused briefly "Everyone else I've met since I came here I've not really cared what they thought about me so I didn't have to watch what I was saying around them, well until recently that is. But even now I still feel the same way when I meet someone new but you. You're different, every time I see you all I want to do is talk to you but I never know what to say because I think I do care about how you view me. But as I've demonstrated I can't help but continue to make as ass out of myself and appear as an idiot as you put it."

There was a long pause and Andrew didn't know what to say next so just continued eating his lunch but at a much quicker pace. Once he was done Carissa still hadn't said a word as she stared at her lunch. Great I've done it again, I've said something stupid. Andrew got up out of the seat and grabbed his tray.

"I'm sorry about that. I won't speak to you again, I promise." As he went to walk away Carissa stopped him by grabbing his arm.

"If you want to chat then why don't we meet up after classes today. Do you know that seating area that overlooks Vale near the cliffside?" Andrew was speechless for a moment and only when she looked up to him did he reply.

"Yeah I know the spot. I'll see you there at the end of the day then." She smiled at him with her face slightly blushing and then went back to eating her lunch. Andrew then walked away not entirely sure of what just happened but decided to go with it. In his state, he wasn't even aware of what he was doing and before he knew it he had walked out of the canteen and back to his room still holding his lunch tray.

"What the hell am I doing." He laughed to himself and walked into the room. Inside was Lauren sitting at her desk reading a magazine as she ate some biscuits out of a packet that was lying next to it.

"Hi Sulky. Good day so far?" she asked still reading the article she was on.

"Yeah good thanks. No great actually. Like really really great." She stopped still, frozen with a biscuit half way between the packet and her mouth. Slowly she turned her head to face Andrew.

"Okay…... that's weird. What happ…" she stopped again when she saw his face stuck in what could only be described as a "smile", a genuine smile.

"I just think I'm having a great day."

"That's a first? Someone's usually pissed you off in one-way shape or form. You keep that face up and Sulky won't suit you anymore." Andrew laughed

"Don't worry about it, you can still call me Sulky. I'm starting to like it now." he said and placed his tray down on his desk and stood there smiling and wondering what had just happened to him and why he was so excited for the end of the day. Before he could ponder it any more he was tackled to the ground with a thud by Lauren and put him into an impressive arm lock of which he couldn't escape.

"Ow! What are you doing!"

"Shut up impostor!"

"Impostor! Have you finally lost it you nut job!?"

"Silence! I know what you are body-snatcher! You've copied Andrew's body and taken his place but you never thought I would notice the difference! That's where you're wrong!"

"Body-snatcher? Where did you get that from? I knew those magazines what screw up your head, what have you been reading now!"

"Hay shut up! I'm asking the questions around here impostor." Andrew grunted as he tried to free himself. He was physically stronger than Lauren but she had better training than him and knew moves that could incapacitate him easily and keep him subdued.

"Right tell me something only Andrew would know."

"You're insane!"

"Nope, not good enough. Try again"

"I hate you!"

"I said something only Andrew would know, half the school knows that one"

"You can't be serious. I'm not an impostor, I'm me!"

"That's just what a body-snatching impostor would say to make me drop my guard!"

"Oh come on! Right how about this then, something only I would know. How about what you told me about your past, that your family were killed by bandits and you were taken captive by them. You nearly gave in but a hunter saved you and now you're here. There satisfied?" Lauren paused

"That's right…..." Andrew sighed as he thought she would let him go now. "How did you find that out! Tell me! Did you read Andrew's mind before capturing him or did you eat his brain! Answer me you monster!"

"Just get off me you damn psychopath!" before anything else happened the door opened and Ulysses walked in.

"Ulysses! Thank goodness, quick I need your help with this thing! It claims to be Andrew but I don't believe it for one second!" Lauren shouted at him

"Excuse me?" Ulysses replied in stunned shock

"Don't listen to her, she's finally flipped! Get her off me!" Ulysses stood there completely confused by the whole situation.

"Don't just stand there help me!" both Andrew and Lauren shouted together causing Ulysses to stammer and not form any words at all until Chris entered the room a few seconds later.

"What the hell are you doing in here? I could hear you both shouting down the corridor." He then caught a glimpse of Ulysses stuck in confusion and Lauren with Andrew in a full body lock. "Did we disturb you two? Are you finally getting long now?" Chris sounded like he'd walked in on a lover's embrace which made Andrew shudder.

"No! She just attacked me and won't let me go! Please you've got to help me!" Chris laughed at the picture before him as Ulysses spoke

"Apparently that is not Andrew, according to Lauren. I do not know what has happened."

"It's not! He was behaving weird so I captured him before he could kidnap all of us!" Chris sighed

"Right let's all calm down. Lauren get off Andrew. Andrew calm down. Ulysses sit down before you pass out." Lauren reluctantly loosened her grip and Andrew pulled himself off the floor as quickly as he could.

"Now that's settled care to explain what brought this on?"

"I have no idea, I came back from lunch and then she decided to pin me to the ground for no reason."

"You are not acting like you. I know you're a doppelganger so I subdued him." Chris rubbed his forehead

"Why would you think that Lauren?"

"When he came in he was happy and not tolerant happy like he normally is but happy happy. You know what I mean? It's not how he usually is."

"Tolerant happy?" Andrew question with Lauren giving him an accusing glare.

"You were happy? Really? What's happened?" Chris asked Andrew.

"Well I was having a good day till crazy lady here tried to interrogate me."

"That is good to hear Andrew. What has made this day so good for you?" Ulysses asked and Andrew paused when he remembered what happened.

"I got talking to a girl from our class, Carissa Remus. She wants to meet up after the school day ends where we can chat properly." The three of them all looked at him with startled expressions until Lauren took a sharp inhale making her almost squeal.

"AWWWW he's found someone he like's and is going for a private meet up! Why didn't you say that in the first place you big idiot!" Andrew felt himself getting angry at Lauren but couldn't do anything about it as Chris slapped him on his back.

"Good job old boy, knew you had it in you. So, what's she like?" Ulysses then interrupted

"She is the girl you were speaking to the other day at the end of history class is she not? Congratulations Andrew, she seemed very pleasant and quite attractive too."

"Really? What's she look like?" Chris asked Ulysses who was about to describe her when Lauren barged in.

"We've got no time for all this he's got a romantic rendezvous to get to! Go! Don't keep her waiting, if she can stand to be around you then she's someone you can't afford to lose!" He was then pushed out of the room by Lauren and into the corridor with the door slamming behind him. A couple of seconds later he said

"What just happened? Wait a minute I'm not meeting her till later why do I have to go now?" he was so jumbled up by what had just happened that he was now standing there at a complete loss as to what he was supposed to do next?

"Guess I'll get to my next class then." He wanted to relax in his room for a while but he didn't want to go back in there, he'd had enough of his team's madness for the time being so walked off to his next class, containing his excitement for the end of the day.