When Portman's alarm went off the next morning he opened his eyes to see Fulton already up and dressed. That was a rarity, normally in it takes the A bomb going off in their room to rouse him from slumber.

"So how'd it go last night?" He sat on the edge of his bed the way Julie had so many times trying to get Guy gossip out of Connie

"Oh dude don't ask." Portman rolled over and faced the wall

"It couldn't have been that bad."

"Oh no?" He rolled back over to face his friend "She laughed through the whole movie."

"Maybe she thought it was funny." Fulton said in duh manner

"It was a Vin Diesel movie!" The larger bash brother exclaimed

"Oh."

"Then the top it all off, it wasn't even like a cute little giggle most of the time. The chick snorted, it was like being out with Mss Piggy! Damn she's annoying."

"So you're not gonna go out with her again huh?"

"I probably will."

"You just said…" Fulton was confused until his roommate cut him off

"That I don't like her and she annoys me. But I gotta be with someone it might as well be Sierra. She likes me and the type of chick I'm suppose to date. Lord knows I'll never be good enough for…"

"Don't say it Portman."

"Samantha"

"Ahhh, you said it. You're like the Samantha Wyatt network man, all Sam all the time. She's not that great."

"Yeah she is."

When the two made it down to breakfast Sierra was seated at the Duck's table. The guys were all eyeing her like a piece of meat, the girls glaring ready to pound her into dead meat.

"Is there any reason you're sitting her?" Cat leaned around Charlie who was practically drooling over the ditzy girl.

"Well, all you guys sit here and eat with your boyfriends, so I'm gonna eat with mine." She bubbled

"When did you start seeing a Duck?" Julie's voice was bitterly cold, she'd hated the red headed cheerleader since Sierra stole Scooter from her in ninth grade.
"Last night, I'm seeing Portman now."

Connie's face contorted into a disgusted expression.
"Gee I always thought he had better taste then that."

"Connie." Guy gave her a look of utter shock and she closed her mouth and nestled her head on his shoulder

Portman groaned upon noticing Sierra and debated skipping breakfast to retreat and hide. No ham and cheese omelet was worth spending the next half hour with her. That was ludicrous a big buy like him hiding from a tiny little peanut of a thing like her. So pulled out his chair, turned it around and straddled it, avoiding the looks from the rest of the team.


Portman did a pretty good job of eluding Sierra for the rest of the day. The only classes they had together were third period Geometry which he was lucky enough that Charlie had called a team meeting during and sixth period Life Science. Life Science he wasn't getting out of however.

"Class take you're seats." Mrs. Potter stood in front of the class adjusting her coke bottle glasses. The students moaned and settled into their assigned seats eyeing the sheet on the table behind her. It was covering something. "Now I'm sure you all remember last week when I asked you to write down the name of in the class you could see yourself marrying. Anyone who had matching answers have been paired already so… Guy Germaine and Connie Moreau, Carly Epson and Adam Banks, Tara Walker and Billy Gray, Charlie Conway and Cat Rayson, David Crusher and Katie Smith and Luis Mendoza and Emily Boyer. Now the rest of you have been paired at random Delilah Butters and Greg Goldberg, Les Averman and Tiffany Montgomery. Sierra Morton and… Paul Austin and Dean Portman and Samantha Wyatt. Congratulations you are all now married. Please take a spot near your spouse and one person from your group please come up and take your child." The teacher removed the sheet to reveal a large number of sacks of flour. Life couldn't have been better for Portman, not only was he not working with Sierra but he was now married to the girl of his dreams, with a child. Life was great.