Disclaimer: I don't own Newsies*sob* but I do own the DVD *smiles* and I also own all characters you don't recognize from the movie.

A/N: Sorry I haven't updated but I was busy with my other fanfic. Thanks to all of my reviewers.

"Sooo, anyways are you going to buy anything at the book fair?" Manders asked curiously.

"No, I'm broke" Petals said pitifully.

"Hey, Manders, can you help me with this problem?" Farrin asked looking as though she would rather throw her math homework down a drain.

"Sure."Manders said as she began to explain the extremely complex proof.".and then you finish by using CPCTC."

"Ohhh."Farrin said in a completely confused voice.

"You know what, Manders?" Petals said.

"No, what?" Manders said looking confused.

"That was the hardest question in our whole book and yet you managed to say that it was easy. You're despicable." Petals said giggling. This, in turn, made Manders start giggling too.

"Okay, what's all this giggling about?" Lindi said suspiciously, causing the two girls to giggle more.

"Manders being way too smart for our class." Petals said in between giggles.

"Oh, well, thought you might want to know that Shutters is coming back soon." Lindi said waiting for their reaction.

"Really?!" Manders and Petals squealed at the same time.

"Yep."

"When she coming back?" Manders asked curiously.

"'Bout a month or so." Lindi said as the bell rang announcing that they had one minute before homeroom began." Oh, that's the bell gotta go. See ya later," As they waited for their homeroom teacher, who is always late, to come, the girls contemplated leaving for their first class instead of waiting the five minutes or less they would have for homeroom.

"Really, we should just go 'cause we might actually be on time for Bible Quiz, and anyway he just announces to us things we already found out about thanks to our other teachers." Manders said impatiently.

" Yeah but still he'll mark us down as absent and then we'll never get the perfect attendance award." Petals said not willing to ditch homeroom and possibly get detention.

"But, Petals, you already have three absences."

"Yeah but you don't, and it doesn't matter 'cause there's Mr. Kerley." Petals said pointing him out.

" Oh, fine." Manders said in a defeated tone.

"Hey, Petals can I talk to ya at lunch?" Race said after Mr. Kerley let them out of homeroom.

"Uh, sure" Petals said as she blushed slightly, wondering what Racetrack might want to talk to her about.

"How 'bout that," Manders said with a smile " your crush finally decided he wanted to talk to you about something other than homework, hopefully. Ouch!! Why'd you do that for?" rubbing her arm where Petals had hit her.

"Because you are so mean," Petals said feigning hurt, "anyways it's about time!"

If you liked this story check out my other fanfic The Unexpected ( sorry I just had to)