School was over. It was three'o'clock. Ms. Wilson dismissed them, and they roared out of the school in droves. They still had twenty minutes to kill before they had to start walking to the place where signing lessons were held. At the Community Centre, every Monday and Friday afternoon at 3:30.

Moe and Tess were hanging out on the monkey bars.They had ended up in detention. But not because they were late. Because somebody figured out it was them who stuck the frog in the principal's coffee mug.

But then again, who ever put stuff in the principal's mug anyway?

As they watched the other kids leave the schoolyard, first at a heavy pace, then it narrowed down to a trickle of kids who stayed late; suck-ups, washing black boards, and saying whatever the suck-up says; kids who needed extra help; or the odd kid who had gotten afterschool detention.

"Hey Tessa," Moe began, leaning back, and looking down at Tess, who hung upside down on the bars.

" What Moe?"

" Your face is turning red," He pointed out.

" That's because all the blood's rushing to my head silly," Tess replied, rolling her eyes. She looked kind of werid doing that upside down, and Moe told her so." Oh well. I look werid most of the time."

" No you don't," Moe shook his head," You don't look werid Tessa."

" That's what Jordan said this morning," She stuck her hands in her pockets, and grinned up at him," He said I was so werid, always doing strange stuff."

" Jordan's jealous," Moe decided.

" How do you figure?," Tess swung herself upright, keeping her hands in her pockets. She swung back down, and did it again. On swing number three, she pulled her hands from her pockets seconds before she reached the bar. She latched onto it, and pulled herself over to sit upright on the bar, facing Moe.

Moe shook his head at her as she tightened her pony tail and he replied,

" Jordan's jealous because he can't do what you can. Remember the other day, when you walked the whole way around the top of the monkey bars?"

" Well yeah," Tess nodded," I never thought about it like that."

Moe grinned," 'Course not. That's why I'm the idea man."

" Idea man my hind end," Tess muttered under her breath.

Sticking his hands into his pockets, Moe felt a few pieces of paper. Pulling them from his pocket, he saw they were two dollar bills. He grinned, then glamced up at Tess, " Hey, I found a couple of bucks in my pocket. Wanna go get a coke before class?"

" Sure," Tess dropped back so she hung by her knees from the bar again. Moe climbed down the ladder, and went to stand underneath her,

" You have to get down," He told her jokingly.

Placing her hands on his shoulders, she slipped her knees off the bar. Flipping around so she was no longer upside down, Tess lowered herself to the ground. When she was right-side-up, and her feet were planted back on the ground, she glanced up to see Moe staring at her, eyes wide.

" What were you thinking?!," He demanded," You could have fallen on your head!"

" But I didn't," Tess replied carefully.

" But you could have," He protested.

" But I didn't," She repeated," Don't worry."

" Don't worry," He muttered," Don't worry she says."

" I do," She linked her coated arm through his," Come on. You're buying me a coke."