"Well class, it's Wednesday and that means that instead of going to your lunch periods, we're going to have our first lab class. So during fourth period today I want you all to meet on the third floor in room 357," Mrs. Levine announced at the beginning of class. She opened her binder to check up on the lesson plan before writing notes on the board.

"Hey Theresa," Zero whispered, "You're still my partner?"

Theresa slowly turned her head to look at him. She couldn't say no, she'd already promised to be his partner. But she did take into consideration what her friends said. It's only once a week… "Yeah, I made a promise to you, remember?"

Zero smiled, "Right."

"OK, so far did anyone not sign their Delaney card?" It was Global class and X-Ray looked extremely bored. Here he was a junior, one of the oldest kids in the class, and sharing a class with sophomores and freshman. It wasn't until now that he decided to take Global 2 seriously before he repeats it.

The teacher, Mr. Cameron, went on, "Today you guys are gonna be getting your textbooks. I advise you to take good care of them before you end up paying fifteen dollars. These books are going to be used to study from and to do your homework. I want you all to do well in this class before you end up like the kids who didn't take this class seriously from the beginning." He nodded towards X-Ray who could only roll his eyes.

"Man, why you gotta put me on the spot like that," X-Ray asked. Not like he was mad or anything. He just got tired of hearing the same things from everybody. "I know what I did wrong, damn."

"Rex, no one's putting you on the spot," Mr. Cameron said, taken back by X-Ray's outburst.

"Yeah, no one but you," X-Ray retorted. Now this idiot is trying to tell me that I'm wrong. Wow… Mr. Cameron sat at his desk and took out a piece of paper which Rex knew was going to be either for detention or a trip to the dean. Might as well keep going, he thought."And look at you, wanting us to get a good education and good jobs while you have a bad job yourself." A couple of kids started to snicker.

"Rex that's enough," Mr. Cameron replied, he walked over to X-Ray's desk and handed him a late pass. "Adrianne, can you please escort him to the dean's office?"

X-Ray rolled his eyes, grabbed his things, and headed towards the door not even waiting for the girl to get up out of her seat.

Theresa and Zero entered the lab room right after each other and took their seats next to each other. She turned her head, trying to avoid contact with him like she told her friends she would. But there were some times when she just had to look at him. Whenever he noticed, he'd smile and she couldn't help but smile back.

If only he wasn't so cute! They took their lunches out and set it on the table.

"What do you have today," He asked, taking the contents out of his brown bag.

She felt like a kindergartener but she answered anyway. Looking into her bag, she frowned as she saw a salami sandwich with too many slices of salami, a bag of potato chips, and a can of soda. "My mom packed it."

"Same here," he replied taking out the same contents minus the salami sandwich, he had peanut butter and jelly. "You know, I don't even like peanut butter and jelly."

She raised her eyebrows and looked at him like he had just said the dumbest thing in the world. "I freaking love PB and J! Here…" She took his sandwich and exchanged it with his.. "I hope you like salami."

He smiled, looking down at his new sandwich, "I like it much better than peanut butter and jelly." They began to eat their lunches until the class had come to order and they had to count their heart rate for the lab.

As soon as they finished, they had a good ten minutes left of the period. The two just sat quietly, while everyone else was either talking to old friends from elementary school, talking to the teacher and trying to get on her good side, or were either taking a nap from lack of sleep the night before.

"So…" He mumbled.

What Theresa was really wondering about was how someone as nice as Hector could end up in a juvenile delinquent camp. Maybe they were just rumors, maybe they weren't true. But there was only one way to find out. "So, uh, h-how'd you spend your summer?" OK, maybe that was a BIT too obvious…

"Oh…" He nodded. It wasn't the first time that someone had started a conversation like that and he knew exactly what she was thinking. Why else was she ignoring me earlier! "So you heard about me and my friends being in juvie, huh?"

She sadly nodded. "Sorry, it's just you didn't seem like the kind of person to be sent to a place… like… that. Hey, I'm sorry, I just… Sometimes my mouth goes off before I get a chance to think. You don't have to say anything if you don't want to. It's just that it's been in my head for a couple of days and at first I didn't think it was true so I asked. Please don't hate me if you don't want to talk to me it's ok, that was a pretty weird question to ask anyway…"

The end of his lip started to curl as he was thinking how cute it was that she rambled when she was nervous. He then started to shake his head, "Nah, its ok, don't worry about it."

Theresa let out a sigh of relief, "So, why were you sent to juvie?"

Looking down, "I stole a pair of shoes," He replied simply. Not that he could say anything more or add to it. He was telling her the truth. After a couple of moments, he looked up at her face to see her nodding. He was surprised, if anything, to notice that she was actually giving him a chance. She wasn't like other girls, she didn't push him away, and was someone he could talk to.

"I stole a doll once," she replied just as simple as he did. "My mom made me return it though when she saw me playing with it…"

He smiled again, she is definitely not like any other girl I've met before. "Gangster Theresa, call the cops!"

She playfully swatted him on the arm, "Shut up!"

BRIINNNGG! End of 4th period.

"So I'll see you around Theresa," he said, gathering his belongings and putting them away in his backpack. "Later."

"Bye," she smiled and walked to her next period class.

"Bad girl, Tee," Sam smirked at her best friend who was eating lunch with her and Adrianne who was also the girl who didn't have this lunch period. "Cutting class?"

Theresa rolled her eyes, "I didn't get to finish my lunch during lab and I couldn't eat it during this period's class. So, I'm here now, eating."

"Ooh," Adrianne cooed, "What were you too busy doing? Did you already find a boyfriend?"

She shook her head. "No, but you know that Hector kid you guys were talking about?" She watched as Sam and Adrianne nodded. "He's not bad, he's not bad at all. Actually, we spent most of last period talking. He's cool."

"I think you like him," Sam sang and smiled as Theresa went red. "You like him!"

"I do NOT," Theresa retorted. "Anyway, are you two going to that basketball game tomorrow night?"

"Probably," Sam replied, taking a bite out of her sandwich. She started chewing and after swallowing she continued to tease her friend some more, "Why, is Hector playing?"

Adrianne smiled, "Yeah, do you want to cheer him up in the front row?"

Theresa rolled her eyes, "No… I just. I just… don't want to stay home on a Friday night."

"Sure," Sam and Adrianne smirked.

Author's Note: OK I know I haven't updated this story in a while. But, my computer was broken this whole summer, meaning no internet access, and we had just decided to fix it on the 7th. But during that time I wrote a lot of chapters. So, if I get 5 reviews, I'll post another chapter.