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Chapter Four--

On A Mission

On the other side of the note was a report card, the grades were D, D-, C, and all grades underneath a B-. The horrible thing was, that it also said "Or worse." So Athena was scared and horrified. Although her grades weren't as good as Eva's she couldn't get bad grades, one because she would be killed by her father and two because her grades meant a lot to her.

We were all afraid of what might happen to Athena if she didn't get Rose Thorn person a date. Yeah, it was definitely Rose Thorn. For the next few days we examined what colors and pens the drones and Poison Ivy used. Ivy used a sparkly purple pen, Joanie used a sparkly purple pen, and Rose was the only one who used a pink pen so it was kind of obvious.

And during homeroom I heard Rose talking about how she needed a date to the dance. Kind of obvious if you ask me.

We all thought about who we could get to go out with Rose. Everyone knew that Rose wasn't a very good girlfriend, in some worlds; people would call her, a 'player.' All because she would go out with one boy for two days, then go out with another boy for two days, and so on. We needed someone who didn't know Rose's history in the dating area.

Then it occurred to us, Zachary. Although Zachary had heard us complaining about Ivy and her drones, it was no surprise that he was who we needed.

At lunch we all sat around Zachary at our round lunch table. "Zachary, you need to do us a favor." I said to him on that Thursday afternoon.

"Yeah sure, shoot." Zachary said in between bites of cold Mac-and-cheese--which he had bought from home.

"Well, you know that note that ended up in Athena's sandwich on Monday?" I asked.

"Yeah," Zachary replied.

"Well we want you to go out with Rose to the dance Friday night." I told him.

"The hot red-head!" Zachary said excitedly.

"No Zachary, that is Ivy Daly, this is Rose, her drone." Athena said rolling her eyes.

"Dang-it. Do I have to?" Zachary said.

"If you don't want Athena to fail." Eva jumped in. She stuttered as she said fail.

"Fine, I will. But she isn't going to be my girl-friend right?" Zachary asked.

"No, only the dance. And if you act like an idiot, she will break up with you half way through the dance." I explained.

"Fine, I'll do it." Zachary said.

"We have a lot to do by tomorrow. Come over to Jem's house this afternoon with all of us, Danny and Chris. They have a lot to teach you about this stuff. You're going to ask her to the dance tomorrow right before lunch. We have her locker number and everything so you will know where to go and look." Athena told him.

I knew that this would work, and Athena's reputation wouldn't be ruined for eternity.

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It was right before fifth period. Rose's locker was across the hall from mine and I made sure that I was there when Zachary made his move. Athena had to rush off to the councilor's office for something so couldn't make it. We arranged that Danny and I would be the only ones in the hall so Rose wouldn't get suspicious about our whole group being there.

It was time. Zachary approached Rose at her locker. Danny and I both tried to look without seeming obvious.

"Hey Rose," I heard Zachary say, "Are you going to the dance with anyone today, because I was wondering if you wanted to go with me."

"Of course, here I'll give you my number," Rose said grabbing his hand, she took a pen and wrote a combination of numbers that we assumed was her cell phone number.

"Great! I'll see you later." Zachary said, then he walked away. Danny followed him. Rose looked at me.

"I assume that it was mostly you who did this, right?" Rose said.

"Well, Athena thought of boys, and I mostly arranged it." I told her truthfully.

"Well, I'm impressed." Rose said, slammed her locker door shut, and walked down the hall to the cafeteria.

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At 7:15 PM all of us except for Zachary met at the front of the school before entering the dance. "I called up Zachary and told him exactly what to wear. When he told me that Rose wanted him to call her, I told him that they should meet at 7:30 PM, just because God forbid that he should actually be on time for the dance." Danny told us, "I heard Poison Ivy talking to Phony Joanie about how since the dance started at 7:00, she and Cameron were going to get there at 7:30, Latin style."

After 5 minutes of talking we all entered the dance just to find Joan and her boyfriend, Terri, slow dancing intensely. Athena and I went to a table and watched the front entrance watching for Zachary and Rose. We saw them enter about five minutes after they're meeting time.

They walked side-by-side to the dance floor and started slow dancing next to Joan and Terri, Rose putting her head on Zachary's shoulder. Zachary noticed us and rolled his eyes, I started laughing and Athena punched me in the arm.

At 9:30 all of us went outside and waited for our parents. After Rose's dad came and picked her up Zachary came rushing to us. "That was the worst dance I have ever been too." Zachary told us honestly.

"I'm not surprised." Danny said punching him in the arm. We all laughed at Zachary and shared what we had done and how to make Rose think that she and Zachary weren't going out. Then our parents all picked us up and we all went home.