"Ok…open you stupid thing!" Mort was complaining. He had picked up a couple of frozen foods the night before so that he could have some awkwardly "decent" meals that he would manage to eat without ruining his appetite. He still had half a bag left of his precious corn and he himself was half hoping that he would be able to run back to his old place and get some more before anyone would notice he was there.

"Is there a trick to this?" he asked himself, tipping the box over to read the bottom. In bold red letters it read: 'Do not turn upside down.'

Quick as a wink, he had it back up straight.

"MORONS!" he yelled out. "You don't put those kind of instructions on the BOTTOM of the box!"

Slightly pissed at this point, he tore the box as well as he could, leaving only half of the cardboard attached, and he pulled out the small tray. Stuffing it inside the microwave, he set it for two minutes before laying on his bed to relax. Hearing the screams come once more from the neighboring room, he rolled his eyes a bit before relaxing, slowly drifting off into a slumber while his rather crappy microwave beeped, sounding the end of the meal…

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"Kristen Bender?"

"Here."

"Raven Dreams."

"Tada."

"Chrysanthemum Johanson."

"Ugh, make that Chrys."

"Calvin Clawson?"

"Here."

"Victoria McAdam?"

"Check."

"John Princeton?"

"Yeah."

"Taylor...umm, Riley?"

"Riehle. Here."

"Cordelia Summers?"

"Present."

"Eleanor Woods."

"Here."

"Doyle Zettler?"

"Yo."

"Er...is this it?" Morton questioned as he looked up from the role call list which had contained many names in which there were others who hadn't shown up to class.

"Yeah," came the African American girl, Chrys, who he had seen in the office that one day. In fact, all of them were there. "No one else comes, they're the Nicotin crew if you get my meaning," she stated before nodding her head towards the direction where there was the school forest which, if it was to be entered at this time, a large group of smokers would be found.

"Oh...okay," he commented, slightly dissappointed. This was going to be the longest hour because lunch was next, so he had to keep them in as long as required, and it was also his smallest group. "Well, where did you leave off?"

"We finished flag football unit last week. We're supposed to be doing...soccer, right?" Raven asked, looking around at the others and Taylor nodded in response.

"Yeah," he agreed. "Then cheerleading," he added as an after thought, grimacing as he himself wasn't a big fan of the sport along with many of the others.

"Cheerleading?" Morton asked skeptically. "So what do you do? Clap, stomp...yell?"

"No, according to the roster we're supposed to be doing stunting, too," Eleanor commented. She was the class assistant, so she was supposed to keep in check with everything. "That means mats and then a video to learn how."

"Oh...okay. Well, good, I guess. Atleast I don't have to teach you the stuff that I don't really know about it. So, now onto a decent sport. Soccer. Alright, captains of the teams. You and...umm...you," he said, pointing out to Cordelia and Kristen.

"I can't," Cordelia said, almost as if she regretted it. "I'm currently, well...short."

The girls all gave a sympathetic look while all the guys, including Morton, looked confused. He himself was thinking that she was on the rather tall side compared to the rest, but at the moment he didn't actually care. "Okay...then you," he said, pointing towards Victoria who hopped up from her place on the floor. After a short game of rock paper scissors, Kristen went first. "Eleanor," she said quickly, giving her friend a smile.

"Calvin," Victoria said quickly, knowing guys were usually taken quickly, so she'd rather have him on her team than on Kristen's. Also, they had always agreed that if they picked teams for things, they would go in alphabetical order to make it fair.

"Taylor," Kristen said, looking over everyone else quickly.

Not caring about quality of team at all, Victoria was quick to claim her friends with a smile on her face. "Chrys!"

"John."

"Raven! Hurry!" Victoria said, jumping excitedly.

"Doyle...uhhh, Mr. Shooter? There's an uneven number," Kristen pointed out, counting those on her team then theirs.

"It's alright, then. I'll play!" Cordelia said with a smile on her face, running up to her friends and she heard Kristen curse under her breath. Cordelia was the best soccer player on their team, and if she was on their team...

"Alright, excellent," Morton commented and set them up to play, waiting as he looked between them all for the hour to end as he decided to choose his first assignment.

That was when, with a gleeful smile, he recognized one of the girls. Raven. She had been that girl in room number seven, he was positive of it. A bright smile formed on his face from the prospect of being closer to his goal. She was his first target, and with her he could get to her friends. Piece of cake.

A/N: Alright, it took me FOREVER to add an update, but I figured that, hey, Christmas Break is here. So I made a chapter for each of my stories and I'm trying to keep updating in them all. I'm just sort of, well, fuzzy with Secret Window. I STILL haven't gotten the movie! Cries. Well, R/R!