Mrs. Adeer came into the room with a smile. I could almost hear the boys sighing. She has long brown hair and green eyes, she's about 30, and all the guys like to impress her. As soon as she came to the front, Darrin started messing with his hair. "Good morning, kids," Mrs. Adeer said pleasantly. "I see we have some new faces." The Avatar people looked up. "Would you mind introducing yourselves?"

They played their parts perfectly, Katara going first. "My name's Kara." Then Sokka said, with some difficulty, "I'm...uh...Sam." Zuko was all grumbly, slouching in his seat and glaring at me because I wouldn't let him firebend. "Zu...I mean, Zach." Surprisingly, when it was Jet's turn, he answered very politely. "I'm Josh, but my skate name is Jet."

Here things got a little bit harder.

"You mean like the Jet on Avatar?" Owen pushed his glasses further up his nose and stared at Jet. "Uhm...yeah, I guess." Darrin grinned at me and we did a high-five. He'd saved himself.

Last was Aang. "Hi, I'm Alan." Mrs. Adeer nodded and smiled. "Well, we're always glad to meet new people, aren't we, class?"

Yeesh, Mrs. Adeer may be pretty, but honestly, we're not in first grade!

English class dragged on for about 45 minutes, then we were let out to go to Math. "Oh, man, I hate algebra." Andy wasbeside himself with worry. "What's algebra?" Aang looked eager to learn about this new thing. Darrin provided the answer. "Well, it's letters and numbers all mixed into a problem. You solve it by figuring out what the letter stands for." "Wow, it must be hard," Katara said thoughtfully. "You have no idea." Kayla checked her white-blond hair for split ends. "So at lunch we go to our respective corners, right?" I nodded. "Correct. Jet comes with us to the skateboarder's table, and the rest of you go where your clubs sit." Darrin and I had made sure they got that good. If you sit out of place, the penalty is DEATH.

Katara's (Kara's) POV

At lunch, Syd showed me to the science club table. There are about 7 people in it, and they all looked up and waved as I approached. "Hey there, I heard you're joining the science club," said a tall girl with short black curls. I found out later her name was Hallie. "Yeah, and I think I'll really like it." I took a seat near the edge of the table beside a short girl with glasses, a rather narrow face, long blond hair, and big brown eyes. "New members are always welcome," she said quietly. I smiled at her. "My name is Kara." In front of me, a boy with bright green eyes grinned. "And I'm Ted." The other four were Jackie, Skylar, Ray, and Calvin. Fortunately they were happy to see me, and we chatted the rest of lunch.

Zuko's (Zach's) POV

I sat with the 'jocks', they accepted me, and they want me to play the foot-ball with them. How you get a ball on your foot is beyond my ability of deciphering, so I decided to have Jon explain it to me later.

That is all there is to say.

Sokka's (Sam's) POV

Sydney made a big mistake putting me with a tablefull of loud, over-projecting idiots. They use huge words, they talk too loud, and the president, this girl named Janessa, makes us go over our 'parts' even as we eat. I DON'T HAVE ANY STUPID PARTS! Whatever in the world they are anyway...

Aang's (Alan's) POV

I really like this chess club. At first, I got a little confused about all the game pieces, but I got the hang of it. I just can't airbend, though! Whenever I played with Gyatsu it was easier to CHEAT!

Jet's (Josh's) POV

What IS a POV, anyway?

Oh, yeah. Personal Overview. Got it.

Me and the skaters ate and talked. It was pretty interesting, except for how they talked. Who's Dr. Pepper and why is he in a can? What is a Kit-Kat? A cat mixed with a baby fox!

But anyhoo, I especially like Syd. She's got long red-black hair and pretty green eyes. A few times she caught me staring at her, and she'd look at me like I was crazy, then grin at me. I like Syd.

Back to Syd's POV

Well, the rest of school breezed by. Afterwards was the usual: Darrin had to go home and do his homework IMMEDIATELY by order of his strict mother, Jon had to meet his dad at work, Kayla had to go home and walk her Great Dane named Waddlesworth, and Andy had to play B-ball with his little brothers. And me, I had to hurry home and get everyone (you know very well who) into the basement before anyone saw. After saying hi to my folks, my oldest sister Alyson, my little brother Greg, and my littlest sister Katri (Katrina), I headed into the basement to play my drum set.

I sat down and started to play the intro of a song I couldn't get out of my head. As I pounded away, Jet came over and watched me awhile. Aang was airbending some paper oragami, Katara was looking at a book, and Zuko was trying not to look interested in the song he and Sokka listened to on my Ipod, but he was.

I finally quit playing to rest my arms. "Hey, you're really good," Jet remarked with that cute smile of his. (Cute smile! Aaargh!) "Thanks," I said, blushing a little. "Tell, me, why do you always stare at me?" He did not answer for a few seconds, then sat down next to me (the stool is a piano stool; the proper stool broke) "Well...'cause you're pretty."

Here I REALLY blushed.

"Um...thanks."

I noticed he was rather close to my face. Gaagh.

"Uh..." He did not seem to have anything to say now. I just sat there, so red I looked like a fire ant. But to my surprise, I was leaning closer, too.

Were we going to...gulp...kiss?

Hah! Cliffies!