At the end of class, Mr. Fitz passed back the Math tests they had taken last Friday. Nattasia's heart started to beat, she hadn't let her grade in math fall below a B+. When Mr. Fitz walked by her desk, he smiled at her and said, "Good Job" Nattasia quickly looked at her paper that read: 96% A

Nattasia felt a giant weight lifted from her, she and sunk down in her chair a little bit, relaxing. There were ten minutes of class left and Mr. Fitz said they could work on homework, or have some free time to chat. Naturally, the class chose to spent the rest of the time talking.

"Hey" Nattasia heard from behind her. She rolled her eyes turned around and saw Jessica, Claire's best friend. They had never talked before, and she had never actually noticed Jessica in her class, like she hadn't noticed Boomer. Nattasia's heart started to beat again, urgh I really don't need shit at this time in the morning she thought.

Instead she plastered a fake smile on her face, "Hi."

"Are you and John Bender like, a thing?" Jessica asked, resting her powdered face on her hand, acting like she was interested.

"Yeah" Nattasia said, like it was no big deal. "Why?"

"Just wondering." Jessica smiled, and flicked her hand at Nattasia, shooing her away. Nattasia looked at her like she was crazy and turned around. She jumped a bit, when she saw Boomer standing in front of her desk. She let out a sigh of relief.

"God Boomer you scared me!" She said, giving him a small smile.

"Cherry there giving you any shit?" He asked, looking over Nattasia's shoulder and made eye contact with Jessica. He winked at her, and she shot back a look of disgust.

Nattasia watched Boomer and laughed, "Eh, doesn't everyone?"

"Tell me about it." He said, chuckling. "What'd you get on your test?" He said, and snatched her paper from her desk. Nattasia rolled her eyes and laned back in her seat as she saw Boomer's eyes grow wide.

"Holy shit. Why are you with Bender if you're making grades like this?" He joked.

Nattasia laughed, and quickly snatched her test back, "He's a good guy." She said, and drummed her pencil against her desk. "What did you get on your test?"

"I'm glad he found someone who thought the same as me." He smiled. "Oh...the usual. 54%. F." He smirked.

Nattasia smiled, "I can help you sometime in the library if you want, during lunch."

"Sure. Maybe I could drag Bender in with me." He smirked, "The library would be a lot more lively with us." He laughed.

"Yeah" She smiled. Just then, the bell rang. "See you around" she said, smiling.

9:22 AM

Nattasia walked into the gym locker room, setting down her backpack in front of her locker. Slowly more and more girls walked in, and the room was filled with chatter. Nattasia began undressing, pulling her gym shorts on, and her shirt. She left her hair down, and walked in front of the mirror to check it. Her hair had grown quite a bit, she was satisfied. It was a little past her shoulders, and the golden brunette curly locks made her stand out from the rest of the girls.

Claire walked into the locker room, laughing with her friend Sabrina. She then saw Nattasia in front of the mirror checking her hair. Jealousy began to fill her mind. Yes, she was more popular than Nattasia, but, her hair was gorgeous. And Claire had to admit, Nattasia was gorgeous. She had never really noticed it before. Claire made her way to her gym locker, a few lockers down from Nattasia. Sabrina's locker was right next to hers, and they usually always talked when getting dressed.

"Hey" Sabrina said to Claire, "Looks like you have a bit of competition." She joked. Claire rolled her eyes.

"Please." She said, "You wish."

Sabrina pulled her straight blonde hair into a ponytail as she spoke, "I talked to Jessica in the hallway, her and Nattasia have Math together. She said she asked about Bender, and Nattasia said yes." Claire stopped checking her makeup in the mirror, and looked at Sabrina. She then looked at Nattasia who was at her locker, putting on some of her bracelets she had found in her backpack. Claire walked over to her.

"Hey!" she said, trying to act friendly. She looked her up and down, Nattasia was about three inches taller than her. She was one of the tallest girls in their grade, at 5'10". Nattasia turned around, surprised to see Claire.

"Uhm...hi?" She said, looking at her like she had a spider on her face.

"I love your hair!" She said, trying to be nice. If she befriended Nattasia, it would make her that much closer to John.

Instead of saying thank you, Nattasia glared at her. "Guess it makes up for my small boobs, huh?" She spat back at her, before walking out of the locker room. Claire stood there, looking rather retarded.

Bitch Nattasia thought. Claire and Sabrina made fun of how flat Nattasia was last Monday, in the locker room. And now she wanted to be all buddy buddy? Hell no. She probably wants to get closer to me so she can talk with John. Nattasia thought. She walked into the gym, and was the first girl there. She usually was. She didn't have to check her makeup, or comb her hair. One of the perks of having curly hair. She didn't have any friends in gym, she only had one friend in the whole grade, and it was Allison Reynolds. Nattasia walked to one of the gym walls, and leaned against it, waiting for the rest of the class to come in. She saw a familiar figure walk in, it was John. Her eyes lite up, and she made eye contact with him. "Hey beautiful" he said, planting a soft kiss on her lips.

"What are you doing here?!" She smiled, as he took her hand and locked fingers with her.

"I guess I got a little too rambunctious with Boomer in my other gym class, I got moved to this period." He smirked. He looked around. "Don't tell me you're the only girl in this class."

"No, the rest are in the locker room." She rolled her eyes.

John laughed, "They'll need all the help they can get from those mirrors. None of them can touch you." He smirked.

Nattasia blushed and pushed him gently, just then the rest of the girls walked in, in one giant mob. Claire was in the middle of it, with Sabrina. Nattasia saw Bender's face grow sour. "I never knew you had Queenie in this class." He said.

"Tell me about it." She rolled her eyes. "She tried to tell me she liked my hair."

Bender laughed, "What's wrong with that?"

"Well last Monday she was a completely different person. She was criticizing me from head to toe." Nattasia grumbled. She then noticed John wasn't in his gym uniform, "Too cool to dress out?" she laughed.

Bender ignored her comment, "If she gives you anymore shit you tell me." He said.

"Ok." She smiled. Just then a loud whistle rang through the gym.

"Girls on this side guys on this side!" Ms. Palmer said, pointing to different ends of the gym. John wouldn't let go of Nattasia's hand, and soon they were the only ones left in the middle of the gym. She looked around, and was trying to hold in her laughter.

"John!" She whispered. "Let go!" He pulled her in and kissed her on the cheek, and finally let go of her hand. She slapped him on the back, laughing and ran to her side of the gym. She was greeted to the other side by Claire's infamous glares.

When gym was over and Nattasia had changed out, she met John in the hallway at recess outside of the gym.

"What was that for?!" She laughed, slapping his arm.

He smirked, "I wanted to let everyone know you're mine."