"I can't believe they are already talking about the Fall Dance Royalty nominations already. The dance isn't until another 5 weeks and the official ballots don't come out until 4 weeks from now." Marco said as he chopped on some fries.

"Well this gives me a perfect amount of time to do some campaigning. I will be crowned the queen this year." Paige said sipping on her coke.

"Who will be your king?" Marco asked.

"Anyone but him." Paige said glancing up as Spinner walked over.

"What about me?" Spinner asked as he took a seat next to Marco.

"We were just talking about the Fall Dance and how Paige is going to win." Marco said with a smile. Spinner snorted.

"What? You don't think I'm worthy to be queen Spin?" she asked raising an eyebrow.

"No it's not that. I was just remembering last year when you lost to Heather Sinclaire and you had that hissy fit in the middle of the dance."

"Oh yea and when she threw the bouquet of flowers on top of Heather's head." Marco said laughing.

"And when she dumped the punch on Liberty." Jimmy chimed in as him and Hazel took a seat at the table.

"Ok ok. So I had a minor meltdown but that was because that dance was rigged. This year I'm a sure win. I could win this thing with one arm behind my back. Hell I could even get any guy to be my king." Paige said with a laugh. Jimmy, Marco, Spinner, and Hazel looked around at each other with smiles. Paige looked at them she knew what they were thinking. "No, I was just kidding guys."

"Paige how about we make wager." Jimmy said.

"What kind of wager?".

"If we pick out a guy you have from now until the dance to make him Royalty king. If you are successful you win 200 bucks."

"And if I'm not?"

"You will have to come to school Monday wearing nothing but a paper bag." Jimmy said with a laugh. Paige smiled. She was confident with this bet so she agreed.

Jimmy searched around the lunch room. "How about Toby?" Jimmy said pointing.

"No, that is too easy and an obvious choice." Marco said. They kept looking around the room.

"I have someone, how about Jay?" Spinner said with a smile. They all looked over at Jay. Surprisingly he was alone sitting at a table eating his lunch while reading a car magazine. Usually he was attached at the hip or lip with Alex or surrounded by his hood friends. Paige turned back.

"No way, that is like mission impossible." Paige said.

"It's too late Paige you agreed. Jay is the man. Now go talk to him." Jimmy said smiling. Paige sucked in a deep breath and exhaled. She stood up and walked over to Jay.

"Can I help you?" Jay said continuing to eat and read with out looking up at Paige.

"Why are you sitting here all alone?"

"Why do you care?" he said still looking down at the magazine.

"Just making a simple observation that is all."

"Well if you must know lunch room monitor. The guys are at the shop finishing up a project and Alex and I broke up. Now go make your observations else where."

Paige ignored his request and continued on.

"But you guys were just together in homeroom." She said with a curious look.

"Your point is?" he said growing annoyed

"Oh nothing I just thought it was strange anyways..I was just thinking. We have been in classes together and we never talked so I decided lets put aside our differences and be civil to one another." Paige said with a forced smile. Jay looked up and looked over at Paige's lunch table who were all staring over then he looked at Paige.

"You really expect me to believe that? Unlike your posse of mindless sheep over there, I don't have stupid stamped on my head." He said gesturing over at the table. "Now let's cut to the chase princess, what is it that you really want?" Paige took a seat in front of him and thought for a moment. She knew she had to word this perfectly in order for it to work.

"Ok, the real deal is I have a bet going on with my friends. There is 200 dollars on the line. If I get you to become king at the Fall Dance I win and get the cash. And if I don't I will face public reticule on Monday. So I was thinking.." Jay cut her off.

"You were thinking that I would be oh so gracious and agree to participate in this fun little ol bet that people like you find all so amusing messing around with people who you believe are below you heads."

"No..No. it's not like that." Paige tried to explain.

"Then tell me doll face," he said as he gave her a playful nudge on her face. "What is it like?"

"This will give you the perfect opportunity to make Alex extremely jealous and win her back. It will also give you the chance to prove to people there is more to you than your bad boy exterior." Jay thought about it. He knew that she was right but he wasn't going to give her the benefit of the doubt of being right.

" And I would want to do that because? How about I just do this for the money. You give me $175 of the $200 then we have a deal."

"But that would only give me $25 dollars."

"You catch on quick spirit stick. They must of taught you something at pom pom camp. But this is my final offer. Take it or leave it." He said getting up. Paige sighed. She knew that she would have to agree in order for this to work and she couldn't stand the chance of losing.

"Fine. But you will have to listen to my every instruction."

Jay snorted. "Well see about that." He said as he walked away.

Paige returned to her table. "So how did it go?" Hazel asked as she returned. Paige took a seat and rested her head on her hand.

"Great. Just great."