Squib sighed, listening to the sound of the tennis ball as he tossed it against the wall.

Thump, thump, thump.

Bored. Completely and utterly bored, that's what he was. And depressed, too. He had gotten a D on his English paper (Wiley was out to get him, he was certain), and played yet another bad match. It was against Sunny, so everyone had pretty much expected it, but it was bad none the less.

Thump, thump, thump.

Not to mention, he had this tingling sort of feeling in the back of his neck that could only mean two things:

1)Bates was near by
Or
2) Cody was alone with Nate somewhere

And Bates was at a meeting, so….

On the other side of the school, two figures sat across from each other in a stuffy, currently document-covered office.

"Thanks again for the help, Cody," Nate said, flipping through the papers in his hand.

"Well, I couldn't let you file staff medical records alone, now could I?" She smiled.

Nate placed his papers on the ground and looked straight at the girl in front of him. Sighing lightly, he spoke, "Okay, so, if I ask you something, you can't get all sensitive and defensive, alright?"

"I guess…" Cody spoke slowly, casting him a suspicious glance.

"You and Squib."

Cody immediately flustered, "What about us?"

"Are you two…back together?"

"Well, no. I thought that was obvious."

"Well, I know, not officially," Nate explained, "but have you progressed into that stage where it's only a matter of time?"

Cody shrugged, "Not that I'm aware of…"

"Do you want to?"

"Want to what?" She decided she was going to make this difficult.

"Do you want to get back together with Squib?" There were times she wished he wasn't quite so forward with her.

"I…I don't know, Nate. I mean, we broke up for a reason, right? So, then, no. But, sometimes I think, if he changed just that little bit, or maybe if I…" she sighed, realizing she was making absolutely no sense. "It's…"

"Complicated," he finished for her. Nate nodded, half shrugging, "Fair enough."

"Nate?" She asked after a moment of silence.

"Mmm hmm?" He looked up again, giving her his full attention.

"…Never mind," she shrugged, smiling sweetly. He nodded once again, and tossed her a grin before returning to his papers. It was nice, she decided. Having someone who just sort of…understood.

"I…just…can't…believe this!" Tanis sobbed.

"I know," Adena comforted her friend, "he's a jerk! Forget about him!"

"I can't!"

"Hey girls, I- WHOA!" Cameron entered the room, completely thrown off by the sight of a crying Tanis. "Is she…okay?"

"No!" Adena stated the obvious.

"What…happened…" Cameron's expression had decreased somewhat from horrified to just slightly afraid.

"She was dumped," Adena whispered.

"Why are you whispering?" Cameron asked. "I don't think we have to keep it from her. It looks like she's heard."

"Shut up!" Adena tossed a pillow at his head.

"Hello!" Tanis choked out.

"Oh!" Adena turned to face her, "Sorry, Tans! I'm gonna go find some ice cream or something! Cameron, stay with her!" Adena, apparently forgetting about her recent paranoia in the wake of such a crisis, took off down the hall.

"Um…there, there? It's…okay? You go, girl?" Cameron tried, awkwardly rubbing Tanis' back.

Instead of bursting into wails, as he had feared, she actually managed a small laugh, her hysterics beginning to subside, "Nice, Cam. Nice."

"So, seriously, you okay?"

"It's just…I thought he really liked me! He was so sweet this summer! And we were so good together! But then this girl answered his cell phone! And he was saying…not exactly platonic things to her in the background! I can't believe it! Say something!" She shouted at him.

"I'm sorry, it's just…hearing you be all girly is kind of freaking me out…." Cam confessed. Tanis rolled her eyes, smacking him upside the head. "There we go," he laughed, "that's the Tanis McTaggart we all know. She doesn't get weepy, she gets violent."

Tanis chuckled, "Yeah, well…sorry for getting all… 'girly' on you."

"Look, Tans, us boys? We're jerks. All of us. Pretty much all of the time. So, on behalf of the male population, I apologize."

Tanis managed a full smile this time, and opened her mouth to speak when the door was flung open and Adena rushed in.

"Okay, so, I managed to swipe rocky road ice cream from Bates' personal stash, and we still have The Notebook out, and-,"

"Adena," Tanis interrupted her frantic rambling, chuckling, "What are you doing? I've got a match tomorrow! I've got to practice!"

"But…I…wha…"

"Come on," Tanis smiled, hopping off her bed and grabbing her racquet, "come hit with me!"

"I…Okay…" As Tanis walked out of the room, Adena turned to Cameron, beaming, "What did you do to her?"

"I don't know!" Cameron answered, obviously amazed.

"Well, whatever it was, you rock, Cam!" Adena exclaimed, bounding out of the dorm after her friend.

"So, look," Nate began as he sat himself down next to Cody. He leaned back casually against the bleachers and waited for the cheering to die down from Squib's latest point before continuing, "I hope that…what I said yesterday…it doesn't make things weird. Because I really don't want things to be weird."

Cody smiled, glancing down at her feet bashfully, "They're not. Weird, that is. It's fine."

"Are you sure? Because I never meant to…"

"Nate," she laughed, "it's fine. You did nothing wrong."

"Okay," he nodded, "good. Because, you know, sometimes girls say they're fine, when they're really not fine, and then we're supposed to know when they're actually fine or faking fine, and…well, it gets messy. But good."

She chuckled, "Good."

"Game, set, match, Tom Gosling!" The commentator announced.

Nate watched Cody's face fall, "I don't get it! He was doing so well!" She sighed, already getting up, "I should go talk to him."

"Uh, yeah," Nate cleared his throat, "you should go…make sure he's alright." Cody nodded once and sent him a small, slightly apologetic grin before heading over to where Squib was seated.

"You okay?" She asked softly.

"Great," he spat back through clenched teeth.

"Look, there's no need to get mad at me! I'm just trying to help," she told him.

"Well, thanks, but wouldn't you rather be with Nate?"

"What does this have to do with him?"

"I saw you two canoodling in the bleachers," Squib said angrily.

"Canoodling? We were talking, Squib! Friends talk!"

"Whatever, okay? I don't need to hear about what the two of you do…"

"Look, Squib, you broke up with me! Or have you forgotten? I was happy with you, I was fine! I didn't want to break up! You dumped me! So you're not allowed to get angry when I show an interest in someone else!"

"So you admit it! You're interested in him!" Squib said in an accusatory tone.

"God, Squib! I don't know, okay? I don't know how I feel! It's-,"

"Complicated," he finished, "So I've heard! Why can't you just make up your mind, Cody? Pick a side? I don't get it…"

Cody sighed, "You never did."

Oh, I can just see all the C/S fans glaring at me now…Well, hopefully my writing is decent enough that you'll all stick around to see how it plays out.

Nova-Janna: Lol, on putting Nate before Squib- Glad to see my 'evil' ship (gee, thanks for the name, C/S fans!) has corrupted yet another!

Has anyone ever heard this song? God, I love it.

Her boyfriend! He don't know! Anything! About her!

She makes me weak….

Hmm, I think I missed a few verses…

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