Chapter Two

Nigel's POV

"Okay Lizzie, I need to go now." I whispered to my girlfriend. If she squeezed my arm any harder, I swear it'd burst off. I love her yes, but sometimes she can just annoy me to no end.

"Okay then Nigey! See you at later." She winked at me. She kissed me on the cheek ad proceeded down the hall. I turned to Hoagie who was giving me a real sarcastic face.

"What?" I inquired.

"So how long you going last this time? Will you be able to make it a week?" He smirked.

"Oh ha, ha."

Further down the hall, Abby was walking with Virginia. I just watched their inaudible conversation subconsciously. "Dude?" A hand was waving in front of my face and I came back down to reality.

"What?" I asked.

"Dude you dozed off for a sec there." Hoagie said.

"Oh right…" I mumbled. "Well we better make our way to Science."

As we proceeded down the hallway to our class we heard a happy and quirky voice that could only belong to none other but Kuki Sanban.

"Heya guys!"

We turned around to see Kuki running straight towards us, a handing waving in the air in front of her. "You guys weren't going to science without me were ya?" She asked just as soon as she caught up to us.

"Oh sorry. We thought you were too busy flirting with Wally." Hoagie winked as he smirked. Kuki just pulled a face at him in a way of a sarcastic laugh.

"Well I recommend we better get to class." I said. "Or Mr. Goggleston will be very displeased that we're late… again."

"Haha right." Nodded Kuki.

As we eventually got to class, we learned that Mr. Goggleston was indeed not here. "Oh phew!" Hoagie sighed relief as he wiped imaginary sweat from his forehead. "We're not late."

"Actually." A girl called out from her seat. "You are. Mr. Goggleston already did the roll and he's just in the next room to get something."

"Ah crap."

"Mr. Gilligan, Miss Sanban and Mr. Uno. How nice of you to join us at least sometime today."

We turned to see the stern and strict face of Mr. Goggleston. He was chubby and he was slightly bald with brown beard with little white hairs, and a set of glasses sitting upon his nose. When he was angry he was angry, so of course Kuki turned on her charm. "Oh we're really sorry Mr. Goggleston. We had trouble opening our lockers and we had many distractions." She said in the sickliest sweet voice. "It won't happen again. If you could just turn the other cheek…?"

"I have been turning the other cheek for quite some time now miss Sanban." His voice was gruff. He wagged a finger to Hoagie "And I'd be watching that language Mr. Gilligan."

"Sorry sir." He tried to grin innocently.

"Just go take a seat."

We didn't wait a moment too soon and scurried to our seats. We opened our books and placed our pencil cases on the desk. "Okay." Mr. Goggleston addressed the class. "Valentines Day is coming up and in the spirit of it; we're going to do a study on the human heart."

"Joy." A random guy called from his seat.

"You see me after class Ace."

"Whatever." He whispered. He turned to Kuki and winked at her. She just scoffed and rolled her eyes. Yeah they have some history together but I'm not going to get into it at the moment.

I just rested my chin on my arms and stared straight ahead as Mr. Goggleston monologue about how the blood pumps through the heart.