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Monday, January 4th, 2010 was the first day back from winter vacation.

At the lunch table, Brooke, Katherine, and Johanna were waiting for Megan and Toby to get out of the lunch line.

"This afternoon's my first day on the job!" Johanna said. "I can't wait!"

"Oh, yay! Good luck!" Brooke said.

Megan and Toby walked up to the table. They set their trays down and sat down.

Katherine looked at Toby's food.

"Toby… wait a minute. Think about what you're about to eat."

He looked down at his tray. "It's lasagna. So what?"

"It's pasta. It's got tomato sauce."

"Oh. Yeah. Hey, Megan, can we switch lunches?"

She replied, "Sure. I don't like crispy chicken at school. It's not crispy and I'm not entirely sure it's chicken."

Their friends laughed.

"What?! It's true! School food is toxic to your health!" she continued.

"Toxic, due to extreme cheapness!" Brooke said. "At least we can afford more stuff, other than food, here. Fairvale's a small town school, but at least it's better than Central High!"

Johanna asked, "Why? What's wrong with Central?"

Katherine told her, "Central is really cheap. There are a lot of dropouts, druggies, and alcoholics. There are even more sluts and teen mothers there. At least, here in Fairvale, people are concerned, and that's why Megan and Toby got help."

"Yeah. The only reason everyone's so concerned for our generation," Megan said. "Is because of my future father-in-law."

"Yeah, and apparently they don't like child alcoholics here," Toby said.