Back in the janitor's closet, Nutty knew he was in trouble when Flaky closed the door a bit harder than usual. She looked at him, but he wouldn't meet her gaze as she stepped closer to him. He looked down at the floor and whispered, "I'm sorry. . ."

When Nutty was finally able to calm down enough to form a sentence that wasn't broken apart by giggling, Flaky was angry with him as she dragged him straight back to the janitor's closet. She wanted to yell at him for basically ruining his chances of having more friends. But when she saw how sad Nutty looked when he said he was sorry, she just sighed.

"I know, it's o-okay."

Nutty looked up from the floor and stared at his friend. Possibly his one and only friend now that he screwed up this bad. He smiled despite all this, looking into Flaky's red eyes.

"I might have ruined any chances of getting any new friends, but at least I still have you."

"At least I still have you."

Flaky blushed slightly at that, but smiled at her friend, "C'mon. We'd better g-get to class before someone f-finds us in here and thinks we're skipping c-class or something.

X X X

"So how are everyone's projects going so far? Remember, you only have a couple more weeks to get it done and then we will be presenting it to the whole class!"

It was seventh hour English after lunch and Flaky had been so preoccupied with her plan to get Nutty to act normal, she had basically forgotten about her and his project. Luckily, they still had a little more time left to ask questions, which is what Flaky did after writing down three questions about Nutty to ask her classmates.

What do you like most about Nutty?

What do you not like most about Nutty?

What is one thing you wish Nutty would change about himself?

She went around the classroom and asked Giggles, Petunia, and Lammy first since they were one of the first people to actually be around Nutty for more than a couple of minutes. After asking the questions, she thanked her friends and went over to Nutty, where he did the exact same thing to them.

Then Flaky went over to ask some of the guys. Flippy, Cuddles, and Toothy all looked bored but answered the questions nonetheless. She was about to go back to where Nutty was and send him over when Flippy stopped her by grabbing her hand.

"Hey Flaky. I got a question for you."

"Y-Yea, what is it?", asked Flaky, blushing slightly at his touch

Now Flaky would never admit this to anyone, but she always had a small, but actually, not-so-small crush on Flippy, what with her and him being childhood friends. Since they entered high school, however, they started to drift apart and that made Flaky sad since she really liked him and she thought he liked her too.

Flippy looked at her, then at Nutty across the room, "Why are you trying so hard to help Nutty? That sugar addict just needs to be left alone."

Flaky frowned, "Well, Nutty is my friend. He needs me."

Flippy nodded and looked away, "I used to be your friend too. I needed you."

"Flippy. . ."

Flippy shrugged and gave her a smile, "But I understand. You do what you gotta do, Flakes."

Flaky nodded and returning the smile, she left and went back over to the desk where Nutty was sitting. Nutty was watching the other two talk and looked at Flaky, "You and Flippy talked for quite a while."

"Yea, sorry."

"What did you guys talk about?"

"Nothing really. Just catching up."

Nutty was about to say something, but then the bell rang out, signaling the end of class and Flaky was gone before Nutty could even blink.

"What's going on with her?"

Nutty sighed as he grabbed his bag and walked out of the classroom and headed to his next class.