In the school computer room, someone found the main computer and place a TMB virus on it. The TMB virus consisted video edited version of Tania McBruce, with a digital edited voice of her insulting Principal Hopkins. The mysterious figure smiled evilly.

XxoxX

In the morning, Tania was arriving at school, being admired by all the nerds, including "Hey, Christian" Tania replied as she blushed, "How's the computer club?"

"Great" Christian replied, "Except, someone just put a funny looking virus with you in it, insulting Principal Hopkins"

"Would Tania McBruce report to the principal's office," asked Principal Hopkins on the intercom.

Tania didn't know what was going on.

In her office, Principal Hopkins was very angry at her, "Earlier today," she said, "One of the students gave me a video of you insulting me."

She showed the video of Tania insulting Principal Hopkins, "Am I going to think that Hopklumsy is the best principal in Pennslvania" asked the fake Tania, "If you ask me she has a brain the size of a wart."

Tania was horrified by this, "It's not me Principal Hopkins" Tania replied, "I know that there are security cameras around the school, but I wouldn't insult a member of the school board."

"I heard that all the time with Mr. Hayato and The Zand Twins" Principal Hopkins growled, "As of this moment, you're suspended for two weeks."

Tania was terrified by this. This means she's going to miss out on the decathlon team, the audiovisual club, and the astronomy club.

XxoxX

By the time she got home, she saw her adoptive mother there. Instead of being angry at her for insulting Principal Hopkins, she rushed and hugged her youngest daughter, "You don't think I insulted Principal Hopkins" asked Tania as she started to cry.

"Sweetie" Miss. McBruce replied, "I know that studying is important to you and you want to show the importance of education, but I couldn't let you miss out on your clubs and your activities. Whoever is behind the insult scheme, you and the Kirby Klue Queens will do it together."

Tania smiled, "Your right mom," she said, "We'll find a way out of this mess."

XxoxX

Later that night, Tania was working on her Bollywood dancing in her bedroom when she saw Peter by her door, "Peter" she said, "What are you doing here."

"Leah invited me" Peter replied, "She told me about your suspension and suspects that someone is trying to set you up."

"Why are you helping me," Tania asked, "Usually you help Leah out of jealousy of Issac."

"Your my sister's friend," Peter said, "And friends help friends, even if there the different gender."

"Thank you Peter" Leah replied as she came in Tania's room, "But how are we going to get Tania back to school without any of the guards noticing her."

Peter smiled, knowing that he has a plan involving theater arts.

XxoxX

The next day, Tania was dressed up like a boy to sneak back into the school. She didn't have her glasses on and her hair was in the beanie Peter loaned her, "I feel sweaty"

"Hey" Peter replied, "You'll get used to men's clothes."

Kirby was inside Leah's backpack, so he can help look for clues. Leah placed her backpack down and unleashed Kirby, "Okay Kirby" whispered Leah as she patted, "Try to find any clues in the computer room without Principal Hopkins catching you"

"Poyo(You got it, Leah)" Kirby whispered as he rolled off.

Inside the school, she saw that Christian dropped his books. Without a choice, Tania helped him "Let me help you with that" Tania replied in a deep voice.

"She's doing good with the man's voice" whispered Peter.

"Thanks" Christian replied, "Do I know you"

"My name is," Tania said in a deep voice, "Tristen, I'm an exchange student from India and I'm trying to adapt my life here in America"

"Welcome to The States Tristen" Christian replied as he took off to class.

Peter was confused about the name she picked, "Tristen?" asked Peter in a whisper

"He was the leading male in the book series I'm reading called, "Kiss Friendship" by Chandika Munshif." Tania whispered.

"That lame-o" Peter whispered

"Chandika is a brilliant author" Tania whispered, "I read all her novels."

"Who's the leading lady," asked Peter.

"Her name is Sophia" Leah explained, "She's a biracially Indian girl who moves to Washington DC from India to connect with her mother's roots after her father mysteriously disappeared at sea."

"I'm sorry to hear about Sophia" Peter replied.

"Let's focus" Leah replied, "Who would want to frame Tania for the whole charade."

Tania thought back to anyone who would hold a grudge against her, besides Billie.

"I know only three people who would hold a grudge against me," Tania said, " Theodore from by Audio Visual club, Hackpath, he's in my computer classes and Easton from my photography class."

"Now we got our suspects," Leah said, "We solve the mystery. I have Theodore in my drama class, I'll interview him."

"Call digs on Easton " Peter whispered, "He's in Paige's Ecology Club."

"Hackpath and Christian are lab partners" Tania explained, "So I'll do him. I just hope he doesn't recognize me."

In science class, Tania quickly recognized Kaylin and whispered, "Kaylin" whispered, "I'm glad your here."

"You look familiar," said Kaylin, "And how did you know my name."

"It's me" Tania whispered as she placed her glasses on.

"Tania," asked Kaylin, "What are you doing dressed as a boy."

"I'm trying to clear my name" Tania whispered, "We'll explain the situation to Estrella, Rylie, and Paige later."

"Right" whispered Kaylin.

Tania looked around to see Christian talking to a cyberpunk nerd with dyed red hair, he was one of her tutoring students, "Nicely done Hackpath" Christian replied, "We're sure to get an A on out astronomy project in no time."

"Exactly" Hackpath replied, "This is going to make good inspiration for my student film."

Tania couldn't help but look at him lovingly, much to Christian's annoyance, "Could you tell the new guy, "Tristen", I'm not gay" Christian replied, "I'm straight."

"Hey New Guy" shouted Hackpath, "Christian here is straight, so he's out of your league."

Everyone laughed, except for Kaylin.

XxoxX

In the hallways later on, Tania and Kaylin found Kirby with a plastic bag in his hand, and in the bag was a lock of red hair. Kaylin examined it and knew that it was dyed and not natural, "I just hope the hacker doesn't frame Rylie either," Tania whispered. "She'll wrestle him/her."

Kirby was looking around when she saw Isla reading a "Kiss Friendship" book. He walked up to Isla and both read it together for a little bit.

"You know something?" Tania said to Kaylin in a whisper. "I never realized that Sophia was like Leah: daring, adventurous, and helping the needy. You're just like Tristen: lazy and messy but meaning well. And Issac is like Anthony: loyal to the school and being on the decathlon team. Tristen got picked because you're helping me and we're friends."

XxoxX

Meanwhile in the gym, Peter caught up with Easton, who was African-American and had short dreadlocks. "Hey, East," he said. "How's the latest ecology assignment?"

"It's, like, totally tubular," Easton answered. "I, like, got an A- on my electricity assignment."

"Rad," Peter said."Now, where were you two nights ago?"

"I was at work at the local Japanese restaurant, Genji's Gourmet," explained Easton. "I saw Hackpath coming in talking to his Japanese pen pal saying, 'To a friendship like ours. Your love makes me happy'."

XxoxX

During lunch, Leah, Kaylin, Tania, and Peter were discussing on how many clues they got. "So far," Peter said, "Easton told me that Hackpath was saying in Japanese, 'Watashitachi no yōna yūjō ni totte. Anata no ai wa watashi o shiawaseni shimasu' (To a friendship like ours. Your love makes me happy)."

Tania quickly recognized that line from "Kiss Friendship"; it was the same line that Tristen told Sophia before their first kiss. "Why would they be interested in 'Kiss Friendship'?" asked Tania.

"On that we need more clues," whispered Leah. "I texted Estrella, Rylie, and Paige about what's going on. I knew Peter wouldn't be able to keep a secret fast."

"Come on, I keep plenty of secrets," Peter replied, "like the time I told Martin about how my friend Hoodster sleeps with a night light because he's scared of the dark."

"You blabbed that out last summer," recalled Leah. "You're not good at keeping secrets."

Paige, Estrella, and Rylie arrived at their lunch table and were surprised on Tania's manly disguise. "I know this is lame," Tania replied, "but this is the only way I can get in without Principal Hopkins finding out."

"I'm sorry you, like, had to go through that, man," Paige said. "You know my brother wears the dirtiest clothes."

"I was in my clothes 2 days a month," replied Peter. "It's the manly way."

As the others were disgusted, Rylie found a piece of paper on the ground. All it said was,

Tonya

Captain System, we're heading out to the Bonsai System.

Captain System

Perfect, now will track down Overlord Shogun and bring him to justice.

Tania knew that it was a script from Hackpath's student film "Hacking the Hottie," and that the names "Tonya" and "Tania" were similar.

"Sometimes," Leah replied, "watching too much fiction can give you crazy ideas."

"You have to pay hundreds to print out an entire script from the library," Tania explained.

"Let's go back to the source of the problem-" Rylie said, "-the computer room."

XxoxX

In the computer room, Tania found a familiar book. "It's one of my 'Kiss Friendship' books," she explained. "This isn't just any version of 'Kiss Friendship'. This is the bilingual Japanese version in the original print. There are only 300 made, and it's collectible."

Tania looked in the book to see if it was hers.

Property of Tania McBruce

"It *is* my book!" Tania exclaimed. "I must've left it at the library last week while tutoring for filmmaking."

"Wait a minute," Leah asked in realization. "Japanese?"

"Astronomy?" Tania asked.

"Video editing?" Peter asked.

"Guys," Leah said to her friends, "I strongly think that Hackpath framed Tania."

"Nicely done, Leah," Hackpath said as he closed the door. "Tania has been the best student in video editing of the Audio Visual Club. I've been the star, so I decided to frame her to keep my title as best video editor."

"It's the football incident all over again," Rylie recalled.

In his pocket, Peter got out some sushi he saved from lunch. "Suck it up, Kirby dude," whispered Peter as Kirby quickly sucked the sushi, turning him into Backdrop Kirby.

With a quick backdrop, Kirby tossed Hackpath through the window. Principal Hopkins was there at the same time doing her daily inspection of the school, hoping to see that everything was in order, although she wasn't happy about Kirby breaking the glass at school. "Mr. Kirby," she growled, "we have a strict destruction of public property policy here at Lititz Heights High."

"It was my fault, Principal," Peter said. "We were trying to clear Tania's name."

Tania couldn't keep up the sweaty/dirty clothes and the charade anymore, so she removed her hat and placed on her glasses. "Ms. McBruce," Principal Hopkins asked, "You've been framed?"

"She has," Estrella said. "Hackpath wanted to keep his title as video editor in the AV Club."

"Our first clue was the strand of red hair in the computer room," Leah explained. "Of course, thanks to Kaylin's styling techniques, we knew that it was *dyed* red and not *natural* red."

"The second clue was speaking Japanese to a pen pal and with lines from the book," Peter explained.

"And our third clue was the script of Hackpath's film project for the Audio Visual Club here," Tania explained. "It was called 'Hacking the Hottie'. This gave him the idea to frame Tania. It also had some astronomy terms and Japanese phrases in it."

"Darn my bilingual habits," Hackpath said.

"Don't worry," Principal Hopkins replied. "I don't want any expulsions between now and the end of the year. So you'll spend every day after school in detention until summer break starts."

"What about the window?" asked Peter.

"Don't worry, students," Principal Hopkins said as she grabbed Hackpath by the arm. "We overstock on some money at our annual book sale, so the leftovers will cover for the damage."

Everyone was relieved by Principal Hopkins letting them go.

XxoxX

Friday night came and the girls were celebrating Tania's return with a slumber party, but this time, Peter and Christian were invited too. "So Tristen was you in disguise," said Christian.

"He was," Tania explained. "I should never have left my rare 'Kiss Friendship' book in the computer room. I needed to get the extra money for school supplies. Those back-to-school lines are long and there are noisy kids."

"I know what you mean," replied Christian. "I had to get school supplies for my 3 younger brothers every year, and it can be crazy, but not as crazy as this."

Christian kissed Tania on the lips, much to her delight.

"It's thrilling to have another slumber party to celebrate Tania's return to school," Paige replied as she did some yoga. "Now education can be peaceful again, man."

Peter came in with two glasses of warm milk. "Here's some warm milk," Peter said. "I always drink it before going to bed."

And with a gulp of the milk, Kirby turned into Sleep Kirby. "I think he drank too fast," said Paige, "but he's still Kirby."

The end.