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"Where on earth is Spinelli? We cannot be tardy on our first day of school." Gretchen looked frantically at her watch.
"Maybe she slept through her alarm." Mikey suggested.
"Nah I called her this morning, she's definitely up." Tj looked around hoping to see Spinelli come around the corner.
"Should we go on without her?"
"You guys can, I'm going to her place to see whats holding her up."
Tj darted towards her house slightly worried about her absence, Spinelli usually is on time for most things, unless Tj's own tardiness holds her up. Tj walked up to her door just as Bob Spinelli was walking out on his way to work, usually he is gone before Tj and Spinelli walk to school, the whole Spinelli family must be running late today.
"Morning Mr. Spinelli, is Ashley not going to school today?"
"Oh she's going, she and her mother are in one of their world famous arguments. I've got to get to work, why don't you head on in there and drag Ashley's butt to school."
"Will do sir, have a good day."
"And you have yourself a good first day of school son."
Tj walked in the house just as Flo was walking down the stairs looking upset and defeated, her eyes lit up at the sight of Tj.
"Oh Tj! I am so glad to see you, Ashley is refusing to come out of her room, maybe you can talk some sense into her."
"Sure I'll give it a shot." Tj ran up the stairs, stopped at the door with the beware sign and skull stickers and knocked. He winced at the sound of something being thrown at the door.
"I ain't going ma! Nothing you can say will change my mind!" Spinelli yelled.
"Can I change your mind?" Tj barged in her room, once he saw her his eyes nearly popped out of his head.
"Doubt it."
Spinelli wasn't donning her typical attire. Her red dress and leather jacket were replaced by a white flowy summer dress and a pink long sleeved knit sweater. Her red and orange leggings were replaced by tan nylons that matched her skin tone. Her orange ski cap was missing and had no replacement. Her hair was taken out of her pig tails and left down, and the biggest change was the lack of the hand-me-down boots, instead she had on a pair of pink half inch heels that matched the color of her sweater.
"Wow you look..." Tj started but was cut off by his angry friend.
"Like an Ashley! This is going to ruin my reputation! I look like a prissy little..."
"No you look good."
"Can it! You're not king anymore, so I can go back to kicking your saggy butt!"
Tj placed his hand on her shoulder to calm her down before Madame fist came out to play.
"Hey now I'm serious, but if you don't want to go to school like that why don't you meet your mom in the middle."
"What do you mean?"
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"Mrs. Spinelli, Ashley has a proposition for you." Tj greeted Flo, once he had her attention he stepped to the side to present Spinelli's new look.
"Awww Pookie!"
She kept the white sun dress and her hair down but gave everything else a suttle change. She replaced the knit sweater with her old leather jacket, the nylons with red knitted tights, and to match she wore a red knitted beret instead of putting on her old orange ski cap.
"Give me the boots back or no deal!"
"Well alright. At least you're changing it up a little." Flo had hid the old boots Spinelli's brother gave her in an attempt to change her style.
"Thanks Tj. I didn't think I'd ever get those boots back."
"Solving problems, it's what I do. Now come on it's getting late!"
"Oh I'll drive you two, but first I need a picture."
"Ma!"
"Ashley I have a picture of you from all the first days of school since you were in Kindergarten, now come on! Tj get in the picture!"
Spinelli rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, Tj flashed the camera huge smile and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, once he did that she lightened up a little and smiled slightly at the camera.
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"Thank god your mom brought us to school we just barley made it."
"Yeah sorry I almost made you late."
"It's cool, I think I see Mikey lets go catch up with him."
They walked towards Mikey's direction he was standing in front of the rest of the gang, so no one saw Tj and Spinelli walking their way.
"Hey guys sorry about this morning." Spinelli greeted the gang, but they stood silent, staring back at her with blank expressions on their face.
"Spinelli!?" Vince finally spoke up.
"Your clothes...?" Gus couldn't even get the words out.
"You wanna make something of it!?" Spinelli rolled her jacket sleeves up to prepare to for a long day of threats.
"Well everyone I got our schedules, gosh this is going to be strange, we have all been in the same class since kindergarten, well except for Gus." Gretchen walked up with six pieces of paper and handed them out to the group. "Spinelli you made it just in time, I like your dress... let me guess your mom?"
Spinelli nodded her head and took her schedule from Gretchen. The rest of the gang took their schedules and matched them with each other.
"Well at least we all have lunch together." Tj always looked at the bright side of things.
"That's only half an hour that we have the whole gang together." Gus whined.
"I guess that's what happens when we have such a diverse group, hey Gretchen it looks like we have English together, and we have health class with Gus."
"Mikey we also have gym together." Gus turned to look at Tj's schedule. "Hey Tj we have history and study hall together."
"Spinelli is with us too. Wow actually Spinelli and I have all the same classes except home economics... Wait Spinelli why are you taking home economics?" Tj looked back at her schedule and laughed hysterically, he couldn't imagine Spinelli cooking or doing any sort of house keeping.
"I'm not, that's your schedule Teej."
"Oh well that's disappointing." The gang shared a laugh but was cut short by the bell ringing, They said their goodbyes, promised to meet up for lunch and joined the heard of lost students.
"K, I've already lost my schedule, what do we have first?" Tj searched through his pockets for the missing piece of paper with no luck, Spinelli whacked the red cap off his head and handed him the piece of paper that was folded inside of it. "Ah right on." He reached back for his hat but Spinelli pulled it away from him.
"Nope you lost your hat privileges" She put the cap backwards on her head over her beret.
Spinelli lead the way to their first class, the class was half full when they walked in, they looked around for two vacant seats next to each other, not too close to the front so they can goof off, but not all the way in the back so they can still learn something and get a decent grade, they found something in the 3rd row by the window. They sat down and began a game of paper football so intense that they didn't see the teacher walk in, or one of their well known classmates.
"Teacher! Teacher! Tj and Spinelli are playing paper football!" A whiny boy shouted from behind them.
"Randall..." They said in unison, giving each other annoyed glances, then turned to their attention to the teacher, who looked a little confused at the scene in front of him.
"Well uh you can call me Mr. Flynn , And that's fine since class hasn't started yet."
"But but but, the bell rang and I read the school handbook."
"It's okay this time, let's put the football away and just jump into math. As I said I'm Mr. Flynn, and I want to start off by seeing what your weak points are..."
Randall couldn't believe what he just heard, he gave the teacher some moist information and he didn't do anything about it, it's almost like he doesn't want kids to get into trouble. Weird. Well he couldn't just let Tj and Spinelli get away with that.
