In science class, Larie and Tee sat at a table and were looking in an anatomy textbook, what they were looking at in the book was obvious due to what they were saying.
"Hubba Hubba!" Tee chuckled as he and his blue haired brother's heads dove into the book, "Oh baby!" Larie cried out eagerly, Tee then turned the page and the two brothers chuckled, not noticing the weird behavior of their youngest brother, who was sitting at the table in front of them.
Jay had slipped into the classroom and sat next to Jenny and Plankette, who had also received Valentine's day cards from Double-N, only unlike Jay, they had been able to properly thank her for it immediately after receiving theirs.
However, unlike Jenny and Plankette, Jay had been staring lovingly at Double-N, who was working at the table beside his brothers, with wide, pink eyes. Not that she had noticed, she was too engrossed with her work with some chemicals, or else she would have noticed Larie sitting at the table next to her and had frantically switched tables.
She wore gloves and goggles and a lab coat while she worked, Jay sighing as he finally realized that Larie was right, she was cute when she dressed up as a scientist. Double-N squinted up at the beaker she was holding up to the light, carefully swishing the contents of the beaker around to inspect it for... whatever she was doing.
She stopped looking at the beaker to see An wearing the skeleton that they kept in the classroom, a cheerful grin on her face. The rib cage was around her chest and arms, the bottom of the jaw where her own chin could be (Author: IF SHE HAD ONE!) while the top of the skull sat atop her head, like some sort of weird hat, the rest of the bones trailing behind her.
"BOY, AM I PARCHED!" she cried as she passed her brainy friend, obviously joking around instead of doing her school work like she was supposed to. Anny was right behind her, chuckling with the textbook they needed for their work tucked under her arm, "Man, are you gonna get in trouble!" she howled with laughter as she made her way to the back of the classroom to work with their own chemicals.
Despite An's actions, she probably wouldn't get in trouble, mainly because the science teacher had left to chase some random young woman who had snuck into the school and vandalized the principal's office door shortly after giving them their assignment, and apparently this individual was a wily one because all the teachers were chasing her around the school. (Author: I don't mean to brag, but yeah, I can be pretty wily when I want to be.)
Double-N rolled her eyes and frowned at her friends and held her notebook up to reexamine the instructions for this assignment that was written down on a worksheet that she had out there, "Some of us are here to learn. Thank you." She said, annoyed by her friends goofing off in class, just because the teacher was off to chase some random trouble-maker, did not mean they should shirk their responsibilities as students, especially with their grades…
Jay decided that now would be a good time to make his move, his brothers were too enthralled by the pictures in their anatomy book and An and Anny were busy with their own work, now that An had removed the class skeleton off of her and put it on the table in front of her and Anny so they could begin randomly mixing chemicals even though they had been given clear and precise instructions on what they needed to do before their teacher left.
Jay hovered towards the brainiest of the Ans and her perfectly organized workspace and eagerly cried out, "Hiya Double-N!" staring at her lovingly, his hands intertwined over his heart as he looked down at Double-N, who was leaned over her science notebook, carefully filling out the answers to the questions on the worksheet that the teacher had given them before stepping out, her tongue peaking out of her mouth as she wrote out the answers in her perfect cursive handwriting, she looked up at him and quickly straightened herself, surprised that his cheerful greeting.
She gave him a nervous grin, unsure how to handle his sudden cheerfulness after she had witnessed him sobbing hysterically just a little while ago in the janitor's closet, after having An stomp all over his heart (among other things).
"Ah, feeling better Jay?" she asked him, while confused by his elated mood, she was also a little pleased to see that he was no longer crying, hopefully her card had cheered him up a bit.
Jay said nothing in response, he simply stared at her… and it was kind of starting to creeping her out. She paused, 'did Jay get taller all of a sudden?' she asked herself, she then looked down and realized that Jay was floating in mid-air. She resisted the An-like urge to wave her hand underneath his floating body to make sure it was real, because with her luck, gravity would surely begin to work again and crush her hand under Jay's body and that would be really bad.
She looked at him for a moment, trying to process what was going on with Jay.
Well, it was needless to say that him floating in mid air like a balloon wasn't normal. Anyone other then An floating in the air like that wasn't normal. (Author: why everyone but An, you may ask? Well that's because An is An, and if I need to explain that to you, I will face palm at you with both hands repeatedly first)
She glanced up at his face for a moment, his eyes were huge and staring at her in a way that made her feel really uncomfortable, but there was something different about them…
They were pink, and not 'just crying' pink, but his over-sized pupils and irises were pink… Double-N had no idea what color his eyes really were, honestly, she, like her friends, tried to avoid any and all kind of contact with the brothers, including eye contact, but Double-N knew for a fact that they weren't pink.
She was starting to get the feeling that something bad was going to happen to her. And, unfortunately, that sense was hardly ever wrong.
A female voice suddenly cried from the hallway, "HOW CAN YOU HAVE THIS MANY TEACHERS WHEN YOU ONLY HAVE TWELVE STUDENTS IN THIS ENTIRE SCHOOL?"
The voice had the trampling of multiple angry teachers behind her as a response.
Double-N then quickly turned back to her work, switching her notebook and her beaker so she could complete the assignment further away from Jay, "Well, it was nice talking to you." She said quickly, not noticing An and Anny messing around with random chemicals behind her, creating a yellow green concoction that was beginning to turn orange and bubble to the surface of the beaker, not that they cared, they thought it was cool.
"Oh, look at this!" she continued quickly as she began scribbling, desperately hoping that Jay would float away if she seemed busy, "Work, work, work. And to think, this assignment is worth forty percent of our term!" She rambled on without looking at him, keeping her eyes glued to the page as scribbling her answers onto it as quickly as possible, hoping if she finished quickly that she could then excuse herself to the bathroom and hide there until her next class, where, hopefully, the teacher would be there so she wouldn't have to further engage in this uncomfortable silence with Jay staring at her like this.
Jay leaned in close to her and whispered in her ear, in a soft voice she thought impossible from a Kanker, "Can I be your partner?" Double-N stiffened, sweat now starting to pour down her face and body, despite the fact that, to her, the room's temperature seemed to drop, then looked at him, terrified as he eagerly beamed down at her with a loving smile.
Honestly, having one Kanker infatuated with her was bad enough, but two? Double-N doubted she could handle that, so she gave him a nervous toothy one in response as she was just about to politely say no thank you, that she had this covered, only for An and Anny's little experiment to blow up in their faces and blast Double-N and Jay with them.
The explosion had sent Double-N forward a bit and made her hat spin around on her head until it slowed to a stop, now covering her eyes before the force of the blast caused her head to slam face first into the table as various chunks of bone, table, glass, and cloth flew outward.
Not that Jay seemed to have notice the explosion or even register that it even existed, despite that it blasted his hair back. Nope, he was still floating after the explosion, staring lovingly at Double-N as if she was reading her valentine aloud to him instead of slowly pulling her face from the table, woozy from the face plant into the table and a little shell-shocked from the sudden explosion.
"PINK BELLY!" An cried after the smoke had cleared.
The blast had burned part of the large periodic sign on the back wall of the classroom, destroy the sink beside them, flip the table next to theirs over onto it's own sink, obliterating the class skeleton and most of Anny and An's clothes in the blast and covering them in soot, a dark circular blast mark was all that was left of their work space. But the two girls somehow miraculously managed to remain unharmed by their explosion, which, in retrospect shouldn't have been all that surprising, after all, An could crash through buildings without a scratch and while Anny wasn't nearly as indestructible as An, she was still a tough cookie who could get crushed by a house and come out with only minor injuries, like scrapes and bruises.
An chuckled, holding the remains of their beaker and whatever had been in the test tube that she had added to the beaker in her hands as if she was still adding the chemical while Anny fumed beside her, her fists clenched and her face squished into an angry scowl.
"Oh way to go, NUMBSKULL!" Anny shrieked angrily at An, "You ruined my shirt!" It was true, the blast had transformed Anny and An's shirts into shreds, barely covering their chests and covered everything from the waist up in soot, their hair was pushed back behind them, comically frozen with every hair sticking straight out of their head away from the blast site.
Jay frowned, they messed up his chance to work with Double-N and could have gotten her hurt! Why couldn't they just do the assignment like they were supposed to instead of fooling around?
Anny's shout captured Tee's attention, after all, his girl was almost as exposed as the ones in his anatomy book, he quickly closed it and trapped Larie's nose within it's pages. Larie scowled at his red headed brother as he yanked his nose free and readied himself to swing the book and smack Tee into the wall with it, only to see his brother smirking eagerly at Anny as she began wiping at the soot on her arms, murmuring irritably as she did so, Larie looked and saw that An's shirt was in shreds and she was covered in soot too, he quickly glanced at Double-N, who looked back at her friends with a worried expression and too his surprise, he saw Jay next to her.
Why was Jay with Double-N when An was almost half naked and possibly hurt? And why was he just standing there instead of checking on An, that's when Larie realized that, instead of looking worried about An, he looked angry with her.
"STUPID!" he shouted at them, his face pulled into an irritated expression and his body hunched over as if he was about to leap towards them like a wild animal and beat them to a pulp, catching all three Ans and his brothers offguard, then straightened as he held out his arms, "DON'T YOU KNOW NEVER TO MIX BERIC OXIDE WITH AN AQUEOUS SUSPENSION?" he yelled, as if An or Anny knew what beric oxide or an aqueous suspension was. (Author: they didn't. I don't either)
An, Anny, Tee, Larie, Jenny and Plankette stared at Jay for a moment, trying to figure out what the heck he was saying, no one noticing the fairies slipping into the classroom, ready to stir up more trouble.
Double-N looked at him, her eyes wide with shock, astounded by his sudden increase in intellect, heck, she was astounded that he used those words correctly in a sentence, "Jay?" she managed, her jaw a little slack from surprise that Jay Kanker not only managed to evaluate what An and Anny had done wrong, but that he was actually scolding them for it, "I'd never seen that side of you." She said, truly meaning it.
She was so confused as to what was going on with Jay, yesterday he thought if he mixed a random clear chemical and a red chemical, he'd make a love potion (because he knew red and white made pink and he figured that a pink chemical had to be a love potion) instead of making a stink bomb that made everyone but An dash for the window, gasping for breath, and today he seemed to know not only names of certain chemicals, but not to mix them with.
Jay smiled, pleased that he had impressed her as he began floating in the air again, leaning over her and making her bend over backwards to keep him out of her personal space, his hands over his heart and his eyes big and pink while her arms were locked at her sides and her eyes wide with confusion and fear as she backed away.
He landed inches from her, making her nearly fall backwards onto the floor as he smiled, "I've developed a mean bathroom deodorizer too!" he informed her, eagerly awaiting to hear her praise for his good work.
Larie felt as if he was in a bad dream, what was going on here? First Jay grows a brain and now... Was his brother hittingon his Ann?
Double-N scurried around him and scrambled backwards towards the exit, "Well, perhaps this is a conversation best had in a very public area, yes?" she said quickly as another heart shaped arrow head struck her in the rear.
A sharp pain registered in her behind as her whole body suddenly twisted and spun in ways it shouldn't have, as if someone was wringing her dry, Larie and Jay watched her, Larie concerned, Jay as if this was normal, then again, now that Larie noticed, Jay's eyes were pink and he was hovering off the ground.
That sure as heck wasn't normal.
'What the heck is going on?' he wanted to scream as he tugged at his hair, he stopped as Double-N finally unwound herself, her own eyes pink now too. Larie got a bad feeling about those pink eyes, her eyes weren't pink before the explosion! He paused, had Jay's been pink before the blast? Larie strained his brain to remember, but he'd had his head stuck in Tee's anatomy book when Jay had come into the classroom, he had no idea, but still, something was up here.
Double-N felt her heart race at the sight of Jay, she had no idea why she hadn't seen what a perfect match they'd make before, probably because he'd never proven himself an intellectual equal, but still, he was one of the sweetest boys in school and was pretty cute now that she looked at him.
Double-N and Jay both sighed happily and stared at each other like dead fish for a bit, their eyes pink and with big smiles on their faces. Larie didn't like the way they looked at each other, it made his whole body fill with unbridled rage and loads of jealousy, although there was no way…Nuh uh, no way that they could like each other…
…Right?
Unseen by everyone (but the Author, but she was kinda somewhere else at that moment), the fairies chuckled as they circled the love birds that they had forced to fall for one another, Jamie grabbed Double-N by the back of her lab coat and pulled her up, which was easier since Double-N was kinda floating in the air already, so Jamie didn't really have to put as much effort forth to do so. "Now that Double-N's been stricken by Cupid's will…" she began. Sam scooped up Jay by the collar of his shirt and replied cheerfully with, "Ever shall a note be written!" he then slipped a piece of paper and a pencil to Jay, "The plot gets thicker still!" he announced. They then laugh again and fly in opposite directions, dragging the love birds apart.
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The Author, who managed to slip away from the teachers by climbing up on top of a row of lockers, sits there and pants quietly as the bell for second period rings. Nate, Karen and Rachel file from a classroom not to far from the row of lockers she's sitting on, they then walk up to her, making her silently pray that they not notice her. Lucky for her they don't, they simply walk to their lockers and open them, leaving the author to wonder why the heck there are so many lockers in this school when there are only twelve students that go here. Which then makes her wonder how the heck the teacher could think she was a student here in the first place when she looks nothing like any of the twelve kids that come to school here almost everyday.
Then she sees Fairy Sam sly past as the three kids in front of them bend over to gather their belongings from their lockers, pushing a floating Jay past the hallway, giggling, making a trail of pink sparkly dust behind them, Sam sees the Author and sticks his tongue out at her before pushing him out of view, laughing that she can't get down and pummel him without being caught by the teachers.
"Friggin' fairy!" the Author growls, shaking her fist at it, "When I stop being hunted down by teachers, I'm gonna write how you and your little girlfriend will get such a beating!" she hissed.
Rachel stands up straight, looking concerned and a little annoyed, the Author quickly lies down so it's harder to see her, thinking she had just gave her position away, but instead, Rachel's hair starts standing up in the air, chunk by chunk, as if someone had just rubbed a balloon on her head. Rachel angrily turned to Nate and Karen, "AGAIN!" she shouts, obviously ticked off that her day has been interrupted by the little flying pests. Nate was grabbing his gym clothes that he had put in a cloth grocery bag from his locker and Karen pulled a grey sweatshirt that she then pulled over her head, both of them looking at their foreign friend, concerned, as Rachel crossed her arms and cried out, "THESE MOUNTAIN IMPS WILL BOTHER RACHEL NO MORE!" she threw her arms out as she made this declaration that made the Author have to bite her lip to stifle a chuckle, 'Man are those fairies in for it now!' the Author thought wickedly as she watched Rachel angrily glance from side to side, Karen just smiled and said, "You're cracked, dude!" then chuckled as she closed her locker door, Nate smiled at Karen's words, but didn't laugh. Whatever Rachel was talking about was really bothering her and although he had no idea what the heck she was talking about, he had a feeling that she might get mad if he laughed.
Double-N floated past them on the other side of the hallway, Jamie cheerfully fluttering behind her and giving the Author a raspberry before realizing that Double-N was ahead of her and that she needed to catch up with her.
The author smiled, "Oh, oh you'll get yours, alright, you little flying freaks." She purred, "You'll get yours."
