We left off at: Charlie was pleased to discover he was in most of the classes that all of his friends were in except some advanced classes that Neil and Steven were in. Rachel was also in some of those advanced classes but all the classes he was in he shared with Stephanie. She was fun to get to know along with another girl (with fashionable glasses) that Stephanie had formed a tentative friendship with named Anna.

We're continuing with: Mah mama raised me with a theory. She believed that nothing should be restricted, that nothing should be limited-and Ah mean noth-ing. If it were, mah brother and ah wouldn't be able to teach ourselves how to keep it in moderation.

Sorry, wrong channel.

Anna was the sort of girl you could look at and think she was sweet and cuddly, it was after you spoke to her one realized she wasn't one to be trifled with. Of course, that was usually learned through repeated trial and error. She was also the kind of girl that would follow Stephanie around, second guessing everything she said and criticizing the colour of her socks-which was silly because the 1950s had very strict rules on sock colour production and there was nothing anyone could do about it because tye-dye wasn't in fashion yet. Either way, Stephanie took it in stride and Rachel did not but made for a nice balance. However, the description of group dynamics was put on hold when the group formed in the rec. room for some rather less silly writing.

Todd was in the corner, answering Chemistry questions while Charlie and Neil struggled through math. Cameron really did try to help them as best as he could. "Hey, um, can I sit with you guys?" The din that surrounded their table stilled for a fraction when their eyes landed on Stephanie. There was an uncomfortable silence as the boys traded glances, Steven was adamantly saying no to Charlie's suggestive shrug. Meeks glared his bad-idea expression towards both Charlie and Neil, the latter looking on with no readable expression as Cameron watched from his braced position between Neil's and Charlie's chairs.

"Please sit with us." Neil said, a warm smile on his face as Meeks groaned, beating his head down on the table. Why wasn't it obvious that this was a bad. Idea?! Pretty gir-very pretty "shy" girls were always a problem, confound it all! "Maybe we could help you with any homework questions you could have." Neil smiled warmly as Stephanie sat across from him and next to an acerbic Meeks.

She smelled awfully good…

Cameron nodded, "Yeah, the work here is pretty tough," Cameron looked to her with an agreeable expression as Stephanie tilted her head, amusing him. "We all get together in study groups to help each other. D'you need any help?"

Stephanie regarded Cameron coolly for a moment before pulling an indifferent face and shaking her head. "No, thank you, I finished my homework." Pitts gave himself whiplash because of how fast he turned to look at her.

"You're finished?!" The screwdriver that he had been holding in his mouth fell onto the table. Meeks winced at the noise.

"Yes…I did it in class. It was pretty simple stuff." She shrugged and relaxed back into her chair as wide eyes were passed around the table before Cameron but them back in his head.

"Ugh, gross." He muttered, pulling a stray piece of lint off one eye first.

"What're you working on?" she edged towards the contraption that Steven and Gerard were fighting with. It was a curios sight, lights wires neatly tucked into a rectangular cork board.

"Rrradar, radar." Pitts caught himself in time. He was very proud of himself and looked to Steven for approval but instead was met with a roll of Steven's eyes and a flippant shake of the head.

"Nothing you'd be interested. Science stuff-hey!" Meeks stared at her as she pushed his chair over, substituted the new space with her chair and sat down.

"Crystal radio huh? Hot stuff." She sniffed appreciatively as she ducked down to get a better look at it. "I like it."

Now Meeks was interested. Adjusting his glasses smartly to look at her with a challenging expression. All right, so she had been lucky, it was time to dive deeper. "How'd you know that?"

"Easy, no batteries." She sat him and flashed him a charming smile. Steven continued to stare at her with an expression that demanded and explanation. "You think I'm stupid." She guessed with a cheeky grin.

"Well if he doesn't, I do." Anna dragged a chair up to Stephanie before sitting. "Is it just me or is our History teacher a total creep?" She rolled her eyes in disdain. Despite the fact that it was very true, they didn't have time to discuss it. "What's that?" Anna glared suspiciously at the innocent radio. Steven motioned for Stephanie to explain; testing her.

"Crystal radio-"

"-crystal?-" Anna interrupted skeptically. Stephanie clapped a hand over Anna's mouth so she might have a chance to meet Steven's challenge. "Because the human ear is extremely sensitive to very faint sounds, and the amount of energy received in this particular radio are measured in billionths of a watt, we can still hear it-precisely less than a millionth of that. These radios pick up-"

"Excuse me, excuse me," Charlie interrupted, half-annoyed as usual. "Can I make a speculation?"

Out of nowhere, a Sherlock Holmes hat appeared on Charlie's head complete with a monocle in one eye and a bubble blowing pipe at the tip of his mouth.

"I speculate…that no one cares about a crystal radio or it's mechanics-"

"-Objection!" Pitts and Steven sprang to their feet in protest.

"-Shut up. And I speculate that everyone really just want to get to the sex scenes." Charlie carried on, ignoring Cameron's mild scream as a bubble popped in his eye.

Through the power invested in me, a smack will be coming your way-very shortly.

The cringe worthy sound of skin-on-skin echoed through the room leaving Anna in an offensive samurai pose. "That was quite fun actually." She examined her palm-ignoring the sting because that's what beastly people did. "Hey, whatever happened to Rachel?"

Oh. Oh shit.

"Yes," Stephanie looked pensive as her blue eyes flicked in Steven's direction, grinning coyly as Steven's back stiffened when he noticed. "Whatever did happen to Rachel?"

I forgot about her, alright?! God, let's just pretend this chapter never happened. Curse you all.