Michelle sighed as she looked at her coffee cup in front of her on the table. She stared at the cup for a minute and heaved a big sigh again, putting her head down on the table and closing her eyes. She was sitting at the café where Lavi worked after school when there was no basketball practice. With her eyes closed, she could see the trigonometry test very clearly in her mind and she could also picture the teacher sitting at the table and grading it. She could see her teacher sitting at his desk, red pen in hand, shaking his head, and then marking her paper with "X"s for wrong. She sighed again, loudly, when she pictured the big fat "F" on her exam.

"I'm a failure," She breathed.

"It cant be that bad," a voice said.

"It was really bad," Michelle said. "It was even worse than… than that one time that was bad."

The person across from her chuckled, and she looked up to glare at the person.

"Shouldn't you be somewhere else?" She questioned.

"Like where?" the person replied.

"Like, I don't know, working maybe?" She retorted.

Lavi laughed and shook his head.

"I'm on break."

"And your boss knows and is A-Okay with this?"

"Well…" Lavi gave her a sheepish grin; "There's a little chance that he has no clue that I am on break at the moment." Michelle looked at him with a bewildered look and started laughing.

"And then you're going to get fired," Michelle said in between her laughs, "for probably the fifth time this month!"

Lavi scowled but then the scowl soon turned into a grin because he had made Michelle laughed. Frowning isn't her best look, he thought.

"Yeah right," he said, "They wouldn't think about firing me. I'm the one that brings all the cute girls here." He said pointing to the table of girls that were gawking at him from their table.

Before Michelle could reply, a voice over the loudspeaker spoke "Lavi Bookman, get back to work! NOW."

"Wait for me and then we can walk home together aight?" Lavi said before jumping from his seat and running behind the counter. As he ran past the girls' table, he winked at them, and they giggled, their eyes following his every move.

Michelle sighed and took out her notebook filled with notes and started working on her homework. Not long after, someone took the empty seat across from her. Michelle looked up at the person who was now occupying Lavi's chair and smiled.

"Hi there Lenalee!" Michelle smiled at the newcomer. "What can I do for you?"

"Oh, nothing. I was just taking a trip around the neighborhood, and I saw you in here, so I thought I drop in to say hi!" Lenalee explained with a big grin.

Michelle laughed, "Why don't we give you a outing of California over the weekend? It'll be fun!"

"Really?" Lenalee gasps, "That would be wonderful! Thank you!"

Michelle beamed at her and asked her where she lived. They found out that they lived in the same apartment complex, just a couple doors down from each other. Michelle lived in apartment 7 and Lenalee lived in apartment 14 while the boys were right next door to Michelle in apartment 8.

"Hey, we can walk home together. Everyday after school!" Michelle said excitedly.

Lenalee nodded her head in excitement, just as Lavi finished his work and came running to the table so they could walk home.

After gathering her stuff, all three of them headed out the door of the café and went home.

Note: for the sake of this story and my lack of knowledge about anywhere but where I live, imma say they're from CALI, and yeah. :D and they go to public school and … I don't know. Lol thanks for reading :D