For we, the students of James K Polk, lunch time is the perfect time to hang out with your friends who maybe don't have the same classes as you in the morning. Cookie is defiantly one case. Ned, Josh, Moze and I don't see him all morning, and usually during first break we can't cross the entire school to see what he's up to in AP English without being late to our third hour class.

Monday lunch is Meatloaf surprise, which generally doesn't help the mood of all those people who hate the first day of the week to begin with. Josh and I had come to the lunchline first, so we poked around at our food, hoping that it wouldn't poke back. Ned slid onto the bench across from me, looking elated.

"I JUST GOT A 'B' ON MY MATH QUIZ!!!" He exclaimed, looking as though he had conquered the world.

"Really?" I said through a mouthful of peas, trying first not to gag, and then not to laugh. Ned is in the easiest math that JKP has to offer, whereas Josh, Cookie, and I are in the most difficult, and are still getting 4.0s.

I am NOT a math geek, though, thank heavens. Anyone says otherwise, I will personally knock their teeth out.

"Oh, dear, Darlene. Have we got another problem for you." Josh said in a strange tone of voice, looking off in some direction.

Ned and I turned to see Moze striding towards us, juggeling her lunch tray, and a large vase of flowers. Moze looked half amused, and half murderous.

"These are for you." Moze grunted, slamming the vase down on the table with enough force to shatter the glass, "Loomer wanted me to send them to you. And THESE"

Here Jennifer shoved her meatloaf surprise onto Neds plate, whos cry of protest was drowned out by the girl continuing, "Are for YOU since YOU said you would eat my meatloaf surprise if Cookie got an –A on his math test."

"Cookie got a WHAT?" Josh and I both shouted, our eyebrows shooting up.

Cookie, like, never got anything other than straight A's. he was such a nerd, but like I said before, we really like him. I had heard from Suzie that Moze and Ned have a bet going every time there is a test in AP calculus, but I had no idea that the stakes were this high.

"Where is Cookie, anyways?" Josh asked, trying to ignore that steaming pile of literal CRAP on Ned's plate.

"Probably crying his eyes out in the boys bathroom." Moze said, with that wicked grin on her pretty features that I had grown to become wary of this year. Josh and Ned often have heated debates over who is more vicious and cruel-me or Moze. The score stands to fifty to forty nine-with Jenn in the lead, BUT NOT FOR LONG!!!!!

"Eat it, Ned!" Moze unexpectedly shouted, looking suddenly like a mad dictator, "EAT AND TREMBLE!!!!!! BWAH HA HA HA HA HA!!!"

Here she threw her head back and laughed a long and evil laugh. One that certainly topped her last one, that much I could say.

"How was that, Josh?" Moze asked my brother, suddenly all smiles once more as Ned began to poke at his meatload surprise, an apocalyptic look of pain and agony on his face.

"Well, it was a lot better than the one you cracked in science last quarter, which has been on the charts for quite some time.." From nowhere Josh pulled out a graph, "But it doesn't crack your record, which was when Darlene dropped all her notes for English, and you didn't help her until five seconds AFTER you won the contest for, 'who is the cruelest and most likely to take over the world.'"

"Yeah, thanks so much for helping." I growled, taking a swig of my juice.

Moze shrugged, "Hey- I DID help you out, right?"

"Right, after you steamrolled the score. I was so beating you."

"We were tied, Darlene."

"I don't care."

Out of nowhere came the lunch lady, pushing her cart. She took one look at Ned, with his plate piled high with the nasty stuff, and she said, "Mmm…Ned, I see pain in your future."

"I can feel it already!" The kid moaned, holding his stomach.

Then the lunch lady transfixed Moze with her most deathly look, "Jennifer, watch yourself. I can sense darkness in your future…I can sense that someone close to you is about to turn the tables on what looks to be a sure win…."

"Heh, heh, heh, heh….." I snickered evilly, and rubbed my hands together.

The lunch bell rang, and as quickly as she was there, the lunch lady was gone.

"She comes and goes like a wraith in the night, stopping here and staying there for only but a moment, teaching us all the meaning and value of life, and our lunches!" Josh said solemnly.

As one, we all stared at my brother, Ned with his fork full of surprise half way to his mouth.

Josh gave a spastic twitch, "I have NO idea what I just said."