Happy Birthday Shade Spitfire! Here's an update, just for you. I hope you had a nice birthday and your friends didn't forget about it! (That's happened to me about a hundred times already. And I'm only fifteen...) So don't thank me for updating so quickly, thank your friend Shade Spitfire!

Raven, Jinx, and Roy all walked to chemistry together. Raven had re-wrapped her wrist, which was throbbing from the volleyball, but she was glad she had participated in class.

"Raven, you're my hero for taking gym today," Roy said. Jinx had been telling him everything that had happened during the class, and he had immediately reacted with a loud, "What?" He had luckily calmed down afterwards.

The group of three reached chemistry rather quickly, and Raven quickly dropped her pile of books on her desk, which was right next to the door. She hastily pulled out the note Angela had written for her chemistry teacher, Mr. Anticol. It was just her luck that he was not in the room.

'Figures,' she thought. 'Hopefully he'll get here before the bell rings, otherwise I'd have to give him this in front of the entire class.'

Roy and Jinx came over to her desk.

"You gonna be all right back here?" Jinx asked. "I could always ask to switch seats with someone." Jinx sat all the way at the front of the class, and at the opposite side of the classroom. Raven shook her head as Mr. Anticol walked into the room from the laboratory that was connected to the classroom.

Raven nodded to the front of the classroom, and Jinx and Roy both looked to see Mr. Anticol. Raven began walking up to the front of the class, the note in her hand.

She had made it halfway when the note was snatched out of her hand.

"Oh, what's this, Raven?" Terra asked, waving the note in the air. Not a second later, Roy had grabbed the note back. Raven felt a hand on her shoulder, and looked around to see Jinx standing by her side.

'How'd you guys get here so fast?' Raven thought, willing the message to be telepathically transmitted into both Jinx and Roy's heads.

"Shove off, Terra," Roy handed the note back to Raven. Jinx applied pressure to Raven's shoulder, steering her up to Mr. Anticol as Roy and Terra started a glaring contest.

"Yeah?" Mr. Anticol asked, smiling as the two girls reached the front of the room. Raven wordlessly handed him the note. His eyes flew across the paper, and his smile turned down into a straight line.

"Yeah, I got your mom's call yesterday," he glanced up. "We're just taking notes today, so everything should be fine."

The bell rang just as Mr. Anticol finished his sentence. He quickly added, "And thank you for coming to class." He smiled before he began looking for the overhead he had that day's notes written on.

Raven and Jinx walked back to their desks as the rest of the class took their seats. Jinx reached out and squeezed Raven's upper arm and smiled before heading to her desk. As Raven passed Terra on her way to the back of the classroom, Terra gave her a very dirty look, which Raven returned.

Thankfully, Raven reached the back of the classroom quickly, and sat down at her desk. She pulled out her notebook, and looked up to the front of the class, where Mr. Anticol was beginning to lecture the class about a famous chemist named J. J. Thompson.

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Just to let you know, practically everyone has Latin third period. I didn't realize that when I figured out their schedules, so just bear with me. I tried to switch it so that more people had it fifth, but they all seemed to have chemistry that period. So just bear with me while I make a hectic Latin class.

Gar was dragging his feet by the time he reached his third period Latin class. He had already tried to sneak out of homeroom and run to the chorus room to see how Raven was, but since he had double chemistry, that hadn't worked.

He waved unenthusiastically at his group of friends. There was a large bunch of them in this class; it seemed like everyone he knew was taking Latin. They were all sitting in the right hand back corner of the room, talking before class started.

Gar dropped his backpack to the floor next to his desk, which was right in the front and center of the room, before walking to the back of the room to join his friends.

"Hi, Gar," Kori was the first to greet him. She and Robin were both sitting on the back counter. A small smile came to Gar's face as he noticed how Robin kept moving his hand as if to hold Kori's, but then thought better of it at the last second.

"Hey, Kori," He said. Gar then went around their group of friends, saying, "Hi, Vic. Hi, Garth. Hi, Leo. Hi, Toni. And Robin," Gar shook his head slightly as he came to Robin, "you might just want to hold her hand already; your hand looks like it's having convulsions."

This made Robin turn bright pink, and everyone else laugh. Although their laughter was loud, Gar couldn't help but notice that it seemed forced. The laughter died away quickly, and the group fell into silence.

"So, how're you doing, buddy?" Vic asked, breaking the silence and punching Gar's arm lightly. Gar looked into Vic's face, and saw through this innocent question immediately. Robin and Kori both realized what Vic was asking, so Kori quickly asked Garth a question while Robin began talking to Leo.

"Not too good, Vic," Gar admitted as Toni put a hand on his shoulder.

"She did fine in chorus," Toni said softly. "No one even noticed." Gar let out a deep breath that made him slump where he was sitting.

"Thanks goodness," he sighed and closed his eyes.

The late bell rang, jerking Gar's eyes open. He began walking back to his seat, and the rest of the group followed suit.

"Class, we have a new student today," Their teacher, Magistra Klien, stood up at the front of the class. A rather small girl was standing next to her. "Her name is Collette." She turned so she was facing this new girl and said, "Collette, would you like to tell us anything about yourself?"

"No thanks," Collette said, smiling. Magistra pointed to the empty seat next to Gar, and Collette quickly sat down.

"Hi, I'm Garfield, but you can call me Gar." He held out his hand, and Collette shook it.

"I'm Collette," She said, then added, "Duh. But you can call me Kole if you want. And that's spelled with a 'K,' not a 'C,' even though my name does start with one." She continued, seeing his puzzled look. "My friends at my old school named me that because I used to spell my name with a 'K' when I was in preschool."

Magistra Klien captured everyone's attention, and they were soon learning about participles. Gar took notes by instinct, but after five minutes, he realized that he had learned all of this last year and remembered everything. It was obvious by the blank looks of others that they had not, so Gar simply zoned out while the rest of the class learned.

His eyes found their way to the desk next to his where Malchior sat. He was not paying attention either. He seemed to be sketching a church mass, but when Gar looked closer, he realized that it was not a church Malchior was drawing.

There were two people in the picture. They seemed to be inside a cave with paintings on the walls. One of the people was standing at some sort of altar, their arms raised. The other was lying down on the altar, their hands and feet bound.

Finding this extremely creepy, Gar looked away and instead turned his attention back to the front of the class. Magistra had finished going over participles and was erasing the board.