Sarah and Kate, each flanked by her boyfriend, sat opposite of Reid, Jane, and Tyler. Despite Jane going on some dates with with Johnny (who the girls liked but knew would never quite compliment their best friend as much as Reid would) the two girls had not given up their project involving Reid and Jane. Currently, they were still in the observing phase because they didn't know how to go about getting the two together (Kate's suggestion to lock the two together alone was contemplated and rebuked by Sarah).
It was lunch and Sarah and Kate sat between Caleb and Pogue, discussing their Chemistry Project. Unbeknownst to their surrounding friends, said project didn't involve elements but their two favorite people.
Currently, Variable R was stealing a fry off of Variable J's tray. Variable J did nothing but nudge the ketchup closer to Variable R.
"Note how Variable J predicted Variable R's movements and prepared," Sarah said to Kate, her science book open in front of her as a prop. Next to her, Kate scribbled in a notebook with a smirk. Jane had even gotten Reid his own serving of ketchup.
Sarah turned a page with emphasis and Kate tried hard not to laugh. Thankfully, Pogue was talking to Tyler and didn't notice. In the corner of her page, Kate doodled another heart next to three others, this one a bit smaller than its predecessors.
"His new song is hot," Jane insisted to Caleb and Reid,
"It really isn't," Reid said with a grimace to his friend and sometimes rival.
Caleb grinned sheepishly when the two debaters turned to him. He shrugged. "I'm not really a hip hop guy," the older boy admitted.
"That's because it sucks," Reid declared, crossing his arms in victory, as if Caleb's word was law (he seemed to forget the times he had broken said law then).
Jane glared. "You don't even like it so you shut the fuck up." The first time Sarah had heard Jane swear so casually had surprised her, but once Kate explained the smaller girl had grown up on construction sites because of her father, Sarah had just simply accepted it as one of Jane's quirks.
"I'll shut up once you stop playing that shit in my room," Reid replied. Despite their debate, Kate noted Jane still allowed Reid access to her food.
"I'll stop playing it when you stop playing ugly. Oh wait, my bad, that's your real face," Jane stuck out her tongue petulantly. "Besides," she slid an arm around Tyler's waist, "Ty' likes it, too. Don't you, Baby Boy?"
Tyler tossed an arm around her. "Sure," he answered, smirking.
Reid groaned. "Bros. before hoes, man!"
Jane snorted. "Whatever. When have you ever followed that rule?" She grinned at the dark head boy. "Besides, Ty' will always pick me over you, right?"
"Duh," he said matter-of-factly, earning a round of laughter from the whole table. He smirked again as Reid and Jane began to squabble over who was his favorite.
Kate's eyes widened. "Sarah," she said urgently. "Looks like unknown Variable T isn't soluble with Variable J and actually reacts quite violently, if not as violently as Variable R." She began jotting things down frantically. "Damn, there goes our control group."
Sarah looked up from her propped up book. "What?" she screeched. "Where does it say that?"
Kate didn't dare look up because she knew she'd be unable to resist another peak at the drama waiting to unfold. "It's right in front of you."
Eyes darting above her book, Sarah almost gasped. "How did we miss this?" She began flipping pages of her book out of sheer anxiousness.
Kate rubbed her temples. "I don't know. Variable T is a bit of an unknown. He… It is not known very much for, well, anything. We took that for granted and expected it to act like it was supposed to." She paused then grumbled, "It wasn't supposed to act at all."
Sarah bit her lip. "Kate, this is bad."
Kate could only reply with a sarcastic, "You think?" Her brows furrowed.
Jane cackled gleefully and, for the first time, the two girls noticed Reid wasn't the only one who was watching the spitfire with a content grin.
Kate swore and, out of frustration, ripped off some of the paper she had been writing on. Smiling in assurance to the table's questioning looks, she released the crumpled paper. It floated to the ground and slowly uncurled, revealing a heart with a crease right down the middle.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Covenant.
Author's Note: Just wanted to post this up because school definitely starts tomorrow. I think eight chapters can appease the masses until I can update again.