A/N: Now this is where it starts to pick up. :)! This is also the shortest chapter so far. lol I'm really glad to see people reading all of this. :)!! Thank you all for reading~ Enjoy Day 3 of Gwen's life. lol
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The next morning they woke up at eight.
"Yay for school…" Gwen groaned as she dragged a brush through her hair.
"I'll be outside waiting for you." Trent said kissing her and then slipping back into his shirt and shoes and then out the window and down the tree. Gwen smiled. She dressed a little quicker and grabbed an extra muffin for him as she passed by the kitchen.
"I'm off to school Mom! Bye!" She called.
"Bye Gwen!! Have a good day!" Her Mother called back.

Gwen ran outside to his car and hopped in.
"I got you some breakfast." She said offering him the muffin.
"Thanks." He said and took a bite out of it as he drove them to school. The whole drive, which wasn't long at all, Gwen was tucked under his arm.
"OH CRAP!" She shouted when they parked in the parking lot of the school. Trent jumped.
"What?"
"The paper for English!!" She dug through her book-bag. "I haven't wrote my part yet!"
"Well we have like twenty minutes till class starts, lets just go to the library and you can write it real quick." He suggested.

The library was quiet, and they were sitting at a random table as Gwen scribbled her opinion of the Inferno down. While she worked Trent played with her hair and rubbed her back. She knew it was an effort to calm her down, because she was having a mild freak out.

With five minutes to spare she finished her part, put her name on the paper and sighed.
"Done." She said nodding.
"Awesome." He said kissing her cheek. She smiled at him.
"Oh the losers are back together." Heather taunted from the doorway.
"You know how much strength it takes to ignore her some days?" Gwen said looking at Trent.
"Oh, yes I know." He nodded as Heather walked in and up to them.
"So Gwen, have you told Duncan that you and Trent are back together?" She asked. There was an evil glint in her eye—like she knew something and that was when Gwen went pale white, she looked like she was dead. Heather grinned. "Well, have you?"
"…yes, why do you care?" Gwen snapped.
"Just wondering." She laughed. Gwen got up and grabbed Heather by the arm and dragged her off to the back of the library.
"Just what do you think you're pulling!?" Gwen hiss whispered.
"Me? I'm not pulling anything. I was just asking a simple question. But you sound worried about something." Heather said with a perfect evil chuckle.
"Heather, I swear, if you know anything, say anything or—"
"Or what? What are you going to do? Nothing. Because you can't."

Gwen's eyes widened.
"Y-you saw…"
"Saw what? I might have and might not have. You'll have to find out, now won't you?"
"Heather—please if you know anything about what I think you do, please don't say anything…" Gwen begged.
"We'll see." She laughed. "I'll see you in English." And she left the library.

Gwen was about to burst into tears, break something, or both. She had to talk to Duncan. She rushed over to Trent.
"Um…I need to go, I'll see you in class." She gave him a quick kiss and left, leaving Trent staring and wondering just what the hell was going on.

Gwen basically ran down the hall looking for Duncan. Just as she saw him the bell sounded. Be late or talk to him? She asked herself. Screw it. She'd be late, this was more important than Psychology.
"Hey." Duncan said as he walked over to her.
"I have to talk to you. It's important." She said.
"Okay. Come on." He took her outside where the teachers didn't patrol to make sure everyone got to class. "What is it?" They were behind one of the old broken down buses at the back of the school.
"Heather."
"What about her?"
"She knows."
"Knows what?" Duncan asked.
"About what we did."
He opened his mouth to say something and then closed it again. Words refusing to form. "I don't know what to do. She's going to hold this over my head—and soon yours too until she can use it for its full effect." Gwen had her hands in her hair and she was crying.
"Gwen, don't cry. It'll be okay." He said pulling her into a hug.
"No it won't! Courtney's going to find out and—and…" She sobbed.
"Shh. No she won't. It's okay." Despite his calm demeanor Duncan's mind was racing and he was just as scared as Gwen was, if not worse.
"M-maybe we should just tell Courtney and apologize." Gwen said sniffling.
"No. We're not going to do that." Courtney would kill him and never talk to Gwen again, he wanted to try to avoid all of that drama.
"Are you sure that's the best thing to do?" She asked.
"For now, yes." He said as he pulled her away from him and held onto her shoulders. "Just don't piss Heather off and maybe she'll leave us alone."

Gwen nodded. Easier said than done, but she'd try her hardest.

Gwen ended up skipping all of her Psychology class, and just hanging out with Duncan, both of them making it a point not to be to close in fear Heather was lurking around the corner—and well because they both knew they had to put a stop to whatever it was that had happened between them. So there they were sitting at the very top of the bleachers in silence. Gwen laid down and looked up at the clouds.
"Never thought you were one to skip class." He teased.
"I'm not, but I don't really feel like going…" She sighed and let her arms hang down. "I think the only class I'll go to today is English…I have a paper to turn in." She added glancing at her book-bag.
"What you're going to make me suffer through Government and Anatomy alone?" He asked.

She laughed; "Maybe." She teased.
"You can't do that. It's not allowed."
"Okay, okay I'll go to those. Anyway, I get to see Trent in Anatomy too." She smiled as she shielded her eyes from the sun, as the clouds parted.
"Speaking of, how did that all suddenly happen?" He asked leaning backwards.
"In a really cheesy romantic way that would make you barf if I retold it." She said. Duncan laughed.
"Good enough for me then." He said nodding.

English class. How Gwen was not looking forward to this. She dragged herself into the classroom and saw Trent already waiting in his seat for her. He beamed at her, which made her smile. Whenever he looked so happy she couldn't help but smile. And wham, she was shoved to the side.
"Out of the way freak." It was Heather. Gwen spun around ready to rip her a new one, but Heather only smirk, and Gwen retracted her claws of anger and slumped into her seat. She already hated the power Heather wielded above her—it was going to be extremely hard to not piss the bitch off, she was half ready to just punch her in her overly done make-upped face.
"You have the paper?" Trent asked, breaking Gwen from her thoughts of rage and revenge.
"Oh yeah." She opened her book-bag and pulled out a folder and pulled the paper out, and handed it to Ms. Tiller who was collecting by hand. She smiled at the both of them.
"Glad to see it worked out for you two after all." She added as she trotted down the next aisle. Gwen smiled some. Maybe Ms. Tiller wasn't as bad as she thought.
"So that's why she never moved either of." Trent said with a laugh.
"Yeah, I guess she saw something we didn't." She said looking over at him.
"I think we saw it, we were just…not putting it together in the right places." He said with a nod.

That made sense. They never really stopped staring at one another or being civil. The love had always been there. It had just been clouded over by jealousy and other silly things.

During the middle of lunch, after Gwen got a firm lecture from LeShawna about skipping and also getting the homework assignment for the next day, she got a tap on her shoulder. Gwen turned around and Trent was standing there.
"Can I sit here?"

She smiled. "Of course."
"Whoa. Whoa. Wait a minute, back it up. When did this happen?" LeShawna asked.
"Yesterday. I went to the movies with him and we got back together." Gwen said leaning on Trent. LeShawna smiled.
"Good. Maybe now all this drama will stop."
Gwen kicked her under the table.
"Drama? What drama?" Trent asked.
"Nothing." Gwen said patting his arm. LeShawna was looking at Gwen with a look of; "You didn't tell him?!"

Like she would. That would break his heart and make him go on the war path to beat Duncan to a pulp—which…he…couldn't really do.

"Hey love birds." Came from behind them. Gwen looked over her shoulder.
"Hey." She said as Courtney and Duncan sat down next to her. Trent took a small breath. He hated apologizing, but he needed to. He was such an ass to Duncan about the whole situation.
"Duncan?"
"Yeah?" He looked over as he opened his straw for his milk.
"I'm sorry about the way I was before…"

Duncan paused and smiled. "No problem, everything's fine now and that's all that matters." He said nodding. Gwen smiled.
"Good. My two best boy friends are buddies again." She laughed.

Trent walked Gwen to Government class and Courtney walked with Duncan, mostly because she and Gwen were chatting. Gwen was slowly starting to relax about the whole thing and naturally she was trying to make it seem like nothing had ever happened and so far it was working she was talking and joking with Courtney as if she hadn't a care in the world. The boys seemed to be rekindling their friendship as well.
"Okay, well I'll see you guys later." Courtney said with a wave to Gwen and Trent and a kiss to Duncan and she hurried off down the hall.
"I'll see you after school Gwen." He kissed her.
"Oh? You have something planned?"
"I might." He teased as he walked down the hall.

As soon as they entered the classroom the teacher handed them two pink slips.
"Up to the office with you two." He said.
"We're in trouble…" Gwen said with a sigh.
"Eh, no big deal. We'll be suspended for about two days." Duncan said as he left the class with her.
"My Mom is going to kill me."
"I'll help you don't worry. We'll just say it's a school fieldtrip to a theme park and it's an over night thing. Say our class got the highest grade out of the school or something. I'll make up a permission slip after I get home."

Gwen looked at him. "You came up with that idea—that quickly?" She asked.
"Of course, have to be able to think on your feet." He said nodding. Gwen laughed.
"Well, if you're sure it'll go over print me off a copy of it too, but where am I supposed to stay for those two days, hm Mr. Smarty Pants?"
"At my place. My parents won't care, you know that. They're used to me getting suspended."
"True. Okay. That sounds do able." She laughed. "I swear you turn every girl you know into a bad person."
"I do not. I just show them how to get out of things." Duncan said with a nod as he opened the principal's door for her. "Ladies first."
"Oh thank you, such a gentleman." Gwen giggled as they walked in.

After a long, long lecture—at least for Gwen they were sent home.
"You know Duncan, I always did wonder why your parents were never home." She said as he unlocked the door. "Didn't you say they were cops?"
"Yep. They spend as much time as humanly possible doing their job so they don't have to deal with the trouble I make—unless I happen to end up at the precinct. They usually come home at about 1AM. I hear them sometimes downstairs. I think they gave up on me." He laughed. Gwen watched him laugh about it. He put on a good face that the fact they'd given up on him didn't matter, but it wasn't her place to bring any of that up.

They went up to his room and he opened up his laptop, brought up the internet and went to the school's website.
"Hello, Lakewood High School." He said as he print screened the page, opened up paint and cut the school symbol off the front page, which was for amusement purposes a lake with an eagle soaring above it. The eagle—their school mascot. He opened a new page, pasted the symbol, went back to the webpage scanned it some, picked the same font used and began typing up the lie;

Dear Parents,
The 4th period Government class succeeded in winning a small contest I challenged them to complete and after getting Principal Greenwood's permission continued on with. The 24 kids in my class have made the best grades in a two month period, and therefore will be rewarded with a 2 day trip to Lakewood Amusement Park starting on Thursday October 26th. I will be attending as will three other chaperones. Please sign this document and have your child return it to me no later than the morning of the 26th.

Thank you for your time,
John. W. Hill
Principal Howard B. Greenwood.

He finished it off by copying the signatures from the front page of the website and pasting it under each name. He then used the underscore key to draw a straight line, one marked with; Parent or Guardian Signature, and the other; Date.

"Finished!" He said and clicked print. Gwen was in awe.
"You…you…wow." She said.
"I know, I'm good." He said as he picked up the paper and handed it to her. It looked just like something the school would send out.
"Hurry up and get your parents to sign it, and tomorrow morning just come here instead of going to school."
"What time do your parents leave for work?"
"Eight sharp. Their shift starts at 8:45."
"Okay I'll be here. Thanks again for doing this."
"No problem." He smirked.

Gwen went home greeted her brother who was doing his homework with a sour look on his face.
"Aw, hey, if you finish it by dinner I'll talk Mom into giving you some ice cream." She said. He smiled at her and went right back to doing his homework—looking a bit more happy. Gwen went into her Mothers room. "Hey, Mom?"
"What is it Gwen?"
"Sorry I forgot about this—it's really last minute but I really want to go." She said holding out the paper. "I just found it buried in my folder." She explained. This was the moment of truth. She swallowed and watched her Mom read the paper.
"Okay, sure. It's all paid for?"
"Yep. It's a reward." She nodded.
"I'll give you some money to buy something with." She said reaching for her purse.
"No, no Mom it's okay. I have some money saved up from um…tutoring Duncan." Yeah right, like he was even tutor-able.
"Okay." She said and signed the paper. "I guess I'll see you in two days then." She said smiling.
"Yep."
"Have fun." She smiled at her daughter, proud of her.

Gwen left the room and felt insanely bad for lying to her Mom about this, but it was better than being grounded for being suspended for skipping class. She went up to her room and started to pack her travel bag.