Disclaimer: I don't own Sky High, just some OCs

This is how Tye and Bella met told from Tye's point of view.

I sat alone on the playground watching as the other children played together. They always seemed to be having so much fun. Still I didn't join in. You could say that I was lonely and too scared to talk to them. I didn't know how to interact with the other children and was afraid they'd reject me if I tried. You could say all that, but it wouldn't be true. I simply had no interest.

"Hi." some girl came up to me and smiled, "I'm Bella."

"I don't care." was my response

"No, no."she shook her head disapprovingly at me "When someone gives you their name you're supposed to tell them yours."

Why not?

"Tyson."

Now she was sitting down. Why? She started humming and gathering up mud.

"We need more mud to make mud pots with." she decided

We?

"Gather a bunch of dirt, okay? I'll go get some water." Bella ran off to fulfill her little errand.

A little bit later she was making her way back over with her hands cupped together. By the time Bella got back just about all the water was gone. and she didn't really make it a point to hide how upset this made her. Then after about two seconds Bella was over it.

"Hey, wait a minute. I told you to gather more dirt. Oh, I get it." realization seemed to dawn on her, "It's because I forgot to say, please, isn't it? Sorry." She gave me a guilty smile

That hadn't been it at all. I just didn't want to.

"I know! We can play tic-tac-toe."

Again with the 'we'.

"What makes you think I want to play with you at all?" I asked not bothering with trying to be polite.

"Uh, um..."

Had I hurt her feelings? Oh well.

"I guess we could just talk then."

I could tell there was no getting rid of her. So I just ignored Bella as she rambled on. Finally the bell rang.

The next day I did something stupid without a reason. Okay, there was a reason, but it makes no sense. I sat in the same place as before just to make sure Bella could find me. She did. Darn. Why'd I come? Better question, why'd I continue to come again and again after that? Alright, I admit it. I had a teensy bit of a crush on her. I wonder if she's ever known about that...

After all, she was always hanging out with me, and I only ever gave her reasons not to. Anyone else would've gotten sick of my stand-offish attitude towards them by now. This was the first time I'd ever cared about such things. Maybe that's why I decided to take a chance.

I took an extra water bottle with me to school and when I found Bella on the playground she'd continued her frustrating quest to make mud pots. I gave her the water bottle and she grabbed my wrist.

"This time you're helping me make the mud pots."

This time I did as I was told. Though, not without a complaint or two.