On Monday, Sarah arrived at school and met up with Calvin and Hayley in the parking lot. They had planned on going over their presentation before class so everyone knew what to say.

"How was two straight days of prison?" Calvin asked, seeing Sarah walking up looking glum. He assumed it had to do with her not being allowed to leave her room over the weekend, oblivious to the deal Sarah made with Melanie. "Do you remember what you're going to say?"

"I explain how the cookie creator would have worked," Sarah nodded. Hayley grabbed her arm.

"What do you mean 'would have'. It works, right?"

"Yeah," Sarah nodded. "But… well… it's not where you think it is."

"Where is it?"

Sarah winced, "Um… well, what's your favourite desserts?"

"Sarah…"

"Melanie has it," Sarah said.

"Melanie… prostitute Melanie?"

"Hopefully she's cookie creator Melanie," Sarah said. "I gave it to her."

"You gave our project?" Calvin called out. "On the day it's due?"

"Uh… Friday," Sarah said. "I let her take it on Friday."

"What?" Calvin grabbed his hair in his hands as he started to pace. "But the bet… and the grade and… Sarah, this is senior year!"

"I know…"

"We're going to fail!"

"You didn't even talk to us about this," Hayley frowned. "What the hell were you thinking?"

"I thought it might help Melanie."

"It's going to go right up her nose," Hayley shook her head. "She'll sell it for scrap!"

"No, she won't! At least... I had to do something."

"Well, you did it," Calvin frowned. "You let us down. We has this in the bag, Sarah."

He shook his head as he stormed off. Sarah turned to Hayley, thinking she might be able to reason with her a little more, but Hayley followed Calvin and took his hand. Sarah sighed as she followed them both inside.

She made her way up to science class, preparing how she would explain herself to Mrs. Finch so that Calvin and Hayley could still get full credit for their work. They still had their paper, which would have to count for something, and Mrs. Finch had seen their project when they worked on it in class. At the very least, Sarah felt she could get her friends Bs.

However, when she walked into the science room, she noticed her cookie creator sitting exactly where she left it. Relief washed over her, as well as panic as she realized Melanie hadn't taken the machine like she promised.

Calvin was hugging the machine, whispering how he was glad it was safe and that he would now, for sure, he able to win the bet and ace his first senior year project. As Sarah made her way over, Hayley handed her a note.

"From Melanie," she said. "You got lucky."

Sarah looked to the note, but she couldn't read it. Hayley took it back and read it for her.

"I'm taking your advice. I'm gonna call those numbers you gave me and see what they can offer. I figure if someone like you can believe in someone like me, maybe not everything is hopeless. I hope you get an A!

"Melanie"

"I have never loved anything more," Calvin said and kissed the top of the machine, to which Hayley rolled her eyes.

"We're still pissed at you," she said to Sarah, who nodded her head.

"I know."

"You had no right to do that."

"I had to," Sarah insisted. "It worked."

"You're lucky," Hayley nodded. "Next time, though, tell me and Calvin what you're doing so we can at least know ahead of time if we're going to fail."

"Next time?" Sarah asked. She had been certain after a scare like that, the couple would never want to work with her again on a project.

"Just… stop doing things without telling people," Hayley said, then gently tapped Sarah on the head, "I wouldn't want to bring back that stutter of yours. Understood?"

"Understood," Sarah nodded.

-Ninja-Steel-

Kelly's confidence had always been easily shaken, but she was working on that. She had already learned that her presence was often more than enough to comfort Sarah when she was having a bad day (or series of them). She had already how to defend herself in battle – at least against Kudabots she felt she could hold her own. And now, she learned that when she put her mind to something, even if it was a lot more technical than she was comfortable with, she could accomplish anything.

The first senior science project was a success for the whole class and the Rangers were no exception. Everyone, including Victor and Monty, loved Sarah, Calvin and Hayley's cookie creator and the impact it could have on healthy eating. Principal Hastings had already been informed of what it could do and had asked the team if they could use the cookie creator in the school cafeteria to sell healthy, delicious snacks for students who couldn't afford some of the more traditional healthy foods and who couldn't bring healthy snacks from home. Sarah, Calvin and Hayley would be making a small profit off the sales, which was also a plus.

It went without saying that the trio earned themselves an A+ for their work. Mrs. Finch would give them their final mark after reading their paper, but she had already stated she was confident their mark wouldn't change, considering their presentation had been excellent.

Kelly, Brody and Preston later presented their project. They had managed to make a device, about the size of a phone, that could read print out loud. At first, no one in class understood how their project would benefit anyone, since most people could read themselves, so Kelly had been forced to explain.

"Well, a lot of people have trouble reading," she said. "The elderly lose their sight and it's hard to read smaller print. The blind have to rely on braille, which isn't always available. You have people with dyslexia who can read, but find it difficult. And there are a lot of people who can speak and understand English, but aren't quite able to read it. Hearing the words said out loud will help those people, and I'm sure everyone can find their own use for it too. It's kind of like an audio book, but you don't really need CD."

Kelly didn't call Sarah out by name, though by now enough rumours had gone around the school and pretty much everyone knew Sarah could no longer read. So, all eyes quickly turned to her as Kelly explained. Kelly looked to her girlfriend with a smile and saw Sarah smiling back.

She had done it. For her, the grade didn't matter. She had created a device that would help Sarah. She had won.

Mrs. Finch did award them an A+ as well, giving them the same grade as Calvin, Hayley and Sarah. However, since they had already agreed to it, Preston, Brody and Kelly had to take half a mark off their final results, giving them a lower final mark than the other three and therefore they lost the bet.

It was worth it, though. Kelly would very happily spend a year wearing white. Especially when, once class had ended, Sarah threw herself into her arms.

"How on earth did you guys come up with that?" Calvin asked as he tested out the device himself. He held it up to his textbook and was surprised to hear it start reading off the title page.

"Mick and Brody did more of the technical stuff," Preston admitted. "Kelly and I mostly wrote the paper."

"But what made you think of doing that?" Hayley asked.

"We were just thinking of a problem we could solve," Brody shrugged. "Once we thought of this, it seemed kinda obvious."

"We had to do it," Kelly said and chuckled when Sarah still wouldn't let her go. "Oh, come on, it's not that great."

"Have I told you how much I love you?" Sarah smirked and pulled in closer. Kelly hugged her tight and then pat her on the back.

"We've gotta get to math class. Unless you plan on hugging me the whole way there…."

"Thinking about it," Sarah nodded. Calvin looked to the two, then crossed his arms as he turned to Hayley. He was about to lean in to hug her, but she put her hand up.

"Please don't."

"But we're not the cutest couple right now," he said and pointed to Sarah and Kelly. "Look!"

"Yeah, it's cute. They're new, let them have a moment."

Calvin sighed, but nodded. Then he turned to Preston and wrapped his arm around his shoulder, "Guess who is going to have to go shopping for some yellow clothes this week."

"Who said anything about shopping?" Preston smirked and with a snap of his finger, the colour of his shirt changed from blue to yellow. He snapped his fingers again, and Brody's shirt changed to pink, and Kelly's shirt went from green to white. "There. Now no matter what we wear this week, we'll be wearing your colours."

As the others headed out to their math class, Kelly stayed behind with Sarah, mostly because with Sarah clinging to her in a tight hug, she couldn't really walk. As the rest of the class cleared out, Sarah finally let go of her girlfriend, but she couldn't stop smiling.

"I can't believe you did that for me. You were working on it all week?"

"Yeah," Kelly nodded. "I mean, once I had the idea, it wasn't hard to convince the guys to go along. And Mick was more than happy to help, so it really was a team effort."

"I thought you guys were crazy for accepting the lower mark," Sarah shook her head. "And all this time…"

"We figure things out for each other," Kelly smiled. "I mean, you helped me stay on my feet when my parents kicked me out. I help you with brain damage. There's just one thing."

"What's that?"

"Last week, when no one had any idea where you were…"

"I know, I know. That was stupid," Sarah nodded. "Believe me, I'm paying the price for it now."

"I hope so. There were a few hours I thought you might never get to see my text to speech reader," Kelly said. "I thought for sure it was a waste of time. If you ever do something stupid like that again, we might not come looking for you."

"Really?"

"Okay… well, we will but when we find you, we'll probably kill you ourselves," Kelly said. Sarah nodded her head to show she agreed, then kissed Kelly again and smiled.

"I love you."

"I love you too," Kelly said and took Sarah's hand as they walked to class. "So, where did you go, anyway? You haven't told me."

"Uh… well, I figured you and Preston would find a way to stop me from going to prison so… I found my grandmother."

"Which one?"

"Mom's. Uh, my biological mother's mom."

"Oh."

"Just getting some answers. Thought maybe if I understood mom's story, it might help me with Melanie."

"Did it?"

"I guess," Sarah nodded. "Maybe a little. Though, to be honest, I think… I don't think I should have gone."

"Duh."

"No, I mean… under any circumstance. My grandmother wasn't mean to me or anything but… I think there are some secrets that are best kept… well, kept."

"Like what?"

"Let's just say, I won't be inventing any machines that let you travel to alternate dimensions or stuff like that," Sarah said. "If dad didn't want me and mom and Drex kept me… I'm scared to think of what could have happened."

"But it didn't," Kelly shook her head. "Everything worked out."

Sarah smiled. "Yeah. Thankfully."