Did ya miss me? I know you did! Here's the fourth chapter!

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Piper

Okay, so maybe Piper wasn't entirely true about having nothing with Leo. She had first lunch break with him, but that technically wasn't a class.

So after English, she and Leo escaped and headed out to the cafeteria. It was jam-packed with kids, with nearly nowhere to sit.

Leo and Piper paid for their lunches and started to walk down the aisles, searching for a place to sit, when Piper spotted an empty table right in the middle of the cafeteria. She nudged Leo and they walked over to it.

She and Leo had just sat down when a group of jocks—including the guy who obviously had a crush on Piper—mingled with a bunch of too-popular-for-you cheerleaders walked to the table.

"Why are you sitting here?" one of the cheerleaders asked in an O-M-G-loser-unpopular-people-eww voice only cheerleaders could pull off. She turned to her boyfriend and asked him, "Why are they sitting there?"

"Because you don't eat tables," said Leo.

"Listen, low-lives," said one of the jocks. "This is our table. Do you see anyone else sitting here?"

"Well, I guess not—" started Piper.

"That's why," he continued. "So, since it's just your second day, we'll let you have five seconds to get out. Starting now."

Piper stood. "We'll leave," she told him. She heard one of the guy's friends whisper to another, "Hey, she's hot."

"Dude, you have a girlfriend," his friend told him.

"Who cares?" the guy asked. He pushed himself to the front, and to Piper's horror it was the guy who kept grinning at her—Dylan was his name.

"Hey," he said. "So... you're kind of cute."

"Sorry," Piper told him. "I must be evacuating now." She picked up her tray and walked off without a backwards glance. She heard Leo do the same, and four paces down he gave her a high-five.

Since there was nowhere else to sit, Piper and Leo headed outside. It was a little chilly, but they had brought their sweaters. They traveled up a tall hill that overlooked the school premises and rested in the shade of a tree that stood majestically on top.

"Those guys are jerks," said Piper, sitting down on the wavy grass and laying her tray of food next to her.

"Either way," started Leo, "it's much nicer outside than inside."

"It's so sweaty in the cafeteria," said Piper, picking up a grape between two fingers.

"And hot," added Leo.

"And cramped."

"And full of d—"

"Leo!"

"Sorry, Your Royal High— Hey! Why'd you throw a grape at me?"

"Because you were being rude," said Piper pointedly.

Leo picked up a strawberry from his own tray and chucked it at Piper, who didn't flinch, but closed her eyes and let the strawberry bounce off her nose.

"Your aim is improving, my one and noble student," she said in a mock sensei voice, eyes still closed. The strawberry rolled down the hill until it came to a stop near the middle.

They ate the rest of their lunch in silence.

After a while, Piper checked her watch. "The warning bell's going to ring any minute now," she said. "We should start to head back."

"Okay," said Leo. Piper stood up, but Leo didn't. Instead, he placed all his leftovers on Piper's tray, grabbed his own tray, and went back a few steps.

"What are you doing?" asked Piper. Leo grinned at her and winked.

Piper then realized what he was about to do.

"Oh, Leo, don't—!"

But Leo had already done it. He had jumped forward and shot down the hill on his stomach, lying down on the tray. Piper trailed him as fast as she could without tripping.

"Much… More… Fun… This… Wa-ah-ah-ah-ay!" Leo yelled, spinning off track a little but getting back.

"Leo!" she called after him, although she was laughing anyway. "You'll get hurt! Stop!"

And of course, you don't perform a stunt like this without a few glitches. Near the bottom of the hill, the food tray caught on something and jerked to a sudden stop, catapulting Leo off and sending him flying down the rest of the hill. He yelled something very unintelligent the first few bounces, then finally finished with groans. Piper gasped and let her tray drop, racing down without taking caution and nearly tripping and falling twice.

"Hey, stupid!" she called as she neared. "You okay?"

"I'm fine," he managed, slowly but steadily crawling to his front.

Piper stopped, now sure he was okay, and trudged back up the hill to retrieve her food tray. "Come on," she said. "We have a class to catch."

Leo groaned. "I got math next," he said. "ADHD makes it impossible." Then he lifted his arms up toward Piper as if he wanted her to pick him up. "Help me," he said. "I think I sprained something in my back."

"Really?" asked Piper, not buying it.

"Nah," said Leo. "But, still, help me up."

Piper sighed and grabbed his wrist, dragging him up. They raced toward the school just as the second bell rang.

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