"Eric." Calleigh called for the fifth time shaking her boyfriend's sleepy body.
"Just five more minutes." Eric muttered.
"No, you got to wake up."
"I don't want to."
"You're late for swimming practice."
Eric jumped out of bed rubbing his eyes.
"I got to go!"
"I know." Calleigh chuckled.
"I still got to get my stuff and…" He started to panicking.
"Speedle putted them in the living room in case you forgot." Calleigh said smiling.
Eric sighed running to the room and leaving the house only to knock a minute later making Calleigh giggle and go opening him the door.
"What did you forget?"
Eric smiled and kissed her in the lips.
"I got to go now, bye!" He called over his shoulder already running down the street.
…..
"You're late Delko." The swimming team coach said not looking at the teenager oy in his bathing suit in front of him.
"Only for three minutes coach."
"What if you swam three minutes slower Delko?"
"Got it, it won't happen again, sorry."
"Now you and I have to talk."
"But I need to train."
"You weren't so worried about training this morning when you woke up late."
"I'm sorry."
"What happened?"
"Nothing, I just forgot to turn on my alarm clock, that's all."
"So this has nothing to do with a girl?"
"No."
"Get inside that pool before I even consider taking you off the list for representing this team."
The teen nodded jumping to the pool immediately.
…
"Hey Eric!"
"Maxine."
"I got you the copy of that picture you wanted so much."
"Delete it."
"No, here you go."
He grabbed the picture a small smile hanging in his lips.
"What?"
"Cal looks cute."
"Yeah."
"I'll keep it."
"Yes! I knew it! Speed owns me 5 bucks!"
"You betted over this?"
"We bet over everything."
"I've noticed."
Maxine just smirked as Eric grabbed a piece of duck tape from his locker and putted the photograph of him and Calleigh on the looker's door.
"I'm going to tease Cal now, bye."
"She's in the bathroom."
"o.k."
"Hey Eric." Ryan, Speedle, Leon and Patrick greeted.
"Hey guys, sorry that I didn't came to today's practice."
"It's o.k. Bullet said you were feeling sick."
"Bullet?"
"Calleigh."
"We got her a nickname."
"I see."
"So, are you feeling better?"
"Yeah."
"Great, because we don't want you to get sick for the big game."
"Yeah."
"Don't worry, I'll go to the practice later."
"o.k. man."
"Oh, and is it true?"
"What?"
"What Maxine said."
"What did Maxine said?"
"That you and Calleigh slept together."
"It was not like that."
"Like what?"
"We were dressed, we just felt asleep in her bed."
"Sure you did."
"Speed tell them."
"Tell what? I wasn't even there."
"C'mon man, help me out."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"o.k., look, I got a picture and everything." Eric replied showing them the picture.
"How do we know that this wasn't taken in some other day?"
"Because the time is in the back of it."
"No it's not." Ryan stated looking to the back of the picture.
"What?"
"It isn't, now, tell me, you and bullet, sleeping together…" Patrick teased.
Eric groaned shaking his head.
"Just drop it please."
"No."
"Never."
"Ever."
"Please."
"Nup."
"Yeah man, it's a picture of you and bullet sleeping together, you think we would ever stop teasing you both?" Ryan asked with a devilish smile.
"Yeah, we even asked Maxine for a copy."
"But she only had 3, so she's going to make another copy and she'll give it to us."
"What for?"
"Who knows."
"Hey guys." Calleigh greeted returning to the bathroom.
"Hey bullet."
"What's with those smiles?"
"What do you mean?"
"What are you plotting?" Calleigh asked smiling as she squinted.
"Nothing."
"Not at all."
"Defenetely something, what is it."
"Valera showed them the picture."
"What pic- she didn't!"
"She did."
"She said you two slept together, is that truth?"
"We didn't have sex."
"o.k."
"and even if we did, you have nothing to do with our sexual life."
"Please don't say it like that, we don't care."
"Yeah, we were just teasing."
"Please don't say another sentence that includes the term sexual life."
"Yeah, it sounds so…"
"Awkward."
"Yeah."
"You started it!" Calleigh laughed.
"Would you all stop it?"
"Why?"
"Because we're late to classes and it's kind of awkward."
"We're late?!"
"Yes."
"O.M.G, we got to go!"
"Why?"
"We have to present those essays remember?"
"Omg."
"What?"
"I left mine at home!"
"You're fucked."
"I know!"
"Tell the teacher, she'll let you bring it tomorrow."
"Yeah."
"No, she won't."
"She even likes you Eric."
"I think she has a crush on you."
"Yeah."
"She's twice my age."
"What are we still doing here?! We have to go!"
The muttered something as Calleigh grabbed the two nearest shoulders that happened to be Eric's and Ryan's and dragged them to the classroom.
"Come in."
Eric opened the door with a small smile.
"You're late."
"We know, sorry."
"What's the excuse?"
"We didn't hear the bell."
"Give me your essays and sit please."
"Hum, miss."
"Yes mister Delko."
"I forgot my essay at home, is it o.k. if I give it to you latter?"
"You have until five today."
The boy sighed going to his sit.
"And ten points will be discounted, so you better have a great essay."
"Yes miss."
"o.k., now, as I was saying, Shakespeare…"
…
"That was boring."
"Super boring."
"What's next?"
"Chemistry."
"Oh great."
"You got a chance of exploding something and you complain?"
"I exploded that sodium thing last week and I got kicked out and on top of that I cleaned all your mess."
"Too bad, you should't explode things."
"Go to the hell!"
"The group chuckled stopping when Ryan groaned when he collided with someone."
"R-ryan!"
"Natalia, sorry."
"No, it was all my foult, completely my foult."
"Okayyy."
"Not your fault, mine."
"I got it."
"o.k."
"Calleigh shook her head grabbing her friend's harm and dragging her away."
"What the hell is wrong with me?"
"You have a crush on him."
"I looked retarded!"
"We'll get an excuse to that."
"Thanks for saving me by the way."
"Sure."
"Can we go back now?"
"Yes."
"Hey again" Eric joked kissing Calleigh.
"Hey you."
"Stop it please."
"What?"
"You're being so cheesy that it makes me sick."
"Really?"
"o.k., that's it, the next person saying the word "really" is going to pay me a buck."
"What, why?!"
"Because I said so."
"That is so not fair."
"Yeah, it's kin d of stupid."
"Whatever, so, as I was saying, Eaton said he wanted to talk to us about something important today."
"o.k."
"where is he by the way?"
"Library."
"Where else." Marty joked.
"Actually, I passed by there today to return that book that the English teacher made us read, and he was reading a pile of books about football."
"All you think about is football, do you ever realize that?"
"Well, we do have a very important match on Friday."
"Yeah."
"Speaking of which, are you going to be there?" Ryan asked turning to Natalia who hexitated before answering.
"Yes."
"Great."
"Why is it great?"
"Nothing, I got to go, by. He rushed getting away.
"o.k., you guys have to assume that you have a major crush on which other."
"We do not!"
"What? Have a crush or have to admit?"
"A crush!"
"Well, here we go." Leon muttered as the bell for the classes rang.
"Try not to explode anything this time please."
"I didn't meant to explode anything!"
"Leon, you putted sodium hydroxide on a beaker full of water."
"How would I know that it would explode?!"
"The teacher warned about it at least 10 times!"
"I didn't heard."
"All the ten times?"
"He was more interested on the hot girl that's in the table right in front of him."
"Isn't that Dianne?"
"Yes."
"She's the dummest girl I ever met!"
"She's hot."
"You guyes only think about how hot a girl is, don't you mind about her being sweet or…"
"You do the same with boys!"
"We do not."
"Yes you do."
"Yeah, just yesterday I heard Maxine telling Natalia just how hot some Jordan guy was."
"That's Maxine."
"Exactly, we boys aren't all the same."
"Yeah, do you think I only date you because you're hot?"
"No, but for me to be sure you got to tell me exactly why you date me."
"Here?"
"Yes."
"Now?"
"Yes."
"In front of them?"
"Oh yeah."
"Because I love you."
"And why do you love me?"
"Because you're you."
"Eric."
"I answered."
"Are you going to get in or are you just waiting for the teacher to come here and call you himself."
Calleigh blushed getting in the room immediately.
"Sorry."
"Class, today we'll start our group project."
"Our what?"
"You'll make 5 groups of 4 people each, you'll choose a theme and a team leader and you'll make a plan for what you project will be."
"Yes sir. The class cooed as the talk started."
"Remember I said work, not talk as if you were in a fair or something."
"Yes."
"And attention, Leon's team is forbidden of letting him Handle sodium or any other exploding material."
Laughs spread throw the classroom making Leon look down embarrassed.
"Cal, you with me?" Eric asked.
"You know it."
"You had to be together didn't you?" Ryan teased.
"Hey Ryan, aren't you missing a team member?"
"Hum, yes, why?"
"Natalia offered to fill the place." She lied.
"She did?"
"Yes."
"o.k."
"who did what?" Natalia asked confused.
"You offered to be on Ryan's group."
"I did?"
"Yes." Maxine answered
"I did not! She's making it up!" Natalia shouted waving her hands violently.
"I heard you saying it." Calleigh stated.
"Me too." Speed agreed.
"Yeah Nat, you said it quite loud, even I heard." Eric said trying to keep himself from laughing.
"You are all…! I'll kill you!" Natalia threatened.
"Oh, shut up and go work will you!" Maxine teased.
"I'm going to kill you" the burnet mouthed as Patrick dragged her between himself and a confused Ryan.
"o.k., you want to make a team with us?" Eric asked turning to Aaron.
"No."
"Why not?"
"Marty asked me already." Aaron excused.
"Yeah."
"Eaton, you have a team?" Calleigh questioned.
"Not yet."
"Now you do."
"We're missing a member." Eric stated
"Oh, I'm so glad you all remembered me." Maxine interrupted.
"Oh my god, sorry, do you want to…"
"Save it, I got a group already."
"Everyone has a group?" the teacher asked looking around.
"We're missing a member." Eaton said.
"Joe, you go."
"What, no, we're not a pair number in this class, if he joined us then another group would be missing a member." Eric replied quickly.
"No, it wouldn't, because if I recall, there's 20 people in this class." The professor replied.
"There is?" Eric asked hesitantly.
"Yes."
"Hey there hottye."Joe greeted coming right next to Calleigh.
"Shut up." Eric spat.
"Let's work shall we?" Eaton asked in an attempt of prevent any fight.
"Sure."
"What themes o we got left?"
"Sodium composes, pills, metals in our body and venom." Calleigh read. "I vote for venom."
"I vote for whatever my hot girl chooses." Joe stated with a smirk.
"I'm not your hot girl jack ass." Calleigh spat.
"I think venom is a good theme." Eaton said trying to break the fight again.
"Well, venom it is then." Eric concluded.
Eaton got up to scratch the theme on the board, understanding that Calleigh wouldn't let Eric and Joe alone, and Eric wouldn't let Calleigh and Joe alone, and Joe, well he wouldn't do anything anyway.
"So" Eaton said returning to their space. "venom, where do we from there?"
"We could study venom's effects on humans and explain those effects." Eric offered.
"Yeah, but do we use all venoms or just animal ones?" Calleigh asked.
"Even in animals, there are too many for us to study them all." Eaton stated.
"I think we should choose one of which main kind, and then give examples." Calleigh said.
"Yeah, I guess."
"It's kind of boring." Eaton complained.
"What if we picked the strongest and weak of which kind and compared them explaining why one is deadly and the other isn't." Eric said.
"Yeah."
"That's better." Eaton said smiling.