After missing three days of school Derek finally finds Emily. They'd always had English together he just never bothered talking to her. Sure he could have just gone to her house, but it would have been on if he was their not visiting Spencer or Penelope.

He makes sure to sit by her; with a few minutes before class he tries to quietly start a conversation with her.

"Emily, hey." She nods in response.

"Have you told your dad yet?" he wants to know partly for shellfish reasons, keeping this from Penelope was harder than he expected.

"Have you told your mom?" she snaps back, Derek has the decency to look ashamed.

"Look you're my little sister's best friend, we're not friends. Got it." Morgan realizes he's never really seen her hang out with anyone and decides he's going to be her friend wither she likes it or not.

Spencer runs out the classroom as soon as he hears the bell ring, quickly making his way behind the basketball court. He is so focused on his destination he doesn't notice when he's there, running into a solid body.

"Watch it genius." Usually Spencer likes it when people call him that but the way the older boy snarls it makes him nauseated.

"Here's your homework and paper, it should give you a B." Spencer's jittery, looking around afraid of getting caught. "Where's my payment?"

The upper classman pulls out a bag and hands it to Spencer, who then examines the contents swiftly before putting it in his messenger bag.

"You're not going to rat me out to your dad?"

"It would be mutually beneficial that I don't; besides he's not in narcotics." The boy looks at Spencer apprehensively before nodding and walking away.

For as long as Penelope could remember she had been competing with her twin brother Spencer. Who walked first, who would say their first word. Spencer had bet her had every milestone. Penelope and Spencer were both geniuses in their own way, yet Penelope couldn't help but feel inadequate to him; which is how she found herself receiving tutoring for Spanish with one Luke Alvez.

"What?" she snaps after the long period of silence that followed after Luke had would be her tutor.

"Nothing I just can't believe perfect penny would need my help."

She huffs. "One don't call me penny and two can we just get on with it."

"Seriously you have like a C in the class, that's passing."

"it's not good enough." Her voice is low and Luke notices how her cheeks have turned red. Looking closer he can tell she's about to cry.

"Hey, hey I'm sorry if I hit a nerve."

"It's just my brother he's like a genius. With his stupid eidetic memory, he makes me feel dumb."

Luke knows firsthand she is anything but dumb, but isn't sure how to proceed, they're not exactly friends. She's made that clear enough.

So instead of committing on her outburst he just suggests they start with the basics.

Aaron is bored, there's a million things he'd rather be doing than sitting in drama club, but the things he did for love. He'd originally joined for Hayley; after they had gotten together he thought he would be able to just walk away. As it turned out Hayley enjoyed is presence so much she demanded him to stay. So here he was dressed as a pirate in a play, which he couldn't care less about.

Spencer is relieved that the house is quite for once, Aaron, Matt and Penelope had stayed after school. He's not really sure where his older sisters are at but he isn't going to question it.

Sitting down in his room he dumps out his bag, shifting through it until he finds the small bag. Opening it he carefully takes out the needle and the tiny bottle carrying Dilaudid. He'd said he was going to stop, but after a week of severe withdrawal. He was begging Tobias for some, in exchange for doing his homework. Spencer breathes a sigh of relief once he feels the drug starting to work. He holds onto the needle like a lifeline while staring aimlessly.

"esquina" Luke says, they'd been going at for about an hour. He notices the more confident she gets the red tint in her cheeks fade, and she gives him a small smile.

"corner"

"Tienda"

"Store"

"good." He's about to continue when a guy comes up to Penelope.

"Matty." She squeals in excitement, Matthew thinks his sister's excitement is over rated, considering they see each other all the time.

Luke would be jealous of the way she lights up around him if he hadn't known Matthew was her brother.

"Penelope, we need to go, Aaron just got done with drama club."

"Thanks Luke, same time next week?" She smiles brightly leaving him breathless

"Yeah" he says dumbly, looking at her go longingly.