Conway walked to the meeting spot with Jessebelle.
Jessebelle laughed. "Hun, why did you go back to that nerdy look? Haven't I…"
"Look, I'm not James!"
Jessebelle let out a long laugh.
Conway gave a confused look.
"It's about time you stop this act, kid!"
"W-what?"
"Come now, did you really think I'd be that gullible?"
Conway gave a stressed look. "This whole time…"
Jessebelle crossed her arms with a serious look. "I knew. yes. What I didn't know, is what the point of this whole stunt that you and that brunette gal pulled."
Conway sighed. "I don't know. I gave her my number, in the hopes that she'd call me…"
"I see… Well, it looks like I need to give my thanks to that brunette girl for all this fun I had with you!"
Conway beamed with a huge blush all over his face. "You had fun with me?"
"Fun, as in toying with you! That was very entertaining!" Jessebelle giggled.
Conway looked down and sighed.
"In any case, I really do hope you help me. I want to marry my poor lost fiancé." Jessebelle gave Conway a picture of James looking panicked and running away. "Farewell."
Conway watched as she walked away. "What a crazy woman…"
Max had asked Vivi out and she said yes. He was now walking with Bonnie as Vivi was studying for a test.
"I'm so happy we are hanging out again, Max!" Bonnie looked away with a smile and a blush. "…I missed you."
Max stared at her with a surprised look. "I… I'm glad that we are hanging out again, too…"
Bonnie looked away with a frown. "That person who depants you… they're going to get it!"
Max looked at her with a confused look. "But… we don't even know who did it…"
Bonnie clenched her fist with a determined look. "We'll find out who it is!" Then she looked down with a guilty look. "That stupid prank… I can't believe I gave that jerk the pleasure of a laugh!" She looked at Max with a sad look. "I can understand why you hid away like you did… I probably would have done the same."
Max stared at Bonnie with awe and his heart racing. "Bonnie…" He feels really bad getting upset with her for laughing. Honestly thinking of it, if he saw himself what happened to him, he would've laughed.
"When we find him… We'll depants him on live tv, with millions of viewers!"
Max laughed. "Thanks, Bonnie!"
Max was in class taking a history test and he sighed as he thought about Bonnie. Then he blushed with a frown. "W-what?! Why am I thinking about Bonnie? I mean, I love Vivi…" he thought to himself. Then he looked at his test blankly. "…Right?"
The bell rang and everyone turned in their test.
Professor Elm waved. "Good job today students! Have a great rest of your day!" He then looked down and saw the student who left last turned in a completely blank test. He turned to the student and gasped. "Max?!"
Max slowly turned to Professor Elm. "… Is there something you need, professor?"
"W-well… I was wondering if you're doing okay?"
Max gave an unsure look. "I… what makes you ask?"
"Let me just…" Prof. Elm quickly shuffled through the tests. "Yes, this test without a name on it, is yours, right?"
Max screamed. "Oh right! I was so lost in thought! I didn't realize I didn't even write anything!"
Prof. Elm gave a concerned look. "T-that… doesn't sound like you. Is there something you'd like to talk about?"
"Yeah, you may be able to help…" Max stated.
"Huh…? I mean, I'd love to help whoever and however I can."
"You're smart, right…"
"Why yes… I'm the top professor in the Johto region."
"And you got a wife…"
Prof. Elm beamed. "Married to her for more than fifteen years…" Then he gave a confused look. "But what, what does that have to…"
Max held onto his shoulder with a serious look. "How'd you know that she was the one?"
"… The one?"
"You know… the one for you! That you love and want to spend the rest of your life with!"
Prof. Elm smiled. "Oh, Max! You're still so young. You really shouldn't be stressing about that!"
Max gave a puzzled look.
"I'll tell you what, come meet me in the library this weekend, and I'll let you retake… err, take the test then!"
Max walked away with a disappointed look. "Okay…"
Prof. Elm sighed. "Wait…"
Max turned around with a confused look.
"I guess I could at least answer your question…"
Max gave a curious look.
"The reason I know that I loved my wife… is that I feel happy and complete when I'm with her. And a special feeling I get with her and no one else…"
Max gave a thoughtful look.
Prof. Elm put a hand on Max's shoulder. "Like I said though, it's something you really shouldn't stress over. You'll understand it all, one day. For now…" The one-minute bell rung. "…you should focus on school."
"Oh no! My class is on the other side of the school!"
"Don't fret! I'll write an excuse note!"
Max smiled. "Thanks, professor."
It was lunch time, and everyone was grabbing their meal. Except for two people, who were on a mission.
"Trevor, do we really have to do this? I'm hungry..." Tierno wined.
"Don't you want to help out Shauna?" Trevor asked.
"What does she need help with? She doesn't want us to tell Calem…"
"What does Shauna not want you two to tell me?"
The two turned around to see who just spoke and saw Calem and started sweating.
"I-I don't know! What do you mean, Tierno?" Trevor asked.
"I-I-I'm just… making things up because I don't know what you mean about helping Shauna."
"Ahh, your such an idiot, Tierno!" Trevor dashed off.
"No! You!" Tierno ran with Trevor.
"Guys, wait!" Calem ran after them.
"Why are you following me?!" Trevor asked Tierno.
"Well, I'm not running towards Calem," Tierno replied.
"Why are you guys even running from me?" Calem asked. Then he slammed into Tierno who suddenly stopped because he was too whipped to run anymore, Calem and fell to the floor.
Terino let out a loud fart as he was gasping. "Man, I'm pooped."
Trevor didn't last much longer before he had to hold himself on the wall and catch his breath, but then started chocking getting Terino's gas as he breathed in. "Uggh!"
After a while, Calem got up. "Alright, just what are you two up to, anyways?"
"We… want to help Shauna retrieve her notebook!" Trevor stated.
"Yeah… the notebook that she wrote how much she…" Tierno started.
"Quiet, Tierno!"
Calem gave a confused look. "The one rumored to be taken away, because she'd written a long confession for me in it instead of taken notes?"
"Yep!" Tierno said.
Trevor sighed.
"Those are just rumors, guys. Shauna herself said she just sees me as a friend," Calem said.
"She told us-"
Trevor covered Tierno's mouth. "Well then, she should get her notebook back!"
Terino leaned into Trevor and whispered, "I thought we were getting the notebook for him to read so he can figure out himself that Shauna likes him…"
"It can't be helped. We can't tell him, or Shauna could find out and get upset with us. Besides… maybe we can get him to peak at it before we return it to her…" Trevor whispered back.
"…Guys?" Calem questioned.
Trevor put on a smile. "Well, we should get that notebook before lunch ends!"
"Yeah! And hopefully we can get it and have time to have something to eat!" Tierno shouted.
They quickly walked over to Mr. Surge's classroom.
Calem sighed and followed them.
Trevor and Calem peaked in the classroom. No one was inside.
"Alright, let's go!" Trevor said.
Trevor and Calem went in and searched his desk for the notebook while Tierno stood guard.
"Where could it be?" Trevor asked.
"Maybe it was all a rumor, and Mr. Surge never confiscated a notebook from her?" Calem questioned.
But Trevor knew that wasn't true because Shauna talked to them about it. Suddenly, he opened a drawer with a bunch of papers in it. After shuffling through them, he found the notebook with 'Shauna' written in her fancy handwriting in permanent marker.
Suddenly, Tierno loudly and repetitively shouted, "ka kaaa! Ka kaaa…!"
"What is…?" Calem started.
"We got to hide!" Trevor quickly whispered.
"W-where?!"
Lt. Surge was heading back to his classroom to grade some of the student's homework while eating. Before he got there however, he saw a student who was standing in the hallway making some weird noise. "Kid, why the heck are you trying to mimic a murkrow?"
"I uh… well… Oh! You noticed! I was trying to sound like a murkrow! Glad you reconi-"
"I asked WHY!"
Tierno gave a horrified look and blasted out a fart.
"Excuse you!"
"R-right! Sorry sir! I… I just want to catch a murkrow! That is why I'm practicing! To call one to lure it to me!"
Lt. Surge crossed his arms. "Aren't you that kid who brags about his dance team? What'll a murkrow do for that?"
Another long burst of gas escaped Tierno's butt. "Uhhh… No one would expect a murkrow to come from my team."
Lt. Surge starred at him with an unconvinced look.
Another loud burst come from Tierno's behind.
"Agh! Whatever! Just stop practicing in front of my classroom! It's too dang… nosey for indoors!"
Tierno saluted him. "Yes sir! Sorry sir! Leaving now sir!" Tierno rushed off, a small burst of gas coming out of him with every step he took.
Lt. Surge sighed. "What does that kid eat…" he then headed inside his classroom.