- - S a s h a -

The room was nicely done, though it wasn’t like the girl was well versed in interior decorating herself. She liked the blue and the fish, she could tell his fondness was near obsession. She didn’t judge though. The girl watched as her host looked over his books, being careful and mindful about his selections. She was sure that she’d enjoy whatever he picked out for her. “I’ll be sure to bring you two of mine at school.” She assured him, not wanting to give off the impression that the fair trade would wind up becoming one sided. “Or whenever we see each other next.” She then added, unsure if he would want to come over to her house or not. A tinge of redness crossed her face for a moment, still unsure of how the dynamics of having a boy as a friend worked.

“I’m sure they’ll be awesome, thanks.” She took the books when Garret finally offered them, saying that the second one was his favorite. The blond glanced at her newfound friend and then back down at the book he mentioned. No pressure right? Before she could try to come up with some joke of sorts, he brought up Pokemon and she grinned a bit, relaxing. “Oh no I want to get Yellow but my parents want to wait until I graduate so I can play it without distracting myself from school but I do have Red.” She told him. “A battle huh? I’m down, I also love the card game, building your own deck and stuff.” She couldn’t help but let slip.

Then Garret’s mother summoned them.

“Pancakes?” Sasha grinned at Garret, she had never had breakfast food for a snack before but it sounded great either way. “Oh we can probably just watch a movie.” To her knowledge, it wasn’t too easy to play Pokemon with more than one person but she hoped someday they would make a multiplayer game or something. “Oh, hey I read in this magazine that there’s gonna be a Pokemon Stadium game, it sounds like fun.” Sasha told him as they headed off to get some fluffy goodness. It seemed Ashes had similar ideas as well. “It should come out really soon, I’ll try and get it and you can come over and we can battle for real. It’ll be super cool.” Sasha said as they went into the kitchen to find Garret’s mother putting down their plates of pancakes.

“This is so cool, thanks so much.” Sasha said and took a seat. She put some butter and maple syrup on her pancakes and began to eat them. There was a nagging question in the back of her head and she felt like she needed to say something. “I think you should come over tomorrow. I mean if you want. It’s just your house and your mom and your cat and your room and stuff, it’s all so cool and I wanna be fair and show you my place too.” Sasha earnestly invited Garret. “If you want, I mean…you don’t have to.” She quickly glanced down at her plate which was almost empty. She hoped she didn’t sound stupid or something. The last thing she wanted was to be a poor guest.

- - D e v o n -

At the mention of him fitting in at the awful clone academy, he made a noise of disgust. “Ew no, that that back.” He pouted, as the image of him in the stuffy stiff uniform was now imprinted in his head. It was terrible. Made him sick to his stomach. “This place is not my kind of school, everyone here probably speaks Latin or something lame like that.” He said. “I doubt they even have any sports going on…” He muttered even though they just went through the Gymnasium. Amity said they should do this more often, “What breaking into places?” He laughed. Like Ami though, his parents would be pretty angry if they found out where he was and why, since it was just on a silly whim and if something went wrong and one of them got hurt, well there’d be plenty of yelling on the way home.

So Devon was hopeful that nothing would go wrong.

Otherwise, they’d both be in deep trouble.

The two kids kept along and for the time being, no one paid mind to them. Which was good yeah, but a bit disappointing. The rush of getting out of trouble was one that could be compared to riding a crazy fast roller coaster. Ami then began speaking, once again starting off with that girly nickname which made him physically cringe. Girls were so annoying. “Huh?” He blinked at the notion of an unlocked science building. “Cool.” He grinned. He knew they had to be careful, that high school science stuff could be very complicated and weird and while it was cool to poke around, he didn’t want Amity to get hurt because of him. This was supposed to be fun after all.

“That thing is huge.” He hissed as she found a book and held it above her head in triumph. He walked around, the lab tables were as tall as him. He suddenly felt very young and out of place but it was beginning to dawn on him. He would be in high school in a few months. He would be doing science stuff and history stuff and he’d be around everyone who was older than he was and he suddenly felt very sick. Could he be in high school? What if he went to a different one than his friends? Could he still play sports and have fun or would he have to start thinking about college and jobs soon? It made his head spin. “Um I dunno.” Devon looked to Ami and let out a sigh. He shook his head and tried to get back to the present since that was what mattered the most. The future could wait, it was too scary and indistinguishable.

The redhead looked around again and then saw a map of the large campus on the wall. “Oh hey that’ll help us out.” He said and hurried over to it. It was a bit too high to read but it gave them a general layout at least, which was better than nothing. “I think we’re close to some stairs. Let’s check out the second floor.” He suggested. “I need to nab a book too.” He smirked at her and they headed out another door which led them into the same large corridor. He looked to his right and low and behold, there was a stairwell leading up. “Race ya!” Devon smirked and began hurrying up the stairs. Since he was into sports and running, it wasn’t much of a race but he still waited for Amity at the top. And she was carrying a massive and dull book. “I think these are English and History classrooms.” He metioned.