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Getting off the bike, I looked around as I parked it next to Dustin's, glancing around to see none of the other three boys.

"Must already be inside." I muttered to Will next to me. He was nervous, like every other day, except far more today. Mom and I had been arguing for two hours straight when we'd gotten home about if I could go to the lab with Will. He needed me there, and both of us knew it. She then pulled my own words back onto me, though, telling me to stop treating him like a toddler. Which was a very Joyce Byers thing to do, if you ask me.

It's hard to do anything when she was SO sure that he would be fine with just her. So, it was final; I was not going to the lab with Will today, and I hated that thought.

The two of us walked in silence as I tried to come up with something to say, suddenly nearly getting taken off my feet by an on-going skater. "WATCH IT?" I shouted, throwing my arms up in the air a little to the back of a red head on her board. She looked back and I got a good look of her face and her sharp features. Oh, okay... she's kinda... everything.

"Are you okay?" Getting cut out of my thoughts, I looked over at Will. I hadn't fallen over or anything. Just in a daze, suddenly.

"Yeah... dizzy, that's all." I shrugged, scratching the side of my neck before nodding ahead. "Come on."

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"Meet the human brain." Mr Clarke spoke to the class while I held myself back from falling asleep. I'd already read all that was in the textbook one day by accident. Guess what? This brain has one hundred billion cells inside of it. I know! Who knew if you READ you would LEARN?! Crazy. "I know, I know, it doesn't look like much." The teacher said to the group. Staring out the window, I watched a running team rush by on the track. "A little gross even, right? But consider this. There are hundred billion cells inside of this miracle of evolution." Ta-da! Who would've said that, eh? "All working as one." Kids handed notes around, one in front of me had fallen asleep and others were finding whatever way they could to keep entertained; because they weren't the nerds of the class: me and the four boys. "No, no, I did not misspeak. I did not stutter. A hundred billion."

The door opened to our class suddenly and a student and the Principal walked in. It was the same skater girl as this morning. "Ah, this much be our new student." Mr Clarke said. He's shitting me. The Principal agreed before quickly leaving again. The girl was halfway across the front of the room when he stopped her again. She had a sunny tan across her face, which I didn't get for a moment. Oh. She wasn't from here. "All right there, hold up- you don't get away that easy." He told the girl in the red hoodie. She showed a tired expression as she stood in front of us all.

"Come on up, don't be shy." She stood there awkwardly while our teacher looked over at Dustin. "Dustin, drum roll." While the boy at the front of our class did that, he continued to speak. "Class, please welcome, all the way from sunny California," As he spoke, she grew more and more uncomfortable, and I was feeling bad for her. "the latest passenger to join us on our curiosity voyage, Maxine!"

The girl's head snapped at the name, correcting him as quick as speed of sound could. "It's Max." My heart did a flip.

The plot thickens. She was Mad Max. And she's hot.

"Sorry?" Sir asked her.

"Nobody calls me Maxine. It's Max." She told him, and I found myself smiling for a moment, wiping it off after what he did next.