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“Me? No! I was too busy trying to make them be able to see me.” Cam said, rolling her eyes. A guy sitting next to us in the hall turned to look quizzically at her. Cameron immediately frowned and began to bat her eyes until they started to water. “People are always ignoring me. Why? Do I do anything wrong? What’s wrong with me?” She started to burst into tears and leaned against my shoulder, crying. I sighed and gave the nosy kid a glare. He sheepishly turned around, stood up, and walked away.

Cam immediately straightened up and rubbed her eyes to get rid of the tears.

“That was fun.” She said, smiling.

“I told you that you should have auditioned for the school play.” I mumbled, trying to keep from other people hearing us.

“That’s not the point. There’s only like two minutes till school’s over,” Cam said, looking at the watch, “and then we are going to the…place” She suddenly said, lowering her voice. I turned and saw that Mrs. Eacker had been looking at us. “And then we’ll come here.” Cam said, giving me a look. “We’ll have to tell Andrew and Charlotte. They’re not going to be happy with you.”

Great, just what I need. Another way for Andrew to hate me.

"Hey, Maggie, hey Cam.” Jeff came up to us, nervously smiling. “How’d you guys do on the essay?”

“I got an 88.” Cam said, shrugging and holding up her paper.

“Oh, cool.” He smiled, then looked down. “What’d you get, Maggie?”

“95.” I said, smiling. He met my eyes and smiled at me, then looked down. His brown hair was lay flat against his head, and with his pale skin, thick glasses, and thin wiry body, everyone knew him as a total geek. It wasn’t like he was ugly or snobby or way too smart, he just got really good grades and liked nerdy things.

“Good job.” He said. “You beat me.” He held up his paper to show a 90%.

“Um…Thanks?”

“Your welcome.” He looked around a little bit, then suddenly kneeled on the ground next to us and lowered his voice. “What were you talking about?”

“Nothing.” Cam said quickly. Too quickly. I made a mental note to teach her how to not act suspicious.

“It just seems strange that so many electrical things have been going wrong lately.” He said, raising one of his eyebrows. “Especially since-” The bell rang then, cutting him off. Students rushed from their classes, and almost immediately, Charlotte and Andrew were there, standing by our sides.

“Hey, Jeff.” Andrew said, standing up straighter than he usually did, talking more curtly. It seemed like he was actually threatening the poor guy. Jeff stood up slowly, as did we.

“Hey, Andrew…what’s up?”

“Nothing, we just need to talk to Maggie and Cameron for a while.” Charlotte said, her airy voice also concealing some bitterness. “Maybe you can catch up with them some other time.”

“No problem.” Jeff starting stepping back slowly. “See you guys tomorrow.” As soon as he disappeared into the crowd, I turned to the couple.

“What was that about?”

“We’ll tell you later.” Andrew said, looking around. “So the lounge is protected by a couple teachers, hoping to catch the student when they return to the scene of the crime.”

“That’s just great.” I muttered, bringing my hand to my forehead.

“Not really.” Charlotte said, bringing her eyebrows together. “It actually makes our job more dangerous.” Andrew closed his eyes, sighed a little, and brought his lips down to her ear. I could only assume he was explaining sarcasm to her. “Oh…” She nodded and smiled at me.