After a few minutes of just sitting in the room, Armen led us away again. He took us down two hallways and we stopped at a very large room. He nodded at April and she nodded back, they had some secret plan I didn't know about. That wasn't ok, I was getting confused again.

"Just follow my lead guys," April said. We all followed her in single file. We joined a line and waited. After a few minutes, we picked up some trays and moved further down the line. It was one long row of food. "Just get what looks good to you," April told us. "I don't think you've ever had any of this before."

"Where's the mutton?" I asked.

"The what?" April said.

"You know, mutton."

"He means sheep April," Drake said.

"They don't serve sheep here. That's gross." April had the worst explanations.

We all went down the line and picked up some things that April got. She might have good taste in food. Drake got excited when he found these yellow stick things and a big sandwich. "These things are really good!" He said with excitement.

"You mean fries and a hamburger?" April said. "These aren't very good."

"How have you had those before?" Mia asked.

"They were the only things I have eaten since we came. My sister gave them to me." He shoved a fry in his mouth. "You lied, these are good."

"The fries are decent," April whispered. "But I don't think those hamburgers are even real meat. And you aren't supposed to eat food before you pay for it."

"But I don't have any marques," I complained.

"What the heck is a marque?"

"Money, you pay with it."

"We don't use those here. Just try to follow my lead."

Once we reached the end of the line, April started to push buttons on this machine thing. I was right behind here. When it was my turn I kind of just stood there for a moment. Waiting for the woman in front of me to do something.

"Are ya gonna put ya lunch number in or not?" she asked. She was obviously mad at me.

I put my hand close to the machine and was about to push the buttons. I just pushed the in a random order and the woman let me move on. It was like instinct, like it was with the lockers. And Drake and Mia pushed the buttons and were allowed to move on too. But they didn't take nearly as long as I did.

April led us to a large table and we all sat down. A group of guys stopped by us as they were trying to find a seat.

"April and Mia?" they asked. "Is that really you? I never thought you would stoop down low enough to hang out with the nerdy dorks. And to think that I might have had a crush on one of you ladies. But definitely not any more."

"Shut up Wes," April said. "Leave us alone."

"Oh no! I better get out of here! The nerds rubbed off on them! We better escape while we still can!"

"Leave us alone," Mia said as she jumped up from her seat.

"Oooooh! Is little nerdy Mia gonna hit me? I'll be sure to tell my mommy that a little weak sack of potatoes tried to hurt me. I'll be sure to show her how I kicked her butt."

April reached for Mia but she was too late. Mia had lunged at Wes and punched him in the gut. He obviously wasn't expecting it, he stumbled back and ran into his friends. The room went quiet and everybody was staring. Wes looked like he was about to cry. He returned Mia's favor and punched her in the gut.

"You have no idea what you just did," Mia said, giving Wes an evil glare.

"Actually," Wes started, he paused because of his pain. "I completed step one of beating the weak potato sack's butt."

April grabbed Mia before any damage could be done. That probably would have helped if Drake and I weren't so protective over Mia. We both lunged at Wes and punched him in the gut. He stumbled to the floor and started to cry his eyes out. We realized that punching Wes was the worst mistake of our lives.

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I looked up at Armen, he was very mad. So was the school's principal, the nurse, and Wes' mom. I was there with Drake, Mia, and Wes' savage friends. Drake and I had bags of ice on our legs and stomachs. Drake had one on his face. Wes' friends gave him a black eye where the ended side of his face was. He said that the scare on his face was hurting too, it must have been sensitive.

The nurse was taking a look at us. The most damage was to Drake's eye. I wanted to punch Mia so hard because she didn't get hurt at all. Wes was the weak sack of potatoes.

As the nurse removed the ice from Drake's face he cringed.

"I did a favor for ya," one of the savages said. "Your ugly face looks so much better now."

The principal shot him a look and he stopped smirking.

"Who started all of this?" the principal asked. We all pointed at Wes, even his friends did. The random witness that they brought in nodded.

"Who threw the first punch?"

"I did," Mia said. "I'm sorry."

The principal grabbed Mia's arm and dragged her to another room. She was in big trouble now. I looked over at Drake, the nurse was touching his black eye. Every touch he cringed, but the nurse didn't stop. Even though my leg hurt and I felt the need to puke, I pushed the pain out of my mind and wished as hard as possible for good things to happen for a change.