*Sam's P.O.V*

~at school the next day...~

"And the project will be presented next week, I will be assigning partners for this project," there were groans across the class, "eh hem, as I was saying there will be partners first is Zack Smith and Tressa Nolan, Sam Green and Zeke Cardinal-" the teach we r listed off pairs and I was happy.

Good. Zeke Cardinal is one of my good friends from baseball.

Everyone was paired up except one person who had to work alone but I didn't hear who it was it didn't matter.

Zeke raised his hand, "Mrs.Louis?" He asks.

"Yes Cardinal?" She says.

"I won't be here to the next 3 weeks so I don't think that will work. " He says crushing hopes and dreams.

"Thats ok Zeke I forgot about that you will just have to work on it while your gone, Sam?" Says the teacher.

"Yes?" I say.

"You can work with Mr. Fast since he didn't have a partner before." She says

I raised a eyebrow .... Fast? That sounded fimiliar.

"Ok your project is about..." I zone out. Where did I know that name?

"Ok you can start planning with your partner's now." Says the teacher after a while.

I sit at my desk. James walks over to me.

"Ok so about turtles." he says.

I look at him like 'Wtf?', I am so confused.

"Uh, the project? Went you paying attention?" He asks.

That's where I heard that name, James Fast.

"Ya but she didn't say anything about turtles did she?" I ask him.

"I'm ya that's what the whole project is on." He laughs a little.

"Oh i-" the bell rings for school to end.

"Ill meet you at your house after school!" Says James and he grabs his stuff and walks out of the classroom not letting me say anything more.

"Huh." I mutter to myself grabbing my black binder stuffed with notes, papers, and homework.

-

When I get home I take off my jacket that goes with my uniform and my shoes leaving me in my time and my button up under shirt. Then clean everything up, I wiped the counters off in the kitchen, vacuumed the living room floor and clean my room all in 30 min.

At 4:47pm, I was watching tv when there was a knock on my door.

"Comming." I say as I stand up and walk over to the door. I open it and James smiles

"Hey!" He says letting himself in.

We go and sit on the couch in the living room.

"Ok so please tell me what were supposed to be doing." I say.

"Well we're supposed to do a research paper on turtles." I give him a odd look ,"don't look at me like that I didn't choose it." He says.

"Well I have never seen a turtle in my life so..." I say.

"Are you serious?!" Says James, "your kidding right..?" He asks.

"Nope." I say.

"Come on." He says grabbing my hand and taking me outside to his car.

"Hey where are we going?" I ask.

"You'll see." He says with a smile that I blush at when I see.

He pushes me into the passenger seat and we drive off for about 5 minutes then we get to a small pet store.

"Here we are!" He says getting out of his black and yellow mustang that I envy.

"Why did you bring me here?" I ask as he take my hand again, making me blush, again.

"I'm going to get you a turtle." Says James smiling back at me.

"I-i don't even know how to take care of a pet! I never had one!" I say.

"Ya you have! Remember when we were kids we found a small black kitten that was a stray? I think we named it shadow...." He says thinking hard about it.

I smile at the childhood memories, "ya I forgot about that..."

"Here!" Says James holding a turtle to my face. I jump back.

"Uh..... I don't know about this James..." I say cautiously.

"Oh it's fine... Ill help you take care of it." Says James with that cute smile of his. I blush, again.

*Jame's P.O.V*

I see him blush when I smiled. So I should smile more.... I smile again and hold on to the turtle, "let's find what we need, how about you find the cage and ill find the bedding and food." I say and Sam nods and goes to find a cage.

-

Me and Sam ride in the car back to his place.

When we get back Sam puts the cage with the turtle up in his room and I sit on his bed, he sits beside me.

"Ok so let's start writing this report." I say.

"Yea!" Says Sam.

-a few hours later.-

"Well I'm done how about you sa-" I look over at Sam, he was asleep well it was 10:30 at night so I guess I couldn't blame him.

I look over at his stack of papers, he had finished also. I smile at him then go downstairs and walk to my house.