Walking along the back side of the school building, Micheal was taking Cameron to see if some guys were willing to go out with Kat.

Cameron hasn't even talked to her before, but seeing how she almost hit Micheal with her car yesterday, he was starting to doubt the whole "how to get the girl" situation.

"Now, I have gathered a group of guys, couldn't be more perfect." said Micheal, as he led Cameron down the stair case. "Padua's finest."

As they arrived at a dank room, wherein waits a very motly crew of the most unlikely specimen one would expect. Cameron shoots Micheal an unsatisfied grimace.

Micheal and Cameron smiled at the five guys, as Cameron spoke up. "Hi. How you doin'?"

None of them bothered to respond, so Cameron just went on.

"Would any of you be interested in dating Katarina Stratford?"

-

The first guy that the two boys had sit down to talk to just bursted out laughing.

The second, well, he didn't actually do anything at all. He just stared blankly at them.

The third, who was some blonde dude, lazily spoke up, "I've never been that ripped."

The fourth guy, "Maybe if we were the last people alive," he paused, "and there were no sheep."

Cameron just stood there with a dumbfounded face, not knowing how to react to somebody like this.

Where the hell did Micheal even get these guys from?

The guy sat up a bit smiling creepily, "Are there sheep?"

And the last guy, just screamed.

Well, there goes his chances with Eliana going down.

-

In biology class, several dissection charts of frog anatomy hang from the walls. The class is busy dissecting frogs, so Micheal and Cameron, naturally, are lab partners.

Micheal pointed his pen at Cameron as he asked, "Did I or did I not tell you that it was pointless?" he adjusted himself in his seat, and continued to get annoyed at Cameron's attempts. "No one will go out with her."

Cameron just put on an unbothered face, while looking up.

As he looked up, his eyes met the same guy who scared him in the counselors office, playing around with a butterfly knife, and stabbing the frog with no hesitation.

Cameron licked his lips as he gained Michaels attention. "Hey, hey what about him?"

"You wanna go out with him?"

"What? No!"

He pointed to the guy, and Micheal looked at Patrick Verona.

As he looked at him, his eyes widened and he swiftly looked back at Cameron with a slight frightened look on his face.

"Him? No, don't. Don't look at him, okay?"

"Uh, okay."

"He's a criminal." Micheal paused as he started nervously breathing. "I heard he lit a state trooper on fire. He just did a year in San Quentin."

"Yeah?" Cameron chuckled. "Well, at least he's horny."

Micheal put on a mocking face, but quickly switched his expression to a serious one. "I'm serious man. He's whacked." He pursed his lips before going on about the intimidating guy. "He sold his own liver on the black market for a new set of speakers!"

Cameron just smirked, finding it funny at how scared Micheal was of him.

Looking back at Patrick, he now had a cigarette in his mouth as he bent the upper half of his body down to light it up with fire that was settled on the table.

The guy besides him quickly snatched the cigarette from his mouth and lit it out.

Cameron was amazed at this whole scene in front of him.

"He's our guy."

Standing up, he smiled lightly while continuing to look at him.

But when Patrick looked up and saw the two boys watching him, they immediately looked away as Cameron rubbed the back of his neck, nervously.

Still staring at the two boys, he started touching the fire.

-

In woodshop, boys and a few stray girls nail their pieces of wood together.

Micheal sits down next to PEPE, a coffee kid, who holds out his jacket like the men who sell watches in the subway.

Micheal's just there for Cameron to talk to Patrick. There's no way in hell that Micheal would ever interact with him.

PEPE suddenly started randomly talking to Micheal. "Some people like the Colombian, but it all depends on your acidity preference. Me? I prefer East African and Indonesian. You start the day with a Sumatra Boengie or maybe Ethiopian Sidamo in your cup, you're that much farther ahead than someone drinkin' Costa Rican or Kona— you know what I mean?"

Micheal nods solemnly.

No, he doesn't know what he means.

(this wasn't in the movie but whatever😭)

Across the room, Patrick sits at a table, making something that looks like a machete out of a two-by-four.

Cameron approaches him, full of good-natured farm boy type cheer.

"Hey. How you doin'?"

Patrick looks up from what he's doing to look at Cameron. He looks annoyed and not happy.

"Listen, I—" Cameron trails off as he hears the sound of a power drill

In response of what Cameron was about to say, surely enough, Patrick brandished a loud power drill through Cameron's beloved French book.

Cameron raises an eyebrow, looking down.

He immediately drops the book. "Okay, well, later then."

Patrick looks at the boy run away, both amused and confused

-

The two boys stand out in the hallway, as Micheal looks through the hole of the book.

He deeply sighs. "How do we get him to date Kat?"

Even though he's annoyed at how badly Cameron is trying, he's still his friend at the end of the day so he'll continue to help him.

Cameron, who's leaning on a window, just shakes his head. "I don't know."

He walks towards Micheal, and just starts to say whatever comes to mind. "I mean, we could pay him."

Micheal actually nods at his idea.

"But we don't have any money."

Micheal stays quiet for a moment. "Yeah, well, what we need is a backer."

Cameron furrows his eyebrows. "What's that?"

"Someone with money. Who's stupid."

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thank you guys sm for 1k reads!!! hopefully you guys are enjoying this is book so far. this chapter basically focused on Cameron and Micheal looking for a guy, so sadly, there was no Eliana.