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Ashley, am I correct?”
    “Right…” I said again. I turned towards Mr. Backs and kind of zoned out Alan.
    “You and I will be husband and wife in a future life,” I heard Alan say after he had been going on for a while. “You and I will live on planet Zenith. You will be the sister-in-law of Spock, and I will once again be like Spock in appearance.”
    “You are so mental! There is no Spock! He’s just a character on TV. He never did exist and he never will exist. Please stop bothering me. It’s really creepy!” I said a little too loud. The whole class looked at me.
                  “Ashley, stay after class. We need to talk,” Mr. Backs gave me a serious look and continued on talking.
                  “You’re not being too nice today!” Alan whispered to me. “You used to be really nice to me. Why aren’t we friends anymore?”
                  “I’m really sorry, Alan. This day is just turning out to be rotten. I didn’t mean to take it out on you, but you really need to tone down the Spock thing.”
                  “The information you have presented to me will not have been given in vain.” I guess that was Alan’s way of forgiving me, which I was glad he did. He may be a weird geek, but he’s nice. The end of the day bell sounded so I stayed seated to have my talk with Mr. Backs.
                  “Mr. Backs, I’m really sorry I was late. I didn’t mean to, and I can promise you it won’t happen again. I also didn’t mean to yell in class today. It’s just been a rough day,” I finished my apology.
                  “Apology accepted. I’m sorry I was so rough on you in class. You don’t actually have detention, but I couldn’t just let the rest of the students think that if you have a good excuse, you’re out of trouble. I know you’re an honest person so I’ll let it go this time. I know it won’t occur again.  Just don’t tell anyone about this and we’ll pretend it never happened, okay?”
                  “Yes! Thank you very much!” I smiled at him, picked up my books and headed for my locker. Nothing at all had happened to me all day concerning me wearing black. I laughed at how stupid some people were for being so scared. I saw Betty and the rest of the girls heading towards the exit. “Hey, Bet!” I yelled to her.
                  Betty turned to me, “Hey, Ash! What’s up?”
                  “Not much, but are we all going to homecoming together?”
                  “Yeah. It’s this Saturday. My mom is coming around to pick everyone up around 6:30, okay?” Betty turned to the rest of the girls and then looked at me.
                  “Okay. See you guys later.” I kept walking to my locker. Hopefully, Jack would be there. (His locker was right next to mine.)  I wanted to ask him about this morning. I headed for my locker. I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was Jack, but he was with someone. I couldn’t tell who it was but that was probably because his face was plastered to hers. Disgusting. As he came up for air, he went to get a book from his locker, I saw that the girl, who was the center of Jack’s attention was Lena!
                  “Jack!” I couldn’t hold back.
                  He turned around, “Oh, hi. What’s going on, Ashley?”
                  “Nothing, but apparently something is with you. What are you doing?” I asked.
                  “Getting my books…is that unusual?” He looked at me questioningly.
                  “No you and…and…” I couldn’t say it.
                  “Me?” Lena giggled with pleasure. “I was kissing my boyfriend, if it’s any of your business.” She looked at me with triumphant eyes and stroked Jack’s arm.
                  “What? You’re kidding me. Jack, this has got to be