Hey everyone! Nattasia and Bender are back in a sequel to "A Criminal and a Misfit". Please click on my profile to read it if you haven't. :) I hope you guys enjoy please fave/follow/review!

Nattasia woke up to the sound of her alarm clock. She groaned, and slammed her hand onto her desk, searching for the alarm. When she finally found it she slapped it hard, "Take that you thing from hell." she groaned. She woke up, and nearly jumped out of her skin when she saw her hair. In the morning that thing looked like a lion. She then smiled, and remembered what happened on Saturday. John had come over and they hung out, occasionally making out on the couch between conversations. When her parents came home all she said was she had a friend over, and that was all they would know.

Nattasia sighed, and got her towel, heading for the shower. When she got out, she had about forty minutes to get dressed, and she had no ride to school because her parents were working. Normally she would just put on a T-shirt and jeans, but now that she was with Bender she had a sudden boost of confidence. She looked through her wardrobe, and found an old ACDC dark grey tank top her dad had gotten for her. She smiled when she saw it, and slipped it on. She then began looking for pants, she glanced outside of her window and saw it was a sunny day, and it was going to get warm later. She found a pair of denim shorts, similar to the fit of the black shorts that John liked. After she put those on, she grabbed her blue Jansport back pack, and ran downstairs to get her shoes on. She decided to go with her old worn down black converse, she never got around to saving up for some new shoes. After slipping on her backpack over her shoulders, she realized something. She ran upstairs and found her small lightning bolt necklace, she always wore it for good luck. And, lets face it. Today was going to be the first day of the school year when she didn't wear jeans and a T-shirt, she needed all the help she could get. She knew the popular girls would probably give her some shit today too. Usually she also wore her hair in either a bun or a ponytail to school, today she decided to let her hair flow down naturally. She was just putting on her diamond stud earrings(fake of course-who wore real diamond earrings to school?) when something caught her eye. She found a pin on her desk that said "I freaking love you." She smiled, remembering how John always wore pins on his gloves and jackets. She grabbed it off of her desk, and ran out of the front door. She had twenty minutes to get to school, and she still needed time to meet John in the parking lot. She never remembered herself running so fast in her life, and she was at school in no time. It was 7:46 AM when she found herself walking up to the school. Luckily, school didn't start until 8:00.

John was leaning against one of his friends's cars, smoking a cigarette and talking to his friends. Boomer was his really good friend, and always had the best parties. The rest were also really good friends of his too, Boomer and him just hung out a lot together. There were about fifteen of them in all, the stoners of the school. They were always joking around in class, annoying girls, the daily mischief. But he hadn't told them about what happened in detention on Saturday, who knows what they would have thought of Nattasia. They probably would have thought she was going to ignore him like Claire did, but he knew Nattasia was different. John finished his cigarette and was howling in laughter because of a comment Boomer said about Jessica, one of the most popular girls in school. She was also Claire's best friend. John saw a familiar figure walking up to Shermer High School. His face lite up with happiness, it was Nattasia. And she was dressed differently than usual, but he liked it. He could tell she was more comfortable with herself. Nattasia also, saw John, and their eyes met. She smiled. John hadn't realized he had been staring at her for a couple of minutes as she made her way to the parking lot, and by then all of his friends were turned around looking at her. "Who's that?" Boomer said, with a smirk on his face. John shot him a glare, "She's nice, you know her?" Boomer commented.

"Yeah." John said.

"From where?" Boomer asked.

John rolled his eyes, "Detention." Bender's friends howled in laughter, patting him on the back and cracking jokes. "If you guys say anything I will beat the shit out of you. She's cool, okay?" Bender's friends all just nodded, smiles on their faces.

Nattasia stopped when she saw all fifteen of John friends staring at her. She awkwardly waved, and shot John a What do I do? look. John made his way through the crowd, until he was standing in front of her. He was wearing the same thing he wore to detention, but she didn't care. "Hey" she said in a shy voice.

"Hey sweets." He smirked, looking her over. "You look nice."

Nattasia laughed softly, "Thanks." They looked at each other for a couple of seconds before locking lips, immediately Bender heard howls of laughter and whistling coming from his group. He looked at them, and shot them the middle finger.

"Don't mind them." He said, smirking.

"It's okay, they seem fun." She smiled, laughing.

"You wanna meet 'em?" Bender asked, held her hand, and locked fingers with her.

"Sure!" She said, smiling. This was more of an enthusiastic comment than Bender thought she would reply with. But he was happy she wanted to meet his friends, he smiled at her and they began walking over to John's group of friends who were whistling and talking.