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Tobey held a stack of blank papers in his hands and immediately walked over to the back of the school building. He knew that this would be a risky situation but he was not going to start on getting behind his homework. The last thing that he needed was another parent-teacher meeting about his schoolwork, especially after how he was feeling throughout the time when he had met his 'father.'

Pressing a button on his remote, the gargantuan robot leaned down and looked at Tobey with a stoic expression upon its features. This robot had less expressions than Artsy did but at least he got the job finished. "Take these quickly and hurry it up," Tobey said to the robot as he placed the stack of papers in the robot's mouth for the school project. If only he had bough Artsy with him to school, he would have at least prepared a diorama on the planets that they had learned about. The moment that the stack of papers entered the robot's mouth, its eyes began to flash red as it began to pour all of knowledge that Tobey had installed into it onto the blank sheets of paper. After a good few minutes, the robot opened its mouth and Tobey took the papers in his hands.

"Perfect," the boy genius stated, "now run along. I shall meet you after school." Turning around to head back to the playground, Tobey almost jumped out of his skin when he noticed his classmate, Becky Botsford, leaning against the wall. "Becky!" he exclaimed, almost dropping the papers from his hands, "how long have you been standing there?"

"Long enough to see your robot doing your homework for you," Becky answered as she crossed her arms and held a scowl within her eyes, "seems like someone forgot to do his homework."

Tobey tried to restrain the nerve that was threatening to unleash itself upon the young girl. The last thing he needed was a lecture from someone that he considered an equal match in knowledge. "I have my reasons why," Tobey simply stated, "as a matter of fact, it is not considered cheating if that's what you intended, for I have installed all of my knowledge in this robot."

"It still doesn't excuse the fact that you didn't do your homework," Becky said.

"Don't think that I would do something like this on a regular basis Botsford, it was for an emergency. If you have gone through what I have, then you might understand," he clenched tightly onto the papers in his arms as he if was keeping a hold of something special.

The moment that he said those words, Becky thought of the conversation that they had in the library and she knew what he had meant by that. She uncrossed her arms and let them fall to her sides as she continued to look at Tobey. She may have not gone through the same situation as Tobey had, but she at least could understand what he was feeling. "I am not apathetic Tobey," the brunette said to him.

"Oh really?" Tobey said.

Becky blinked at his words. "Yes, I am the opposite of that actually. On the contrary, I can understand what you're going through," she paused as she looked down at the stack of papers on his arms once more, "but still, you cannot use your robots to cheat on your homework."

Tobey closed his eyes in exasperation and let out a sigh. "What are you going to do? Tell Ms. Davis on me?" he asked her with a glare upon his eyes.

Becky rolled her eyes to the sky, taking his suggestion into consideration. She could do the right thing and tell Ms. Davis about it, or she could face the consequences of that and be called a 'Snitch' by Tobey. That word had become rather infamous within the school, but Becky personally thought there were better words than that. 'Canary' was a clever one and better sounding than a word like 'snitch.'

"I could," Becky spoke, "but I won't. In fact, I would like to negotiate on that."

Tobey could see a sparkle in her brown eyes then moment she used that word. He blinked as he instinctively took a step back from her when she said such a word. "Negotiate?" he echoed.

Becky nodded her head. "Negotiate means to-"

"Come into terms of agreement with someone concerning a certain situation. I am well aware what 'negotiate' means," Tobey interrupted. He did not like how this conversation was going to end between him and Becky. In fact, he rarely negotiated with anyone let alone the girl standing right in front of him. Looking that the expression that she beheld, he felt that he had no choice. "What is it?"

"You're going to apologize to Violet," Becky said.

"I beg your pardon?" Tobey blinked.

"I'm sure you clearly heard what I said," Becky said to him, "did you think I was going to let something like that go? Especially when my best friend's feelings were hurt by you?"

Tobey clenched his jaw when Becky reminded him of that moment. "Are you being serious Becky?" he asked her, "I am sure that she got over that."

Even though it might seem that Violet had gotten over Tobey's attitude, Becky knew that deep down she was still not happy about the way that Tobey had spoken to her. "It's either this, or Ms. Davis finding out about your homework."

"No other alternative?" Tobey asked but all he got in response was a shake of her head. Letting out another sigh, Tobey felt his shoulders fall as he walked past Becky. "Fine, I'll go and apologize to her...but this will be the first and the last favor."

A smirk came upon Becky's lips as she followed alongside Tobey. "Violet and Scoops and should be right over..." her eyes looked around the playground before she spotted her best friend sitting with Scoops by a tree, "right over there."

"I can see that," Tobey muttered as he walked forward and approached Violet and Scoops.

Violet giggled at what Scoops was telling her before she opened her eyes and looked over and saw Tobey and Becky. "Hi Becky...oh," her smile faltered the moment she saw that Tobey was with her, "hi Tobey."

Hmph Tobey thought. So she's still grieving over what I said. It took all of his will to not roll his eyes at the blond but now that the opportunity had come, he just wanted to get it over with.

"Violet," Becky spoke up as she glanced over at Tobey, "Tobey wanted to talk to you. Right Tobey?" she sternly said and elbowed him with her arm.

"Ow," he whispered as he clenched the arm that Becky had just elbowed. "Not so hard," he glared at Becky who mirrored the same glare that he had. "Indeed," he said as he looked at Violet and cleared his throat. "I came here to apologize for my behavior at the library yesterday. It was uncalled for. I am sorry."

Violet blinked before a small smile came upon her lips. She had not expected any sort of apology from Tobey, but it was kind of him to do so. "Thank you Tobey," she said to him with a whisper. "Apology accepted."

"Happy now?" Tobey said as he faced Becky with a glare before walking away from the group.

At least it was nice while it lasted Becky thought to herself and joined her friends by the tree. "What's the matter with him?" Scoops asked as he looked at Violet and Becky with a perplexed expression. "Did he say anything to you Violet?"

Becky was about to respond to him but Violet beat her right to it. "Oh it's nothing to worry about," Violet answered as she waved her hand in the air. "It was just a small disagreement between Tobey and me."

"I wouldn't call it a 'disagreement' but," Becky chimed in, "it was something that he shouldn't have said. Anyway," she quickly added before the three of them got too deep into the conversation about Tobey. "I am curious to hear about everyone's presentation on the solar system."

"Right," Scoops said, "it shows how much there is out there. Now I don't know whether I should be a reporter or an astronaut. Wait a minute!" Scoops brightened as he clung tightly onto his notepad and took the pencil that was neatly tucked behind his ear, "I could be both. Bringing extraterrestrial news to Earth."

Both girls dissolved into laughter before Scoops joined them in. "What about the Daily Rag?" Violet asked.

"Not to worry," Scoops said, "if I could work for one newspaper, I could also work for the Daily Rag. This is where I first started and I will be here until the very end of it."

"And what would we do without the announcement of the school activities that go on, or the lunches," Becky said with a smile upon her lips.

Suddenly, their conversation came to an end as the bell rang to indicate and end to recess. "Let's go guys," Scoops said as he got up from the grass, swiped his hands together, and the three of them headed back into the school building for their presentations.