Annie stalked out of the park. Stupid Electric Company. Always ruined everything. She plopped down on the hard wooden bench. Then, she heard footsteps walking away from her. Annie stood up and walked briskly away. Then she stopped. No way, she thought. No way on Earth or Skeleki am I going back there.

"Lisa?" she called.

"Yeah?" Lisa answered.

"Where are you going?"

"To the Diner, I guess."

"Can I come with you?"

"W-we-well, I-I, uh, sure." Lisa stuttered. She had become unaccustomed to requests from Annie Scrambler.

"Thanks." Annie said quickly.

"Sure thing." The pair set off.

"Um, Annie? It's going to look really weird if we just waltz into the diner together." Lisa mused.

"True, true. Then I'll just go somewhere else."

"I don't want you to do that. You'll surely be caught." Annie noted the concern in her voice.

"Lisa, did you hear what you just said? Me get caught? Never." She said indignantly. "Well, there was that one time in third grade…"

"When you skipped Science because you already knew the material and was bored out of your mind? Yeah, I remember. That was funny until they found us."

Flashback:

Annie Scrambler walked in line with her class mates, staring at her new green shoes as the feet they covered plodded off to her next class.

"Annie!" an urgent whisper came from behind her.

"What?" she asked.

"Now!" The two girls silently left the order of the line, darting off down another hallway. After a few minutes of running down the corridors, the girls found their destination. They had discovered the small area under the East staircase themselves. It was a great hiding place, perfect for missing boring classes. Of course they knew it was important to go to class, but science was so dull to them. The two girls were experts in third grade science. How could they not be? They learned it together under that same staircase as smart and curious second graders.

"Nice call, Lisa. No grownups saw us." Lisa giggled as she twirled her blonde hair around her finger.

"I love being a spy."

"Agreed." Annie nodded her head. She pulled the bottom of her purple dress over her knees as she sat down cross legged on the cold floor. Lisa did the same with her own identical dress.

"Did you bring the book?" Lisa asked.

"Yep." Annie pulled a high school science textbook out from under her shirt. Quickly she opened it and flipped to the twenty fifth page. Physics. Eagerly, Lisa and Annie devoured the writing on the pages.

"Wait," Lisa said, confused, "what exactly are quantum numbers?" Annie shushed her.

"I'll tell you later, just let me finish this part." They were so engrossed in their reading, they didn't hear the footsteps approaching.

"Annie, Lisa, come here right now." The stern voice of their teacher broke the silence. Sheepishly, the pair crawled out of their not-so-secret hiding place.

"How did you find us?" Lisa asked.

"It was really hard. Luckily, Danny Rebus knew where you two like to run off to."

"Danny." Annie seethed.

"Oh," the teacher said, "he told me to tell you when I found you that it was revenge for the time you two knocked over your glue bottle in kindergarten and got glue on his popsicle sticks." Lisa and Annie sighed.

"I so hate when he does that." They said in unison, sharing a secret smile.

"Now follow me." The teacher said strictly.

"Where to?" Annie inquired.

"The principle." The teacher answered.

End Flashback.

"I know where to go." They said together, then laughed. It was just like old times.