Ricki nodded to his advices and smiled. "Best. Research. Ever." She said, and her eyes brightened slightly. "Sopranos and YouTube. What more could a girl ask for?" She said, and when the bell rang it took every fiber of her being to not look back to Gabe. "Yeah. I'll be there, so if I don't answer the door, just walk on in. The house is big, and if I'm not in the main room I won't hear it."

Ricki slipped out of class and messaged Gabe again. The art room was.in a relatively quiet part of the school, so she assumed it would be the best place to meet.

Gabe found her with Relative ease, and he saw the look on her face. "What's up, Rick?" He didn't even attempt to be funny, and when Ricki showed him the picture.on her phone, he took it and his jaw dropped. "But... how?"

"I don't know. I guess someone was watching us. Krista and Maureen are doing as much as they can right now, but I have to know who you told." She said, and he sighed.

"I mean I told Aaron but dude transferred out, and Lacey is my sister, she wouldn't do me like this." He said. "I'll do what I can, but, how did.it come out?"

"I have no clue, but between David already pissed and Heather and I don't really talk much because I dumped ol' meat head." She said, "so I don't know she'd react to the idea of us hooking up."

He shook his head. "We'll talk more at lunch, I'm running late. Meet me, well, here."

"I've got a safer place. Art room 3." She said, "and I'll try to get Krista and Maureen too."

He nodded, and when the bell rang, she opened the art door. "Sorry about this." She said, entering the class and sitting with Krista and Maureen. "Lunch sound good?"

"The usual place?" Maureen asked and Ricki nodded as the.lesson began. They were working on landscape sketching, and soon her phone vibrated again. She didn't look, frankly being too scared to, so she decided.to ignore it until later.