Neil was the only one who noticed how Stacy Richards writes off on the exam. He shoved Harry into the shoulder and poked his fingers toward the beginning of the class.

- Look - he whispered.

Harry saw, but could not believe his eyes. Stacy Richards is the ice queen, the wet dream of all teenagers at Greenwood High School, looking intently at a small piece sticking out from under the examination paper.

Mr Edgar coughed softly and shifted in his chair. Stacy quickly pushed the cheat sheet under the examination form and looked guiltily at the teacher. Her face visibly turned pink. If the teacher looked at her at this moment, he certainly would have understood that something was wrong with the girl. But why would he do that? Stacy Richards has been an excellent student since arriving at Greenwood High College 4 years ago. Instead, he drew attention to Neil French and Harry Sims cool hooligans: Neil with his long greasy hair and deliberately sloppy stylish clothes and Harry with his cynical sense of humor and scum. Of course, they were whispering in the back of the class instead of writing an exam.

- French ... Sims! He shouted, pulling his fat body out of the chair. Go to the board ... both!

With a dull expression on the face, the boys went to the center of the class. Neil noticed that Stacy smiled haughtily, gliding at him with an indifferent look.

Bitch! - he thought. We'll see who will be the last to laugh ...

- Mr. Edgar! - he blurted out, - we saw ...

Harry abruptly poked him in the side with his elbow, and the boy stopped short. He looked at his companion with displeasure and wanted to continue, but the teacher did not let him say a word.

- You two have no sense. Some trouble - announced Mr. Edgar, trembling with indignation. I do not want and can no longer allow you to break the silence during the exam with your idiotic jokes and whispers!

Neil wanted to argue, but the teacher interrupted him, looking like angry in earnest.

- You both failed the exam. Now you apologize to the class and go out! Do you understand?

The boys nodded grimly.

- Another violation, and I will remove you from the class forever. I think you do not really like to study at the summer school for the lagging behind !?

Harry remained completely indifferent to this threat, but the words of the teacher made an impression on Neal. Bleksvil - urban beach was the most popular summer destination for urban youth, and the threat instead of swimming and parties sitting in a stuffy class all summer was really scary.

The boys muttered an apology. There was a laugh and Neil noticed that Stacy was among the giggles. Most students turned their eyes away from the humiliation of friends. Friends hurried out of the audience.

***

Stacy shook off strands of blond hair from her shoulder and lowered her eyes to the examination paper. The class gradually calmed down. Thank God, these two wise guys left, she thought, throwing Neal and Harry out of her memory. There were "people" and "proletarians" in her world. The boys belonged to the latter type. She would not even remember their names, if Neil had eaten in the past year, did not try to care for her and ... Oh, God, he even invited me on a date! Of course, she refused him a cruel and mocking form. Then she asked Pete, her then boyfriend, to teach the boy a lesson. Pete obediently fulfilled her request to severely beat Neal in the presence of Stacy, who was watching the execution with a cold, arrogant smile on her face. And Neal no longer pestered the girl. Soon Stacy broke with Pete, he lost his captaincy and became not interested in her. The girl successfully threw the story out of her mind.

Sighing heavily, Stacey looked at the dough sheet. She frowned.Questions that seemed easy a year ago now put her in a dead end. Stacy was a smart girl, and studying was easy for her, but in the past six months she has been too much involved in social work. Cheerleading, beach parties, student council left too little time to practice. As a result, one day she had not found the perfect day for the final exams, but she was absolutely not ready for them. And if she is bad or, which is unthinkable at all, fails to pass the exams, she will ruin her account and will not be elected “queen of the ball”, and this was her goal, which she has been striving for the last few years. Thus, Stacy decided to go the easy way and just wrote cheat sheets for the first round of exams. Then she promised herself that she would return to the correct path and would learn everything.

Glancing behind her, Stacey shifted the exam sheet and looked at the cheat sheet with the answers ...

****

Neal walked behind Harry, just blazing with anger. Such a great chance to take revenge on this bitch Stacy. What the hell happened why Harry didn't let him do it? Neal's thoughts rotated steadily around Stacey, and he grumbled to himself.

Stacy was one of the inaccessible princesses of the school, which attracted guys to themselves, but did not give them anything. Used and thrown away right there, forgetting about them. Blond hair to shoulders, big green eyes boldly upturned, plump juicy lips and a perfect body of an athlete. She was engaged in swimming and cycle track. In short, the most beautiful school girl is a student’s dream.

For the bulk, it remained an inaccessible dream. The girl preferred to communicate only in the highest circles of the school hierarchy. Athletes, team captains and the like. Neal sincerely fell in love with her in a vulgar year, and she, it would be fine if she simply rejected it. So he attacked the ambala of the football team, who beat him at all. As one of Neal's friends said, such girls notice people like us, just to insult or humiliate.

The guys left the school through the side entrance and crossed the parking lot. Neal broke down and exploded.

- Heck! Why did you interrupt me in class ?! This bitch was in my hands. I could I had to give her back the favor!

Harry just smiled at his friend's angry tirade. Neal felt uncomfortable under that smile. Where Neal behaved loudly and defiantly Harry always acted quietly and imperceptibly. Despite the fact that the guys have been friends for many years, Harry periodically frightened Neal with this smile and strange ideas.

- What is so funny I said? Neal asked nervously.
- You are right quietly said to Harry, we can make this snow queen. But not at all what you meant.
- What are you talking about?
- If we were to give a butch, accusing Stacy now Edgar most likely just would not believe us. You know how he treats us. And if I had believed ... Stacy could hide the traces and remove the cheat sheet while we were going to the blackboard and then ... Summer school and shame. And even if everything burned out ... Well, she would not have passed the exam today, would have passed in a week and that's all. Do not forget, she is on a special account, the favorite of all teachers. And she would have set her friends on us, did she really forget what happened last year?
“But ...” began Neal.
- Did you forget Pete?

Neil nodded grimly. Stacy had no shortage of pumped up pals from a local football team.

“So ... You said that we can do it.”
- Right.
- But how?

The boys came up to Harry's car, a big black Pontiac. Harry opened the door before answering.

- If she writes off on the math exam, she has real problems with her studies. She always knew mathematics perfectly and suddenly wrote off.
- You are right, perhaps. So what?
- You did not understand? She is not ready for ALL exams and then she will write off again! Next week English test. And I think our princess will drag the cheat sheets again to surrender him.

He started the car and began to taxi from the parking lot. Neil watched his friend's maneuvers thinking.

- So what?
“I will tell you when we come to Sharon.” I assure Stacy will be on our hook.

****

Sharon was Harry's girlfriend, maybe more than just a friend. Neil was never sure what kind of relationship they had. They occasionally had sex. But Sharon was engaged ...