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2.

Sitting at the front of the classroom next to a few others that actually paid attention to Mr. Hendricks history lesson I glanced back at Harry's empty seat. He sat towards the middle of the classroom and looking back only made me laugh to myself internally. There was no doubt in my mind that he was late due to my little stunt I pulled last night.

Turning in my seat to find Niall just a couple desks back from me I snapped a few times to grab his attention from his paper he was no doubt drawing all over. No one really paid attention in Mr. Hendricks' class simply because he lectured us constantly with no real substance to his lessons.

"What?" Niall mouthed making sure to not disturb any of the others who may or may not be trying to focus.

"Where's Harry?" I mouthed back averting my eyes to the empty desk to gesturing to Harry being absent.

"So Kendall, since you are having a conversation with Mr. Horan about the Cold War; can you please tell us who the president was at the time." Mr. Hendricks called me out in front of the rest of the class. Turning to face him I saw his judging eyes and attitude that was confident he would make me look dumb in front of all my peers. Fortunately, I was smarter than he thought I was and even though I lacked attention in this class I knew more than the average student in this class.

Sitting up straighter and giving him a smug smile I spoke, "Well, Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated as president in January. During the last 18 months of the Truman administration, the American defense budget had quadrupled, and Eisenhower moved to reduce military spending by a third while continuing to fight the Cold War effectively."

Seeing him taken back by my well crafted answer I tilted my head to the side waiting for a reply back from him. Student's jaws dropped around me before looking back at Mr. Hendricks who was trying to regain his composure from my beautiful answer. I spoke with confidence and knew by the time I finished my thought everyone was thoroughly impressed. I wasn't about to have a teacher especially Mr. Hendricks show me up in front of everyone.

"Does that answer your question Mr. Hendricks?" I batted my eyes innocently smirking awaiting a response.

"Yes thank you Kendall, on another note let's get into the government spending during this time." Mr. Hendricks turned towards the board and began to rant on about our government spending during this time period.

Flipping back around again in my seat I faced Niall who shrugged his shoulders when I gave him a confused face. Sighing I turned back to the front hoping that Harry would make it before this period was up, sometimes the best part of doing this war was the reaction the next morning.

Feeling my phone buzz in my back pocket I picked it out of my pocket to see a text from Niall come in. Opening up my phone and navigating to the contacts thread I pressed on Niall's name and began to read his message.

Niall: Did you do this?

I saw the attachment under the text he sent, it was of Harry's car completely wrapped in plastic wrap. Giggling to myself I began to respond to Niall.

Kendall: Do stoners smoke weed?

Niall: I must say this is among your best work!

Kendall: Please hold the applause!

Niall: He's on his way now, he said it took him forever to cut through that!

Kendall: What can I say, I don't half ass something.

Niall: Damn straight!

"Mrs. Ramsey, I don't want to take that phone away." Mr. Hendricks snapped already feeling less confident from me showing him up in his own classroom.

"Sorry, you won't see it again sir." I shut my phone off and slid it back into my back pocket. I knew that in less than an hour the whole school would hear about my next creation.

In our high school we had our own designated website strictly for drama and news surrounding a few select people, me being one of them. This website gained much popularity during freshman year when all of us moved to the big pond known as high school and Harry and I's pranks came at full force. No one knew who controlled this account nor did we know how it even started. This without a doubt would be passed all over the site before lunch time, the site thrived on drama. I had to be careful with what I told others since being a popular figure on the site my life drama could potentially be posted on there.

I as well as Harry, Blair, Niall, Liam, and Louis were all hot topics on this site. Any news happening in this circle was found out and reported on since others outside the group would send information into the site. My prank towards Harry was in no time going to be up on the front homescreen, they always were.

Snapping my head to the door where someone was coming in late a smile planted on my face seeing his arrival. His curly hair was tied in his famous bandana every girl drooled over, his eyes coming in contact with Mr. Hendricks.

"Please take a seat Mr. Styles and turn to page 407 in your textbook." Mr. Hendricks instructed Harry when he handed him a tardy slip that was required to enter the classroom.

Moving my eyes with Harry I watched as he sat down looking utterly tired. Small bags drooped under his eyes from what I would guess all the work to undo what I did to his car. I knew for a fact Harry as well as Niall, Louis, and Liam all had early morning soccer practice. Most likely my little stunt made him late for practice and if the coach was anything like mine he had to run laps for how long it took him to get to practice.

Giggling to myself I saw as he looked up and over at me from his desk. He shook his head and gave me a small smile to convey that he wasn't mad, he was just going to get even. This is how our relationship worked, we never truly got mad at each other we just simply got even.

Checking my phone once again that was buzzing I saw just like clockwork the post from North High Gossip. A chorus of buzzes played in the room from others phones that were being alerted to the update. Smiling slightly I looked around to see everyone checking their phones at what North High's infamous gossip page had to say.

"What part of no phones do you all not understand?" Mr. Hendricks huffed warning the class to put their phones away before he confiscated them.

I looked from Niall to Harry with a bright smile plastered on my face utterly satisfied with my work. Harry shook his head turning his attention back Mr. Hendricks who was losing the attention of his class quicker then he could blink.

The ringing of the bell was echoed in the classroom causing everyone to stand up and attach their hands to their phones. Scrolling through the latest update myself I checked what I had accomplished by reading the post.

The only textbook H should be turning to is his one of revenge! Looks like our queen of tricks K got him good this time. Don't worry about it too much H, at least you got to miss half of practice this morning.

Do I smell a revenge scheme on the horizon?

Yours truly, Gigi

Laughing at the pictures attached I looked for at Harry who was reading on what Gigi had posted. No one knew who Gigi was or if they were a boy or girl, their identity remained a mystery.

"Enjoy the victory while you can, cause it won't last long." Harry smirked walking past me leaving me to think of what he would do next. Harry always strikes when you least expected ultimately making anything he did inconvenient.

Walking down the halls to find Blair waiting for me we began to walk down the halls together before we would split off to our separate classes.

"Did you see the Gigi post?" Blair asked while I nodded my head laughing.

"I must say we have out done ourselves." I complimented her and I both on the smooth execution last night.

"Now looking at it in the picture it really was beautifully done." Blair laughed along with me pulling up the picture from the post. "What did he say to you?" She was referring to Harry and his reaction.

"He just shrugged it off and smiled but told me at the end of class to enjoy the victory while I could." I told her walking past all the others that gave us smiles and laughed. While a few other girls shook their heads and rolled their eyes due to them liking Harry and not appreciating that I ruined Harry's morning with wrapping his car.

"I wonder what he's got up his sleeve this time?" Blair question beginning to separate from me due to her class being across the hall from mine.

"Whatever it is, it can't top what we did." I turned away walking away into the classroom where others await my arrival. Sitting down in my desk I saw Liam come in and give me a high five.

"Nice one K!" He laughed sitting down next to me until the bell rang.

"Thanks!" I nodded giving him a high five back.

"You should have seen him this morning! Coach made him run 25 laps since he was 25 minutes late!" Liam slapped his knees and tilted his head back laughing from the memory of this morning.

"Did he really?" I giggled along with Liam laughing more because of Liam's infectious laugh.

"You should have seen Harry's face!" The bell rang causing Liam to stand up and walk to his seat still laughing. Settling into my seat I sat back ready to listen to what the lesson was on today. I actually enjoyed this class and didn't mind listening in on the lessons.

"Hey Kendall! Nice job girl!" Mr. G came in giving me a high five to which I returned one to him. I loved Mr. G with all his sarcastic remarks and dry humor.

"Thanks Mr. G!" I thanked taking Harry's advice and enjoying the victory while I could.