Max goes to sharpen a pencil. Not really, because his true aim is to try and get a better look at that photo that fell out of Benjamin's backpack, but it wasn't like the spoiled boy had the decency to drop it near anybody. If he had then Max would have just gone over to...<br/><br/>oh, dear. Well, somebody else stepped on it now, and there it went. Perhaps later, if it was still there. (Or if he was wrong and it was still there.)<br/><br/>And if she hadn't picked out a partner by the time he was done, Max was going to head Ryder-wards. There were theories that needed validation. If not, oh well. There was . . . ah, Miss Schultz. A good choice as to indirect - who was he kidding. He just didn't know what was going on there, and wanted to know.