When Vician walked into the classroom, he looked right at Lexi, making her blush as she thought of how he had rebuffed her.  Jeff turned to her, giving her a curious look. "Who's that, Lex?" he asked.<br/><br/>Reluctantly, she tore her eyes from Vician and looked at Jeff, shrugging her shoulders delicately. "He was in my last class," she said.  "I thought I knew him from somewhere, but apparently, I was wrong."  Her voice sounded bitter, and she smiled to take the edge off of her words.  At least<em>he</em>wouldn't have heard her, she thought.<br/><br/>As their science teacher walked into the classroom, she pulled out her binder and a pen, ready to take notes even though she knew it was unlikely that they'd be doing any real work on the first day of school.  As Ms. Pomfrey's voice droned, Lexi found herself doodling instead of paying attention.<br/><br/>"Vician and Alexis, table number twelve."<br/><br/>Lexi looked up, startled when she heard her name. "Excuse me?" she said, embarrassed by her own confusion.<br/><br/>Ms. Pomfrey frowned at her.  "Alexis, I am assigning lab partners for the school year.  If you're to be in senior classes this year, you need to act like a senior and pay attention."<br/><br/>Lexi's eyes widened as she realized that she'd been assigned to be Vician's partner, and she stared back at the teacher, a stricken look on her face.  "I-I apologize, Ms. Pomfrey," she responded and then looked down at her desk.  As she realized that she'd absently been doodling Vician's name on a sheet of notebook paper, further mortification turned her cheeks a bright red.