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Shop Class: [2/15]

As the student enter the shop, they'll see that it looks like a normal shop classroom with various materials for building having been pulled out from the supply closet.

"All right guys, I know this is a day late and a dollar short but I want you to build something the signifies yesterday's holiday. Or... if you are against valentine's day in general? Something that is symbolizes "Anti-Valentines" day."

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After this morning's upheaval, John just stares at his materials for a long time.

Finally, deciding to ignore everything from this morning, John finds a Twinkie, sticks it on a clean rod and pushes the rod into a flat, piece of wood.

"Valentine's Day makes Twinkies that much sweeter," he says absently.

Sam noticed John's lack of enthusiasm. "You okay?" She asked, softly.

"Not really," John says, staring at the Twinkie trophy. "How're you?"

"Been better," she shrugged. "Anything I can do?"

"No," he says and shakes his head. "Bad Valentine's Day?"

Sam looked sympathetically at John. Something was obviously bothering him, but he just as obviously didn't want to talk about it. "Yeah. Jack and I are done."

And she can't believe she just said that so calmly and rationally. Shouldn't that hurt more?

"Bummer," he says and almost adds 'so are me and Aeryn. "He was never around. You deserved better, Sam."

"That does seem to be the consensus, yes." She took a few steps back towards her project, then turned around. "If you ever need an ear, or a shoulder, or whatever, you know where I am, right?"

"I know," he says and scowls at the Twinkie trophy. "Maybe later."

"Sure, whenever. You're right about the Twinkie, you know." She walked back to her project.

Mac cocked an eyebrow at John's assignment but decided to let it go. Obviously the kid was having a bad day and Sam was already consoling him.

John shrugs. "Sorry, sir. Only thing I could think of."

Mac gave John a fatherly pat on the shoulder. "Don't worry about it, John. I beginning to think today should have been the class where we blow things up."

John kind of smiles. "Blowing stuff up is always fun."

Xander glances over from where he's been sliding day-tiles into his calendar and studies the... sculpture. "Can't argue with the sentiment, but you don't sound too thrilled about it. Which is weird for you - you miss your usual morning dose of cheerful-crack?"

"Something like that," John says, shrugging some more. "What're you making and why doesn't involve Twinkies? I thought everything you made involved Twinkies."

"Calendar," Xander says, sliding a couple more tiles into the last row and holding it up. "Really you can use it for any month, since the tiles move around, but the point was kind of to have a 14th that doesn't say 'Your life, sanity, and status on the loser totem pole revolve around whether you get lucky today, but no pressure.'"

"I like that calendar," John says honestly. "I think I hate Valentine's Day and wish it was swallowed into a pit of acidic fish."

Xander blinks at him. "I wouldn't have pegged you for an acidic fish guy. Don't you couple-y people tend to get down with the coupling, on Valentine's Day?"

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