A/N: Hey, all, this is a continuance of the story "Live a Little" by jennyperson91. I actually wrote it, but didn't have the account set up at the time. Now it's working, and I can post. So enjoy!

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On 'three', she opened the closet door, and-

Chapter 3

-out spilled Rain, Margaret and Arden. I guess they didn't have enough sense to go back to detention after all.

Ms. Mann was shocked and furious and some other emotions all in one. "What are you three doing in me closet? Have you been eavesdropping on this the entire time? You are in a world of trouble."

And with that, she sent us all outside to wait on Hal's bench. We all just sat there, until Rain spoke up.

"Well, that went well," he said, looking around nervously.

"Shut up, Rain," Arden said, as evil as ever. "If you hadn't said anything, we wouldn't have gotten caught."

"For once, I have to agree with Arden. This is all your fault, Rain." Margaret glared at him.

"Well, sorry, things were getting interesting, and it wasn't my idea to hide there in the first place."

"Excuse me," I said, "but that want a soap opera. We were about to be suspended."

"Yeah, pretzel girl," Arden said. "Tell us more about kissing Benjamin. You guys did kiss, right, and not that story you told Ms. Mann?"

Ben looked at me. "Sadie, you don't have to answer that."

Arden took that as her queue. "So you guys didn't kiss. Again. I must say, Sadie, I'm a bit disappointed in you. You're the only one here who's never been kissed. I think even Ms. Mann must have seen some action."

"So, Rain, tell us about kissing Arden." Ben was trying to save me.

"Well, I guess it was okay and all, but kissing Margaret was way better."

"WHAT?!?!?!?" Margaret and Arden screamed at the same time. We all stared at Rain.

Margaret recovered first. "Rain, I'm flattered, but gross-"

She was cut off by Arden, who started screaming, "How can Leveque kiss better than me?"

Both of them started yelling at Rain, who, though flustered, was actually enjoying it.

"Ladies, please. If you want to solve this, you can both just kiss me again."

I guess the stares Margaret and Arden gave him answered that.

The yelling started again, which I took as an opportunity to whisper in Ben's ear:

"Hey, thanks for saving me."

"No problem, Red. It's what I do. Saving you from suspension, Arden, mall cops…"

"Smug as ever," I said grinning. Ben grinned back, and we settled down to watch Arden, Rain, and Margaret argue over who was the better kisser.

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They had been arguing for about 15 minutes when Ms. Mann opened the door to her office again. Rain, who had been insisting that the only way to solve the problem, was for both of them to kiss him, shut up immediately.

"I'd like to see Ben and Sadie in my office right now. Miss Alcott, Miss Leveque, Mr. Papadakis, you may wait out here until I call you in." Ms. Mann gestured for us to enter her office again.

We sat down in the chairs across from her desk. She looked at the both of us.

"Now, before we were interrupted, I believe Mr. Harrison had just confessed to sneaking out of Saturday detention, and that Miss Hawthorne followed, trying to bring him back. Is that correct, Sadie?"

I didn't know what to say. I've never been a liar. That job has always been Hal's. If I told the truth, Ben and I would get in big trouble. But if I lied, and went with Ben's story, I would feel really bad, and Ben would get is as much trouble as if I told the truth.

I didn't know what to do.

But then it hit me.

I didn't really want to lie to Ms. Mann, but I could. Pretty easily, actually. What was keeping me from going along with Ben's story was, well, Ben himself.

You see, Ben had tried to save me from getting suspended, among other things, because he cared about me and my not wanting to become Whitby Commons' newest pretzel girl. But Ben had already done so much for me, like telling me about his mom.

And I couldn't really take advantage of him by letting him take all the blame. So I did the only thing I could think of.

I took the blame.

"No, Ms. Mann, that's not what happened."

Ms. Mann and Ben both looked at me, Ms. Mann interested and Ben shocked.

I took a deep breath. "I, uh…got hungry, yeah, so I was going to sneak over to the WOW and grab some food and then sneak back in. I cut through the gym, and Ben followed me. I guess we made some noise, and you came in to check it out, and hid behind the basketballs, because we didn't want to get caught. I'm sorry."

"And the kiss?" Ms. Mann asked.

"What Ben said about that was true. Ben was wiping pen off my cheek."

"Alright, Sadie, I believe you. Let me think a moment about your punishments." Ms. Mann turned around in her chair so we couldn't see her.

Ben stared at me. He mouthed, 'Red, what are you doing?'

I thought about it, and then mouthed back, 'The right thing.'

A/N: I didn't triple cliffhanger. Well, maybe I did, you be the judge. Anyway, hope you like.

PS, Special thanks to those who reviewed the first two chapters. It made me feel special.