I know I said WIHMM would be posted, but I lost it on my comp somehow...idk. Also, suburbs said last night that she wanted someone to post a Jaitlyn or a Kacy, and since I actually had this one lying around...

This picks up a few days or so after the events of the first chapter. I didn't plan on having this chapter originally, but it just kinda came to me. The current day one will be up next, but not til after Thursday. (I have a paper due then) Same goes for WIHMM which, having already written part of it, should come a little more easily.

When his class was dismissed for recess, Kevin ran for the playground, happy to be out of the classroom. He caught sight of Macy on the swingset and grabbed the free one next to her. Ever since that day with Kirk, the two of them had taken to hanging out with each other at recess, partly for protection, partly because they had become friends of sorts. Macy was looking down at the mulch as she dragged her feet through it, not actually swinging.

"You okay?" he asked. "You're not swinging, and I know you like to…"

She planted her feet on the ground and pouted. "Why didn't you tell me that your family's gonna move?"

"How'd you know that?" He himself wasn't that happy at the news, either, but why was Macy so mad?

She looked at him as if the answer should be obvious. "Joe."

He rolled his eyes. He kept forgetting she and Joe were the same age. She looked six. "Of course." Joe always had to talk.

She was quiet for a moment. "You're kinda like my only friend, you know."

"I thought you and Stella were friends," he said unsurely.

She shrugged. "She's really girly."

"What about Van Dyke?"

"He cried when he got hit by a fly ball," she said disdainfully.

He looked at her. She really was kind of upset. "I'm sorry I hafta move," he said apologetically.

"Who do I stick up for when you leave?" She looked like an abandoned puppy.

He shrugged. "Yourself?"

She rolled her eyes. "I do that anyway."

"And you also run across the top of the monkey bars." No lie. He was always a little scared when she did that. He had learned to snatch some band-aids from the first aid kit just in case.

She smiled widely, her tongue peeking through where her teeth ought to be. "It's 'cause I'm a ninja."

"You should be careful," he said seriously.

She shrugged. "Always am."

He gave her the same look he usually got from Nick. Who was in first grade. "So, the three band aids you're wearing are a fashion statement?"

"Has Stella been talking to you?" Macy asked worriedly.

"Not really." Joe didn't let anybody talk to her.

"Oh," she said relieved.

There was a moment of awkwardness where neither of them looked at each other. Kevin finally broke it by bumping his swing against hers.

"Wanna play tag?" he asked.

Macy smiled a little. "Okay. You it?"

Kevin smiled and pretty much pushed her off her swing.

"No, you," he said before taking off.

She eventually tackled him and pinned his arms behind his back.

"Feel better?" he asked when Macy finally let him go.

She smiled and pushed him backwards. "Much. 'Cauthe I beat you to the ground."

A few days later, Kevin was sitting on the top of one of the playsets, looking up at the clouds, when he heard someone running up the slide.

When he looked up, he saw Macy frantically trying to keep from sliding down.

"You okay?" he asked when she finally got to the top.

She snorted but grinned before saying, "Kirk."

"What'd he do?"

"Grabbed me."

"Why?" Kevin asked with worry.

Macy shrugged and smiled. "I mighta thrown sumthin' at 'im?"

Oh, gosh. This would end badly. "What?"

She smiled even more. "A raw egg. I switched it with the hard-boiled one my mommy put in my lunch this morning."

Kevin winced. This was not going to end well. "Has Kirk done anything to you since the last time?"

"You mean when I saved your butt?" she laughed.

"Yeah."

"Not to me. He kicked my brother in the lunch line though," she said seriously.

Kevin sighed. He was getting the beginnings of what felt like a Joe headache. "So, you decided to take matters into your own hands?"

She smiled as if she knew he was frustrated. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I learned that on Looney Toons."

Okay, that made it better. He smiled. "As awesome as it is that you know that too, I-I-I...why would you throw an egg at him?" Kevin asked with concern.

"Because I'm a bad girl." She smiled, and Kevin could see her front teeth barely beginning to grow in.

"That you are," he said, as he heard big stomping noises from behind. That'd probably be Kirk.

"I'm gonna getcha this time, Misa. Your little boyfriend won't be able to help you."

Yeah, it was Kirk.

Macy sighed with disgust as she turned towards the bully. "Oh, my god, Kirk. Kevin's not my boyfriend."

"Yeah, that's what they always say."

Kevin so did not need to be sporting a black eye at his new school tomorrow. "Macy, let's just get out of here, okay?" he asked, not waiting for a response before he pulled her down the slide with him, and dragging her towards the tunnels.

Macy tugged on her overlong sleeves as they wedged themselves into the end of one of the tunnels. "Today'th your latht day here, huh?" she asked suddenly.

This was not going to be a fun conversation. "Yeah," he said.

"Think you're gonna like New York?" she asked.

He shrugged. "Not as much as here, probably."

"Why?" she asked as she blinked at him.

He felt uncomfortable with all the questions. "Just…'cause."

She narrowed her eyes. "That'th not a good anther."

"It's the only answer you're going to get."

She glared at him.

He sighed before admitting, "I might…kinda…miss…you." She stared at him in surprise. He coughed before explaining, "What'll I do without you around to save me?"

Macy smiled. "Get a profethhhinal bodyguard?"

"I could only do that if I got famous or something."

Still smiling, she shrugged. "It could happen."

"Y'think?" he asked jokingly.

Macy nodded enthusiastically. "Yep. And then I'll tell the newthpaperth all about how I th-saved your life when we were little and you'll be a laughingth-th-stock and then I'll be famouthhhs."

Kevin smiled. "That's mean."

"You're leaving me," she pouted.

"I-huh?" That was a surprising reaction.

She hit the wall of the tunnel with her floppy sleeve. "Who elthe ith gonna run around the playground with me after I egg Kirk?"

"You'll find someone."

Macy wrinkled her nose. "And I thupoth that you'll find th-someone else to be your bodyguard in New York?"

"If I do, she won't be as fun as you."

"Really?" she asked, obviously needing to know the truth.

Kevin smiled and hit her shoulder. "I don't think anyone could be as crazy as you."

Macy gave him a look and shoved his shoulder back. "I'm not the perth-son who told Kirk Williams to th-shut up."

"I wouldn'ta done it if you hadn't showed up and got in the middle of it."

The whistle indicating that it was time to go back to class sounded and both their faces fell a little. Kevin led them out of the tunnel and bit his lip as he waited for Macy to crawl out. When she did, they began the walk across the playground to the doors of the school.

About halfway to their teachers' lines, Macy stopped and turned to Kevin.

"Promith you won't forget me, Kevin?" she asked, looking up at him seriously.

"As long as you don't forget me."

"Pinky promith you won't forget?" she asked, blinking up at him wide-eyed. She held out her hand towards him and extended her pinky.

"'Course," he said, quickly linking pinkies with her for a moment. "I don't think I could forget you."