WOW I REALLY DO SUCK AT WRITING IF NOBODY WILL LEAVE A REVIEW! I only got one...and thanks to that person for reviewing! A very nice review, too! But as I said, I will update and update even if nobody will review, because I am in the making of a real plot now. By the way, Ranesh's last name is Kingsley.
"Wait, wait, wait," Alice said, shaking her head. "So you're trying to tell me that somehow, at your doctor's appointment, you suddenly lost your asthma? I'm just not taking it, okay?"
"Okay then," Lief said. "But its true. I don't have my inhaler with me. See?" he said, revealilng his empty pockets. "Convinced?"
Alice stared at him for a few moments, and then walked off. Lief heard her muttering, "Weirdo." He shrugged and walked on, accidentally bumping into Ranesh.
"Crap," Lief muttered. "It's you."
"Language," Ranesh said smoothly. "Gimme your inhaler."
"I don't have one anymore," Lief said calmly. "I don't have asthma anymore. I lost it."
"Yeah right," Ranesh sneered. "That's the lamest excuse I've ever heard. Whatever. I'm off to my girlfriend."
"Who's your girlfriend?" Lief asked curiously.
A boy nearby said quickly, "Alice. He's gonna ask her out."
"What?" Lief gaped. "Alice? But...but...she likes him?"
"Probably," the boy shrugged. "We'll have to see."
A little later, Lief was sitting in history class, doodling the initals A.L. on a scrap of paper. He had recently found out that Alice's last name was Lovegood. He made a heart and attatched to it the initials L.R. His last name was Riddle.
"Attention class, we will be studying from page 27 today," the teacher said. "Proceed to the page immediately."
"And what if I don't feel like doing that?" Ranesh called out.
"Quiet!" the teacher barked. "Kingsley (Remember, Ranesh's last name is Kingsley), you should know that already. Haven't you been to detention with me? Perhaps detention today would work out. Come to my office at 5:00 today."
"You're so cruel!" Alice said. "He just wanted to ask a question and you put him in detention!" She flashed a smile at Ranesh, who grinned stupidly.
At the end of class, Ranesh cornered Alice as she was talking with her friends. Lief was present and watched the scene.
"Hey, Alice," Ranesh said, with his hands in his pockets.
"Oh, hi Ranesh," Alice said, smiling at him.
"Er..." Ranesh looked at the ground. "Well...the school dance is coming up, you know."
Alice's friends suddenly looked at each other and began to giggle loudly. Alice ignored them.
"Yeah," Alice said. "So?"
"Well...um...I just wanted to know if maybe...you wanted to go out with me?" Ranesh gasped.
Alice turned red. "Uh...Ranesh...I'm really sorry but...but..." she looked around the room. For some reason her eyes fell on Lief and still staring at him, she said, "I'm going with someone else."
"Huh?" Ranesh said stupidly. "But you...you smiled at me at history class..." Some boys around him began to laugh as loudly as Alice's friends were giggling.
"And smiling means that I'm going out with you?" Alice snapped. "NO! IT DOESN'T! GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" she yelled. She slapped him harshly in the face and walked off briskly, not looking back. Her friends followed, giggling helplessly.
As they walked on, Alice finally stopped and turned scathingly upon her friends. "SHUT UP! GET OUT! GET OUT!" She shoved them away and ran.
A boy nearby whistled and said, "Phew! That girl's got some temper, there. She may have good looks, but I'm not sure if I want her."
Ranesh, walking glumly by, said as he rubbed his swelling face, "She's mean."
"No kidding," a kid said. "A year ago she said she was going to go out with me and then I was in my suit and all dressed up and she told me she was going out with another kid."
"Harsh, man," Ranesh said, patting him on the back.
"You disgust me," a girl said, staring at them.
Lief shook his head and walked past them. What was all this about love? Suddenly Lief heard Alice's voice behind him.
"Lief? Can I talk to you?" Alice asked.
Lief turned and saw her sitting in a corner, with a tear-streaked face. He shrugged and walked over. "What do you want?"
"I er...um..." Alice was blushing furiously. "Never mind!"
"O...kay then," Lief said. "You are erm...uh...weird."
"You're rude!" Alice shot back.
"Mary-sueish girl!" Lief yelled.
"Freaky freak!"
"Shut up!"
"No, you shut up!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"What is the meaning of this?" broke in someone's voice. A tall man with broad shoulders pulled apart the fighting teenagers.
"She started it!" Lief said angrily.
"He's a good for nothing liar!" Alice retorted.
"Liar!" Lief said.
"STOP IT!" the man yelled. "Detention for both of you, 5:00, my office. I'll see you there!"
Alice stared murderiously at Lief. "Damn you," she cursed.
"What did you want to tell me, anyway?" Lief asked.
"I was going to ask you to tell Ranesh that I was sorry," Alice said.
Lief felt fury take over him once more. "WHO DO YOU THINK I AM, YOUR MESSENGER BOY?" he yelled. "DO YOUR OWN DIRTY BUSINESS!"
With that he ran away, leaving the crying Alice alone once more.
Soon 5:00 came. Lief grudgingly trudged to the office. He opened the door and reluctantly stepped in, to find Alice sitting on top of a desk and sobbing. The teacher was not in the room yet.
"What's your problem?" Lief asked.
Alice looked up and saw Lief. "None of your business!" she snapped.
"Oh yeah, I forgot," Lief said. "That's all you do. Cry, cry and cry. Oh and I forgot to mention, you also bully."
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Alice screamed.
"Why?" Lief asked. "It's not like your going to shut up either, the way you bawl."
"Look!" Alice said finally. "Ranesh asked Marissa, my friend out. She's going with him. And I'm NOT!"
"Er...okay," Lief said. "Erm...this concerns me...how?"
"Your stupidity amazes me," Alice said. "I told you that because you asked. Do you see how that works?" Her voice was cracking with annoyance.
"I have a small question," Lief said. "On a scale of 1 to 10, exactly how much are you annoyed with me right now?" He was having fun.
"Stop," Alice sobbed. "Please, leave me be!"
"I can't," Lief said. "It's not in my range of intelligence to do so."
"The whole world is against me!" Alice cried.
"The whole world loves me," Lief grinned.
"I hate your guts," Alice yelled at Lief.
"I love your dress," Lief said calmly.
"DAMN YOU!" Alice screeched.
"Language, little one," Lief said.
"Don't you dare call me 'little one'" Alice hissed.
"Don't you dare not shut up?" Lief inquired lazily, sitting in a chair.
"You're not making sense," Alice sighed. She looked out the window. "I wanted to go out with Ranesh."
"I wanted to go out with you," Lief replied.
Alice brightened up. "Can we?"
Lief was surprised. "Uh...sure!" The prospect of going out with the most beautiful girl in the school was quite nice.
"Yay!" Alice jumped up and kissed Lief on the cheek. "My new boyfriend!'
"Yeah," Lief said. He was grinning happily. "And Ranesh just gets that stupid pony-tailed Marissa. I get the jackpot!"
Alice frowned. "I don't like being referred to as 'jackpot', Lief."
Just then the door opened and the teacher came in. He passed out instructions to them for cleaning the whole room and they set to the task, which was hard and boring and lame.
When they got to cleaning the counters, Lief saw cobwebs and dirt and slime on the lower part. The upper part of the counter looked much better.
"I'll clean the upper part, you clean the lower," Lief suggested slyly.
"No, I'm in a dress!" Alice protested.
"You're shorter than me," Lief replied.
"So? You're a boy," Alice said.
"Just do it," Lief said. He began to clean the upper part. Alice shoved him down on the floor and began on the upper part.
Lief got up and cleaned the other half of the upper counter, refusing to do the lower.
"Just do it!" Alice said angrily.
"No," Lief smiled.
"What are you so happy about?" she snarled.
"I don't know," Lief said. "Do you really want to go out with me?"
"Hem, hem!" the teacher called out. "Shan't you be cleaning? No talking!" He was sitting on his chair, feet up on his desk, eating popcorn and drinking soda.
Suddenly the door opened and Ranesh came in. He stared in surprise at the cleaning Alice and Lief, who were sharing the lower part of the counter.
"Ranesh, why are you late to detention?" the teacher said angrily.
"Well...I had to go to detention with another teacher," Ranesh said. "What should I do?"
"Help them," the teacher said.
Ranesh walked over to Lief and Alice and started helping.
"Who were you in detention with?" Alice asked Ranesh.
"Umbridge," Ranesh grumbled. "She made me do lines."
"You deserve it," Lief said.
"Shut up, Lief," Ranesh hissed. "You can't even get a girl to go out with you!"
"Actually, I can," Lief said.
Alice glared at Lief as if to tell him not to mention their date at the dance.
"Who is she?" Ranesh sneered. "Marilen Evans?"
"Not her," Lief said. Marilen Evans was a girl who the whole school thought crazy. "Someone else..."
"Some other weirdo?" Ranesh asked. "Is it that weird Adriane girl? Did she somehow get taken back into the school?"
"No," Lief said. "You've seen her recently."
"Don't tell me you asked Umbridge out," Ranesh said. "She's a teacher! She's...she's got warts all over and she's got frog eyes!"
"Not her," Lief said. "Her last name is Lovegood."
Alice let out a cough that sounded strangely like, "Shnumuck up!"
"Liar," Ranesh said.
"Not the first time I've been called a liar," Lief said, scrubbing hard at a permanent dent on a desk.
"No talking!" the teacher called out again.
"Did you seriously say yes?" Ranesh asked Alice.
"Of course I did," Alice smiled sweetly. "And you are with...Marissa, aren't you? Isn't that sweet, Lief? He's with Marissa!"
"Uh...yeah," Lief said distractedly, looking at a flower laced on Alice's dress. "Marissa. Isn't she sweet?" He groaned inwardly as he realized what he just said.
"What?" Alice screamed so loudly that the teacher jumped up in his chair, barked "Back to work!" and fell back into his chair again, snoring loudly.
Ranesh took advantage of Lief's stupidity. "Hey Lief, if you'd rather go with Marissa, since you think she's so sweet, I'll go with Alice. It's fine with me."
"You know, Ranesh, that's a bright idea," Alice said. "I think I'd rather go with you, actually."
"Make up your mind," Lief muttered.
"Shut up your mind forever," Alice shot back. She slapped him with her filthy rag.
"Uh-oh," Ranesh said. "I've gotta tell Marissa the bad news. She has to dance with a filthy idiot covered in slime." He and Alice burst out laughing.
"Well, I can call her and tell her," Alice said, taking out a pink cellphone.
"Hello?" Alice said. "Hi Marissa, I've got some bad news. We decided that I'm going out with Ranesh, and Lief - you know, that idiot - he's going out with you." She paused for a moment, listening to her friend scream at her. She nodded calmly. "Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah, I know he sucks. Well, he's the only guy left. Sorry, Marissa. Okay. Yeah. Bye." She shut the phone.
"Am I truly the only guy left?" Lief asked.
"Yeah," Alice said. "But there's one girl left, besides Marissa, who's with you. Marilen Evans." She snorted with laughter.
"Hey, I never met her before," Lief said. "Where is she?"
"Detention with Umbridge," Ranesh laughed. "She accidentally walked into Umbridge's plant and it fell everywhere."
"Yeah, that's something Marilen would do," Alice laughed.
Suddenly the teacher woke up. He stood up and said, "What are you doing in my office?"
"Uh...we're doing detention, remember?" Lief asked, holding up a rag.
"Get out!" the teacher yelled. "I'm done with you!"
Ranesh shrugged and got up and threw the rag in a cupboard. He waited for Alice and Lief. Then the three of them, relieved to be done, but one of them broken hearted, walked out of the room.
"Alice!" a girl said behind them. It was Marissa and she looked like she had been crying for hours. Her face was puffy.
"What is it, Marissa?" Alice sighed heavily.
"H-how c-could you...do this to me?" Marissa sobbed.
"Oh come on, he's not that bad," Alice said, laughing.
"Y-yes he is! Look at him! He's freaky!" Marissa wailed. "Alice, you're my friend!"
Ranesh stepped away. "I'll see you tomorrow, Alice. Bye!" He picked up his backpack from his locker and ran off.
"What is it in Ranesh that you see?" Lief asked Marissa. "Good looks? Charm?"
Marissa looked at him disgustedly and stepped forward ominously. Then she gave him the traditional slap.
"Oh come on," Alice said. "I'm leaving! Bye!" She in turn took her backpack and went off.
"Er...yeah," Lief said. "Bye then!" He picked up his things and walked away from the sobbing Marissa.
Lief went out of the building and found Barda's car. He got into the front seat and snapped the door shut behind him.
"Hi Lief," Barda said.
"Hi Barda," Lief said, forcing a smile.
"Hi Lief," a girl's voice said behind them. Lief turned to the back seat.
A girl was sitting there, reading a magazine called The Fibbler upside down. She had blond hair and dreamy blue eyes.
"Who are you?" Lief asked. "And how do you know my name?"
"I'm Marilen Evans," the girl said. "We go to school together. Didn't you notice me before?"
Lief was flabbergasted. He looked back at Barda. "What's she doing here?"
"Didn't she tell you at school?" Barda asked, smiling.
"What?" Lief cried out desperately.
Barda said, "We've adopted her."
Dun dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun. Yay. Another chapter finished! I hope you enjoyed it! I want to thank my reviewers, Rolling Bubble and the Lord of the Phoenix. You are both Harry Potter fans, so I've added in Harry Potter stuff...if you've noticed. Think back...remember what Lily's last name was? Evans! And Marilen is sorta like Luna Lovegood. And of course, you may have noticed other stuff like Harry Potter. Well, review and review please! Thanks for reading!