Ya…I'm back. With another chapter stuff. I'm dedicating this to my BFF, Emily who is sick. FEEL SORRY FOR HER, MORTALS! Also, over Christmas break, I'm going to be staying at my families' places, so I won't be updating for a bit. However, DO NOT FRET! For while I am gone, I will write another chapter FOR EACH OF MY STORIES. I swear my on life.

Disclaimer: TyHil 4eva! Unfortunately, I don't own that pairing or Beyblade for that matter.

So, since the assignment had been "spend time with your family" (everyone hated it by the way), everyone went over to each other's houses. Hilary stuck it out at Tyson's, Max and Emily just went to the library because Emily wanted to read some books and Max didn't care, Brooklyn didn't HAVE a home really, so he decided to head to the circus with Julia, Ray and Mariah went to Mathilda's house along with Johnny because Mathilda and Ray were actually okay friends.

Tyson and Hilary were staring at each other. It was like a glare contest. It went on and on and on…then Joan started crying.

"Tyson, you get her."

"What? No you!" Tyson replied, not stopping his glare.

"I'm the mom! I get her all the time!" Hilary nearly shouted.

"THAT'S WHAT MOMS ARE SUPPOSED TO DO!"

A kendo stick suddenly came down and gave the two of them a nice solid bruise. "Hey! Ya love birds are in this together! Ya dig?" Tyson looked up at his very strange grandpa.

"Grandpaaaaaaaaaaa!" he whined as he rubbed his bruised head.

Hilary rubbed her head as well. She wasn't used to being hit with a kendo stick. "Grandpa!" she sputtered. "That was totally mean!"

"Little dude, and dudette! You gotta cryin' kid over there!"

Tyson and Hilary looked at him guiltily. Tyson sighed. "Sorry Hil, I got it…"

"No, Tyson, I've got her."

"Seriously, I should help more! I'm actually offering help for once!"

"But I'm the mom! IT'S WHAT MOMS DO!"

Grandpa just stood there watching in disbelief. He shook his head and chuckled. He retreated out of the room to retrieve the phone when it rang. It gave him a reason to escape the two bickering 'parents'.

"Tyson! I'VE GOT HER!"

Tyson crossed his arms. "Fine!"

Hilary picked up the simulator, and tried to calm it, but nothing worked. All the meanwhile, Tyson was picking at her saying things like, "Can I try?" "Maybe she hates you" or "PUUUH-LEEEEEEZE!" until Hilary finally, totally upset, thrust the simulator into his arms.

"HERE! You try!" Hilary crossed her arms and smirked.

Tyson smiled and replied, "Thanks Honey."

Hilary was sure emphasized that last part just to bug her. Her eye twitched.

Tyson cleared his throat, and began to coo and sing lullabies to it. Hilary was actually surprised to see the simulator calming down, and even MORE so that Tyson had kind of a high, sweet voice when he sang. Hilary stifled a snicker. 'He can actually sing? That's amazing…'

About that time, Grandpa walked into the room and caught Tyson singing. When Tyson, saw him, he immediately stopped and shoved the simulator into Hilary's hands flushing a bright shade of pink.

'He's pink! Tyson's apparently very "feminine".' Hilary was doing her best not to laugh.

Grandpa finally began to speak. "Uh, sorry Homie, if I was interrupting somethin'…"

"N-N-No! O-Of course not!" Tyson shook his hands and reached for the phone. "Uh, haaaa…hello?"

Grandpa left the room as Tyson began a conversation with Max. "Max! What's up?"

"Tyson! It's snowing!" Max nearly shouted. "Emily's upset because we might be stuck here at library for a while, since it's snowing hard."

"No way!" Hilary actually yelled.

They looked outside to see snowflakes falling. "WOOHOO!" Tyson leapt about into the air. "Ouch!" He yelled when he hit the ceiling.

"Tyson, you shouldn't bounce on your bed," Hilary shook her finger.

"Yeah, thanks," he muttered rubbing his head.

"Guys?" Emily's voice was heard on the receiver. "You there?"

Hilary grabbed the phone Tyson had dropped. "Yeah, still here!"

"Hey!" Max voice was back on. "Let's try calling someone else, too!"

"Mathilda!" Both girls said at the same time.

Tyson continued to rub his head. "No, Ray!"

"Ray's house has no technology, Tyson," Emily replied like it was the most obvious thing in the entire world. "Neither does Mariah's."

"Aww…" he whined.

Somewhere over the Rainbow (Mathilda's house)…

"Guys! It's our turn!" Mariah whined as Ray was beating Johnny badly at Super Smash Bros Melee.

"NO! DAMMIT GANONDORF!" Johnny yelled as he slammed on the buttons randomly. He turned to Ray and asked, "How the heck can you beat me when you have like, no technology?"

"Why does everyone bring that up?"

"Because you have none, and everyone else does."

Ray rolled his eyes. "Whatever. And it's because you just suck," Ray replied, as his Peach beat the living shit out of Johnny's Ganondorf. "Hahaha…Ganondork."

"SHUT UP! Why the heck would you be Peach anyway?"

"…No reason…"

Mathilda looked up as she heard yelling from the living room. She muttered something and slammed her diary shut. She walked into the living room to see Johnny cursing as Peach did her winning pose for the 76th time. "Um, Johnny? I think you should stop. You're embarrassing me."

"Oooooh, dissed!" Mariah taunted.

"EMBARRASSING YOU?"

"Seriously, um, n-no offense, but…you play like an old lady…"

Johnny mouth dropped, while Mariah and Ray laughed until their sides hurt.

"Hey Johnny, you gonna take that from MATHILDA?" Mariah taunted some more.

They all stared at her for a minute before they all said, "Mariah, shut up."

"Yeah, okay. But it's still Mathilda and my turn!"

"They're right." Ray got up and went over to where Marcus was.

Johnny grumbled about losing to pink princess as he went to the back of their house. He heard their simulator 'crying', so being the "daddy" he went back to Mathilda's room. When he made it to her room, he picked it up and rushed a lullaby. "Shut up little freak butt don't say a word, otherwise daddy'll pull out his sword, and if you don't shut up then, He'll have to throw you in the garbage bin…" That's when he noticed her diary sitting on her nightstand. He put down the simulator, who had actually stopped crying, and opened it up. He scanned the pages, until he found the entry of the day the couples were assigned.

Dec. 2, 2005

I got paired up with Johnny! Why? WHY GOD? Why couldn't it have been someone else?...Who didn't have a cone head!

Johnny's eyebrow twitched like crazy.

And besides! You know who I wanted to be paired with! (Although thanks that Julia got stuck with Brooklyn; that was great.) But why couldn't I have been with…

Johnny turned the page and his jaw dropped. "No. Fricken. Way."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" someone yelled from the living room. The shrill noise made Johnny jump three feet into the air. He cursed and slammed the dairy back on the nightstand in a hurry. Once he got in the living room everything seemed normal. Ray was sitting on the couch with the simulator, and Mariah and Mathilda were playing SSBM.

"Who…screamed?"

Mathilda replied without turning her head, "Mariah. She broke a nail."

"WHAT?"

"I know!" Mariah paused the game to inspect her nails. "I'm glad to see someone cares about their nails!"

Mathilda and Ray chuckled. Johnny slapped his forehead and slid onto the couch with Ray. Mariah unpaused it again, and their battle continued. Johnny then muttered, "Hey…why can't I and Ray just grab two other controllers? It's for 4 players…"

Mariah paused the game again and turned around. "Because it's the men's turns to look after the simulators."

"Could you not pause it while I'm attacking Mariah?" Mathilda asked. (A/N: That is soooo annoying!) Then she also replied, "Besides, I only have two controllers."

Ray looked up. "Why?"

"Because I'm dirt poor. One came with the Gamecube and the other I stole from Julia. Don't tell her."

Johnny's eyebrow went up. "Aren't you two best friends?"

"Like I said, Shhhhh…"

They all snickered, just as the phone started to ring. Mathilda stood up to go over to get the phone. When she had left the room, Mariah turned the game back on, in hopes of making a huge comeback against Mathilda's Roy.

"Hello? Oh, hi Max! Emily? Hilary and Tyson, too?"

"Yeah, hey Mat!" Emily said into the receiver.

"Are you guys all together?"

"No," Tyson's voice was heard.

"We just wanted to call everyone," Hilary finished.

"Oh, cool. I'll get the others."

"Others?" (Max)

"Yeah, Ray and Mariah are with us, too."

"Cool!" Tyson was obviously happy.

Mathilda carried the phone into the other room where Mariah was yelling at the TV screen.

"Seriously Mariah, how do you lose to someone WHO'S NOT PLAYING?" Johnny was cracking up.

"SHUT UP McGREGGOR!" Mariah yelled as she frantically smashed buttons trying to kill Roy.

"Mariah…haha…you…play…hahaha…worse than Johnny!" Ray was close to tears as Mariah's Fox fell off the edge for the fifteenth time.

Mathilda watched dumbfounded, then remembered the phone. (A/N: Owww…My fingernail ;-; I chewed it down to a nub and it hurts now) "Guys!" she motioned for their attention. "Tyson, Max, Emily and Hilary are on the phone."

"What?" (Mariah, who is STILL being beaten by Roy, who is just standing.)

"Okay, what do they want?" Johnny asked crossing his legs on the footrest.

Mathilda shrugged and handed the phone to Ray, who wanted to talk with Tyson and Max.

Mariah screamed again, as Fox fell off the edge. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"

Everyone (including Max, Tyson, Emily and Hilary): "Mariah, shut up."

"Yeah, okay…"

As Ray continued to talk on the phone, he began to smile. Not the pleasant, "I'm-such-a-nice-person smile"; OR the "you're-so-cute-and-you-make-me-smile-because-you're-my-friend" smile either. This, my friends, was Ray smiling, MALICIOUSLY! (A/N: Cue the dramatic music:O) He turned around and said, "Hey, y'know Tyson's got this thing that allows you to be able to listen in on people's phone calls without them knowing."

Mariah was too busy screaming at level nothing Roy, but Mathilda and Johnny turned their heads. "Awesome! I needed some excitement!" Johnny yawned.

Mathilda shook her head. "No, that's rude."

"Aw, shut up!" Johnny flicked her nose. "Besides, if you don't shut up about it, I'll tell everyone who you like."

Mathilda stopped rubbing her nose, and gaped. Flames suddenly surrounded her. "YOU READ MY DIARY?"

Johnny immediately regretted his decision, and tried to calm her down. Ray stared, and shrugged. He hooked the phone up to Mathilda's stereo, so everyone could hear it. "Alright, Tyson, why don't you call Lee?"

"Lee? Why Lee?" Emily inquired.

Ray smirked. "Beeeeecauuuuuse…"

"You sound really creepy when you do that, Ray," Mariah stated turning off the Gamecube.

Johnny and Mathilda calmed down a bit (Mathilda didn't stay angry for long) and sat down and listened. "I want to hear Claude or Aaron next!" Mathilda squealed.

"I thought you said it was rude!" sniffed Johnny.

"Well, you DID say it was getting boring," she pointed out.

"Feh!"

"Oooookay. Well, I guess we'll spy on Lee," Hilary's voice was heard. "Besides, I want to know why he's been acting so weird."

"What do ya mean?" Max asked.

"Max," Mariah answered, "Lee's been running around campus spying on people, and then running away, laughing maniacally when he's found out. I think that might possibly mean something."

"Possibly," Johnny remarked, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Okay, okay! I'm dialing!" Tyson's voice said.

There was some static, and dial tones, then, Lee's voice was heard. "Man, I'm having the time of my life!"

"Uh-huh…Don't you think people might be noticing something with you running around spying on people, and then laughing maniacally when found out?"

"That's Tala's voice!" Ray whispered.

"I know, but it's so, FUN!"

"…Yyyyyyyeah…Well, the fun part was actually seeing how they reacted when they were paired up."

Everyone grew wide-eyed and listened.

"Yeah, I guess…"

"Come on! And it took pure brilliance to pull it off! Y'know, arranging for Mr. Straight's boyfriend to be there, so he wouldn't realize that we switched the couples? Awesome."

Everyone's mouths dropped, and Johnny cracked his knuckles. On the other phone, Hilary and Tyson looked like they were ready to murder someone, and as with Max and Emily, they were just dumbfounded.

"Who was your favorite by the way?"

Lee was quiet for a minute. "Um, Mathilda and Johnny! That was totally hilarious!"

Mathilda squeezed the couch pillow she was holding so tight the stuffing poured out of it.

"Yours?"

"Er…Julia and Brooklyn, or Tyson and Hilary!"

"Oh, yeah, those were awesome too."

Hilary couldn't take the suspense. "YOU JACKASS!"

Her voice ran through the receiver and hit Tala and Lee hard. "Umm, Lee?"

"Yes?"

"That wasn't you was it?"

"Unfortunately, no."

"Crap."

"WHO WAS I PAIRED UP WITH? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO CHANGE IT TO JOHNNY?"

"YEAH! Wait…HEY!" Johnny turned on Mathilda.

"YOU IDIOTS!" Everyone screamed into the phone. Tala and Lee obviously knew they were dead.

In case you were wondering where Julia and Brooklyn were this entire time…

"What do ya think, Raul?" Julia asked her brother. "We could just dress him up in feathers, and he could be the living human/pigeon!"

"I'M NOT A PIGEON BOY!"

"I dunno Julia…" Raul responded.

"RAUL-POO!"

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Raul screamed at Bianca, his partner.

Yah, I finally got this up. Merry Christmas! REVIEW OR ELSE!