Hey random readers! I will have this chapter in Marigold's POV 'cause Blackie, he's just a little interesting to read. Why not have a simple person?

Chapter 4

A few days later

At the Girls Change room, for PE class:

Marigold's POV

'I hate PE class. It's all about fighting and getting all tired,' I said changing from my normal black and white uniform to a white gym shirt and bright yellow shorts. 'I wonder how Blackie is after that incident in the math class.'

We changed classes after the math incident, so we just went to random classes. Pretty much.

'Snarl was attacking Mrs Giles and ran away without being caught, you know.' Diamond changed from her black school shoes to red and white joggers. 'I also have the same opinion about P.E.'

'PE isn't so bad. Am I right?' said Roxanne Richie, a new student who claimed to be Snowy's daughter.

'You just have to try your best. Ain't I right, Marigold?' she turned with her happy smile to me. I turned my furry white head to her, maintaining the emotionless expression, and nodded once.

'Yup,' I replied. 'But you and Nala both keep complaining about it, so I'm taking gym advice from my pal Diamond.'

'Does this face say "I'm going to kill you!"?' Roxanne asked, approaching her cute-smiling face to mine.

'N-No…' I answered nervously.

Her face DID say "I'm going to kill you!".

At the Gym

'All right Buildabears!' said Howard-sama. Mrs Howard-sama was a brown Australian unicorn who had exactly the same accent as a typical Australian.

The whole school was American, all except our fierce P.E teacher. Howard-sama had a perfectly brushed mane, and white gym clothes including a grey headband.

Howard-sama was a 33 year old who was strict and disciplined.

'I said boys to the left side.' Howard-sama said, looking at me.

'Ummm Sensei….the whole class is females,' I mumbled loudly.

The class burst out laughing at our innocent teacher's mistake, and she got angry. Really angry.

'SILENCE! 15 laps for y'all girls!' she yelled angrily blushing.

We immediately stopped laughing. She smirked. 'Now start jogging you idiots!'

We obeyed, running.

We were at the fifth tiring lap what made our legs hot and sweaty.

'*breath* This is- *breath* not that- *breath* hard as I thought.' Nala said, starting to puff a little.

Nala seemed nicer today.

'This is like running for two hours,' said Roxanne under her breath.

'No. It's only been ten minutes and I'm puffed…' I said dizzy.

'You guys are way behind!' shouted Diamond happily because she was galloping as fast as a running leopard.

I ran faster and caught up next to Diamond, who strangely had a bleeding leg. 'You OK?'

'Yup,' lied Diamond. 'OK, fine. My knee hurts like hell. So what?'

Suddenly she tripped. A drop of blood ran down her golden hoof and I gasped. 'What happened?'

The other concerned bears caught up to us and sighed. 'What happened?'

'Stop asking, OK? Snarl harassed me and I tried to gallop. I tripped and my leg broke open on a sharp shard of glass that was on the floor.' She burst into tears.

Howard-sama noticed our stop and yelled at us loudly. 'What the hell is going on?! Keep running!'

'Keep running yourself!' I yelled back at her. 'This pony is hurt!'

She suddenly remained silent. Good-for-nothing woman, I thought. She should teach a guide how to be mean and rude, like herself!

Roxanne narrowed her purple eyes at me. 'You shouldn't speak like that to a teacher you stupid arctic white tiger!'

I lunged at her angrily. 'NO ONE SPEAKS LIKE THAT TO MARIGOLD SOFTPAWS!'

She growled heavily at me, putting yucky spit in my eyes. 'I hate you!'

The teacher suddenly grabbed Roxanne's arm and left the gymnasium bearing a clutching look. 'Lesson is over,' she said. 'And, Roxanne. DETENTION!'

All of the students in the gym stopped running and listened to Howard-sama's ramblings and swearing at the mean new student.

'I wonder what that was about,' Nala said before walking to the Girls' Change Rooms.

We all followed her(since we were all females) into the changing room.

'That was mysterious…..' I mumbled after meeting Blackie outside of class with Zero in the hallways.

'What was?' Zero questioned.

'Nothing,' I said quietly, walking away into Nala and I's dorm room.

Strangely, her part of the giant room was covered in notes, posters, photos(that the Meltons didn't know she took), all sorts of stuff about Blackie and his family.

'This collection is illegal, you know,' I nervously said to Nala.

'I know,' said Nala, screaming like a excited fan of One Direction, a band that I completely hate. 'Blackie's the handsomest bear ever, do you think?'

'"Handsomest" is not a word.' I said to her.

'It is!' she said a little crazily. 'And I bet you like him too!'

I blushed. 'I do not!'

'You do,' she snapped. 'You have a crush on Melton. You have since he first came here.'

'DO NOT!' I snapped back at her, snarling.

She giggled and sang. 'Blackie and Marigold, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-'

'Shut up!' I yelled at her angrily and pounced.

The door flew open to reveal Blackie, who had a flyer in his black paw. It was to my luck that he didn't notice Nala's(ugh) collection of him. 'Hey guys!'

Nala fainted just seeing him. I smirked. 'Oh. Hey Blackie.'

'What's up?' He said coming in the room. While he was coming in the messy room, I stripped down Nala's shrine of him and stepped in front of it smiling.

'I'm good,' I said cheerfully.

Really, I was freaking out about that gym lesson and Nala. Seriously. She was addicted to Blackie like hell.

'You look like a puffing bear,' he said truthfully to me. 'Seriously, you do look like one.'

'I know.' I straightened my gym shirt because it had a little blood from helping Diamond's injured leg/hoof back in the gymnasium.

'Damn. I have to get back to my dorm room with Zero. Bye!' He waved then trotted away.

'Huh. It's night suddenly.' I realised.

I dodged sleeping Nala and climbed the metal ladder on our bunk bed.

Then I got into bed and pulled the cosy black covers over me, falling into glorious sleep.

The next day

I was woken by Nala. 'Wake up, Softpaws! It's Valentine's Day!'

I groaned and got up, changing from my stained clothes to black jeans and a dark blue shirt and red sneakers. I hate Valentine's Day.

We walked from our dorm to the Grand Hall where the principal was waiting.

We sat down and maintained silent, for we knew that any silliness, would be detention.

Blackie sat next to me and Diamond sat behind me. Nala sat beside me and Roxanne sat two rows behind me. Zero sat next to Diamond.

'You all know we have been called here for Valentine's Day,' announced Snowy on the speaker, clapping awkwardly. The students and I just stared at Snowy the principal. 'Anyway. This year we will do fireworks and a dance.'

Awkward silence covered the grand hall, then someone spoke up. It was a green crocodile that had green jeans and a green hoodie. 'Will there be a DJ?'

'Yup,' said Snowy. I could see her trying to speak out. 'The dance is two days from now, on the sixteenth of February!'

The co-principal(who I was very surprised to see) Tom walked up and mildly grabbed the microphone, whispering: 'Classes dismissed.'

My normal class' teacher Mrs Blythe led us out, lecturing us about it. Diamond was happily mimicking, Mrs Blythe not noticing.

I laughed then thought about Valentine's Day and gulped. If either Blackie or Zero was my Valentine's, I'll faint.

When we got to class and maintained our silence and seats(obviously), our seahorse teacher pulled out a white box. 'I am sorry to ask. What the heck is that?' I straightened my uniform and stared at the box.

'It's our Secret Snowflake.'

'Secret… Snowflake?' Everybody asked her in unison.

'Everybody selects a paper from this Valentine box-'

'Who said we had to choose from a stupid box?!' Zero yelled angrily at our trembling teacher.

'Snowy said we have to, otherwise you'll get detention,' Mrs Blythe narrowed her dark black eyes. 'Anyway, here's the deal. Each student picks a paper from this box.'

'What's the catch?' Blackie innocently asked the teacher.

'There's names on them!'

Geez. I thought worried on the subject.

She got us out of our lazy seats and made us, blindfolded, pick a strip of paper.

When it was my turn, I closed my eyelids and grasped what felt like a piece of paper.

I took off my blindfold and went back to my seat.

I read the paper, then trembled.

It read:

Blackie Melton.

Damn, I thought. I don't even know what Blackie likes.

(Normal POV)

The clanging bell rang and Marigold went to her dorm room wondering what Blackie liked.

Meanwhile, Blackie went to his dorm. 'I'm not going to read the paper. I might get Roxanne or Swift as a Valentine.'

He read it anyway, and trembled. 'Marigold?'

It was true.

He read the name on the paper:

Marigold Softpaws.

Damn, he thought scratching his fluffy ears. I don't even know what Marigold likes.

While walking back to his dorm with Zero, he bumped into Swift the crocodile. 'Hi Swift.'

'It's either fate or coincidence that we bumped into each other,' laughed Swift.

'Yup. Who'd you get as your Valentine?' Blackie replied.

'We're not allowed to tell,' Swift had a mischievous look, 'but I got Diamond.'

'Really? I got Marigold.' Blackie whispered.

'You got the jackpot. Listen, come into my dorm room. I have a gift to give you.' Blackie followed Swift into his and Roxanne's room.

He brought out a turquoise and green wrapped gift and gave it to Blackie. 'It's for you. Welcome to the Outcast club.'

Blackie opened it and found a shining silver watch and necklace. 'Awwww thanks Swift!'

Swift smiled. 'It's alright. The sapphire necklace is for Marigold, because I know you don't have anything to give her.'

'Oh and thank you for the watch! See ya!' Blackie called then was gone.

'Huh. Someone just moved.' Swift looked around.

Meanwhile, Blackie walked to his dorm room, went to his black patterned bed, and flopped down on it wondering what trouble would ensue him the night after tomorrow. 'Man, I'm tired…..'

Chapter End

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