The last couple days had been nothing but utter torture for Maddy. She was at least happy to know that today was Friday so she could enjoy a luxurious weekend. The only bad thing was she could not go anywhere because she was grounded from the incident on the first day.

And now she had gotten herself in even more trouble yesterday all because of Seth and Chloe, who seemed to have one goal and that was to drive Maddy crazy.

This time, it had been in PE. The first week of school they always played dodgeball. Maddy hated this game because she could never win. But she found she hated it even more when Seth and Chloe weren't playing fairly.

Maddy sighed as she entered the girl's locker room, her sensitive ears seeming to hear just about every conversation there was. Unfortunately she did not have this class with Sparkie, so she was stuck with Seth and Chloe again.

Luckily her locker was nowhere near Chloe, but she was near Coral, which she did not mind. "Hi Coral," greeted Maddy, setting down her backpack in the larger locker it was intended for and entered the combination for her locker.

"Hi Maddy," Coral smiled, opening up her locker and taking out her gym clothes, Maddy doing the same.

There was a comfortable silence as the girls dressed themselves. "I don't like these gym clothes," Coral muttered, looking down at them. "They're baggy."

Maddy chuckled. "How come you ordered such a big size then?"

"They were my brothers. He doesn't see the point in ordering new ones when I can just wear his," explained the yellow troll.

"Ah." She nodded in understanding, shutting her locker and going to sit on one of the benches. As far as Maddy knew, Coral only lived with her brother. At least that is what she always hinted at, she never talked to anyone about her parents and Maddy had only seen her brother once or twice but had pretty much forgotten what he even looked like. All she remembered was he had the same yellow skin- although the tone was slightly darker but she did not remember his facial features or even hair. She did not even know his name.

Her thoughts were interrupted when a high-pitched whistle pierced her ears. "Alright ladies! Time for warm up stretches!" Miss Patty called.

Maddy did not like Miss Patty. For one thing, as a PE teacher one would think he or she would be in shape, but Miss Patty did not. She was always pushing them to the limit while she sat there and did nothing. Maddy had never seen her do a single push up since she had known her, and she had her class last year. Her colors were mint green with blue hair and brown eyes that reminded Maddy of poop. She typically wore a thick white jacket and light blue sweats.

As the girls piled out of the room, Coral held the door open for everyone. "Why thank you, dear!" Miss Patty smiled.

"You're welcome Miss Patty," Coral said, giving her a smile.

Suck up, Maddy thought, but as she got closer she knew she really shouldn't think that. Coral truly was a nice girl that wanted nothing more than to help others, even if she didn't like them or they did not like her. In Maddy's opinion, it was impossible not to like Coral. When Maddy took time to think about it, Coral was actually a lot like Elliot. She had that same kindness that was very hard to find in someone. It was something Maddy wished she could have.

It did not take long to notice that Miss Patty was still standing at the door, just staring at her. Maddy pretended not to feel bothered by this as she was just about to thank Coral for holding the door when her head suddenly felt cold.

"If I have not told you once, I've told you a million times, no hats!" Miss Patty sneered, quickly putting it on her office desk before slipping out and thinking Coral once again.

Maddy groaned, shoving her hands in the pockets of the rather baggy gym shorts. "Well she did say that on the first day, Madison," Chloe mused, patting her head.

"Don't touch me," she murmured, scouting ahead of her and going out the door that Coral was still opening. "Thank you…" she said, not in a very good mood so she did not even look up.

"Ready?" Chloe asked.

"Ready!" Coral echoed excitedly.

Maddy rolled her eyes as Coral and Chloe stood beside her, their arms linked with one another talking about girly things and such. She still did not understand how they got along so much. If anything, Coral would be better off hanging out with Maddy and the few real friends that she had rather than hanging out with Chloe and all of her fake friends.

It's not my life…

It hadn't taken long for Coral and Chloe to pass her by, and now she was left behind the group of girls. "Hurry up," Miss Patty said, giving her a nudge on the shoulder as she walked ahead of her. Maddy quickened her pace, wanting to tell Miss Patty never to touch her but she held her tongue.

In dodgeball, there was only one point and one point only in Maddy's opinion: and that was to hit as many people as possible. Maddy had her eyes on Seth, who had that stupid grin on his face. She was glad when Miss Patty had put them on opposite teams, because there was no way she was working with the guy that got her grounded. Chloe was on the opposite team, too, which kind of sucked considering Chloe was quite good at sports but would never admit it.

Halo was more than happy to have Maddy on his team, even if she was not very good. Her presence was enough to make the orange troll smile. "Hi honeybun!" he smiled. "Ready to play some dodgeball-" he was interrupted when a dodgeball hit him right in the face, nearly making him tip over but Maddy had caught him just in time.

"Are...Are you okay?" asked the pink troll.

"Yeah, I'm alright…" said Halo, rubbing his cheek.

From the other side of the gym pod she heard snickering coming from green troll who was nudging Seth. "Good one, man," Seth laughed.

"Hey! The game hasn't even started yet!" Maddy yelled.

"It has now!" Seth smirked, hitting her right in the face.

"Maddy! Are you alright?!" Halo asked frantically.

"I'm fine," she snapped.

Before she knew it dodgeballs were being thrown in every direction, and Seth and Chloe took every chance they got to hit het and hit her hard. No matter how hard she tried she'd get hit in the face. She didn't have time to tell Miss Patty, who was yelling about how slow her reaction time was as she stuffed her face with potato chips.

The boys PE teacher, Mr. Russell, was telling Seth how much of a "great job" he was doing even though he watched the dark blue troll hit Maddy in the face and do nothing about it.

"Maddy! Watch out!" Halo warned as Seth threw another dodgeball at her.

She thought fast, holding out her hands so she caught the dodgeball. "Ha! Finally you are out!"

Seth pouted by the slightest bit before he sat down, mumbling words under his breath.

With the dodgeball she had caught, her target was Chloe, who was finally focused on hitting someone other than Maddy. She waited until Chloe could not see her, and that is when she fired, getting her right in the face.

"OW! MISS PATTY! MADDY HIT ME IN THE FACE!" Chloe's voice echoed through the gym pod, and Maddy was surprised she did not make it shake with how loud she was.

"Madison!" Miss Patty said, blowing her whistle.

"It really hurt," Chloe whimpered, holding her cheeks as fake tears formed.

"It was just a dodgeball," Coral said, rubbing her friends back. "It'll be okay."

Maddy rolled her eyes, just wanting to ditch this class and head to choir- possibly the only class she liked that happened to be the last class of the day. But now she had this to deal with.

"Well I only did it because you would stop hitting me!"

"Is that true Chloe?" Miss Patty asked, finishing the last of her chips and crumbling them up and putting the now crumbled bag in her hair. Eww! Chloe looked how Maddy felt until Miss Patty looked at her, and it was right back to her fake crying as more trolls surrounded her. Maddy knew that Chloe was nothing but an attention seeker. Why else would she cause so much commotion? She found it so strange because she was the only child in her family, and the only child always gets all the attention of the parents. Satin and Griffin were loving parents to her, so what was the desperation for attention?

Miss Patty made her way through the crowd of girls. Coral stumbled a little bit until Seth caught her. "Glad i caught you," smirked the blue troll.

Coral let out a nervous giggle. "Heh...yeah…"

Yuck!

"Awwww," Halo cooed, putting his hand on his heart.

Maddy rolled her eyes at the orange troll. He was a fool. "Halo, you know what Seth is about just as much as I do. Why are you-"

"Maybe this time it'll be different," he suggested hopefully. "I mean, you never know. Maybe Seth and Coral will last."

"Pigs will fly when that happens," Maddy murmured, watching Miss Patty helped Chloe up and turned around to face her.

"Madison, I cannot believe you would hit another student on purpose! Do you have anything to say for yourself?"

"Hey, don't blame Maddy!" Halo tried. "Dodgeball is the game, right? You are suppose to dodge the ball...and...and clearly, Chloe didn't dodge it!"

"Yeah, keep going, you're doing great," Seth muttered sarcastically.

"Hush fishstick!" Miss Russell shushed him.

Seth knitted his eyebrows and glanced at Coral. "Fishstick…?"

Coral shrugged her shoulders.

"Do I look like a fish stick?" he asked himself.

"You look like a watermelon with those chubby cheeks of yours!" Maddy smirked, crossing his arms.

"Shut up Maddy…" he said.

"I think your melon cheeks are adorable!" Coral grinned, kissing him on the cheek.

Seth stuck his tongue out at Maddy.

"If I just apologize will you drop this?" asked Maddy.

"Only if Chloe agrees," said Miss Patty.

"Oh, alright, I guess," the pink troll sighed, still holding her cheek.

"I'm deeply sorry," she said, trying her hardest to be serious.

"That's okay. Some people just are desperate for attention."

"Wait, so she said that to you?" Elliot asked as he, Maddy, Halo and Sparkie made way to the choir pod.

"I know! Like, I'm the one that is desperate for attention! Okay, that makes so much sense! I hate attracting any attention!" she ranted. "It's like she's trying to ruin my life."

"Maybe she is just jealous," Sparkie suggested. "She does wanna be royalty..."

"If she were royalty, she'd sure be a royal pain! Why would she be jealous of me? Look at me, Sparks! Elliot? Halo? You guys are looking at me like I'm crazy! I mean, Chloe is beautiful and I'm….I'm just me…"

"That does it!" Halo bursted out. "Maddison, I'm not going to sit here and listen to you talk bad about yourself! You're beautiful! Any guy would be lucky as cheese to go out with you!"

"That is sweet and all...but cheese is lucky…?" Sparkie giggled. (1)

Maddy for once was speechless. Although it was a bit silly, she found herself scarlet at what Halo had said but it only lasted a moment before she shook it off. "Yeah well I don't need a guy!" she said, fixing her hat and quickening her pace away from her friends and brother.

Sparkie was quick to catch up with her, leaving Halo and Elliot alone side by side.

Elliot was silent the rest of the way. His mind was focused on different things. He hadn't seen Lexi ever since he found out about her daughter. The only thing he knew was that her name was Juno and she liked to wear numerous bows in her hair. If he were to guess, he would say she was about Zander's age.

"You okay, Elliot?" Halo asked, giving him a friendly nudge.

"I'm okay. I'm okay." When Halo was silent he slowed down until he came to a stop. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine...it's just…"

"Maddy?"

"I really like her."

"I know." Everyone knew that Halo had been in love with Maddy since they were young children. Elliot didn't know what that felt like, to grow up with someone and fall even more in love each day. He wasn't lucky enough to have that. Sure he loved Lexi. He loved spending time with her but he was not in love with her. He knew that love took its time, and he promised himself he was coming over there after school ended, although he knew he'd have some chores to do before he could leave. He had no idea what he was gonna say. He did not want to say anything wrong, yet he had so many questions. He wanted to get to know Juno, too. And he wanted to-

"Hey, can I ask you something?" Halo interrupted his thoughts.

"Shoot."

"You have a girlfriend, right?"

I sure hope I still do… "Yeah," he answered carefully.

"What did you do? You know, to impress her? What about you caught her attention?"

Elliot smiled slightly, raising his eyebrow. "Are you asking for advice?"

"Sorta."

"First of all, let Maddy come to you. Maddy always hides what she is feeling, try not to let that fool you. Like just now. She really appreciated what you said, but she can't communicate her feelings."

Halo nodded in understanding. It was hard not to tell how he was feeling. He could never keep all his feelings inside. He told Maddy how he felt and if he didn't his day didn't feel complete. Although Maddy didn't have any feelings towards him other than a friend, he still tried. He hoped that someday there would be something he could do they'd make her fall for him. It needed to be something spontaneous. Something that'd catch her eye right away. But if he was going to go with Elliot's advice about him not coming to her, it was going to be a very challenging thing to do. And Elliot knew his sister and his sister knew him. Elliot was beginning to think she was getting suspicious about Lexi.

Meanwhile, Maddy walked with Sparkie in silence. "Hey," said Sparkie. "Promise me no matter what guys we date, we'll always be best friends."

"I'd never leave you, Sparkie," Maddy promised, linking arms with her and they walked into the choir pod, Elliot and Halo not far behind.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen," said Mr. Rufus, appearing from his office and straightening his tie. He was a rather short troll with yellow skin and lime green hair. "We have a lot to cover today, but first we must get voice checked. Let's start with the young gentlemen this time."

Maddy knew this routine from last year.

All the boys that thought they were tenors went in one direction while the boys who thought they were bases went in the other direction.

Seth was always a base and Mr. Rufus was rather impressed with how low he could go. Seth's voice in general was impressive. Halo was a tenor, meaning he could sing higher but his voice was nice. Elliot could sing both but he preferred to sing lower.

Sparkie was like that too. She could be an alto but she could also be a soprano because when she sang her voice could get a bit auto tuned. Sometimes when she'd yell her voice would get that way. But Sparkie loved singing higher, as well as Chloe who was standing next to Coral as she watched Elliot get voiced checked.

"He's so hot," the tall troll whispered in Coral's ear.

Gross…

She hated how Chloe always flirted with her brother. She didn't get the hint that Elliot had no interest in her. The pink troll seemed perfectly fine now as she practically drooled when Elliot sang. Coral had her eyes on Seth and when it was her turn he looked up at her and she quickly looked away and smiled, faint blush on her face.

As Seth began to sing, Maddy noticed Sparkie looked slightly flustered too. Other girls drooled for him as he showed off. Is everyone in love with him except me?!

Maddy stuffed her hands in her pockets on the walk home. Sparkie and Elliot were once again by her side but no sign of Halo, which was a surprise because he usually walked home with them.

She was relieved that she didn't have to deal with detention and today was her last day of it, so it was now almost time for dinner so her father's cooking would start out a luxurious weekend, even though she was still grounded.

"Are you sure you can't come over?" Sparkie asked sadly, clutching her book close to her chest so her turtleneck sweater almost covered her face.

"I'm sure. I'm still in trouble because of certain people…" she glared at Seth as he and Chenille walked home.

"I told you, you don't have to pick me up anymore…" he said in a quiet voice. Maddy's sensitive ears could hear everything.

"But I wanna know how my baby boy's day has been!"

Maddy held back a laugh. "Oh my god…" she snickered.

"Mama's little boy," Elliot chuckled.

"Guys...it's not nice to spy!" Sparkie tried not to giggle herself.

"Mom! S-Stop being so loud…" Seth was saying.

"But how did it go?"

"My gym teacher called me a fishstick, happy?!" Seth dragged his mother all the way to their pod and slammed the door.

"Fishstick? Everyone knows he has a melon face!" Elliot said.

"Exactly what I said!" Maddy laughed.

Sparkie got in the middle of the laughing siblings. "Alright, that's enough…" she could help but smile.

"You know it's funny," Elliot laughed. "You're laughing too!"

"No, cmon! Don't embarrass him even more," she laughed one more time before she approached her glittery pod. Maddy and Elliot walked her to the door.

"Bye guys. I guess I'll see you Monday," Sparkie said, hugging Maddy and giving Elliot a friendly nod before going inside.

Maddy wiped the glitter from her hat and her and her brother finally made their way home. "So how's Lexi?"

"She's…" How was she? "Fine."

"Just fine?"

Elliot didn't make eye contact with her, and suddenly his scarf became the most interesting thing in the world.

"Are we ever gonna be able to meet her?" Maddy asked impatiently, putting her hand on her hips while Elliot kept walking and opened the door to their royal pod.

"I dunno, I…"

They were cut off when a familiar family sat on the couch next to Poppy and Branch. Branch looked angry and uncomfortable as he sat next to Satin and Griffin while Chloe sat in the chair. Satin looked uncomfortable and angry too.

"Mom?! Dad? What is that doing here?" Maddy asked, pointing at Chloe.

"Oh look at the time I gotta go take Cardigan for a walk!" Elliot was out fast as lightning when he saw Chloe smirking at him. He slammed the door so Maddy was now alone with them, her back still pressed against the door. Did Miss Patty tell our parents?!

"What's going on?" Maddy asked, slowly setting down her backpack.

"Welcome to the party, Maddy," Poppy smiled.

Sorry if the ending was a bit confusing! It'd make more sense in the next chapter don't worry. Im also sorry for being gone, still a lot is going on but things have calmed down now so hopefully I can post more now :)

But no promises! School started this week!

1) That is a Victorious reference (aka the last good show on Nick, if you got it awesome if you didn't you didn't have a childhood I guess lmao)

I hoped you enjoyed, please tell me what you think :D