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Chapter 4: Really Friends?

Kim's POV

I had just waken up from the sleepover. I was sleeping on the couch. The guys were sleeping on the floor. When I looked at them, I laughed at what I saw. Carefully, I shook Jack lightly to wake him up. His looked up through his messy hair.

"What?" He asked groggily, running his hand through his hair.

"Look." I whispered, pointing to Eddie and Milton who were spooning each other. Jack looked over and almost laughed at them. He pulled out his phone and pointed it at them. I did the same thing. We took several pictures of them.

Jack coughed into his fist and said "Gay!" making me laugh. "Let's wake them up carefully." Jack whispered. He leaned closer the guys. "WAKE UP!" He yelled in their faces. They screamed and shot apart from each other.

"What was that for?!" Eddie yelled.

"You guys were spooning each other." I said, laughing.

"We got a bunch of pictures of it." Jack said, showing them his phone. "These are going on the internet."

"Don't put them on the internet!" Milton and Eddie yelled in unision. Jack laughed at them.

"I'm not really gonna put them on the internet." They both sighed in relief.

"So what are our plans for today?" Milton asked.

"Well, we go to the dojo and get Jack signed up."

"What about breakfast?" Eddie asked.

"There's cereal in the cupboard." I said, ponting to the kitchen. Eddie was out of the room in seconds.

"Wow. Someone's hungry." Jack said with a chuckle. We all got changed and had breakfast.

"When do we go to the dojo?" Milton asked.

"We can go in a minute. I'm gonna quick grab my bag." I said. I went upstairs and grabbed my old duffle bag. My phone buzzed. It was a message from Grace that said "Hey. wats up?"

"Had a sleepover." I replied.

"With who?"

"Eddie. Jack. Milton."

"Jack as in the loser Jack?"

"Yea, and hes not realy a loser."

"In wat way is he not a loser?"

"Hes a prety good kid. nice. caring. helpful."

"Hes stil a loser. Dont hang out with him."

"Wel I wanna plus he livs with me!"

"Why?"

"Becaus the last person he lived with abused him!"

"Really?"

"Yes, do you want him to prove it?"

"Sure. Meet me at the mall in a few minutes."

"Ok." How could she think I was lying? I thought we were friends. After I took my anger out on a pillow, I walked back downstairs, but stopped at the bottom to listen to the guys.

"I get it. You like her." Eddie teased somebody.

"No I don't!" Jack said.

"Yeah you do."

"So what. Maybe she looks kind of cute. Plus you like Grace." Jack said.

"Y-You know about that? I mean-n-no I don't." Eddie said in a high voice.

"Yeah you do." Milton said.

"Yeah. So I wouldn't be talking." Jack said.

"Well it's true." Milton retorted.

"I do NOT have a crush on her!" Jack snarled.

"Jack. I can tell you're lying." Milton said.

"Well...maybe I have a...small crush on her." Jack whispered. This made me really curious. Jack has a crush? I wanted to know who was talking about but at the same time didn't want to invade Jack's privacy. Not that I wanted to know. Maybe he was just saying that to get the guys to stop bothering him. I daringly walked into the kitchen.

"Got your stuff?" Jack asked.

"Yep, let's go." We headed out the door. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Eddie nudge Jack, earning a death glare from him. Eddie put his hands up in defense.

"So you're the only ones at the dojo?" Jack asked.

"Jerry goes there too." Milton responded.

"The guy who didn't want me anywhere near you?" Jack asked. Eddie nodded. "Yay." Jack whispered sarcastically.

"We won't let him do anything like that." I assured "He just doesn't like anyone to be around us who he doesn't know to well."

"He just needs to get used to you being around." Milton said.

"Are you sure you want me there?" Jack asked.

"Yeah. You're a great friend. Plus maybe you can finally get people to stop bullying you." Eddie pointed out.

"I don't think I'll be that good."

"I don't know. I have a good feeling about it." I admitted. There was something telling me he's gonna be a good member to the dojo. We finally got to the dojo. Grace was standing outside.

"Hey, Kim." She greeted "Hey Milton, Eddie." She didn't say anything to Jack. "So where's your proof?" motioning to Jack. I didn't answer her, but lifted sleeve of Jack's arm up, revealing the bandaged gash. She gasped at the sight of it.

"How could you think I was lying? I thought we were friends." I said, crossed my arms as Jack pulled his sleeve back down. He looked back and forth confused.

"Seriously. Who's friend with loser boy Jack? Nobody likes him! Nobody wants him around!" She retorted, rudly. Jack turned around and walked away quickly.

"I'll go get him." Milton said, turning around and running after Jack, who had just turned the corner.

"I like him!" I yelled, feeling the anger boiling up. I ran into the dojo to the locker rooms. As I left I heard Eddie say "I liked you, Grace. But now I wish you would just go away."

Jack's POV

I've gotten a lot of mean things said to me, but that stung. After I turned the corner, I leaned my back against the wall and slid down. It was too much. I felt like I'd never fit in with anyone. Kim and the guys were just being nice to me. They didn't really want me around. Grace was probably right. Nobody likes me. Nobody wants me around.

"Jack?" Someone asked. It was Milton. "Are you ok?"

"No. I'm just sad about all that's happening to me." I stood up.

"We're you're friends, Jack. We'll stick up for you. Grace is wrong."

"I guess you're right. If you weren't, we probably wouldn't be having this talk." He chuckled.

"See, we care about you. You wouldn't be living with Kim if we weren't your friends. She's a great girl. You deserve her."

"I don't like her like that!" I said.

"You admitted it this morning." He said, grinning.

"Fine. Maybe I like her a bit." I said, crossing my arms.

"I won't tell anyone. Now let's get back to the dojo." He said. We walked back to the dojo. Kim was destroying a punching dummy.

"Kim?" I asked. She shot around and threw her fist at my face, but it stopped inches away from me. "Please don't hurt me!" I begged, throwing my hands in the air.

"I'm sorry, Jack. I'm just really mad right now." She said, crossing her arms.

"It's ok, Kim. You wanna talk about it?" I asked caringly.

"Sure." She responded. We walked to one of the benches and sat down next to each other.

"So what happened there?" I asked, putting an arm around her. She glared at me. "Sorry." I said, taking my arm off.

"I'm sorry. I'm just really mad right now." she said. "You can leave if you want."

"No, it's ok. So what's wrong?"

"Well I thought Grace would trust me. She's supposed to be my friend and she should've trusted me. It makes me wonder if she's really my friend."

"Well if makes you feel any better, you still have us as friends."

"Thanks, it kind of does." She gave me a hug "You're a great friend." I hugged back and felt a smile appear on my face "You can let go now."

"OH! Sorry about that." I said, feeling myself slightly blush as I let go of her. She giggled at me.

"So let's get ya signed in." We walked over to the doorway of a small office filled with Bobby Wasabi stuff. A short man with a gi on sat at a desk, writing on some papers. "Hey Rudy!" The man screamed like a girl and fell backwards. He scrambled back up.

"Don't do that, Kim!" He yelled.

"Sorry, Rudy. I just wanted to get a good friend signed up for class." The words "good friend" really caught my attention.

"Oh well c'mon in." He said, motioning us to come in.

"Hey. My name's Jack." I said, shaking his hand.

"I'm Rudy. Nice to meet you. So you wanna join the dojo?"

"Yeah. I'm just going to try it out." I told him.

"Great. I'll get a gi for you." He got up, walked to a closet, pulled out a gi, and handed to me. "Kim, I've got some paperwork to finish. Can you help Jack?" He asked.

"Sure. C'mon, Jack."She showed me to the locker rooms. I got changed and came back out. Kim had her gi on now.

"Hey, you got it on right." She said with a laugh.

"Yeah. Hey Kim, can I ask you something?" I asked.

"Sure. What's up?"

"You don't think I'm a loser, do you?" I asked nervously.

"Of course not. Why would you think that?"

"Hearing Grace say what she did made me realize that she's right."

"No she's not! Don't think like that!" She said sternly.

"It just seems like she's right since ever person I meet pushes me around and bullies me and says nobody likes me and to go away. She's probably right-"

"No she's not! Jack you're really nice and I'd love for you to be..." She stopped herself.

"You want me to be what?" I asked.

"...I'd love you to be friends with us." She said "We want to be friends with you, ok? We do want you around."

"So we're really friends?" I asked.

"Yes, we're friends and I hope we always will be." She stuck her fist out a bit.

"Thanks Kim." I said, fist bumping with her. "You're a really good friend." She turned around to go on the mats. Under my breath I whispered "I love you."

So how was that? I know it's not my best work, but here it is. Please review and hope for a new chapter soon. I hope you liked it. Thanks.