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Chapter 6 - Double Trouble.

"Right who's idea was it?"

The room's quiet as Gus stands up and flicks through the notebook.

Marcie stands up.

"Mine.. All mine"

Elektra pulls Gus back down to his seat as Mike raises an eyebrow at Marcie.

"You?"

Marcie nods. Laural bites her lip. She didn't want Marcie to take the blame. But she didn't want to get into trouble nor did she want to rat out everyone.

"Right, well then, Marcie I'm going to have to ground you for a week." Mike says still trying to get over the fact that Marcie was saying she did it.

Marcie nods and leaves the room. She runs up to her and Laural's bed room and sits on the bed.

"Right, seeing as most of you were daring people, you'll be punished too. Your grounded for two days"

The kids groan but don't push it. They were supprised that Marcie would go and take the blame.

Mike leaves the room and walks into his office to answer the on going ringing of the phone.

"That was nice of her" Elektra comments.

"Shut up Elektra! This is all your fault!" Laural yells standing up and punching the girl with the blue highlights square in the face.

The room's silent as everyone watches in shock as Elektra wipes her bleeding lip and glares at Laural.

"You didn't just do that"

"Do I need to do it again?"

"That's it!" Elektra screams and jumps out of her seat on the couch and runs after Laural.

Laural jumps over the pool table and over the couch with Elektra fast on her heels. Elektra reaches the door before Laural does and grabs the girl. Elektra throws Laural on her back and starts to punch and kick Laural. Rick jumps on top of Elektra as Liam helps Laural up.

"Stupid bitch" Laural snarls as she spits the blood from her mouth and goes for the girl again.

Grabbing the pool cue Laural raises it to wack across Elektra's skull.

"No!" Rick and Liam scream.

Laural tries to smash the pool cue across Elektra's smug face but can't. The pool cue is taken from her hands. Laural turns around confused and looks up at a red faced Mike.

"Laural Evans! My Office!"

Laural walks out of the room only to hear Elektra say

"Coward!"

Laural slams the office door after her, snapping Tracy out of her daydream. Tracy's smile fades when she see's the state of Laural.

"My god Laural what happened?"

"Nothing alright?!"

"Tell me what happened"

Mike walks in and ignores Laural. He seems to have calm down abit.

"Tracy go help Elektra clean up"

Tracy looks at Mike and then Laural before leaving. Mike closes the door after her.

"Laural..."

"She started it! She was the one that started the dares this morning! She wouldn't take the blame so Marcie did! She made me lash out!"

"Laural.." He says alittle more sternly making Laural close her mouth and clench her fists.

"Laural.. It's Mave.."

"I can't believe Laural would do that for me" Marcie said unable to believe what Tee and Karmen where telling her.

"Yeah.. And then Mike brought her to the office"

"She's in so much trouble"

"You know Laural would never hurt anyone right? She only did what she thought best right?"

Tee nodded while Karmen looked less convinced. The door to the room opened and Laural walked in. Her face no longer bleeding but bone white. The fight and life that had fueled her eyes was gone. She was blank.

Tee got up from Marcie's bed and along with Karmen said good bye to Marcie before leaving. Laural went to the dresser and got out shorts and a tank top. She left the room only to come back moments later, changed into her .

"Laural.. Your not going to bed now are you? We got another hour"

Laural looks at Marcie for a few minutes before getting into bed. She turns around so she's not facing Marcie and closes her eyes.

"Laural.. Are you okay? What happened?"

"Turn off the light on your way out" Laural said, her voice thick as she swollowed tears that were escaping through her closed eyes.

Marcie, confused took this as a sign that Laural wanted to sleep, got up off her bed and as she left the room, turned off the light and closed the door.

"Something was wrong with Laural" Marcie thought "And I'll know its bad"

An hour later Marcie came back up to her room to sleep. She and Laural were starting home schooling tomorrow with Mike. She wanted to be ready to learn. As she came into the room she noticed that it was still, the way she left it. As she came back from changing into her p.j's she hear a sniff as she closed the door. Marcie got into bed and lay on her back for a few minutes. She listened very hard to heard it again. Another sniff.

Laural was crying? Marcie thought.

"Laural?" Marcie called out to her friend.

When she got no responce she called again. This time she got a sniff in return. Marcie got out of her bed and over to Laural.

Laural sat up at the sound of Marcie's movement and sniffed again.

"Laural, your crying? Why?"

Marcie was shocked. Laural was so strong and happy. She never seemed sad. Marcie sat beside Laural on the bed and wrapped her arm around her friends shoulder.

"Tell me Laural"

"W-W-When M-Mike called me t-to the office h-he told me h-he got a call"

"A call? A call from who?"

Laural sighed and wiped her eyes. She might as well tell her the whole story.

"You know the way Mike calls me to his office offten?"

"Yeah"

Laural would everyday be in the office. Whenever any one asked Laural shruged and said she was talking to Mike or helping Tracy with a story.

"Well the first time it was to tell me that Mave got fostered by these rich folks.. That was the first call. The second was yesturday. I was talking to the rich folks and they asked me about Maves health and I said she's not the healthest little mite and then today I got a call saying that Mave was born with a hole in her heart and that they tried to save her with surgery b-b-but she didn't make it.. S-she died during surgry"

Marcie listened to the horrid tale of the ending of poor Mave. Laural felt a little better that she'd gotten it out but that only left room for more pain.

"A-A-And I'm not allowed go to the funeral"

"Why not? You were like the child's mother"

"T-T-That's what I tried to t-t-tell them b-b-but they wouldn't listen"

Laural wiped more tears from her eyes. They came more than ever now. Marcie patted Laural's shoulder. She knew that both of them were'nt going to get some sleep.

So there's chapter 6. Review and tell me what you think. :)