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I woke up to a fairly okay day, and the first thing I noticed was that everyone else was asleep. I poked Tam and he grumbled for a little bit before opening his eyes. "What?" He snapped. I glared at him and asked just as snappily, "Why aren't you guys getting up for school?" He glared for a little bit before saying, "You interrupted my sleep." I glared for a little while more and then he sighed and said, "FoxFire doesn't go to school today because we have a break today." I blinked and he added smugly, "Exilium doesn't get a break." I gaped and then smiled. "Awesome! More school days!" He blanched and then laughed. "I don't think you understand what kind of school Exilium is. It's focused on delinquents and people who don't fit in and it doesn't focus on smarts. It focuses on physical abilities that don't include Elven abilities."

I swallowed a little nervously. "I'm not a very athletic person… I really can only swim. I can't run very fast… I can't really lift weights since I'm not particularly strong…" I trailed off, unsure if I should continue. Tam had a smirk on his face. I asked him, "How did the somnalene work for you?" He stiffened and put his finger to his lips. "Shhhhh! Don't say that so loud! Someone'll hear and it'll be over for me!" I giggled a little. Then I glared in triumph. "I've got blackmail material!" His pale face turned paler. I mean, if that was possible and stuff. He already looked like a ghost. Then he glared and his shadow stretched towards me threateningly. I backed away a little bit and he hissed quietly, "You better not tell anyone about that! Or else!"

I snickered and said, "Or else what?" He smirked. "Or else I'll go hire a Washer to erase all your memories." I pretend gasped. "Oh, no, that's just so terrible!" I snickered because really, people who could take away memories? Pfft. Impossible. Nonexistent. No can do, dude.

But… could it really be impossible? So many of the Elves had crazy abilities… I mean… could brainwashing be all that impossible? Tam smirked. "Ha! I got you, Marl… I mean, Miette…" I softened a little bit and then murmured, "Did you sleep well? You look much better than you did before… Did you get nightmares?" Tam's eyes slid to the side and he stared at the wall. I could sense he was about to lie about something. "I slept well… No nightmares!" I crossed my arms and tapped my foot. Tam looked up. "Fine. I slept well. But I did get nightmares." He clamped his mouth shut and I knew that he wasn't going to say anything else about the subject now. I pulled down my pillow and dropped the bottle of somnalene into it. "Tam, tonight you'll be taking this again. I'll also try to find something for nightmares." He blinked, and that was the most reaction I got from him. I sighed and put my pillow back up on my bunk. "Rest as much as you can, Tam." Then I realized that we were being way too friendly for my liking. I gave him a good kick on the shin and then ran to the bathroom to change into my uniform.

I looked at myself in the mirror and realized my cheeks were pink. I stifled a screech of embarrassment and quickly changed. I finished putting on my uniform and looked at myself. The uniform was a little too big, so I didn't look like a girl. Especially with my hair put inside the hood. You couldn't tell which gender I was! That creeped me out a little so I pulled some of my hair out of the hood. Ok, looking better. I just didn't want to be mistaken as a boy. Once, when my hair was really short, someone mistook me for a boy. Trust me, that is one thing a person can never recover from. It haunts you forever, and you can never look at that person the same way again. Some people had looked at me weird. They also would say things about me that would make me go, 'Excuse me, I'm not a girl who thinks of other girls romantically!' I have nothing against those kinds of people. It's not my place to judge people. I accept them for who they are. It did bother me though that people thought I was interested in girls because my hair was short. Was it so hard to believe that I just thought having short hair was easier to maintain, especially since I competitively swam every day? It's easier to tuck short hair into those rubber swim caps than to stuff long hair in!

And yeah, I know you can always just put your hair up in a bun or a ponytail. My hair tie would get stuck in my hair though, once my hair was wet, so I didn't like having to throw away all those hair ties that had to be cut out or had snapped. It was a waste of perfectly good hair ties! So I just cut my hair short. Now that I think about it… that's when… all the guys in my class started avoiding me…. (My life in a nutshell. Now that I realize it, maybe I shouldn't have cut over ten inches of hair off… the guys all looked at me like I was an alien freak or something… the only guy who wanted to dance with me at the last formal dance of the school year was a delinquent… it was so awkward and you could smell his cologne from all the way across the gym… my eyes burned so bad, I swear I cried… right afterwards I grabbed my mom and hightailed it outta there.)

I laughed a little nervously to myself. Anyways, away from my depressing and lame boy life… that doesn't seem to exist… I slumped a little and Tam pushed the door in. He walked in and then yawned. He stretched and then put his foot up on the toilet seat. I shuddered and then snapped, "What are you doing, just coming in here unannounced?! I could've been using the toilet or showering or… or… or I could've been still getting dressed!" Tam yawned again and rolled the edge of his pajama pants up. He inspected where I had kicked him. I was actually surprised a bruise was forming. That made me feel guilty… He dropped the fabric and yawned again. "Ugh… I'm still tired…" I was getting kind of mad. He just completely avoided my question! He looked over at me and slowly looked me up and down. I was very glad my face was covered by a mask and a hood. He snorted softly. "You're dressed though, so what's the fuss? You're making a big deal out of nothing… unless…" He wiggled his eyebrows. I gasped. "Ew! You're disgusting! I am not staying in here with you!" I ran out of the bathroom and then slammed the door. Tam stomped out after me. "Miette, did you really think I was being serious? That's stupid if you thought that." I glared and then hit him. "I'm going to school." I skipped breakfast and went out. I ran down the steps and my shadow darted under me. I screamed and it swallowed me up.

Next thing I knew, I was spit out and then dragged up into a tree. I hung upside down from a rope, my ankle tied tightly. I screamed at how far up I was. If I were to fall, I'd probably break my neck. I had been trapped. And to make matters worse, some people in a purple cloak, a blue cloak, and a red cloak were holding my shadow back. I was mad at Tam now. Did he know that this was going to happen?! "TAM! TAM I BET YOU KNEW ABOUT THIS! TAM YOU JERK I AM GOING TO GET YOU FOR THIS!" A few whispers came out of the bushes and I saw quite a few people wearing the same black uniform as me. I struggled to get out of the rope. Even though I have pretty good core strength, I couldn't curl all the way up to grab the rope. I hung there, staring at the world from hanging upside down in a tree. I sighed and then started to swing back and forth. I liked swinging, ever since I was little I would swing on… well… the swings. I didn't see the branch in front of my face and swung right into it. I quickly scrambled to grab the branch, not going to lose my chance. I held onto the branch and scooted towards the tree trunk. Last thing I needed was for the branch to break underneath me.

As soon as I had a stable seat on the thicker end of the branch, I started working on untying the complicated knot. I pried at it and scratched at it and at one point (I was desperate) I started chewing on it. Then I chewed the part of the rope right above the knot. I knew I couldn't chew through a knot (it was too big), but I did know I could chew through one strand of rope. I know I probably seemed extremely weird. There was a person, sitting in a tree, chewing a rope. I bet if someone looked up from afar, I bet they would be thinking, "What is that overgrown chipmunk doing?!" I sighed and then finally the rope fell away. I looked down. Oh. Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no. I was really high up, now that I thought about it.

How am I going to get down now?

I'm sorry it's so short! I really didn't mean for it to be so short… I just got back from my grandparents' house, so I'm exhausted and tired. But, I have this chapter and I shall give it to you! Oh, BTW, please review! =(^w^)= -that's a kitty cat face :)