Love Buzz

Disclaimer: All characters I did not make up don't belong to me.

Part 10 – Confrontations

Shepherd was keeping his plans about saving Buzz a very good secret. So far, twelve people had come up to him asking what he was going to do, DJ included. Actually, DJ had asked him at least twice.

It was a couple of months since they had had that chat about Paige, and DJ hadn't heard anything else about these fabled plans. She was starting to believe he didn't have any.

Shepherd was almost starting to believe it himself. He had no idea what to do. He had been so preoccupied with Paige, that Buzz seemed like a distant memory. He hardly ever showed up at the offices anymore, which was making DJ anxious. She finally asked him one day when he was in.

"Shepherd, why are you hardly ever here anymore? I mean, for the last two years I've been trying to keep you away, and you won't come anymore. What's with it?"

Shepherd was standing opposite her in her office, playing around with a pen. It was quite a weird pen, meaning that it had a pink love heart and feathers on the top. Naturally, all his attention was focused on it.

"SHEPHERD!!" DJ yelled, making Shepherd jump and drop his pen. DJ groaned.

"Shepherd, your hardly ever here anymore, and the one time you are you completely ignore me. What have you been up to? Why don't you come here anymore and what great plans have you got for Buzz?"

Shepherd mulled over the answers in his head before responding.

"I've been up to stuff, I'm too busy to come here anymore and I'm still ironing out a few wrinkles in the whole saving Buzz plan." He picked up the pen and started fiddling with it some more.

DJ sighed and spun her chair away from him.

"Well, if your not going to tell me, fine."

Shepherd looked up and saw her sulking, and he sighed too.

"Come on Deej. Don't be like that. If I could tell I would, but you instantly oppose it and make me stop. When I can tell you I will." DJ didn't turn around.

Shepherd knew what these sulking fits were like. He walked out the door. It would be useless to try and talk her out of not talking to him. So he made his mind up that he would talk to her tomorrow.

He checked his watch as he stood in the lift.

"Crap, crap, crap!!! I'm going to be!" he shouted at the wall.

The last bell hadn't even finished ringing, and the corridors were already crowded. Paige moved slowly and silently through the throng to her locker. She deftly moved out the way when someone was about to crash into her.

She got to her locker just as everyone around her was leaving. She waited another couple of minutes until they had all gone before going over to hers.

Unbeknownst to her, Michael was watching from the other end of the hallway. He had been watching her for the past week. He saw her go to the music room with Shepherd, and he had heard her singing and talking.

To be honest, he found her song marginally normal. And couldn't really see why Shepherd was listening to her so much. He had heard her stutter, which explained why she never spoke.

Michael was wearing his undercover glasses again. Once Paige had finished getting her bag and stuff, he walked calmly over to her.

"Hello Paige. Do you remember me? I'm Michael from the canteen," he said smoothly. Paige looked at him wearily but nodded to show that she understood. She started to walk away.

"Well, I was wondering what song Shepherd was going to teach you."

Paige stopped in her tracks and turned around slowly. Michael smiled at her.

"Now Paige. I know everything. I know the fact that after school everyday, you run along to the music room to sing to your darling Shepherd. Don't think I don't notice the way you look at him," said Michael his smile fading.

Paige was shaking with anger and fear, and she tried to protest. But no words would form.

Michael moved closer to her and his smiled returned.

"There's something I have to warn you about Shepherd." Michael moved in even closer to the shivering Paige, until he was only an inch away from her face.

"Your not his type. Didn't he tell you? He prefers older women. Not silly, mute school girls," Michael whispered maliciously. Paige burst put into silent tears.

"Aww, don't cry. I won't tell anyone about your crush. But only if you agree to go out with me. If you don't though, I can spread a rumour around this school about you so fast you won't have time to blink."

"Michael! What are you doing here?" Shepherd appeared out of nowhere and quickly moved down the hall. "What did you say to her? Why is she crying?"

Shepherd pulled Michael away from Paige, who was just watching her crying, smiling to himself.

"It's your call, Paige," he said. He walked away down the corridor, putting his glasses on as he went. Shepherd watched him go before turning to where Paige was. She had disappeared.

Yay, i'm getting to the interesting part. As you can probably tell, Michael is my least favourite character from the Buzz series, and i'm sorry if i offend anyone. The next chapter is comming soon!