A/N: Hey1 Sorry it's been so long since I updated. But I can explain! For one, my computer was screwed up. For two, I had a SERIOUS case of writer's block, and three, the number 15 in the review box was REALLY annoying me, so I've just been reading stories… one of which was BOYS R US! I luh-uved! I HATE that no more books r gonna b after it! lisi sooo outdid herself this time. PM me about it if you want to talk about it! luvz ya! -jess
ClairePOV
2 weeks after they find out about the new kids
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Cam, Todd and I were at my house, playing JINGA. It was Sunday, and I was waiting for Dylan to call to tell me were we were meeting.
'WHOO-HOO! ALRIGHT! SOMEBODY JUST SENT ME A TEXT MESSAGE!' my phone's ring-tone rang out across the room at the exact same time as Cam's phone vibrated. We all burst out laughing, even Todd, who wasn't up to much lately, was on the ground with us. Me and Cam laughed a lot, lately.
I got up, and walked across the room to retrieve my phone, while Cam just caught his breathe, and pulled him-self back onto the couch.
As soon as I grabbed my phone, though, Cam pulled me to the couch, onto his lap. Not that I was complaining! His lap was SO much better than Massie's grandma's old, lumpy, hard, couch!
"It's from Alicia." I stated.
"Well, are you gonna read it to us?" Cam asked.
"Sure. It says, 'We're meeting at Slice of Heaven in an hour. MEET US THERE!' Should we go?" I asked, sarcastically.
"Well… I'm pretty sure that 'MEET US THERE' was a demand, and you know how mean Alicia is when she's mad!" Cam said, matching my tone.
We laughed, and then we laughed some more, until we were falling off the couch!
"Crap" I said, because I was falling.
"You weren't supposed to fall!" Cam whispered in my ear, after catching me, by wrapping his arms around my waist.
"Well… gravity… it's a pain in the ass!" I whispered back.
"Claire Hannah Lyons! Watch your mouth!" Cam joked, mimicking my mother's voice. (A/N: forgot Claire's middle name, so I just used my friend's name.)
"Aren't you two supposed to be somewhere soon?" Todd asked, looking amused.
"Yes! We are!" I answered, peppily, and hopped up to help Cam up. "I'm calling Harris, then I'm gonna go change. All you two have to do is clean up JINGA." I told them, while pulling my phone back out.
"Hey Harris. We need you to pick us up."
"Hey Claire. I can pick you up, but who else do I need to pick up?!" he said, joking with me, like he always had. I don't know why, but, for some reason, we had always had gotten along extremely well… like he really was my big brother! He was always playing dumb with me, or picking on Cam with me, or fake-flirting with me, to get on Cam's nerves! We always had SO much fun! But Cam hated it… because we usually picked on him!
"HaHa! Can you be here in forty-five minutes?" I asked, laughing sarcastically.
"Yea, sure, but make sure Cam's ready when I get there… okay?"
"Sure. Bye Harris."
"Bye little sister!"
I laughed, as I hung up the phone, and watched Cam peek his head out of the cracked door.
"We're done with our job! Now I'm exausted!" Cam said, up to something.
"Oh? I'm sure you are!" I replied, walking up to the door. When I got there, I expected Cam to move, but he didn't. Now I knew what he was up to! I stood up on my tip-toes, and kissed him, until he moved out of the doorway.
"Get a room!" Todd said. I just shrugged it off. It was no big deal. It was just a kiss!
"Now all you have to do is get dressed, then we can go for a short walk." Cam said.
I didn't even bother to tell them anything in reply, I just hurried up the stairs, and right into my room, and went straight to my closet. In quickly grabbed a shirt, and threw it on, and some blue jeans, which I put on in, like, half a minute. I was careful not to look in the mirror, so I wouldn't get self-conscious, and make me want to change.
I looked around my room for a few seconds, trying to find my white CONVERSES, but, quickly, realized that I'd left them in the kitchen.
I walked down the stairs, and saw Todd and Cam wrestling in the middle of my living room. It was so funny, that I rushed back to my room to get my camera, and when I got back, they were still there, being just as crazy as before. OH! This was so funny!
I turned on my camera, and started a video of them being crazy, and brother-like. This was blackmail! Blackmail that I needed. It's not like we were serious about our blackmails, but it was fun to just mess around! (A/N: Bad wording! :P)
After it was mostly done, I took a couple of pictures, and put my camera in my pocket.
"You boys done with your game? Harris will be here in ten minutes. No time for our walk… I think we should just wait outside." I started talking to both boys, but later turned to face just Cam.
"Okay. You go on outside, I'm right behind you." Cam told me, with a twinkle in his eyes.
I walked out the door, and grabbed Cam's hand to drag him out, before he got carried away, with his re-match with Todd.
As soon as we were outside, we went and sat on the bench that we usually sat on before Harris picked Cam up for the night.
I yawned loudly, and Cam put his arm around me, and I realized, right then and there, that I was REALLY tired! I laid my head on his chest, and drifted out of consciousness.
The next thing I knew, Cam was shaking me lightly, and Harris was waiting in his new MUSTANG in our front yard. HONK! Harris honked his horn again, and again, and again before me and Cam got up, and walked over to his car. Cam opened my door for me, and I, drowsily, climbed in the backseat, with Cam following.
"Did the baby get enough sleep?" Harris cooed, picking on me.
"Hey! Harris," I whined, "I thought it was Cam's job to pick on me!" I said, jokingly adding a pout.
"AWWW! I'm sorry… Cam's just not doing a very good job, so I felt obliged to do it for him!" Harris replied, still picking on me.
"Whatever" I said, barely hearing them start to talk about me. I was already GONE!
I woke up the same way I did on the porch. The only difference was when I was on the porch Harris wasn't screaming, "CLAIRE BEAR! WAKE UUUPPPPP!" Well… he might've been doing that before, but I didn't notice then!
"URG! I'm up! No need to bust my eardrum!" I screamed back at him.
We all started laughing, and me and Cam got out of the car. Apparently I looked sleepy, too, because everyone kept on asking me if I just woke up! How could it be that obvious?!
I walked through the doors of Slice of Heaven exactly two minutes before 11:00, and the only people I saw there was Josh, Dempsey, and Alicia. How had she beat Kristen?! You would think that- considering Kristen's mom, and Alicia's pace- Kristen would have beat Alicia by a land slide! But, now was NOT the time to worry about how Leesh had beat Kris to Slice of Heaven! I should've been concentrating on not passing out!
"Claire! Hey!" Alicia marched over to me, in her RALPH LAUREN Trina metallic leather sandals. The way she walked with her chest out and big, confident steps reminded me of Massie. And Alicia was dressed in head-to-toe RALPH LAUREN. The only things that weren't RALPH were her CHLOE sunglasses, and her pink baseball cap that Josh had given her.
She really did look ah-mazing. She was wearing a Parker ruffle shirt that brought out her Mexican skin-tone, and high-gloss skinny jeans, and had a silver over-sized hobo tote. She made me look like a CHILDREN'S PLACE model.
"Hi! You look ah-mazing!" I gushed t my new… alpha. I still couldn't believe that Alicia was the new Alpha! They had decided last week, that they would be called the Soul M8s, because of the eight people that "founded" it. We had also decided to invite Amour, Ange, and Reve to join. (Even though the guys were dead-set against adding the "prissy Frenchy")
"Thanks! Um… So do you." She lied, to make me feel better. Oh well. At least I was comfortable, and I was dressed in casual clothes, like Cam was.
"Where's Dylan?" I asked, after a few minutes of awkward silence.
"Oh… She's on her way." Alicia replied about three seconds before Dylan pulled up in the DAILY GRIND limo.
"Love you too, Mom. I'll call you when I'm ready to be picked up." Dylan told her Mom, looking like she did NAWT mean any of it!
"Hey girlies!" She said with the biggest smile I'd seen her wear in awhile. She was also wearing a JUICY COUTURE BIJOU sunglasses, and a long white tee and VELOUR tights. She was also wearing baby pink MISS SIXTY flats. She looked girly, for some reason. But whatever the reason was, I had to admit that she looked like a total ten to me!
"Eh Meh Gawd! Your wearing pink!" Alicia squeeled.
"Do I look fat?!" Dylan asked, freaking out. "Rate me." She demanded.
"9.6" Alicia said, in a now bored tone.
"10! You look AWESOME!" I said. Which was true. I REALLY like her hair in a messy up-do with little red riglets falling out.
"Thanks!" She told us, before leading the way inside… well, trying to lead the way inside. Soon after she started walking Alicia took the lead. She thought as the new alpha she had to ALWAYS be in front of us. She didn't think that Massie's 'we-all-walk-together-in-a-side-ways-line' was right. She said alphas lead… in everything.
"DYLAN?! You look girly." Derrick said as soon as we walked in, curling his lip at the last word.
"OH! Are you trying to start something… here… IN PUBLIC?!" Dylan practically screeched, obviously trying to start something herself… But what was she trying to start?!
"No… I was just sayin…" Derrick said, trying to calm her down.
"SAYIN WHAT?!" Dylan asked in a ticked-off voice.
"Sayin that your in a really PISSY mood today!" Derrick said, now getting angry at Dylan.
Dylan's face, that had been in an angry mold sice Derrick finished his first sentence, now showed a tiny evil grin, that looked like it had a bit of another emotion that I wasn't sure why it would be there. That day I saw hope in Dylan's navy blue eyes, and in her tiny semi-grin.
"Well, I'm 'just sayin' that WE'RE THROUGH!" Dylan yelled in his face, before turning around, and stomping out of Slice of Heaven without looking back, and me trailing behind her, wondering what the HELL was going on.
A/N: Sorry for the cliff. I'll explain why they broke up in the next chapter… and you know what would make me want to update sooner? REVIEWS! So review me or send me a PM to tell me what you think of it so far… this chapter practically wrote itself, so I hope you like it! REVIEW! luvz ya! -JESS;)