Chapter 10: Bite Me.

A/N: Yo! Guys! CAN YOU BELIEVE I'M STILL ALIVE? Heheheh. Sorry, it's just that a lot has been happening in school lately. If you wanna know more, scroll to the bottom :)

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Allison – Day Ten

"Wake up, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the town is stinking!" I said, as I paraded into the boys' bunk early in the morning after I got changed.

"SHUT UP, ALY!" Eric said, sending a pillow flying in my direction.

I dodged it and threw it back to him. "WAKE UP!" I sang, in a harmonious tune.

Okay, not that harmonious. I was trying to wake them up not sing them back to sleep.

I saw Michael curled up at the corner of the room. I tiptoed over and straddled him.

I leaned closer to his face, and he started waking up.

He opened his eyes slowly…

"BOO!" I shouted, and he jumped. I started laughing, and I fell back next to him, on the sleeping bag, leaning against the wall.

"You certainly got me up." He said, resting on his right elbow to look at me.

I calmed down and looked at him. He's so cute with bed-head.

I laid on my side, in a fetal position, smiling.

"What?" he asked, thinking that I was making fun of him or something.

"Nothing." I said, sitting up to hug him. He hugged me back, and was a little surprised.

"What was that for?" He asked as we pulled away, my arms still around his neck and his hand on my waist.

"It's just that… You're such a good person. An even better friend. I don't deserve someone like you to look out for me." I said, as I went in for another hug, sitting on his lap like I did when I was younger to hug my mom.

He started stroking my hair, and rubbing circles on my back. "I think it's the other way around, Aly. You're amazing. You have a kind heart, an intelligent mind, and beautiful soul." He said, and I looked him in the face.

He sat up properly, not leaning on his elbow anymore. He was actually shirtless, and, well, you know…

As I realized this, I blushed, and hid my face in the crook of his neck.

"What's wrong now?" He said, pulling away so he can see my face. He tilts my chin upward, and I blush even harder.

"Yorrr zurtelsss." I say.

"What?"

"You're shirtless." I said, hiding in his neck again.

"Oh. Does it bother you?" He asked slowly.

"Umm… No! Not at all… I was just thinking that you might be feeling cold and all…" I mumbled, blushing even harder.

"Alright. 'Coz I'm not moving for a while. This feels nice." He whispered as he pulled me into him again.

After a few moments of silence, I spoke. "You're like my guardian angel or something. Pardon my cliché."

He smiled at me, sending me shivers as he stroked my jaw line, and said, "And you're mine."

I hugged him one last time. "Alright. I'll go now, please get everyone up, or no breakfast." I announced loudly beside Eric, sending them a playful glare.

Michael – Day Ten

"Alright. 'Coz I'm not moving for a while. This feels nice." I whispered as I pulled her into me again.

After a few moments of silence, she spoke. "You're like my guardian angel or something. Pardon my cliché."

I smiled at her, tracing my thumb over her scarred jaw line, and said, "And you're mine."

We hugged one last time. "Alright. I'll go now, please get everyone up, or no breakfast." She announced loudly beside Eric, shoving him a little and sending them threatening glares.

As she left the room, I stood and went to get changed.

"GET UP." I said, loudly after, getting right beside everyone's ear. None of them made a single move, and I started dragging everyone up their feet.

They finally got up, groaning and groggy, and I banged the door shut with a, "SEE YOU IN THE MESS HALL!"

I walked happily, smooth in stride. I bumped into Zach and Cody along the way.

A/N: Heheh. See what I did there? ZACK AND CODY :P Childhood~

"Hey, guys. What brings you two up so early?" I waved, slowing down so I can pace with them.

"Hi Michael." They replied, smiling widely.

"We feel really bad about our district being complete butt-heads, so we decided that we'll pick up some slack." Cody said, shaking his head.

"Well, on the bright side, your district aren't complete buttheads." I chuckled, grabbing by their necks and ruffling their hair.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, WHATEVER!" Zach laughed, pulling out of my grasp.

"OH EM!" Aly shrieked, laughing wildly and banging her fists on the table. "OH, GOSH! That was hilarious!" She said, taming down.

"What was?" Hunter asked, as he slid his plate on the table.

"The joke Michael just said!" She chortled, clutching her sides. "Say it! Say it!" She demanded, whacking my arm repeatedly.

"Okay, okay!" I surrendered, chuckling at her cuteness. "I got this from Seriously Funny Kids." I smiled at the younger boy, and he smiled back, expressing his love for the show himself.

"Okay, Hunter. Ever heard of the movie Constipated?" I asked, smiling already.

He shook his head. "No. Why?"

I waited a little before delivering the punch line, "BECAUSE IT NEVER CAME OUT!" He burst in laughter, and the rest of the table laughed too. Aly doubled over in incredible laughter.

A/N: SO, here's the story for this part. My batch was on the bus going home from our batch seminar, and all us people at the back were laughing like crazy because of this. My friend told us the joke and we were all seriously laughing like crazy.

"Oh, God, Michael. That's…"

"DISGROSSTING, I KNOW, but it's as hilarious as an rhinoceros wearing a bikini jumping on a pogo stick." Aly commented, almost about to literally ROFL.

"Wow. Random." Morgan said, giggling as well.

"T'is my middle name, darling." She said, bowing her torso.

We finally calmed down, and ate our lunch in happy exchanges. We were seated in our districts again and when we saw Olivia and Mallory, we greeted the latter a happy birthday.

"So what do you guys think about the other districts?" I heard from the left side of the table, which had apparently come from Laurel's mouth.

"They're alright…" Kennedy said, obviously confused with the sudden change of topic. "Why?"

I started to listen intently, as well as some of the others.

"Well… Blue's SERIOUSLY bipolar. Yellow's totally lazy, and the Reds are just… there." She said.

"I agree." Sophia said rather coldly, as she chewed her food. "Because it's true. But I don't want to be the district that thinks we're all high and mighty, gossiping about the flaws of the other districts when it took us more than a week to finally get out of Laborers."

"I'm with you all the way." Aly said, suddenly looking down and pointing to the sky, her adorkable self bringing smiles to our faces.

"Yeah. That'd be mean." Campbell commented from the other end of the table, Jimmy nodded his head with his cheeks full.

"Just saying." Laurel said harmlessly. "But yeah, I wouldn't really want that either."

"You're a bitch, just saying." I heard Sophia mumble from beside me, and we snickered at each other.

"Chill, Soph." I said, and nudged her on the shoulder.

Soon later, Jonathan had called us all for a town meeting. Aly and I raced to the 'Town Hall' and she'd won… again… like… cheated… again

"CHEATER!" I exclaimed, huffing and chuckling at the same time.

"No way! I let you say the 'spaghetti' part!" She shouted. "You can't beat me, Michael! I am a runner!" She stated, walking past Jonathan who gave her a hi-five, laughing at us.

"Well, I'm an athlete, too!" She gave me a look as we sat on the first pew, me at the right end.

"A MATHLETE. Doesn't count, honey." She said, giggling.

"Uh, yes it does." I crossed my arms, smiling widely.

"Apart from counting numbers... Nu-uh." She whined, crossing her arms too, looking away.

"Uh-huh."

"Nu-uh."

"Uh-huh."

"Nu-uh."

"Uh-huh."

"Nu-uh."

"Uh –"

"-Will you two quit it?" Sophia laughed, sitting next to Aly. "What's it about this time?"

"Aly doesn't believe that Mathletes are athletes." I said, grinning at Aly.

"'Coz they're not!" She retaliated, getting close to my face.

"One: Mathletes are not athletes. Two: Mathletes are… geeks." Sophia said, hi-fiving with Aly.

"Excuse me, I'll have you know that we're nerds, not geeks." I said, breaking up their hi-five.

"Same difference." Aly stuck her tongue out.

"Nu-uh." I retorted.

"Uh-huh."

"Nu-uh."

"Not again." Sophia said, smacking her forehead. "What's the difference, Michael?"

"Nerds are way cooler than geeks. And dorks like you two." I said, crossing my arms and looking up in triumph.

"Ugh!" They both said, and smacked me on the arms.

"OW!" I shouted, now protecting myself. "No need to get violent."

"Violence is sometimes the answer." Sophia commented, smirking.

"In this case, to shut the mouth of an arrogant Mathlete. Who BTW is a complete and utter geek." Aly said, sticking her tongue right in front of my face.

I leant in a millimeter. I want to kiss her lips so badly. But got interrupted once Jonathan started the meeting.

Allison – Day Ten

"Violence is sometimes the answer." Sophia commented, smirking.

"In this case, to shut the mouth of an arrogant Mathlete. Who BTW is a complete and utter geek." I said, sticking out my tongue.

I stayed like this for two seconds and his face was pretty close to mine.

Then John had to ruin it by starting the damn meeting. I sat back, and listened intently. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Michael looking at me from the corner of his eye.

"Welcome to the windiest town hall meeting yet pioneers." John said, opening his arms in welcome. "How is life in Bonanza city?"

"Good," we said.

"I HAVE ONE QUESTION YOU GUYS!" Laurel stated from her seat, catching everybody's attention. "Why is the green district like, doing all the dishes? We did more dishes today than you guys did your whole time being the cooks." She said towards the Yellows.

Some of them shook their heads, taunting her. The rest of us: Greens, Blues, and Reds, nodded and were egging them on.

"We earned Upper Class and I don't care if people are mad at us or not." Taylor said from her seat, getting dirty looks from the audience.

"But Taylor," Olivia started, standing up from her bench. "even when you guys did have a job, ya didn't work." She said, and we all cheered in agreement.

"Upper Class does have a choice to do what they want-" Taylor retaliated only to be cut off by Olivia.

"Being Upper Class does not give you a right to be a queen."

"Well, I can't say that I'm a pageant queen, but…" She started giggling.

We all scoffed, and an exceptionally loud one came from me. "What the frick." I said, rolling my eyes and crossing my legs.

Everybody seemed fed up with her already.

"The Upper Class is queen and king of the jobs and all and they can do what they want." She continued, and it got really chaotic… again.

I covered my ears and ducked my head, and Sophia patted my back. She's the only one here other than Jesse who knows about my condition.

A/N: Guess what it is! Heheh.

Once it sort of settled down, a young boy – Nathan from Blue took this as an opportunity to say, "Taylor, I'm getting a little bit tired of 'Deal with it'."

Mumbles of agreement was heard, and Guylan from Red stood on his bench stating, "I second that opinion and also someday, the town's gonna make a decision that you don't like, and you're gonna see how we feel!"

"Yeah!" I heard from the people at the back, and I slightly slouched.

"Ugh." I said.

At this point, Taylor began to cry, fiddling with her Chapstick. And Sophia, beside me, stood up. "Who is unhappy with the job the council is doing?" she asked, and got more than half of the town to raise their hands in agreement.

Even I did. "Re-election!" she chanted, along with Eric and some others. "Taylor, you're dong a bad job. Deal with it."

Taylor cried and cried for some time, and I rolled my eyes.

"What a fake." I muttered. Michael looked at me. "What?" I questioned.

"Who knew you'd be so condescending." He commented simply.

"Well, sorry if I don't like annoying little brats who always want it their way."

"How would you know about her?"

"Why? Do you think otherwise?"

"For all we know, she's in trouble."

"For all we know, the producers especially chose her as council to add drama to the show. Guess what," I said, whispering the next part. "It's working." I said very obnoxiously. Was he seriously defending her?

Taylor had now announced that she'll do better and everyone was cheering.

He gave me a look. "Jeez. Are you still on your period?"

I gave him a menacing look, too. My mouth hung open. "Excuse me? You don't say that, Michael!" I crossed my arms, moved a little ways away from him, and sat with a straight back, head held high.

He shook his head. Is he taunting me?

I scoffed, and clapped along with the others when nobody raised their hands to go home.

Gold Star time. I sat straight again, and moved away even more when Michael tried to speak to me.

"This person has worked real hard, and I'm gonna go ahead and say it," Taylor said. "The Gold Star winner is Mallory."

We all cheered. Even though a part of me was saying that she got it just because it's her birthday, I knew she deserves it.

Little Mallory looked so ecstatic as she strode to the front. But I wasn't really paying attention considering hormones began to invade my thoughts.

Michael is such an arrogant JERK!

He's so right. I should stop.

Ugh! Why can't he take my side?

I'm being so mean to him!

OH EM GEE why am I such a bitch?

But Michael shouldn't be saying that!

I swear, this went on for the WHOLE meeting. And the meeting was pretty damn long.

Leaving the town meeting, Michael still kept trying to talk to me. I gave him a look which said "Back off." and didn't speak to him for the rest of the day

Michael – Day Ten

I am a complete shithead. I just had to go off and say something. Now, Aly won't hear me out. Even when we were celebrating Mal's birthday in the saloon.

Why am I so stupid!

Just this morning we were talking fine. Cuddling, even. But I can't do anything about it now, so I had to at least try to sleep.

A/N: END of part 3! YAY! Stay tuned! REVIEW!

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WHAT'S BEEN UP WITH ME LATELY :)

So, in my school, there's this thing called Eucharistic Procession where friends and families gather in school for this thing where the priest brings the cross around campus, and we say a few prayers and sing a few songs. The priest walks on carpets made of flowers, made by the students and faculty. I designed my class' costumes for our presentation last August, and my teacher thought, "Oh, Bella can design clothes, she can design the class carpet too!" So I was one of the candidates to propose a floral carpet design for our class.

Guess what. They actually chose my design (and mine actually looked worse than my friend's okay I just don't even get it). So now, I have to catalogue flowers and do budgets and stuff, like for when I did with our costumes during that presentation.

Secondly, my english teacher wanted me and eight of my classmates to join this essay-writing competition, and so I did. Three entries passed for approval, including mine. (Hopefully, I win! Please pray for me guys :) ) I really hope I win because then I'd be able to get recognized in school, and that'd feel good :) [I'm on a scholarship, so I want to give the school all the more reason to keep me if I don't get the desired grades... I have to get an average of 90, and the work load is pretty difficult... I barely made it last year in seventh grade!]

Over the sembreak, my stupendous math teacher decided to give us this huge project to do. I have to make a grand total of 21 word problems. (I can actually get them online but I'd rather be original...)

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