Hey guys! I'm sorry for the long wait. Everyday I would say man, I have to get this written! But then I would have so many interruptions. I have this huge report due on Monday. I've been doing it for the past 2 weeks. It's written in font 12, and I'm only up to page 36 out of 50. Also, my city is being warned about an oncoming Hurricane (Hurricane Sandy) so I had to get this done before we loose power. I'll try updating my other two stories, but I'm not sure if I'll get them done in time.

Anyways, I've been debating on whether or not I should write about their time in Vegas, or just continue it from when they get back. I decided on writing it from when they get back, however, if you guys want I can write a chapter about their time in Vegas and just add it afterwards. The only thing is that if I do that I will have to delay the next chapter. It's your call you guys, I'm totally fine with both.

Chapter 12:

"Viva Los Vegas! Viva Los Vegas! Viva, viva, Los Vegas!"

"Musa, sing that again and I'm going to explode!" Bloom exclaimed from the back seat

"Well EXCUSE me! You're just upset because you lost 200 bucks on the slot machines" Musa said with a smirk

"Says you, how much did you loose? Like 400?" Bloom asked

"Yes, but I also gained 300 on the tables, okay? So I have nothing to say to you" Musa said

We all laughed, even Bloom

"Would you guys shush? We've been making great time, don't spoil it by making a scene through New Mexico" Tecna said

We'd staid in Vegas for a week. We got 2 hotel rooms, and it was awesome! We went shopping for clothes because we didn't bring anything with us except for ourselves and our need for fun! It was a blast! Especially since we're finally old enough to hit the casinos! I won 250 dollars from playing blackjack, but I lost like 100 bucks on the slot machines.

3 states later, we were making our way up my block. The trip had been long, but I loved every second of it.

I groaned as Musa drove into my driveway.

"What?" Flora asked

"I have to get back to Brandon" I said

"Stella, calm down. We're off to college in less than 4 weeks" Layla said

"I guess you're right. Well I guess I'll be seeing you guys later" I said with a smile

I opened my door, getting out. My legs fell asleep after that whole long journey. I started to wiggle over to the trunk of the car.

"Check you out Stella, that's a sexy walk you got going on there" Bloom said

We all laughed

"Shut up" I said opening the trunk. I took out my 4 shopping bags, then shut the trunk.

"Bye girl!" I called waving

"Laters Stell" Musa said

"See ya stanky legs!"

I laughed waving

I sighed, walking up to the door. I went into my pocket, digging out my keys.

"You guys!" I called opening the door

"Stella, is that you!?" I heard from the kitchen

"Yes it is, and I cant feel my butt!" I called

I heard Melanie laugh, then she came in. She had on an apron, and she was removing oven mitts from her hands.

"Hey!" She said bringing me into a hug

"I missed you" I said with a smile

She pulled back.

"So, how was it? Did you meet any guys?" Melanie asked

"It was great, and no, I didn't meet any guys" I said rolling my eyes

Melanie smiled

"I see, you're saving yourself for when Brandon comes to his senses" She said nudging me playfully

I shook my head, going up to my room.

"Oh come on! You've got to let me have SOME fun!" Melanie called after me

I laughed rolling my eyes again

I walked passed Sammy's room, then right after his was mine. I looked across the hall, taking a glance at Brandon's room. Yup, door closed.

I went into my room, my eyes growing wide at the scene before me.

"SAMMY!" I screeched on the top of my lungs.

Melanie scurried up the stairs, Brandon's door swung open, and Sammy walked out of his room with an amused expression. Brandon and Melanie looked startled, but Sammy was laughing.

"Stella, what is it?!" Melanie asked, her eyes wide

"Just look at my room" I said pointing into my room

Melanie walked over to me and looked in. She turned, hands on her hips.

"Sammy Shields, would you care to explain what this is?" Melanie asked

Sammy had turned my room into a 10 year old's dream land. There were toy cars crowding my desk instead of all my stuff which was beautifully stuffed in the corner. My bed, was a fort! There were balls all over, and my floor was stained with who knows what.

"I'm sorry, but I didn't think she was coming back. Well, I hoped" Sammy said

"Sammy" I said running at him.

Brandon cut between Sammy and I before our fight would begin.

"Children!" He screamed, glaring at me.

I turned, crossing my arms.

"It's not that big of a deal. Just clean it out. We're going to college anyways, so you had to clean sooner or later"

Brandon was right. College was coming, and I was ready! The rest of the summer consisted of friends, family, oh, and don't forget ice cream! Lots, and lots of ice cream! Bloom and Flora even managed to snatch boyfriends, Sky and Helia, who got us into all of the hottest parties!

"Hey Mel, can you pass me that box?"

Melanie handed me the last of all of my boxes, which I put into the trunk of Musa's car.

"Are you ready Stell?" Musa asked happily. She was leaning up against her car swinging her keys in her hands. I was the first she was picking up.

I sighed, then nodded.

"Oh Stella, I'm going to miss you so much" Melanie said pulling me into a hug. She was tearing up.

"Melanie, don't cry, I'll come visit you lots" I said feeling tears well up as well

"First I'm loosing Brandon, and now I'm loosing my only source of girl in this house!" She cried

I laughed.

She sniffled, then pulled back. She put her hands on my shoulders.

"I love you" She said

"I love you too" I said, hugging her once more.

"Stella, did you forget anything?" My Dad asked

I shook my head

He opened up his arms and I hugged him tightly.

"I'm going to miss you" My Dad said, and he was crying as well. I've never seen my Dad cry before!

"I'll miss you too Daddy" I said into his chest

I pulled away from him and turned to Sammy. Sammy was dressed in his school uniform, ready to go to school. He was sitting on the last step, looking at the ground.

"Hey, Sam" I said

He looked up

"I hate you" I said with a smile

He smiled

"I hate you too" He said with a laugh

"Well I guess hugging's out of the question, should we just pound it out? Or…?"

He put his fist out. I smiled, then knuckle pounded him.

I turned to Melanie.

"Tell Harry I said goodbye and I'll miss him" I said

She nodded

"I will" She said

I wiped away my tears, then walked over to the car.

"Ready?" Musa asked

I smiled and nodded.

Brandon came outside holding his things. Riven, one of Brandon's friends drove into the driveway in a big SUV.

Musa whistled.

"Now THAT'S a car!" She said

Riven looked at her

"Hey dude! Nice car!" She called, cupping her mouth

Riven looked out the window, lifting his sunglasses off his face. He smirked and nodded at her.

"Wooo! Somebody thinks they're too cool for school" I said

Musa and I looked at each other and laughed

Brandon looked over at us and rolled his eyes.

"He may think he's too cool, but he's hot, I'm single, and I'm about to go get my flirt on" Musa said walking over to the car

I laughed

"We haven't even gotten to College yet and you're already flirting, Musa Melody, I for one am appalled" I said sarcastically

She gave me a thumbs up then went over to the window of Riven's car.

I walked over to where Brandon was loading the trunk of Riven's car.

"Hey" I said

"Hey" He said back

"So…I guess this is a goodbye huh?" I asked

"Yeah I don't do the whole mushy goodbye I love you thing so you can just stop while you're ahead" He said not looking at me

"Yeah, kind of figured. Well…see ya at college! Musa, let's hit the road!" I called

"Hold your horses! Sorry, what's your number again?" I heard her say to Riven

I laughed

Brandon turned to me.

"Do me a favor, tame your friend" He said

I glared, putting my hands on my hips.

"Excuse me?" I asked

"Tame means control" He said rolling his eyes

I slapped his arm

"I know that you moron, I mean what's that supposed to mean?"

He shut the trunk then turned to me again.

"It means, keep your friends away from my friends" He said

"I don't think that's in my hands. Oh, and just putting this one out there, there doesn't seem to be any taming on your end either" I said pointing toward Musa and Riven

Brandon looked over to see that Riven was flirting back.

"Ha! Boomshakalaka! Told ya!" I screamed

Brandon shrugged

"What can I say, my friends aren't the most sensible guys" He said

"You're the worst friend in the world" I said with a chuckle

Brandon turned away from me walking to the front window of the car.

"Riven, we gotta go. We have to get to the apartment" Brandon said

"You guys are getting an apartment?" Musa asked

"Yeah, you should come by some time" Riven said

Musa smiled.

"I will" She said with a nod

"Good. Bring your friends too. Sky, Helia, Nabu, and Timmy are getting apartments near us too" Riven said

"Right well before you start giving out our social security numbers, let's get out of here" Brandon said getting into the front seat
"Brandon, did you say goodbye to your mother? If you didn't I'm gonna kill you" I said

Brandon rolled his eyes, turning to Riven.

Riven nodded, stepping on the gas pedal.

"See ya!" Musa called waving as we watched them leave the driveway.

I turned to Musa.

"You're good" I said

"What can I say, boys just love me" She said

"How many boyfriends have you had again?" I asked

"Hardy har har, laugh it up, I don't see any boys barking up your branch" She said

"Casey Freedman begs to differ" I sang

She laughed

We got into the car and started picking up the girls. After we'd picked up all the girls the car was packed to its limit. The whole trunk was filled up, plus the whole backseat. The girls were sitting on top of their suitcases. Our parents were going to send the rest of our stuff through the mail.
We drove up to the college campus and it was AMAZING!

"Holy crap! This place is amazing! Don't even get me started about the whole parents free thing! That's just the icing on the cake!" Bloom said

"Everybody's lives here just got 30% better since we got here" Musa said

We all laughed

"This place is great! Layla, I read online they have a girl's soccer team" Flora said excitedly

"Oh that's great Flora! We'll definitely be signing up for that!" Layla said

"I'm excited to see the art program. Too bad none of you guys will join with me" I said

"Yeah, that's cause we're all talentless" Tecna said

"You guys aren't talentless. Flora and Layla are good at sports, Bloom's an awesome fashion designer, and Tecna, you're awesome with computers" Tecna said

They all smiled

"Guys, I just thought of something. What if we don't end up in any of each other's classes" Bloom said

"We've been split up all through high school, class A, class B, class C, don't you remember?" I asked

"Of course I remember, but I'm saying like totally alone. Like, not even one of us are there" Bloom said

"B, don't sweat it. We'll be living together in a dorm. Now we're literally sisters" Musa said

"Yeah Bloom, it'll be like a never ending sleepover. We're going to be so close that we'll start getting under each other's skin" I said

We all laughed

Musa pulled into a parking spot.

"Hey, did you guys get our dorm number?" Musa asked

"Yeah I got it online, they said its room 634 in Maxwell House" Tecna said

"Stella, do me a favor and go ask where Maxwell House is" Musa said, pointing toward the building

After I got us directions Musa finally found the dorming house. We got our keys to the room, then started moving our stuff up.

"This place is gorgeous!" I screamed when the door opened

The dorm was amazing. We'd specifically requested a dorm with a few rooms so we could all stay together. Our door had 3 bedrooms, a living room, and a small kitchen. The living room had a couch and a TV. We all immediately started calling rooms.

"Stella and I in here!" Musa screamed from one of the bedrooms.

"Flora and I in here!" Layla screamed from the other

"Tecna and I in here!" Bloom screamed from the last

I ran into the room Musa was in. It had 2 mattresses set up, and 2 desks. There was black carpeting and light purple walls. There was one window in the corner.

Musa and I sat on our beds, laying back. We both sighed, then got up.

"Come on, let's get our stuff up here" Musa said

I nodded, then Musa and I walked out into the living room.

"Guys! Come on! Let's unload the car!" Musa screamed

The girls joined us, as we left the room.

"This place is great!" Bloom said with a jump of excitement

We went down to the car and Musa unlocked it.

"Everybody take 1 suitcase at a time, unless you can take 2, in fact it's encouraged" Musa said

We all laughed grabbing as many suitcases as we can.

"Let me help you with those"

We all turned to see Sky and Helia taking the suitcases from Bloom and Flora.

"Sky! You made it!" Bloom said, planting a kiss on his cheek

"Yeah, the guys and I just moved into our apartment" Sky said

"How is it?" Flora asked

"It's great. Really big" Helia said as the 4 of them started walking ahead

"Thanks for the help guys!" I called as Musa, Layla, Tecna and I lugged our suitcases

"Yeah, don't mind us! Come on girls, let's leave them alone and go die somewhere else!" Musa called

We all laughed

We went to the stairs, climbing all the way up the six flights of stairs.

"Come on Muse. Heave! Ho! Heave! Ho!" Layla cried

Musa was laughing so hard she couldn't keep her suitcases up. On the fifth flight she fell on her butt, sending one of the suitcases down a flight of stairs.

"No!" She cried still laughing

When we got to the top with the rest of our stuff we were all panting and sweating.

"Tecna….get…get the keys out.." I said through my deep breathing

She shakily went into her pocket and got out the keys. She put them in the door and turned, opening it.

We pulled all of the stuff in, dropping it on the floor.

Bloom and Flora came out of the living room with Sky and Helia.

"What happened?!" Bloom asked taking suitcases from us

"What do you mean what happened? We just climbed up 6 flights of stairs!" I screamed

"You idiots…you do know there's an elevator right?"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !"

I know, not much happened in this chapter so I'll post another tonight to make up for the long wait.