A.N.: Here's Chapter Twelve back to back with Chapter Eleven as promised! Warnings: this chapter might cause uncontrollable laughter if you are a teenage girl and totally can relate to this situation, or understand what's happening.

Chapter 12- Simple Things That Only I Can Figure Out

Jared (Piggy)

I felt like screaming to the world in the frustration at this whole thing here. I hadn't played Assassin's Creed in a total of fifty six hours. Let me tell you a little something: that was not normal. That game was my bitch. And on top of that, we had some French kids who were probably going to find us and kill us.

That's nice.

I screamed out. The sound shook the trees and maybe the ground was vibrating under the sound's power. I screamed every swear word I knew. I sort of didn't want to admit that I knew that screaming would get me nowhere towards improvement, but whatever. A kid's got to riot, right?

Simon appeared in the woods as I turned my head. He was looking as the trees shook, maybe wondering why that was going on due to the nonexistence of wind here. "Oy," he said.

"What I wouldn't give for my XBOX now," I sighed.

"I feel your pain, Jared," he said. We stood in this very awkward moment of silence until he said, 'Everyone was looking for you."

"Oh," I said. Wait, since when do people care about me?

"Yeah, come on. There's a fire on the beach," my friend said and he led me back to the closest thing we had to a society.

Sera was the first one of us I saw as Simon and I broke from the forest and set feet on the white sand. I waved to her. Sera was really nice to me; she was one of the only ones who had been at school. "I applaud the screams I heard in the forest," she was saying, apparently to me.

"You heard that?" I asked.

'Yeah, nice words if I may say so. So what is this I hear about some other freak plane crash that brought you here?" she was talking to Simon.

"Right, the plane that came from Nice. I don't think I was the only one to make it out."

"France seems to…" I was cut off in the middle of my sentence by a scream so bloodcurdling I can't forget it, even today. I looked at Sera, wondering if it was her, but she was a quiet little mouse as she looked for the owner of the scream too.

"What the fuck?' Jack was echoing my thoughts and had taken the words out of my mouth.

I saw Ralph run up and he spoke obviously to me: "Jared, you're smart right? I need to ask you something."

I looked at him with a look that said 'Really? Why am I not surprised?". I sighed, "Okay, yeah. Ask away." He paused.

"You live with your aunt, right?'

"Yeah… all right, where are you going here?' I asked.

"I don't know how to put this, exactly. What do you know about bleeding and hemorrhaging?'

"Those are the same thing," I pointed out, 'What does this have to do with my aunt and me living with her?' Then, as hard as a rock, it slapped me in the face what he was talking about.

"Yeah, what do I do with Roche?' Now, Sera got it too as she slapped her head.

'Shit,' she screamed.

Jack and Simon sat there, each confused as the other. Ralph had the same look on his face, only he was standing up. "Carry on," I said to them. To Ralph, I said, "You know those trees with the funky shaped leaves right on the edge of the forest? Those are erogenous leaves. Go and get a handful. Those are fluid absorbing leaves."

"Okay. You saved my ass yet again," he said as he ran.

"You're welcome!' I said.

"Do I even want to know?" I looked at Simon and shook my head. No use corrupting his blissful ignorance. This was awkward.

"Does that happen often?" Jack asked. I mentally face-palmed myself. Ignorance is bliss indeed.

I. Hate. Knowledge.

A.N.; Poor Jared, don't you know he's been stuck with that knowledge a long time. Anyway, hope the back-to-back apology update was enjoyed and keep those hits/reviews coming!