The next week Payton and Weston went back to another UIL event. Ava was spending time with the family leaving 'Dan' alone with Payton. 'Adam' had chosen to go on this one with Payton on her calculator event. Deidara was on her science.
Payton sat down behind Weston and huffed. Itachi and Deidara were sitting in the same seat across from Weston and turned to look at Payton. "I ripped my earring out of my ear getting out of the car." she explained and then asked Weston if it was red or bleeding.
On the way the two members listened to Weston and Payton's conversation. Surprisingly, their conversation told a lot about Payton. Like how she absolutly hates cliches and happy endings. "They overuse them too much and for once i would just like to see the bad guys win." she said.
Deidara and Itachi traded smirks knowingly. "Well that seems a bit odd…" Itachi tried to say but Weston and Payton seemed to be on the same page so they told him to shut up in a joking manner.
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"Ouch!" Payton yelled as she collided with the floor. Weston, Lee, and Jeremy looked worried as she got up. then she started to laugh. "Way to go Weston, trying to kill me!" Then they all started to laugh.
Without Ava there, Payton was now the one getting the beating playing hacky sack with nothing but boys she was pretty good too. the boys were surprised at that as well to the fact that she was tough.
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For some reason Payton had put on her MP3 and was now very quiet. Trying to get her to talk was almost impossible.
"Ready for the concert Payton." 'Dan' said trying to get her to talk. Payton smirked lightly. "I think i might fall asleep."
And she did. The band wasn't exactly her favorite but she went to just get out of the house and hang with her church buddies.
The members got a surprise coming from Payton on Friday. She walks into the cafeteria wearing high heels and a strapless black dress shirt covered with a lacey short-sleeved black jacket.
They know for a fact that Payton absolutely hates dressing up. "Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean i have to dress like one!" she stated one day when 'Kelly' asked her about it.
"What the hell are you dressed up for," 'Josh' asked her. Payton smiles, shrugs, and says, "I wanted to feel pretty today!" 'Adam' chuckles and shakes his head. Then their teacher tells them to start working on their projects. Payton was partnered with Scott, who was a jock. She really didn't have a problem with him though. And poor Ava was partnered with Kelcey. Luckily, Hidan and Itachi got in a group with each other.
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"If you're from Asia why don't you speak your native language with each other," Stacey asked 'Toni'. 'Toni' shrugs and a says, "I guess so we don't confuse everybody." Stacey didn't take that answer.
"Well, then why do all of you have no accents? and how come ya'll have like the perfect English?"
Tobi looked at her through his veil. 'These girls are getting smart.' he thought. "Why do you ask so many questions?" he responded, earning a pout from her.
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"Hey Payton, I'm starting to get weary about our foreign exchange friends," Stacey voices her concern the next day to Payton in their History class. Payton nodds and then tells Stacey of something that had happened with 'Toni' at the UIL event a few weeks ago.
(Flashback) "Toni do you even know where we're going," Payton asked trying to catch up with him. "Of course Toni does, Toni's a good boy!" Payton stopped and let him go ahead of her. 'Darn it! I need to watch myself!' Tobi thought to himself. He pretended not to notice that the girl wasn't following him anymore. 'That's creepy! He just really sounded like Tobi!' Payton thought as she shook herself. 'NO! Tobi and the Akatsuki are just, JUST, TV characters.' she told herself. She started to walk towards the classroom she was supposed to be in. Tobi rounded the corner and went into a luckily empty boy's bathroom. Once in he was grabbed and thrown against the wall. "Darn it Tobi! Why can't you keep your mouth shut, yeah," Deidara yelled at him. "I'll just tell her Tobi was joking!" Tobi pleaded. Payton walked by the bathroom hearing the two. No one was in the hall so she pressed her ear to the door. "Tobi we're lucky if Leader doesn't find out about this, un!" he punched him and let Tobi drop to the floor. "Deidara, i'll fix it! Tobi's a good boy!" Payton went wide eyed and her hand flew up to her mouth. 'No freaking way!' she thought. (end flashback)
Stacey frowned. "That's weird!" she said. Payton nodded. "I say we tell Ava about it then let's not even choose to show that we might know something. Because for all we know they could have been playing a trick on you. I mean they do know our obsession with the Akatsuki." Payton nodded again. In fifth period she told Ava and she agreed. "You know Dan has been acting weird as well." Ava voiced.
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"I see," Pein said after Konan told him what she had overheard with Stacey and Payton. "And Itachi you say you heard Ava and Payton talking about this too?" Itachi nodded and rubbed his eyes. The changes were beginning to show up again so it hurt Itachi's eyes this time.
"We'll have to be more careful." Pein shot a glance at Tobi.