In The Best Interest--"Cole Likes...Well, ya know!"

*Heh...please review! I've gotten, like, 3 reviews in...A week, or somethin'! I started my new Ezra story! Hehe actually it's not new, it's from like early this year like March! I've said 'like' to much! GET NICK CARTER'S CD! It's ROCK not pop, oka? Their *might* be a song from that CD here, cuz one relates to what they're all going through called "WHo Needs The World?" and one called "Help Me"! Well please review and get the CD, hehe!*

Cole stared at her in disbelief. "YOU like ME?" he stammered, his face going red. "Uh...Yeah...I guess," she admitted. "You don't like me?" she questioned with embarassment. "No! I mean, yes, I mean...Yeah, I do like you...I was just REAL surprised, to say the least!" He said with a nervous laugh. "Looks like Kristin didn't completely screw up!"

Just as he said that Kristin jumped out from behind a bush and yelled- "HEY!" and was about to continue but she lost her balance...

Cole and Katie burst into a fit of laughter as Kristin landed in the water. "That's what you get for being a sneak!" Katie said through her laughs as Kristin screamed from the coldness. Cole helped her pull herself up when Peter walked up.

"Kristin! I thought you learned from last time...? Go to my office after dinner, please, but for now please get changed. Cole, Katie everyone's looking for you, it's dinner," Peter instructed then turned back to Kristin, "and don't 'forget' this time."

"I really did forget last time!" Kristin whined after him as she jogged to her room. Cole and Katie walked to the cafeteria (is that what they call it? *shrugs*...It's been to long! *Whines* I better get them for Christmas!). "SO..Was that a yes?" Katie asked.

Cole grinned. "Definately!"

They were eating when Benji sat next to Sam. "Oh no, the fagget!" Same groaned, earning a little laugh from Mark and a few of the older ones from other groups, but everyone else just ignored him.

"Sam-" Benji started to say but Sam interupted, "get away, gayfor! I might get what YOU have!" he exclaimed.

"You know what YOU have, Sam? RACISM. I'm ME; you're a CLONE. So fuck off!" Benji yelled. "Oooh, he's getting a little angsty!" Sam said, laughing so hard he almost started choking.

Benji glared at him with hate and then ran out. "That was a real ass thing to do, Sam!" Liz snapped.

Everyone turned their heads to face Liz, silently. "You, you can talk!" Riley said, not trying to be mean and/or funny, and Liz didn't answer.

Even Sam, for once, seemed speechless. "Are you OK?" Cole asked as he put his tray down. "You don't know how it feels to be ridiculed, do you SAM? He can't control that! And 'fagget' doesn't mean gay! So for all you know YOU could be a fagget!" she snapped.

Sophie walked up. "Is there a problem?" she asked. Liz got quiet again. Everyone, to avoid trouble, spread out to where they had been before and only Sam answered with a quick shake of his head.

Sophie looked suspiciously back and forth between Sam and Liz, but in the end she walked off. "Freak." Liz heard Sam mutter as she headed back to where she sat.