Timeout

By: ChocolateEclar

Disclaimer: I don't own anything that has to do with the Mediator Series by Meg Cabot/Jenny Carroll, including Jesse (Oh come on. Just for a day?), Suze, Paul, Father D, CeeCee, Adam, etc. 

Claimer: I own Miss Evelyn "Eve" Gemma and the plot. (I still wish I owned Jesse instead of Eve.) I may not own the fact that Jesse has five sisters (ages 6-16 when he died), but I do own who the five girls are – i.e. their personalities and names. In short, I also own Juanita "Nita" De Silva, Estefana De Silva, Felicidad "Felly" De Silva, Dolores "Dolly" De Silva, and most of all Carmen De Silva.

To Clavel: Thanks. I promise not to take so long this time as you can see.

To aZn-DiViN3-bLeU: I love Jesse's manners. (I think it shows.) ^_- Thanks again.

To reesespeices88: Yay! ^__^ Thank you for the review!

To Alda Rethe: Thank you! Thank you! The greatest compliment is knowing I'm portraying the characters properly.

Darn social life/school/stuff! They make me update late.

But not this time. Thanks again.

Chapter 16: Just Your Average Battered, Stressed Mediator

MOM IS GOING TO KILL ME!!!

No, really. Take a look:

CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA POLICE REPORT

Type Report: BATTERY

Date of Incident: NOVEMBER 28, 2004

Time: 4:06 P.M.

Names of People Involved in Incident:

SUSANNAH "SUZE" SIMON

ABIGAIL "GAIL" LILITH

HECTOR "JESSE" DE SILVA

ABIGAIL "ABBY" LILITH

Officer(s) Involved in Incident:

SGT ARIEANNA JORDYN

SGT DESMOND PARKER

Place of Incident: 1233 WEST LANE, CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, CA

Case Number: 800045

Incident:

Susannah Simon-SM

Abigail "Gail" Lilith-GL

Hector De Silva-HDS

Abigail "Abby" Lilith-AL

1. At approximately 4:02 P.M., SM arrived at Abby's Bookstore at 1233 West Lane, Carmel-by-the-Sea to visit HDS, who works at the store.

2. Upon arrival, SM noticed GL attempting to have physical contact with HDS.

3. SM proceeded to holler obscenities at GL and then stepped towards GL.

4. GL shouted back at SM and then reached out and punched SM. At this point, HDS attempted to stop the confrontation, only to be told to "Stay outta it!" by SM and GL.

5. AL, after hearing the confrontation from the backroom of the store, called the Carmel Precinct.

6. Officers Sergeant Arieanna Jordyn and Sergeant Desmond Parker of the Carmel Precinct arrived on the scene and were able to subdue SM and GL – who suffered minor injures, such as bruises and swollen eyes and lips, and one broken arm on the part of GL.

Sure, I didn't get charged with battery – Gail did for starting the fight – but that doesn't mean I'm totally guiltless.

I mean, I broke Gail's arm!

She deserved it, but still. My mom's going to ground me, and Father Dom's going to give me a big lecture.

Not to mention I have a freaking BLACK EYE! It looks horrible. No amount of make-up seems to cover it up, and it hurts! Not to mention my swollen lip and bruises!

Jesse looks like he blames himself for not helping me…even though I told him not to. I needed to defend my man's honor, okay?

CeeCee just e-mailed a little certificate with a barbed wire border she made on her computer and sent that says:

BOYFRIEND DEFENDER

Don't touch my boyfriend or else!

Awarded to: Suze Simon

From: CeeCee Webb

I quickly e-mailed her back:

Subject: Thanks!

From: Suze Simon FashionQueen16@freemail.com

To: CeeCee Webb CCjournalist@freemail.com

Hey CeeCee,

         Thanks for the certificate. If you ever need boyfriend-defending help, give me a call. LOL

         My mom and Andy are debating on what to do to me. Gail was charged with battery, and I'm worried I've gotten Jesse fired for all this! What if Abby decides it would be better to get rid of him so no more fights occur?! I'd feel awful.

         Can you imagine getting your boyfriend fired?

         Suze

Ten minutes later I received an e-mail back:

Subject: Re: Thanks!

From: CeeCee Webb CCjournalist@freemail.com

To: Suze Simon FashionQueen16@freemail.com

You're certainly in a fix there. I hope Andy and your mom aren't too hard on you.

After all, you have to go to the big party.

Best of luck,

CeeCee

Me again:

Subject: WHAT?!

From: Suze Simon FashionQueen16@freemail.com

To: CeeCee Webb CCjournalist@freemail.com

         What big party?!

         Suze

Subject: Party

From: CeeCee Webb CCjournalist@freemail.com

To: Suze FashionQueen16@freemail.com

Where have you been? (With Jesse, I assume.) Yesterday Father Dom announced it on the PA system. It'll be in December, and I have to go to it and write a story for the school paper. (The other school journalists will be too busy sucking face.) I don't want to go with just Adam, so you have to go too. (No comments about Adam, Suze.)

You better go to the party.

CeeCee

Subject: OK

From: Suze Simon FashionQueen16@freemail.com

To: CeeCee Webb CCjournalist@freemail.com

CeeCee,

         Sure, I'll go.

         I just hope Paul stays ten feet away from me at all times or I'll be the one charged with battery.

         Suze

Where was I when the party was announced anyway?

Oh yeah. Hehe. I was with Jesse and…Eve.

Jesse tried to persuade Eve to kindly move on to a place where all will remember her. A lie…that didn't work.

She'll be back soon enough.

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My mom says I can go to the party – because she wants to improve my social life – but says I'm forbidden from visiting Jesse at the bookstore for the time being.

Fine with me. (He wasn't fired. Thank God!) He gets off work there at four thirty anyway and is at the library from eight in the morning until two. Sure, I'm at school then, but atleast I know Gail is far away from him then.

Speaking of her, she's suing me! What the heck? I've watched enough episodes of Judge Judy to know that it was her fault for throwing the first punch!

So what if I broke her arm…

I think the whole Mission knows about that because a lot of people are staying clear of me. Carmel is a pretty small town. Everyone knows almost everything about everyone.

Oh look. Here comes Kelly Prescott across the lawn.

"Suze," she said.

"Yeah?" I replied, eyeing her.

"Your brother Brad…" she explained as I silently corrected, 'Stepbrother!' "…claims the fight at that bookstore was over the hot guy that works there. Is that guy really yours?"

I couldn't help but take pride in saying, "Yeah. Jesse's my boyfriend."

Kelly wrinkled her nose and said, "Can I take him out on a date? He's to die for!"

"Not a chance," I hissed.

"Just one?"

"No."

"Suze –"

Glaring, I repeated with gritted teeth, "Not…a…chance!"

"Fine, fine," Kelly said. "Don't go breaking my arm."

I glowered at her as she went back to sit with Debbie Mancuso, Paul, Brad, and a bunch of other students high on the social totem pole.

"Jeez, Kelly was actually willing to breakup with Paul for your boyfriend, Suze," remarked Adam from his perch on top of a lunch table.

"Typical," CeeCee noted.

I smirked. She was right after all.

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Have I mentioned how much it pisses me off when ghosts don't take kindly to me?

Well, let me say it again: I HATE IT!!!

So to say I was pleased with Eve and her antics would be so far off it would be in another universe! After that meeting with her, Jesse, and me, she began to do little things like Maria had at first. As in bugs in drinks and food. CDs mixed up. Rooms in disarray. That sort of thing.

But it soon got much worse.

I could tell Eve was getting restless when I found the lamp in my room smashed and the lacy canopy over my bed torn. Not like I had liked the lace, but my mom did.

So, understandably, I was pretty ticked. I mean, what gives Eve the right to wreck my stuff? Even if the stuff is totally not my style.

I decided to catch her in the act…

Bad idea.

Especially when unbeknownst to you, Paul Slater is involved.

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A/N: Sorry about the cliffhanger, guys, but look! I updated in three/four days – depending on when fanfiction.net shows "Timeout" as updated!

A/N 2: Once again: REVIEW! ^__^ Bye!