Thanx for all the reviews. the next chapter! whee! i hope you like it.

Meanwhile, Lulu was having her own problems.

"Alyssa!" she complained, at her best friend. "Why did you cheat on the test? I saw you looking at my answers, and now I got busted!"

It was true. Since her answers had been identical, the teacher had believed Lulu had been cheating, and she was sentenced to a week of detention. Not only that, but she didn't have her best friend anymore.

"Gees!" Alyssa yelled back at her. "Gosh Lulu you're such a loser."

"Just shut up!" Lulu yelped, and then walked away.

Seth came in for wrestling practice. He liked it; it was fun with Shane as the coach and not Murney. Seth shuddered as he remembered coaching days with Murney, who had completely squished him on the mat, so he couldn't breathe and had bruises all over his torso after each wrestling practice.

The problem was that Seth plainly wasn't built for wrestling. The other boys were always picking on him and pushing him around; but they were just dorks who ganged up on him in class.

The other boys were stocky and muscular and brawny, while Seth was tall and thin and slippery. Seth wasn't building any muscle, because no matter what he ate, he didn't put on any weight at all.

After practice, Seth walked outside. The gang of guys was there. Their leader, a jerk named Robert Heasen immediately got the group to surround him, and then they started pushing him around. Seth had put up with this for a long time, about every wrestling practice for about a month. Usually Shane saved him, which left Seth ticked off because he felt weak and like a loser.

Today however, the pushing became more rough, as the boys got more and more excited.

"Would you just stop?" Seth yelped. "What did I ever do to you? Just leave me alone!"

One of Robert's gang members, punched him in the face, bringing a trickle of blood from his nose. Robert pushed him down, and managed to kick him twice before Shane butted in, picked him up, and stopped it.

But Seth saw the look on Robert's face, and knew it wasn't over.

"Seth," Shane said quietly. "You have to learn how to fight back. They sense weakness, and they swarm all around you."

"Well you don't know how hard it is!" Seth retorted. "They just gang up on you, and there's six of them!" He winced at the sore spot on his chest.

"Do you still want to do wrestling?"

"Yes! My dad wanted me to, and that's what I want to do!"

"But you're still taking drama, right?" Shane inquired.

"Yeah." Seth turned away, and looked out the window, with a lost look in his eyes.

Shane looked down from the steering wheel of his own minivan, (he dropped them off after school for Mrs. Plummer), and back at the other kids in the back. They were in really bad moods; anyone could see that.

"You guys alright?" he asked.

Zoe sniffled quietly, her eyes still red.

"Zoey?" Shane asked worriedly. "Lulu?"

Lulu was sitting in the back seat, in plain misery. Shane was worried. He hadn't seen her that sad since the Boy Scouts smashed their cookies.

He dropped them off, calling, "I hope you feel better guys."

The kids just walked sullenly to the door, and waved half-heartedly.

Shane sighed, and drove off home.

"Kids!" Mrs. Plummer yelled. "It's time to eat dinner. Oh, stop it Peter."

Peter had been having problems at pre-school. He had no friends whatsoever, because he sat in the corner by himself and cried.

The three older kids came stumbling down the stairs.

"Mom," Zoe said quietly. "I'm not going to eat this. You know how many carbs this has? And I'm not that hungry," she lied, ignoring the pang of hunger in her chest.

Seth sat sullenly at the table, grabbed a drumstick, and started eating. Lulu sat down, and stared glumly at her plate, only to push her salad back and forth, finally putting some in her mouth.

"Zoe," Mrs. Plummer said. "You have a great figure. But if you don't eat, you're going to look like some sort of zombie. Come on honey, just eat something."

Seth watched Zoe sit there for an hour, picking at her food, never once putting anything in her mouth. He spelled out a message on his plate with salad dressing: "Not Fat Zoe!"

Zoe just stared sadly back at him, and went on chopping up her food to make it look scattered.

Seth was worried. Zoe wasn't eating. He hadn't seen her eat her lunch, but maybe she had before.

Lulu noticed too. She nudged Seth. "Why isn't Zoe eating anything?"

"She thinks she's fat," said Seth.

Lulu was about to laugh, but she saw the seriousness in her brother's tone. "She's not!"

"I know," he answered.

Zoe looked quietly up from her plate, and left the room.

Review to find out what will happen. To Lulu, Seth, and Zoe. I think I'm going to physically injure Seth next, and put a scene in for Zoe, and a fight in for Lulu, and even something for Peter. The baby? I think that's a little ridiculous, but i'll put him a scene too. LIke learning to talk or something

Review, please?

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