I know I'm bein a bit nasty writing more of this when I really should be doing more of my others… and my assignment… but I don't wanna!

I wanna write about loooooovveee!

So… I WILL!

V; she is sooo creepy right now…

Me; duh! Cause I'm a LILMANIAC! HEHEHE!

And thankyou everyone who's reviewed so far… (twists along with Tiamath…)

Hey, how'd you know I had chocolate again? ;)

TIME TO TWIST IT!

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Well, Erek just had to ruin my happy afternoon, didn't he?

A new entrance to the Yeerk pool opening… and we had to go and save the day.

I hated saving the day sometimes…

Well, we managed to shut it down, barely scraping ourselves out alive. We all flew back to the barn, pretty beat. And then Rachel just had to make it worse.

"What the hell was that Jade?-! Huh? Tell me, cause I'd really like to know!" Rachel snarled, getting in my face.

"I just saved your rear end Rachel, so don't shout me down about what I did do! It's what you didn't do that almost got us all KILLED!-!" I screamed, making her back away from me. I was short, but it didn't mean that Rachel could walk all over me!

"What didn't I do then, Jade?" she growled.

"You didn't listen to Jake when he told you to retreat! If I hadn't been there you would've been chop-sui by now!"

"Don't you dare-"

"Ok, stop it you two!" Jake stepped between us, holding his hands out to keep us from pouncing on one another.

I just glared at him but didn't say anything. Rachel on the other hand…

"What? I could have taken them all on!"

"No you couldn't!" Marco snapped. Jake shot a nasty look in his direction and he shut up pretty quickly.

"What do you know? What do either of you know?-!" she turned back to me, and I just glared at her.

"I know that sometimes you can't beat them all yourself" I said softly. My voice however, was filled with menace.

"What the f-"

"I SAID BACK OFF!" Jake roared. Rachel suddenly shut up.

(I believe, however, our mission was a success) Ax said softly, breaking the terrible silence that had settled between all of us. I sighed, took a step back, then another, turning to him.

"I think you're right Ax. Well done with the tank exploding idea"

(Yeah. I didn't even imagine you could do that in there) Tobias agreed.

Cassie was silent. She had been since we'd gotten back. I guess… I guess she'd hated doing that to so many Hork-Bajir…

"All right" Jake rubbed his forehead, looking about forty instead of sixteen "Good job. But right now I think we all need some rest. So go home, and we'll talk in the morning"

"Now that sounds like a plan" Marco grinned, taking my arm and leading me outside. Ax and Tobias took off, and Rachel morphed and went back home. It was about ten or eleven at night…

"Jake, wait a second" I heard Cassie's soft voice from the barn. Jake turned, then looked back at us. I guess Marco must've given him a look, because he sighed and went back inside.

"They'll be ok" Marco assured me, grinning. I shrugged.

"If you're sure" We walked away from the barn, and then I suddenly heard,

(You know what Jade? It's a wonder a tomboy like you managed to get a charmer like Marco. You don't even know how to pick a good dress) she said the word charmer with disgust.

I stopped walking, and Marco looked at me strangely. He mustn't have heard it.

"You ok?"

"Sure… lets just get home, k?"

"All right" he morphed to osprey, and I shifted to the barn owl and we took off together.

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I tossed and turned that night in bed, thinking about what Rachel said.

Not about the dresses thing. I couldn't care less about that. It was about the fact that I was a tomboy. And I had Marco.

I'll admit, I was a little weird… and a little hard at times, but… well, I just didn't know anymore. I didn't know how I even got a boyfriend to start with.

The only other boyfriend I had, which was just a sort of boyfriend was my best guy friend Patrick. And it was chance that put us… sort of… together too.

I'd decided to do a me thing when I was about twelve, thirteen. I wanted to see if I could climb from tree to tree. Patrick, of course, was against the idea.

But of course I'd ignored him and did it anyway.

The end result was me with a twisted ankle and us being stuck in the rain. We found shelter in our old treehouse and…well… the rest was history.

I could understand getting with Patrick. What I didn't understand was how me and Marco fit together.

After all, he liked the girls like Rachel. Not tomboys like me. So why did he choose me?

I looked at the clock on my nightstand. It read three am.

I groaned, then tossed the covers off me and went to get a drink of milk. Warm milk usually put me to sleep anyway.

I loved our new house. Nothing like the apartment we were in. And each of us had our own rooms, so I didn't have to worry about Phoebe waking up during the night.

I went back to my room when I was finished creeping around, sitting at my desk and lazily looking at the little mirror that was there. My mum got it for me… I had no idea why… it just kinda sat there on my desk. It was pretty… nice little frame and everything…

I picked it up, looking at myself in the mirror. I looked at my eyes, my nose… my ears, my cheeks… even my pretty ordinary brown hair… didn't see anything special…

Maybe my eyes. They always kept changing, just a little. Sometimes they'd have a bit of grey in them, other times brown… other than that, they were just ordinary green eyes.

So why choose me?

Tap-tap-tap

I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard that sound.

I turned to look at where it had come from. The window.

And almost screamed when I saw the thing that was there.

I quickly got over it when I saw it was just a peregrine falcon scratching at my window.

Right. Just a falcon.

Quoth the raven, more like it.

I went and opened the window, letting Jake (because I knew it was Jake) in. He landed on my desk, then hopped down onto my floor and started to demorph.

When he was done I just stared at him.

"Uh… hi"

"Hey. Did I wake you or anything?"

Now I just gave him one of my famous 'what are you, stupid?' looks.

"Uh…um… sorry"

"It's ok. What's up?" I asked, casually plopping down onto my bed. He sat next to me, wringing his fingers.

"I uh… needed to talk to someone"

"Couldn't you have gone to Rachel or Marco? Or better yet, Cas-"

"It's about Cassie. And Marco would just laugh"

"Rachel?"

Now he returned my stupid look.

"Right. She explodes at every little thing" I put my hands up in defeat, then just sat there and waited for him to continue. He took a deep breath, then sighed.

"Cassie doesn't want to go to the dance"

I looked at him. Then blinked.

"Is that all?"

"Jade! You of all people… I thought you'd…"

"Shh! I'm sorry! It's just… you dudes never like going to dances, you know, with you not-"

"But I wanted to with this one. I wanted to go with her… and now…"

He groaned in frustration. I sighed back.

"Look, maybe I could talk with her or something. I think everyone's going nuts this week…" I muttered, resting my chin on my left palm, and my elbow on my knee. I looked up at him. He sighed.

"I don't know anymore. I mean, with this war, and… stuff… I'm just… I don't know…"

"I know" I patted his arm with my other hand, then watched as he got up and paced around my room.

"Thanks Jade" he said finally "It was good to just… talk… to someone"

"Not a problem" I got up as well, watching as he morphed. It was gross, but… well, I couldn't stop myself from watching.

I even watched as he hopped out the window and flew into the night.

(Get some sleep Jade. School in a few hours…)

Right. School.

We save the day and still… we had to go to stupid school.

I hate my life sometimes.

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HA! NO ONE IS SAFE FROM MY MADNESS!

WHOOOPEEEEEE!