The Mediator: Changes- (Based on the mediator series by Meg Cabot/Jenny Carroll)

Okay. So, I'm going to give this story a few more chapters, then that will be it... I keep putting updating off for longer and longer, so I figure that this story needs to be drawn to a close. It has been fun though. Now for a new chapter. And sorry for the wait!! Chels

Chapter 28: Pizza and Confusion

(Third Person POV)

"...And then he was all like 'you have to see this, it's amazing!', so I look towards where he's looking and all I see is a basketball game!" Cee Cee was talking about her misadventures with Adam. Susan and Suze were both nodding and smiling politely as she spoke, but to anyone other than Cee Cee they looked like they were about to fall asleep.

"Oh my gosh, Cee! Isn't that what's-her-name from school?" Suze said before she could start talking again. Cee Cee looked around the pizza place, then squealed, recognizing someone. As soon as Cee Cee rushed from the table Suze let out a deep breath, "I didn't even know she would recognize anyone, but thank goodness she did!".

Susan shook her head in agreement, then suddenly paled. "Suze... I- I don't feel so well." She mumbled, "I think...I'm gonna-," she started, then fell from her seat and to the floor.

"Susan?" Suze gasped, looking under the table to make sure the other girl was alright, but she was not there. "Susan?" She asked, looking around frantically for her look-alike.

"Cee Cee!" Suze exclaimed, running up to her and pulling her from her conversation, "Susan disappeared!". Cee Cee gaped open mouthed at Suze. "She was sitting there, then she said she didn't feel so great, then she fell out of her chair and when I looked at the floor where she fell, she was-," Suze shrugged her shoulders, "She was gone..."

"How is that possible?" Cee Cee asked, her logical side coming out. She walked over to the table they had been sitting at and looked around. "Are you sure she didn't crawl to the bathroom?"

"She didn't even know where the bathroom was, plus she would have passed by you to get there... and I looked that way right after I look on the ground... She-," Suze stopped talking as she noticed a familiar shadow through the window. Paul. He was looking straight at her and he had the most guilty looking, self-satisfied smirk on his face.

"He's back" Suze thought to herself, walking away from Cee Cee, who was looking under all of the tabled in the restaurant, and out of the front door. "What did you do?!" She yelled, looking straight into his eyes.

"Nothing yet, but I'm hoping to do you soon." He remarked. Definitely not something Susan's Paul would say.

"What did you do to Susan?" She asked, pure hatred seeping from her voice.

Paul raised an eyebrow in confusion, "Who?!"

"You're girlfriend, you idiot!" Suze yelled angrily, "You know! She looks like me and you two were totally all over each other for- as long as you've both been here!"

"Don't know her, but if she is as hot as you, send her on over. Especially if she likes to be all over me!" He smirked, "You can come along too, we could have a nice thr-"

"Don't finish that thought!" Suze interrupted, "If you don't know her, than why were you giving me that look through the window?"

Paul laughed and Suze felt her stomach clench in fear. That was not a good kind of laugh. "You missed one of our lessons Suzie." He said, smiling, "You know the deal: You have lessons, I don't hurt the ghostie of your dreams." He shuddered, "What you see in him, I'll never understand...Anyways, I took the liberty of, um, reading him his rights, shall we say... but, you see, they had a kind of after effect that I didn't plan on...Seeing as, when I got to him, he wasn't dead."

White as a sheet, that is the only way to describe what Suze looked like at the very second Paul had finished speaking.

"Don't worry, baby" He said, putting his hand on her cheek, "I didn't feel right killing him- people should only have to die like that once, no matter how much I hate them...Anyways-Seeing as you love him so much, and like me so little- yes I can feel you cringe when I touch you- I have decided to leave you two love birds alone-," He paused before adding a barely audible "Almost" to his statement. That last word was not heard by Suze, who was still under shock from Paul's earlier statement.

"What after effects did you create?" She asked, closing her eyes for a moment.

"Um... he may or may not be able to remember-anything from his life... all he could say was 'Susannah' and that he loved you and how Maria killed him, but he doesn't know who she is or why she did it." He laughed nervously.

"I don't believe you'd do something like this!" She yelled, taking out her cell phone, dialing Cee Cee's number and demanding to be taken home immediately.

(Paul's P.O.V)

My plan is working out perfectly. I sent that glowing idiot in the bottle to Suze, he did all the time changey stuff. I brainwashed myself temporarily, giving me an airtight alibi. It's not my fault that Jesse is now nothing but a drooling record player stuck on the same phrase, "Susannah, mi amore... Maria, why did you have me killed? Who are you?...Susannah...querida...". Blah, blah, blah, there is no way Suze will want to stay with him now. Paul, you are a genius... no, you are THE genius.

SO?!?! SO?!?!?! Waddidja think? PLEASE REVIEW! you could save my life...kidding, it's not THAT urgent! But please do Chelsea