Everyone was silent after Dr. D made his selection of pairings. "Will
someone please speak you are all starting to scare me," said Dr. D not
liking how silent it was, especially since it was never quiet in that room.
"Um sir. So you really think that it is such a smart idea to pair those two
up," said a student indicating towards Van and Fiona. Everyone with half a
brain in the school knew of the relationship that they had at school.
Thought nobody knew of out of school. Dr. D looked at the two glaring at
each other but ignored. "Just think of it as trying to settle rivalries,"
said Dr. D with a smirk on his face. "Plus they will have to work together
in order to pass this project. If only one of them does it, and I will know
if that happened. Then both of them will fail," said Dr. D with a smile. "I
am well aware of their past history," said Dr. D when another student
raised his hand. 'How little does he know about that,' thought Van keeping
his aggravated look on his face. "I don't want to work with her," said Van
pointing towards to Fiona. 'I have to keep up appearances,' thought Van.
"Whether you want to or not is not an option Mr. Flyheight. You two are
dependant on each other for this project. So you had better get used to
it," said Dr. D returning to his desk. "But," said Van trying to make it
look like he was desperate to not have to do this. "No buts Van. You either
do this or you will receive an F for this project," said Dr. D with a smirk
on his face. Van sat back down in his with an angry sigh.
"Hey there honey. I bet your class was just horrible now that you have that horrible woman in it," said Amy in a fake sad voice. Van had on an angry look and turned away. "What's wrong? Did she do something to you?" asked Amy a little startled that Van just turned away from her. "Dr. D has a project going and guess who he decided to partner me up with?" said Van wanting to see the expression that came across his face. "HE WHAT?" screamed Amy. Everyone that was in the hallway looked in their direction trying to see what was going on. "Calm down you are making a bit of a scene," said Van seeing all of the people that were looking at the two of them. "He has no right to do something like that. When I get my hands on him," said Amy making her hand move in a way that it looked like she was choking someone. "Now, now. You don't want to do that. Unless you want to get kicked out of school," said Van nervously. 'Sometimes she can be a bit scary,' thought Van with a nervous grin. "That won't happen because my father won't allow something like that to happen," said Amy in a calmer voice. Van rolled his eyes without her noticing. "Please don't tell me you have to do this," said Amy in a said voice. "I have to or I get an F," said Van calmly. "How can you be so calm about this?" asked Amy a bit furiously. "I just think how much I can torture her with this," said Van with a smile. "I see what you are getting at,' said Amy with a smile as she kissed van. 'You have no idea,' thought Van while she was kissing him.
"Why are you so happy about what just happened?" asked Moonbay looking at a smiling Fiona. "It is because of Amy. what else would it be? Just thinking about how mad she must be about this is somehow making me happy about it," said Fiona with a smile. "I get what you are saying now. I must admit that this is definitely something that sounds very good right now. A sudden yelling could be heard going through the halls. "I guess she just found out what happened. Too bad I couldn't be there to see her face. Then again maybe it was a good thing because she might take her frustration out on me," said Moonbay with a very large smirk on her face. "By the sounds of it she isn't too happy," said Fiona a little worried. "Of course she isn't. Looks like you will have your hands full for the rest of the day, maybe even a few days after that. I would love to help you out with her but I have a project that needs to get done," said Moonbay before walking away from Fiona. Fiona was about to close her locker and walk away when she saw a steamed Amy walking towards her. 'I knew that it would end up leading to this. Why do I usually have to be right about most things?' Fiona asked herself with a sigh. "I heard that you had to do a project with my boyfriend," said Amy with a little anger in her voice. "Believe me, if I had the choice I would rather do it with somebody else. Anyone would be better then him," said Fiona trying to get around Amy but she just stepped in the way. "I am warning you that if you make him fail this that I will make your life hell," said Amy with a wicked smirk. "A little late for that don't you think?" asked Fiona a little annoyed by how Amy was acting. "You haven't seen anything yet. I can make it far worse then it is at this moment," said Amy walking by Fiona while making sure to hit her. A few of the things that Fiona was carrying fell to the floor and she picked them up quickly and walked away. 'What a pain,' thought Fiona with a sigh. 'Oh well. Now I have a reason to be around Van,' she thought happily.
"What was the project that we are supposed to be doing again?" asked Van with his head down on his desk pretending not to be having a good time around Fiona. I truth he was having a great time. "For the tenth time we are supposed to be choosing one event in history and we are supposed to make a collage for it," said Fiona a little annoyed because Van had been asking the same question for the past ten minutes now. "Sorry for asking. I just forgot," said Van holding his hands out in front of him in his own defense. "You have also forgotten it for the past ten times that I have told you it," said Fiona with a little annoyance and a little amusement in her voice that only Van could pick up. "Well maybe I would understand it better if someone else told me, because you are making it way too complicated," said Van for the fun of it to keep up appearances. "It is in no way complicated. Maybe your brain is just a little too dense to be able to pick up on anything I am trying to say. Listen a little bit and maybe you would understand it better," Fiona yelled at him. The entire class looked at the two of them. The two noticed and sat down quietly. At his desk Dr. D looked at the two of them and chuckled a little bit. 'Those two can really get at each other's throats. This is the best way to try and create a little peace between enemies. That would be the case if they were even enemies. They may fool everyone else but they cannot fool me. I have had them for the past four years in homeroom and I have picked up a few things that no one else has been able to see,' thought Dr. D with another chuckle. Everyone else was now looking at him because they had heard his chuckling. "What?" asked Dr. D looking at every student in the class that was looking at him as if he was a bit demented. "You act as if it is funny that they are about to tear out each others throats," said Moonbay a little confused by his actions. Irvine could barely hold his laughter back as well. 'I have a feeling that the old man knows more then he is letting on. even if he doesn't say anything about it,' thought Irvine with a smirk on his face. "I have no idea what you are talking about Moonbay," said Dr. D with an innocent look on his face. Moonbay was about to say something before he stopped her. "Are you going to continue talking or are you going to get back to work?" asked Dr. D with a smile. Moonbay sighed and sat back down next to Irvine.
"Where's the glue?" asked Van looking around the table for the little tube. Yet there was nothing there for him to be able to use. "I don't know. You were the last one to use it," muttered Fiona with a small smile. "Where did you put the glue?" she asked hiding the small smirk growing on her face. "I haven't used any yet. You had to have done something with it. So where did you put it?" asked Van putting an emphasis on the word you. "I didn't get any because I thought you had it," said Fiona with a playful glare but a harsher tone. "Great! You forgot to get us glue and now it is all gone," said Van noticing the case that the glue was normally in was now empty. "You were the one that was supposed to get the glue and a few other supplies while I grabbed the rest of the supplies," said Fiona a little annoyed. "No it was you that was supposed to grab the glue," Van said in a little higher of a voice then he meant to use. "Forget it," said Van with a sigh, "You can't be trusted to do a lot of things," said Van turning around. He turned around to face Thomas and his partner. "Can I borrow your glue?" asked Van in an boring voice. Fiona felt like chuckling a little. "No you cannot borrow it," said Thomas a little annoyed at Van at how he had been treating Fiona. "Can I borrow it?" asked Fiona nicely as she turned around to face him with a smile on her face. "Of course you can," said Thomas smiling back as he handed the glue to Fiona. "Thank you," said Fiona taking it and turning back around. She looked at Van and stuck her tongue out at him. He growled and turned back around and sat back down in his seat. Unfortunately she wasn't able to use it because the bell then rang. "Alright class. No homework tonight. Be ready to get to work immediately tomorrow. You have until the end of the bell the day after tomorrow," said Dr. D with a smile as students raced out of the room not even listening to them. "Why do I bother? Oh well it will be their faults if they don't get it done on time," said Dr. D with a smirk on his face as the last of the students left the room.
"Alright everybody takes your spots because we are about to start our first activity for the year," said their gym teacher Crougar. "What would that be old man?" asked Van in his normal way because he calls Crougar that a lot and everyone seemed to have gotten used to it. "We are going to be playing volleyball first," said Crougar choosing to ignore the rude name that Van had called him. "I have already chosen teams for this," said Crougar before anyone could try to make their own teams. "These will be three on three matched and will be held in a tournament format," said Crougar trying to explain how things were going to go. "This is new. I haven't been able to play volleyball in gym class for a while. He hasn't done it at all since I came to this high school," said Fiona with a smile. "Today we will just be having practice games to get ready for it," said Crougar as he pulled his clipboard in front of his face. "The first team is Fiona, Moonbay, and Irvine. the second team will be Van, Amy, and Emily," said Crougar as he continued to name off the rest of the teams. Amy was excited because Emily was one of her best friends. "We are going to cream everyone," said Amy happily. "Especially your team," said Amy pointing towards Fiona. "team one and team two will be on court 1, team three and four will be on court two, and team five and team six will be on court three," said Crougar, and with a blow of his whistle everyone was walking to their designated court. Amy had on a smirk because she was really good at volleyball and felt that this would be an easy victory. Amy smiled happily as her, Van, and her friend Emily walked to one side of the court. While Fiona, Irvine, and Moonbay walked to the other side of the court. "Tell em Fiona. How will it feel to face a real winner in this? I have won several volleyball tournament, and I have never lost a game," said Amy with a smirk. "You are so going to go down," said Amy smirking even more. Van just groaned at how much she was bragging. Even her friend Emily couldn't help but groan as well at her friend. "A little cocky are we?" asked an annoyed Moonbay the bragging Amy. Amy just smirked and responded. "You may be a fairly good player but I am simply better then all three of you put together," said Amy with the ever- present smirk. Fiona remained quiet during the entire conversation. Moonbay noticed this too. "Please ay you are good at this Fiona. I really want to beat her," Moonbay whispered into Fiona's ear. Fiona didn't have any time to reply because Crougar blew the whistle for them to start.
No one's attention seemed to be on their own game. Everyone was more interested on the game that was about to start between the two people that hate each other more then anything else. Everyone was aware of Amy's skill at volleyball but no one had ever seen Fiona play. For all they knew she could be good at it or be horrible. It would all come down to this game to decide. Crougar didn't pay attention to anything else either because he had to make sure that that one game remained civilized knowing the past of one player on each team with each other. Amy's team got the ball first to serve. "You know Amy I seem to remember that trip to the beach our freshman year and the volleyball game between Raven and Reese," said Fiona without an emotion on her face. "Oh yeah, I remember that. Didn't she get smacked in the face with the ball?" asked Moonbay with a laugh just remembering what happened. "I had a bad day and you threw off my concentration. Besides, I am ten times better then back then," said Amy in her own cocky way. "Sure, sure. I am sure that you are," said Moonbay barely being able to control her laughing. Fiona almost broke out laughing as well. "Can we get started already before it is time for us to go to our next class?" asked a slightly annoyed Van because they were making it so that they couldn't play the game. "Of course sweetie," said Amy in a nice voice. Moonbay was making gagging noises upon hearing this. Van ignored that and served the ball. It went flawlessly over the net. Irvine was already at it and hit it back over the net right at Amy who hit it hard at the ground on the other side of the net. It was near Fiona but she wasn't able to get it in time. "One point us. Zero points you," said Amy in a happy voice because she was already beating Fiona and it was only the first minute. Van took the ball again and sent it over. It then came towards Fiona. "Better look out because she is going to miss it,' yelled Amy as the ball was coming towards Fiona. This didn't bother Fiona, in fact she only smiled. The ball was coming down fast and before anyone could realize what had just happened, the ball was on the ground on Amy's side of the court. Fiona stood there happily with a smile on her face looking at the confused Amy. "How are my skills for you?" asked Fiona in a happy voice. Amy was speechless but in an instant a determined look came across her face. "You'll pay for that," said Amy but she couldn't do anything. "Go get changed everyone," said Crougar signaling that the class was over. "Let's go Fiona before things really start to heat up," said Moonbay pulling the happy Fiona to the locker room.
"That was totally awesome Fiona. why didn't you tell me that you were good at volleyball?" asked a happy Moonbay. "No one bothered to ask me," said Fiona with a mere shrug of her shoulders. "That was great though. did you see the look on her face? That was a priceless picture," said Moonbay with a slight laugh. "So are you going to be coming with me tonight to the movies?" asked Moonbay with a smile. "No, I want to get some work done on my project," said Fiona in a calm tone. "Oh ok?" said a slightly disappointed Moonbay. "Well if you change your mind you know where you can find me," said Moonbay with a smile as they walked towards their next class. With Fiona's new schedule they were basically in all of the same classes together for the year. "On second thought. I have all of the time during class for the next two days to get it done. So I guess I will come," said Fiona not wanting to disappoint her friend. "Great! Me and Irvine will pick you up at six," said Moonbay with a smile. "Ok then. I will be ready then," said Fiona smiling as well. Fiona could have sworn at that second that she had heard her name being whispered. She tried to ignore it but I came again. "Um Moonbay. Go on ahead. There is something that I have to do," said Fiona with a smile. "Ok. Make sure that you are not late for class though," said Moonbay as she walked ahead of Fiona.
Fiona took a look around and saw that the hallways were completely empty. "Hey Fiona," came Van's voice. Fiona looked an saw Van's head by an empty classroom. "Listen. I need to ask you a favor," said Van as Fiona walked into the room. "Sure. What is it?" asked Fiona with a smile. "Do you think I can hide out at your place today?" asked Van looking around to make sure no one was listening or watching. "Why?" asked Fiona with a confused look on her face. "She hasn't asked me but Amy is trying to get me to come to something with her family but I really have no interest in going. I overheard her telling that to one of her friends. Also knowing her when she is in a bad mood like right now I will have no choice but to do what she says. So I have to hide from her for the rest of the day. So can I please hide at your house until later?" asked Van in a begging voice. "I guess. Or maybe you can see if Irvine can drag you along with us," said Fiona after thinking it over. "Wouldn't that be suspicious if I am with some people I am supposed to hate?" asked Van with a confused look on his face. "Just say Irvine invited you before you knew that we were coming. I can talk to him to see if you can come," said Fiona with a smile. "That would be great. Thank you," said Van in a thankful voice. "Come on. we have to get going before the bell rings," said Fiona walking quickly out of the room. Van waited a few seconds before doing the same happy to see that the hallway was empty at the moment.
"Hey Irvine," said Fiona quietly into Irvine's ear. "What?" asked Irvine looking away from the teacher that was currently speaking. "Do you think you can drag Van along with us tonight? Amy wants him to go with her somewhere and he doesn't want to. So I figure we can take him along and make it look like he didn't know that me and Moonbay were coming," whispered Fiona into his ear. "Sure. I guess I can. I would be better I guess to have someone besides girls around," said Irvine with a slight smirk on his face. "What's that supposed to mean?" asked an annoyed Fiona. "I am just kidding. Sure he can come. I will just have to find an excuse with Moonbay," said Irvine with a smile before turning back to the teacher. Fiona turned slightly to the bored Van. Van noticed this and looked but not too much. Fiona nodded her head and Van gave off a sigh of relief. 'Thank you god,' thought van knowing he would be safe. He then turned back around and started to listen to the teachers boring lesson again. 'All I have to do is get through today without seeing her and I will be home free,' thought Van happily.
"What time was it that you were going to be picking me up again?' Fiona asked Irvine while they waited for Moonbay to get finished in the classroom because she was running a little late. "Six. Just make sure that you are ready by then or else we will be leaving," said Irvine with a sigh. "Right. I will remember that," said Fiona with a smile. It was then that they saw a very strange sight. A very paranoid looking Van was sneaking around the side of the building. "What are you doing?" asked a confused Irvine scaring the heck out of Van. Van put a finger up to his lips to signal for Irvine to be quiet. "I am trying to get away from Amy. Even if I am busy she will still drag me along so I have to get out of here before she finds me," said Van looking around the place. Irvine felt like laughing at his paranoid friend. "Oh Van," came the annoying voice of Amy. Van freaked out and ran as far away as he could. A few moments later Amy came into view. "Irvine. Have you seen Van? I have to ask him something important," said Amy making sure to glare at Fiona while she was doing this. "Nope. Haven't seen him since our last class," said Irvine without caring that he was lying to her. "Well if you see him tell him I am looking for him," said Amy till glaring at Fiona as she walked off. "Like I would do such a thing. Although it might be a little fun to see him squirm a little bit," said Irvine as an afterthought. Fiona elbowed him in the stomach for that. "I was only kidding," said a short-winded Irvine. "I know," said Fiona with a smile before she walked off in the direction of her house. Irvine stared at her retreating form in disbelief. "She is a weird one alright," Irvine muttered to himself as he tried to catch his breath. "I am surprised that it took you that long to figure that one out," came Moonbay's voice. "What were you two talking about to make her do that to you?" asked Moonbay with a slight chuckle. "I only made a joke and she did that knowing it was only a joke," said Irvine standing up straight. Moonbay just chuckled a little bit more. "We had better get home to get ready for tonight," said a still chuckling Moonbay as she walked in one direction. Irvine sighed and then walked off in the other direction.
Fiona went through everything she had with Moonbay right by her trying to pick out what to wear. "How about this? No," said Fiona tossing clothes after clothes off to the side. "Why are you getting so worked up about going to a movie?" Moonbay asked with a little suspicion in her voice. "I am not getting worked up over. I just want to look nice," said Fiona throwing aside another outfit. "Whatever," muttered Moonbay as she laid back on Fiona's bed. 'Why am I?' Fiona asked herself. 'I am not trying to impress anyone,' thought Fiona curious as to her behavior. 'Van' a voice in the back of her head told her. 'I am not doing this for Van,' thought Fiona with a shake of her head. "Something wrong?" asked Moonbay sitting back up after seeing Fiona shaking her head. "No. I was just thinking about something," said Fiona with a smile on her face. "About what?" asked Moonbay a little curiously. "It is nothing. Just random things. It really doesn't matter," said Fiona finally picking an outfit and putting it on. "About time. Irvine is about to get here," muttered Moonbay standing up. "You and Irvine seem to be awfully close Moonbay," said Fiona with an amuse stare. "Wh-what do you mean?" asked Moonbay blushing slightly. "You two seem to do a lot of things together. Are you two starting to have feelings for each other?" asked Fiona with a smirk on her face. "Of-of course not. Why the heck would we have feelings for each other? It is the most absurd thing that I have ever heard," muttered Moonbay who was a red as a tomato. Moonbay could hear Fiona chuckling a little bit. "What?" asked a very confused Moonbay. "Your face is a red as a tomato," said Fiona before she broke out laugh. "No it isn't," said Moonbay looking in the mirror to prove her wrong. She was very red though. "I am just fooling around with you Moonbay. There is no need to go overboard with it," said Fiona still giggling every few words. Moonbay glared at her before standing up and marching out the door. Fiona stared at her for a few seconds before she heard Moonbay's voice. "Are you coming? Irvine's here waiting for us," said Moonbay from the other side of the door. Fiona looked out the window and saw that Moonbay was right. Irvine was waiting for them right in front of the house waiting for them. "Hey! Wait up," yelled Fiona running after Moonbay since she already had a head start.
"Um Irvine," said Moonbay noticing the direction that they were going. "Yeah?" asked Irvine from the drivers seat. "Aren't the movie theaters the other way?" asked Moonbay looking at the road behind them. "Yeah it is," said Irvine not trying to stop and turn around. "Then why are we going this way?" asked Moonbay looking at Irvine with a very curious stare. "I am picking someone up. I don't want any complaints about it either," said Irvine staring at Moonbay before quickly turning his head back to the road. "Who?" asked Moonbay having a feeling that she wasn't going to like the answer to it. "Van," was all Irvine said before he expected Moonbay to yell at him. "Why him?" asked Moonbay looking at him suspiciously. "I am doing him a favor. I already told him and Fiona and they both agreed not to argue for tonight," said Irvine seeing that Moonbay looked at Fiona. "As long as the two don't ruin it then I have no problem with it. Just one thing though," said Moonbay looking back to Irvine. "What's that?" asked Irvine keeping his eyes on the road. "What about his girlfriend?" asked Moonbay a little annoyed just thinking about it. "Luckily she is not coming. Van needed a night away from her, so I offered to help him get away," said Irvine calmly. "You are awfully calm about all of this," said Irvine noticing how calm Moonbay was. "Van's cool at times. He just got a bad personality after he started to date Amy," said Moonbay with disgust in her voice. "Oh yeah, that right. You two were once friends," said Irvine remembering Moonbay telling him something along those lines. "If he ditches Amy then I would be happy to be friends with him again, but not until he does," said Moonbay turning in her seat and looking at the road in front of them. 'Like that will happen anytime soon,' thought Fiona sadly just thinking about what Van was forced to do. "No arguing. You got that Fiona?" asked Moonbay with a serious look on her face. "Yes," muttered Fiona as she just stared out the window.
"Get in already," yelled Moonbay once they had reached Van's house a few minutes after their little talk. "Get this straight Van. If you are going to be with us for this there is going to be no arguing and you have to leave your snot nosed personality at your house," said Moonbay in a threatening voice. Van sank backing his seat out of fear. He just nodded his head a little scared of the woman in front of him. "Good," said Moonbay happily. "As long as you do then we will have a good time," she continued happily. 'That girl has way too many different personalities,' thought Van with a cheesy smile. "Are you done yet Moonbay?" asked Irvine seeing Moonbay sit back down in her seat. "Yes I am," said Moonbay with a smile. "Good. I already talked to the two of them. They already know how they are supposed to act and what the consequences will be if they do," said Irvine with a smirk. "What would the consequences be?" asked Moonbay curiously. "They will have no ride home. I am sure that they will be on their best behavior though. am I right?" asked Irvine looking at the two of them. The two just nodded their head dully. "good. Now that that is settled we are off," said Irvine stepping on the gas pedal and taking off.
"Are you a maniac or something?" yelled Moonbay once they had reached the theater. She was holding the area around her heart as it thumped wildly in her chest. "Sorry about that. I thought that it might be a little fun," said Irvine with a smile. "I am surprised that no police pulled you over for that. I am also surprised that we didn't crash. If you ever do that again I will personally make sure that you are going to be severely punished," yelled Moonbay into Irvine's ear. She was mad because of how fast he had been going to get there. Van and Fiona just stood off to the side watching the two without saying a word at all. Their eyes moved back and forth between the two as each one of them took turns speaking or in Moonbay's case, yelling. Neither of them wanted to say anything either because they were afraid of being on the end of her yelling when she finished with Irvine. "Now, now you two. We know that you like each other but there is no need to argue like an old married couple," said Van stepping with a smirk on his face. "Since when did you start acting like your old self?" asked a confused Moonbay noticing his personality was nothing like it had been for a while now. "Wouldn't you like to know," said Van turning around and walking towards the entrance to the theater. "That was a little freaky," said Moonbay watching him walk away. Irvine and Fiona looked at each other with Moonbay seeing and just smiled. 'You'll probably find out at some point but not right now Moonbay,' thought Irvine with a smile on his face. 'Sorry about not telling you the truth Moonbay?' thought Fiona still smiling.
"Now where did those two go?" asked Moonbay once they had paid to get in and now they were ready to watch the movie but they noticed Van and Fiona weren't with them. "I saw Fiona heading to the restroom and Van stopping to get some snacks. He will probably get some for only himself so I will go and grab some for us," said Irvine standing up. "I'll just wait here because I don't have to go," said Moonbay remaining seated. "Fine with me," said Irvine walking towards the doors that led out to the lobby. Upon walking out to it, he saw Van and Fiona were already walking towards him and talking. "Moonbay was wondering about you," said Irvine leaning on the wall by the door. "What did you say?" asked Van holding a small popcorn most likely for only himself. "I told her that Fiona went to the restroom and you were getting snacks which you could have been nice enough to get us some," said Irvine with a fake disappointed look. "I only had enough money for myself. I am sorry," said Van holding his hands in front of him in his defense. "It's ok. I used an excuse with that thought in mind anyways to come and see what the two of you were up to," said Irvine with a smirk on his face. "Just talking since no one that we knew was around," said Van with a smile. "I see. Do you two know that Moonbay is trying to figure out who you are Van?" asked Irvine staring at Van. "She already know me though," said Van a little confused. "No, I mean that she is trying to find out your identity," said Irvine seriously. "Like I said before she already knows who I am," said Van in an exasperated voice. "No! She is trying o find out who Fiona's friend is, which also happens to be you," said Irvine with every last bit of patience gone in his voice. "Oh, that. I knew," said Van with a sigh. "Moonbay is a good friend, but for now I just want to keep it between us. You wouldn't even know right now if you hadn't seen us when you first came here," said Fiona with an upset tone in her voice. "You should tell her at some point. She knows that I know who it is and is upset that she is being left out of it," said Irvine seriously. "Are you looking after Moonbay?" asked Van with slyness in his voice. "N-n-no. you don't under stand what I am talking about," stuttered Irvine. "Sure we don't," said an unconvinced Van. "I am just saying that I don't think that it is very fair for her," said Irvine. "I would feel that way too if I was the one that was left out of it," said Irvine with sadness in his voice. "Sounds like you care for her," said Fiona with a small smile. Irvine blushed a little bit. "What do you know!" yelled Irvine before storming off towards the concession stand. "He didn't need to yell at us. Oh well. At least now we know the truth," said Van with a grin on his face as Fiona walked into the room, and then he went too about a minute after that.
'God what a boring movie,' thought Van as he sat in his seat with his chin in his right hand. He then let out a loud yawn. 'Going with Amy might have been better then being bored all night,' he thought but that didn't make him feel any better. 'On second thought, maybe not,' thought Van knowing that he would most likely be even more bored at one of her parents extremely boring parties. 'Last time I went to one of those I fell asleep within the first ten minutes. Amy definitely wasn't happy about that,' thought Van with a very slight smile. Van looked down towards Irvine and Moonbay and it looked like they were getting closer to each other. He nearly laughed when he saw this. Fiona looked towards him at that moment from the other end of the row. She saw that he was holding back his laughter. He saw her and pointed towards the row in front of them, which held Moonbay and Irvine. Now Moonbay had her head on Irvine's shoulder. Fiona had to hold her mouth closed to avoid laughing. The movie then started to roll its credits and Fiona and Van were both very thankful. They stood up but Irvine and Moonbay didn't. "Are you coming?" asked Van, but they still didn't move. Van walked up to them and burst out laughing. He signaled for Fiona to see what he was looking at. She walked over and saw that Irvine and Moonbay had both fallen asleep. "Great! Now how are we going to get home? When those two sleep they will never get up until they are ready," said an annoyed Fiona. "Really?" asked Van. He then decided to test that theory. He took Irvine by the shoulders and shook him rapidly but it had no effect because he was still asleep. "Wake up!" Van yelled into his ear. There was no movement then. Van sighed in defeat and started to walk towards the exit. "Looks like we are walking home. Good thing that it isn't too far away. We only need to drive because we needed to hurry. Though at the moment being late for this would have been a lot better," said Fiona walking after him.
Night had long since come to the sky by the time that they had walked out of the movie theater. The sky was pitch-black since it was the night of the new moon. They probably wouldn't be able to see where they were going if it hadn't been for the very dim light from the street lamps. Even then it was still hard. Van kept hitting things by accident like cracks, fire hydrants, and once he even a wall by accident because he was unable to see where he was going very well. "You know, I think that it might have been better if we had just stayed and waited for the to wake up rather then just decide to walk," said Fiona tripping slightly on a small crack. "Either that or we could have grabbed Irvine and Moonbay and then we could throw them in the back of their car and drive off," said Van with a slight laugh. "That might not have been such a bad idea. To bad we are already about half way home. We could have tried it if we weren't," said Van laughing again and this time Fiona joined him. "I wonder what they would have thought if they had woken up in the back of their car to see that especially since neither of us have a license yet," said Fiona with an amused laugh. "Irvine would probably be really mad and Moonbay would probably be amused at the situation," said Van after a short time of thinking about it. "Wouldn't surprise me," said Fiona with a smile. The two of them then laughed again.
They continued to walk for a number of more minutes in the dark streets. Van then noticed something. "Looks like the lights are starting to get a little brighter up ahead," said Van noticing a brighter lit area. "Good because I am tired of kicking things by accident," said Fiona rubbing her foot. "At least you didn't run into a wall," said Van with a slight laugh as he rubbed his sore head. "Yeah. I guess I can be thankful that I wasn't stupid enough to do that," said Fiona trying to tease Van a little. "Stupid am I?" asked van with a mischievous look on his face. Fiona suddenly found herself on the ground laughing her head off. Van was tickling her and she just couldn't help but laugh at it. "Van. please. stop," said Fiona whenever she could get a chance through all of the laughing. "What am I?" asked Van not relenting on his onslaught of tickling. Fiona continued to laugh. "You're. not. stupid," said Fiona through all of her laughing. "That better," said Van happily as he stopped tickling her. Fiona smiled and tackled van doing the exact same thing that he did to her. "Alright, alright. I give up," said van when Fiona didn't stop it. Fiona stopped but remained seated on his stomach where she was while she was tickling him. She just smiled. She looked down into his eyes and she seemed captivated by them. 'What the heck am I thinking?' Fiona asked herself with a shake of her head which Van didn't see. He did however see her staring at him for a second. 'What is she looking at? Oh well probably nothing. Why isn't she getting up though?' Van asked himself. "Um, Fiona. do you think that you can get off of me so that I can get up?" asked Van with a slight blush on his face because of their position. Fiona seemed to just realize what she was doing and got off of him blushing as well. Van got off the ground and dusted himself off. "Come on. Lets get home before it gets too late because I am starting to get tired," said Van with a smile as the two of them started to walk again in the much brighter area.
Long after Fiona had gotten home Van walked through the door to his own home. "Where have you been?" asked his father from the table in their living room trying to get some work done. "Irvine and Moonbay fell asleep during the movie so me and Fiona had to walk home. I made sure that she got home before I came back," said Van calmly as he walked towards the stairs. Before he could reach it the phone rang. His father picked it up and an annoyed expression crossed his face. "It's for you Van," said his father handing Van the phone. "Hello?" asked Van a little nervously having a feeling that he knew who it was. "Where the hell have you been? I have been trying to get in touch with you all day but I haven't been able to find you," yelled Amy through the phone. "I had a lot of work to do. Then I went somewhere with Irvine," said Van knowing that it was the truth. His work was trying to avoid her so he wouldn't have to go to the boring party and he really was with Irvine. Sure he left out a few details like Moonbay and Fiona being there as well but what she didn't know couldn't hurt her. "Oh ok. For a while I thought that you were trying to avoid me," said Amy a little less angrier but she was still angry. "My parents were holding something that you were supposed to come with me to!" she once again started to yell. "Oh I am sorry. If I knew I wouldn't have made plans," Van said with a nervous chuckle. "You had better be. I will forgive you this time but next time you are going to come with me to it," yelled Amy over the phone. "Well I will see you tomorrow," said Amy happily as the phone hung up.
Van just stood there holding the phone for a few minutes after she hung up. When he did hang up the phone he was thinking, 'she sure does change her mood very easily,' thought Van thinking how she had been angry most of the call and then she became all happy in the end. "I'll never understand her," said Van with a sigh. "Why couldn't you get a quieter girlfriend? I could hear her yelling all the way over here," said Van father from the table. "It's complicated," said Van with a nervous look on his face. "Why couldn't you have one like Fiona? She is nice, quiet, and will to help others. Plus she doesn't yell at people immediately after they pick up the phone without figuring out who they are first," said his Dan because that is what Amy did only a few moments ago. "Wh-what?" asked a shocked Van. "never mind," said his father closing the books that were in front of him and he started to walk up the stairs. "You had better get to bed it is a school day tomorrow and you don't want to get in trouble for falling asleep in it again," said Dan as he walked up the stairs. Van soon followed.
Van just laid there in bed trying to get to sleep. He felt himself growing tired but before he could fall asleep the phone rang yet again. Van took one guess who it was this time. "About time you woke up Irvine," said a tired Van through the phone. "How the heck could you just leave us there?" yelled Irvine. 'What is with people and yelling at me today?' Van asked himself. "Why didn't you wake me up?" yelled Irvine. "We tried several times but you wouldn't wake up. Neither of us have a license yet so we just decided to walk home," said Van because he was tired and wanted to get to bed. Irvine seemed speechless since he didn't have a comeback for what Van said. "If that is all that you have to say then I am hanging up," said Van. He was about to but Irvine said something. "Is Fiona alright?" asked Irvine like a big brother. "Yeah. I made sure that she got home before I came here," said Van with a yawn. "Now I am hanging up so that I can actually get some sleep," said Van hanging up the phone. He laid back down with a smile, happy that he was actually going to be getting some sleep, but the phone rang yet again. Van snapped. He picked up the phone and yelled, "WHAT!" into it. He heard a squeak from the other sound like someone jumping in shock. He somehow recognized it as Fiona. "I'm sorry," said Van quietly through the phone. "I-it's ok," stuttered a slightly shocked Fiona. "I am just not getting a lot of sleep. People keep calling to keep me up. First my dad stopped me from going upstairs to go to sleep and then Amy called the next moment. The while I was trying to get to sleep Irvine called yelling at me for leaving them behind," said Van in a tired voice. "S-sorry for bugging you then," said Fiona still a bit startled. "It's ok. Is something wrong?" asked Van noticing the time. "No," said Fiona. "Then why are you calling at this time?" asked a confused Van looking at his alarm clock to see that it was about Midnight at that moment. "I don't know. Sorry for waking you," said Fiona and then the phone hung up. "That was strange," said Van with the phone still in his hand.
Fiona hung up the phone in haste. "Why was it that I called him?" she asked herself especially since she knew what the time was. "I just don't get it," she said to herself as she laid down on her bed and closed her eyes. "I suddenly had this urge to call him. I don't know why that is," she murmured to herself as she felt her eyes start to grow heavy with sleep. "He is one of my best friends but why did I have this urge to call him in the middle of the night when I knew that he would be asleep," she said to herself. Then she fell into a light slumber.
Fiona seemed to be walking in a daze for most of the walk to the school the next morning. She was in such a daze that she didn't notice that Moonbay had found her as was walking beside her. "Hey there Fiona," said Moonbay a little happy despite the fact that Fiona had left her and Irvine at the movie theaters even if they were the ones that had the car at that time. Fiona didn't even seem to respond. This surprised Moonbay because Fiona didn't even acknowledge her presence. A grin then came to Moonbay's face. Leaning over towards Fiona she screamed, "Fiona," as loud as she could into Fiona's ear. Moonbay was laughing more then she had laughed in for a while when she saw how high Fiona seemed to jump into the air. "Don't scare me like that Moonbay," said Fiona clutching her chest. "Payback for leaving us at the theater," said Moonbay with a smirk. "Why are you complaining if you had the car? I was the one that had to walk all the way back to my house," said Fiona in an annoyed voice. "I don't know," said Moonbay with a shrug of her shoulders. Fiona just rolled her eyes. "So what's up? You seemed to be walking a quite a daze," said Moonbay looking at Fiona. "I was?" asked Fiona as if she didn't even know that she was doing that. "Yeah. I said hey and you didn't even seem to respond. No noise, you didn't even flinch. I was wondering if you had lost your soul and were just a walking corpse," said Moonbay with a slight laugh. "I didn't know I was doing that. I guess since I know I was doing that was because I guess I just have a lot on my mind," said Fiona with a small smile. "Is that so? Oh well. Why did you leave if you knew that it would be dangerous to walk alone at that time of night?" asked Moonbay curiously getting back on the subject of the theaters. "I ran into a friend and he walked me home," said Fiona knowing that it wasn't the full truth but it also wasn't lying. "Is this the one that you hang around with a lot?" asked Moonbay with peeked interest. Fiona just nodded her head. "Rats, and I was hoping to see him sometime," muttered Moonbay thinking she missed her chance. "Sp, who is it?" asked Moonbay with a smile on her face. "Sorry but I can't tell you," said Fiona seriously as she walked a little faster to escape Moonbay before she asked too many questions. "Ah. Come on," yelled Moonbay running to catch up to Fiona.
It was about a minute before she managed to catch Fiona again. "Why can't you tell me? Am I now that good of a friend if you won't tell me?" asked Moonbay with a pout on her face. "It is not that. I guess it is just complicated," said Fiona with a frown. "What? Is it someone like Van, and you have to keep it a secret from Amy or something?" asked Moonbay with a laugh. "Of course not," said Fiona somehow managing to mask how nervous she was about Moonbay saying something like that. "Yeah. You're right. No friends can argue as bad as you two can even in some of the worst of times," said Moonbay with a laugh. "How could I have even thought of something like that?" asked Moonbay with another laugh. 'You have no idea how right you are,' thought Fiona with a sheepish smile. "You two must be very close with how much time you spend together," said Moonbay. "Do you love him? Is that why you spend so much time with him?" asked Moonbay with a smile. 'I don't love Van,' thought Fiona with a strange look on her face. "You do, don't you?" asked Moonbay seeing the look on Fiona's face. "No I don't," said Fiona with a weak hearted laugh. "Whatever you say. Come on we had better hurry or we will be late for class," said Moonbay running ahead of Fiona and a moment later Fiona followed behind.
"Hey there honey. I bet your class was just horrible now that you have that horrible woman in it," said Amy in a fake sad voice. Van had on an angry look and turned away. "What's wrong? Did she do something to you?" asked Amy a little startled that Van just turned away from her. "Dr. D has a project going and guess who he decided to partner me up with?" said Van wanting to see the expression that came across his face. "HE WHAT?" screamed Amy. Everyone that was in the hallway looked in their direction trying to see what was going on. "Calm down you are making a bit of a scene," said Van seeing all of the people that were looking at the two of them. "He has no right to do something like that. When I get my hands on him," said Amy making her hand move in a way that it looked like she was choking someone. "Now, now. You don't want to do that. Unless you want to get kicked out of school," said Van nervously. 'Sometimes she can be a bit scary,' thought Van with a nervous grin. "That won't happen because my father won't allow something like that to happen," said Amy in a calmer voice. Van rolled his eyes without her noticing. "Please don't tell me you have to do this," said Amy in a said voice. "I have to or I get an F," said Van calmly. "How can you be so calm about this?" asked Amy a bit furiously. "I just think how much I can torture her with this," said Van with a smile. "I see what you are getting at,' said Amy with a smile as she kissed van. 'You have no idea,' thought Van while she was kissing him.
"Why are you so happy about what just happened?" asked Moonbay looking at a smiling Fiona. "It is because of Amy. what else would it be? Just thinking about how mad she must be about this is somehow making me happy about it," said Fiona with a smile. "I get what you are saying now. I must admit that this is definitely something that sounds very good right now. A sudden yelling could be heard going through the halls. "I guess she just found out what happened. Too bad I couldn't be there to see her face. Then again maybe it was a good thing because she might take her frustration out on me," said Moonbay with a very large smirk on her face. "By the sounds of it she isn't too happy," said Fiona a little worried. "Of course she isn't. Looks like you will have your hands full for the rest of the day, maybe even a few days after that. I would love to help you out with her but I have a project that needs to get done," said Moonbay before walking away from Fiona. Fiona was about to close her locker and walk away when she saw a steamed Amy walking towards her. 'I knew that it would end up leading to this. Why do I usually have to be right about most things?' Fiona asked herself with a sigh. "I heard that you had to do a project with my boyfriend," said Amy with a little anger in her voice. "Believe me, if I had the choice I would rather do it with somebody else. Anyone would be better then him," said Fiona trying to get around Amy but she just stepped in the way. "I am warning you that if you make him fail this that I will make your life hell," said Amy with a wicked smirk. "A little late for that don't you think?" asked Fiona a little annoyed by how Amy was acting. "You haven't seen anything yet. I can make it far worse then it is at this moment," said Amy walking by Fiona while making sure to hit her. A few of the things that Fiona was carrying fell to the floor and she picked them up quickly and walked away. 'What a pain,' thought Fiona with a sigh. 'Oh well. Now I have a reason to be around Van,' she thought happily.
"What was the project that we are supposed to be doing again?" asked Van with his head down on his desk pretending not to be having a good time around Fiona. I truth he was having a great time. "For the tenth time we are supposed to be choosing one event in history and we are supposed to make a collage for it," said Fiona a little annoyed because Van had been asking the same question for the past ten minutes now. "Sorry for asking. I just forgot," said Van holding his hands out in front of him in his own defense. "You have also forgotten it for the past ten times that I have told you it," said Fiona with a little annoyance and a little amusement in her voice that only Van could pick up. "Well maybe I would understand it better if someone else told me, because you are making it way too complicated," said Van for the fun of it to keep up appearances. "It is in no way complicated. Maybe your brain is just a little too dense to be able to pick up on anything I am trying to say. Listen a little bit and maybe you would understand it better," Fiona yelled at him. The entire class looked at the two of them. The two noticed and sat down quietly. At his desk Dr. D looked at the two of them and chuckled a little bit. 'Those two can really get at each other's throats. This is the best way to try and create a little peace between enemies. That would be the case if they were even enemies. They may fool everyone else but they cannot fool me. I have had them for the past four years in homeroom and I have picked up a few things that no one else has been able to see,' thought Dr. D with another chuckle. Everyone else was now looking at him because they had heard his chuckling. "What?" asked Dr. D looking at every student in the class that was looking at him as if he was a bit demented. "You act as if it is funny that they are about to tear out each others throats," said Moonbay a little confused by his actions. Irvine could barely hold his laughter back as well. 'I have a feeling that the old man knows more then he is letting on. even if he doesn't say anything about it,' thought Irvine with a smirk on his face. "I have no idea what you are talking about Moonbay," said Dr. D with an innocent look on his face. Moonbay was about to say something before he stopped her. "Are you going to continue talking or are you going to get back to work?" asked Dr. D with a smile. Moonbay sighed and sat back down next to Irvine.
"Where's the glue?" asked Van looking around the table for the little tube. Yet there was nothing there for him to be able to use. "I don't know. You were the last one to use it," muttered Fiona with a small smile. "Where did you put the glue?" she asked hiding the small smirk growing on her face. "I haven't used any yet. You had to have done something with it. So where did you put it?" asked Van putting an emphasis on the word you. "I didn't get any because I thought you had it," said Fiona with a playful glare but a harsher tone. "Great! You forgot to get us glue and now it is all gone," said Van noticing the case that the glue was normally in was now empty. "You were the one that was supposed to get the glue and a few other supplies while I grabbed the rest of the supplies," said Fiona a little annoyed. "No it was you that was supposed to grab the glue," Van said in a little higher of a voice then he meant to use. "Forget it," said Van with a sigh, "You can't be trusted to do a lot of things," said Van turning around. He turned around to face Thomas and his partner. "Can I borrow your glue?" asked Van in an boring voice. Fiona felt like chuckling a little. "No you cannot borrow it," said Thomas a little annoyed at Van at how he had been treating Fiona. "Can I borrow it?" asked Fiona nicely as she turned around to face him with a smile on her face. "Of course you can," said Thomas smiling back as he handed the glue to Fiona. "Thank you," said Fiona taking it and turning back around. She looked at Van and stuck her tongue out at him. He growled and turned back around and sat back down in his seat. Unfortunately she wasn't able to use it because the bell then rang. "Alright class. No homework tonight. Be ready to get to work immediately tomorrow. You have until the end of the bell the day after tomorrow," said Dr. D with a smile as students raced out of the room not even listening to them. "Why do I bother? Oh well it will be their faults if they don't get it done on time," said Dr. D with a smirk on his face as the last of the students left the room.
"Alright everybody takes your spots because we are about to start our first activity for the year," said their gym teacher Crougar. "What would that be old man?" asked Van in his normal way because he calls Crougar that a lot and everyone seemed to have gotten used to it. "We are going to be playing volleyball first," said Crougar choosing to ignore the rude name that Van had called him. "I have already chosen teams for this," said Crougar before anyone could try to make their own teams. "These will be three on three matched and will be held in a tournament format," said Crougar trying to explain how things were going to go. "This is new. I haven't been able to play volleyball in gym class for a while. He hasn't done it at all since I came to this high school," said Fiona with a smile. "Today we will just be having practice games to get ready for it," said Crougar as he pulled his clipboard in front of his face. "The first team is Fiona, Moonbay, and Irvine. the second team will be Van, Amy, and Emily," said Crougar as he continued to name off the rest of the teams. Amy was excited because Emily was one of her best friends. "We are going to cream everyone," said Amy happily. "Especially your team," said Amy pointing towards Fiona. "team one and team two will be on court 1, team three and four will be on court two, and team five and team six will be on court three," said Crougar, and with a blow of his whistle everyone was walking to their designated court. Amy had on a smirk because she was really good at volleyball and felt that this would be an easy victory. Amy smiled happily as her, Van, and her friend Emily walked to one side of the court. While Fiona, Irvine, and Moonbay walked to the other side of the court. "Tell em Fiona. How will it feel to face a real winner in this? I have won several volleyball tournament, and I have never lost a game," said Amy with a smirk. "You are so going to go down," said Amy smirking even more. Van just groaned at how much she was bragging. Even her friend Emily couldn't help but groan as well at her friend. "A little cocky are we?" asked an annoyed Moonbay the bragging Amy. Amy just smirked and responded. "You may be a fairly good player but I am simply better then all three of you put together," said Amy with the ever- present smirk. Fiona remained quiet during the entire conversation. Moonbay noticed this too. "Please ay you are good at this Fiona. I really want to beat her," Moonbay whispered into Fiona's ear. Fiona didn't have any time to reply because Crougar blew the whistle for them to start.
No one's attention seemed to be on their own game. Everyone was more interested on the game that was about to start between the two people that hate each other more then anything else. Everyone was aware of Amy's skill at volleyball but no one had ever seen Fiona play. For all they knew she could be good at it or be horrible. It would all come down to this game to decide. Crougar didn't pay attention to anything else either because he had to make sure that that one game remained civilized knowing the past of one player on each team with each other. Amy's team got the ball first to serve. "You know Amy I seem to remember that trip to the beach our freshman year and the volleyball game between Raven and Reese," said Fiona without an emotion on her face. "Oh yeah, I remember that. Didn't she get smacked in the face with the ball?" asked Moonbay with a laugh just remembering what happened. "I had a bad day and you threw off my concentration. Besides, I am ten times better then back then," said Amy in her own cocky way. "Sure, sure. I am sure that you are," said Moonbay barely being able to control her laughing. Fiona almost broke out laughing as well. "Can we get started already before it is time for us to go to our next class?" asked a slightly annoyed Van because they were making it so that they couldn't play the game. "Of course sweetie," said Amy in a nice voice. Moonbay was making gagging noises upon hearing this. Van ignored that and served the ball. It went flawlessly over the net. Irvine was already at it and hit it back over the net right at Amy who hit it hard at the ground on the other side of the net. It was near Fiona but she wasn't able to get it in time. "One point us. Zero points you," said Amy in a happy voice because she was already beating Fiona and it was only the first minute. Van took the ball again and sent it over. It then came towards Fiona. "Better look out because she is going to miss it,' yelled Amy as the ball was coming towards Fiona. This didn't bother Fiona, in fact she only smiled. The ball was coming down fast and before anyone could realize what had just happened, the ball was on the ground on Amy's side of the court. Fiona stood there happily with a smile on her face looking at the confused Amy. "How are my skills for you?" asked Fiona in a happy voice. Amy was speechless but in an instant a determined look came across her face. "You'll pay for that," said Amy but she couldn't do anything. "Go get changed everyone," said Crougar signaling that the class was over. "Let's go Fiona before things really start to heat up," said Moonbay pulling the happy Fiona to the locker room.
"That was totally awesome Fiona. why didn't you tell me that you were good at volleyball?" asked a happy Moonbay. "No one bothered to ask me," said Fiona with a mere shrug of her shoulders. "That was great though. did you see the look on her face? That was a priceless picture," said Moonbay with a slight laugh. "So are you going to be coming with me tonight to the movies?" asked Moonbay with a smile. "No, I want to get some work done on my project," said Fiona in a calm tone. "Oh ok?" said a slightly disappointed Moonbay. "Well if you change your mind you know where you can find me," said Moonbay with a smile as they walked towards their next class. With Fiona's new schedule they were basically in all of the same classes together for the year. "On second thought. I have all of the time during class for the next two days to get it done. So I guess I will come," said Fiona not wanting to disappoint her friend. "Great! Me and Irvine will pick you up at six," said Moonbay with a smile. "Ok then. I will be ready then," said Fiona smiling as well. Fiona could have sworn at that second that she had heard her name being whispered. She tried to ignore it but I came again. "Um Moonbay. Go on ahead. There is something that I have to do," said Fiona with a smile. "Ok. Make sure that you are not late for class though," said Moonbay as she walked ahead of Fiona.
Fiona took a look around and saw that the hallways were completely empty. "Hey Fiona," came Van's voice. Fiona looked an saw Van's head by an empty classroom. "Listen. I need to ask you a favor," said Van as Fiona walked into the room. "Sure. What is it?" asked Fiona with a smile. "Do you think I can hide out at your place today?" asked Van looking around to make sure no one was listening or watching. "Why?" asked Fiona with a confused look on her face. "She hasn't asked me but Amy is trying to get me to come to something with her family but I really have no interest in going. I overheard her telling that to one of her friends. Also knowing her when she is in a bad mood like right now I will have no choice but to do what she says. So I have to hide from her for the rest of the day. So can I please hide at your house until later?" asked Van in a begging voice. "I guess. Or maybe you can see if Irvine can drag you along with us," said Fiona after thinking it over. "Wouldn't that be suspicious if I am with some people I am supposed to hate?" asked Van with a confused look on his face. "Just say Irvine invited you before you knew that we were coming. I can talk to him to see if you can come," said Fiona with a smile. "That would be great. Thank you," said Van in a thankful voice. "Come on. we have to get going before the bell rings," said Fiona walking quickly out of the room. Van waited a few seconds before doing the same happy to see that the hallway was empty at the moment.
"Hey Irvine," said Fiona quietly into Irvine's ear. "What?" asked Irvine looking away from the teacher that was currently speaking. "Do you think you can drag Van along with us tonight? Amy wants him to go with her somewhere and he doesn't want to. So I figure we can take him along and make it look like he didn't know that me and Moonbay were coming," whispered Fiona into his ear. "Sure. I guess I can. I would be better I guess to have someone besides girls around," said Irvine with a slight smirk on his face. "What's that supposed to mean?" asked an annoyed Fiona. "I am just kidding. Sure he can come. I will just have to find an excuse with Moonbay," said Irvine with a smile before turning back to the teacher. Fiona turned slightly to the bored Van. Van noticed this and looked but not too much. Fiona nodded her head and Van gave off a sigh of relief. 'Thank you god,' thought van knowing he would be safe. He then turned back around and started to listen to the teachers boring lesson again. 'All I have to do is get through today without seeing her and I will be home free,' thought Van happily.
"What time was it that you were going to be picking me up again?' Fiona asked Irvine while they waited for Moonbay to get finished in the classroom because she was running a little late. "Six. Just make sure that you are ready by then or else we will be leaving," said Irvine with a sigh. "Right. I will remember that," said Fiona with a smile. It was then that they saw a very strange sight. A very paranoid looking Van was sneaking around the side of the building. "What are you doing?" asked a confused Irvine scaring the heck out of Van. Van put a finger up to his lips to signal for Irvine to be quiet. "I am trying to get away from Amy. Even if I am busy she will still drag me along so I have to get out of here before she finds me," said Van looking around the place. Irvine felt like laughing at his paranoid friend. "Oh Van," came the annoying voice of Amy. Van freaked out and ran as far away as he could. A few moments later Amy came into view. "Irvine. Have you seen Van? I have to ask him something important," said Amy making sure to glare at Fiona while she was doing this. "Nope. Haven't seen him since our last class," said Irvine without caring that he was lying to her. "Well if you see him tell him I am looking for him," said Amy till glaring at Fiona as she walked off. "Like I would do such a thing. Although it might be a little fun to see him squirm a little bit," said Irvine as an afterthought. Fiona elbowed him in the stomach for that. "I was only kidding," said a short-winded Irvine. "I know," said Fiona with a smile before she walked off in the direction of her house. Irvine stared at her retreating form in disbelief. "She is a weird one alright," Irvine muttered to himself as he tried to catch his breath. "I am surprised that it took you that long to figure that one out," came Moonbay's voice. "What were you two talking about to make her do that to you?" asked Moonbay with a slight chuckle. "I only made a joke and she did that knowing it was only a joke," said Irvine standing up straight. Moonbay just chuckled a little bit more. "We had better get home to get ready for tonight," said a still chuckling Moonbay as she walked in one direction. Irvine sighed and then walked off in the other direction.
Fiona went through everything she had with Moonbay right by her trying to pick out what to wear. "How about this? No," said Fiona tossing clothes after clothes off to the side. "Why are you getting so worked up about going to a movie?" Moonbay asked with a little suspicion in her voice. "I am not getting worked up over. I just want to look nice," said Fiona throwing aside another outfit. "Whatever," muttered Moonbay as she laid back on Fiona's bed. 'Why am I?' Fiona asked herself. 'I am not trying to impress anyone,' thought Fiona curious as to her behavior. 'Van' a voice in the back of her head told her. 'I am not doing this for Van,' thought Fiona with a shake of her head. "Something wrong?" asked Moonbay sitting back up after seeing Fiona shaking her head. "No. I was just thinking about something," said Fiona with a smile on her face. "About what?" asked Moonbay a little curiously. "It is nothing. Just random things. It really doesn't matter," said Fiona finally picking an outfit and putting it on. "About time. Irvine is about to get here," muttered Moonbay standing up. "You and Irvine seem to be awfully close Moonbay," said Fiona with an amuse stare. "Wh-what do you mean?" asked Moonbay blushing slightly. "You two seem to do a lot of things together. Are you two starting to have feelings for each other?" asked Fiona with a smirk on her face. "Of-of course not. Why the heck would we have feelings for each other? It is the most absurd thing that I have ever heard," muttered Moonbay who was a red as a tomato. Moonbay could hear Fiona chuckling a little bit. "What?" asked a very confused Moonbay. "Your face is a red as a tomato," said Fiona before she broke out laugh. "No it isn't," said Moonbay looking in the mirror to prove her wrong. She was very red though. "I am just fooling around with you Moonbay. There is no need to go overboard with it," said Fiona still giggling every few words. Moonbay glared at her before standing up and marching out the door. Fiona stared at her for a few seconds before she heard Moonbay's voice. "Are you coming? Irvine's here waiting for us," said Moonbay from the other side of the door. Fiona looked out the window and saw that Moonbay was right. Irvine was waiting for them right in front of the house waiting for them. "Hey! Wait up," yelled Fiona running after Moonbay since she already had a head start.
"Um Irvine," said Moonbay noticing the direction that they were going. "Yeah?" asked Irvine from the drivers seat. "Aren't the movie theaters the other way?" asked Moonbay looking at the road behind them. "Yeah it is," said Irvine not trying to stop and turn around. "Then why are we going this way?" asked Moonbay looking at Irvine with a very curious stare. "I am picking someone up. I don't want any complaints about it either," said Irvine staring at Moonbay before quickly turning his head back to the road. "Who?" asked Moonbay having a feeling that she wasn't going to like the answer to it. "Van," was all Irvine said before he expected Moonbay to yell at him. "Why him?" asked Moonbay looking at him suspiciously. "I am doing him a favor. I already told him and Fiona and they both agreed not to argue for tonight," said Irvine seeing that Moonbay looked at Fiona. "As long as the two don't ruin it then I have no problem with it. Just one thing though," said Moonbay looking back to Irvine. "What's that?" asked Irvine keeping his eyes on the road. "What about his girlfriend?" asked Moonbay a little annoyed just thinking about it. "Luckily she is not coming. Van needed a night away from her, so I offered to help him get away," said Irvine calmly. "You are awfully calm about all of this," said Irvine noticing how calm Moonbay was. "Van's cool at times. He just got a bad personality after he started to date Amy," said Moonbay with disgust in her voice. "Oh yeah, that right. You two were once friends," said Irvine remembering Moonbay telling him something along those lines. "If he ditches Amy then I would be happy to be friends with him again, but not until he does," said Moonbay turning in her seat and looking at the road in front of them. 'Like that will happen anytime soon,' thought Fiona sadly just thinking about what Van was forced to do. "No arguing. You got that Fiona?" asked Moonbay with a serious look on her face. "Yes," muttered Fiona as she just stared out the window.
"Get in already," yelled Moonbay once they had reached Van's house a few minutes after their little talk. "Get this straight Van. If you are going to be with us for this there is going to be no arguing and you have to leave your snot nosed personality at your house," said Moonbay in a threatening voice. Van sank backing his seat out of fear. He just nodded his head a little scared of the woman in front of him. "Good," said Moonbay happily. "As long as you do then we will have a good time," she continued happily. 'That girl has way too many different personalities,' thought Van with a cheesy smile. "Are you done yet Moonbay?" asked Irvine seeing Moonbay sit back down in her seat. "Yes I am," said Moonbay with a smile. "Good. I already talked to the two of them. They already know how they are supposed to act and what the consequences will be if they do," said Irvine with a smirk. "What would the consequences be?" asked Moonbay curiously. "They will have no ride home. I am sure that they will be on their best behavior though. am I right?" asked Irvine looking at the two of them. The two just nodded their head dully. "good. Now that that is settled we are off," said Irvine stepping on the gas pedal and taking off.
"Are you a maniac or something?" yelled Moonbay once they had reached the theater. She was holding the area around her heart as it thumped wildly in her chest. "Sorry about that. I thought that it might be a little fun," said Irvine with a smile. "I am surprised that no police pulled you over for that. I am also surprised that we didn't crash. If you ever do that again I will personally make sure that you are going to be severely punished," yelled Moonbay into Irvine's ear. She was mad because of how fast he had been going to get there. Van and Fiona just stood off to the side watching the two without saying a word at all. Their eyes moved back and forth between the two as each one of them took turns speaking or in Moonbay's case, yelling. Neither of them wanted to say anything either because they were afraid of being on the end of her yelling when she finished with Irvine. "Now, now you two. We know that you like each other but there is no need to argue like an old married couple," said Van stepping with a smirk on his face. "Since when did you start acting like your old self?" asked a confused Moonbay noticing his personality was nothing like it had been for a while now. "Wouldn't you like to know," said Van turning around and walking towards the entrance to the theater. "That was a little freaky," said Moonbay watching him walk away. Irvine and Fiona looked at each other with Moonbay seeing and just smiled. 'You'll probably find out at some point but not right now Moonbay,' thought Irvine with a smile on his face. 'Sorry about not telling you the truth Moonbay?' thought Fiona still smiling.
"Now where did those two go?" asked Moonbay once they had paid to get in and now they were ready to watch the movie but they noticed Van and Fiona weren't with them. "I saw Fiona heading to the restroom and Van stopping to get some snacks. He will probably get some for only himself so I will go and grab some for us," said Irvine standing up. "I'll just wait here because I don't have to go," said Moonbay remaining seated. "Fine with me," said Irvine walking towards the doors that led out to the lobby. Upon walking out to it, he saw Van and Fiona were already walking towards him and talking. "Moonbay was wondering about you," said Irvine leaning on the wall by the door. "What did you say?" asked Van holding a small popcorn most likely for only himself. "I told her that Fiona went to the restroom and you were getting snacks which you could have been nice enough to get us some," said Irvine with a fake disappointed look. "I only had enough money for myself. I am sorry," said Van holding his hands in front of him in his defense. "It's ok. I used an excuse with that thought in mind anyways to come and see what the two of you were up to," said Irvine with a smirk on his face. "Just talking since no one that we knew was around," said Van with a smile. "I see. Do you two know that Moonbay is trying to figure out who you are Van?" asked Irvine staring at Van. "She already know me though," said Van a little confused. "No, I mean that she is trying to find out your identity," said Irvine seriously. "Like I said before she already knows who I am," said Van in an exasperated voice. "No! She is trying o find out who Fiona's friend is, which also happens to be you," said Irvine with every last bit of patience gone in his voice. "Oh, that. I knew," said Van with a sigh. "Moonbay is a good friend, but for now I just want to keep it between us. You wouldn't even know right now if you hadn't seen us when you first came here," said Fiona with an upset tone in her voice. "You should tell her at some point. She knows that I know who it is and is upset that she is being left out of it," said Irvine seriously. "Are you looking after Moonbay?" asked Van with slyness in his voice. "N-n-no. you don't under stand what I am talking about," stuttered Irvine. "Sure we don't," said an unconvinced Van. "I am just saying that I don't think that it is very fair for her," said Irvine. "I would feel that way too if I was the one that was left out of it," said Irvine with sadness in his voice. "Sounds like you care for her," said Fiona with a small smile. Irvine blushed a little bit. "What do you know!" yelled Irvine before storming off towards the concession stand. "He didn't need to yell at us. Oh well. At least now we know the truth," said Van with a grin on his face as Fiona walked into the room, and then he went too about a minute after that.
'God what a boring movie,' thought Van as he sat in his seat with his chin in his right hand. He then let out a loud yawn. 'Going with Amy might have been better then being bored all night,' he thought but that didn't make him feel any better. 'On second thought, maybe not,' thought Van knowing that he would most likely be even more bored at one of her parents extremely boring parties. 'Last time I went to one of those I fell asleep within the first ten minutes. Amy definitely wasn't happy about that,' thought Van with a very slight smile. Van looked down towards Irvine and Moonbay and it looked like they were getting closer to each other. He nearly laughed when he saw this. Fiona looked towards him at that moment from the other end of the row. She saw that he was holding back his laughter. He saw her and pointed towards the row in front of them, which held Moonbay and Irvine. Now Moonbay had her head on Irvine's shoulder. Fiona had to hold her mouth closed to avoid laughing. The movie then started to roll its credits and Fiona and Van were both very thankful. They stood up but Irvine and Moonbay didn't. "Are you coming?" asked Van, but they still didn't move. Van walked up to them and burst out laughing. He signaled for Fiona to see what he was looking at. She walked over and saw that Irvine and Moonbay had both fallen asleep. "Great! Now how are we going to get home? When those two sleep they will never get up until they are ready," said an annoyed Fiona. "Really?" asked Van. He then decided to test that theory. He took Irvine by the shoulders and shook him rapidly but it had no effect because he was still asleep. "Wake up!" Van yelled into his ear. There was no movement then. Van sighed in defeat and started to walk towards the exit. "Looks like we are walking home. Good thing that it isn't too far away. We only need to drive because we needed to hurry. Though at the moment being late for this would have been a lot better," said Fiona walking after him.
Night had long since come to the sky by the time that they had walked out of the movie theater. The sky was pitch-black since it was the night of the new moon. They probably wouldn't be able to see where they were going if it hadn't been for the very dim light from the street lamps. Even then it was still hard. Van kept hitting things by accident like cracks, fire hydrants, and once he even a wall by accident because he was unable to see where he was going very well. "You know, I think that it might have been better if we had just stayed and waited for the to wake up rather then just decide to walk," said Fiona tripping slightly on a small crack. "Either that or we could have grabbed Irvine and Moonbay and then we could throw them in the back of their car and drive off," said Van with a slight laugh. "That might not have been such a bad idea. To bad we are already about half way home. We could have tried it if we weren't," said Van laughing again and this time Fiona joined him. "I wonder what they would have thought if they had woken up in the back of their car to see that especially since neither of us have a license yet," said Fiona with an amused laugh. "Irvine would probably be really mad and Moonbay would probably be amused at the situation," said Van after a short time of thinking about it. "Wouldn't surprise me," said Fiona with a smile. The two of them then laughed again.
They continued to walk for a number of more minutes in the dark streets. Van then noticed something. "Looks like the lights are starting to get a little brighter up ahead," said Van noticing a brighter lit area. "Good because I am tired of kicking things by accident," said Fiona rubbing her foot. "At least you didn't run into a wall," said Van with a slight laugh as he rubbed his sore head. "Yeah. I guess I can be thankful that I wasn't stupid enough to do that," said Fiona trying to tease Van a little. "Stupid am I?" asked van with a mischievous look on his face. Fiona suddenly found herself on the ground laughing her head off. Van was tickling her and she just couldn't help but laugh at it. "Van. please. stop," said Fiona whenever she could get a chance through all of the laughing. "What am I?" asked Van not relenting on his onslaught of tickling. Fiona continued to laugh. "You're. not. stupid," said Fiona through all of her laughing. "That better," said Van happily as he stopped tickling her. Fiona smiled and tackled van doing the exact same thing that he did to her. "Alright, alright. I give up," said van when Fiona didn't stop it. Fiona stopped but remained seated on his stomach where she was while she was tickling him. She just smiled. She looked down into his eyes and she seemed captivated by them. 'What the heck am I thinking?' Fiona asked herself with a shake of her head which Van didn't see. He did however see her staring at him for a second. 'What is she looking at? Oh well probably nothing. Why isn't she getting up though?' Van asked himself. "Um, Fiona. do you think that you can get off of me so that I can get up?" asked Van with a slight blush on his face because of their position. Fiona seemed to just realize what she was doing and got off of him blushing as well. Van got off the ground and dusted himself off. "Come on. Lets get home before it gets too late because I am starting to get tired," said Van with a smile as the two of them started to walk again in the much brighter area.
Long after Fiona had gotten home Van walked through the door to his own home. "Where have you been?" asked his father from the table in their living room trying to get some work done. "Irvine and Moonbay fell asleep during the movie so me and Fiona had to walk home. I made sure that she got home before I came back," said Van calmly as he walked towards the stairs. Before he could reach it the phone rang. His father picked it up and an annoyed expression crossed his face. "It's for you Van," said his father handing Van the phone. "Hello?" asked Van a little nervously having a feeling that he knew who it was. "Where the hell have you been? I have been trying to get in touch with you all day but I haven't been able to find you," yelled Amy through the phone. "I had a lot of work to do. Then I went somewhere with Irvine," said Van knowing that it was the truth. His work was trying to avoid her so he wouldn't have to go to the boring party and he really was with Irvine. Sure he left out a few details like Moonbay and Fiona being there as well but what she didn't know couldn't hurt her. "Oh ok. For a while I thought that you were trying to avoid me," said Amy a little less angrier but she was still angry. "My parents were holding something that you were supposed to come with me to!" she once again started to yell. "Oh I am sorry. If I knew I wouldn't have made plans," Van said with a nervous chuckle. "You had better be. I will forgive you this time but next time you are going to come with me to it," yelled Amy over the phone. "Well I will see you tomorrow," said Amy happily as the phone hung up.
Van just stood there holding the phone for a few minutes after she hung up. When he did hang up the phone he was thinking, 'she sure does change her mood very easily,' thought Van thinking how she had been angry most of the call and then she became all happy in the end. "I'll never understand her," said Van with a sigh. "Why couldn't you get a quieter girlfriend? I could hear her yelling all the way over here," said Van father from the table. "It's complicated," said Van with a nervous look on his face. "Why couldn't you have one like Fiona? She is nice, quiet, and will to help others. Plus she doesn't yell at people immediately after they pick up the phone without figuring out who they are first," said his Dan because that is what Amy did only a few moments ago. "Wh-what?" asked a shocked Van. "never mind," said his father closing the books that were in front of him and he started to walk up the stairs. "You had better get to bed it is a school day tomorrow and you don't want to get in trouble for falling asleep in it again," said Dan as he walked up the stairs. Van soon followed.
Van just laid there in bed trying to get to sleep. He felt himself growing tired but before he could fall asleep the phone rang yet again. Van took one guess who it was this time. "About time you woke up Irvine," said a tired Van through the phone. "How the heck could you just leave us there?" yelled Irvine. 'What is with people and yelling at me today?' Van asked himself. "Why didn't you wake me up?" yelled Irvine. "We tried several times but you wouldn't wake up. Neither of us have a license yet so we just decided to walk home," said Van because he was tired and wanted to get to bed. Irvine seemed speechless since he didn't have a comeback for what Van said. "If that is all that you have to say then I am hanging up," said Van. He was about to but Irvine said something. "Is Fiona alright?" asked Irvine like a big brother. "Yeah. I made sure that she got home before I came here," said Van with a yawn. "Now I am hanging up so that I can actually get some sleep," said Van hanging up the phone. He laid back down with a smile, happy that he was actually going to be getting some sleep, but the phone rang yet again. Van snapped. He picked up the phone and yelled, "WHAT!" into it. He heard a squeak from the other sound like someone jumping in shock. He somehow recognized it as Fiona. "I'm sorry," said Van quietly through the phone. "I-it's ok," stuttered a slightly shocked Fiona. "I am just not getting a lot of sleep. People keep calling to keep me up. First my dad stopped me from going upstairs to go to sleep and then Amy called the next moment. The while I was trying to get to sleep Irvine called yelling at me for leaving them behind," said Van in a tired voice. "S-sorry for bugging you then," said Fiona still a bit startled. "It's ok. Is something wrong?" asked Van noticing the time. "No," said Fiona. "Then why are you calling at this time?" asked a confused Van looking at his alarm clock to see that it was about Midnight at that moment. "I don't know. Sorry for waking you," said Fiona and then the phone hung up. "That was strange," said Van with the phone still in his hand.
Fiona hung up the phone in haste. "Why was it that I called him?" she asked herself especially since she knew what the time was. "I just don't get it," she said to herself as she laid down on her bed and closed her eyes. "I suddenly had this urge to call him. I don't know why that is," she murmured to herself as she felt her eyes start to grow heavy with sleep. "He is one of my best friends but why did I have this urge to call him in the middle of the night when I knew that he would be asleep," she said to herself. Then she fell into a light slumber.
Fiona seemed to be walking in a daze for most of the walk to the school the next morning. She was in such a daze that she didn't notice that Moonbay had found her as was walking beside her. "Hey there Fiona," said Moonbay a little happy despite the fact that Fiona had left her and Irvine at the movie theaters even if they were the ones that had the car at that time. Fiona didn't even seem to respond. This surprised Moonbay because Fiona didn't even acknowledge her presence. A grin then came to Moonbay's face. Leaning over towards Fiona she screamed, "Fiona," as loud as she could into Fiona's ear. Moonbay was laughing more then she had laughed in for a while when she saw how high Fiona seemed to jump into the air. "Don't scare me like that Moonbay," said Fiona clutching her chest. "Payback for leaving us at the theater," said Moonbay with a smirk. "Why are you complaining if you had the car? I was the one that had to walk all the way back to my house," said Fiona in an annoyed voice. "I don't know," said Moonbay with a shrug of her shoulders. Fiona just rolled her eyes. "So what's up? You seemed to be walking a quite a daze," said Moonbay looking at Fiona. "I was?" asked Fiona as if she didn't even know that she was doing that. "Yeah. I said hey and you didn't even seem to respond. No noise, you didn't even flinch. I was wondering if you had lost your soul and were just a walking corpse," said Moonbay with a slight laugh. "I didn't know I was doing that. I guess since I know I was doing that was because I guess I just have a lot on my mind," said Fiona with a small smile. "Is that so? Oh well. Why did you leave if you knew that it would be dangerous to walk alone at that time of night?" asked Moonbay curiously getting back on the subject of the theaters. "I ran into a friend and he walked me home," said Fiona knowing that it wasn't the full truth but it also wasn't lying. "Is this the one that you hang around with a lot?" asked Moonbay with peeked interest. Fiona just nodded her head. "Rats, and I was hoping to see him sometime," muttered Moonbay thinking she missed her chance. "Sp, who is it?" asked Moonbay with a smile on her face. "Sorry but I can't tell you," said Fiona seriously as she walked a little faster to escape Moonbay before she asked too many questions. "Ah. Come on," yelled Moonbay running to catch up to Fiona.
It was about a minute before she managed to catch Fiona again. "Why can't you tell me? Am I now that good of a friend if you won't tell me?" asked Moonbay with a pout on her face. "It is not that. I guess it is just complicated," said Fiona with a frown. "What? Is it someone like Van, and you have to keep it a secret from Amy or something?" asked Moonbay with a laugh. "Of course not," said Fiona somehow managing to mask how nervous she was about Moonbay saying something like that. "Yeah. You're right. No friends can argue as bad as you two can even in some of the worst of times," said Moonbay with a laugh. "How could I have even thought of something like that?" asked Moonbay with another laugh. 'You have no idea how right you are,' thought Fiona with a sheepish smile. "You two must be very close with how much time you spend together," said Moonbay. "Do you love him? Is that why you spend so much time with him?" asked Moonbay with a smile. 'I don't love Van,' thought Fiona with a strange look on her face. "You do, don't you?" asked Moonbay seeing the look on Fiona's face. "No I don't," said Fiona with a weak hearted laugh. "Whatever you say. Come on we had better hurry or we will be late for class," said Moonbay running ahead of Fiona and a moment later Fiona followed behind.