Another War Begins

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Chapter 10-Phobos' Return Part 1

Wills' POV

Will was staring blankly at the ceiling, deep in thought. She had lied to her friends again. She had completely spaced on them, than lied to them about it after words. The truth was, she had no clue exactly what happened when she spaced. All she knew was that one second she would be talking to her friends, and the next second, she would flash out, and when she came back, her friends would be looking at her with concern in their eyes. It was weird, and she had no clue what it meant. It was confusing, and it gave Will a headache.

It was the next day. Will kinda wandered to school, still deep in thought. She'd been able to avoid any kind of dreams about Phobos coming back, but she was still thinking about it.

"Hi Will", said a chirpy sounding voice behind her. She turned around and saw Irma standing there smiling.

"Hi", she muttered. She turned away from her friend, not really in the mood to talk.

"Whatsup?" Irma asked in that same annoyingly chirpy voice.

"Why do you sound like you're running on a nine thousand volt battery?" Will asked Irma in an irritated voice.

"Didn't convince you either huh?" Irma said smiling. "All right, the thing is, Hay Lin, Taranee, and I thought maybe something was bothering you, and we knew you wouldn't tell us, so we figured if we acted, you know, casual about it, we might, well, coax it out of you"

"Nothing's bothering me"', she told Irma. "You don't have to…worry-"

Her voice drifted, and Irma gave her a strange look. "You okay?"
"Yea", said Will, shaking her head a little. "Just…tired. Didn't sleep good last night"

"Oh", said Irma. The two girls walked to Wills locker in silence, and it was only when they got to Wills locker did Irma say, "Do you know if any portals have popped up anywhere lately?"

It was a lame question that Irma was just asking to try and make conversation. "No", said Will. "Can't say I'm complaining either, those portals were a real pain"

"Yea", said Irma with a smile. Any time a portal appeared close to Will, she would get this real dizzy feeling and collapse. Not much fun for her.

"So…", said Irma. "You wanna come over today?"

"Sure, I guess", she said in a doubtful voice.

"Great", Irma said, but before she could say anything more, the bell rang, signaling for them to go to class.

Will was in a stupor for most of the day. Once the last bell rang, she made for her locker. She was going to meet Irma in the front, and they were gonna head over to her house. As Will approached her locker, she saw Cornelia at hers, and took it as an opportunity. She had wanted to talk to Cornelia all day.

"Hey Cornelia?" she said as she approached the former guardian, "Can we talk?"

"Nothing to talk about", said Cornelia shortly.

"Fine, than will you listen?" Cornelia didn't say anything, so Will decided to just keep talking.

"I just wanted to say, I'm sorry for snapping at you yesterday", Will knew she had Cornelias' attention, and kept talking. "I just- I dunno, I've had a lot on my mind lately, and I guess I took it out on you. Or I could just be hanging around Irma to much, who knows?"

That last part was meant as a joke, and when Cornelia turned to face her, Will saw that she was smiling.

"Apology accepted Will", she said, "And I guess…I'm sorry. Irma was right, as much as it kills me to admit it. I've been selfish, and I know it, but after what happened to Caleb…"

"No one blames you", said Will. "Well, Irma does, but hey, can't please everyone right?"

Cornelia laughed at Wills' weak attempt at a joke, and the two left school together.

"Hey Will!" Will heard her name almost as soon as she and Cornelia walked out of the school building. She looked around and saw Irma running toward her, stopping dead as soon as she saw Cornelia.

"Whatta you want?" she asked Cornelia snippishly. Evidently there were still some hard feelings there.

"Excuse me", said Cornelia sarcastically. "I didn't realize it was against the law to walk with someone who happens to be your friend"

"Hey!" said Will quickly, before Irma could retort. "Come on, don't fight. Irma, leave Cornelia alone, all right? Cornelia-"

But before Will could say anything they hear someone yell, "Hey guys!", and saw Taranee and Hay Lin approaching them.

"I gotta go", said Cornelia, and before anyone could stop her, she ran away.

As soon as she was gone, Will rounded on Irma and said, "What did you go and say that for huh?"

What?" said Irma furiously. "She hasn't talked to us in how long? What did you say to her anyway?"

"I told her I was sorry for snapping at her yesterday", said Will heatedly. "And she apologized to, why can't you just let it go?"

"After the way she's treated us?" Irma fumed. "Why should I?"

"She's our friend!" said Will furiously. "How can you forget about that?"
"Some friend!" Irma cried. "She turns her back on us, slams doors in our faces, and blows us off whenever we try and talk to her. Why should I forgive her?"

"Maybe if we all just talked to her, we could try and understand each other", Taranee suggested.

"Forget it", said Irma flatly. She turned around and walked away.

"Irma wait!" the three girls ran after their retreating friend, who walked surprisingly fast. She was half way down the street from the school by the time they caught up to her, and they could see Cornelia walking slowly down the street ahead of them.

"Cornelia!" Will cried, running after her. Hay Lin and Taranee stayed back with Irma, and attempted to talk to her.

"Cornelia wait!" Will caught up to her and doubled over, gasping for breathe.

"What?" Cornelia snapped, obviously still heated from the fight.

"Look, can't we just talk?" Will asked desperately. "Please?"

Cornelia glared at Will for a sec, but finally just said, "Okay"

All five girls were at Wills' place. Will, Taranee, and Hay Lin had all been trying to get Cornelia and Irma to talk, and it wasn't exactly working.

"Please!" Will begged. "Just talk to each other. Two words maybe, one even!"

Neither of them cracked though. They both refused to look at each other, and Will was ready to give up.

"Please just talk to each other", said Hay Lin in a last ditch effort.

"No!" Irma and Cornelia snapped at the same time.

Will sighed and said, "Well that's that. I guess they're never gonna talk to each other, we might as well just-"

She cut off her own sentence as a glaring pain shot thru her head. She yelled, collapsed, and remembered no more.

(A/N-aaahhhh, cliff hangers, don't u just luv them? Probably not, but if uve read my fics b4, u no that cliffhangers r my way of life, so liv on, and wait 4 the next chap!)