Hahaha! My sister told me who the assassin is and why (s)he is doing this! That means that I know and you don't! Haha! Yes! Happy Presidents' Day! I'll be watching specials for almost all day…

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Chapter 10 (Whoo! Chapter Ten Baby!): Cody

We all got the news the next day that Duncan was ok. He had even woken up. But Chef Hatchet wouldn't let anyone near him, and he even kicked Courtney out eventually. The only ones allowed to see him were no one. Not even Chris.

The day after that is when things started going downhill for me. I was sitting next to Gwen, the love of my life, at breakfast. I always sat next to her. I knew she didn't feel the same way I felt about her, but I just couldn't stand not being near her.

Beth sat on my other side, and she was talking to me, but I couldn't really understand her. It seemed like all of her words were slurring together. What was she saying? Something about a toaster? I don't know.

As Beth drawled on and on, Noah came over to the table, set his tray down, and sat down in front of me. He looked extremely tired for some reason. Like he hadn't gotten a wink of sleep. I opened my mouth to ask him about it.

"Don't talk to me," he growled before I could say a word. I closed my mouth.

I suddenly became aware that Beth had stopped talking. I looked at her and saw that she was looking at me as if she expected me to say something. Had she asked me a question?

"Uh, what?" I asked.

"I said –" and then she started slurring again. I decided to just smile and nod. She exclaimed with joy and continued drawling.

"Do you even know what you just said 'yes' to?" Gwen's quiet voice asked beside me. I turned to her.

"No," I replied. She gave me a wicked grin, but refused to tell me what Beth had asked.

"She asked if you would go out with her," Noah mumbled, his head resting on the table.

I looked at Gwen with surprise. "Really?" I asked, surprised and frightened at the same time.

"No, she didn't," Gwen replied, "She just wanted to know if you agreed with her."

"Oh," I muttered. And yes, we were talking about Beth while she was talking to me. And no, she never noticed.

Eventually, Beth got up and left (thank God! I was fearing that she was going to ask me another question!), and only Gwen, Noah, Trent, Heather, and I were left at the Gopher table. This is where the trouble started.

Heather slid down the bench towards where Gwen, Trent, and I sat. Unfortunately, since she sat on our side, she was sitting next to me. Bleach.

"Hey guys," she said, trying to sound nice, "What are you up to?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Gwen growled.

"What's wrong with him?" Heather asked, pointing at Noah and ignoring Gwen.

"Nothing," Trent replied. "He's asleep."

"Whatever," Heather muttered. She stared at Noah with an unreadable feeling in her eyes, and expression on her face.

As I tried to stomach Chef's food, I suddenly heard it. It sung loud and clear in my ears. "This is your right! That's your right!" My eyes widened. Oh no! "That is your right, this is your left!" I was marked to die! But I couldn't die yet! There were still things I wanted to do! "That is your right, this is your right!" Why me? Why me of all time? I couldn't see anything in the room that looked like a threat. Then I thought of the food. It didn't taste like Chef's food…

"This is your right," the song came to an end, "You're gonna die!"

Then, like a knife in my side, I felt a horrible, stabbing pain. I gasped and doubled over in pain. It attacked me again and again. Had my food been poisoned?

"Cody!" I heard Gwen exclaim. I started to black out. "Cody!" Ah, at least I can die knowing that Gwen at least cared about me. Good-bye, my dear, sweet Gwen…

I woke up gasping in the hospital tent. It was almost pitch black and I could make out someone sitting beside me. Gwen.

"Are you ok Cody?" she asked, anxiously. Her eyes looked like they were tear stained.

"I think so," I mumbled, "How long have I been out?"

"About a day," she replied. "Everyone's been really worried about you. Even Duncan and Noah." She glanced over at Duncan in the bed next to mine. Then she looked at me. "Cody, what happened?" she wondered.

I flinched. Obviously, I had made her worry. I didn't like doing that. "I don't know," he replied, weakly. "I think my food was poisoned. I heard that song right before I felt pain."

I caught my breath as she slid onto the bed next to me and wrapped her arms around me. "Don't ever do that again," she pleaded, "You had me worried sick."

I smiled weakly. "Gwen, I-" I started. She put a finger to my lips to silence me.

"Promise me," she said.

I sighed. "I promise."

Aw! That's so cute! This took me a lot longer to type than I wanted to. I had about fifty things happening at once…

By the way, we have this thing for doing terrible things to our favorite characters, like Noah and Cody. So yeah, don't be surprised when they're always getting injured…

If you don't review, my shadow will taunt you about how he knows who the assassin is and you don't. And then he'll give away the ending.