So, yeah, please dont hate me! I'm sorry this took so long to get out but I have a good reason! I had half the chapter done the other week and then my mom got into a car accident so I was busy helping her out, and then this whole week I've been wicked sick. At first I thought it was just a little cold, but then I had a fever and I was so sick I didn't want to get out of bed, let alone write fan fiction. As of now though, my mom is better and I'm feeling better so I should have more time to write.

Anyway, thanks so much for all the reviews. I still can't believe you guys are loving this so much!

It was the next day, around noon, and the three of us girls were sitting in my car near the house. We didn't have much of a plan besides getting in there and getting out as quickly as possible. That plan was better than nothing, I guess. At least we had a good enough reason for doing all of this.

"So um, how should we do this?" I asked. Yesterday, what we were doing seemed like such a good idea. Now, it seemed kind of stupid. Like it would never work. That didn't mean I wasn't willing to try though. I was willing to do anything to figure this all out.

"Not really sure," said Magenta. "Hmm, maybe Layla and I can say we are having car problems. Get the people out of the house, and you can get in there to see that dog."

"Wait, I thought we were going to wait until the dog was outside."

"That could take forever."

"We are not breaking into someones house. Thats just crazy talk," said Layla.

"Well it wouldn't be us going into the house. It would just be Roxie."

"Lets do it," I said.

"What?" asked Layla. "There is no way you could be going along with this."

"I'm desperate. I'll do pretty much anything at this point." So, the three of us snuck out of my car, and started sneaking toward the house, all mission impossible style.

"Ok, wait here," Magenta said, as we hid by a bush on the side of the house. "We will get them out of the house."

"I really don't think telling them the car is broken is going to work," said Layla. "Once they get to the car and see it's working fine, they will just head right back into the house."

"Don't worry about the car. I have a better idea."

"Oh yeah, and what is that?"

"You tell them that your pet guinea pig has escaped and is running around their yard. Unless they are complete assholes, they will come and help you look for me." With that said, Magenta transformed into her guinea pig self and started running around the front yard. Layla followed and quickly made her way to the front door and knocked. Kenny, the drunk kid who had thrown the party, answered the door.

"Can I help you?" he asked.

"My pet guinea pig escaped from me and is running around your front yard. I hope you don't mind me being on your property trying to get her back. Perhaps you could even help me?" Layla asked, giving him a very charming smile.

"No problem," Kenny said, coming outside to help.

"Anyone else inside that could give us a hand? She's a pretty fast piggy. We might need more than two people to catch her."

"Nope. My parents are out and I'm the only one home. I'm sure we can catch her though." Good job Layla. Now that I knew that bit of information, I could sneak into the house, find the dog, find out what I needed to know, and sneak back out.

Yeah, that was easier said than done. Right as I was about to run to the front door, I felt a hand clamp down on my wrist. I turned so quick I bumped into the body that was holding me.

"What are you doing here?" asked Warren. I could not believe he was standing right there in front of me.

"What am I doing here, what are you doing here?"

"I'm not trying to break into someones house like some other people I know."

"I just want to talk to the dog. He can tell me what color hair Justin has."

"Aren't dogs color blind?" All my struggling to break my wrist free stopped. I just glared at Warren instead. Sure, he was right but I was angry at him for reminding me. God, I'm so stupid. Of course dogs are color blind. Plus, the stupid little dog was so busy trying to get out of its crate that night, that I bet it wasn't paying attention to Justin at all.

"Come on. I'm going to take you home." He walked me back to my car and then went to help Layla catch Magenta. Not that it was a hard thing to do. Once Kenny was back inside his house, and no one else was around, Magenta went back to her human form. When the three of them walked back to where I was waiting, Warren snatched the keys from my hand. He then got into the drivers seat.

"Hey! Why do you get to drive my car?" I asked.

"Cause I said so, now the three of you get in the freaking car." I shut my mouth and got in. Layla and Magenta followed my lead. The ride was spent in silence and he dropped the two of them off first. They whispered their goodbyes and said they would talk to me later.

"How did you know?" I asked, once they were both out of the car.

"Will and I suspected you three were up to something when you came back from your walk yesterday."

"Well, I guess all I can say is thanks."

"Thanks? Thats it? You aren't going to start yelling at me for ruining your ingenious plan to find out a guy's hair color?"

"No I'm not. Now that I really have the time to sit and think about it, the whole thing was really stupid."

"Yeah, it was. Roxie, listen. I'm begging you to just let this whole thing go. You went to that party, got drunk and now you don't remember the details, alright?" I didn't want to agree to that but I did anyway. I had almost broken into someone's house. What the hell was I thinking? That was so unlike me. So incredibly stupid.

"Lets go to my house and work on our homework thats due Friday." I think my mouth dropped open when I heard those words come out of Warren's mouth.

"Did I just hear you right? Did you really just say lets go do homework?"

"I did."

"Oh my God. Are you sick, or is someone using mind control on you?" He laughed at that and I felt my stomach fill with butterflies. He had the best laugh. It made his whole face light up. Instead of his usual angry expression, he looked happy.

"No, I just figured I needed to cheer you up. I know you love doing school work earlier than the day before its due, so I figured we could get some of it out of the way."

"Are you sure? Wouldn't you rather spend your day doing something else?"

"Nope, I'd rather spend it with you." And that, was the day that Warren and I truly became friends.

............

After that day, time seemed to pass so quickly, that I could hardly remember a time that Warren and I were fighting, that Becca and I were actually talking, or when I was worried over what color Justin's hair was.

I hadn't heard anything from Justin since that day he had showed up at my house. He almost seemed like a distant memory. Ok, so only a month or so had past, but still, it felt a lot longer. I wasn't about to start complaining about his lack of appearance. I just figured that Warren had been right. He was just a normal guy who wanted to get into my pants while I was drunk at a party. He must have stopped talking to me because he lost his interest. Again, not complaining.

Another good thing that had changed over time, I now had more friends. I was officially part of Warren's little group of friends. Layla, Magenta, Will, Zach and Ethan were more than happy to invite me everywhere they went. Even Manny hung out with all of us sometimes. He really liked the group of underclassmen as well. Warren though, he wasn't too crazy about him. That happened to be my fault though.

Another thing that had changed over such a short period of time, was I finally admitted to myself that I had the biggest on Warren. Manny couldn't stand it. Not because Manny liked me or anything. Just because he didn't think Warren was my type. I don't really get it, and I don't really care. Warren was just so, ugh, Warren. He was hot and sexy, and dark and mysterious. I couldn't help my attraction to him. Layla and Magenta figured it out right away. They even have been trying to get me to say something to him. Like that would ever happen. There was no way at all that I would ever tell that boy my feelings. He would never feel the same way back.

"So, are you ready for this?" asked Manny. We were currently sitting in the gym, getting ready for a game of save the citizen. Was I ready? No, I was so not ready.

"Oh, yeah, sure," I lied. It was the first time us sidekicks were allowed to participate in the game. We would have to help out our hero anyway we could.

"Hey," said Warren, sitting down next to me. I nodded my head at him and gave a small smile.

"I think I'm going to go sit with my partner, I'll catch you two later. Good luck," Manny said. As he walked away, I felt Warren move closer to me.

"I don't think he likes me very much."

"What? No! He likes you, he just wants to go sit with his hero."

"Whatever you say Roxie." That was another big change for me. I was going by Roxie now. Hard to believe, I know. I can hardly believe it myself.

"Oh shush. Coach Boomer is going to announce the first match." The room fell silent for our teacher as he called out the first names.

"Alright first up is Mathews and Martin," Boomer yelled out. Jonathan and Becca stood up from their seats and walked down to the ring, holding hands I might add. "Who do you want to compete against?" Jonathan's eyes looked around until they fell on me.

"We'll take Peace and Parker." Oh shit. I so knew he was going to say that but part of me was wishing that he wouldn't. How were we going to win against them? I mean, sure, Warren could take Jonathan with no problems, but if I had to fight Becca, she could so kill me in a second.

"Don't look so upset," whispered Warren. "We are so going to win this."

"Easy for you to say. You have a super cool power. Mine gives me nothing to work with. It's not like we are out in the woods somewhere where I can beg some animal to help us."

"True, but I think I'll be able to do this on my own." Could Warren's ego get any bigger? Oh, I'm sure it could. We walked into the fighting ring and faced Jonathan and Becca.

"Mathews, you want hero or villain?" asked Coach Boomer.

"Villain," was Jonathans short answer. It wasn't really a surprise or anything. I got into my position and started mentally preparing myself. God, there was no way I could be a sidekick in real life. If I was getting so nervous over a high school game, I could never handle doing the real thing.

"Relax, we've got this," said Warren. He sounded so sure that we would win. Why couldn't I have that much confidence in us?

"Go Roxie!" I heard Manny yell. "Kick Beccas ass!" Oh sure. He didn't really care if I won or not. He just didn't want to see Becca win. Boomer yelled for us to start and everything happened so fast, I could hardly pay attention.

Warren took off running and I started running right after him. I felt our bodies lift into the air, and knew that Jonathan now had control over us.

"Tie them up!" he yelled to Becca. Becca's power was annoying. She could grow her hair and her nails to any length she wanted them. It wasn't powerful enough to land her into the hero category, but it was more useful than being able to talk to animals.

I felt her using her extra long hair to bind my wrists together. She moved over toward Warren, but he blasted a fire ball at her. Becca had to dive to the ground to escape being hit. Warren then sent one at Jonathan. Jonathan must have lost his concentration because I felt my body hit the ground not a second later. Warren started running toward Jonathan and not the fake citizen.

"I'm going to take care of him, you save the citizen!" he yelled to me. I broke through the hair around my wrists and I took off running toward the fake, robotic, person. Right before I could reach it though, I felt something wrap around my neck. At first it felt like nothing, but then I realized that Becca was winding her long hair around my throat. I thought that she would stop after a while but it just kept getting tighter and tighter. No matter how much hair I tore away from my neck, she just kept adding more.

"Becca, stop! I can't breath," I choked out. I think she was laughing now, and I could feel the hair getting tighter. I fell to my knees, and all I could hear was people counting down. Warren and I had five seconds left to win this.

I looked over toward my partner and noticed that he had managed to knock out Jonathan. All he had to do now was save the citizen and we would win. Forgetting about Warren, and winning, I focused on trying to claw at the hair around my neck. It was getting tighter and tighter still. I really think she was trying to kill me.

"Five...Four...Three...Two...One!" The rest of our classmates cheered. Right before one, I felt fire fly a little too close to me. In the next second I could breath again, and I felt strong arms supporting me as I gasped for breath.

"Villains win!" yelled Boomer's loud voice. Looks like we wouldn't be getting an A for this assignment.

"What happened? Why didn't you save the citizen?" I asked once I could talk again.

"And let that bitch kill you? I don't think so," Warren said, pulling me a little closer to him.

"But we just lost."

"Who the hell cares? We can win next time. There was no way I could sit back and watch her hurt you."

I couldn't believe my ears. I was too shocked to talk. Warren had just completely forgotten our task and saved me instead. And now he was holding me. It didn't even seem like he wanted to let go. We might have just lost the stupid save the citizen game, but I felt like I won. Having Warren's arms around me was the best prize, better than an A. I know how cheesy that sounds, but I don't even care. Would you care if you were the one that found out that Warren Peace had feelings for you? I didn't think so.

Ok, so I know that this chapter was kind of short, but I just felt so bad for making you all wait so long, that I just had to post it now instead of waiting for later. I'll try to get the next chapter out as fast as I can. Once again, thank you all for the reviews, and thank you for putting up with the long wait!