A/N: Sorry for the late update! Hard chapter to write and I wanted to make it good!

To autumn1999 - You asked for Kick fluff . . . I'm terrible at making fluff! But. . . . .they're may or may not be a little Kick in this chapter...Guess you'll have to read to find out!

Also, I'm glad you think the chapters can be funny, because I never thought of myself as the funny type...only my sarcastic moments (which are pretty often, but I still don't find myself funny).

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Chapter 20 - Presentations

Kim's POV

I was huddled in the corner firmly holding one of the bag of cheese balls I had taken from Milton's [grand]parents. Let me catch you up. Today we were presenting our . . . well . . . presentations. . . . All of us were in the auditorium making sure everything was perfect. At least I was. Everyone else, being a guys and all, was doing last minute things they should have done earlier.

I looked around at everyone else. We were all spread out, but close one other person. Me near Jerry, Eddie near Jack, and Milton near Rudy.. Speaking of the idiot that was sitting near me. He was sitting in a spinny chair with his laptop going around and around and around... It was driving me insane.

Honestly I'm about ready to pound him. Every ten minutes I'd send daggers at him, but he never seemed to notice. For the thousandth time he spun around and I sent him daggers. You know what he did? Yup! He spun around again! "That's it. . . ." I mutter. I close my laptop with force and angrily push my cheese balls aside.

I walk over to him and slam my hands on each side of the chair. Jerry's laptop slowly closes and a look of terror becomes his expression. "Jerry if you spin that chair one more time I will cut off each of your limbs, bury them each in the forest, throw you on top with some saltines then set that forest on fire! (A/N: Wow. . . . Don't know where that came from. . . ) Got it?!" he gave a nervous nod of the head. I let go and went back to my corner.

Finally, peace and quiet! Yeah, not really... Apparently I` wasn't the only one mad at someone else. Rudy and Eddie went a little crazy later on too, but you'll get to that later. Right now I was getting bored out of mind. It was a Friday and since we're are presenting the stupid project today we got the day off (kind of, we spend the day in the auditorium) to "prepare everything".

Although I guess this project did more good than bad. Where would I be today if I hadn't been called up on this stage nine months ago? I'd probably be trying to destroy Jack yet again... Which leads me to how fast time goes by... I mean nine months ago I hated everyone in this room...

Rudy's POV

Milton is driving me insane. He keeps tapping his stupid pencil! I'm trying to some last minute work done! Tap . . . tap . . . Ugh I can't take it! I look inside the costume box I'm sitting on for something to throw at Milton so he'll stop - tap . . . tap . . . tap . . . - tapping... I find a knife. Wait why is there a knife in here!? This could chop something in half!. . . . .Like Milton's pencil. I quietly close the box and sit back on it.

I start to make my aim, if I do it just right, it will miss his hand and cut the pencil. When I think it's right I throw it. It quickly slices the pencil in half, barely missing Milton's hand. Milton looks at me with a blank expression. "Darn . . . I missed" I ask sending daggers. Milton puts his pencil down in surrenderMission accomplished.

Finally I can get back to this extremely boring work! My phone suddenly starts ringing. Yes! A break from boringness! Just as I'm about to pick it up, I notice everyone is giving me "Seriously?" look. I sick my tongue out, it was because of my ringtone. "Don't judge! I personally love the song Friday!" I say quickly answering.

"Hello?"

"Rudy! It's Bethany! Do you mind if I sneak into auditorium for a minute?" she says mischievously.

"Well, I sure don't mind! But nothing to crazy, the kids are here. . . ."

We hang up and within seconds she shows up. As if all this time she was right behind the curtains. . . . "Hey Rudykins!" she says cheerfully. "Hey . . . " - I quickly try and think of a nickname - "Death!" she stares at me sadly "I meant Beth not Death!" I say saving myself. She smiles again "Oh, okay. Well I just came to say good luck and if you want, after this over you could come over to my house for dinner?"

"I would be honored" I kiss her hand. "Oh Rudy! Your so romantic!" she says slowly backing out of that room.

"Old people romance is disturbing. . . ." Eddie says from across the room, I stick my tongue out.

"You know I don't always miss. . . " Eddie stops and goes back to his work. Man I'm on fire today! Except for the fact that this place feels like prison...there's not even a clock or small window. It's like Vegas, where they put no windows or clocks so you don't know how much time has went by...

Eddie's POV

Let me just say, I know hate the song "Radioactive". Jack has been playing it on repeat just loud enough to where only I could here it. I mean, I've memorized all the lyrics now! Jack and I were both sitting on a castle (for the play, Romeo & Juliet), he was on the bottom and I was on top.

At first I tried to play my music louder, but he just made his louder! Then I tried going in the inside part of the castle but the place was full of spider webs . . . and basketballs! Your probably wondering "Why are there basketballs in the castle prop?" Well, everyday after school Brertt and his teammates shoot hoops with the castle. Don't know why though. . . .

I carefully made my way inside avoiding all the spiders. I look around in the dark until I spot what I'm looking for, I grab it and make my way back to fresh air. I sit back on my spot trying to figure out how to get Jack's attention. Finally I decide just to slam it down on the ground as hard as I can, hopefully not hitting him in the process.

I throw it down barely missing Jack's head, he jumps and looks up at me. "Oh my bad, that almost hit you! Oops! . . . Do you think if I threw another one it'd shut up your music?" I ask clearly annoyed. He got the message and the entire auditorium fell silent.

I continued to add on to my speech. Everyone had written like two pages! I could only make out half a page! "Is anyone else extremely bored?" Milton asked suddenly. We all raised our hands "Can't we just stop and play a game or something?" he further complains. We all shrug and somehow all mentally decide to go over to Kim and play 'Would You Rather?'

"Would you rather lick peanut butter off a hobos foot or wear green for the rest of your life?" Jerry asks us.

"You stole that from Zoey 101!" Kim says half laughing "But I say the peanut butter" which made her the only one.

After half an hour we were all laying down on the floor. "You know what this reminds me of?" Milton says half laughing. "When I was in sixth grade we lived in an apartment. One day when Jason and I came home he went to open the door the latch was on so we couldn't get in. Our dad was home but he had just gotten home from a business trip so he slept through our phone calls. We callee our mom, but she was working late that night and wouldn't be back until nine that night. Our dads best friends were across the hall so we called them. He was on a business trip and his fiancé wouldn't be home until six-thirty. So we sat down in the hall and lied down on our backpacks and played would you rather for three hours until our dad finally woke up. . . . the funny part was whenever people would come on our floor they would just look at us and wave, like it was normal for kids to be laying in the hallway". (A/N: This actually happened to me. . . . Trust me, NOT FUN!)

We all laughed. After it died down, we all sat in a comfortable silence. After a while we heard movement in the auditorium., we all jumped up and peeked behind the curtains. Mrs. Kane and her current class had just walked in "Guys, I feel butterflies..." Kim said slightly freaking out.

"Don't worry. This time we'll be on the stage with our friends, not our enemies" Jerry says, making us all smile a little.

Jack's POV

My palms were getting sweating and I was starting to get nervous. We all were, but we were trying to keep what Jerry said in mind. The principal made his way to the podium and silenced the school. "Today, the members of the project will be presenting what they have done over the course of the year. You will not talk and if you do, you will be visiting me after.

"So without further ado . . . Jack Brewer, Kim Crawford, Rudy Gillespie, Eddie Johnson, Milton Krupnick, and Jerry Martinez!" we all walked out. We had decided seconds before the order we'd be talking. Rudy and Eddie would go up together first and talk about the business, then Milton and Jerry would talk about our new friendship, then Kim and I would give speeches.

Rudy and Eddie walked up and started talking about the business, causing most people to fall asleep. A few people woke up though when Jerry and Milton walked up "Hey. . . . so most of you guys know us as Mr. Emotional, but I have a name, it's Milton. That's Jerry. We're here to talk about our new friends. . . "

That was a terrible introduction . . . I think trying to hold back the laugh. "When I first walked on this stage I though 'Wow this is going to be the worst year of my life. . . .', but turns out we all have a lot in common and we understand each other! This was our most memorable year!

"Let's start with Jack. . . ." I immediately try and hide my face "We hated him, thought he was the world's biggest jerk . . . but he is really one of the most loyal and honorable friends I have ever had. That we've ever had" I smile at Jerry. "Kim . . . well we thought the same thing about her. Except she is the sweetest person that I have ever met, and I'm proud to be her friend!" I saw Kim blushing.

"Rudy, used to be just another teacher to us, but now he's like a second dad to all of us. Eddie . . . we had no idea who he was to be hones6, but I found myself surprised he had no friends. . . ." that's right about the time I decided to tune them out. They stayed up there about twenty minutes, until it was Kim and I.

Everyone's attention was on us, listening intently to see what we would say for the last half hour. Kim looked at me and she gave me an encouraging nod.

"Hi, my name is Kim Crawford and I am a part of The Project. When my name was called up to the stage, I felt like just throwing up. Being up there with my worst enemy, and three people that I was a complete jerk to. . .. but because of them I realized that who I was, wasn't really me. It never has been.

"Something that happened a long time ago started everything. And I was stupid enough to hold a grudge. The real Kim Crawford was a victim of bullying. Everyday I got told I was a nerd and a geek. I got blackmailed everyday because of embarrassing I did. Imagine that happening to you everyday.

"I guess you never really know how your acting until someone tells you they hate you. Everyday at Seaford High I was terrified that someone would find out about me. All my friends.. They didn't know who was at all. I think about this everyday.. If I would've just opened my eyes, I could've had the most amazing friends on the planet. These five insane and crazy guys!

"I had only been with the guys for a couple of days when I realized they meant the world to me. And when we talked, as if we had been friends forever, I wish we would've of been. It makes me realize that I missed out on a lot.

"All this time I've been scared to tell someone my past, but look at me now.. I'm telling the entire school! Nobody could ever understand me like the Wasabi Warriors do. Though we've had our bumpy roads, nothing could keep us apart in the end.

"That first day, when we were all sitting at Phil's together in the most awkward silence.. I looked at everyone and thought of our futures together. I saw the six of us, including Rudy, with the most unbreakable bond. It never mattered if one of us got mad for the things we did to each other, or if we had a bad day. We were always, and always will be friends. Forever & Always." Kim finishes with a deep breath.

The auditorium was in silence so I decided to give my speech "I'm Jack. I honestly don't know how to top that, but what I really need to tell all of you is that none of you know me. My 'best friends', I have NOTHING in common with them, and none of us were every really friends.

"There's only one thing you should know about me, the only thing you will know about me is the only reason I turned me into a jerk is . . ." I grew hesitant, not even Kim knew this.

"Because I got too close to Kim, and after what happened to my parents I had swore I would never get close to anyone again. I guess I made some big affects on everyone's lives. Over the year though, I've learned if I was going to get too close to anyone, it would be Kim" then, I did something that I had been wanting to do ever since I started the speech. I grabbed Kim and kissed her. I heard Jerry tarting a clap behind us and before I knew it everyone else was joining him. I couldn't help laugh at the applause it was like the entire school wanted us together.

"KICK! KICK! KICK!" Jerry started chanting. "Oh my god. . . ." Kim giggled "This is embarrassing!" she said blushing. "Aww does Kimmy like me?" I say knowing she'll probably slit my throat for saying that "No. Kimmy LOVES you!"

A/N: And that's a wrap! Hope you enjoyed! I'll update ASAP!

THREE CHAPTERS LEFT!

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-Juliana