I suddenly got a ton of reviews out of nowhere O.O Thanks Everyone!

By the way, Darianella, I feel like a total n00b, but I have no idea what beta is lol. Never messed with it before. Could you explain it please?

From here until close to the end, we're going to stay out of Gwen's POV as much as possible. So, I'm going to stick with the others a good bit. Oh, and there is absolutely NO Gwen bashing going on here, it's just how the story goes. All this will keep some suspense going hehehehe.... MUAHAHAHAHHA... ok, here we go.

Stigmatized

"If I give up on you I give up on me

If we fight what's true, will we ever be?

Even God, himself and the faith I knew

It shouldn't hold me back, shouldn't keep me from you."

~The Calling~

After almost an hour, Kevin realized that starring at his cell phone will not make it ring. He picked it up, again, looked at it, then threw it down... again. He rolled his eyes over the car, up to the clock that Gwen had practically forced him to put up. Almost six hours since she left. Almost the whole day. His brain took awhile after that kiss to start going again. That's when he realized that all of this was very... strange. He leaned his chair back and starred at the wall instead this time.

Something was up and he wanted to know. This wasn't just your average, every day curiousity. If something was wrong with Gwen, Kevin usually had his nose in it and the problem would be fixed in at least a day. This was different. First off, he didn't know what was going on.

He picked up the phone and dialed Ben's number. Often times, no one would know what, if anything, was wrong with Gwen, because she always hid it so well. But Kevin paid so much attention to her that within the month that they had started hanging out, he had learned all her habits, quirks and pretty much all the stuff she thought people didn't know about her. Only Kevin saw through her, except today. Hopefully, Ben had a few answers, but he doubted it.

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Julie's work is never done. Between school, Ship, Ben, the occasional alien activity, and tennis she barely had any time at all. She was on the tennis court, in the local park, playing against that stupid machine, and starting to sweat. Ship was currently in her bag, giving out little 'woo's when she'd hit the ball, 'ooh's when she'd misse, and just burrowing himself deeper in the bag whenever the balls would actually hit her. Even he could tell she was wearing herself out.

Just as the thought ran across his cute little mind, Julie started walking back to him. She sat on the bench beside him, drinking some of her water and dabbing at the sweat beads on her forehead.

Had to pick a sunny day for this, she scolded herself. It was May and school was almost out, which meant the temperature crept higher every day.

Ship made a sympathetic noise to her. Julie looked down at him and smiled. No matter how fowl a mood she was in, she couldn't really take it out on anyone... or anything in Ship's case. Except, of course, when it was all his fault for not showing up on time, ever, even if those lilacs were adorable. Julie sighed. She liked Ben a lot and she understood why he was always late, but she just barely had time to spend with him as it was. Besides, his watch didn't tell time, but surely his cell phone did.

Ship started making a sqweaky noise. She looked down at him. He was practically jumping up and down looking off at the nearby lake. Julie looked over to see what was so exciting, probably ice cream or something. She could swear that Ship and Ben had the same stomachs.

Gwen was standing next to the lake with her hands burried in her jacket, alone. Julie looked around for the green Challenger, but no luck. Well, that's odd. She looked down at Ship, "you wanna go say hi?"

The squeaks became faster and he almost jumped out of the bag. Julie quickly swept him up before anyone could see him, and walked off of the courts.

Gwen stood alone next to the small lake watching the fish swim by, without a worry in the world, then she heard footsteps.

"Hey, Gwen," Julie said, but Gwen didn't turn or even acknoweledge her. This got her worried. Julie stepped closer until she was about a foot away and looked at Gwen more carefully. She looks so... numb. Her expression is just... nothing.

"You ok?" She asked, worried.

Gwen gave her a sharp, sideways glare, "Why?"

This is really odd. "What do you mean why? Did something happen?"

"Tch." Gwen turned her back and started to walk away.

"Gwen? Wait a minute," Julie said, as she started to run after her.

Gwen turned on her heel, "What do you want!?"

Julie stopped, "I want to know what's wrong with you."

"The only thing wrong with me right now is you!"

Ship had made it over to Gwen's feet, worried too. He looked up at her with a squeak. Gwen's eyes turned a magenta and she blasted Ship away. Julie managed to catch him before he hit the ground.

Julie looked over the top of Ship, "Gwen!?"

Gwen was already more than ten feet away, walking out of the park. This time, Julie didn't go after her.

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"Yellow?"

"Hi, this is the 1980's calling. We want that term back."

"You never heard someone answer the phone like that?"

"Other than you?"

"You are so funny..."

Kevin was currently standing outside his garage, watching the sun go down as slow as possible. He had finally managed to get a hold of Ben.

"I'm sure you called me for more than just the way I answer the phone."

"Yeah, have you seen Gwen lately?"

"Does yesterday count?"

"I seen her this morning, she was acting really... wierd."

"It took you this long to call?"

"I've been busy!... sort of..."

"Yeah. So, what did she do?"

"Well, she... she was just acting wierd! She showed up here like she was a zombie or something. I don't know. Something's wrong with her."

"I got another call, it might be Gwen. Hold on."

The thought flittered pass his mind about why would she call Ben and not him, but he decided to worry about that later. Ben came back through.

"Not Gwen."

Julie's voice rang in. "Kevin? You seen Gwen today?"

"Yeah, why?"

"She was acting so wierd when I saw her. It seemed like she was mad at us."

Ben came on, "Us?"

"Me and Ship. She even hurt him!"

"What?"

"No, stop, no way. Gwen wouldn't hurt anything on purpose."

"Tell that to Ship. She attacked him. He's not hurt too bad, but I think his feelings took a beating. He's been sulking in a corner since we got home."

"This isn't making any sense."

Just then, Kevin seen an explosion in the distance. "We'll have to cut this short."

Ben came on, "Yeah, I seen it too. Julie, we'll meet you at my house when we're done with that."

"Alright, be careful," she hung up.

"You think we should call Gwen?"

"Nah, let's just handle this on our own. We'll deal with Gwen later."

"Alright, race you there." Ben killed the line.

Kevin put his phone in his pocket and got in the Challenger. "This sucks," he said as he started the engine.

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OMG SHE HURT SHIP NOWAYZ!!! yep. Don't worry, she didn't cause the explosion.

Ain't Ship just the cutest little thing!! X3 He's so adorable.

R&R! Next Chapter will be up at some point ^.^