I'm going to tell you this right now: This is a very long chapter! Yes, and I am very proud of myself. See, I couldn't cut it because the chapter would be too short. So I just decided to make one big one! Don't get lazy on me, it's totally worth it. Read it, or else…you don't get a cookie! Lol. Enjoy!
Sorry for confusing you people when I put Roxas instead of Caleb. See, it's actually really weird because my cousin was next to me when I was writting the chapter and she kept asking me, 'Who's Roxas?'. So I guess while she asked me that, I put Roxas instead of Caleb. My bad!
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After the horribly long torturous event of lunch, the bell rang. Cornelia was just happy that she would be away from them for a little while; so they can forget about 'her and Caleb'. And as Caleb's punishment for blurting that Matt and Will were going out (not true yet), he got a really hard punch on the arm from Matt.
Fourth period had just started and it was math class, Cornelia's worst subject. She was really bad at it.
"Hay Lin, help. I don't get this!"Cornelia whispered to her left.
"You think I do? My brain is an acorn!" Hay Lin whispered back. "Why don't you ask Caleb? He's actually good at math"
"You want me to ask him? I'd rather ask a gorilla"Cornelia crossed her arms.
"Instead of asking a stupid gorilla, how about I help you," someone said from the right side of her.
"What do you want, Alan?" she asked, still a little angry at him.
"Look, I know I was a big asshole in the lockers. You think we can start over?" he begged with puppy dog eyes that only a few girls could resist.
This reminded her of when Caleb tried to change her mind. She didn't want to trust Alan, but she prefered him than Caleb.
"Ok, fine. I need help with this anyway…"Cornelia sighed and showed him the problem she was struggling with.
"Yay! Thanks!"Alan smiled and looked at her paper, "Ok, so you already cross-multiplied 54 and 23. Now you're going to cross multiply x and 22," he explained.
"How can you do that?", Cornelia asked.
"It's not very hard. All you do is put 22x equals 1242. You do that with all of these kind of problems. Then all you have to do is divide the number before x, which is 22, by 1242. And then you get the answer to x", Alan finished.
"Oh, I get it. It wasn't so hard, I can't believe I didn't see it. Thanks, Alan"Cornelia smiled, finally understanding the lesson. Alan nodded and kept on working.
From the backCaleb could see it all with gritted teeth. Grr…what am I getting so worked up for? Alan can have her for all I care. She's nothing like her… he thought.
Soon the bell rang signaling the students to go to their next class. ForCornelia, it was gym class. She walked with Elyon, who was waiting for her at the door, towards the girls' change room where she would change into her gym attire.
The attire was a white shirt with an orang logo that said 'Twilight Wildcats' and these really long shorts.
"Are the shorts supposed to be this long? They look more like capris to me", Cornelia complained, but added the last part so that she wouldn't sound like a slut, which she wasn't.
"Yeah. Oh, and don't worry abou it. I don't consider you one of those slutty girls that always roll up their shorts so that the guys can see their Victoria's Secret underwear", Elyon laughed, "These shorts really are too long. I usually like to roll it up 3 times and they turn out like this".
"Oh, it looks good like that. I'm gonna try that", Cornelia rolled up the shorts so they looked the appropriate hight.
"Yay! Perfect, you look awsome, Cornelia. Now come on, before we're late", Elyon put her stuff in the locker and walked out the changing rooms to the gym.
It turned out that the class where some of her friends were supposed to be- Music- broke down because of the electricity and the teacher was out and there was no substitute. So they had to have gym class with Cornelia and Elyon.
Great, Cornelia thought, they're gonna continue the 'discussion' of lunch.
"We are going to do sit ups for the whole class. Don't ask why, just do them. You will alternate with your partner. Go on my whistle!", the teacher yelled.
Everyone groaned and went on the whistle. Cornelia was holding Elyon's feet, andWill was holding Hay Lin's. They were next to each other and the guys were on the other side far away.
(While they're talking this '...' means they're doing a sit up and they can't talk, ok?)
"So Cornelia...you never told us...Who's your roommate?" Elyon asked while panting softly after.
"Yeah, I've been wondering who you got as a roomate since all of us already have people we know as roomates", Will added, looking at her blonde friend.
"Oh um…my roomate? Oh…umm…" Cornelia stalled. Think, Cornelia! Think! You'll never hear the end of it if I tell them it's Caleb, she thought. "It's a senior", Cornelia lied.
"Seri...ously? How...exciting! What's...her name?" Hay Lin asked, looking at her blonde friend.
"I sorta…forgot, hehe. Too many names to remember, you know?", Cornelia replied nervously.
"Aw! Oh...well", Elyon pouted.
Caleb, Alex, Eric, and Matt were having a the exact same conversation way in front of the girls. Caleb was holding Alex's feet, and Matt was holding Eric's feet.
"Nah, he's way older than we are. I bet you don't know him", Caleb lied.
"Ok, I guess", Matt said.
"I'd like to...meet him, though", Alex said.
"Oh um…he's not usually in the room, though", Caleb lied again.
"Darn...it", Eric pouted.
Soon, class ended and Cornelia was exhausted. She has never felt so sore in her life. Thank goodness that it was to the changing room, and then back to the room. She would rather go with Caleb in her room than staying here. So she quickly changed and walked out of the room.
Cornelia just had to make one last stop to her locker and grab some books for tonight's homework. When Cornelia turned to go to her room, she bumped into someone.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to, let me help you!" a boy apologized.
Cornelia didn't really take notice to see who it was and continued to pick up her books; she was too tired to even notice. She did notice, though, when she accidentally touched the boy's hand on the last book. Cornelia began blushing, and looked up to see his face, but her blush faded.
"You…" she glared.
"Save the glares for when after I help you, ok," Caleb smiled warmly.
Cornelia felt butterflies in her stomach and her cheeks heating up. His smile was so inviting and gentle. It reminded her so much of someone, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"Ok, I guess", Cornelia responded and smiled.
Caleb suggested to carry half her books so it would be easier for her. I mean, it was the first day of heavy homework. It felt really awkward, though. Even though there was a moment of peace between them, it was weird for Caleb to be carrying her books. He tried to break it, because if not, he was gonna explode from the awkwardness.
"Soo…I was wondering…" he said as a blush crept on to his cheeks, "If we could, you know… start ov–"Caleb was cut off.
"Hey lovebirds, what's up!" Taranee yelled with Elyon and Hay Lin walking next to her. Cornelia and Caleb looked at each other in panic.
"Quick, give me my books and go to the dorm now! So they won't suspect anything", Cornelia said quickly.
Caleb gave a quick nod and handed her books over before running like the wind.
"How come Caleb ran off like that?", Hay Lin asked, catching up to Cornelia.
"What? Caleb wasn't here. You must be too high on sugar right now. I wouldn't want to walk with that dope anyway", Cornelia said, proud of her excuse.
"Huh…oh well, can't blame you for my hyperness-ess", Hay lin leaped like a ballerina.
Cornelia giggled.
"Hey guys! Let's go to Cornelia's dorm! I wanna see her ice skates!", Hay Lin said, acting like she was on ice.
"YEAH!", Taranee and Elyon exclaimed in unison and ran off towards the dorm, Hay Lin following behind.
"Wait! No!"Cornelia screamed in panic and ran as fast as she could.
When they got to the door that said 216, Cornelia did her best to give them a reason to not go in.
"But I'm not even done unpacking!"
"Then we'll help you clean it up, Taranee is excellent at doing that anyway", Elyon laughed.
"Fine" Cornelia gave up, "OK! YOU WIN! WE'LL GO INSIDE THE DORM. LET ME JUST FIND THE KEY IN MY BACKPACK" she yelled, receiving a weird look from her friends.
Inside the room, Caleb was in panic to find a hiding place. He could jump out the window, but :
1.) They were on the second floor.
2.) There were teachers outside and they'd ask too many questions
Crap! Where am I gonna hide! If they find out I'm sharing a room with her, I'm going to die! Caleb thought.
"OK I FOUND THE KEYS, I'M GOING TO OPEN THE DOOR NOW!" Cornelia yelled, and hoped with all her heart that Caleb was already well hidden.
Caleb turned his head everywhere to find any place to hide. He found Cornelia's closet opened so he ran inside the closet and sighed. The girls went in and went to check their hair in the mirror; they ran way too fast.
In the meanwhile, Cornelia searched for where Caleb could be and saw that her closet was different than how she left it. She opened the closet a little and saw Caleb waving nervously at her, one of her shirts on his head (fallen accidently while he ran in).
"My god, Caleb, couldn't you hide in your own closet?" she whispered.
"Sorry, your closet was nearer to me and open…", Caleb whispered and took the shirt off his head and looked at it, "Hey, nice shirt. I didn't know you liked Green Day".
Cornelia was about to answer, but Elyon cut her off.
"Cornelia?" Elyon asked raising an eye brow.
Cornelia quickly closed the closet, causing Caleb to yelp.
"What was that?" Taranee asked, looking around.
"Umm…Oww! I kind of closed the closet on my finger! Don't worry, I'm okay!" Cornelia laughed nervously pretending her finger was injured.
"Oh, hope you don't get a bruise. Hey um, sorry Cornelia, but we just remembered that Irma needed tutoring from us. We're so sorry",Taranee said, giving her an apologetic expression.
"No, it's ok. I have a lot of homework to do anyway", Cornelia smiled in relief.
"Oh good, we thought we were being real mean to bail on you. Anyway, come shopping with us in the mall at Friday, ok?" Elyon said, as the 3 girls started to go out the door.
"Ok, sure. Bye guys!" Cornelia waved, hoping they would leave now.
"Cool, we'll meet at the gates later. Bye Cornelia!", Hay Lin waved and the three girls disappeared.
"Is the coast clear?", Caleb asked, opening the closet door.
"Yeah. For a second there, I thought we were gonna get discovered", Cornelia sighed and collapsed on her bed.
"Tell me about it"Caleb laughed as he got out of the closet and laughed with Cornelia.
A Few Days…
The final bell rang and the students jumped out of their seats and out of the classroom. Friday at last! Even though you still had to sleep at school, it was cool because the school gave you a certificate to go to any restaurant during the weekand. You didn't have to eat the horrible caffeteria food so much.
"So, girls. We still up for the mall today?", Hay Lin jumped up. Cornelia, Elyon, Hay Lin, and Taranee met outside the dormitory building.
"Duh we are. So I'm driving right?", Taranee asked.
"How come I can't?", Hay Lin pouted.
"Because your sugar level is a bit too much", Elyon giggled.
"Yeah, I can't imagine what would happen if you'd drive", Cornelia smiled, feeling like she was part of the group.
"Yay, I drive! But first, I have to put my bag back in the dorm. If that's ok with you", Taranee said.
"Yeah, all of us have to go to our dorms, don't we?", Elyon asked.
"Yeah. We'll meet here at the same spot", Cornelia said and all of them went to their own dorms.
Cornelia ran up to her dorm and put her bag on the bed. She looked at Caleb's bed and saw his bag. She looked to see if he was in the bathroom, but the door was opened.
"Hm, wonder where he is? Ah, whatever", Cornelia shrugged and got her snow-flake charm from her drawer and ran out the dorm.
Cornelia ran out and saw the girls next to Taranee's BMW (Taranee's pimpin', haha!). She waved at them. They saw her and waved back. Cornelia ran towards them and got in the car. They drove off to the mall.
When they reached their destination point, Hay Lin's eyes went wide and tilted her head like a little girl in amazment. "Let's go to Starbucks first. Please, oh, please please please!", Hay Lin tugged on Elyon's shirt.
"Hay Lin, you know that the frappucino gets you hyper…well, more hyper", Elyon said, not paying attention to her gestures.
"Aw, come on! I'm dying for a mocha frappucino (yeah, I'm dying for one right now, lol) and a giant cookie! You can't resist the giant cookies with little M&M's. Oh! Cornelia! I know that your favorite munchie is a cookie! Please!", now Hay Lin went and tugged on Cornelia's shirt desperatley.
Cornelia rolled her eyes playfully. The others finally agreed with Hay Lin and they went to Starbucks. When they came out, Hay Lin was actually her normal self. This is how it all starts with her. Whenever she drinks coffee, first it's calm but then it's a party.
The girls walked around the mall until Elyon spotted her favorite store. "Oh, let's go to Hollister!".
Everyone of the 4 liked Hollister as well, so agreed.
"How can she be so hyper ALL the time?" Cornelia asked, watching the hyper girl jump around as they entered the store.
"Her energy is like Spongebob…there never seems to be an end (I love spongebob)",Elyon sighedas she watched Hay Lin earn attention from the people in the store.
The girls all bought a t-shirts that were on sale and a few pretty skirts, while Hay Lin grabbed anything that had the color yellow.
"Hay Lin, don't just grab everything you see. You won't have any money left. And we are not lending you money again because you still haven't payed the money you owe us", Taranee warned.
"Fine, you party-poopers", Hay Lin started to put some of the stuff away before she payed.
The four girls went through many stores and other little accessory shops. When they got to Abercombie and Fitch, Cornelia decided to sit this one out because she was too tired from walking. Sure, she loved shopping. But she had a pretty rough day at school and she was a little tired.
"We'll meet outside the store, ok?", Elyon waved as she entered the store with the others. Cornelia nodded and waved as well.
Cornelia sat down on a bench and was prepared to wait when she saw an ice cream sign a few feet away. She knew that the girls would take long because there were tons of stores next to Abercombie and Fitch, so she decided to go get some ice cream.
As she was walked to the ice crema parlor, she noticed someone ahead who looked very familiar with his tall posture and brown hair.
"Caleb?" she called out.
The guy turned around and did the same, "Cornelia?"
"What are you doing here?" the two asked in unison.
"Well, I came to pick up my skateboard from the repair shop," he showed her.
"I'm shopping with Elyon, Taranee, and Hay Lin"
"Oh, so where are they then?"
"I got tired of walking around. I sorta had a rough day at school today with math and all. So then I saw the ice cream parlor and decided to get some", Cornelia smiled.
"I see… hey want some popsicles? There's this really awesome flavor you gotta try, my treat!" Caleb smiled widely.
"Ok, I've been craving something new", Cornelia agreed.
It confused Cornelia that he was actually being a whole lot nicer today. Whenever she was about to fight, he would make peace. It was really weird of him to suddenly offer to buy her a popsicle, but she liked this side of Caleb.
When they both reached the ice cream parlor Caleb began ordering.
"Two Strawberry-Banana popsicles please!"Caleb said. The girl who worked there handed them the popsicles andCaleb paid.
(People, I don't know what Heatherfield is famous for, ok? I ate a strawberry-banana popsicle yesterday, so it's the first thing that came to my mind. Sorry)
"Whoa! Strawberry-banana, I haven't eaten one since I was six!", Cornelia gasped with excitment.
"So you must've been here before, right? Strawberry-banana posicles are the specialty of Heatherfield and they only sell it here," Caleb asked as the two sat down at a small table (only for two, wink wink).
"Yeah I have,"Cornelia laughed. "Actually, I used to live here. But then I moved away when I was six. Then my parents decided that it was good for me to be in my hometown. So here I am!" she said as she took another lick at the ice cream bar.
"How awsome!" Caleb smiled.
Cornelia and Caleb were actually having a normal conversation like normal teenagers would. There was no screaming involved, it was actually a very enjoyable conversation. Their one and only conversation was interrupted, though, by someone calling them out.
"Hey Cornelia! We were looking all over for y-…I see… so you were having some quality time with Caleb, huh?" Hay Lin's grin grew wider.
"No! I just happened to see him, and we both wanted to get some ice cream so he bought me some", Cornelia said quickly.
"He bought you the ice cream? OH MY GOD! YOU GUYS ARE ON A DATE!" Hay Lin squealed.
"We're not dating! It was a coincidence!"Caleb argued.
"What's going on?" Taranee asked as she and Elyon finally caught up to Hay Lin.
"They're on a date! Aren't they cute?" Hay Lin cooed, pointing at the two.
"WE ARE NOT, I repeat, NOT ON A DATE!" Caleb yelled, causing a lot of attention; so they left, feeling very embarrased that someone had to tell them to be quiet.
"This is all your fault, Hay Lin!" Caleb accused, crossing his arms.
"Well it's not my fault I caught you two lovebirds on your date! If you wanted some alone time, you should've just said so", Hay Lin giggled.
"WE WERE NOT ON A DATE!" Cornelia and Caleb yelled in unison.
"Ok, fine I'll drop it! But you two look just as good as a couple as Elyon and Alex…" Hay Lin laughed.
"I told you, I don't like Alex!" Elyon blushed.
"Ok, then! But I still get to make fun of Taranee and Nigel, right?" Hay Lin grinned.
"How do you know all of this!" they all yelled at the same time.
"Hehe…I'm just good, real good …" Hay Lin grinned wider.
"Hey look, is that Martin and the guys?", Taranee asked, pointing to the video game shop.
"Finally! The best video game ever invented is ours!", Martin yelled in victory to no one in particular, as he held the video game up in his hands like in the Lion King.
The girls and Caleb ran over to them.
"We had enough money to buy it?", Caleb asked.
"Yeah we did. Behold! SSMB!" Martin showed them the box.
(It's not the best game ever, but let's pretend it barley got out in stock in their world, lol. Besides, the best game ever is Kingdom Hearts!)
"Isn't that like 60 dollars?", Taranee asked.
"Yeah, and all of us guys bought it with our money", Caleb explained.
"Ooohh! I WANNA PLAY! I WANNA PLAY! I've always played it in the arcade and NOW I CAN COME TO YOUR DORM EVERYDAY AND PLAY IT!", Hay Lin squealed, touching the box.
(In my world, the arcade had a room especially for new video games and they would play it there…sniff sniff…I wish they had that in real life)
Martin immediatley got it out of her reach. "Hey, how about you all come to my dorm and we can play it?"
"Yeah!", everyone cried in unison and immediatley ran to their own cars.
They all got in the cars and drove to the dormitory building. They all followed Martin to his dorm, which he shared with Eric. Martin immediatley got to work to instal his GameCube.
"So, all of us have played SSBM, right?", Eric asked.
Everyone raised their hands except Cornelia. They all gasped in horror.
"Uh…what's SSBM?", Cornelia asked in pure confusion.
Everyone gasped even louder.
"You've never heard of SSBM? Super Smash Bro. Mele?", Martin asked in horror, getting his attention away from the GameCube.
Cornelia shook her head.
"You have got to get out more", Taranee shook her head.
"Or play more video games", Caleb added.
Cornelia smiled innocently. Why would she spend her days playing a video game? She had way more important things to do back home. It looked sorta fun now, though. And her friends all loved it so much, so she decided to try it after she saw people play it.
"Ok, look. We'll start off playing and if you feel the urge to play, you can play. Ok?", Elyon put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
Cornelia nodded with a wide smile.
"Alright, it's all set. Who wants to play against me?", Martin asked, grabbing one of the controllers.
Everyone stayed quiet. Everyone knew that Martin was like the King of Video Games.
"If anyone can beat me, they'll be named the new King/Queen of Video Games", Martin added.
"Ooooh! I want to try!", Hay Lin jumped up in excitement and took the other controller.
"You're a sitting duck, Hay Lin", Elyon said with a smile.
"Aw come on, it can't be that bad. Besides, I just had a frappucino!", Hay Lin leaped and sat down in front of the tv.
Martin chose DK and Hay Lin chose Ice Climbers. Hay Lin chose to fight in 'Yoshi's Story'. Once they started to play, Hay Lin's hyperness gave her the ability to keep pressing the buttons non-stop.
"Hay Lin! Stop hitting me with the ice already!", Martin screamed, trying to get out of her reach.
Hay Lin laughed like a maniac and attacked him until he died.
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It showed a picture of the Ice Climbers doing a little dance and then first place next to it.
"Yeah! First place! I'm the Queen of Video Games!", Hay Lin rejoiced and made her own little dance.
"Not for long! I challenge you for Queen", Elyon laughed and stood up Invader Zim style.
"Mwahahaha! You dare to challenge me?", Hay Lin laughed and handed Elyon the controller.
Elyon chose Peach and Hay Lin chose Ice Climbers again. Knowing Hay Lin's technic of hitting the ice cubes, she hit her with the vegetable. This gave her a chance. Elyon hit Hay Lin as much as she could and jumped whenever she would throw an ice cube.
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Peach was the victorious one this time.
"Aw, the frappucino went down already. Fine, I shall return", Hay Lin grinned and plopped down next to Cornelia.
"Ok, so I guess no one wants to challenge me, right?", Elyon smirked.
"I do", Alex grinned and grabbed the controller.
Elyon chose Peach again and Alex chose Mario (wink wink). Like most guys, they know this kind of strategy in video games. It makes them less…hitable. So whenever Peach would try to hit him, he would jump out and attack while she fell to the ground.
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"How conviniant that they chose the two lovers in the game, huh?", Hay Lin giggled with the rest of the gang.
"What? I like Mario. It's just a coincidence that she likes Peach. That's it. So who wants to challenge me?", Alex said, changing the subject.
"I will! And to make things more interesting, the winner is King of Video Games and has to be given 20 bucks by the loser", Caleb grinned.
"Alright; bring it on, Mr. Confident", Alex teased.
Alex chose Mario again and Caleb chose C. Falcon. It was a very hard game, but Caleb ended up being the winner (so detailed, huh?).
"Yeah, that's right! I'm KVG! Now give me the 20 bucks", Caleb extended his hand.
"Alright alright", Alex said, getting a 20 from his wallet and giving it to Caleb.
"Can I try?", Cornelia finally said.
"She finally decides when Caleb's the winner", Hay Lin whispered to Eric.
"Sure you can, I'll go easy on you", Caleb smiled and gave her the controller.
Caleb chose C. Falcon again and Cornelia chose Kirby. Caleb was going easy on her, until he saw that Cornelia had 0 percent damage while he had 64!
"Hey, this is sorta fun", Cornelia smiled at the tv.
Caleb glared at the tv and put more concentration and mumbuled something.
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Kirby is the winner!
"Oooohhhh! So much for KVG! Yeah, you made us proud Cornelia!", Taranee gave her a high-five.
"Haha! Caleb, king of video games, got beaten by a girl!", Nigel laughed.
"Shut up, I went easy on her!" Caleb yelled.
"Yeah, I bet it's because he wants another date with Cornelia…" Hay Lin teased.
"WE WERE NOT ON A DATE!" Cornelia and Caleb yelled in unison.
"They were on a date!" Alex exclaimed, trying to hold his laugh but he couldn't take it anymore. Caleb just whacked his best friend on the head.
"You guys never take a break, do you?", Cornelia glared at them.
"Nah, it's our job to tease", Hay Lin grinned.
Cornelia rolled her eyes and saw with her friends, trying to get them to stop talking about her and Caleb.
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Veeerrryyyy long chapter. Hope it was good anyway. Send in reviews, no flames!