I'm BAAAAACCKK and I know I've been awful for not updating in so long but I just kept slipping my mind but I'm on my fall break so I can update now and Not forget! Same disclaimer still applies.

Brian was the first to speak next, "Um, I was just thinking, I mean. I know it's kind of a weird time, but I was just wondering…" He stuttered and looked around the circle. "What's going to happen to us on Monday, when we're all together again?" He paused and swallowed, "I mean, I consider you guys my friends, I'm not wrong…am I?"

Vasya shook her head, "No, of course you're not." She looked at the Andy "right?" Andy nodded, "No" Brian perked up a little, "so, so what's going to happen? On Monday I mean?"

Claire wiped her red eyes, "You if we're still friends, if we are right now anyways?" Brian nodded. "You want the truth?" she asked and Brain nodded slowly, "Yea, I want the truth." Claire sighed and shook her head, "I don't think so."

Vasya stared at her in disbelief, and Allison wiped her eyes, "with all of us, or just John?" Claire covered a sob, "With all of you."

"Well that's a real nice attitude Claire." Andrew snapped and Claire stared at him. "Oh, be honest, Andy...if Brian came walking up to you in the hall on Monday, what would you do?" Andy looked down. "I mean picture it, you're with all the sports and Brian comes up and says hi to you what would you do? You'd probably say hi back that cut him up after he leaves so your friends so actually think you like him."

"No way!"

Allison stared at Vasya and Claire, "What about me? What if I came up to you?" Vasya shook her head, "I wouldn't care." But Claire shook her head, "The exact same thing." Bender jerked forward. "You are a Bitch!" he roared furiously.

"Why cause I'm telling the truth?! That makes me a bitch!" Claire yelled back. "No! 'Cause you know how shitty that is to do to someone! And you don't got the balls to stand up to your friends and tell 'em that you're gonna like who you wanna like!" John retorted and Vasya agreed for once. She was almost disgusted with Claire.

" Okay, what about you, you hypocrite! Why don't you take Allison to one of your heavy metal vomit parties? Or take Brian out to the parking lot at lunch to get high? What about Andy for that matter, what about me?!" Claire eyed him then pointed at Vasya, "What would your friends think if they saw you and Vasya walked down the hall together? They'd laugh their asses off and you'd tell them you're doing it with her so they'd forgive you for being seen with her"

"And Vasya for God's Sake what would your parents say? Could you imagine walking up to the front door of your house hand in hand with John Bender? Your father would have a heart attack and lock you in your room until you're twenty!"

The Russian looked at Bender to see if it was true. But Bender sat up again and stuck his finger out at Claire. "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends, you don't look at any of my friends and you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends so you just stick to the things you know, shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW and your poor-rich-drunk mother in the

Caribbean!" Vasya gasped and pushed John's hand down.

"John Stop it!" she begged him. And he turned on her. "And as for being concerned about what will happen if your parents see us together, you can FORGET IT because it's NEVER going to happen! Just bury your head in your music books and wait for your fucking recitals " Vasya's face grew hot, "You're a bastard!" she yelled at him right back and He sneered. "Yea!? Good!"

There was a deafening Silence until Brian spoke again, "Well I guess I assume Allison Vasya and I are better people then you guys." He turned to Allison, "would you ever do that to me?" she shook her head, "No" Brian turned to Vasya pleadingly and she shook her head very slowly, "No…" she looked at Claire, "Never."

"I just wanna tell each of you, that uh. That I would never do that." Brian looked at all of them, "I wouldn't and I will not, because I think that's a real shit thing to do." Claire shook her head, "Your friends wouldn't mind because they look up to us."

Brian laughed bitterly, and began to cry. "You're so conceited Claire, You're so conceited, you so like, full of yourself, why are you like that?"

"I'm not saying that to be conceited!" Claire began to weep again "I hate it! I hate having to go along with everything my friends say!" Vasya frowned, maybe she just hadn't been friends with them long enough but she never felt the need to do something she didn't want to do with Claire's friends.

"Then why do you do it?"

Claire shrugged, "I don't know, I don't...you don't understand. You don't… You're not friends with the same kind of people that Andy and I are friends with! You know, you just don't understand the pressure that they can put on you!" Brain stared at her in shock. "I don't understand what? You think I don't understand pressure Claire?!" He covered his face with his arms. "Well Fuck you! Fuck you!"

"do you guys know why I'm here today?" He asked, his voice muffled by his sweat shirt, "DO you?!" Vasya moved over to his side and gently rubbed his shoulder. He wiped his eyes and stared at the floor. "I'm here today because, Mr Ryan found a gun in my Locker." Vasya stiffened.

"What was the gun for Brian?" she whispered, and he sniffled, "I tried, your s'poused to pull, pull the trunk and the, the light comes on but… but my light didn't come on"

"What was the gun for Brian" Andy questioned and he shook his head, "Just forget it."

"You brought it up man!"

Brian stared at the floor with glazed over eyes, I can't have an F, I can't have it and I know my parents can't have it! Even if I aced the rest of the semester, I'm still only a B. And everything's ruined for me!" Vasya shook her head, "No Brian…."

In a sudden fit of anger the soft spoken boy kicked over a chair, and covered his face, "So I had to consider my options." Vasya grabbed his shoulders suddenly and pulled him up, "No!" she softened her grip, "No, Killing yourself is not an option!"

"well I didn't do it did I?" Brian pushed her hands away, "No, I didn't think so." Allison spoke softly, "was it a hand gun?"

Brain shook his head, "No, it was a flare gun. Went off in my locker." Andy could contain a snicker and Brian glared at him, "it's not funny."

Thinking it over they all began to laugh, even Brian, "Yes it is." He admitted, "Fuckin' Elephant was destroyed"

Allison looked around, "You wanna know what I did to get in here?" they all waited and Allison smiled, "Nothing, I didn't have anything better to do"

They all started laughing again and Allison giggled, "You're laughing at me."

"No, no." Vasya shook her head but Allison nodded, "yes you are."

That set a whole new feeling for the group. Brian found the school records and set up the record player and they all began dancing.

Bender somehow got up on the ugly statue in the middle of the room and was headbanging while Allison seemed to randomly spin in limp circles, Brian was just hopping to the beat an Andy say on the railing of the stairs drumming on his legs. Claire was attempting to show Vasya the steps to a dance move which involved bouncing and whipping her hair.

Vasya found Brian and got him to try and dance with her but he kept getting nervous and losing his footing, which she found very amusing. Soon Bender and Allison were on the wood railing dancing, followed by all three boys doing some kind of a tribute Madness's song One Step Beyond. Then All three girls got up and did a sort of twist with their wrists ben in front of them.

John Demanded that Vasya dance with him on the rail so they ended up doing some sort of twist on the Charleston and nearly falling off the railing.

However it was soon sadly time for John to return to the closet Vernon put in him and The others sat on the ramp railing silently.

"Hey Brian?" Claire asked, "Are you going to finish your paper?" Brian nodded, "probably, why?"

"well." She pouted, "It just seems to be sort of a waste for us all to do it, I mean we're all probably going to say the same thing anyway. "

"You just don't want to write your paper do you?" Clair laughed, "true, but. You are the smartest." Brian blushed, flattered, "we trust you."

Next Claire looked at Allison and Vasya and soon swept them off into the bathroom. After Claire got Allison to allow her to do her to redo Allison's makeup they discovered that there were few things in the world that gave Claire as much joy as making other people look pretty. And now it was Vasya's turn.

"Are you insane?! My mother with send me to a convent if I even wear Lipgloss!" the Russian protested and Claire shrugged, "so, was it off before you leave, no one will know!"

Vasya bit her lip but finally conceded. Since she would be washing it off anyway, Claire went all out. She said since Vasya was so Pale with Dark Hair, Bright colors would look best on her. So she dabbed a blood red lipstick on the raven hairs girl's plump lips and brushed foundation all over her face before filling in her eye brows and lining her eyes lightly with eye liner and fluffy up her eyelashes with mascara.

To finish off was defining her cheek bones with a light blush and dusting a coppery eyes shadow on. Vasya even let her use her comb to tease her hair a little and pin it back at the sides.

"You know, you should do your makeup like this for the recital." Claire took a step back to admire her work, "I even have some really pretty ear rings you can borrow" Vasya shook her head, "No, I don't have my ears pierced." Claire's jaw hung down. "Oh hell no" she shook her head and turned to Allison.

"we have to fix this." Vaysa's blood ran cold. "Claaiire" she drew out her name and began to step back. "Come on Vasya! It doesn't hurt at all, it a tiny pinch and that's it!" Allison handed Claire a nifty little Sewing kit from her Mary Poppins bag of a purse and Claire pulled a spare pair of stud earrings from her bag.

"No, no, no!" Vasya declined, "My folk'll FLIP!"

"Oh come on! Where's your since of adventure?" Allison agreed with Claire and Vasya was helpless. "what if you mess it up!?"

"I won't, I've done this before"

"My Folk will kill me!"

"What are they going to do? You can't Unpierce them!"

"Oh!" she groaned, "Fine, But if you fuck this up Claire I swear to GOD I will-SON OF A…"

She didn't get to finish her sentence before Claire expertly jabbed the needle through her ear lobe and the replaced it with the silver stub earring. "there's the first one" Claire said proudly, seeing it was in the perfect spot. Vasya gasped and tried to touch it but Claire hit her hand away, don't touch, It'll get infected. Now hold still while I do the other one…"

"Other One!" Vasya gasped, momentarily forgetting she had two ears.

"Yea, You can't walk around with only one ear pierced, Now Hold still"

"OW!"

"oh don't be such a baby." Claire secured the other stub and stepped back, "there, now take a look." She pushed Vasya to the Mirror and Vasya grumbled before looking up and Gasping.

It was an entirely different person, a Woman at least twenty years old with blood red lips, sharp cheek bones, and eyelashes that could pick up a stiff wind.

"Oh my God."

"Nice huh." Claire cheered and Looked at Allison, "Hey Allison, do you still have that jacket in your bag." The girl nodded silently and pulled out three clean outfits, a white and creme one, a black and white one and a brown and red one.

"Ooh!" Claire was struck with another Idea, "Allison, This would look so cute on you!" she pointed at the Crème and White one while shoving the black and white one in Vasya's arms. "Claire don't you think this is going a bit far?" She inquired and Claire shook her head, "Oh shush and change."

So they did as they were told, for they were now more like Claire's dolls then anything. Vasya stepped out in a pair of Loose black slacks, a stripped black and white t shirt and a black leather jacket and Allison stepped out wearing a white dress with a crème head band with a white flower on it.

"Hey Vasya, You ever see that movie Grease?" Allison asked and Vasya shook her head, "Never heard of it." The girl nodded slowly, "Okay, well after this you may want to check it out."

Now it was time for Claire to show off her achievements. Brian turned around first and dropped what he was doing to hit Andy on the shoulder. "Dude, Dude." He whispered and Andy turned and his jaw hit the floor. His eyes went straight for Allison so even now could intimidate the hell out of Brian, and did so.

"What happened to you?" he whispered and Allison shifted uncomfortably, "Why? Claire did it!"

Meanwhile Claire left Vasya with Brian and went to go see Bender herself. "I-I uh, I mean you, you look, Really, I mean you are…" Brian blush and sputtered like a broken record. "Oh my God" he finally said and Vaysa blushed.

"it was Claire's Idea." She informed him and Brian laughed, "you look really pretty, Not to say you weren't pretty before, I mean you were but now you're prettier I mean, No not that, You were just as pretty before but this is different I-Uh-I-you-ee-um." Brian babbled until Vasya wrapped her arms around his neck. "Brian?"

He swallowed hard, "Yea?"

She grinned and pecked his nose, leaving a bright red print on it, "You talk too much."

SO My Shipping Conflict Has been Solved. I know a lot of people were rooting for John and Vasya but I love JohnXClaire to much to break that up. So the next best thing was Brian. Don't hate me for it please? Also for any Typos there are in this I'm really really sorry, but even when I proof read I make mistakes, But I try my best to pick out the problems.