A.N: Alright, everybody. Here is the new chapter! There are a few sad parts in this one, but I tried to counter them with some humor; so don't worry!! I hope that you enjoy reading this, because I had a lot of fun writing it. And I know that this one is pretty long, it just might be my happiness and energy from my New Years celebration carrying on. Okay, have fun reading!!

Why, Why Love

Chapter 14

Sam regained consciousness and found that she was in a bed. Looking down, she saw stark, navy blankets and was shocked. She was in Artemis's bed. Quickly, she lifted her head and saw Artemis, sitting at his desk, rubbing his head.

"Artemis?" she said slowly. The boy immediately turned around.

"Ah, you finally regained consciousness," he said, getting up and walking to her, "you are much too weak".

Sam sat up, shaking her head. The memories of what had just happened came flooding back. She had just been kissed by Jin. She had just been kissed by Jin in front of Artemis!!

Groaning, Sam slouched back down, pulling the blanket above her head. What had Jin been thinking? Normally, the thought of getting kissed by a good-looking boy wasn't something that Sam would mind. But getting kissed by a good-looking boy in front of the boy that she liked was not such a great thing.

Artemis leaned against the side of the bunk, looking down at the lump on his bed in amusement. He kneeled down beside the bed.

"As effective as your camouflage is; I still know that you are here," he said lightly.

"I don't want you to see my face!" Sam said; her voice muffled by the thick blanket.

"I don't see how it makes any difference," Artemis said, "it is not as though I am incapable of remembering what happened between you and Jin just because I cannot see your face".

"Let us not talk about that, okay?" Sam asked, lowering the blanket a little. Her cheeks were a deep shade of crimson. It made her eyes an even brighter green and her usually light freckles stand out more than ever. Artemis smiled slightly. The girl was strangely endearing when she was embarrassed.

"It wasn't such a traumatic thing," he said, leaning down so he was at eye level with her, "stop overdramatizing it."

"You weren't at all upset when you saw that?" Sam asked. Artemis was a little taken aback by her question. Of course he was upset, he was flaming. Though the reasons behind his anger where still a little fuzzy to him.

"I..I…"

"Sam! I came here with an apology lunch!"

Artemis groaned and turned around to see who had interrupted him. Through the door walked Jin, a large bowl in his hands. Artemis immediately stood up.

"I was sitting in the kitchen, thinking, and I realized that I did a horrible thing," Jin said, eyes wide with sincerity, "though kissing you wasn't such a horrible experience for me, I am sure that it wasn't for you."

"Jin…" Sam started, but the boy just waved his hand.

"So I was thinking of what I could do to apologize, and I thought that I would cook you something. When I was young I used to get sick and faint all of the time, and whenever I woke up, I was always starving; so I thought that maybe you would be too. My cooking skills aren't that great, but I did try to make something that you could eat."

"You talk entirely too much," Artemis muttered as Jin walked up to Sam and placed the bowl on the bedside table next to her. Sam looked in the bowl to find it filled with noodles. On top of the noodles, using some type of sauce, Jin had drawn a little sad face with the words "I'm sorry" underneath it.

"I wanted to cook you something American, you know, so that it would remind you of home and be comforting, but I didn't know how to make any American dishes, and I didn't want to get you sick by preparing a meal wrong. If you don't like this then…"

Sam cut off Jin's babbling by looking up and giving him a bright smile. Jin. Taken aback by the sudden movement, stuttered a bit and then just trailed off.

"Jin," Sam said, "I don't know what it is about you; but I find that it is impossible for me to stay angry at you".

Jin smiled widely at Sam's words. He had been worried that Sam would never talk to him again after the stunt he had pulled.

"As long as I can keep you happy, that is all that matters," Jin said softly. Artemis felt like gagging at the boy's words.

"Alright, eat up now," Jin said, pushing a fork into Sam's hands. Sam scooped up a few noodles and ate them.

"Jin! This is really good," Sam said, shoveling some more noodles into her mouth. Jin's smile grew even wider.

'Really? If you like them then I can make them for you whenever you want," he said. Artemis, who couldn't stand to watch Sam and Jin make puppy eyes at each other any longer walked off, grabbing his sweater.

"You're leaving?" Sam asked. Artemis nodded his head curtly.

'The two of you seem to have everything under control," he said simply before putting on his sweater and walking out the door.

"What is wrong with him?" Sam asked as the door closed shut.

"He's just jealous, don't mind him," Jin said, sitting next to the bunk.

"Jealous?" Sam asked, sitting straight up, "jealous of what?"

"Jealous that you and I get along to well," Jin said, "he has a crush on you too, you know".

"What?" Sam cried, bounding out of the bed. She sat right next to Jin, "you can't be serious, can you?"

"Why would I joke about something like that?" Jin said.

"Artemis can't have a crush on me!" Sam cried, "if he likes me that would make him…"

"Gay?" Jin filed in, "Yes, I do suppose so. I never saw Artemis as being gay, but I guess it doesn't surprise me all that much. I mean, he had always hated women"

Sam just sat there in shock. Artemis couldn't like her. He knew her as his roommate, as a boy. He couldn't be gay. The boy that she was in love with couldn't be gay. Jin had to be mistaken.

"Jin, I totally forgot. Dr. Murray wanted me to go to the infirmary today to pick up some allergy medications. I better go, she said quickly.

"Oh, do you want me to come with you?" Jin asked. Sam just shook her head.

"It's fine. I won't be long," she said, rushing out of the room, thankful that Jin was so gullible.

Sam ran outside the dorm, regretting the fact that she hadn't brought a jacket with her the moment that she stepped out into the frigid winter chill.

Where is that boy, she thought to herself, walking away from the dorm. The campus wasn't massive, but it wasn't very small either. There were countless places that Artemis could be.

If I were a genius and wanted to go on a walk somewhere in campus, where would I go, she thought. Ruefully, she shook her head. That train of thought would never work; she wasn't a genius, so there was no way that she could make herself think like one.

Sam wandered around, growing increasingly colder as she stayed outside. She frowned miserably, hugging her arms tightly around her middle, as though to block out the freezing wind. First she had frozen in Wakkanai, and now she was freezing in Ireland. I don't think I have ever felt this much discomfort until I came to SB, she thought to herself as she continued to walk.

Finally, as she neared the track, she caught sight of a familiar tall, thin figure with jet-black hair. Breathing a sigh of relief, she started to run over to him.

"Artemis!" she cried. Surprised, the boy turned around and pinned her with his bright eyes.

"Sam…what are you doing here?" Artemis asked, "where's Jin?"

"I…I…came to look for you," Sam said, standing in front of him. Artemis sighed loudly.

"You should be back in the room resting. Do you want to faint again?" he asked, looking down at her, "and why did you come outside without a jacket? How daft can you be?"

He took off his sweater and threw it at her. Sam held it in her hands for a few moments before looking up at him. Artemis had never before outwardly shown that he cared about her.

"Artemis…" she started, breathing deeply, "Artemis, you can't fall in love with me, okay?"

The boy just stood there, completely taken aback. Where had this outburst come from? Could Sam read his mind now? Wait… but even if she could…did he love her? Even he didn't know the answer to that question.

"Please, who would love you?" Artemis said, frowning, "though I don't see why you care so suddenly about this."

"Because you looked so upset when you left the room earlier, and Jin…"

"What does Jin have to do with any of this?" Artemis asked, interrupting her, "I don't see why you have to constantly bring him up"

"It's because…" Sam started, faltering a little. Why was he getting so upset when she mentioned Jin? It wasn't like him to be angry about anything.

"Do you like him?" Artemis asked, regretting the question the moment the words left his lips. What had gotten into him? Why should he even care what Sam did?

Sam looked up at Artemis and sighed deeply. This might be the only way I can keep him from falling in love with me, she thought. I don't care what he does, just as long as he doesn't start loving me.

"Yes," she answered simply, looking up at him, "I like Jin a lot. So I am just a little upset that you, as my roommate, cannot be nicer to him."

Artemis' fists clenched at his side. His face remained as impassive as ever, but on the inside, Sam's words had the same effect as if she had force-fed him a bucket of acid. So this was her choice. She liked Jin. She liked Jin. The words kept playing in his head. He had lost.

"Fine," Artemis said finally, "I will try to be nicer to Jin in the future for your sake. Now if you excuse me, I have to go talk to Patrick".

"Talk to Patrick, why?' Sam asked suddenly. Artemis sighed deeply and turned away.

"I am going to drop out of the pageant. I don't know why I agreed to take part in it in the first place". And with that, the boy hurried away. Sam stood were she was for a few moments. She looked down and saw that she was still holding Artemis' sweater. Wordlessly, she fell to her knees, looking straight down at the ground. She knew she had done the right thing, but why did it feel so wrong?

Patrick didn't take the news of Artemis dropping out of the pageant as badly as everyone would expect. Though there was some screaming and a few tears (all from Patrick's side, of course), the boy finally gave up his arguments.

"Why would any girl like a moody, unreliable man like you anyway?" Patrick finally said to him, at the end of a long and bitter debate. Artemis felt himself frowning at the words.

"Yes,' he said softly, "no girl would ever like me"

"Alright, if you are done then you can get out," Patrick said harshly, "we will just get Killian to take your place. His personality is much better than yours anyways".

And with that Artemis was out of the competition and nobody saw Patrick for the rest of the two weeks that led up to the pageant. Whenever asked about his whereabouts, the dorm leader would just say that he was in deep preparation for the upcoming completion.

"He had a very strict beauty regiment," his roommate, Mark, told everyone one day at lunch, "he wakes up every morning, puts an ice pack on his face to reduce swelling and then does 100 crunches. He then puts on a facemask and a body moisturizer and exercises the whole day. Plus he is on a diet and isn't eating anything except for vegetables, chicken breast, and water".

"Isn't that a little too extreme?" Sam asked, in between bites of a giant piece of steak. She, on the other hand, had done absolutely no preparations for the contest. Instead, she had been worrying about Artemis. Ever since that day, he had been avoiding both her and Jin like the plague. Straight after class he would go to the library and wouldn't come back into the room until around 12.

"Well at least the pageant is tomorrow, so I guess Patrick can stop his crazy routine then," Jin said, helping himself to a bit of Sam's steak.

"Yeah, he seems to be very worried about Mike and the other Dorm 1 boys beating him", Mark said.

"What about Oscar and the Dorm 3 boys?" Sam asked.

"Oh please," Jin answered, "Dorm 3 is a bit of a joke and Oscar is the daftest boy here. Do you know that he has repeated grade 12 two times already?"

'Really?" Sam asked. Oscar had always seemed a little older than the rest…

"It is a shame that Artemis dropped out, though," Killian said, from his perch at the next table, "the thought of participating in a beauty contest isn't very exciting to me".

"He's a weirdo," Jin said darkly, "what kind of person never even speaks to his two roommates? I feel like he's some type of ghost that just stays for the night and then disappears as soon as morning comes".

"Alright, enough talk about Artemis," Sam said quickly, trying to change he subject. The boy had been all she had been thinking about for the past two weeks, she didn't need to have discussions about him as well, "we should all probably go back and rest for the pageant. It is very important that we don't lose"

"Yes," Jin said, getting up, "we cannot lose our winter break!"

"Who cares about winter break?" Liam said from his seat next to Killian, "just imagine the horrible punishment that we will all receive if we cause Patrick to lose all of his hair!"

The whole group shuddered at the thought.

"Okay," Sam said, standing up as tall as she could, "let's all do our best in the pageant tomorrow and save Patrick's hair!" The rest of the crowd cheered loudly.

"Why do I have the feeling she has lost sight of the ultimate goal?" Killian groaned to himself, leaning back in his chair.

The next day, Sam woke up at the crack of dawn, too nervous and anxious to sleep any longer. She peered down from her bunk to see Jin, sleeping like a baby on the sofa.

"How can he sleep like that on the morning of the competition?" she whispered, frowning. Suddenly there was a noise from the bathroom. Sam looked up nervously. What could it be? It is probably one of the spirits that Liam always sees, she thought, what else would be making noise this early in the morning?

She peeked over the edge of the bunk and saw Artemis exiting the bathroom, fully dressed. He picked up his school bag and his sweater and started to make his way out of the room.

"Artemis!" Sam whispered, causing the boy to stop in his tracks, one hand rested on the doorknob. He sighed loudly and turned around to face her. He saw two huge, bright eyes peeking out at him through golden brown bangs and felt a familiar pit in his stomach.

"What do you want, Sam?" Artemis asked coolly, wanting nothing more than to just leave the room.

"Are you going to be coming to the pageant today?" she asked.

"There are still some things I need to do," he said, "I can't take time off for such a trivial thing."

"Oh," Sam said, looking a bit dejected.

"Just remember what is at stake here and do your best," Artemis said before leaving the room. Sam stared at the place where he had been and sighed. She didn't think her lie to him was quite worth it anymore…

Sam, Jin, and Killian all entered the auditorium about ten minutes before the pageant began. The whole place was packed full of students from both SB and SC. This was the biggest event of the whole year, and everybody was waiting to see what the result would be. Who was the overall best boy in all of SB?

The three teens made their way back stage. Already the teams from Dorms 1 and 3 were lined up, looking a bit nervous.

"The pageant starts in five minutes," President Janice called, sticking her head back stage, "you should all be getting ready!"

"Where in the world is Patrick?" Jin mumbled, looking around. Sam suddenly caught sight of what seemed to be a large, makeshift tent made out of white bed sheets at the very back of the area.

"Jin, Killian," she whispered, pointing towards the tent. Slowly, the three of them made their way to it.

"I am a little afraid as to what we will find under there," Jin said, as he placed a shaking hand on the tent. Killian sighed and pushed Jin out of the way. He grabbed a side of the tent, pulling it open. A huge cloud of steam rolled out.

"Hey! Can't you see I am giving myself a last minute steam bath?"

Patrick's voice rang loud from amongst all the smoke. Sam looked around and saw a humidifier on a small table inside the tent.

"Patrick, we only have five minutes to get completely ready!" she cried. Patrick sighed and stepped out of the smoke. For the first time in two weeks, Sam laid eyes on her dorm head, and what she saw made her gasp.

Patrick had always been the best looking one in all of the dorms (rightfully earning the title "pretty boy"), but in these two weeks he had somehow made himself look even better. He had lost weight, which actually made him look a bit taller and his features more defined. His skin was smooth and flawless, and his prized hair looked as perfect as it always had, that type of planned messiness that framed his face exactly. Sam even thought that his eyes had somehow become a bit smokier and more seductive than they usually were.

"Dorm leader, you look amazing!" Sam said, breathlessly. Patrick just smiled and tossed his hair a little.

"It's what I am known for," he said slowly. Suddenly a gong chimed and Sam heard President Janice's loud voice.

"Welcome everybody to the Miss SB contest! Today, we have 12 of our best-looking, most talented students here to compete for the illustrious title of Miss SB!! Let us welcome the contestants of Dorm 1!!"

The crowd cheered and the four Dorm 1 representatives all walked out onto stage. Sam, Killian, and Jin peeked out from the side. All of the sudden music started to play and the boys started to do an odd martial arts routine.

"What is going on?" Sam asked. Patrick looked out.

"Oh, they are just doing their introduction skit," Patrick said. Sam blanched.

"Introduction skit?" she cried, "Patrick, we didn't prepare anything!"

"Don't worry," Patrick said calmly, arranging his hair, "I gave some guy a bunch of video clips I found lying around and he said he would create a sort of montage for our introduction."

"Oh, okay," Sam said, looking back out as the dorm 1 boys started to sing some sort of song. She leaned forward to carefully listen to the lyrics.

"Sit up Number one! Yay! Sit up Number 2! Yay!

Our 3 P.M. snack is protein!

We can yell really loud, but we can't study at all!!

Come to Dorm 1 for training!"

"Was that seriously supposed to make people want to vote for them?" Killian asked, in an awed voice.

"I don't think I have ever heard an odder and more truthful song before," Jin whispered.

"Um…thank you Dorm 1!!" President Janice called out as the Dorm 1 boys moved to the side, smiling widely.

"Now we will have a video presentation from Dorm 2!" the lady continued. Suddenly, a giant screen dropped down from the top of the stage.

"Patrick, did you see this video before?" Jin asked. Patrick shook his head.

"I just gave them random clips," he answered. Sam looked at the screen, fear rising in her chest.

The screen suddenly lit up and showed a video if Liam sitting behind table, a large, blown-up picture of the Dorm 2 boys behind him.

"Dorm 2" the video Liam stated calmly, "is full of hotties. You will always have your eyes on us"

A picture of Sam, Jin, Killian, and Patrick appeared on the screen, met by several howls from the audience.

"Dorm 2, where male loving and fighting is in full effect. Fantastic!"

The screen cut to a video clip of Artemis kissing Sam, then to a video of Jin confessing his love to Sam, and finally a clip of Artemis and Jin glaring at each other in the kitchen two weeks ago.

"Who…who took videos of those?" Sam gasped.

"You just can't miss it!" video Liam continued as various pictures of the Dorm 2 boys played on the screen, "if you think your eyes are deceiving you; if you think there can't be such good looking boys out there, then just stay tuned. This will give you the emotional high of the year. Dorm 2!!!"

And with that the screen went blank. Patrick pushed the rest of the group forward and they all walked onto the stage. The crowd started cheering loudly and Sam stood there, still a bit in shock at the video. Male loving and fighting in full effect?

"Sam, wave to the crowd" Killian whispered in her ear. Sam suddenly looked up and waved, smiling brightly. She turned to see Patrick, winking and blowing kisses to the large amount of screaming girls in the audience.

"Thank you Dorm 2!!" President Janice called out. Sam, Jin, Killian, and Patrick all moved to the side of the stage, next to the Dorm 1 contestants. Patrick looked over at Dorm Leader Mike, smiling widely.

"It seems our video was a bit more popular than your martial arts and song routine," he said loftily. Mike just glared at him.

"Okay now, everybody prepare to see a wonderful song and dance routine by our very own Dorm 3 contestants!" President Janice called out. Sam looked up and saw a cloud of smoke billowing onto the stage. A very soft, sweet music started to fill the auditorium.

Suddenly, three boys, all wearing tutus came out. The were carrying Dorm Leader Oscar, who was in a very elaborate, frilly ballerina costume.

"What in the…" Jin gasped as the three Dorm 3 boys started to sing their song.

"Our dorm leader loves ballet!

He has been dancing a lot recently because he is worried about his metabolism!

It is okay to repeat a school year multiple times!! Go Dorm 3!!"

"Are they serious?" Patrick asked, not quite knowing what to think about that song.

"Alright I take back what I said earlier. This song is the oddest and most truthful song I have ever heard before," Jin said as the Dorm 3 boys started to do an odd ballet dance.

"Oscar does have pretty good agility," Killian said, trying not to burst out laughing as the Dorm Head pranced by them in his fluffy tutu.

"Alright!" President Janice called out as Dorm 3 finally finished their dance, "Now that the introductions have been made—let the competition begin!!"

A/N: So there it is!! This chapter was so much fun to write, what with the tensions between Sam and Artemis and also with the start of the pageant. I think each introduction skit fit the personalities of the dorms pretty nicely, and I enjoyed every minute of writing it. Next chapter will be a big one, but also a very good one-- one that all of you have probably been waiting for. Not ony will we have the pageant; Sam will finally confess the fact that she is a girl to Artemis and Artemis will finally make a decision about his feelings towards Sam!

So keep reading! And as always, please review and tell me what you thought of this chapter. I love all of you and your feedback always helps me improve and think of new ideas. Gracias y besos!!