A/N:

Chapter cinco!

Thank you all for your kind reviews & great ideas!

I think I will start a 3 + 4 story…eventually. Haha. I wouldn't give this one up, just write it out when I have nothing to do, so I'd be writing them both at the same time. B 3

I realized i've had this chapter sitting on my computer for a few days. I was waiting for more reviews. i'm so cruel. I:

Anyway, onto more important matters….

Rachel: Hello! LazyPencilLender would like to have me say that she doesn't own KND. However she does own Angie, the plot, and the writing! ^0^

Me: I've been forgetting disclaimers. : D DUHLOLZ

Lizzie looked towards the branches just at that moment. Nigel had removed his arms from around her, and was now sorting through dirt and rocks, trying to look for a silver gleam. However every time he thought he had the locket, it turned out to be a plain old rock. Rachel was also searching through the undergrowth. Lizzie had chose to look higher up. In reality, she was only looking for her accomplice, and not the locket.

"Number 363, where are you?" She muttered to the trees.

"I ain't number 363 but I'm much better that that poopoo pants." A girl's voice answered. Lizzie jumped. "W-Who are you?"

"My name is Angie, number Eleventy nine from the kids next door! I'm your rivals helper." She explained. "You must be looking for your helper, Harvey poop, right?"

"Yea, that's right." Lizzie kept her feet on the ground and kneeled down, resting her elbows on her knees. "He told me he had something planned, but-"

At that minute, a silver gleam tore past Lizzie's head, brushed her braids, and traveled right through the air, through the hole in the trees, and hung itself on a rock, embedded in the Cliffside. Lizzie sharply turned, and Nigel was already at the break in the trees, reaching down to try and grab it.

"Nigel, what are you doing?' Rachel, who had missed the gleam, asked as she turned to face her friend.

"I found your locket, Rachel! I just need to get it!"

"Why is it way down there?" She muttered to herself, glancing at Lizzie. She screamed quietly, seeing Angie's disheveled head popping through the bushes.

"Angie?" She asked, moving closer to Lizzie and Angie. Lizzie turned, as did Angie. "Why did you throw the locket?"

"Harvey threw it! He stole it from me!" Angie said, puffing her cheeks out. "He stole it from me and threw it- THERE YOU ARE, HARVEY!"

She spotted Harvey as he tried to sneak away. He screamed as she pounced on him. Rachel rolled her eyes.

"Is he helping you, Lizzie?" She asked, gesturing to her little brother. Lizzie nodded.

"Yes! Are you ready to taste defeat! With your brother on my side, you must be completely distraught! Maybe you're even motivated to give up? And then, I will win!"

"Actually I'm not shocked in the slightest. He hates Nigel and I full well know it."

"Guah! Rachel, Lizzie, a little help?" The voice of an exasperated Nigel broke through their argument. He heard none of the conversation. His arm was stretched downwards, and he was trying desperately to grab the chain. It was just out of his reach, and with every time he lurched himself forward, he nearly fell. Rachel and Lizzie both moved to his side, and both, once again, tried to help hold him up. They noticed that only one of them could help him, and glared at each other.

"Let me grab him!" Rachel said. "It's my locket, and I need to help him get it."

"I'm his girlfriend! Only I'm allowed to touch him!"

"Don't be shallow, Lizzie." Rachel said, hostile. The girls growled.

"H-Help me, you two!" Nigel said again, this time he lost his balance. It was Rachel's quick reflexes that saved him- she quickly moved Lizzie aside and reached down, grabbing Nigel's arm. Nigel was dangling. It was about a ten foot drop from where they were.

"Hold on, Nigel!"

"Let me just grab the locket-" Nigel extended the hand that Rachel wasn't gripping, leaning out towards the locket. Rachel was pulled forwards as a result, and Lizzie lent forward to try and grab Nigel but her hands kept slipping, and she wasn't quite agile enough to grab him form Rachel.

"Nigel, forget it, it's not that important!" Rachel said.

"But you said it was," Nigel said. "And since it's important enough that you'd miss a day of work, just to try and get it, I can't just go home without it!"

"Stupid! You're more important to me than the locket!" Rachel shouted. She felt Nigel's hand stiffen, and Lizzie froze in her attempts to grab him. Nigel looked up at Rachel, who had passionate eyes, and she used all her strength to pull Nigel. However he resisted, remaining where he was.

"Rachel, I refuse to let you help me up before I get the locket!"

"You're so stubborn, Nigel!" Rachel said. "I can't hold onto you forever!"

"Then learn when to let go." Nigel said, swinging himself forward and back. "Because I'm not pulling you down with me." Nigel wrapped his fist around the heart shaped part of the locket, and swiftly pulled it up. He had the necklace in his left fist.

"All right! I got it!" he exclaimed. Rachel let out a shaky laugh, as she pulled him up. This time, he didn't resist and helped, making her job much easier. He released his right hand, and with his left, he placed the necklace in Rachel's hand that had been holding him up.

"You're so stupid sometimes, Nigel Uno." Rachel mumbled, taking the chain and clasping it around her neck. "So stupid, sometimes."

Lizzie watched this in awe.

"W-Well, since we got the locket, shouldn't we head back? Nigel, I…I want to go somewhere with you." She said. She was filled with envy of Rachel. She could have ever kept Nigel up like that. She didn't have the strength to protect Nigel, she could only be protected.

"Yes, it's getting quite late. I'll see you tomorrow, Rachel. By the way, the locket looks good on you." He said. Rachel glanced down at the locket, lifting her hand up to it and spinning it between her fingers.

"Thank you, Nigel. For everything." She said. Lizzie dragged Nigel's arm.

"Nigie! Let's GO." She said, leading him down the path. Rachel let out a soft sigh, as she glared at the bushes where Angie was being the pulp out of Harvey. Good, he deserved it for throwing the necklace. Nigel could have fallen and hurt himself, all for the locket that meant nothing.

No. The locket used to mean nothing. But now, after today, it meant everything to Rachel.

Lizzie lead Nigel through the park, their hands intertwined. Her eyes were focused downwards. The streetlights came on, and the majority of kids were heading home. A few teenagers were outside, hanging around, but otherwise they were alone.

Nigel had no idea where he was going, but he felt obligated to go wherever Lizzie wanted. He felt like he betrayed her, in some way he couldn't put into words.

Lizzie stopped in the center of the park. The fountain behind them gushed out light spurts of water, the streetlamps light made every droplet visible. The heavy silence crushed them, only broken by the deafening roar of the fountain.

"Nigel…" Lizzie said, turning around to face him. "I love you."

"Lizzie I…"

"Don't worry about answering." Lizzie said, smiling at Nigel. "I just wanted to say that out loud, you know. I love Nigel Uno!" She spun around in a circle, but forgot about the fountain, and tripped over the rim into the water. She laughed sheepishly at herself.

"Guah! Why did I do that! Now I'm all wet. My mom will be so mad." Lizzie sighed. Nigel smiled and knelt next to the fountain, reaching over and brushing Lizzie's hair out of her face. He wiped water off of her cheek, as well. His thumb remained on her cheek.

"You can be a klutz sometimes, Lizzie." he stood up, offering her his hand. "We better get you home, before you catch a cold." Lizzie accepted his hand, twirled up and wrapped her arms around his neck, planting a soft kiss on his cheek.

"Thanks Nigel!" She said, giggling. Nigels' cheeks were the faintest of pinks. "Nigie, do you think you could meet me here, tomorrow? So we can go on a real date, just the two of us?"

"Sure, Lizzie, that would be fine."

"Three o'clock?" Lizzie asked.

"Perfect. I'll make sure to be there." Nigel said. "Now, like I said before, let's get you home."

"Nigel? Do you think you could put your arm around my shoulder? I'm cold…" Lizzie muttered. Nigel did as she asked him to. She smiled.

In that moment, she was so happy she completely forgot about any other girl who could steal her Nigel away.

"So Rachel, do you think you made any progress?" Angie asked. Rachel, Angie, and Harvey were all walking to The McKenzie's household. Rachel and Angie were in a conversation, while Harvey, who had lost their fight, was having trouble keeping his eyes open. The only reason Harvey didn't run away was because Angie was holding his hand. He was too tired to even realize it. He kept zooming in and out of consciousness.

"I don't know. He could've died, trying to get me this thing." Rachel tapped the locket. "So…is that what you mean by progress?"

When she looked at Angie, her friends eyes were filled with tears of joy.

"OF COURSE IT IS! That means he cares so much about you, he'd do something like that!"

"But Nigel does things like that all the time."

"But when you said it wasn't important, if he didn't care, he would have said okay and pulled himself up." Angie said. Harvey grunted a bit.

"Love is so stupid. Whazit matter anyway."

Angie hit him in the arm with the hand that wasn't holding his. "Don't touch me…..zzz" Harvey snorted at the end of his statement. Angie rolled her eyes.

"Nigel cares about you. I can just tell." Angie said. She stumbled a tiny bit. "Ah, I'll need to disinfect these cutes when we get to your house! Oh, can I stay over? My parents won't mind, and my brother's sleeping over his friends."

Rachel nodded. "Yea, I think that would be fine." She said.

"We can go somewhere tomorrow, Rachel. And then we'll need to work on a way to get Nigel to notice you." Angie said. "There's this really romantic restaurant that's opening tomorrow. We can go there. I bet you anything that Lizzie's scheming to get him there tomorrow."

"And how do you know?"

"I saw it in her eyes." Angie said, just as Harvey's head slumped onto her shoulder. She lifted her free hand and flicked his forehead. He woke up and reached up his free hand, rubbing his forehead.

"Ow, what the heck?" he muttered.

"Don't rest your head on my shoulder."

"I wouldn't do something like that!"

"Okay, just warning you~"

Rachel laughed, when Harvey went back to robot mode. "I kind of envy you two, really. Nigel and I are so distant…and you two are really close."

Angie shifted her free hand side to side. "D'aww. Nigel doesn't hate you, but Harvey hates me. Our love intrests are on totally different worlds!" Angie giggled.

"But we are the same though, in a way. We both like boys who don't like us back, at the moment anyway." Rachel said. Angie gave a firm nod.

"That's why I'm helping you, Supreme Commander! I see myself in you!" Rachel laughed. "Oh, really?"

They entered the house, and Angie let go of Harvey. He flopped onto the rug and attempted to sleep there. At first, Rachel was going to move him, but Angie shook her head.

"Nope! Let your parents see him." She moved to the bathroom. "And let them step on him!" She burst out laughing.

"He'd scream like a cat. DON'T TOUCH ME! Bwahaah!" Angie hollered.

"What do you mean, you can't be here after two o'clock this afternoon?" Number five asked number one the next morning. The entire Kids Next Door sector V were in their tree house, discussing a plan to try and defeat the delightful children from down the lane.

"I told you, I have other places I need to be, number five." Nigel said. Number five folded her arms over her chest.

"Number five thinks you just wanna ditch us." She said. Next to her, Hoagie nodded in agreement.

"Number one, what kind of places do you need to be?" He asked. Kuki giggled, squeezing the new rainbow monkey number four had bought her after Nigel had been taken by Angie to Rachel's office (see chapter 3). When asked about it, Wally replied: "She wouldn't leave me alone, alright! So I bought the stupid thing! SHUT UP!"

"I need to go out with Lizzie."

"Why? You never usually stop our planning to be with her." Number five said. "Is she jealous, or somethin'?"

"You just hit the nail on the head, number five. She is jealous. But not necessarily about the kids next door…look, you'll all laugh at me if I tell you why."

"No we won't!" Kuki said. "We're here for you because we're your friends!"

"Okay…she…she thinks that I like Rachel, er…Number 362."

Silence. Then unstoppable laughter.

"I knew it! You guys are horrible!" A flustered Number one said. After catching her breath, Number five wiped her eyes and looked at number one.

"Ah, you're such a babe magnet!" Number two exclaimed. "I'm jealous!"

"Don't be!" Number four interjected, still not finished with his laughter. "There's no way that Rachel would even look twice at him! She's soooo out of his league!"

"Oh, you're one to talk, Mr. I-have-a-crush-on-number-three." Nigel bitterly snapped. Wally flushed bright red and blocked Kuki's ears. She looked completely oblivious.

"S-S-Shut up!" Wally stammered. Nigel let out an irritated sigh. "But really….is she that much out of my league?" He asked. All of them glanced at him.

"So you do really like the supreme commander." Number five asked. "Number five thinks that's sweet."

"What about Lizzie?" Kuki said, eyes overflowing with tears, much to number four's annoyance.

"I don't know, all right! Right now I'm with Lizzie. And I can't be with Rachel for various reasons. So that's it, isn't it?" He said. "It's not like they're having a fight over me or anything."

Oh Nigel. If only you knew the half of it.

A/N:

Here's chapter five! I included 1/362 and 1/lizzie, I'm so proud! Haha.

Next chapter will be funny. I can't write a story without comedy. I just can't. But the story will take a more serious turn in the near future.

I also included some 3 + 4. Ah, that stubborn Wally.

And yes, in love triangles, one always winds up the bad guy. I'm going to try and avoid that in this story.

(And yes, my anonymous reviewer, I have decided to incorporate your idea about the sabatouge! It is a genius idea, I say. It will come next chapter.)

And I was thinking about that idea myself too, Boogirl, having the adults take the locket. But then I decided near-death experiences are fun. D

Next chapter coming soon.

LOOK FORWARD TO IT!