Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:55:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Bunny Tsukino <bunnyempire@aol.com>
Subject: Dreamless Sleep Chapter Three

Look to chapter one for the disclaimer. I own nothing. Aside from this story.

So I hope you guys like it~


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				 Chapter 3
			  ...Fading Slowly......

Two weeks later~

"You either stick this in your mouth... or I'll shove it up your ass."

I looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "If you weren't my brother, I would
take you up on those offers." Steve made a disgusted face. "But I won't
take that pill. I feel fine."

He shook his head. "I heard you last night. You had a nightmare."

I rolled my eyes. "I don't even remember it okay?" Which was the truth. I
didn't remember dreams. I had them sure, but they all were blank. The only
way I knew I had a nightmare was if someone told me.

I got loud.

"Please take it for me?" He tried doing the puppy dog eyes, my puppy dog
eyes. It wasn't going to work. But I was going to do it anyway. "It's been
two weeks since you started school and I'm worried about you."

I rolled my eyes again. School had nothing to do with it. It was going
pretty well. Eric stopped bullying Sam, who became my friend as expected,
and no one was causing me trouble. Aside from Steve right now. Liam ended
up having first period with me which I found to be very funny.

He did not.

I still wasn't sure why he was so pissed off at me. In class he did
everything to avoid me. Which was easy seeing as we were in opposite ends
of the room. If he bumped into me or something he just walked by. Lunch was
always a miss since I didn't dare go into the cafeteria. It smelled
horrible in there. But I was the only one who noticed. Funny fact too. If I
was over at his house he didn't even acknowledge anyone and just went
straight to his room.

Erika made it her mission to go upstairs and bother her brother. Saying how
she made one of his favorite snacks and how it was downstairs. Which he
fell for a few times. There was never any snacks. She was a very very very
bad cook. I swear I thought I was going to die there for a while.

Thankfully Ashley had agreed with me to start hanging out at my house. That
way we weren't going to bother Liam. Who was increasingly getting
angry. Mostly at Erika I guess. She ended up getting tackled by Ashley a
few times for trying to go upstairs. Once even by her mother, but that was
because she literally didn't stop poking her mom.

Ashley, on the other hand, was keeping her hands away from me and more on
Erika. Which I was glad. I didn't want any more bruises. I bruised like a
peach. Also I didn't want those type of bruises. They weren't a reward for
doing something fun. It was funny seeing her try to make Erika calm down.

Schala occasionally hung out with us too. Slept over once too. Said her
parents trusted her. But I called her on her bullshit so she said they just
really didn't care. Her poetry was really dark. I got most of what she
wrote about, since they were things I felt once. She was a lesbian, which
made us bond. She really didn't like the gay guys at school, they were too
fragile. Though she feel that I was more 'real' and full of shit like her.

Steve was a little scared of her too. She had the badass aura I always
wanted. But never could achieve.

Eric was sure becoming a fast friend. He wasn't opening up about his
sexuality yet but he was talking about himself more. He liked to draw, run,
and do some slight reading. Mostly romantic things. He said he was horrible
at those types of things but he never actually wanted to do them. The girls
he dated weren't right for him. I didn't bring up the subject of guys since
I wanted him to be the one to start it up.

Grandma was doing good. Well good for a person with her condition. She was
doing alright. I got to speak to her once these past two weeks but only for
ten minutes before she went under. She wasn't the same person she was
before. She was just waiting to die. She wanted it to come already.
Talking to her was great but she didn't have the same energy as before. She
wasn't there anymore.

"Are you going to answer me or are you just going to gaze off into the
distance?"

I shook my head. "Fine." I got the pill from his hand and swallowed it. I
didn't need water.

"Did you even eat something?"

"Yeah left overs from yesterday." Tuna salad. Yum~. "There is some for you
if you want some. Also have some for lunch."

"Okay." He started messing with his tie. "I just worry about you."

I patted his back. "I know. But its getting better isn't it?" Like hell if
I knew. I thought I was but moments like these made me wonder. When people
started worrying. I had episodes where I didn't remember certain things.

"Yes, you are. But your doctor told me to give you the pill if you have
nightmares. Your brain can might decode it later and give you an attack."

I sighed. "So what will I take to school today?" My motorcycle arrived
about a week ago. But Steve in no way was letting me drive it. It was a
gift from him ironically.

"You took a pill today, so I'm driving you."

I put on my backpack and made my way to the truck. I reached into my pocket
and took out my glasses case. I opened it up and took out my classes, small
black square frames. My contacts ran out and I had to go get a new
prescription next month. My glasses were half the size of Ashley's
glasses. I wasn't sure why she like big glasses. She only actually needed
to wear them was to read.

"So I'm going to pick you up today. Just do something thirty minutes before
I come pick you up." Steve locked the door behind him. He was a very
capable twenty-five year old man.  Sometimes I had to stop and look at him
to realize he wasn't dad dad. There was a nine year difference between us.

"You know I can ask Ashley for a ride right?" Well it depended on whether
her dad let her barrow the car.

"Nah. I want to go take you out for ice cream. Tell them you have a date."
He wink at me as he unlocked the car. "Ash and Erika can come alone if they
want. We can make it a double."

"But I thought you didn't like me going out with older men." I got inside
and put on my seat belt.

"No one over the age of eighteen that is not me." He adjusted his mirrors
before starting the car. "That way I know no one is thinking of getting
into your pants."

"But guys my age want to get in my pants." All night long hopefully. But
the way things were now, I was lucky if he looked at me.

"Not if they want to live."

Steve dropped me off twenty minutes before the bell. I liked getting an
hour earlier so I could hang out with Ash, she liked reading books before
school. However I didn't come early since Steve offered me coffee. How
could I resist?

"Noah, how did you sleep?" Ash asked as I waved to Steve.

"Eh. You?"

"Barely. The cat next door was in heat. Rather still in heat." She rolled
her eyes. "Are we going out to your house today?" She put her book
away. "Erika wants to go over her house." Probably wants to bug Liam again.

"No. Steve wants us to go out for ice cream. Wants to go on a double date
with us."

"With us?"

I nodded. "Me and him. You and Erika."

"Oh like the old times."

But without....

"Noah!" Ash and I both turned around to see Erika running towards us. She
stopped just before hitting both of us. A couple of times she actually
mowed us down. "How are you today?" She said huffing.

"Good. Don't make plans today. Your going out with us today."

"But I like making plans.... but okay!" She wrapped her arms around my neck
and kissed me. "Can you do me a favor?"

"Whatever I can do for you." I was still getting used to her kissing me. It
was a friendly thing of course.

"I'll tell you in a while." She gave me a weird smile. "So where are we
going?"

I told her about Steve wanting to take us out. She was up for it. She
didn't tell me what her favor was until just about a few seconds after the
bell rang. She had kept the conversation on how the art of love letters was
disappearing.

"Can you give this to Liam?" She pushed a brown paper bag into my
hands. "Mom forgot to give him his lunch." Before I could say anything. She
had run off. I looked to Ashley but she was gone too. She might have left
when I was checking out a few books on the internet.

"Motherfucker..." I gripped the bag. That's why she waited for the last
moment.

I walked over to first period and was debating whether of not to give it to
him. There was a chance he was going to ignore it. But he wouldn't if I
told him it was from his mom. And it was from his mom.

I opened the door and thankfully he was already there. A few people but not
the ones who would think anything bad of me giving Liam something.

I walked over to him but he didn't notice. As soon as I stepped into the
glass he had ignored my presence. "Good morning Liam." He didn't even
acknowledge me. "Your sister told me to give you this. Said your mom forgot
to give it to you." I placed it on the table. He didn't say anything so I
left.

I think I heard a soft. "Thank you."

It was progress. I guess.

Nothing interesting happened until lunch. Schala, Ashley, and I were
sharing lunches, talking about the horrors of banana's and the litter
spiders they might hold. When Eric walked up. Holding a note.

"Do you like Liam?" I choked on a chip when he asked.

"What?" Schala handed me a napkin. As I coughed a big, the chip went down
the wrong pipe.

"Did you give him a love letter?" Eric passed me the note.


Dear Liam,

	I wanted to let you know that I still like you. I want nothing more
than to be with you. Will you be my boyfriend?
	XoXo
		Noah. <3 <3

Was there a kiss mark on it?

I read it three times. "Where did you find this?" The girls took turns
reading it.

"Inside Liam's lunch bag."

I closed my eyes and ripped the note when Ashley passed it to me. "Erika
told me to give it to him."

He nodded. "That sounds like her. But why would she do that. Liam's
not...." He paled up. "What is he...."

"Doesn't matter what he is but...." I bit my lip. "Did anyone else see
this?"

"No. Liam had just finished his food before finding the letter." He
whistled. "Good thing Amber didn't find it. They broke up again and she
would have been pissed."

"They broke up?" Ashley asked him. They were getting to know each other.

"Last week. Something about him not paying attention to her or something."
He looked off into the distance and shook his head. "Anyway I'll let you
guys be. Just wanted to know about the note. " He left as I watched him go
to the cafeteria.

"Some little cute red headed girl about to feel some pain?" Schala asked.

"Maybe the wet willy type of pain?" Ashley put in.

"Yes and hell yes."

For the next two periods I was worried about what Liam was thinking. The
sneaky little demon set me up. She was going to get a big wet willy. But
that was going to happen later. Sooner if she showed her face. She did pop
up at weird moments. Once in the bathroom.

Theater had some interesting things coming into play.

"Everyone please listen." Mistress walked to the center of the stage. "We
will be having tryouts for the main play." It was mandatory to participate
but the leads had to be from tryouts. "If you would be interested please
come talk to me.

I noticed Amber and a few students walk over to Mistress. There was no
doubt in my mind Amber wanted to be the lead female. I really didn't like
her but I also didn't really hate her. She was in between. She had her good
qualities and her bad ones. The main problem was her anger. She needed
things to go her way.

"Little Miss Perfect like always wants to participate." Schala rolled her
eyes. I bet if the teacher wasn't here she would have called her
MacBitch. Ashley and her started to get along. And it scared me.

"Well of course she does. She wants the spotlight on her. But I heard its
Romeo and Juliet." Sam said as he started putting on his backpack. "By the
way why don't you try out Noah? Your pretty good."

Eh. "I don't know. If I get the lead I would have to kiss a girl." I
shivered. Plus music was more my thing. Playing the piano and messing with
the drums was more my thing. I didn't want to join anything just wanted to
have a creative outlet. AKA the reason why I was in Theater.

"There's nothing wrong with kissing girls." Schala smiled.

"For Noah and me there is." Sam smiled.

We got ready and talked about random things till the bell rung. Just as I
was going to leave. Someone called me. "Noah could I speak to you for a
second?" Mistress waved for me to come over.

"Yes Mistress?" I don't think I did anything bad. Or did I?

"Could you do me a favor and stand on the stage?" I looked at her for a
second before getting on stage. Why?  "Okay now can you do me another one
and read some of these lines?" She raised up a script and pointed it at me.

I took the script. I had a bad feeling about this. But I couldn't
refuse. "So I'm suppose to read Juliet's lines?"

"Just for right now. There's something I want to hear from a male's voice."
Why me though?

I cursed mentally. " O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy
father and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love.
And I'll no longer be a Capulet. " Yada yada. "'Tis but thy name that is my
enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? It is nor
hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a
man. O, be some other name. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by
any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo
call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes. Without that
title. Romeo, doff they name. And for that name, which is no part of
thee. Take all myself." I paused as I thought over Romeo's lines.

"I take thee at thy word. Call me but love, and I;ll be new
baptis'd. Henceforth I never will be Romeo." I looked up and saw Liam
walking down the auditorium. What the hell was going on?

Mistress coughed and I looked down at the script before looking up. "What
man art thou that, thus bescreened in night. So stumblest on my counsel?" I
looked at him.

He walked forward. Eyes not leaving mine. "By a name. I know not how to
tell thee who I am. My name, dear saint. Is hateful to myself. Because it
is an enemy to thee." He was just below the the stage. "Had I it written, I
would tear the word."

He looked at me, I looked at him. This was the part where we had
to.... kiss. "Great job guys." Mistress started clapping. "There is some
fine chemistry between the two of you." Old chemistry. Bad new one, well at
least from his side.

I blushed and looked away. "Why did you need me to say the script?" I don't
think she wanted me to actually say it for a reason then just to hear it
from a guy's voice.

"I want you to be the male lead." She smiled up at me. She was hiding
something. What though?

"But I read Juliet's lines."

"But you said them with such gusto. Such passion." I blushed. "Come by next
Monday for the tryouts. You will be our Romeo!"

Fuck me.

"Thank you." I smiled at her. Thank you for sending me to hell.

She went off to the back of the stage, leaving us alone. Neither of us said
anything. "That was a great performance guys." Erika said from the top of
the stairs. She clapped as she walked down the stairs. Ashley was right
behind her. "You guys didn't do the kiss though." She frowned.

I jumped off the stage and almost tripped. Liam tried to help me stand
straight but I kept on walking. "You little shit! You better start
explaining yourself!"

She gave me a smile. "What did I do Romeo?"

"Why did you write that note?"

She rolled her eyes. "Because you didn't!"

"You-"

"Wait." Liam walked over to us. "You didn't write the note?" He had a
little angry look on face. A little disappointment too. Maybe I should have
written the letter but..

I looked away from him. I shouldn't have looked. His eyes were pleading for
something. "She wrote the note and made me give you the bag."

No one said anything. He bit his lip and nodded before walking away angry.

"Go-" I covered her mouth as he kept walking. I waited until he was
gone. "What was that for?" She rubbed her mouth.

"Don't mess with him! He's obviously mad with me for some reason. I want to
know why before anything happens."

Erika sighed. "But you guys are going to slow...."

"Stop whining it will happen when it happens." I sighed. "If it doesn't
then oh well." Maybe I wasn't the best thing for Liam. Someone who was more
clean then me.

"It will..." She whispered as we made our way up the stairs. "Even if I
have to make it...."

"What?" I looked back as I bit my finger.

"Nothing nothing....." I stuck my wet finger in her ear. "EWWWWWWWWW."


"So you wrote a love letter? Nice!" I gave Steve a glare as I drank my
lemonade. "How did it go?" He looked at me but I kept drinking.

"Well it was going good. Liam was probably going to talk to Noah about it
but Noah had to open his big mouth." I gave her a glare too. I was giving
everyone the silent treatment right now. She hurt my little guy... well big
guy now. "I even asked his teacher to make Noah read Juliet's balcony
scene."

Wait. "How the hell did you know he was going to be there and know the
words Romeo uses."

"Persuasion and luck." She flipped a lock of red hair behind her
shoulder. "But mostly me crying until Liam went to go talk to you. The
reason he knew those lines was simple. I made him watch the movie every
single day." She gave a confident smile. "Ever since I knew you were
coming."

Holy shit. Poor Liam. That had to get annoying.

"For such a cute thing your very devious." Schala got a slice of pizza. "I
like that." We picked her up when we saw her walking down the street past
her house. Erika practically bounced when she agreed to join us.

"Why thank you." Erika smiled as she bit a fry.

I had to stop underestimating her. "You're evil." She may look cute but.

"Extremely cynical." Schala put in.

"Maniacal." Ashley added.

"And downright adorable" Steve rubbed her head.

"In." Me.

"My." Schala. She was suppose to say your.

"Dreams." Ashley.

We all started laughing.

"By the way why did we come get pizza? I thought we were going to get ice
cream?" Ashley made a very good point. I was looking forward to ice cream
but pizza made me forget all about it.

"Well Erika told me she was hungry." Steve raised up his glass. "Said they
severed bomb ass lemonade too."

"Yeah its pretty good." I drank a bit and my head started feeling
weird. Was I getting a brain freeze? I felt a sharp jolt pass through my
head. I took off my glasses and rubbed the bridge of my nose. My head was
starting to feel hot. Strange.

"Something wrong Noah?" I heard Ashley's voice ask in a weird vibrating
way. Not good.

"Yeah, your looking a little pale there." I felt Steve's hand touch my
forehead.

"I just need some water." I got up from the chair and wished I hadn't. I
had my anxiety pills with me but I had to drink them with water. Walking
felt fine which was good. Meant the attack was just beginning. The one I
had in the morning was suppose to calm my nerves.

When I reached the counter I asked for a glass of water. I was waiting with
my eyes close, it helped. Then the room was starting to collapse on
me. Even if my eyes were closed I could still feel it. "Can I have a coke
please?" I heard some guy ask right behind me. It had kinda an
echo. Familiar voice.

"Here's your water." I reached out and got the cup. Not sure how I managed
with my eyes closed. I tossed in my pill and took a large drink of
water. "Hey are you okay? You're really sweaty." Was I sweaty? I didn't
feel sweaty.

"I'm..." I back up and felt a someone there. "fine..." The room started to
spin. Well it felt like it was spinning. I opened my eyes and yup
spinning. I felt my legs give out. "Steve." I saw darkness swallow up the
light.

"Noah?" I felt hands on my shoulders.

Who was calling me? Sounded. Familiar.... Then all black and silent. Sweet
silence.


You know those dreams where you know your dreaming but you can't wake up? I
was feeling like that. I was alone in some dark empty void. I could hear
some beeps and people talking but it was all jumbled up in my head.

"Noah honey...."

I turned around and saw nothing but darkness.

"Noah honey. Where are you? Mommy has a treat for you." A soft voice, I
haven't heard in years, rang out in my mind.

"Mommy?" I saw a kid me run out from me and into the darkness. Looking for
someone. "Mommy where are you?" I felt a sharp pain across my body and
heard more weird noises. "Steve where are you?" The kid me ran forward and
kept looking frantically. What was in the darkness? I heard some voices
again in the background but couldn't tell what they were saying.

"Oh sweetheart come to mommy!" I felt the sharp pain in my head again. "We
can go with grandpa, Steve, daddy, and your baby sister too."

"Mommy your scaring me!" The kid me backed away and started crying.

I held my head as the pain got worse. "Stop it! Its not real!" I grabbed my
head as the pressure increased. I was not.... not going to go through that
again.... not... "Again."

I felt my body relax. My head was starting to feel numb. I could feel
someone holding my hand.... both of them....

"Mom...."

I closed my eyes and let the darkness take me. I wasn't scared... He
promised he was always here....

"Steve."

I smiled and felt nothing.


I heard the faint sounds of beeps, my mouth felt dry. I moved my hand but
couldn't move it far. It was attached to something. I tried opening my eyes
but they felt like they were permanently shut. I managed to open them and
closed them right back up. The light was to fucking bright. I moved my
other hand, it was free. I used my left hand to wipe the gunk out my eyes.

I opened my eyes again and let my eyes focus. I was in the hospital. I
looked down and saw Steve sleeping on my legs. I poked him with my right
hand. Hard to do with the clamp around my finger.

He moved away from my finger so I poked his eye. Hard. He opened his eyes
and looked up. "Hello sleeping beauty." I winced. Man my voice sounded
rough. Must have been the meds.

He smiled and leaned over to hug me. "You're okay..." He patted my head as
he kissed my forehead. "Your safe okay? Everything is going to be alright I
promise." He pulled back and had his eyes looking straight into mine. "I
won't let anyone hurt you okay?"

I touched his hand on my right cheek. "I know you wont." I smiled, he
smiled back, he was always there when I needed him the most. "What
happened?"

"You had a really bad anxiety attack. It would have been worse if you
hadn't taken the pill this morning. Or the one you took in the afternoon."
He patted my face and gave another sloppy forehead kiss. "You had me scared
Bunny."

I wiped the drool off my forehead. "How bad was it?"

"Really bad. Had to sedate you two times. You didn't stop shaking." He
looked at his hands. "You wouldn't stop calling my name."

"Are you okay?" He looked about as bad as I felt.

"Could use some decent food and a nice bed but I'll live." He smiled at
me. "Doctor said we could take you home as soon as you woke up."

"We?" He smiled and pointed off to the side. Mrs. Heart was sleeping on a
chair.

"By the way..... Here." Steve reached over to the table and handed me six
cards. "There get well cards. Gave them to me this morning."

I looked over them. One from Erika, Ashley, Schala, Eric, Sam,
and.... Liam. Each one was a weird drawing of a bunny with the words get
well at the bottom.

"How long have I been out of it?"

"Today is the third day you have been here. The weeks almost done." He
moved a piece of hair from my face. "The first day you were on a drug
cocktail. The second the drugs were wearing off. The third was waiting for
you to wake up."

"What time is it?" I still felt tired.

"Eight-thirty in the morning." He got up. "I'll go get the doctor. Make
sure your good to go." We heard some moving to the side and saw Mrs. Heart
start waking up. "Well at least I can leave you with someone awake." He
smiled as he walked off.

She gave a stretch then looked at me. "Oh honey!"


It took about two hours to have some final tests run on me and I was free
to go. Steve had brought me some clothes so I was able to shower. I had to
argue with him for twenty minutes so I could shower myself. The doctor gave
me the okay to go back to school next week but wanted me to be home for the
weekend. If I felt any attack's coming on that I should come back to the
hospital.

I got lucky. Before we left I was able to talk to grandma. She was awake.

"How are you doing grandma?" I walked over and sat down next to her. Steve
and Mrs. Heart were right next to the door.

She looked a little frailer than usually but still gave me a big smile. She
reached up with her wrinkly hand to rub my face. I closed my eyes. She
always rubbed my face. "Good. You had me worried there for a while."

What? "I thought you were suppose to be sleeping,"

Mrs. Heart walked over to me and place her hand right behind my back. "She
woke up when you got here. She wanted to stay up until she knew you were
doing better."

"She didn't wanna take no for an answer. Huh grandma?" Steve walked over
and took her other hand.

"I couldn't sleep knowing my babies where in the hospital." She looked at
me then to Steve and back to me. "One was sick and the other one was
getting sick worrying over everything." She smiled wider. "Always taking
care of each other."

I smiled. She was beautiful. "Would you like to see me perform in a play
grandma?"

"I would love to if I could."

"We can find a way for you to see." We had technology. She always liked to
see me perform. Though that was on the piano but this would mean on the
center of a stage.

"Then yes I would love to." She gave a little yawn. "I heard you were okay,
so I had the doctors give me my medicine."

Oh.... "Okay grandma.... Sleep tight...." I leaned over and kissed her
forehead. Steve did the same as we watched her fall asleep ten minutes
later.


Steve drove us home. They took me to bed after making me eat a mountain of
eggs, couple sausages, and a few strips of bacon. Mrs. Heart forced Steve
to get ready for work and made sure to get him to leave. She promised to
keep an eye out for me. She left my door open when I fell asleep. She said
she was going to tidy up the house.

I woke up three times that day. Two times in the first hour since I
couldn't stay asleep. The last time was when Steve got home. Mrs. Heart had
left to go home as soon as he got here. Steve brought up some soup she made
for me.

Friday was me sleeping mostly all through the day. Ashley dropped by after
school with some candy and two teddy bears. One from Sam the other was from
her. The chocolate was from Eric and the sour gummy worms were from
Schala. She only stayed for an hour before Mrs. Heart shooed her away. She
wanted me to keep resting.

To make sure to keep that goal secure. She banned Erika from coming into
the house. I heard her argue with her mom a few times but Mrs. Heart never
wavered. She threatened to ground her for a week if she came over one more
time.

Saturday was spent mostly all day watching movies with Ashley. She even let
me use her breasts as pillows. Warmest, softest, pillows ever. Sunday was
spent the same but with Steve. He was stuck to me like a mother hen. If I
needed something he would be up on his feet in a flash.

That night Mrs. Heart brought Erika over so we could have dinner
together. Liam couldn't make it, track meet practice, so he told Mrs. Heart
to tell me he was glad I was getting better. I found out that night that I
actually fainted on Liam. From what Erika and Ashley told me. He was
worried. Super worried. He stayed at my side until they said I was stable.

What was more interesting was Monday morning. Ashley and Erika weren't
waiting for me. I was a bit late since Steve took me to go get some
coffee. But Liam was there. He was waiting in front of the school. As soon
as he saw me he walked over.

"I...." He didn't look at me, off to the side. "It's good that you feel
better...." He took out something from his pocket. "Here."

I reached out and grabbed the gift. I let my hand stay with his for a few
seconds before I took them away to see what he gave me. "Thank you." It was
a little blond bear.

He took a deep breath. "No problem." He walked away leaving me smiling like
a goober. He was mad at me but still worried.

In first period he looked at me for a split second before finding something
interesting on his desk. Halfway through class I noticed Liam turn to look
a few times. Which I found rather interesting. Even when the bell rang Liam
waited at the door for a few seconds before deciding to leave.

I pushed my thoughts to the back of my head and went to my next class. I
didn't want to get my hopes up. Chances are he was just worried about
me. Right now everyone was. Liam hadn't seen me had an attack before. Steve
and Ashley have. Grandma more then anyone.

"So how have you been feeling?" Ashley touched my forehead as I sat next to
her in Art. "Sorry I couldn't meet you this morning. Erika shoved me into
an empty class room. Was busy trying to track her down."

"I'm fine." I noticed her fingers twitch after took her hand away. "Did you
get her?"

"I'm waiting for the right moment.."

I smiled. "Make sure I can watch."

"Sure thing."

Art went by in a flash since it was free drawing. I drew a boat being
swallowed up by an octopus.  You know the tentacles around the boat with
its mouth open and a guy holding a spear. The octopus was pretty hard to
draw but I did made some bomb ass stick figure fisherman.


"You know that you look cuter with your glasses on?" Ashley said as we
walked over to our tree.

I raised my eyebrow. "Why this all of a sudden?" I subconsciously moved my
glasses a bit.

She shrugged. "I was thinking of getting contacts. Not sure if I should
though." She looked over to the side and blushed.

"Well they are a risk you know. Germs and everything." I wanted to ask
about the blush but she would deny it. "You look pretty just the way you
are."

She didn't say anything till we got to the tree. "If you were straight
would you date me?"

I smiled and kissed her nose. She frowned and made a disgusted face, then
smiled. "Oh totally, so you would probably be pregnant right now." I
waggled my eyebrows and she smacked me. "Oh baby don't you know how to turn
me on."

"Oh stop it!"

"Are we suppose to turn you on now?" Schala said from atop the tree. She
was wearing a black skirt, black spiky boots, and a white shirt. She had
her hair layered, black and white layers. "Straight out of the hospital and
already wanting to bone people." She jump down and gave me a fist bump.

"You know me." I smiled. "Nice hair."

"Thanks. Should let me do your hair one day. You would look hot with black
hair." She looked me up and down. "You need more black."

"And you need more piercings." She only had a ring on her upper lip. We sat
down on the grass. "By the way just so you know I might have attacks like
those later on in the future. Don't know when they happen." Didn't want her
to think it happened out of random. They happened but they slowed down, but
increased on how bad they were.

Schala nodded and leaned on the tree. "No worries. My little cousin gets
those too. Pretty funny watching your brother though."

"Oh that was nothing." Ashley tossed me a sandwich then one to
Schala. Simple ham and cheese. Nothing special but she put something in it
that made it taste more special. But if you looked at it closely you saw
nothing but bread, ham, and cheese. "There was this one time two years ago
where Steve freaked out over a spider bite. He literally made three nurses
cry when they said Noah was fine."

"Can't be too careful with spiders now." I shivered I didn't like those
things.

"But there harmless little sweet hearts." Schala smiled as I shivered
again. She had a pet tarantula called Baby.

We were halfway threw with lunch when something unsuspecting happened.

"So this guy started poking this gigantic spider. Little did he know that
it was still alive." Schala lifted her hand and spread out her fingers. "It
started twitching but the guy didn't notice. The guy got a little closer to
it to get a better view. It jump up and made the douche drop his expensive
camera."

"BOO!" Erika jump out from the side of the tree right behind Ashley.

Schala and I hand a hand on our chest breathing hard since we jump
back. Ashley on the other hand.....

"Oh... you...." Tackled Erika to the ground and started tickling the crap
out of her. She actually made Erika wet herself a bit.

So Erika didn't lie when she told her teacher she had to use the
bathroom. She wasn't expecting to actually pee.  It wasn't noticeable so it
was good. Erika was lucky she was at school or else. I didn't wanna think
about it. Ashley only made it less violent for the fact we were at
school. It could have been splash mountain.

The next two periods were nothing extraordinary. The librarian brought
cookies from home though so I had a little desert. No one was taking out
books so I didn't have to sort them out or anything. I just had to keep her
company.

Theater was turning out to be my most interesting class though.....

"Last week I told you how Noah had agreed to be this years Romeo." I waved
as the class looked at me, all except Amber. "Would the girls playing as
Juliet please come up?"

Amber and a few girls came up to the stage. Sam and Schala gave me a thumbs
up. Too bad Schala didn't sign up to be Juliet. I wouldn't mind kissing
her.

"Amber would you please start at O, swear not by the moon?" Mistress sat
down in front of the stage to get a better view.

Amber walked up and gave a sigh. "Yes Mistress." She took a deep breath. "O
swear not by the moon inconstant moon." She said it perfectly but it was
missing something. "That monthly changes in her circled orb. Lest that thy
love prove likewise variable?"

I got closer to her. She had pretty hazel eyes. "What shall I swear by?"

She turned away from me. "Do not swear at all. Or if thou wilt, swear by
thy gracious self. Which is the god of my idolatry. And I'll believe thee
."

It was missing heart. "If my hearts dear love."

All in all I thought Amber was the best candidate. She didn't have to use
the script like the other girls did. She had confidence but she had it a
bit off putting. Her words believable but there was some doubt in
there. Was she like this or was is just to me?

Mistress must have thought the same as me. Well the part that Amber was the
best. She was made Juliet. I watched my classmates audition for roles. Each
one had about one minute to do a scene. Schala and same were picked to be
townspeople. Much to Schala's chagrin.

I stayed after to get my script.

"You better not bring me down." Amber said from behind me.

I turned around and raised my eyebrow.

"You may think your pretty good but that's because all the guys here suck."
She crossed her arms. "Thankfully your not a loser like your friend or the
play would have been ruined from the start."

I leaned back onto the stage. "She's not a loser."

"She's a freak just like the other girl you hang out with. I'm telling you
right now that you better not fuck up. I don't do bad plays." She got a
little close to my face.

Wow. Just wow. "I think they have tic-tacs you might like. All sorts of
flavors." I wiggled my nose.

"Just don't fuck me up." She gave me a very serious look.

I raised an eyebrow and smiled. "Girl, your not my type." I walked past her
and let her fume. She was a little bitchy but she had talent. I didn't want
to rile up my 'Juliet', She had issues but who didn't?

I walked past the track field and stopped. Eric and Liam were running
around the track field. Without a shirt. Oh baby, eye candy. I watched for
a few seconds. They couldn't see me since there was a fence and a few trees
blocking me.

I reached into my pocket and took out a coin. "Why play it safe when you
can leave it to chance?" I flipped the coin and caught it in the air
without taking my eyes off him. "Heads no. Tails yes." I looked at my
hand. "So I guess tomorrow is my lucky day." I smiled as I walked away.

Maybe. Just maybe.

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Tomorrow is an Eric chapter! Generally I will tell you when a chapter is
devoted to someone. Usually so you can understand them a bit better. Some
characters might not get a chapter to them. It will be Noah's POV but you
will get to know more about the characters. Or character.

Anyways I hope you liked the chapter. This chapter will lead up to some
very interesting things in the future. Very interesting. Or very sad
depending if your like my friend. He cried but he's just a little bit
emotional >~<.

Anyway review if you liked it! Sorry if it was bad spelling or grammar.

With love your bunny~