"Why did people hate your face?" Louise asked.
"Because I looked average. But then Brandon came and turned my life over. He taught me about skincare and makeup. But when I remove my makeup at night and look at my real face, it still hurts. HOLD ON—WHY THE FUCK AM I TELLING YOU ALL THIS?!" Anna shouted.
"Because I'm your senior," Louise took a cookie from her lunch box.

"THAT WAS MINE!"
"And now it isn't,"
"WHAT THE—"

"Why did you date Brandon?" Louise asked.
"Because I thought he liked me. Why else would he help me?"
"Did you like him?"
"I just wanted him to be happy. I didn't like him when we started dating but then I fell in love and he fell out of it. I wish...I didn't confess."

"You guys dated for three years, I thought you were serious," Louise said.
"We both are similar so we click. And I want him back. I hate losing people."
"You can do that even as friends,"
Anna looked at Louise and he took a bite of another cookie, "Dating your ex is like watching the same movie and expecting a different climax. If you don't want to lose him, just be friends again. Brandon isn't the kind to keep grudges so he'll happily get along as friends. Find some guy, there aren't less of single dudes in the states,"

Anna looked at her feet, "You don't tell me what to do,"
"As a matter of fact, I do. I'm your senior after all,"

"Achoo!" MJ woke himself up by a sneeze. He looked down from the terrace to the ground and saw Anna and Louise sitting together. He made a square out of his fingers and looked at them like a movie director, "What a nice junior-senior bonding, totally fuckable," Then, he turned and saw Kate sitting at another corner, eating bread and juice.

"Ooh! Brandon's crush! Let's go visit this guy," MJ jumped down from the roof to the terrace floor. He walked down the stairs and went to the field.

Kate ate his bread, "He's coming back today,"
"Right?" MJ took a piece from Kate's bread and ate it.
"Excuse me, do I know you?" Kate narrowed his eyes.
"It's MJ. Here, now you know me" MJ took a sip from the juice.

"MJ as in mysterious jackass?" Kate said.
"No, Michelle Jibber," MJ took another piece of the bread.
"What?" Kate said "HEY! STOP EATING MY LUNCH! YOU'RE SO SUSPICIOUS!"
"Suspicious? Me? I'm the cutest thing alive on the Earth" MJ said.
"If by cute you mean an obnoxious green broccoli, well you're right." Kate said.

MJ felt arrows hitting him as Kate said this, "The famous sharp tongue! Knock out!" MJ shouted.
"What?"
"How's it going with Brandon?"
"Going what?"
"Is he a good kisser according to you?"

"How would I know? Go ask Anna,"
"That's history. He likes you now,"
Kate chocked, "There's nothing between us!" Kate said.
"You're both girls?" MJ said.
"I MEAN WE DON'T LIKE EACH OTHER!"
"Lies don't look nice from that mouth,"

"...Did Harry tell you?" Kate said.
"Nah, it's just gut feeling" MJ said.
"How does that work?"
"First, you gotta eat good. Wait—A magician and a spy must never tell their tricks to their audience!" MJ said.

"So, which one are you?"
"I'm a hybrid,"
"...Okay. Please don't tell about us to anyone" Kate said, "It'll make my life difficult"

"Isn't it difficult for you already? I mean you're shunned by your sister, scared of Louise, can't openly express your love for Brandon and then comes your sharp tongue to give a bad luck bonus." MJ said. Kate felt arrows at him as MJ said this.

"I'll—I'll do anything! ANYTHING!" Kate said.
"... I just had a naughty idea" MJ smirked.
"Try not to get arrested,"
MJ laughed, "Oh?" He leaned towards Kate and touched his face, "What if I say I'm ready to get arrested?"

Kate quickly got up and fell on the floor. He dragged himself up and ran away.
"Hey! You forgot your bread and juice!" MJ said "Oh well, we shouldn't waste food so," MJ was about to take a huge bite of bread when the juice box fell down and he bent to pick it up. Just then, a basketball landed on the wall behind him. MJ was picking up the juice box, so he was saved.

"Pass me the ball," Johnny Tedson said.
"Oh Johnson's Teddy," MJ said, "That ball could have hit me if I were not a thug and an important part of the book" MJ picked up the basketball. Stop spoiling my story!

"Whatever, it didn't hit you, right? Now give it back," Tedson said.
"This is not how you ask your senior for a favor, Teddy" MJ said.
"Please go fuck yourself and pass me the ball, senior jerk," Johnny said. Properly spoken. I approve

"Teddy, I'm not a masochist. And fuck myself? Can you teach me how to fuck yourself? If I do that, I'll promote to a completely different level of self love," MJ said. Ask Harry, he knows better. He has another level of flexibility for self love.

"That's what sex toys are for, senior," Johnny took the basketball from MJ's hand. MJ grabbed his collar from behind and stopped him.

"Johnny," MJ said, seriously.
"What now?" Johnny said, with dead and uninterested eyes.

"Did you fix your broken—" Remember when Brandon explained why he had a porn DVD at school? Yeah, he never lies. But his truth is difficult to believe."FUCK OFF!" Johnny pushed MJ away and left. MJ turned back and bumped into Louise.

"Ow!" He rubbed his nose.
"What are doing?" Louise asked.
"Rubbing my poor nose. Do something about that chitin exoskeleton of yours!" MJ said.
"I'm not an insect" Louise said.
"Here" MJ said as he passed Louise's lunch box to him and the bell for the lunch break rang. The break was over.

MJ was hit as Louise ran after him. They ran till they both entered the building and disappeared. Meanwhile, Brandon and the others had arrived at the airport. Brandon's silver hair flowed in the wind and he held his wheel-bag beside Jaden. He removed his sunglasses and took a deep breath.

"Now then, where's my chainsaw?"

Chelsea sat inside a room and looked at the walls. They were covered with pictures of Malcolm. From his childhood to puberty and now. She switched on the stereo and danced alone in her room, imagining Malcolm dancing with her. 

"Malcolm, when will stop being so kind towards me? 
At this rate, I'm never going to get over you."

She had cut her hair short. She took a bath and got into her car. Her mom was in the living room with her boyfriend. Chelsea began driving. She went to Malcolm's place. He had just come back from Korea. When he opened the door, she saw he had wet hair and he wasn't wearing a shirt. His brown eyes looked into hers.
"Do you like my new look?" She asked.
"Why are you here?" That's what he should've asked. But he didn't.

"They are fine," He closed the door. She stood at the door. 
"Malcolm, open the door. I want to come inside. It's cold outside,"
"Go back home," He said from inside.
"I don't want to go home. Mom is with another man again,"
Malcolm opened the door, "One hour. I'll go to bed and you'll go home,"
"Okay," She smiled.

They both walked inside. She sat before him at the dining table. He was cutting some apples. She looked at the knife.
"Do you want some?" He asked.
"Yes," She ate a piece. Malcolm got up and kept the knife aside, "I'll get another apple,"

After he went inside, she looked at the knife. Her eyes shone bright,
'I need to get you out of my head...And there's only one way I see,'
Malcolm walked back to the dining room and saw Chelsea laying her head on the table, "Chelsea?" He walked towards her. Her wrist was bleeding.

"CHELSEA!" He picked her up and quickly ran outside. He tied a cloth on her wrist to stop the bleeding and kept her inside her car. He began driving towards the hospital. He reached there and quickly carried her to the emergency ward. They took her away. It was Harry's family's hospital. 

"She tried it again?" MJ asked him. He was there with Louise, with a bandage on his arm.
"Yeah,"
"What do you associate with her anymore. I haven't talked to her since first year," MJ said.
"I can't do that."
"Why? You have us,"
"Yeah. And I am everything she has,"
"Oh Malcolm," MJ looked sad.

-To be continued

Chelsea Nolan
All I Want Is You Baby