I was bored so I decided to go online. I had nothing else to do. Zac wasn't answering his phone and Sadie was gone on vacation. So I went to my computer and signed-on. I immediatly got an IM from ZH_85. I smiled.

Puff_Greenie: HEY BABE, WHAT'S UP?

ZH_85: HEY, WHERE U BEEN ALL WEEK? EVERY TIOME I CALLED U WERE GONE

PuffGreenie: I'VE BEEN REALLY BUSY, SORRY WHY HAVEN'T U BEEN ANSWERING UR PHONE?

ZH_85: HUH? U CALLED?

Puff_Greenie: YEAH, I TRIED ABTOU 10 TIMES

Puff_Greenie: ABOUT*

ZH_85: THE RINGER MUST BE OFF, LET ME GO CHECK

Puff_Greenie: K

A few minutes later my phone rang. I picked up and smiled. "You're ringer is obviously working." It was, of course, Zac.

"Hey, long time no talk. What's up?"

"Not much, I'm in the bus.. being bored. Tay took over the Playstation today so I'm bored."

"Why don't you pick up a book? I'm sure there's tons you haven't read."

"Tay also took all the books..."

"Well, beat his ass and grab one."

"No, I'd much rather talk to you. So what have you been so busy for?"

"I have all these things going on.. I just got on the swim team, school starts really soon... and this guy never stops calling me and being an ass."

"Who's the guy? I'll call him and set him straight."

"No need. You don't know him..." I bit my lip (I was talking about Taylor).

"Okay..."

"So what's new with you?"

"Not much, I'm still tired..."

"Then go to sleep."

"Can't, I don't have time."

"Then make time."

"You try to make time for me to sleep in my schedule."

"Whatever."

"Yeah well........." Then, I heard the familiar sound of Zac's snores. I waited a few minutes to see if anyone would pic up as they usually did. Sure enough someone did, just the wrong someone.

"Hello?" I heard a female voice ask.

"Hi, who's this?"

"Sheila, who are you?" the dreaded girlfriend.

"I'm Zac's friend, Gya. The one that fights with Tay a lot."

"Oh, I remember you. The bitch. Bye-bye." and she hung up. I smiled, happy I didn't have to talk to her any longer. About ten minutes later the phone rang again. Expecting it was Zac calling back, I picked up.

"Hello?"

"Did you tell Sheila anything?"

"No.. why?"

"Because she's acting all pissy."

"Well, it wasn't me. She hung up on me before I said two words."

"She said you mentioned me."

"Yeah, I said I was the one that fights with you a lot cause she wanted to know who I was. She called me a bitch you know."

"Well, you are a bitch."

"Jordan, I thought you weren't gonna call me that anymore."

"You talked to my girlfriend."

"She picked up the phone! I couldn't help it! I was talking to Zac."

"Yeah sure, whatever."

"You are an idiot."

"Thanks."

"Whatever.. Is Zac still asleep?"

"Yes, but I can wake him up. He sleeps too much anyway..."

"No! Don't! He never sleeps. I don't even want to know how many times he's fallen asleep while I was on the phone with him."

"Yeah whatever, then why is he always in his bunk?"

"Cause he's trying to get more sleep but all he does is toss and turn. Just be a big brother and leave him alone for a while okay?"

"Fine. Look, I gotta go okay?"

"Since when do we tell each other when we're leaving?"

"I hate hanging up on people unless I'm fighting with them. And we're not fighting at the moment."

"Yeah okay.. goodbye."

"Bye." That was the first time we'd ever said �goodbye' to each other. I thought it over for a minute. Taylor wasn't such a bad guy once he was nice. But that was unusual so I still didn't like him.


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