Something - 17: Ikjot’s Mission Accomplished

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Something

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In the last chapter of Something... knowing he would do anything for her, Xandra decided to take advantage of an already-injured Ikjot by tricking him into receiving various forms of pain, including a ball to the face, which got Piper in trouble for Xandra—something that Piper never counted on agreeing to! And in addition to that surprise, another was brewing: Herbertia ignoring Ikjot! And he finally got the cold truth from 1098 upon returning to their home:

Ikjot widened his eyes and muffled, "...Oh no... don't... tell me that..."

"...To you, it is called a backstab..." said 1098.

Indeed, with Herbertia gone, that means Ikjot will have to rely on Xandra to mend his broken heart—trick question is, will she not pull through?

Elsewhere, on the island of Sanne, Marta's plan for Penelope to teach Tiane a lesson had finally come into action. But what Penelope didn't count on was Tiane revealing she'd been a liar ever since their last fight! All along, Tiane was more than capable of taking down even the mighty Penelope! After losing to the big bully, Penelope was carried by Simona back to Marta and family's home.

Upon opening the door, Marta said, "HEY, WHAT'S UH—" before gasping from what she saw....

What will become of the Greys now? And will Penelope be alright? Stay tuned....

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Ikjot's Mission Accomplished

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In Simona's hands was seen a bloody-faced and unconscious Penelope. Simona looked down with sadness and said in a low voice, "I'm... sorry...."

To this, Marta's shocked and sorrowful eyes sparkled.

Ram came beside Marta, whooped and cheered, "WE'RE SAVE—" She then gasped upon seeing Penelope's condition.

"WE'RE COMING!" said Mr. Grey with worry while running to the door with Mrs. Grey beside him, only for them both to become just as shocked from Penelope's condition. "My... goodness...!" exclaimed Mr. Grey.

"PENELOPE!" exclaimed Mrs. Grey.

Mr. Grey said, "WE NEED TO GET HER SOME WATER... FAST!"

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A little while later, Penelope stood at their kitchen sink that was filled with water. She turned the handle, drew some more of the H2O, placed her hand beneath it, turned off the faucet, and rubbed the water on her face. Penelope then briefly paused with her hand over her face upon hearing Ram say, "Well... Penelope may have lost... but at least she's still alive...." Then Penelope slowly moved her hand downward, only enough to reveal eyes of anger.

Standing beside Simona, Marta—with a stern expression—told Ram, "Yeah.... Penelope fought valiantly, even though Tiane would outmatch her strength."

With a clenched fist, Penelope angrily turned to them and said, "I WASN'T OUTMATCHED!"

"Uh...?" puzzled Marta.

Ram puzzled, "Huh...?"

With gritted teeth, Penelope continued, "...That stupid Tiane could've been easily beaten by me!" She then smirked with cockiness. "I simply allowed myself to lose, just to humor her!"

Marta took a few steps forward and, with sympathy, said, "Penelope, there's... no shame in admitting defeat."

"Let's face it: Tiane's just too strong!" said Ram, fretful.

Penelope would only get angrier.

Ram went on to say, "We've tried everything—all of us have fought her and none of us proved successful! We should just—"

"SILENCE!" yelled Penelope.

Marta and Ram slightly backed away, stunned.

Penelope clenched her fist and went on to tell them, "I COULD HAVE EASILY BEATEN TIANE! I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT I ALLOWED HER TO LOSE! IT WAS NO FREAK ACCIDENT! I pity that woman because the next time we meet, she won't be so lucky...."

Marta thought, There won't be a next time, Penelope. I know that.... But I also know that you never want to accept defeat. If all you have left intact is your pride, I'll let you keep it.... And Marta then looked down with worry. I just wish this whole Tiane nightmare would be over with... but it looks like it'll never be.

Approaching the children with Mr. Grey beside her, Mrs. Grey said, "Well... it looks like our family will have to apply for food stamps...."

Marta nodded to her mother's statement.

Mrs. Grey continued, "We'll starve otherwise at this rate...."

Mr. and Mrs. Grey could have worked to recoup some funding... but neither of them were "educated" enough to qualify for jobs, according to Sanne's entrepreneurial standards. In fact, both the mother and father had Marta and Tiane attending school in the hopes that their daughters would one day reach those standards and be able to provide for their family. It was obvious, however, that Tiane would not be helping with that.

"Aaaaaah?" awed Mr. Grey with disbelief while he saw the sad looks on everyone's faces—except Penelope who continued rubbing water on her face. Mr. Grey told his wife,"...N-No.... We won't starve to death, Miriam...." And he placed his hand on her shoulder. "Listen to me... we'll get through this."

Mrs. Grey began to whimper while tears formed in her eyes.

Mr. Grey said, "Someone will help us—"

"DON'T YOU GET IT?!" Mrs. Grey yelled, shocking Mr. Grey. "WE'LL NEVER..." and she whimpered, "have..." then covered her face in his chest while he'd hug her, "freedom...!" And she cried.

He patted her back and said, "No, Miriam... don't cry...."

Also sad was Marta who told her father, "...Dad... I hate to say it, but..." and she looked down, "we're doomed...."

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That same night at my school, around seven-thirty p.m. in the cafeteria—now set up as though it were an auditorium, the same way it was for when I sang to Xandra—Xandra stood before the mike on the stage, which was before the many children (including myself and 1098) and adults who sat in the chairs. Xandra read from the first page of a paper booklet, " 'Good evening and welcome to tonight's public meeting, brought to you by our school, Our Lord's Appearance Catholic Church and School. Tonight, tomorrow... and so long as something is not done, we are faced with a problem that threatens many places in the world. From the U.K., China, Russia, Australia, Canada, Mexico, the U.S.A. and especially here in Fletcher, we are faced with an ongoing problem: Drug abuse.' "

Wynfred leaned toward Yosef to her right and whispered, "Wait, I thought Xandra said drugs were good for us."

"They are," Yosef whispered back, leaning toward Wynfred. "Xandra was just assigned this stupid prompt by the naysaying staff of this dumb school, remember?"

"Oooooh!" whispered Wynfred, realizing as she leaned back in to her own space.

Xandra went on to read, " 'What is drug abuse, you ask? Well...' "And she briefly looked up, struggling not to laugh.

And the audience did laugh, on the other hand.

Xandra looked down and eventually chuckled, "Hehe!"

Lifting one finger with his chest forward, Mr. Nutbrown quoted, " 'What is drug abuse, you ask?' " He leaned toward one of the female parents, a squirrel, on his right and said, "Yup, that was my line added in. I always did write the most epic lines, back when I was a scriptwriter."

And the squirrel parent giggled to herself in response.

Xandra looked down at the paper and, still smiling with her lips pursed, eventually said, "Yeah.... Ahehe!" Keeping the smile for her next few words, she went on to read (after the audience settled down), " 'Drug abuse is what is known as a leading cause of death here in Fletcher.' " Eventually, she was straight-faced again. " 'Before going any further, you should know what drugs in general are. Drugs pertain to the smoking epidemic across our country, particularly here in Unxia with a recent five-year record of 2,398,217 known use cases.' " Xandra briefly looked at them and said, "That's a lot!" and chuckled as they chuckled also. She looked back down at the paper and continued, " 'Out of that use case number, at least 4,789 Unxiane residents will die, this year alone. Smoking has been found to cause cancer in many, if not all people, who do it. More shocking to find is that children will total 2,667 of those deaths.' "

One man raised his hand and interrupted, "And that's just in Unxia, right?"

Looking to him, Xandra said, "Yes."

The man said, "Oh, I'm sorry—I thought you meant Kreadance County!" and laughed with the people.

Xandra looked down with a shy chuckle.

In case you were wondering, Kreadance County was the county that Righteous Korrigan, along with other cities, was a part of. Some other Fletcher states, such as Olifat, called these parishes; not counties.

Xandra continued from the paper, " 'Various reasons lie behind smoking. A first should be noted that, for all ages, it helps people to 'get high' or 'feel normal.' But it is the adolescent populous with a second factor that is mostly dominating, though sometimes in adults as well: Peer pressure. Peer pressure is what influences many school-age children into taking on certain behaviors, personalities, actions and so forth, that will help them to 'fit in' with their friends or other people they feel closely attached to. Also influential in peer pressure is when a child will see their parent smoking and choosing to follow those behaviors.' "

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By around eight fifteen p.m., Xandra, continuing the report, would finally read, " 'In conclusion, if there is anything we can do to change society, starting with our home state Unxia, we should begin with ceasing drug abuse. We must stop influencing our children to do drugs. As children, we must stop influencing our peers to smoke because it seems 'cool' or 'helps them to get high.' In general, we must stop smoking if we wish to drop the number of substance abuse related deaths here in Unxia. Smoking has no longer become an issue about us, but our children as well. And only change can make a difference for the better.' " She then looked to the audience with that usual straight-face of hers and told the people, "Thank you..." and she smiled, "and God bless." And with that, Xandra bowed while they cheered, then proceeded to walk off stage with her papers. One of the staff members walked onto the stage in the process.

An unamused Piper thought, As usual, Xandra has to be the goody-two shoes around the adults. What a witch.... She then rolled her eyes, folding her arms. Anyway, I can't believe these boring adults keep preaching the whole 'drugs are bad for you' thing. Look. That stuff makes you live forever.

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Later, while many people stood at the refreshments table, and others just stood at various parts of the cafeteria to talk with one another, 1098 and I had some conversation of our own going on. 1098 told me, "I understand you'll need your space if you wish for Xandra and her girls to come to you. I will be by what you call the 'refreshments.' " Then 1098 walked off.

I muffled, "Thanks, 1098! I appreciate it!"

Meanwhile, Xandra and her clique, as well as Orabel and hers, watched me from the distance. Xandra looked to Piper and said, "The only reason I let you take the fall for me today was because of Ikjot. He threatened me to do it when no one was around."

And to that news, Piper became furious.

Tell me she's actually stupid enough to believe me! giggled Xandra in her mind. "Besides," she went on to tell Piper, "after what you told me Ikjot did, being that he lied on you today," and she laughed with saying, "I think he's earned what we're about to do him."

"Oh, really...?" asked an all-too familiar voice to Xandra's ears. She and the girls turned their heads to seeing it was Helena... who went on to say, "Thanks for gettin' me in trouble, sis!"

Walking to Helena and placing her hand on her shoulder, Xandra said, "But, Helena, I only got you in detention because of what Ikjot was plannin' to do to you on the yard today." Then Xandra looked to Piper. "In fact, the only reason I got Piper to throw a ball in his face was because he planned to do the same to you!"

"You're a real card, Xan, you know that?" said Helena, unamused. "A real card.... I'm not believing any lies that come from your lips, even if they seem truthful.... After all you've done to me in the past few days, I don't even know you anymore!"

Xandra kept her calm and said, "Regardless of the quarrels we have, Helena, Ikjot is our main problem—"

"And he really was planning to plunge a ball in your face, Helena!" added Orabel, once again backing up Xandra.

Xandra thought, Orabel just keeps gettin' more faithful to me. Perfeeeect.

Orabel continued, "None of us wanted you to get hurt, and getting you in detention was an act of desperation! We couldn't think of any other way to keep you off the playground!"

"It's true!" said Wynfred, nodding with folded arms and a straight-face.

Helena was beginning to puzzle....

"Yeah!" said Yosef. "Ikjot even told us himself, and we got so mad that we had to do something about it. We care about you, yo!"

Giving it some second thought, Helena said, "Well... if you're all saying this happened, then it must be true!"

And Xandra and the girls all nodded, agreeing with what Helena said. "Yeah!" said Xandra before placing her arm around Helena's shoulder. "Trust me, we love ya! That's why we knew you deserved the truth about Ikjot!"

Helena briefly looked my way (I was nearly on the other side of the cafeteria) and said, "Speakin' of the phony, what do we do about him...?"

Xandra told Helena, "That is your call.... Let him have whatever it is you want comin' to him!"

Helena said, "I'll let him have it..." and walked towards me.

As for me, I just stood in the middle of the floor, waiting for one of them to approach anyway, since I knew that they knew I was there. From behind me, I heard Helena say, "Hey!" And I turned to see her smiling at me. "What's up?" she continued.

"Oh, nothing," I muffled. "Just came to see Xandra speak—and you girls too! I missed y'all!"

While Xandra and her girls came over, Helena replied, "Oh, we missed you too!"

To Xandra, I muffled, "Xandra, you were GREAT!"

"Aw," chuckled Xandra, "why thank you, Ikjot!" She then told Helena, "Hey, Helena, didn't you say that you wanted Ikjot to go to an adult here and call them stupid to their face?" and chuckled.

I was shocked and exclaimed (again, muffled voice), "WHAT?!"

"Huh...?" puzzled Helena to Xandra.

Xandra thought, If Ikjot's gonna do anything for me, I might as well keep takin' advantage of that for fun! HA! And she told Helena aloud, "Yeah, we said it would be funny, remember?!"

Helena puzzled, "Um..." and played along, "yeah, that was my idea!"

Xandra thought, Perfect.... This way, I'm framin' Helena, but making sure she can't see that by way of me and the girls takin' the blame with her. I'm maintaining this new bond between us while, in the process, sabotaging her—only I could come up with a combo that flawless! Hahaha!

And I puzzled while Xandra said aloud, "What do you say, Ikjot?" And she rubbed my chest while saying, "Don't you wanna make me... laugh...?"

I shyly kept a straight face—unseen thanks to the paper all over it—and said, "Mmmmm... well...."

Xandra placed her hand on my left cheek and said, "Tell you what... if you do it," and rubbed my cheek, much to my liking, "I'll be your girlfriend...."

Just then, my eyes widened with shock while I said, "...You'll... be my... girlfriend...?"

Xandra chuckled, "Absolutely! I like you!"

I thought, She likes me.... Oh my gosh! Then I told her aloud, "Alright, Xan, you've talked me into it!"

With that, Xandra said, "Good luck, Ikjot!" while I went walking to seek out my target.

I decided to walk to a woman sheep who seemed to be in her fifties—no, I'd be murdered.... But then I saw a woman camel who was seemingly in her early twenties, standing by the refreshments table and on her cellphone. With a sly smile, I walked to her and muffled, "Hello!"

She looked to me and rudely said, "Uh... I'm on the phone!" Then she chuckled while looking away.

And given that attitude of hers... I suddenly didn't feel too bad about what I had to do. I muffled, "YOU'RE STUPID, LADY!"

Now shocked, the woman camel turned her head down to me—Xandra and the girls laughed—while I went on to say, "Yeah, you! You heard me—" But I then felt that woman kick my leg. "OW!"

Xandra and the girls laughed even more.

1098, holding a glass of juice, shook her head while rolling her eyes.

Rubbing my leg, I walked back to Xandra and, before I could say anything, she'd laughingly say, "IKJOT, THAT WAS AMAZING!"

I smiled really big to her compliment—though it went unseen, again, due to the paper over my face.

Orabel said, "YEAH, THAT WAS SO FUNNY!" and laughed.

"HOW DID YOU DO IT?!" asked Yosef with a laugh.

I muffled, "It was nothing, really!"

Xandra elatedly said, "OH, IKJOT..." and leaned forward to kiss my lips—or at least she would have if it weren't for the paper, "YOU WERE AMAZING! OH MY GOSH!" She thought, At least he's wearin' bandages. Looks like I'll be able to get away with kissin' him, all while not havin' to infest my tongue with loser.

I exclaimed (muffled—yada-yada, you get it already), "XAN, YOU ARE THE BEST!" and hugged her.

Hugging me close, Xandra flirtatiously said, "You are too, my lovely boyfriend," and giggled. She then said, "Wow!" and chuckled, "I am so hungry!" and chuckled again.

I muffled, "Say no more! I'll go get you some stuff!" and ran to the refreshments table.

Folding her arms, Voleta said, "It looks like we're finally getting our revenge against Ikjot."

Xandra told Voleta, "Only because he did us wrong. It's not out of spite or anything." Then Xandra thought, Heh.... Yeah, right! Orabel and her clique are supposed to be the nice girls while my clique are the secret mean girls. But the backstabbing I've done with 'em to my own clique has proven otherwise. I am just tooooo awesome.... Hehe. She continued aloud, "Just so y'all know, I didn't believe a word of that paper I read. Seriously, who wrote that garbage?!"

"I know, right?!" said Piper. "Besides, you told us that drugs help you live forever!"

"Exactly! What idiot would think otherwise?!" Then Xandra secretly thought, I am so glad she and the others have fallen for my lie about drugs bein' okay for you. They ain't gonna help you live forever! HEHE! I just love foolin' people for laughs... even if I have reasonin' for this now in the fact that I'm tryin' to ruin Ikjot's past again. She continued aloud, "Now, here's the thing: I don't think Nydia's needed at this school anymore."

"Oh my gosh; tell me about it!" said Orabel.

"She is such a loser!" laughed Piper.

Xandra said, "Yup!" She giggled while saying, "Which is why we need to demand that she disenroll." Then Xandra thought, Though my clique is the secretly mean and Orabel's is the nice, there's one thing we all, even the boys and practically the whole student body can agree on: Nydia is unneeded. And outside of Yam, Quenishia, Xandy and Kip, I don't even need my mind control on influencin' the others to hate her. She's just an easy target for a lot of us. Hehe.

"So when is this plan gonna take action?" asked Yosef.

"Just wait until I give the signal," said Xandra with a straight face.

Now holding a lot of food in my hands, I came back to Xandra and muffled, "I'm back with those refreshments, my lovely!"

Xandra said with a sweet smile, "Oh, why thank you, Ikjot!" She then chuckled before giving me another kiss to what would have been my lips.

She couldn't see it of course, but I bore a sweet smile from that.

Then Xandra said with disappointment, "Oh... I am so clumsy," and chuckled with embarrassment, looking down. "I, um... don't know how to eat on my own.... Can you feed me...?"

She can't be serious... thought a confused Piper.

I said, "Sure, Xan!" and picked up a donut to hand her.

Xandra saw a different food item in my hands and said, "Um... could you hand me the muffin instead...?"

And I swapped for the muffin.

Xandra went on, "...No wait, on second thought, the donut should work...."

And I swapped for the donut.

Xandra said, "Mmmm, no.... How's about the muffin...?"

And again, I showed Xandra the muffin.

Xandra thought, Man, I just love messin' with people! Ha!

***

The following Tuesday morning, as Nydia had just arrived to school and approached the fifth grade line, something happened the night before at her trailer home:

Standing before a whimpering Nydia—and accompanied by Nydia's older brother, Wallace—Nydia's mother Ms. Yarbrough, who held many dollar bills in her hand, said, "Now listen, Nydia, I know that we are all very upset about the eviction notice we've received, but these funds could change all of that."

Wiping her eyes with a sniff, Nydia asked, "How...?"

"Isn't it obvious?" asked Wallace with a rather rude attitude.

Nydia's mother nudged Wallace's arm with displeasure.

Wallace said, "OW!" and rubbed his arm.

"Now is not the time to be mean to your sister..." Nydia's mother told him... before continuing to Nydia, "If we can pay these funds to the landlord, she won't kick us out."

"So... when are we going to pay her...?" asked Nydia.

Nydia's mother said, "From here, she'll be out until six p.m. tomorrow. When she's back in office, we'll give her the funds to avoid being kicked out of this trailer the following Wednesday morning at five a.m."

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Upon making it to her line, Nydia happily waved to her friends and said, "Hi, guys!"

But Kip, Yam, Quenishia and Xandy didn't even reply.

Nydia was confused and said, "...HELLO?!"

But those four friends of hers only turned their heads away in response.

Xandra chuckled and said, "Looks like you're so weird that not even your friends wanna hang with you anymore!" Then she laughed with her girls.

Nydia was shocked with disbelief.

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At the shack, there was a loud thud from Vicky screaming while she fell to the floor... because Derick pushed her down. At the same time, Mike continuously banged Vanessa's face against the wall. And with Vanessa still having a disabled right foot, it was all the more difficult for her to do anything about it.

While Vicky wiped her hand past her mouth, taking off some blood—though this didn't help the rest of her bloody face—Derick, who stood over her, laughed with his hands on his hips and said, "Wow! You broads are so weak!" Then Derick laughed some more.

Now angry with tears in her eyes, Vicky whimpered, looked down and said, "I just..." and sniffed, "don't... get it...."

Derick patiently watched her, anticipating that Vicky would say more.

Vicky continued, "Why...? What have we done to..." and caught her breath, "...deserve this...?"

Derick smirked and said, "...Isn't it obvious? You started this when you struck me for just wanting to be your boyfriend—"

"BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND, DERICK!" pled Vicky while she looked up to him, angry and still filled with teary eyes.

"...Julian is gone now, so why don't you let go of your love for him and profess it to me...?" Then Derick got in her face. "...Be my girlfriend and we can forget all about this...."

Vicky angrily quivered her lips... and said, "NO!"

Then Derick immediately slapped Vicky to the side, sending her face-first to the floor.

While Vicky hit the floor, Vanessa cried, "VICKY!" Then Vanessa felt her back get punched by Mike, causing her to cough blood onto the nearest wall.

***

By three o'clock p.m. in Sanne, the bell for Marta's school rang and many girls came running out the building.

Meanwhile, as Marta and Ram walked, they saw Simona who looked at them with a blank expression... before she looked down with gloom.

"...Penelope didn't show up today, did she...?" asked Marta.

In response, Simona shook her head and said, "Her dad found out about yesterday's incident and won't even let her physically instruct the school anymore."

"Physically...?" puzzled Ram.

"Our only form of Penelope at the school now is her communicating with us through a video diary she broadcasts on the classroom televisions." Then Simona puzzled. "Hey, shouldn't you all know this? You were in classes today, right?"

"Yeah..." Marta said with a shrug. "But we figured we'd act oblivious just so you could explain this stuff to the audience."

Simona paused. "...Okay..." she finally responded, realizing Marta's failed fourth wall joke. "Anyway, I'm sorry, but..."

Marta's expression turned sad... and she said, "Ram and I will have to walk home by ourselves, won't we...?"

Simona gloomily nodded in reply.

Marta and Ram looked to each other with worry....

***

As the two girls walked the streets, Ram said, "Well, Marta... I guess it's time to face the music...."

"I guess so too..." said a depressed Marta, holding her head down.

Ram and Marta then both halted with fear while an all-too familiar voice told them, "I guess so three..." and laughed.

Indeed, it was Tiane with folded arms and a mean smile, standing with her two colleagues before Marta and Ram while she went on to say, "Looks like you nerds are gonna get some pain!" Then Tiane laughed with her colleagues.

With both Marta and Ram fearful, Ram yelled, "RUUUUUUUN!" and started running with Marta, away from the bullies.

Tiane made a clever smirk, leaped over Marta and Ram and landed before them both, once again stopping them in their tracks while she chuckled and said, "Wow! Going somewhere...?"

Marta angrily and fearfully gritted her teeth while Ram quickly ran in front of her. Ram's arms were spread, hoping to block Tiane from getting to Marta.

Tiane then slapped Ram aside, sending her into some trash cans.

Marta cried, "RAM!" before being grabbed by Tiane and thrown to the bully's two colleagues.

Tiane's colleagues then pushed Marta forward, sending her back towards Tiane who pulled her fist back while saying, "GET READY, DORK!" And so, Tiane groaned with pride while she swung her fist into Marta's face, causing Marta to scream in pain.

***

By four fifty p.m. at my school, Xandra and her clique, along with Orabel and her own, were sitting in the cafeteria with the rest of the aftercare students, or students whose parents just couldn't make it by three forty p.m. that day to pick them up. Some were talking while others were eating boiled eggs, all while Xandra and her typical bunch were having a conversation of their own.

Piper said, "Well, Xan, it looks like our plan to make our parents think that we'd be stayin' after school to help the staff do some cleaning up worked!" and chuckled.

"My plan, and yeah!" chuckled Xandra, then she just kept smiling without the laughter. "Also, I heard that Nydia's mom wouldn't be able to make it today, so she told Nydia that she'd have to walk home." Then Xandra laughed again while saying, "What a coincidence!"

"I know, right?!" happily said Orabel.

"Yeah!" laughed Xandra before thinking, Coincidence? Nah! I just mind-controlled Nydia's mom into tellin' her that she'd have to walk home. I'm such a genius. Hehe!

In the school office, Nydia was on the phone with her mom and said with worry, "I'll have to walk home...?"

At home, Nydia's mother had a blank facial expression while she'd respond, "I'm afraid so, Nydia...."

And Wallace was completely oblivious, especially since he was watching TV and on the phone with one of his friends.

Nydia's mother continued, "Make it back in time for supper...."

Nydia said, "But—"

"Goodbye," said Nydia's mother before hanging up.

Nydia still puzzled with worry.

Ms. Pasternak said, "If you want, Nydia, I can drive you home—" before holding her head in slight agony. "...I mean, no...."

"Huh...?" puzzled Nydia.

"I've... remembered that my car has some problems—I wouldn't want to get us stuck on the street."

Nydia would have said something like, Well, it could at least get me closer to home, nonetheless. But then again, Nydia was kinda shy sometimes—at least until my sister came around. So instead, Nydia said, "Mmmm, well, okay!" Then she headed for the office's main doors and walked out.

Meanwhile, Xandra who watched that whole scene through her mind happily thought, Perfect! My mind control over Ms. Pasternak worked too. Now's my chance to harm Nydia....

***

At least thirty minutes later, Nydia walked down the sidewalk of a poor urban area, heading her way home. She said, "Gee, I wonder why Kip, Xandy, Quenishia and Yam were acting so weird towards me today. They wouldn't even sit with me at lunch nor play with me at recess!" Her expression became a disappointed one. "I hope Xandra didn't impression them too." Just then, Nydia puzzled over a gray van that drove up and stopped beside her. Nydia briefly looked to the van and saw a seemingly eighteen-year-old gray woman in its driver's seat. That driver was a gray rabbit with middle-parted brunette hair and short twin ponytails, a floral headband and a lanky, tall body. She briefly looked away from Nydia and told a certain someone, "This her?"

To Nydia's ears, an all-too familiar voice from the inside replied, "Yeah!"

And with that, Nydia quickly kept walking. Attempting to retreat, however, didn't help when she heard that same voice chuckle from behind, "Hey!" along with many other familiar chuckles in the process. It caused Nydia to stop in her tracks... soon turning her head to Xandra and her crew who now stood behind her. Nydia was very scared now.

Xandra gave a thumbs-up to the van's driver and said, "Hey, Sheila, thanks again for the lift!"

"No problem!" chuckled Sheila. "Do you need me to come out and help y'all beat her up?"

Nydia drew back in shivering fear from that statement.

Keeping her happy excitement, Xandra told Sheila, "Nah, it's cool! You can watch!"

Sheila happily said, "Sure thing, Xan!"

Xandra laughed, "No prob!" And with a straight face, she turned her head to Nydia and said, "Hey, you want a ride home?"

Nydia fearfully said, shaking her head, "Um, well, no! I mean, you guys seem to be pretty crowded in that van as it is! I wouldn't want to take away anyone's space like some stupid jerk!" Then Nydia laughed nervously, rubbing the back of her head with closed eyes. "Ah-hahahahaha!"

Keeping that straight face with her hair flowing in the breeze, Xandra shook her head and told Nydia, "Oh, we can make room! That's no problem!"

With her hair also flowing, Nydia reopened her eyes and looked down with a fearful chuckle while saying, "No, I'll be fi—"

"You gotta disenroll from school," Xandra interrupted, still keeping the straight face.

"Wha...?" puzzled Nydia while the other girls agreed.

Piper said, "Yeah, we don't want you comin' back to Our Lord's Appearance Catholic Church and School anymore."

Nydia paused. "...But..." she spoke again soon enough. "But I have to go back.... My mom would be devastated if I didn't go to school! She wants me to have an education!"

Xandra looked to her girls and mockingly laughed, " 'She wants me to have an education!' " Then she laughed with them.

Laughing with Xandra and the other girls, Sheila teasingly told Nydia, "Your mom actually values education?!"

While her girls kept laughing, Xandra laughingly told Sheila, "Funny! I thought the only thing her mom valued was food!" then laughed with Sheila and the other girls some more.

With that, Nydia turned away and said, "Forget you guys..." while she continued her walk home.

Xandra, with her girls, then followed Nydia, eventually walked beside her and said, "Uh..." and laughed, "Yeah..." and her girls were beginning to corner Nydia from both sides while Xandra continued, "you're gonna disenroll from school whether you like it or not, so..." Then Xandra made Nydia scream, nudging her to the ground. Xandra and the other girls laughed at this.

Nydia fearfully pled, "XANDRA, I'M SORRY FOR WHATEVER I DID!"

Then Xandra stripped Nydia of her backpack and held onto it.

"HEY!" panicked Nydia.

"You want it...?" Xandra teased with a smug smile, looking down at Nydia. "Come and get it...."

"XANDRA, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" Nydia pled while tears started to form in her eyes.

And Xandra and the other girls just laughed at Nydia. Xandra mockingly repeated Nydia's words as, " 'XANDRA, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!' " while she and the other girls laughed over picking on the kid. Xandra then unzipped the backpack, held it over Nydia and turned it upside down, causing Nydia's own belongings—pens, pencils, books—to fall onto her face and body.

Desperately lifting one arm to attempt shielding herself, Nydia yelled, "OW! OW! OOOOOW!"

And Xandra and the other girls kept laughing at Nydia's pain. From there, Xandra and her girls approached the belongings... while Xandra purposely stomped on many of them, laughing and saying, "COME ON! LET'S CRUSH EM'!" And Xandra's crew followed those movements, crushing some belongings themselves.

Nydia cried out to the girls, "PLEASE, STOP!" while the other girls laughed at her pain and kept up their work.

Next, Xandra was ripping out many pages from Nydia's math book before looking to the side and seeing a small burgundy book that appeared to be locked. She lifted her hand and said, "Ooooh..." and picked it up, snapping off the lock. While opening the book and flipping through the pages, Xandra teasingly said, "What's this...?"

While the other girls laughed, Nydia panicked, "NO! THAT'S MY DIARY! PLEASE!"

Xandra said, "Now, Nydia, you know it's not nice to yell...." And Xandra got in Nydia's face, then punched her in the mouth.

Nydia hit the ground, screaming in pain while she fell.

Xandra, followed by the girls, laughed at that while Xandra told them, "LOOK AT HER!" and kept laughing. Seeing Nydia's tears of pain and the blood on that poor smaller girl's mouth, Xandra felt giddy to taunt her even more. She said, "Now we're gonna read your diary..." and playfully cleared her throat. She read from one of the pages, " 'Dear diary... today, my imaginary friend Vienna and I went on a fun adventure through the land of unicorns, dinosaurs—' " And Xandra interrupted herself with a, "Hahahaha!" And with a laughing voice, she told the other girls, "Whaaaaat?" which made them laugh as well. Making Nydia continue to cry, Xandra went on to keep reading, " '...and bunnies!' " Then she laughed with the other girls again.

"Please don't read my diary, Xandra..." begged a crying Nydia with a sniff. "...Please—" Then Nydia received Xandra's swift fist to her mouth, causing her to scream very loudly in pain while Xandra and her girls laughed more.

Xandra continued to read, " 'At recess today at school, we discovered that there was treasure buried beneath the wood chips field and decided to start digging—' " Xandra once again interrupted herself, laughing while she said, "WOW! Is that why you were diggin' through the wood chips on the yard today?!" And Xandra just kept laughing, as did the other girls.

"SHE SOUNDS LIKE SHE'S GOT PROBLEMS, XANDRA!" teasingly said Sheila.

"TRUST ME, SHE DOES!" laughed Piper.

Also with a laugh, Xandra, knowing it would upset Nydia, walked to the girls and said, "WHO WANTS TO READ MORE FROM NYDIA'S DIARY?!" and laughed some more, as did they.

"NO!" cried Nydia. "PLEASE, XANDRA, GIVE IT BACK!"

But those other girls deliberately ignored Nydia and kept laughing.

"Hey, let me read it!" laughed Wynfred while running to Xandra.

"SURE!" laughed Xandra while she handed Wynfred the book.

Wynfred flipped through some pages before stopping at one and reading, " 'Dear diary, I can't profess enough of my love for Kip—he is cute, dreamy, charming, friendly and everything a girl could ever want in a boy! Maybe if I'm lucky, he'll be my prince, and Vienna and I will have a new friend to go on adventures with—' " Then Wynfred interrupted with her own laughter, "OH, GET REAL!" and threw the diary on the ground.

"YEAH," laughed Xandra while she and the other girls stood over the diary, "LET'S DESTROY IT!"

"NOOOOOOO!" cried Nydia as she witnessed the girls start their stomping all over her diary. Nydia cried more and more, and louder and louder as she covered her face in her hands.

Seeing Nydia's pain, Xandra and those other girls kept laughing and stomping the binding, the covering, the papers, dismembering Nydia's book more and more.

Xandra happily said, "LET ME AT IT!" as she reached down for the now-beaten diary, grabbed it and ran to Nydia. Xandra lifted Nydia's face out of her hands, making her watch as she'd hold the diary with both hands before Nydia's direct view. Xandra told her, "HEY, THIS IS WHAT I THINK OF YOUR STUPID DIARY!" Then Xandra grabbed the diary by both ends and started pulling, ripping by its edges.

Watching the diary start to split apart, Nydia cryingly told Xandra, "NO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

And Xandra soon ripped the diary in half. Then she ripped the two halves of it in more halves... and even more halves than that... and in even more pieces, and so on.

Nydia screamingly cried, "AAAAAAAAH!" from seeing her diary fall to the ground in shambles.

Xandra and the other girls laughed at Nydia's pain again. Xandra pointed at Nydia, looked to the other girls and kept laughing, "LOOK AT HER CRY!" and they laughed as well. Xandra then made her way to Nydia's already-open backpack, looked inside and said, "Let's seeeee," and dug her hand around the inside. "What else do we have in here—OH!" She pulled her hand out, revealing many dollar bills in her grip—the ones that Nydia accidentally packed. Xandra showed that cash to the other girls and said, "LOOK, Y'ALL; NYDIA HERE ISN'T AS POOR AS WE THOUGHT!" and laughed with them while Piper ran forward, flipped through the bills and exclaimed, "LET ME SEE—WOW! THIS IS A LOT OF MONEY!"

Xandra looked to Nydia with a straight face and said, "Where'd you get this money?"

"NO!" cried Nydia. "THAT'S FOR OUR FAMILY! IF WE DON'T HAVE THOSE FUNDS, WE'LL BE HOMELESS!"

"HOMELESS?!" laughed Xandra while the other girls laughed also. She stacked the dollars together and laughed again, "LET'S MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENS, OKAY?!" before ripping them all into pieces.

"XANDRA, NO!" cried Nydia while getting up, only to immediately be pinned against the wall by Wynfred and Piper.

Voleta and Orabel used to be Nydia's friends. Good thing my talented influences changed that.... Hehe, thought Xandra before she continued tearing up the bills. She laughingly told Nydia, "HOW'S IT FEEL TO KNOW YOU'RE GONNA LOSE EVERYTHING?!" Nydia's only response was crying while Xandra laughed, "HUH?!" and while the other girls laughed too. Now with all of Nydia's money in shreds, Xandra kept her smile and said, "Well, looks like you're gonna be homeless. Too bad." Xandra then picked up one of Nydia's books and threw it at her face.

Nydia cried louder from the book hitting her face and bruising her cheek a bit.

Xandra laughed, "YEAH, LOOK AT YOU CRY!" Then she picked up an even heavier book and said, "HOW'S IT FEEL TO KNOW YOU'RE A LOSER, HUH?!" before hurling that too at Nydia's face.

Nydia cried even more, bleeding from the forehead and more from the mouth.

Xandra picked up another book and said, "Y'know, you're really..." and tossed it at Nydia's face, "NOTHIN'..." and picked up another book to once more pelt Nydia's face, "...but a piece of..." and picked up another to do it again, "DIRT, right?!" And Xandra proceeded to laugh with her girls.

By then, Nydia's eyes, two more spots on her forehead and her mouth were all bleeding. She also had a black eye that couldn't stay open anymore... and she still cried all the while.

Xandra picked up Nydia's backpack and said, "IT AIN'T OVER, WEIRDO!" She then got in a throwing motion. "I'M GONNA HURT YOU SO BAD!"

Nydia screamed in fear before Xandra pitched the backpack at her face, making Nydia cry even more while blood flew from her nose and mouth.

Xandra and her girls once again laughed at Nydia getting hurt. Then Xandra saw a rock, picked it up, got in a throwing motion again and said, "HEY, LET'S TRY YOUR NOSE!" And she pitched the rock at Nydia's nose.

Nydia screamed, "AAAAAAH!" and cried with great pain while her nose bled more.

Xandra said with a pleased nod, "Yeaaaaah," and again laughed with the other girls. Then Xandra snapped her fingers. "Okay, y'all let go of her."

Wynfred and Piper released their hold on Nydia, allowing the now very injured and emotionally hurt girl to slide down the wall and to the ground, crying with her face in her hands.

Xandra then told the girls, "Y'all destroy her backpack and the rest of her belongings—not you, Sheila, you stay in the van."

"Okay!" laughed Sheila.

Nydia then uncovered her tearful and brutalized face.... Upon witnessing the girls barbarically ripping her backpack, books and pens all apart, she cried, "NO! STOP!"

With one arm, Xandra pinned Nydia against the wall and roughly said, "Come here, you!"

"NO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" cried Nydia.

Xandra, smiling at the fearful Nydia, pulled back her other arm and slugged Nydia right in the face.

Nydia gave a loud crying scream while blood flew from her nose and mouth.

Xandra enjoyed the feel of her face getting wet from Nydia's blood. She laughed at Nydia's pain while she began punching Nydia's face repeatedly, now using both fists. Every punch from Xandra made more and more blood fly from Nydia's face, all while Xandra laughed at Nydia's screams of pain.

All the while, Xandra's girls kept happily ripping up everything Nydia valued.

Xandra kept happily punching Nydia while keeping her pinned against the wall, giving the already brutalized girl even more pain than she already had. And Xandra enjoyed Nydia screaming and crying for mercy that would never be given.

...Much later, it was six seventeen p.m. when Nydia was now on the ground, far too weak to do anything except breathe while tears just flowed from her eyes like a fountain, and blood flowed from her eyes, nose and mouth in the same manner. Indeed... her tears and blood were mixing on the concrete. And being unable to do anything, Nydia watched Xandra kick all of the poor girl's destroyed belongings into viewpoint, just for Nydia to see and know that they were... well, destroyed.

Looking down at Nydia with her hands on her hips, Xandra teased, "Well, here ya go, loser.... I hope you never forget the day that you lost everything you cared for so near and dear. Now it's all gone." Then Xandra laughed with the other girls.

Nydia's only response was remaining in her current position, unable to do anything else.

Seeing that her job was done, Xandra told the other girls, "Come on... let's go home." Then Xandra turned away from Nydia as she'd walk off with the other girls. Xandra went on to tell them, "Let's leave Nydia to suffer and cry in pain." And Xandra laughed, as did the other girls.

As for Nydia, she just remained in her position, still shedding many, many tears....

***

As for 1098 and I, we were currently in an alley downtown and sitting beside some trash cans. It was as though I were back to square one, in terms of my living conditions, all over again....

1098 remained silent... before looking to me and saying, "Judging by what I read from your mind, selling copies of the local newspaper might help your finances... even if a little. Do you... know where you might find those?"

I merely looked down with gloom and shook my head in response.

1098 said, "Oh..." and looked away.

I muffled, "Well, I mean... Yeah, I think the nearby convenience store might have some... but—"

"I understand you don't want to go through the hassle," 1098 said after reading my mind. "It's... fine."

I sighed and muffled, "This is so horrible.... Herbertia, Somer, Julian, they've left us on the street. Tch. I should have known better than to trust people... again."

1098 looked my way and said, "Ikjot... don't pull that. Not this time."

"Ah?" I muffled, shocked and looking her way.

1098 nodded and said, "...You brought this on yourself. Herbertia tried so hard to make you spend time with her, give her the same treatment that you constantly gave Xandra. In the end... she's given you what you gave her: Nothing."

"And just who are you to judge me?" I became defensive.

"You know what?" 1098 said as she got up, now looking down at me. "I'm going to give you what Herbertia should have given you. Get up."

I shyly looked away.

Now with thin patience, 1098 reached down and grabbed my shirt collar, yanking me to my feet.

"Hey!" I muffled.

1098 raised her fists. She said, "We'll just have a few exchanges. I won't hit your face; I know Herbertia already did that enough."

"Herbertia already got her vengeance when she hit me over that argument we had about the cigarettes."

"And I'm going to hit you over breaking her heart." But 1098 soon waited for me to say something back. She finally broke the silence, saying, "I said FIGHT me, Ikjot!"

Visibly shocked, I said, "I thought you were supposed to be calm and uncaring about this kind of stuff!"

"Not when your stupidity and arrogance has caused us both to be homeless," said 1098, gently punching my arm.

"Hey!" I complained.

"And I'm tired of you blaming others even when things are your own fault! You have the nerve to blame Herbertia for betraying you when it's you who betrayed her first. I don't care if there's girls like those four I saw back at that park... who hurt guys just to see them turn bad; that doesn't mean kind people like you give in to becoming horrible! That's on you, Ikjot!" Then 1098 looked down, calming herself a bit. "And I... understand you have trust issues." Then she looked back up to me. "But that's no reason to become like the very people who've constantly turned their backs on you!"

I grunted, looking down to my right in knowing she... had a point about me.

"Now come on," 1098 said while giving me a push, using both her hands. "Fight. Me. Right. Now."

"I won't fight you, 1098. This isn't like you—"

"I have my limits, Ikjot, and you've pushed them." Then 1098 gently slapped my shoulder.

I rubbed my shoulder and said, "I refuse. You're my friend, 1098...."

1098 silently gasped. Her eyes were wide to my words. She couldn't recall anyone calling her their... friend, at least not since the start of her existence. She lowered her fists and looked down, saying, "You know... Herbertia called me the F word too. But it wasn't 'friend.' It was... 'freak of nature.' "

I remembered what she was talking about, through a flashback:

"What's that even supposed to mean?" said Herbertia, scratching her head.

"Herbertia, try not to be stupid, please?" replied 1098.

Herbertia grew an unamused expression and said, "What's that supposed to mean, you horrified FREAK of nature—?!"

"Ladies, ladies!" I interrupted, trying to keep the peace.

And my flashback was over. I told 1098, "Now, you... did call her 'stupid,' if I recall right."

1098 sighed and said, "That I did. But... still, Ikjot, you..." and she looked me in the eyes, "consider me your... friend?"

"Ah?" I puzzled. "Well, yes, I... do."

"...I can read your mind and... can tell you mean that." She looked down. "I should not care for this, really.... Something like 'friendship' should be pointless in my view, considering my purpose for existing is no higher than a textbook for you and Herbertia."

I turned away from 1098 while muffling, "Yeah, well... there's no need to worry about doing things for Herbertia anymore. Look at what she did to us. Me, I can understand but... kicking you out too?"

1098 rolled her eyes, folded her arms and said, "Yes, well... we weren't exactly close. All she ever did was accuse me of trying to steal you from her." She then looked back to me. "Anyway... that's enough of this pointless conversation." She then turned her head, noting the sound of cars constantly passing. "This is time I could spend trying to sleep... albeit impossible through these noises of the outside streets."

"Yes, well..." I replied, "you'll find that it's nearly impossible to get 'rest' out in an environment like this."

1098 smirked and said, "Maybe that's why you keep making bad decisions, Ikjot. Getting rest is important to keeping your mind healthy."

I rolled my eyes and muffled, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Exactly," said 1098, unamused as she looked back to me again. "Now... please 'shut up' as you humans say... and let us try to get some rest?"

***

The following Wednesday morning at six thirty, Nydia who now wore gauze all over her face, arms and legs, stood before her very displeased mother who spanked her with a belt and angrily shouted, "NYDIA, HOW COULD YOU?! THANKS TO YOU, WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE ON THE STREET NOW! I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!"

Since the gauze were especially wrapped around her mouth, Nydia muffled, "BUT MOM, IT WAS XANDRA WHO—"

"XANDRA'S ACTIONS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR RESPONSIBILITY! HOW DID THAT MONEY GET INTO YOUR BACKPACK ANYWAY, HUH?!"

Nydia's only response was a whimper of shame while she replied, "I... don't know, Mom.... I just don't know...." And Nydia covered her teary face.

"Well, what are... we going to do now...?" asked Wallace, worried.

Ms. Yarbrough sighed and paused for a good moment. She soon turned to Wallace with a look of disappointment and said, "Pack our things. We're going to be on the streets...." She looked back to her daughter and said, "As for you, Nydia, it's time for you to go to school!"

"AAAAAAH?!" panicked Nydia with great fear.

"You heard me."

"BUT MOM, I CAN'T! XANDRA AND HER GIRLS ARE GONNA—"

"If they do anything, tell a teacher—that's it!"

"BUT MOM, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! EVERYONE TRUSTS XANDRA AND THOSE GIRLS; AND THEY ESPECIALLY TRUST XANDRA!"

"Well, you can't stay at home just because you're having peer troubles, Nydia! Your education is more important than those quarrels, so get to school!"

"BUT, MOM—"

But Ms. Yarbrough just pointed at the door, commanding, "NOW, NYDIA!"

Nydia paused with sadness... then looked down and turned away from her mother. Nydia walked to the door, opened it, walked out and closed it behind her.

Ms. Yarbrough momentarily remained still... before walking to the side and telling Wallace, "Let's start packing our things."

"Right," said Wallace, following their mom.

***

Upon Nydia arriving to school at seven forty a.m., everyone—including Xandra and Orabel with their cliques—pointed and laughed at her new bandaged condition. Nydia held her head down in shame while Rye ran past her and said, "WHAT'S UP?!" while smacking her across the head.

"OW!" cried Nydia while Rye laughed at her.

"LOOKIN' GOOD, NYDIA!" teased Xandra with a laugh.

"YOU SHOULD BE A FACE MODEL!" teased one of the third grade mouse girls.

Xandra, smiling, leaned down to Piper and asked, "Didn't we tell that weirdo never to come back here...?"

"Obviously she didn't get the message," said Piper, folding her arms and smiling too.

Meanwhile, 1098 and I also arrived. We walked behind Nydia while I muffled to 1098, "Wow! What happened to her...?"

"I would know if I could read her mind and not yours..." replied an unamused 1098.

Hearing my voice from behind, Nydia widened her eyes, looked to me, ran to me and muffled, "IKJOT, LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID TO ME!"

Just then, I noticed Xandra who, shaking her head, lip synced the word No.... to me.

I nodded in response and muffled to Nydia, "Sorry, I've got to go..." and walked off with 1098.

"WHAAAAT?!" muffled a shocked Nydia.

With an irritated expression, 1098 thought to me, That wasn't the morally right thing to do, Ikjot.

I thought back, I have to keep the good thing I got going with the hottest of the school, 1098.

1098 rolled her eyes and thought back, I see.... You completely got nothing from our conversation last night.

Looking down at 1098, I thought back, And what's that supposed to mean?

1098 responded, Exactly.

Nydia muffled her call out to me, "Wait... IKJOT!" Realizing I ignored her, Nydia looked down and continued to herself, "Oh, what's the point...? He's one of Xandra's groupies too...."

***

Minutes later in the sixth grade line, Ximena puzzled with saying, "Whaaaaaat?" He scratched the back of his head. "I don't... understand...."

1098 remained momentarily silent.... She nodded and said, "It's true.... Herbertia is not coming back...."

"WHA?!" exclaimed the other sixth graders.

1098 simply nodded to them in response. Her expression a bored one as usual.

"Well, good riddance!" laughed Ilana (while 1098's eyes directed to her). "She was a liar anyway!"

"A complete phony!" said Xiomara.

"We won't miss her," said Hobbs who stood beside Xander Lennon.

1098 once again remained silent.... She looked down and said, "Yes...."

Ximena also looked down, but with sadness.... He thought, Gosh.... Why Herbertia? She was the only person here who... felt like my friend.

***

That same morning at eight forty-five in Sanne, all the girls in Marta's school were shocked upon seeing her and Ram wearing nearly-full body casts, rolling themselves in wheelchairs down the hall. Simona was also shocked, and she proved it by taking out her cellphone, dialing a number, holding the phone to her ear, waiting for it to answer and heard a voice say, "Hello?"

"Hi, Penelope, it's Simona," said Simona. "You'll never believe what's happened! Marta and Ram were—"

Penelope sighed... and said, "You know I want to help, but I can't. My dad still doesn't want me to come back to school."

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"...I don't know, Simona.... I'm sorry...." And Penelope hung up.

"PENELOPE, WAIT—UGH!" And Simona threw her phone to the floor, accidentally breaking off its hood. Frustrated, she said, "Oooooooh! Great...."

Ram sighed and muffled (since gauze were all over her face), "Well... it looks like we'll have to walk home—well, stroll home... all over again, and without Penelope's protection."

Marta looked down with a sigh. She said nothing... and finally muffled, "Yeah...."

***

By around nine thirty that morning back at my school in Righteous Korrigan, all classes followed their teachers into the church. Once a week, usually Wednesday, was when all classes would attend mass for an hour. I was rather... sinful, however. Mass should have been about me thinking about GOD. It should not have been about me getting distracted by how beautiful Xandra looked in a white robe with a black collar and sleeves, holding a Eucharist while walking down the side aisle. She was even hotter with being accompanied by Xiomara and Gylda who wore the same type of robes, both holding a Eucharist of their own and following behind Xandra. I truly found it hot how Gylda was taller than Xandra, and how Xiomara was even taller than Gylda... with Xandra, even though shorter than those two, still being taller than myself. But again... I sinned. I shouldn't had been staring at Xandra, Gylda and Xiomara; especially not in the Lord's home.

***

By one o'three p.m. that day, I was on the grass field when Xandra, standing with her girls, gloomily told me, "Oh, Ikjot... I'm sad again...." She pointed to the barbed wire fence behind me. "Could you run into that fence over there...?"

I gulped, looked behind myself and fearfully muffled, "Run into the... barbed wire fence...?"

Now with a sadder face, Xandra sniffed, covered her eyes and pretended to cry while saying, "Don't you love me, Ikjot...?" followed by a sniff.

I looked back to her and muffled, "Wha...?" And I placed my hand on her shoulder. "Of course I do...!"

She slightly uncovered her eyes and asked, "Then you'll run you into the fence...?"

"Well, I... Um, absolutely...!"

Realizing I was just standing there at that point, Xandra paused... then said, "Okay, go!"

I turned away from her, muffled, "Yes, ma'am," and ran towards the fence.

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Then... BAM! My already injured and wrapped face slammed right into those hard, hot barbed wires—good thing the paper was somewhat a good covering to keep me from getting bruises; but it didn't protect my nose. I fell to the ground, holding my nose and shouted (muffled), "OOOOOOOW!" before noticing blood on my palms. "OH NO! I—I'M BLEEDING!"

Minutes later, I was once again in the penguin nurse's office, sitting on one of the chairs by the door and holding an icepack over my nose. While she sat at her desk, shuffling through some papers, the nurse said, "You get hurt a lot, don't you, kid?"

***

On the yard at the wood chips field, Nydia walked to Yam, Kip, Quenishia and Xandy who were playing on one of the two castles. She loudly muffled to them, "HEY, GUYS, DID YOU WANT TO HELP ME HUNT FOR BUGS BY THE SWINGS?!"

They all paused and Yam said, "What?! EW, NO! Go do it yourself!"

Nydia puzzled with sadness, "But..." before muffling to another, "What about you, Kip?!"

"No can do!" said Kip.

"Xandy...?" muffled Nydia, becoming less hopeful.

"Pass..." said Xandy while rolling her eyes.

"Quenishia...?" Nydia muffled to her next.

"Nope!" said Quenishia.

Nydia panicked, "GUYS, WHY AREN'T YOU MY FRIENDS ANYMORE—"

"BECAUSE WE HATE YOU!" said Yam.

Nydia was shocked beyond imagination.

"YEAH, SO GO AWAY!" said Kip.

"Kip...?" puzzled Nydia with quivering lips while tears formed in her eyes.

Approaching Nydia from behind, Xandra laughed, "Yeah, even Kip!"

Nydia's eyes widened with fear.... She turned her head and saw Xandra and her clique, as well as Orabel and hers, standing behind her.

Helena then came to Nydia, gasped and asked, "NYDIA, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!"

Xandra thought, I would mind control Helena too... but why do that when I can have my own sister hated just as much as Nydia by everyone else? It just makes it all the more wrong of me. Hehe.

Nydia muffled to Helena, "Well..." before looking to Xandra and seeing she bore a look that read, Don't you dare tell anyone.... Nydia looked back to Helena and continued, "Mom got in a car accident this weekend."

"HA!" laughed Xandra. "I can see why: She's so fat!" and laughed with the other girls.

Helena said, "XAN, WHY DON'T YOU GET LOST?!"

Xandra said with an innocent face, "But, Helena, I overheard Nydia tellin' Ikjot that you were ugly!"

Nydia muffled, "WHAT?! NO I DI—"

Helena laughingly interrupted, "DON'T WORRY, NYDIA; I'm not fallin' for that!" Helena then walked to Xandra, looked up at her and said, "You know what?! I'm really sick of you pickin' on people! It's not cool! And—"

Helena's words became indistinct to Xandra who thought, Oy... I guess I'll just have to temporarily mind control her—anything to make her shut up.

Helena continued, "What's so wrong with just caring for someone for a change when they're hurt? You have to have a heart, big sis, and—" But then Helena held her head with slight agony while she groaned with discomfort... before opening her eyes with an evil smile. She looked to Nydia and said, "Um... I've got to go...."

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Xandra then stepped in front of Nydia and said, "Hey..." and laughed, "didn't I tell ya not to come back here...?"

"Uh..." muffled Nydia in worry... while the other girls cornered her in a circle.

Xandra laughed again, "Because I could've sworn that I did!"

Nydia tried explaining herself, muffling her words due to the bandages. "Well... it's just that my mom made me come today; so that's why I—"

The girls laughed while Xandra mockingly said, "Oh, boohoo...." She continued, "I don't..." and pushed Nydia, "CARE if your mom told you to come. You should've just played hooky until it was time for her to come pick your trashy self up!"

Nydia muffled, "I couldn't do that! She would have killed me!"

Xandra and the other girls laughed.... "Yeaaaaah," said Xandra before laughing while saying, "but I don't care!" Then she laughed some more with the other girls.

"Why you always gotta be such a loser, Nydia?!" laughed Piper.

"Why don't you go back to Loren?!" laughed Wynfred, referring to Nydia's home state.

Adding to Wynfred's statement, Xandra came close to a fearful Nydia and said, "What...? You need a," and she shoved her, "push...?" before laughing again with the other girls.

"But it wasn't my fault!" muffled Nydia in panic, stumbling after Xandra pushed her.

Xandra was stunned with disbelief.... She looked to the girls and said, "Can you believe her...?" then made them laugh while she mocked, " 'It wasn't my faaaaaault.' " She looked back to Nydia with a laugh and said, "Yeah, right! By the way, how'd it feel to be given that big fine by Mrs. Ives this morning for losing your books?" then she laughed again, followed by the other girls.

"I couldn't even write anything this morning because all my pens were gone!" panicked Nydia.

As Xandra laughed with the other girls, she said, "Yeah! Serves ya right!" and pushed Nydia again. "Why don't you fight back...?"

"B-Because I'm scared..." fearfully replied Nydia.

"Awwwww," teased Xandra, walking forward and making Nydia back away. "Look at that—she's scared!" And Xandra laughed with the other girls again.

Nydia then bumped into Wynfred who pushed her forward to Xandra.

Xandra then caught Nydia in a body lock, laughed and said, "Come on! Do something!" Then let go of her.

Nydia then carefully walked in the opposite direction, hoping to escape Xandra, but got pushed forward by Orabel. "WHOA!" exclaimed Nydia (a muffled voice) as she'd try to maintain her balance upon coming towards Xandra again.

Xandra then caught Nydia by the shoulders, put her mouth to her neck and firmly licked it.

Nydia's eyes directed to Xandra. She soon trembled with fear.

Seeing the circle of girls, but not Xandra and Nydia inside, a brown bear girl with light-blonde hair puzzled, "Hey, what's going on over there...?" and walked to them. She gently squeezed through and saw Xandra once again walking towards Nydia who backed away. The girl then looked to the other students with a smile and shouted, "HEY, THERE'S A FIGHT GOING ON!"

A goose girl happily exclaimed, "A FIGHT?!" and ran to the circle to see for herself. She then looked to the other students and also said, "HEY, THE HIGHEST OF THE COOL IN THE SCHOOL IS ABOUT TO MESS UP THAT WEIRDO NYDIA!" and laughed.

"WHAT?!" exclaimed a boy cheetah as he'd go running with many other students.

"THIS I GOTTA SEE!" said a gray horse girl with a laugh.

Inside the circle, as many students began gathering around to see, Xandra, who kept walking after Nydia, had her fists up.

Nydia, as she kept walking away, was very scared.

Xandra, with a stern expression, told Nydia, "You shoulda stayed away from school like I told ya..." and swung her left fist at Nydia, deliberately missing just to scare the poor girl and make her move aside with a muffled scream.

Everyone watching laughed at this.

As she kept following Nydia, Xandra thought, One of them stupid teachers will come n' try to stop this—better make sure that doesn't happen.

Just then, all of the teachers on the yard, before any of them would realize the commotion, grew blank expressions as they'd all see a picture of space in their minds. Of course... this was Xandra's mind control at play.

"Wooooooow," awed Sister Nylah Zita.

"Isn't it lovelyyyyyy?" awed Mr. Nutbrown.

Xandra thought, Perfect.... She then told Nydia, "Come on, weirdo, fight me!" and swung her right fist forward, only to deliberately miss and scare Nydia to the side again, making everyone laugh. Xandra now followed Nydia in a circle and teased, "What's wrong? Are ya too poor to fight since I tore up your mom's money?" and laughed. Then Xandra swung her left fist forward, deliberately missing Nydia again.

"AH!" muffle-screamed Nydia as she moved to the side.

Xandra continued, "Was your tubby mommy mad...?" and laughed again. She then reached for Nydia's face while happily saying, "Gimme your bandages!" and grabbed hold of them.

Nydia muffle-screamed with fear and begged, "NOOOOOOO!"

But Xandra ripped them off anyway, revealing Nydia's swollen and bruised mouth from yesterday's beating. Xandra pointed and laughed, "LOOK AT HOW BIG HER LIPS ARE!" causing everyone else to laugh as well.

Nydia looked down with shame as she'd cry from the pain—the pain from having her bandages ripped off, and the humiliation she felt before her peers.

Causing Nydia to once again walk backwards, Xandra who walked forward laughed while telling her, "Your lips are so big, they could serve as your family's new home!" and kept laughing. She then grabbed Nydia by the shoulders and said, "Why don't you hit me? Just do it, weirdo!" and laughed again.

Nydia looked down with quivering lips and kept crying.

Xandra teasingly said, "Aw, look at her! She's a little scaredy-cat!" and laughed with the others. Xandra then swung her left fist across Nydia's already-bruised mouth, causing it to bleed again.

Nydia fell on the wood chips and cried, much to the laughter of everyone around her.

And Xandra's laugh proved she was enjoying it the most. She kneeled down to Nydia and laughed again while saying, "Wow! You look so bad—let's make ya look even worse!"

To that statement, Nydia's eyes widened with great fear while the other students laughed more.

As for 1098 and I, we weren't laughing. With an angered look and ever-tightening fists, 1098 kept watching the incident. She looked to me (although I had my back turned) and thought, How... could you, Ikjot?

Keeping my eyes off of what was going on, I thought back to 1098, If I intervene, who's to say I'm not defending the same person who said horrible things about me in secret? I then felt a hard slap across my face. Holding my stinging cheek, I looked to... Yes. I could tell with her hand extended that 1098 was the one who slapped me; not just some random person who walked up to us.

Ikjot... thought 1098, getting angrier, I don't care if you're mad at Nydia. A child who's already injured and hurt doesn't deserve being wailed on and humiliated by that big dumb BRUTE!

Xandra reached behind herself and pulled off her right shoe, held it over Nydia's face and laughed, "Ya see this thing?!"

Nydia cried with even more fear.

Raising her shoe, Xandra went on to tell Nydia, "I'm gonna bust you up pretty bad...." And she laughed, "PREPARE TO GET HURT EVEN MORE THAN YA ALREADY ARE, YA LOUSY WASTE OF LIFE!"

I angrily thought back to her, Xandra is finally my girlfriend, 1098.... And after all the betrayals I've endured, all those women who've turned on me before—

"And Xandra will be added to that list," 1098 told me aloud and in a deeper voice of warning, slightly lowering her head while still looking up at me. "You can't lie to yourself forever... Ikjot."

"You know not what you say," I muffled while turning away from 1098 and folded my arms again. "Xandra loves me, and that's thanks to me actually replying when she's tried talking to me for a change. You're the one who was foolish enough to tell me that someone like Herbertia truly loved me. Tch! Why should I trust anything further that you say?"

"You can't be serious, Ikjot..." said 1098, lowering her head even more while still watching me.

With great glee, Xandra bashed her shoe down on Nydia's face, making blood fly everywhere as she'd laugh with the other students. Xandra bashed and bashed, causing the blood to wet her own face as she'd laugh and keep up the unnecessary brutalization.

Soon, Nydia had a greatly bloody mouth, eyes and nose.

Xandra, with a laugh, lifted her shoe one final time and smashed it down on Nydia's face, making many teeth fly out and into the wood chips. Xandra happily saw the missing teeth from Nydia's wide-open mouth, as well as her even more bloody eyes, mouth and nose.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Nydia weakly cried in non-stop pain. And Xandra and every other student—minus myself and 1098—kept laughing about it.

Xandra then cupped her hands on the ground to gather some wood chips. Once this was achieved, she held her cupped hands over Nydia's face and released her hold, allowing the wood chips to fall all over Nydia's face.

Nydia coughed from many wood chips entering her bloody mouth while she kept crying.

Xandra laughed and teased, "Wow! Look at her! She ain't nothin'!"

And the other students laughed as well... minus 1098 and myself.

Xandra then laid on the ground and whooped, "WOOOOOOOO!" as she began throwing some wood chips over herself. That's right, herself; not Nydia that time. Xandra kept this up until there were wood chips all over her own hair, face, body, legs—everywhere. Next, she flashed a sly grin and released her mind control over the teachers.

"Ah..." puzzled Sister Nylah Zita as she'd rub her head with confusion. "Where... am I—" then she noticed the crowd of children. Sister Nylah Zita angrily exclaimed, "HUH?!" and stormed towards them with Mr. Nutbrown beside her. Growing angrier, Sister Nylah Zita went on to say, "Why those little...!" Breaking through the crowd with Mr. Nutbrown beside her, she ferociously shouted, turning redder in the face with every next word, "WHAAAAAAT'S GOING OOOOOOOOON?!"

While Nydia continued to cry, Xandra exclaimed like some innocent victim, "OH, SISTER NYLAH ZITA!" and ran to her.

Sister Nylah Zita gasped and exclaimed, "XANDRA, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!"

Mr. Nutbrown said with a worried look, "Kid, you okay?" He then looked to Nydia. "She okay?!"

Feigning a whimper with her hands covering her face, Xandra made it to Sister Nylah Zita and said, "It was just..." and uncovered her face, revealing tears, "so awful!" before making a sniff. Xandra pointed to Nydia and said, "Nydia just pushed me to the ground and started beating herself up—it was crazy!"

Nydia gasped with shock and cryingly shouted, "SISTER NYLAH ZITA—"

"NYDIAAAAAA," the very angry Sister shouted her warning, "ONE MORE WORRRRD!" Then she continued to Xandra, "That must be why you're covered in wood chips...."

Still with fake tears, Xandra sniffed and said, "Yes, it is, Sister Nylah Zita.... I just feel so sorry for poor Nydia.... The stress she is going through must be so devastating that she just doesn't know how to handle it..." and sniffed again.

Nydia cried her plea, "IT'S A LIE, SISTER NYLAH ZITA—"

"NYDIA," angrily shouted Sister Nylah Zita again, "YOU'VE BEEN KNOWN TO HARM PEOPLE ON THIS YARD BEFORE!"

"IT'S TRUE, SISTER NYLAH ZITA!" Orabel said in fake panic.

As much as it hurt her beaten face, Nydia's mouth and eyes nonetheless went wide open with surprise to Orabel backing up Xandra's lie.

"YEAH!" Yosef also said in fake panic. "NYDIA JUST ATTACKED XANDRA THEN ATTACKED HERSELF EVEN WORSE!"

Eventually, Sister Nylah Zita would notice everyone in the crowd agreeing with the girls, saying the same things.

A female golden cat student shouted, "YEAH, NYDIA'S GUILTY!"

A female porcupine student shouted, "NYDIA WAS A COMPLETE PSYCHO! YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HER!"

Nydia was very shocked and cried, "HOW COULD YOU ALL DO THIS TO ME?! YOU ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!" More tears escaped her eyes. "YOU ALL STOOD AROUND LAUGHING WHILE... XANDRA HURT ME!" And she sniffed.

Clearly mad, based on her expression, 1098 nudged my shoulder and growlingly said, "Ikjot, you march right over there and tell those teachers the truth!"

"Nydia made fun of me behind my back," I muffled with anger and folded arms. "Besides, this is my only chance to retain the hot girlfriend I've wanted for so long."

1098's eyes widened in rage. She walked around to get in front of me.

I looked down at her and muffled, "Oh, I can't believe—what is it now?" And then, I saw 1098's fist close in to my view before—BAM! And in unison with that sound were a few colorful lights. Holding my right eye, I muffle-screamed, "AAAH!" I got on my knees and one hand.

"Hopefully it swells," said 1098, folding her arms and looking down at me. "And if the teachers ask about it... you did it to yourself."

Not noticing my talk with 1098, and instead just the immediate students in her vicinity who backed up the lying, Xandra kept her fake sad face—for the sake of keeping the teachers fooled—while she thought, Perfect.... Since everyone likes me n' my girls now—okay, mainly mostly me, ahaha—they're on my side! Sweet! What a bunch of suckers.... He-he.

Setting her hand on Xandra's shoulder, Sister Nylah Zita calmly instructed, "Xandra, why don't you go to the girl's restroom and get yourself cleaned off?"

Xandra sniffed again and said, "Oh, thank you, Sister Nylah Zita!" before walking off. "I am just so greatly worried for Nydia's poor soul...!" and she fake-sniffed again.

Nydia, crying with disbelief, had her arm grabbed by Sister Nylah Zita who said, "AS FOR YOU, YOUNG LADY!" and walked her out of the crowd. "I'M TAKING YOU ON A ONE-WAY TRIP TO SISTER YEDDA TULL'S OFFICE!"

And the other students—minus 1098 and myself—laughed at Nydia's dismay.

Nydia cried, "NOOOOOO, SISTER NYLAH ZITA, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAN—"

"EH!" interrupted Sister Nylah Zita, still walking Nydia. "NO 'BUTS,' YOUNG LADY!"

Mr. Nutbrown told the crowd, "Okay, everyone get back to playing! We'll handle this!"

Following that command, the students all went their separate ways.

As for 1098, she walked away from me and telepathically communicated, I've had enough of babysitting you, Ikjot. If you're willing to stand by and watch as Xandra hurts defenseless people... then you're no different from when you watched as she hurt Zane Rousseau.

That Zane Rousseau part... 1098 must have thought that last bit in a way where I'd hear it—because I did. How... dare you bring up Zane? I thought back while slowly regaining balance. That situation was completely different; one of Xandra's guards gut-punched me and I was rendered useless!

1098 responded, And even now, you're still useless.

"WHAT?!" I muffled angrily.

"WOW!" exclaimed Orabel, nearly walking past me before noticing the purple around my right eye. She said, "Ikjot, what happened to your eye?!"

"Oh," I muffled, "it was... a basketball that someone threw; they did it by accident."

"The nurse is seeing you a lot today, isn't she?" Orabel remarked, smiling while looking down and rubbing the back of her head.

Feeling off about Orabel seeming happy about that, I muffled, "Yeah, I... guess so."

Across from our school and on the sidewalk of a neighborhood once again stood those two agents who watched everything.

"Gee, Denise..." said the second agent to the first, "I'm not so sure. Seeing just these displays today, not including all the others... this Ikjot kid just seems... weak. Maybe he isn't the material we've been looking for after all...."

"Negative, Fiona..." said Denise to the second agent. She narrowed her eyes and continued, "Yes, he gets injured a lot... but note his durability. It's most admirable. He's the perfect candidate."

And Denise smirked. "Yet perfect as he is, he still won't be able to resist... when our time comes to assemble him."

Fiona took some time thinking on it... and soon nodded. "Right," she replied.

***

At the shack, Vicky screamed in pain from Derick's foot being on her face, keeping her pinned by the head to the floor.

"HA!" laughed Derick. "You piece of trash...." Then Derick strengthened his step, causing Vicky to scream even more.

Meanwhile, Vanessa, who was being held in a body lock by a snickering Mike, would weakly cry, "Vi...cky.... Aaaa-aaaaaaah!"

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By three p.m. at Marta's school in Sanne, all the girls, for a first time, were not happily running out of the building. Rather, they already stood outside and all had faces of worry for Marta and Ram who, in their body casts and bound to wheelchairs, would roll themselves on out through the doors. Marta looked to the right side of the crowd, seeing the fellow students' concerned faces... then to her left, seeing the same.

Ram muffled, "Well... I guess it's time to face the music again—wait... couldn't your mom and dad come pick you up?"

Marta shook her head and muffled, "No.... Tiane took our vehicle."

"Oh... that's right."

"Yeah..." laughed an all-too familiar voice before the girls. "That's right...."

Marta and Ram stopped rolling and saw Tiane and her two colleagues before them.

The crowd of students became fearful as Tiane said to them as well, "That's right... fear me! HA! If any of you squirts get in the way of this, you'll be joinin' these two losers!"

Ram panicked, "RUN—I MEAN, ROLL!" She turned her wheelchair in the opposite direction with Marta's, and they both started rolling towards the school's entrance.

Tiane jumped in their way and teasingly told Marta and Ram, "Goin' somewhere...?" before laughing meanly, "Hahahahaha!"

Marta and Ram fearfully trembled in place.

Locking her own hands together, Tiane, with a smirk, started cracking her knuckles and said, "Now..." before walking towards the two girls, "which one of yas am I gonna pound first...?" And laughed again.

Things don't seem good for Marta and Ram at this point! And with Penelope under house arrest by her father, it looks like she won't be able to help them out either! How much longer will this madness go on?!

Ikjot has finally gotten together with Xandra, the very person who he has yet to know the true colors of! On the outside, she appears to be his best friend; but on the inside is a darkness beyond his imagination... and not taking 1098's advice isn't helping him either! Come on, Ikjot... you gotta wake up! And you can't stand by while defenseless Nydia gets hurt either! Be a good person, man!

As for Vanessa and Vicky, the abuse goes on.... Derick and Mike have laid down the law and refuse to cease their tyranny over the girls. Will those two escape this nightmare of brutality?! Find out what happens in the next chapter of Something!

***

In the next Something... Ikjot, you haven't stepped up as the hero for Nydia at all! Why not?!

While the other girls giggled and laughed, Orabel laughingly told Ikjot, "Kick her raccoon TAIL, Ikjot!"

Well, Ikjot, if you won't step up, then 1098 might just do it in your place. Better yet... maybe your own FAMILY will! Don't miss it... next Something!

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Ikjot's Sister Comes to School

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♪ Yes, I didn't talk to anyone. ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3HANAoT10
♪ I was made fun of by everyone. ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhwl3iMCNw
♪ It's something I wish could be undone. ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Pzd14Eehb
♪ She asked me. I wish I'd had respond. ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSbEVF1X8H
♪ But hear me out: We're all worth being loved! ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ831bQ6Cbqw
♪ Please hear me out: We're all worth being loved! ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXN8k6kGJ3J
♪ I'm crying out: We're all worth being loved! ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI6pvUGECAX
♪ I have no doubt we're all worth being loved! ♪

♪ Please, I beg you all, let's become friends! ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoqsyd2ePl
♪ Let's not judge each other by what's been! ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7sdYHWNlxP
♪ It was years ago! It came and went! ♪16Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWJcRM8luP
♪ That's a past chapter! New one begins! ♪

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17: Ikjot’s Mission Accomplished

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