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Ian's POV

I don't get it. Lia doesn't take offence to anything I say, and yet April does. That's right... April isn't Lia. I have been a complete jerk to Lia and Anthony lately. Maybe I could explain to them why I was acting strange. No, they will call me a liar. April walks off for some reason. Maybe it was because I wasn't listening to her. Oh well. I didn't really want to speak to her anyway. I swear I saw Lia and Anthony walk past me. Maybe it was my imagination. I start to walk back home, when I hear two familiar voices talking. I can't see where the voices are coming from, but I know it is Lia and Anthony. I can't help but listen into their convosation.

"It isn't his fault! You can't blame him."

"Lia, you've told me it was him who made your grades go down"

"At first I thought it was, but now I think it's someone else..."

"Who?"

"Me. It's my fault. I got told that if I didn't improve my grades I would go back to the adoption center, and now I am. It's my own fault." It isn't Lia's fault... I don't think it is anyway. She starts to walk off. Now's my chance. I could go and speak to her now. Instead of me walking over to Lia, I watch as Anthony follows her. Damn it.

They are too far away for me to hear what they are saying, but Anthony starts to move closer to Lia. Please don't do what I think you are going to do, Anthony.

I brace myself for what I expect is going to happen. He does it. He moves in and kisses Lia. I feel a wave of jealousy go over me. But I can't go over there and go made at Anthony. I have a girlfriend.

I start to walk off, and decide what to do. Maybe I'll wait for Lia to walk past. But she would be with Anthony. Or maybe I should wait until school tomorrow. Of course they wouldn't listen. They haven't been talking to me recently. Lia makes the occasional conversation, but only in lessons. I'll just text Lia later on.

-

I text Lia asking if she would come over, as I can't be bothered to write everything via text messages.

She comes in, and I tell her why I was being a jerk to her.

"It's okay. I guess we were both jerks. I mean, I was pretty annoyed at the fact you said you didn't want me in you life anymore, so I gave you a taste of your own medicine." She admitts.

"Have you been crying?" I ask.

"No." She replies quickly and turns away.

"Lia," I turn her around to face me. "You've been crying. Your eyes are red."

"Yeah... I've been crying."

"Why?"

"It's nothing. You wouldn't care."

"I care about you. Now, tell me."

"It's nothing."

An idea pops into my head. "Will a video game make you tell me?" I ask.

"Fine then. But you better have practiced." She gives in, and I go to set up the console.

"Soo. What game am I going to kick your ass in?" Lia laughs. I pull out a random game.

"Looks like we're gonna play Mortal Kombat." I smirk. She's going down.

10 fights later, I find out that we are both pretty good at the game. We drew 5-5, even though Lia thought that we should have a decider match to see who won. I disagreed, and won the argument.

"So, Lia. Tell me why we're you crying earlier?" I ask.

"Mrs Padilla wants to take me back to the hell hole of the adoption center. All because of my-" she pauses to yawn, "because of my damn grades."

After Lia yawns, I yawn. I glance at the time, and its pretty late.

"Oh shoot. We have school tomorrow, and Mrs Padilla is going freak if I come home now." Lia says.

"Why don't you stay the night here? I'm sure Mrs Padilla won't mind." I suggest.

"If that's cool with you. And we need to decide who wins the Mortal Kombat game."

-

I loose. Again. I lost to Lia when we played Mario Party. Either I suck at every single video game, or she is really good at every single video game.

I go to turn on the console, and Lia has fallen asleep. God she falls asleep quickly. Then I remember that April wanted me to walk with her to school tomorrow. Oh well. April won't mind.... Much.

Lia's POV

Ian goes to turn off the console, and I feel myself getting sleepy. I soon drift off to sleep.

-

I feel someone poking me. I open my eyes, and see darkness.

"I'm blind!" I shout.

"Lia, you're not blind. You're laying on me." Ian laughs. I roll over and see Ian, looking down at me. I sit up and see an annoyed April standing there. Oh shot. I am dead.

'Hey April!" I say sarcasticly. She gives me an evil look and starts yelling at Ian. I sit there, and attempt to braid my hair.

Some yells my name, and I look up.

"What?" I say dumbly.

"Shut up Lia" April snaps. I continue to listen to their arguement.

April soon storms off, and I break the silence by laughing.

"What's so funny?" Ian asks.

"She walks so weirdly!" I say inbetween laughing. Ian gives me a strange look.

After a while, Anthony knocks on the door. We go and answer it, and then I remembered that I forgot to text him saying I was staying here.

"Lia? What are you doing here?" He gasps.

"Um.. being a tree. What about you?" I say.

"You know why, Lia. Why didn't you tell me you were here?" Anthony asks.

"You didn't tell him?" Ian pipes in.

"I forgot okay. I was too busy kicking your butt on Mortal Kombat, okay?" I confess.

"Let's go. Don't wanna be late for crappy school now do we?" Anthony says.

Anthony and Ian talk, and I do my usual thing and gaze into daydream land.

"Hey Lia?" Anthony says, getting me out of daydream land.

"S'up?" I reply.

"Mom isn't sending you back to the adoption center after all."

"Make up her goddamn mind!" I see Ian smile to himself. "Why are you smiling?"

"No reason." He replies. Anthony gives him a strange look.

Once we get to school, me and Anthony goes off to homeroom and Ian goes off to his.

"Lia. We can't tell everyone we are cousins anymore." Anthony says.

"Why not?" I reply.

"Because mom finally got the papers in saying about legal stuff, and your surname is no longer Fernandez. It's Padilla."

Great. Now ny cover has been blown. I am no longer Anthony's cousin.

After the long, boring day of school, we walk home. Before Ian walks down his driveway, he turns and kisses me. These guys aren't making my life easy.

A/N

I was meant to update last night, but I was too busy being Dan Howell on Twitter as an April Fool's day prank. It was hilarious.

Question: Do you think Lia likes Ian or Anthony, or both? And why do you think it?

DFTBA! (Don't Forget To Be Awesome!)

Nat XOXO

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