The S.T.F. Files, Book 4: DIATON

The Claim Game

Isabella

"Dimitrius. Simon. Dimitrius. Simon. Dimitrius! Simon!" I yell at myself. Groaning, I plop onto my bed in frustration. "Why am I making this so difficult!"

"Izzy, are you okay in there?" Mel asks me.

"I know how to solve this!" I pop up, bumbing my head on the ceiling again and climb down the ladder. When I burst through the door, I almost hit Mel in the face.

"Izzy, what's going on?" Emily asks me confused.

"I'll be back!" I slide on my flats and run out the door. If I ran lightly and quickly, the guards wouldn't be able to catch me. I slide into a small enclosing and crawl though a little hole in the wall. Once I made it through there, I hopped over a smaller wall and finally made it to the Earth dorm, knocking softly on the door.

"Who is it?" Kronos opens up the door sleepily. "Isabella? Do you even know what time it is? It's past midnight."

"I know, I know," I run into the door and look in the rooms. I finally found where Dimitrius was sleeping and I gently shook him.

"What... Isabella?" Dimitrius wakes up and looks at me, half asleep.

"I need to figure out something and I need your help," I look at him. He sits up and stares at me, now fully awake. I lean forward and kiss him on the lips. But I didn't feel anything from it. Was there something wrong?

"Hey, Dimitrius! I have just one more question for..." Theresa walks in and stares at us in shock. I pull away from Dimitrius and look at her, very surprised. Before Theresa could say anything else, I ran out the dorm and went a few dorms down to the dorm next to mine, the fire dorm. I knock quickly and wait patiently.

"What is with all you stupid idiots?" Blade answers the door, glaring at me. I push him aside and look around.

"Where's Simon?" I ask.

"Why the hell do you need to know?" Blade watches me.

"I know you like Wisteria and I can tell everyone here buddy. You're little tough guy act is ridiculous. Now tell me where he is," I look up at him, narrowing my eyes. My intimidation clearly wasn't working because one, I was shorter than him, and two, I was still definitely scared of him.

"What's going on Blade? Stop fighting Theresa alre.." Simon walks out sleepily without a shirt. I shield my eyes and Blade just walks away, mumbling something about all women here are crazy.

"I have to do something," I say, getting closer to him. I stand on my tiptoes and kiss him on the lips and I felt it. That little unknown spark that you don't know where it comes from, but it feels right. Simon pulls away from me.

"Isabella? What's going on?" Simon asks me and I smile widely.

"I found it," I say happily, then I run out the dorm and come back in my own dorm. Emily was there, but Mel was nowhere to be found.

"Something good happened, didn't it?" Emily asks me, sipping her coffee.

"Yep! Simon's the one!" I skip to the bathroom. "Can you change my highlights? I thinking of a darking color, like a dark red!"

"Haha, you're the only person I'd know who'd want red highlight in white hair. Come on so I can wash it," Emily laughs as she walks into the bathroom.

I think over everything that happened. I finally found the one I was looking for! But.. there was one problem.. Theresa. Crap, she's going to kill me tomorrow for what she just witnessed.

Wisteria

"I wanna play a game!" I whine. Nevermore kicked Jet and I out of her room. I had no idea why she kicked Jet out. They share a room now.

"Hush. Nevermore is asleep," Jet lays on the couch.

"That's good," I smile. I walk over and open up the door, looking at a peaceful Nevermore. Aww, she looks so cute! Like a little kid!

"Close the door stupid," Jet hisses at me.

"Hmm, okay," I grin. I shove him into the room and close the door.

"Good night~!" I giggle and run out the dorm. I saw Isabella run to the fire dorm, but I didn't feel like snooping right then. Instead, I move over to the light dorm.

"I could sense you were here. What do ya need?" Emily comes to the door holding a cup of coffee. What was with the coffee at this time of night? I'm not going to ask.

"I'm looking for Mel," I say.

"What? You want to claim him or something?" Emily snickers.

"N-no!" I stutter.

"Calm down Wisty, I was joking. Mel! Get over here!" Emily leaves the door. A few moments later, a sleepy Mel with messy hair and disfigured clothes comes to the door.

"Was the sleep really that good?" I laugh.

"Haha, very funny. What do you need?" Mel fixes his shirt and pants. He doesn't bother with his hair and I wouldn't blame him. It looked like a disfigured cloud.

"I wanna play a game," I grin.

"Do you even know what time it is?" Mel asks me.

"Don't worry, you don't have to do anything. It's called the Claim Game. But this is just a secret between you and me. Don't tell anybody," I pull him outside and close the door behind us, dragging him behind a tree just outside the fire dorm.

"What's the Claim Game?" Mel asks me.

"Just what it sounds like, only the pure opposite. Get everyone else to claim each other, but you can't get claimed. If you or me gets claimed, we have to do what the other says, no matter how much we hate the task," I explain.

"Hmm, seems interesting. But why'd you pick me to play the game with?" Mel asks me, but I walk away.

"We start now. Bye-bye~!" I disappear into the darkness, heading back to the dark dorm. Maybe I'll take some more pictures of Nevermore and Jet sleeping together...