Okay, so ive finally updated, sorry it took so long but ive had ALOT of school work lately.

This chapter is dedicated to Mdm8437 for one of the ideas! Thank you :)

"But she called May-lee a chinky! I mean I'm no expert but doesn't that count as racism?"

Ellie slouched in a big leather chair, facing her headmaster, Mr Chub. He leaned forward on his desk, giving Ellie a fake smile which made his rosy cheeks light up.

"That isn't the problem that we are trying to discuss now Ellie, you used violent actions towards Amber." Ellie threw up her arms and sighed.

"So Amber isn't going to get a punishment?"

"Like I said before, What you said about Amber can't be proven true until we've heard both sides of the story, and She is in the nurses office at the moment,"

Ellie chuckled at that thought, Amber went down pretty hard, and crying. The boys In the lesson went wild, shouting 'cat fight' over and over again. Of course the teacher got involved and broke up the scuffle. "This isn't something to laugh about young lady, I'm going to have to call your father, think about what he will have to say about this." Mr chub proceeded to reach for the phone and Ellie did think about it. Joel would probably laugh to.

Joel stood on a building site, staring up at an endless amount of scaffolding. He sighed, realising it would probably take months to finish. Oh well, more money for him he guessed. After walking round the site a few time's and having conversations with old friends, Joel felt a buzzing in his figured it would probably be Tommy since he called a lot, the first time he called him when Ellie was in hospital, he was pretty shocked after hearing his brother's voice what with them parting on such bad terms. But that never happened, according to his life now.

*flip*

"Hello?" he answered.

"Hey Joel its Tommy!" He heard his brother boom down the phone. He sounded hyper.

"Listen Tommy I'm in the middle of somthin' right now, can I call you back?" Joel replied when he noticed somebody gesturing him over.

"Oh so Mr big shot contractor doesn't have time for his lil' brother any more?"

"I'm not a big shot Tommy." Joel chuckled.

"Well anyway, I have some big news!" He slurred. Joel assumed he was drunk.

"What."

"I met this chick, uh, maria! I think she might be the one." The name maria made Joels ears perk up. Maria? Tommy's future wife is called maria, what a weird coincidence. He decided to investigate.

"Maria who?" He casually questioned.

"Oswald, anyway she's blonde, smokin' hot, you'll like her." His eyes widened. It was maria Oswald, Tommy's wife! But how in hell could they meet now? As far as joel remembered, they met and married at the plantation. Maybe fate is real.

"What d'ya mean, 'i'll like her'?"

"Did I forget to mention? Were gonna be stayin' with you and lil' Ellie for a day or two, so you can all get to know each other better! Hey she could be my future wife!"

Just after that, the line went dead, Tommy hung up. He was never the type to say 'bye', he would normally end the conversation when it suited him. Joel sighed again, something he seemed to be doing a lot lately. It looked to him like he was getting a visit from Tommy and maria!

"Count yourself lucky the line is busy young lady." Mr chub said, hanging up the phone. The overweight headmaster had tried Joel's phone a few times, failing to get an answer.

"Well, does that mean I can go?" Ellie asked eagerly.

"Yes, you may go." Ellie hopped out of her seat and rushed for the door handle. "But-" Mr chub interrupted, holding up a finger. She sat down again, huffing. "not back to your classroom. You are excluded from school for three days due to your violent behaviour." Ellie rolled her eyes, it was unusual for her to be scolded for something she was always encouraged to do at her military school. "Do you have any way of getting home?" She began to think hard, remembering back to when Joel had told her she would have to walk home. She hoped she knew the way.

" Yep, I do!"

Mr chub gestured for her to leave, and with that, she stood up and exited the office.

No school for three days, cool.

Ellie walked out of the school's entrance, a chilly breeze cascaded around her skin causing goose bumps to form on her neck. She slipped her bag off her back, hoping to find a coat inside.

"Shit." she breathed, realising she left it at Joel's. Lifting her gaze up to the road in front of her, Ellie tried to remember if to get back to the house, she had to take a left or a

right.

"Whats up." A familiar voice sounded just beside Ellies left ear, she turned her head to find Lake Dane standing closely beside her with his bag slung over one shoulder. The brown-eyed boy was staring intently at the road ahead, trying not to show much interest in what was up with Ellie, although it was obvious he was quite interested. Ellie cleared her throat and adjusted her blazer.

"Nothing." She simply replied with a non chalant attitude. Lake scoffed and a smirk crept up on his face.

"What are you standing out here in the cold for then?" He switched his attention to Ellie and he was still smirking, she could tell he was trying to make fun at her expense.

"I was about to go home, what about you?" She cleverly changed the subject on to him, making her feel protected from any further bullying.

"That none of your business," He retorted, putting more emphasis on the 'your' to single her out as an unimportant person. "besides, I asked first." Shit, now she was going to have to explain her predicament to him of all people, she knew he was going to laugh.

"No way! Oh fuck I wish I was there." Ellie and Lake where walking down the street leading to both their homes, it turned out that before Ellie started to tell him the Amber story, they lived near each other and he knew the way back. The tall boy was throwing his head back in laughter, while Ellie was idly walking alongside him trying not to get embarrassed.

"Yeah, well she was being an ass hole"

"Im so glad you did it, the amount of times Amber has tried to undress me in the janitor's closet is unthinkable." Ellie began to blush, the topic of sex made her feel a bit uneasy and embarrassed, she wasnt even 15 yet, well not for another couple of weeks anyway. Lake cleared his throat and reserved himself, seeing as he had done nothing but laugh and ask questions about the fight, his throat was sore. Ellie liked this side of Lake, she started to think that they where becoming closer friends, which was nice.

"Hey," Ellie snapped out of her trans and returned to looking at her newest friend.

"What?"

"Can I have your number?" This is where the confusion would start.

"My number?" Ellie thought of any possible number that could have anything to do with her. Her mind thought of 583 which was her military code, but she guessed he probably wasn't referring to that.

"Yeah, your cell phone number..." Oh, Ellie had heard about cell phones from Riley. Her being older she knew a lot more about the past than Ellie did, even if it was only by a year, Riley use to pay more attention in their American history classes.

"No I uhm- I don't have a phone."

"Facebook?" Lake questioned. Ellie had never in her life heard the word 'Facebook' before, she guessed she just needed to get used to teenage life in 2013.

"Whats a Facebook...?" She replied, trying to not sound like a complete idiot.

"Wow," He chuckled, "you really are an idiot aren't you."

Fuck.

She mentally cursed.

"Shut up, im not an idiot. I just don't know what a Facebook is."

"It's not an object Ellie, just look it up online tonight!" Ellie realised that Lake had suddenly stopped walking.

"Why are you stopping?" She called back to him. Lake was standing in front of a street sign and gesturing to it.

"This is your stop isn't it?" Ellie looked down the street recognising it was where Joel's house was.

"Oh shit, yeah." She mumbled to herself. Ellie singled out her new home and jogged over to the front door, she looked back to see Lake already walking down the street not even looking back to say goodbye.

Facebook, guess I'll have to see what that is.

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