Mood:  special

Alexandria Martin walked up to the reception desk at the Boulevard Hospital with her mom and her best friend, Antoinette.
"So, what's his name again?" Mrs. Martin whispered to Ally.
"Just ask to see Billy Lovato" She told her mom.
"Yes?" The receptionist, who's tarnished gold name tag read 'Christena' said.
"Can we please see Billy Lovato?" Ally's mom asked.
"Relatives or....?" Christena the receptionist asked.
"My daughter and her friend are friends from school. To be honsest, I don't even know the kid"
"We're never gonna get in now..." Ally whispered sarcastically to Toni.
"Yea, really" She said back. Toni'd been rather silent that day, speaking only when spoken to, and even then, very breifly.
"I'm sorry. We can only allow family members." Christena the receptionist told them.
"But" Toni bursts out suddenly. "Billy really has no relatives, besides his twin sister, and she hates him, so I guess me and Ally kinda count as sisters, you see, his parents died in a car crash 2 years ago and his step brother, only earlier this month. C'mon, just please let us in?" She wiped a tear from her eyes, as her and Ally paused, waiting hopefully.
"No, I'm sorry. Maybe another time when you come with his sister. Thank you, come again." She smiled, but her eyes glanced a warning glare at them.
"Oh, that worked real well" Ally commented. "Now we're never gonna get to see him!"
"Alexandria..." Came her mother's voice.
"Sorry." She said climbing into the SUV and buckling her seatbelt. Toni climbed in and sat next to her. There was a hushed nervous silence on the drive back home. Neither Ally nor Toni sang, or even hummed when '1985' came on the radio. That's how silent it was.
"Ok, that's it, Everybody out" Mrs. Martin said, when she stepped in the garage of her pale green house. Toni often called it the turtle house, as did Ari. They walked up the steps and in the door in silence, taking off their shoes and shuffling up to Ally's bedroom.
"I can't belive she didn't buy that" Ally sighed and flopped down on her blue bedspread, rumpling it and causing her clean laundry to fall onto the carpet. Toni sat down beside her.
"We're not his family, Ally. But it was worth a try. I mean, come on." She twirled a strand of her hair with a finger, and straightened her glasses. "I wish I had contacts" She said. "Maybe my Grammy would let me get some"
"Maybe your Grammy would let you sleep over" Ally suggested. Toni shoved her playfully.
"Oh, she won't mind." She said, rolling her eyes. Ally rolled over and sat up.
"K. It's Friday anyways"
"Ooh really? Doesn't feel like a Friday" Toni flipped through Ally's CD's. "Good Charlotte, The Killers, Blink 182, Simple Plan...Michelle Branch...?" She laughed and gave Ally a side glance, as if to ask her why. "And Avril Lavigne"
"I 'unno...Ooh, put The Killers on!" Ally said excitedly. "Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend that looked like a girlfriend..."She broke off into song.
"Ally, you are really out of tune" Toni said, putting the CD in the CD player and pressing play. The first few notes of 'Somebody Told Me' sent Ally swaying with a really creepy satisfied face.
"I'm thirsty" She said suddenly. "Carbonated sugar?"
"Bottled water" Toni said, not wanting any soda. She didn't like soda. It was too fizzy.
"No! No bottled water!" Ally said, jumping on Toni. "Bad, Tone!"
"But I like water..." Toni whined, standing up. Ally stood up also. Well, tried to anyways, as she was still in a crumple on the floor from leaping on Toni.
"A little help here" She said, reaching ot for Toni's hand. Toni, who held out her hand for Ally to grab it, stifled back a giggle. Ally looked like someone who was about to suffer a slow and painful death. Ally grabbed Toni's hand, and Toni attempted to pull Ally up, but they both fell in a heap on the carpet. Then the phone rang and they heard, "Alexandria, it's for you!"
"K mom!" Ally yelled back, and reached for the cordless phone. "Hello?" She said. It was Kim Bouvier, their friend from the other class.
Kim - Hey, Alexa
Ally - Hey Kim, what's up? Then she whispered to Toni, "It's Kim"
Kim - So didja hear about that Billy kid?
Ally - Yea, he was at my house, earlier that day.
Kim - Ooh, really? But I thought you were going out with Seb...
Ally - I am. It's Toni who likes Billy.
"Do not!" Toni objected, grabbing the phone from Ally's hand.
Toni - Hey Kim, I do NOT like Billy. I was tutoring him.
Kim - I go to a math tutor....her name's Susan.
Toni - So?
Kim - So did you see Tom today? He said hi to me and was wearing a yellow shirt.
Toni - That's nice, Kim.
Kim - Oh, guess what
Toni - What? Chicken butt?
Kim- I wasn't gonna say that!
Toni - I'm sure.
Kim - Oh you know what?
Toni - Wat?
Kim - Tinkerbell got another bisectomy.
Toni - Kim!
"What'd she say?" Ally asked, perplexed. "What?"
"Tinkerbell got another you-know-what."
"Kim! God..." Ally said, rolling her eyes.
"Alexandria! Toni! Dinner's ready!"
"K, coming mom!" Ally yelled back.
Toni - K Kim I gotta go, supper's ready.
Kim - I want a pizza pop.
Toni - That's nice, Kim.
Kim - I know. K bye.
Toni - Bye.
"C'mon Toni" Ally said, taking the phone from Toni's hand and putting it down.

Mood:  on fire

Billy sighed. He knew he was in the hospital. He knew that much. He knew his name was Billy. But he didn't know what was wrong with him. He didn't know why he didn't know. It scared him. He sat up and looked at himself, realizing there were numerous tubes attatched to him, and besides that, he had no shirt on. Wow, I'm skinny, he thought. But the tubes frightened him, and he tried to pull them off.
"What the fuck!? Get 'em off! Why won't the come off!" He yelled in frustration. A nurse heard him and came in to see what the problem was.
"Are you alright?" She asked, pushing his hands gently off his chest. "There's no need to do that. Those tubes are helping you get better." He looked at her and blinked.
"Yea, get better from what?" He brushed his hair out of his eyes.
"Your anorexia" She said simply.
"An..o...rex...a...what the hell I'm anorexic!?" He looked down at his chest again. Well, he was very skinny. He didn't realize he was that skinny though. Then he just sat there, staring into space.
"Billy, are you alright?" She put her hand on his back, but he didn't move.
"Hmm..." She said. "It appears to me he's just had an epileptic seizure."

Mood:  amorous

Toni walked into the homeroom class. Billy wasn't slouched in his desk like he usually was. She only saw Erik, Nathan, Jenaye, Stephanie, Matt K, and Travis.
"Billy's not here yet?" Ally, who had followed Toni into the classroom stated:
"No he's not" Toni sighed. His desk looked empty. Although it usually was, today it looked especially empty. She sat down in her seat behind Billy's empty one. Ally sat down in her seat, at the front of the next row. Toni sat in the back.

-later-

The bell had rang 2 minutes ago, and ther was an anxious bubble of whispers throught the classroom, as Mrs. Comeau spoke on the phone, her face pale.
"Dude, what's up with the teacher?" Jenaye leaned over and asked her.
"I 'unno" Toni shrugged, just as curious herself, but not sure she really wanted to know. It has something to do with Billy, she thought, I know it does. Mrs. Comeau got off the phone, and walked to the front of the classroom.
"Class?" She took a deep breath. "I am...sorry...to say that Billy Lovato is in the hospital..."

Mood:  silly

-next day-

Billy woke up on the floor of the computer room, the computer screen flashing with 'where r u'?'s and 'r u ok'?'s. He sat up and rubbed his head. It hurt. Did he fall off the chair? Did he bang his head? Why was he in here? Why didn't someone move him into his bed? How late did he stay up, anyways? They must have gone to bed before he logged off, then. He looked at the time on the computer screen. 4am. Wow, he thought. That's frick'n early. Or late....either way. He winced at the pain in his head. It throbbed and pounded, ruining his lack of concentration. He felt dizzy, and for a few minutes he zoned out. And when he came to, he burst into tears of confusement, causing Mrs. Rangel to rush into the room.
"Billy? What are you still doing up?" She asked. "What's wrong? Did you hurt yourself? C'mon, it's ok. Tony's happy in heaven. I thought you knew that?" She put her arm around him, and held him close, squatting down on the rug. Billy looked up at her.
"Who's Tony? Where am I?" She blinked.
"Well ok...Tony's your dead brother and you're in my computer room." She felt his forehead. "Hot, c'mon Billy. Off to bed you go." She helped him up, and he fell back down ina heap on the floor, triggering tears again.
"I 'unno!" He pounded his fists on the floor, making soft padding noises. Then he blacked out.
"K, I'm driving you to the hospital..." She said. Then she picked Billy up, and put him on the couch in the living room, then she wrapped him up in the quilt that was on it, before putting on her shoes and jacket. Then she picked him up again, and carried him out to the '98 Sedan and gently placed the shaking adolescent in the back seat. "Hush, Billy" She soothed, and turned on the CD. '1985' came through the speakers. That soothed him a bit and he stopped crying long enough to state that he liked the song before spacing out again. "Billy?" She said. "Are you alright?" No answer.

Mood:  crushed out

Kayleigh stood in the the doorway of the computer room, It looked empty without him. It didn't look right. The comfort of him just sitting there wasn't there anymore. She couldn't walk past and just look at him having fun chatting online. That's the only time she'd seen him look happy. When he's online. Suddenly, the garage door opened, and Billy appeared.
"Hey? Anyone home?"
"Billy?" He heard his sister's still tearful voice. He walked over to where she was standing.
"Kayleigh? Are you ok? What's wrong? Why're you crying?"
"You...you never came home...I was so scared..." So twin love always sneaks its way in in the end.
"Oh, Kay...you were worried about me?" He hugged her, getting teary eyed as well. Just then, Mrs. Rangel walked into the room.
"See Kayleigh, I knew he'd come back" Kayleigh nodded. Billy noticed that something was different. It was quieter. There was no bitching, no complaining, no high-pitched squeals, and his sister wasn't being mean to him...where was Brittani?
"Where's Brittani?" He asked.
"It's Thursday." Mrs. Rangel told him. "She's got yoga."
"Oh yea..." He remembered. It seemed weird without her. It was weird at Ally's house too. It's weird, he thought, that it seems weird without bitching. He laughed out loud at that, because it was ironic. "C'n I go on the computer?" He asked.
"Yea." Mrs. Rangel said. "But Firstly, where were you?"
"Friend's house." He told her, making his way to the computer room.
"No wait" She stopped him. "Which friend?" Was it Toni or Ally's house?
"Alexa...Alexandria" He told her. "Alexandria Martin. I got her email address."
"Ok. Girlfriend?" She persisted.
"Naw." He said. "I like her friend"
"And who's her friend?"
"Why? You don't need'a know who I like"
"Ok." Then she noticed something different about him. He looked...clean. "Billy?" She said. "Why are you clean?" Kayleigh was wondering the same thing. He rarely ever bathed.
"Long story." He shrugged. "Her mom made me shower. Said I looked like a hobo. Washed my clothes. Can I go on now?"
"Yes." She laughed. "C'mon Kayleigh. Let's go get Brittani." Kayleigh nodded.
"K." She grabbed her pink sweater from the chair and slipped it on.

Mood:  lazy

Meanwhile, Billy's sister was sitting at Brittani Rangel's kitchen table in tears. Where was her brother? He's not usually this late. It's been like, 3 hours since school ended. Brittani's mom wasn't worrying too much. She sat in the white and wood-colored chair beside Kayleigh.
"It's ok, dear" she rubbed Kayleigh's back. "Everything's gonna be alright. He'll come back eventually." She smiled.
"No he won't. He hates us! He pro'lly killed himself!" She wiped the tears from her eyes. Her eyeliner was smudged, and her pink tank top was rumpled. Her beige suede mini skirt, with multiple stains, a little too short. If you didn't look closely, you'd think she were a prostitute. Mrs. Rangel put Kayleigh's hair behind her ears. Her long dirty blonde hair. Her aquamarine eyes filled with tears again. They spilled out in multiple bunches. "He's never coming back!"
"Oh, don't say that. He'll come back. All his stuff's here. And he wouldn't wanna keep his internet friends waiting..."

-meanwhile-

"I gotta get home" Billy suddenly said, with an expression that matched his feelings. He didn't exactly know why he said it, or how he could have known he was wanted back at the Rangel house. It must have been some kind of twin connection.
"Why? Everything ok?" Toni asked, putting her hand on his back. "What is it?"
"I 'unno" He shrugged. "I just feel like I need'a bee there right now"
"K." Toni said. "That makes alot of sence"
"But one more thing before I go..?"
"What?" Ally and Toni said in unison.
"Can I have your email addresses?" He asked, grinning.
"Yea, sure" Ally grabbed her diar and ripped out a piece of blue printed paper. Then she grabbed a pen from the floor. She wrote down her email, then gave the pen to Toni so she could write hers down.
"Thanks" Billy said. "Now, can I get a ride?"
"Of course. MOM!!" Billy covered his ears at that, causing Toni to giggle.
"Yea?" Mrs Martin came rushing to the doorway. "What? Alexandria?"
"Billy needs a ride home"
"K. Go into the garage and get into the mustang."
"You have a Mustang!?" Was Ally and Billy's reaction.
"No." Mrs. Martin said.
"Oh." They said.

Mood:  irritated

Billy hestitantly stepped out of Ally's bathroom in only a fleshy colored towel.
"Um...I need something to wear while your mom's washing my clothes..." He said quietly.
"Oh. Yea. Ok" Ally nodded, going into her walk-in closet, and came out an agonizing moment later with a black t-shirt that said 'poprocks' on it and a pair of PJ pants that were too small on her. She handed them to Billy. He inspected them, and a minute later, they saw him stroking the shirt.
"Hehe...poprocks." He looked up and grinned excitedly at them.
"Ok, Billy" Toni said, smiling back at him. "Now go put them on." She pointed to the bathroom.
"K" He said, walking back. "Maybe I will"
"Ok yea, go do that" Toni said.
"I know" He turned around. "You told me to"
"I might as well haven't..." She said.
5 minutes later...

Billy walked out of the bathroom again. The 'poprocks' shirt that had amused him before, now hung loosely over his ribs, as he prevented the pale purple heart-print PJ pants that Ally had gotten from Zellers two years ago, from falling down.
"That's a hot look for you" Ally said, Toni nodded in agreement. "So hot" She giggled.
"They're purple." He said simply, indicating to the pants.
"I know, huh?" Ally said. "You look good in purple, dude" She grinned.
"Yea, you do" Toni smiled at him.
"Uhh thanks" He said, turning red again. Man, he got embarrassed easily. He walked over and sat on the couch beside Toni.

Mood:  lyrical

"So what would the answer be?" Toni asked Billy, while pointing at the math sheet with her pencil.
"Uhh...13?" He frowned and wiggled around a bit on Ally's bed.
"No." Toni said. "It's 27. See here, you have to times this by 2, and 13's not even close to the answer. The radius os 13.5 and times it by 2, and you get 27..then you times it by pi." He wiggled around again, kicking the bed's sides with his feet.
"Mm..." He bit his lip, and held his breath.
"Something wrong, Billy?" Ally asked, trying to stop herself from laughing outloud. He really had to go to the bathroom, and it was really obvious. Except for Toni, who didn't even notice, as she was too absorbed in finding the circumference of a small bowl. She just thought he wasn't even trying, or that he was just dumb. Really dumb. But he just had to go so bad, he couldn't concentrate.
"Uhh..." He turned bright red. "Yea, Ally? Uh, where's your uh...bathroom...!?" He said it with such urgency that Ally had to laugh.
"You know, you could have asked before, instead of waiting, although it was quite comical to watch..." She trailed off, enjoying his agony.
"Where is it!?" He snapped. "Stop mocking me!" Ally laughed.
"Ok, ok...it's just down the hall, on your right."
"God, thanks, finally!" He practically jumped off the bed, and ran out the door, almost running into it. Toni looked up from his sheet.
"Dude, what's up with him?" She asked, raising her eyebrows.
"What do you think?" Ally frowned at Toni's cluelessness.
"He...I 'unno...couldn't stand the math anymore?"
"He really really had to pee" Ally burst out laughing.
"Oh." Toni said. "Niiiice..."
"Yea, I know, huh? Still like 'im?" Ally twirled a lock of her also-chestnut brown hair.
"Yup" Toni grinned. "Man, he's kinda taking a long time...d'you think he got lost?"
"Ha!" Ally burst out. "Not a chance!...I don't think..."
"Nice Ally...so when's your mom home?"
"I 'unno" Ally shrugged, as she heard the garage open. "Like, now"
"Yea." Toni giggled. Suddenly, they heard a knock on their door. Ally paused the CD, which was now playing Avril Lavigne. Ally's mom opened the door, holding Billy by the neck of his shirt.
"Alexandria, I found him eating the jelly beans in the kitchen" Mrs. Martin said crossly. "Friend of yours?" Ally laughed and rolled her eyes.
"Yes mom, that's Billy." She said.
"He looks like a hobo. For goodness sake, he looks like he hasn't showered in weeks. Look! Look how greasy his his hair is! And his clothes...eugh..."Ally and Toni laughed. Billy looked as if he didn't know whether to laugh along with them, or burst into tears of embarrasment. He looked quite red, actually. Red, like he was really, really embarrassed, like he was SO close to tears, he was ready to cry. He put his hands to his hair with an expression so ironically funny that they had to laugh. After Ally and Toni saw his first tears of embarrassment, Ally felt sorry for him.
"K mom, just leave" She said, glancing at Billy. "You've embarrassed him enough. You made him cry. Mrs. Martin put her hand to her mouth.
"Oh, sorry..." She said. "But can you please shower? I'll wash your clothes?" Ally rolled her eyes.
"Please mom...Just go, k? C'mon Billy." She said, getting up. "I'll let you shower in my bathroom. God, we wouldn't even be in this mess, if I had remembered I actually had a bathroom in my room..." Billy sullenly stumbled into Ally's bedroom, reluctantly glancing over his shoulder at Ally's mom, who had really given him quite a scare.

Mood:  irritated

"Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana, there was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV...!" Ally, Toni and even Billy sang at the top of their lungs as they walked through the thin layer of grassy snow on the field that led the way to Ally's house.
"Her two kids in highschool, they tell her that she's uncool, 'cuz she's still pre-occupied with,..." Ally sang the next part herself.
"19-" Then Toni.
"19-" Then Billy, too strung out on post-soda hyperness, actually sang.
"1985!!!!", causing Toni and Ally to giggle. Ally led them through the suburbs, and then to her house, which was a pale green color. Like a paler version of Billy's parent's bedroom, which Kayleigh had turned into hers, after their mom, Liz, and their step-dad, Greg died in a car accident, that fateful night. Billy had slept in that room too, sometime after the accident. He liked that the bed was so comfy, and for a moment, he wondered what they had done in the bed, and then couldn't believe he had actually slept in it. But his thoughts were interrupted by Ally, pulling him inside the door.
"We're here, dumbass. Did you, like, zone out or something? C'mon" He smiled fakely, the memory of his parent's death, still fresh in his mind.
"Yea, just zoned out" He lied, and took his old DC skater shoes off.
"Wow, Billy, your shoes are like, falling apart" Toni commented, as hers looked only like they had been worn a few times. Ally's shoes, the blue skater ones, lookd like crap, but weren't as bad as Billy's . The soles weren't falling off. Billy shrugged. He didn't say anything, though. He rarely ever did say anything.

Mood:  don't ask

Antoinette met Billy at his locker a few minutes after the bell rang.
"Aren't you going to get your backpack?" She asked him. "You might wanna get your math sheet too" She advised. She watched him pull out his crumpled math sheet and stuff it in his grubby, ripped red backpack. It looked like it was about to fall apart. He pulled it onto his back painfully.
"Let's go" He said.
"Yea, we still got to get Ally." She shifted her backpack on her shoulders. "C'mon" She grabbed his hand. A minute later, they appeared at Ally's locker, which was next to Lucas's. "Hey Ally" Antoinette greeted her. "We're gonna help Billy with his homework"
"Ok..."Alexandria Martin said. "Ew, that's nerdy" She pulled her backpack out of her locker, which her other friend, Ari Raven had written insiders all over.
"Seeya, Alexa" Ally's current boyfriend, Seb Desrosiers, waved to her. He was one of the majority of people that called her Alexa. The rest called her Alexandria, except for Antoinette, who, for some odd reason, called her Ally. Billy was one of the ones who called her Ally.
"Seeya Sebby" She smiled and waved back.
"How is that nerdy, Ally?" Antoinette reasoned. "At the beginning of math class today, he didn't even know how to say circumference."
"Ok, so he's failing worse than Erik did...doesn't mean we have to help him" She pulled her hair out from behind her left ear, as if she were shunning Antoinette. "So where should we go, Toni?" She suddenly asked. "Cuz I 'ont wanna go to the library. That's really nerdy"
"We can go to your house, then, Ally. 'Cuz we can't go to Billy's, and to go to mine, we either walk an hour, or take the bus."
"Yea, let's go to mine." Ally agreed. "We can have carbonated sugar" She grinned evilly.
"Ah," Toni laughed. "K, let's go then. We're not getting anything done here" She grabbed Billy's skeletal hand. "C'mon."