Love Or Hate

Chapter 8

It was twelve-thirty and Daniela slept peacefully in her bed. She was exhausted from all the schoolwork and homework she had to do, so she thought she would at least get some sleep. All of a sudden there was a bright light shining through Daniela's bedroom door. Then, a sound of a opening door woke up her up. She got up and sat down on her bed. Daniela rubbed her weary eyes and yawned. At that very moment, she heard a ruffle sound. Daniela walked over to her door and opened it slowly and quietly. She then creeped over to the kitchen, where the light and the sound was coming from. Daniela pressed her body against the wall, and then slowly went closer to the kitchen. She peered her head inside to see what the racket was all about. There Daniela saw her brother, Drake, looking through the fridge. She couldn't exactly see him, since the fridge door was covering him, but still, Daniela knew her brother. "Hmm." wondered Drake. She saw Drake lean down some more, his head still in the fridge. "Ooo bread!" exclaimed Drake.
Daniela heard a bag ruffling. After a moment, there was munching. Daniela sighed and stepped into the kitchen. She knocked on the fridge door. Drake quickly popped his head out, a slice of bread in his mouth. He started to nibble on it, while it was in his mouth. "What are you doing?? It's almost one in the morning, and your eating already. I need my sleep!" scolded Daniela. Drake took the bread out of his mouth. "I can't help it!" Drake shouted offend, then he stuffed the slice of bread in his mouth. Daniela looked at him disgustedly. "Well why now? You woke me up." yawned Daniela. Drake swallowed down the bread. "I get hungry too, alright?" Drake said nodding his head. He walked out of the kitchen, eyes closed, he turned around, and started to walk quickly towards his room, until . . . BAM! Daniela peered her head out of the kitchen and looked at Drake. Drake sat there in front of the bookshelf, his hands covering his forehead. He moaned in pain. "You're so stupid!" Daniela bursted out laughing. "Hey! Stop laughing!" shouted Drake clenching his fists. "But I . . I . . I can't!" confessed Daniela still laughing hard, now rolling on the floor. "Be QUIET!" their mother screamed, still in her room. Daniela quickly got up and stopped laughing. Drake and Daniela both turned away from each other and went into their own bedrooms. They both shut their doors and turned off the lights.
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Later on, at school, Daniela walked into the cafeteria and sat at her table with Hana, Allison, Paula Cub, Janie Yern and Alexia. Daniela sank down in her seat. She remembered about what happened earlier with Drake. Daniela covered her mouth and started to giggle. She kept thinking about it and soon her giggling turned into laughing. Daniela sat in her chair, her eyes closed and laughing. Allison and Alexia looked at Daniela confused about what was going on. Daniela noticed the both of them staring at her and she started to laugh even harder. "Daniela, calm down. What are you laughing at?" asked Alexia. "Oh . . . um . . . it’s nothing. Oh my gosh, I thought I was going to die." Daniela said calming down her laughter. "Okay." said Allison awkwardly. Brooke came and sat at the lunch table with her tray of food. "Oh! You got fries!" Alexia said excitedly. "French fry me!" Allison said opening her mouth and tilting her head. Brooke threw a French fry in Allison's mouth. Brooke laughed. "How about we play a game with these French fries." suggested Brooke. "And what's that?" asked Janie. "Okay, I'll take a fry and throw it, and all of you are going to try to get it." explained Brooke. "Okay." said Paula.
Everyone leaned closer to Brooke. Brooke threw the French fry in the air. Hana reached out her hand to grab it. Allison saw Hana reaching out. Just when Hana was about to have the French fry in her hand, Allison slapped the French fry away from Hana. It landed right next to Brooke's can of juice. Everyone laughed. "Allison . . . why did you do that?" Alexia laughed. "Because I didn't want Hana to have it!" exclaimed Allison. Hana covered her mouth, her face turned red from laughing hard. Paula grabbed the French fry from where it fell. When she did, she tipped over Brooke's juice. All of the juice spilled on Brooke's lap. Brooke stood up and looked at her black jeans, the really dark spots were wet. Everyone laughed even harder. Daniela's eyes started to tear up. Paula made a awkward face and started to giggle. Janie got up to get napkins. When she came back, she started to clean Brooke's seat. Brooke also took some napkins and started to dry her pants. "Brooke, why don't you just go to the bathroom?" asked Alexia. "Because I don't want people to think I peed my pants! Duh!" exclaimed Brooke.
Daniela walked to Pre-Algebra class. When she walked in she noticed everyone standing on the right side of the classroom. Daniela walked over to Allison and asked her, "What's going on?" "We're changing seats." said Allison. Daniela smiled. She looked over at Louis who was talking to Alexia. The bell rang. "Okay, I have the seating chart ready." said Mrs. Werner. "On the first row is Shem, Aaron, Zen, no one is going to sit in that seat," Mrs. Werner pointed to one of the empty desks, then she continued. "Tim, and Paula. On the second row is Carin, Alexia, Ocean, Mari, Allison, and Jimmy. Third row, no one in this desk, Louis, Daniela," Daniela looked over at Louis, Louis was already looking at her. He smiled. Daniela blushed and smiled back.
Mrs. Werner continued on with the seating chart. Soon, everyone settled in their desks. Alexia sat right across from Daniela. She reached her arm out to Daniela and wiggled her fingers. Daniela quietly giggled and did the same thing. "The first thing we are going to do is a worksheet on converting fractions to decimals and converting decimals to fractions. Each of you are going to do it with your row partner. So Louis, since no one is next to you on the left, you are going to do this with David Deran and Rick Miller behind you. Once I pass out the worksheets, you may begin, we will go over this in fifteen minutes." Mrs. Werner said as she passed out the worksheets. Louis sat in his desk disappointingly. "Why can't I work with her?" asked Louis, pointing at Daniela. Daniela turned away from Louis and smiled uncontrollably. "Well you can't because her row partner is Nate Adeed." explained Mrs. Werner. Daniela looked at Nate then Louis, she sighed. She noticed someone looking at her. Daniela looked up. It was Allison, she was smiling and gave Daniela a weird look. Daniela bit her lip and continued working with Nate. She looked over at Louis a couple of times quickly, so he wouldn't notice her. Louis is right, why can't I be his row partner. At least I can sit next to him, thought Daniela and she sighed.