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The contest
Sweat down my neck, Just beat Christen, then everyone will know I can beat a boy, and that I’m stronger! May said to herself, “COME ON MAY!!!!” The girls from the sidelines cheered, “YOU CAN BEAT HIM! YOU’RE A GIRL! HE’S A BOY!” May knew she can do this, she just wished she had more energy, she was about to collapse, she focused on the mat, the color, she thought of a song, she hummed it in her head, her hand slipped off the ocean blue mat, and as she was about to hit the mat, she heard high pitched screams from the girls, cheering, and May knew she had lost to a boy. Everyone would think that boys are better then girls, until she looked up, and saw 13 girls smiling at her, the looks on there faces were like big over sized balloons, red, and ready to explode. “YOU DID IT!” Carry cheered, Carry was jumping up and down, flailing her arms every possible way. “YOU BEAT A BOY! WE WIN! WE ARE GIRLS, AND GIRLS ARE BETTER THEN BOYS!” “I’m not so sure, just because you beat me by a half of a push up, doesn’t mean girls are better then boys.” Christen Green was towering over Carry, and gave her a face that meant, don’t arguer. “What you want a re-match?” May said with a smirk on her face, “For the third time?” “Look, last time I slipped, because the mat was too swe-“ And he got cut off by Ms. Chonchy “Come on! Everyone stand in a line on the wall, your teacher is here!”

May
May is has long blond hair, lots of freckles, and is about the normal height for an 11 year old girl. May is athletic, and never wears skirts, dresses, or anything a normal girl would wear. May's friends are all girls, they all have long hair, normally pulled back in a neat ponytail, or if they put it down, it always has to be done with a straightening iron. May's hair is always pulled back in a messy bun, and she doesn't even own a straightening iron. May will brush her hair every morning, but its a quick run through so that her step mom won't yell at her. May HATES the boys in her grade more then anything in the world. Every one of May's friends are well...pretty, and May is just a boy in a girls body...Well that’s what her friends say, but they like her anyway. May is shy out of school, but in school, she doesn’t care what people think. May has a mom, dad, and a brother. Her mom is an architect. Her mom helped build a building in Florida. May's father is a writer. He writes mystery. May has two brothers Sam-Sam who is only 4, and J, who is 17 May loves to fight, run, and do about every sport. Someday May wants to become an athlete.

Rumors
As May leaned up against the cold stonewall, she heard the boys whispering and laughing. She turned her head to see what was so funny, but when she did all of the boys looked at her, then burst out laughing. May knew they were whispering and talking about her. "You know," May said with a small smile on her face, "I know lots of secrets about you that you do know I know." "Like what?" Said Nelson, a tall black boy, who had his arms crossed, and one eyebrow up. "Like the fact that you still have your mom cut your sandwich into small bit sized peaces, because you are afraid of choking?" At that comment Nelson stepped back and looked at the ground while all of the boys burst out laughing. "I wouldn't laugh if I were you,” said May "I know something’s about each and everyone of you." And every boy stopped laughing at once, everyone except for Christen, who looked like a ladybug who was stuck rolling on his back, because he can't flip over. "Well ok, Christen, I know th-" Chirsten flipped over, and scrambled up "Look!" said Christen "I don't care what you know! I don't care if you beat me in a push up contest, I do know that I can beat you in a fighting contest!" May laughed at this small comment, because if you looked into Christen's eyes, you could tell he was fibbing. "You know you can beat me, well you must be pretty dumb!" "ooooooooooo" All the boys cheered "Burn!" "If I’m dumb, then why is it that you are challenging me to something that you know in the end will have been something dumb for you to do?" no one said anything.

The fight
May told her friends about the fight that her and Christen were going to have, and they all were very displeased with her dicision, but knew they could not back her out of it. "Well, I think that is a really stupid choice, but we will be cheering you on" Hally said. All of the girls agreed, and nodded their heads. May smiled, and gave all of her friend a group hug. The day of the fight about every kid in the grade gathered around Christen and May asking "When’s it gonna be?" and, "Where is it?” and of course, "Are you scared?" May didn't answer the last one, because she didn't know if she was or not.

The day of the fight, May was ready for anything, and she was more excited then scared. May was wearing a dark blue shirt that was so big it almost hit her knees. And on the bottom she had bright red gym shorts. May and her friends were next to the parking lot of her school, and kids were shuffling in and out of buildings, franticly running toward a car, or screaming into a cell phone. It was 2:23, and Christen should be out of school by now and standing next to her, waiting for everyone to leave the school, but Christen was nowhere to be found. "Where is he?" asked May, she was almost glad that he had not come, for it would save her the trouble of wasting energy on a stupid boy. Just as May was about to sling her bag over her shoulder, she heard a voice yell to her "HEY! DON'T GO YET! I'M HERE! I'M READY TO FIGHT!" May looked up and saw Christen running over to her, and franticly trying to zipper his bag up. "Sorry," said Christen as her bent over his knees panting, and trying to catch his breath. "I just had to. Um... pick something up at my house." Christen panted "OK... are you ready then? Because your almost and half an hour late." "Oh quit complaining, I'm here aren't I?" And with that May lunged at Christen, knocking him to the pavement. Christen grabbed May, and flipped her so she was the one on the ground. May heard the girls screaming and saw them jumping up down. As May was about to plant a fist into Christens noise, Christen rolled out from under May, and ran toward his bag. May saw his feet next to the bag and held her breath. Christen took it out of his bag...a baseball bat. May screamed and curled up into a ball. May opened one eye, because she didn't feel anything. Carry was on Christens back, and holding him by the hair. "Put the bat down" Carry hissed "OK, OK!" Christen dropped the bat and put his hands up. "OK, thank you, and if you ever come near May with a bat again, I will get every girl in the grade to rip your hair out." Carry had one hand on her hip, and one hand still clamped around Christens hair. May got up, brushed the dirt off of herself, and walked over to Christen, and patted his head, and said, "Thank you Christen, I appreciate you being cooperative." Christen sneered, grabbed his bag, and bat and walked home.

The first part of the sleep over
May walked home with Carry, and on there way, talking was all they could do. "Thanks Carry, sooooo much." May said to Carry "What, did you think I was gonna let him hit you with a bat? I would have never let him do that." "Well, thanks, I don't know where I would be if is wasn't for you." "I know, I know! Well, maybe we can have a sleep over, you know, so we can talk about what happened today. " Carry said with her we Elvis voice "Ok" May said "I'll do your hair, and you nails, we can stay up all night watching the Note Bo-" Carry was cut off by May "Um Carry, I think your forgetting who your talking to. When May got home, her little brother Sam-Sam was waiting at the door for her with banana smeared all over his face "Hey Sam-Sam, what’s up?" May asked, this was her usual routine, (she asked this question every day, and every day she got the same answer "The sky" Sam-Sam is only 4, so he still doesn't understand the concept of "What’s up?" "Shouldn't you be doing something every day besides waiting for me a the door?" "Oh come on May, is not that old, you can't blame him for missing you." Carry said crouching down so she could be eye-to-eye with Sam-Sam. "You are so luck your cute" May laughed. When May got inside J, Dylan, and a few of his other friends that May could not identify, were lying on the couch with the X-BOX controllers in there hands playing Soul Caliber. "Every day!" May whined "What up your-" J started "Don't! I know what your gonna say, but the answer is...EVERY DAY WHEN I GET HOME YOU HAVE FRIENDS OVER! AND EVERY DAY, YOU LYE ON THE COUCH, EATING POTATO CHIPS, PLAYING THE SAME GAME, AND SITTING IN THE SAME PLACES! YOUR PIGS! AND HOW WELL ARE YOU DOING IN SCHOOL? DON'T YOU HAVE HOMEWORK? SO GET OFF YOUR LAZY BUTTS AND DO SOM-" " SHUT UP! WHO GIVES A SHIZ HOW I'M DOING IN SCHOOL? I HAVE A RIGHT TO DO WHAT I WANT!" J yelled back. The same argument went on everyday, at the same time. "I'm hhhooommmeee!" Ms. banks just walked through the door and everyday she used her” Happy Voice" she liked to call it, but J, and May just called it, " Her annoying fake voice" "Hi mom." J, and May replied together. "How are you guys to day? Oh and J you brought friends... just like you did yesterday." Ms. Banks said with dismay "Mom he brings home friends every day. Why is this new?" May flopped down on the couch next to Dylan. "Oh, hello Carry! How are you? Its nice to see a friend who doesn't just sit around all day!" "Ha Ha!" May said sticking her tongue out at J "Mom agrees with me!" "OH shut up!" J said to May "Uh... Can we go up to your room? I think we should leave your brother alone." Carry said, rocking back and forth on her feet. "Thank you...uh...what is it again?" "Carry?" Oh yea, my B, Carry. Go up to your room, and leave me alone." May dragged her body up stairs with Carry close behind. "What is it with you and my brother? I mean every time he's here, all you want to do is leave him alone." "I don't know, I guess it’s just that I feel unconfortable around boys that age." When May and Carry got upstairs, they both sat on the bed cross-legged. "What do youth think Christen is thinking right now?" Carry said looking out into space "I don't know, maybe just trying to think of a way to beat me." "Hi! Why would who beat you?" Sam-Sam pulled himself out from under the bed "AAhh!" Carry screamed, and fell off the bed backwards. "Carry! Are you ok!?" May turned and looked over the bedside. To her surprise, Carry was rolling on the ground laughing, and holding her side. "I'm fine! I'm fine... but... I did hit.. my side pretty....hard." She said in-between laughs. "Oh My God! Thank goodness! You scared me!" May cried "I have only been here for less then half and hour, and I’ve fallen off your bed, think about what the sleepover going to be like!" Carry laughed "Oh God, the sleep over! One sec!" May ran down the stairs as fast as she could. "mmooomm!!!" "Yes honey?" Ms. Banks said spilling the paper grocery bag all over the counter. "Two things, one, can Carry sleepover tonight? And two...Are you cooking to night?" "Two answers, one, Yes Carry can sleepover. And two, yes I'm cooking." "Two comments, one thanks. And two please don't cook, why don't you let dad make dinner, I mean, you know how good he is, and well your ok, but I'm having a friend over." "Oh May, just go back up to your room." May fled up to her room and collapsed on the bed next to Carry

THE Sleep over.
May and Carry curled up on the couch together watching Stephen King's IT, and slurping the last bit of ice cream soup. "I bet you 20 bucks Christen is getting ready to give up right now." May said to Carry "Ok, one, you look like your brother right now, you have ice cream all over your face!" May looked over at Sam-Sam, who was sucking his thumb, and hiding under the blanket. May grabbed a napkin, whipped her face and walked over to Sam-Sam. "Are you OK Sam-Sam? You seem a little scared?" "I'm fine, I just, just d-don't want the mean c-clown to g-get m-m-me.” Sam-Sam aid in-between sobs. "I guess it's time for bed?" Carry said "Yep, I guess it is past you bed-" "NO! DON'T MAKE ME GO PLEASE? HE'S GONNA GET ME!" May and Carry had to pry Sam-Sam's fingers off of the "couch chair" Sam-Sam liked to call it, because it was really big and it had a lot of cushion. "I DON'T WANNA GO!" "Come on Sam-Sam " May said between clenched teeth. "I DON'T WANNA GOOOO!!!" After about 15 minutes of desperately trying to pull Sam-Sam off the chair, they got him into his bed, and had to sit on the stool next to him until he fell asleep. "OK, I think he's asleep, lets g-" "NOOOOOO!" Sam-Sam quickly awoke at the sound of Mays voice. "OK, we’re not leaving anytime soon." Carry said grabbing a huge stuffed animal horse, and curling up onto it. Sam-Sam rested his head on his pillow, and fell asleep once again. May quickly got up, and kicked Carry who jumped, and rolled off the horse. May kicked Carry again; who sat up rolled her eyes, and made some strange noises before regaining consciousness. "Wha-" May tackled Carry to make sure she didn't say anything more, because if she did, Sam-Sam would be up and crying. Carry got the idea, but was quite annoyed at her rude awakening. May pointed toward the door, and Carry got the idea. They tipptoed out the door. "Finally!" May said letting out a deep breath."And it's only 9:48" "Only 9:48? When did we start the movie?" May and Carry spent the rest of the night talking, watching T.V., and movies.

School...again
May and Carry woke up at 7:45. May screamed when she saw the alarm clock. "AAAHH! CARRY GET UP! WE HAVE 15 MINUTES TO GET TO SCHOOL!" Once again, Carry made some strange noises, and crawled out of bed. When she saw the alarm clock, she scremed. "AAAHHHH!!! MAY HURRY! WE HAVE 15 MINUTES TO GET TO SCHOOL!" May stared at Carry wondering how she could have not heard her when she screamed the first time.. May and Carry spent the rest of the 15 minutes franticly shoving things into there bags, and in-between runs: shoving food into there mouths. May and Carry ran t o school tripping over their shoes and franticly trying to zip up their bags. When May and Carry finally got into their classroom, the entire class was scrunched up in groups arguring. "What going on?" May asked "I have put the class in groups to do a project on Anicent Greece. You can do it on anything you want, but it has to be about Anicent Greece. Carry you are in a group with Samantha, George, and Max. May your group is Christen, Hally, and Billy." Said Mr. Swiznburg "Wait. Hold on. I'm with Christen? But why?" May said opened mouth "I randomly picked names, do you have a problem?" Said Mr. Swizenburg With a look that reminded May of the one that Christen gave to Carry the day of the push up contest, that ment "Don't agure" "No Mr.Swizenburg" May said walking over to her group ? did you "Ok, what are we doingalready pick wih put me?" May said"Yea, we're doing Greek sports and games." Billy said with a wide smile on his face. May likes sports, so she didn't really mind. Hally didn't seem to have a problem with it, she just wanted it done. They discussed when and how it was going to be done. They agreeded that each person would have a day of the week, and if it was your day, then they would do it at their house. Today was May's day, and she was not looking foward to it. Tomorow was Thuraday, and that was Billy's day, Then on Friday, it was Hally, and on Monday it was Christen.

The project
May and the rest her group was sitting on her bed. "OK" Christen said. "I think we should make a poster." Just then as Christen was about to tell everyone his idea, Sam-Sam came running into the room. "Hey guys!" Sam-Sam said "Whats up?" "Get outta here!" May yelled shoving Sam-Sam out of the room. "Hey little guy! I'm good, you?" Christen was standing right across from Sam-Sam "Oh, this is great, now i have to deal with TWO immuture freaks!"