I was stuck yet again in the middle of it. They were all too fixed on yelling at each other and threatening to kill each other that they didn’t notice that I was looking for an exit. If they were going to spend their whole lives fighting each other, that wasn’t my problem. Just then, that Salizar guy noticed that I was almost to the slightly open door.

“Hey, um…Nikki, get back over here!” I turned around and saw that everyone had stopped arguing and was looking at me.

“Fine I’ll try this again, but under one condition: you stop fighting long enough for this erm…problem gets resolved. You’re all giving me a headache.” They all murmured “alright” s and “ok” s under their breaths.

“Ok, since talking doesn’t work, we’ll split your little atoms woods in half, electrons on one side, protons on the other, and neutrons in the middle to make sure nobody tries to invade the other people’s land.. Then you won’t have even to see each other.

“That’s a great idea!” said the Mr.-ruler-of-the-world-guy as he slammed his fist on the podium thingy again. He must have a high durability of pain for him to do that two times and not be screaming in pain.

“But who gets the particle falls?” asked an overly cheerful proton, but then again they all were a bit overly cheerful; it kinda creeped me out frankly.

“Ok, I’ll bite, what is this particle falls place?” This was starting to make me wish I was back to being a nobody back on earth.

“It’s only the best place to swim!” squeaked a young proton.

“So now you’re going to start fighting again, and over a swimming hole? Oh great. I know, the protons get it and they can be the lifeguards, making sure nobody kills each other.” They all murmured in agreement. Then they all decided that I should hold this piece of chalk and draw lines for the borders. We went back outside and I stared to draw some boundaries.

“The protons are getting more land then we are!” shouted a very angry electron.

“No we aren’t! You are!” came an over enthusiastic shout from a proton. The neutrons just kinda stood there not doing anything. And then they started fighting again.

“Look!” I shouted, “No ones getting more land then each other!” They didn’t even pause in their shouting to notice me. “Fine, figure this out by yourselves.” I jammed my hands in my pockets and walked off, this time no one tried to stop me. After a while, I came to a waterfall pouring into a big river. This must be that particle falls place they were talking about. I need a little R&R I thought as I dove into the water, clothes, and all. There were even inner tubes to float around in. I chose a bright purple one and started to float down the slowly moving river. This was a pretty cool place, well, besides the arguing people. I might keep this moldy piece of bread for a vacating place.

Suddenly I jerked awake, and then I realized I had fallen asleep on the purple floaty thing. Ahead I saw that the protons, electrons, and neutrons were coming up on my right as I floated down the river. They had obviously moved from the last time I saw them, and they were still arguing. One of them looked over at the river, and I prayed that he hadn’t seen me, but it was too late. He pointed at me and every one stopped fighting and looked over at me. Then they came over and pulled me out of the inner tube; I was back in the middle of the argument again.

“This split the land plan isn’t working! Think of a new plan,” demanded the head honcho guy. I sighed, my little vacation was nice while it had lasted.