It was just after midnight as I walked into the 24/7 store. 'BrainfreezybrainBRAINFREEEEZY!' was just about the only thing going through my mind, I'd been craving one all day. And I think I deserved one after taking down a whole cheerleading squad with sharp nails while enduring Eff and D-boy's taunting me.

Sadly when I walked in, the clerk was taking his sweet time serving a girl her brain freezy. Her arms were crossed and she was taping her foot, I was a little annoyed by her actions but I knew how perverted and flirty the clerks were here. I stood behind her and rapidly started losing my patience. Finally, the clerk turned around.

"Here you go miss, sorry it took so long. The machine is hard to work, but I tamed it." He said with a flirty smile. I became even more annoyed and became sick at the same time. The girl grabbed the brain freezy and glared.

"Just shut up and tell me how much I owe you so I can get out of here before I rip your head off." She snapped. I wanted to laugh, I'd seen many girls try to fight back or many just jump behind the counter.

"Whoa, someone's got spite. Well, how about you pay me back in another way." The clerk said with a perverted smile and eyeing her chest. 'Okay, now it's time to step in.'

"Why don't you just go back to your playboy magazines and I'll try to forget about that sick and disgusting thing you said!" She shot back while I reached for knife.

"Oh come on, if I have to pay how much? I'll pay a pretty penny to get some of that ass." The clerk said while leaning a little over the counter and trying to get a look at her. This set her off.

"Save your money so you can pay admission into hell!" She screamed while pulling out a knife the same time I made my strike.

We ended up stabbing him on both sides of his head, that's when the girl jumped over the counter at his corpse and began drinking his blood. I just watched, the wall had just been painted anyways and I had plenty of people to paint the walls with later if needed. The girl finished and she stood up and wiped her mouth off with a napkin from a dispenser on the counter. Afterwards, she turned to look at me.

She had piercing, vibrant aqua colored eyes, thick rimmed glasses covered them and a side bang fell over half of her left eye. She was pale, a sickly pale. And very skinny, like she didn't eat much. Her hair hung around her shoulders and was a plain red color. Dark colors covered her body. A quarter sleeved v-necked black shirt with a purple rib cage and a pink, bleeding heart on it and what looked like dark blue skinny jeans was on her. She jumped back over the counter and smiled at me.

"Hello." She said in a gentle voice, yet it sounded like it had the ability to sound like Senor Diabolo.

"Hello." I mumbled as she bent over to pick up her black trench like jacket. "Never seen you around here." I added, trying to figure out who she was and why the hell she was here.

"Thats because the 24/7 store by my apartment just shut down. I liked it better there, the clerks weren't perverts." She said as she put on her coat and grabbed her brain freezy that had somehow survived the events of what just happened. I jumped over the counter this time to get my brain freezy, I wasn't leaving without it. I was waiting for her to leave, but I didn't hear her walking out.

"So what's your name?" She asked as she silently sipped her drink.

"Johnny C., but you can call me Nny if you want." I said as I turned around and jumped back over the counter.

"Nny? As in knee?" She asked and titled her head, some fresh blood ran out of the tips of her hair.

"Yeah, that's what it sounds like. So what's your name?" I asked as we walked out of the 24/7 store.

"Raven, Raven M." She said as we walked out the door.

"Nice to meet you Raven." I said, strangely not wanting to kill her...yet.

"Nice to meet you Johnny. Sorry, maybe I'll warm up to the nickname but I don't like to call people I just met nicknames. No offense." She said and looked over at me. She was about '5"8, only one inch shorter than me, her converse weren't giving her much help.

"None taken, well it was nice meeting you but I must be on my way. I don't know if I'll ever see you again so good-bye!" I said and began walking off.

"Hey Johnny!" Raven called when I was about a foot away, I turned around to see her holding my knife.

"I grabbed this when I was drinking that guy's blood. Want it back?" She said while twirling the knife around with her left hand and taking a drink of her brain freezy.

"Sure." I said and held my hand out to grab it when she tossed it. Instead she walked up to me and handed it over.

"Here you go! Well, see you!" She said with a wave and walked away. I stood there and held my knife, watching the peculiar girl walk off. 'It seems I've meet another homicidal maniac. Is that good or bad?'

I looked down at my knife as I put it back in my coat, but something caught my eye. Scripted into it was Raven M. was here. I almost felt like laughing at this. Strange, I didn't feel mad at all that she wrote this on my knife. But then again, she retrieved it for me. So maybe that's why.

I strolled home and walked through the front door to see my housemate sitting on the couch reading his newest novel. He looked up when I closed the door and smiled.

"Hello Johnny, trouble at the store?" He asked when he looked at my face. Anger was still in my eyes from that clerk. Though he was burning in hell now.

"Hey Edgar, brought you back a brain freezy." I said while setting the cup on the coffee table and sitting down next to him. He dog eared his page and set the book down.

"So what went wrong? Clerk an asshole?" He asked as he took a sip. Edgar had now dropped his religiousness, apparently I was a little more influential than his last roommate.

"I don't want to talk about it. Whats done is done." I said as I sipped my freezy.

"Johnny, what that therapist said before you killed him was true. You need to talk, I don't want you getting homicidal urges in the middle of the night like always." Edgar said with a serious tone and face. (Fangirls stop your nose bleeds, this is a story for Johnny and my character! Not Johnny and Edgar!)

I sighed, "Okay. So not only did I have to kill that whole cheerleading squad today with Eff and D-boy yelling at me, but the clerk was a total pervert to this girl. So just as I was about to kill him, she does it at the same time. We got talking after that and then she engraved that she was here on my knife." I said and finished my freezy.

Edgar perked up a little. "What was her name?" He seemed intrigued by Raven.

"Raven." I said and looked at him weird. "You know her or something?"

Edgar looked down. "My old roommate's name was Raven. She was my best friend since pre-school." He said and looked up. "I'd like to see her again." He became distant after that, probably remembering her. I sat up and went down to the basement.

I thought a lot about Raven after Johnny told me about the girl named Raven he met at the store. 'I wonder what would happen if I ever saw here again... She'd probably kick my ass. Good old Raven, how I miss you my friend. No two were closer than us.' I sighed, I loved her. I loved her as much as it was possible for someone to love another person, not romantically though. Somehow I couldn't think of her that way. As close and alone as we were. As attractive as she was, we never did anything. Occasionally, mostly when she was sick, she'd sit on my lap while we watched T.V. But I didn't feel anything, and she didn't either.

Raven had had her boyfriends, most of them ended up dead. Some survival and were now in straight jackets or lived in their houses and refused to come out. She had been by me through everything, she was the one who went with me all the time to my parent's graves. It didn't matter what time, I'd be down and she'd take me there in her beat up mustang from the 1980's. I sighed again. 'I haven't seen her since the day Johnny abducted me. I hope I can see her again, I guess I haven't thought of her so I wouldn't get all depressed and stuff. Great, now I am. I'll go ask Johnny, no force Johnny, to come to my parent's graves with me.' I decided as I stood up and went down to the basement. I'd been down there plenty of times, scarred in the beginning but not now. After you live with Johnny for a couple of days, you get used to everything.

"Johnny?" I called as I walked into the basement. Johnny appeared out of no where behind me.

"Yes?" He asked and took a step next to me.

"I think you need to get out of the house more, and I was going to go see my parents' graves. I haven't been there in a while. So come on we're going." I said as I turned around, expecting a fight.

"Okay." Johnny said as he walked beside me and pulled his knife out of some guy's chest. I gave the dying man a sympathetic look as we walked up the stairs.

"So your parents are dead?" Johnny asked as we exited the house and began walking down the street.

"Yeah, remember I said I had very little to live for. There was books and Raven." I said as we crossed the street and continued walking.

"Tell me about your old roommate." Johnny kind of demanded more than asked.

"Well, Raven was always classified as emo. She was always kind of off, but in eighth grade she cracked and killed our entire pre-algebra class except for me. Maybe she's insane, or maybe she's right. She's extremely beautiful though. I've never actually thought of dating her though, we'd been best friends for so long I couldn't think of her life that..."

"What's she right about?" Johnny asked, completely not caring he just interrupted me.

"Is she really crazy? Or maybe we're the sane ones and everyone else is to insane to see the real world." I said, quoting her word for word.

"Really? Well, continue." Johnny said and looked straight ahead again.

"Well, Raven is extremely smart. In collage she majored in nuclear science. She's got a degree in that now, she likes to torture people with science. She likes chemistry a lot. Actually, she seems to be extremely...." I cut myself off.

"Extremely what?" Johnny asked, annoyed that I stopped talking mid-sentence.

"I don't know how you'll react to it." I said while looking down.

"For the love of god! Just say it Edgar!" He said with anger filling his voice.

"Fine, I was going to say she sounds extremely compatible to you." I said while getting a look out of the corner of my eye, afraid to look at him.

'Compatible? A girl I've never met? ...Who isn't Devi? Hm, I doubt it.' I thought as we walked into the cemetery, Edgar lead me to two graves next to each other by two weeping willows. Edgar walked over and knelt down.

"Hello mom, hello dad. It's been a while, sorry. I'd like you to meet Johnny. I finally have another friend." He said while a smile. I waved at the graves without even talking. After a good half an hour of talking to the stones, we stood up and started walking out. As we neared the gate, Edgar suddenly stopped causing me to run into him and fall over.

"What the hell Edgar!? You can't just suddenly stop without warning me!" I said irritated as I stood up to see he wasn't paying attention. "Edgar? Hello!" I said while waving a hand in front of his face. "Edgar? What's so important over there? Come on, lets leave!" I was getting a little freaked out now.

Edgar kept staring, his reply came in a whisper. "Raven."