He couldn't help but, laugh at her a little bit. She was so funny when she was being sarcastic and he'd always find himself laughing more then he probably should be.

Brandon grinned at her and nearly bounced up and down with each chuckle. "Hehe…that's a good one Kelly!" He stuck his tongue out between his teeth and closed his eyes giving her one of his famous grins.

Kelly rolled her eyes at her friend as they walked. The two of them were heading down the school hallway and they blinked at the shrill sound of the final bell. Kids pushed and shoved around them in the scramble to get home and watch TV. Fortunately, Brandon and Kelly weren't in much of a hurry as the two of them were heading over to her Dad's house to play some video games, he lived close enough to walk.

Brandon made an excited gesture, using his entire body for effect and Kelly snickered at him. He was a tall boy with straight, light brown hair that hung down on his forehead , but wasn't particularly long and his eyes were a light blue. He wore a blue shirt with a single lighter blue stripe on his chest and simple jeans. A fantastically neon yellow jacket covered his arms in the cool autumn air. It's color so vivid it occasionally caused people to stare, but he certainly didn't mind.

Kelly was dressed a bit more modestly. She wore a black and grey striped turtleneck with black sweatpants and a matching hooded jacket. An old worn-out belt was slung loosely around her waist, she adjusted her clothes every few moments to keep them neat and trim. Her chestnut hair was shoulder length and layered. From it's part on the left it curled around her face with bangs long enough to fall into her eyes. Fortunately the girl was fond of seeing so she pulled them out of the way. The ends of her hair twisted into unruly curls. Kelly's eyes were a darker more dull blue with terribly noticeable bags underneath them, implying that sleeping wasn't a common thing in her life. She was fairly short, especially when standing next to a monster like Brandon, and very scrawny. She smirked at her friend as he bounced around excitedly, so hyped up for nothing more then visiting her house.

"Kelly! Brandon!" A rather high pitched voice cooed out for them and they stopped with a mutual wince. Turning around they took notice of three other girls walking in their direction. The girl in front ran ahead and looked the two of them over with a somewhat coy smile. Her hair was long, blond and wavy and her eyes a bright blue-green. She wore a hip blue skirt and a well matching sweater with knee socks and shiny black shoes. "Hehehehe!" She giggled and locked her arms behind her back to lean forward in somewhat exaggerated cuteness. "Hi Brandon!"

Brandon smiled at her awkwardly. "Uhh…hi Sarah."

Sarah gave him a toothy smile before turning toward Kelly, who happened to be her older sister. "Kelly? Can you take Jaimie and Melanie home with you? I have track practice and I don't want them to wait for me."

Kelly shrugged and smirked over at the two girls. "Whatever, hurry up guys."

Melanie and Jaimie ran over before offering a small wave as good bye to Sarah who took off running down the hallway in the direction of the gym.

Brandon grinned and waved at the two in innocent greeting. "Hi guys." He rested his fists on his hips and cocked an eyebrow. "Sarah muscled you guys into coming didn't she?"

"Of course she did." Melanie shook her head and smirked. "You really can't say no to Sarah, can you?"

Melanie was a girl of average height with very blond hair cut at the same length as Brandon's although it hung to the side as opposed to Brandon's much straighter locks. Her eyes were blue behind her oval glasses and she wore a dark green, long sleeved, shirt under a black vest with pants of a matching color. She stood with her weight shifted on one foot, a very cool standing position for a very cool kid.

Jaimie was of similar height with long dark brown hair and brown eyes behind square glasses. She wore an orange plaid blouse with jeans and white sneakers. She stood cross armed, and smiled before striding forward to follow them out.

"No no no no NO NO NO SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIAAAAAAAH!" Brandon screamed and threw his controller down. "Maaan! Jaimie! How'd you get so good at this!"

Jaimie laughed and claimed her victory on Sonic Adventure 2. "I've played it a million times! Huhuhu…"

"Move over." Melanie poked Brandon and he bounded up onto the couch with Kelly who sat quietly observing their game.

Jaimie shot into action, her fingers moved expertly over the buttons with practiced experience, while Melanie coolly held her head, trying to keep Shadow up with Sonic.

"Hey hey hey Kelly!" Brandon chirped. She didn't respond, provoking a cocked eyebrow. "Keeelly." There was further silence as Kelly stared off into space. Brandon pouted and cupped his hands around his mouth yelling directly into her ear. "KEEEEEEEEEELLLLLYYY!"

The girl jumped a little and glared over at him, rubbing her head in irritation. "What is it?"

Brandon fell back on the couch laughing. "What's with that? You space out all the time! Hehe!"

"Is there a problem with that?" Kelly raised her eyebrow at him and crossed her legs, leaning against the couch.

"Nah." Brandon shrugged. "What were you thinking about?"

There was a small pause, but she recovered quickly, just laughing a little. "Oh, nothing…Nothing important, just lost in my imagination I guess."

"Huhuhu…" Jaimie turned back to face them after thoroughly kicking Melanie's ass with Sonic, for which Melanie was lying on the floor groaning. "You sitting in there with your imaginary friends Kelly?"

The girl in black rolled her eyes and smiled in an almost dreamy fashion. "I told you Jaimie, I deny them in public, hehe…"

Jaimie turned back the game in an effort to rematch Melanie, only to be interrupted by Sarah throwing the door open. She seemed tired after a long track practice, but still greeted with a cheery, "Hi guys!".

"Hey Sarah." Melanie greeted with her eyes still focused on Sonic.

"Lookin' strong Sarah." Kelly snickered.

"Of course I look strong!" Said girl struck a pose, making muscles. "I am strong."

"That's true." Jaimie added. "You moved the whole treadmill in the basement, all by yourself, when all three of us couldn't even budge it."

Sarah beamed with pride before shooting over to the couch and flinging down next to Kelly.

"So what was it you were day dreaming about?" Brandon asked his best friend, poking his nose back into her business as he often did.

Kelly rolled her eyes. "Nothing at all."

"Oooooh?" Sarah gasped dramatically and leaned against Kelly in a somewhat uncomfortable way. "What were you day dreaming about this tiiiime?" She giggled girlishly and batted her eyes. "Was it a booooooy?"

"No." Kelly spat, very seriously in a very irritated voice.

Sarah giggled nonstop and nudged Kelly playfully.

Brandon noticed that it was starting to get a little bit dark. Sarah had dragged Melanie and Jaimie off to trek around in the backwoods, while Kelly had been too lazy to get off the couch. Brandon decided he'd rather spend the rest of the afternoon playing Naruto with her.

"Ha ha! Yes!" Brandon punched a fist into the air and grinned a mile wide. "Two outta three! I win!" Naruto made the same motion on the screen with a "Dattebayo!" followed in response, Brandon found it a bit hard to resist making the same sound.

"Heh heh." Kelly chuckled, not at all bothered at loosing. She sighed and leaned back on the couch, lost in thought again.

This time Brandon looked over at her. Her eyes were open and she was staring off at the window, but not really looking at it. Her eyes were glazed over and her body slack. Brandon found it almost fascinating, how she just stared off like that. He wondered what she was thinking of still, since she had never told him. He spent a few minutes kicking his legs and humming impatient tunes before he could stand it no longer and he poked Kelly on the shoulder. She didn't move. Brandon snickered and poked her again and again and again and again until she finally snapped into consciousness and batted his hands away.

"Hehehe!" Brandon laughed and stuck his tongue out of his teeth. "You did it again!"

"Oh, man sorry." Kelly replied halfheartedly.

"I wish I was in your imagination, with all of those characters of yours." Brandon said. "I bet it's tons of fun."

Kelly didn't respond.

"Sooo…" Brandon trailed off, the turned back to her for the third time. "What were you thinking about?"

Kelly turned her head real slowly to glare at him sarcastically. "Do you really want to know?"

Brandon nodded so vigorously he thought his head would roll of his shoulders.

The girl couldn't help, but smile at his interest. "Okay. Jeez." She crossed her legs and tucked her hands behind her head. "I was just imagining a dream world."

"Ooh?" Brandon stared at her intently.

She scratched her neck nervously. "I don't usually…tell people this stuff…" Her voice dropped down a little. "…and when I do I usually end up regretting it…"

"C'mon!" Brandon laughed. "I'm your best friend, right!"

"Yeah…" Kelly muttered. "Ooookay. I was dreaming of a world that's like a game and we're all players. We have all of these weapons and abilities…and we all take different paths, but at the end we're all back together again to fight the final boss." She looked off into the distant. "I told you it was weird."

Brandon laughed. "What do you mean weird! That would be awesome!" He flopped down on the couch lazily. "Imagine if something like that were to actually happen! That would be the coolest thing, EVER!"

"Yeah…" Kelly sighed and stared back out into the window. "I would be even better if Kayla were to join us…"

Brandon sighed, he couldn't help a pang of sadness at the mention of their other best friend. Kayla, Brandon and Kelly had once been an unbeatable, inseparable trio, until Kayla had moved states away. Of course they still kept in close contact with her, but…it wasn't the same.

"Oh!" Kelly snapped back up and reached down into her bag, protruding a black sketchbook. "Did you see my new drawing?" She asked, effectively changing the conversation.

"Ooh! No!" Brandon scooted over, leaning so deep into the paper, Kelly had to push his head back up to turn the page. "Here." She pointed to a drawing of a man with wide, insane eyes and a mess of some sort of afro-dreadlock hairdo colored in bright red. He wore a short-sleeved orange and blue striped shirt with dark jeans and socks to match the shirt. Although the most noticeable thing about him was a long, forest green scarf that slung around his neck so both tendrils fell at his back, both long enough to nearly touch the ground. He was in a silly break dancing position, although it was drawn well enough to make him look absolutely cool.

Brandon ooh'd and aah'd more times then appropriate before getting back to the game. "Nice job Kelly." He complimented. "Michael's a pretty cool character."

"Yeah." Kelly nodded. "He's my favorite. I think he's awesome, even if he is a little crazy."

Brandon shrugged. "You like crazy anyway don't you?"

"Hehe…" Kelly snickered. "I guess…"

Brandon noticed even as the two of them returned their attention to their Naruto game, Kelly began to space out again, sometimes costing her a move or two. The boy watched her and wondered what exactly might be going on in there that had so much of her attention. He couldn't suppress a silent wish for Kelly's dream world to come true.

Of course, Brandon wasn't stupid. Such things were just impossible weren't they?