"PARTY!" Veronica, a girl with short brown hair, oddly colored eyes and glasses, yelled as the three girls entered the club. Alysse, a quiet girl with blonde hair, just smiled.

"I hate these kind of places! You know I get panicky when I'm around too many people…" Tiffani, a gothic girl with short faded red hair and who probably has bipolar disorder, warned.

"Oh cheer up you know you wanted to come!" Veronica scolded. Tiffani sighed.

"Why am I here!" Tiffani demanded.

"Because we are boring when we are alone!" Veronica and Alysse said in sync. Tiffani rolled her green eyes and walked into the club with her two friends. When the song Riding Solo came on Alysse shrunk and sat down at a table while Tiffani perked up and went to the dance floor with Veronica. They danced like maniacs and then the song Dynamite came on. At this, Alysse joined them in the middle of the dance floor. They had just started dancing to and yell/singing the first part of the spng when three men about their age walked over to them.

"We challenge you to a dance off!" A tipsy man with hair over his left eye said slurring his words. Alysse blushed at the sight of the man. Tiffani stepped forward with a gleam in her eye.

"Finally some fun. We accept! Oh and how about we make this interesting?" Tiffani countered. Tiffani was a tad bit too cocky and a tad bit to addicted to gambling for her own good.

"Alright! Whoever wins has to buy a round of drinks for all of us." Hatori said, laughing a slightly drunken laugh.

"Have I seen you before?" the dark haired man dancing with Veronica asked.

"Probably in your dreams, love!" she said, winking.

"I THROW MY HANDS UP IN THE AIR SOMETIMES! SAYING AYOO GOTTA LET GO!" Alysse and Veronica yelled, throwing their hands in the air as well. The man with long white hair who was dancing with Tiffani was staring at her. Tiffani started to blush and it after a moment turned bright red.

"Stop staring i know i am an idiot! You don't have to look at me like one..." Tiffani loudly stated before walking back to the booth the girls were sitting at earlier.

When the song ended, Alysse and Veronica invited the men to their table.

"I swear I have seen you before. What's your name?" the man named Shigure asked.

"Veronica Kuyhi. This is Tiffani Kuyhi and Alysse Kuyhi." Veronica answered. Shigure gasped.

"YOU'RE THE ONE THAT WROTE LATE NIGHT INDULGENCE!" he said, recognizing her from her picture in the book. Veronica smiled.

"I see you admire my work." she smiled.

Tiffani laughed, she loved it when people noticed Veronica for the perverted writer she was because she would get a lot of attention whether it was good or bad was to be determined sometimes. Veronica and Shigure continued talking about writing and Tiffani had gotten lost in a day dream not noticing the Ayame was now sitting next to her. Alysse and Hatori were having a quiet conversation that appeared to be quit dull to Tiffani and Veronica so neither of them had the urge to join in.

Alysse and Hatori left to the bar.

*later, after they had danced some more*

"Ughh my feet are so tired, I need to take these shoes off!" Veronica groaned. The group went back to the table and Veronica unzipped her boots, lifting her feet onto the table to rest them. Shigure gasped. There was a silhouette of a dog tattooed on the inside of her ankle. Tiffani removed her coat, exposing her arms. On her left, she had a tattoo of a white snake curling up her arm. Ayame's eyes went wide. Shigure and Ayame looked at each other.

Tiffani noticed the glances at the tattoos.

"Don't think we are easy or freaks because of the tattoos... we have always had them and didn't choose to get them... although i do love snakes..." Tiffani started to mumble losing her train of thoughts.

"Yeah, Alysse has a little dragon tattooed on the base of her neck. I have no idea what the elders were thinking when they tattooed a baby there. They could have damaged her little neck.." Veronica said. When Hatori and Alysse returned to the table, Shigure and Ayame grabbed Hatori.

"We need to talk to these girls in a more private and formal manner." Shigure said seriously.

Veronica and Tiffani looked up at their drunken friend.

"I think they know." Veronica said, looking back at Tiffani.

"Say, what is your last name?" Tiffani asked the men.

"Sohma." They all replied.

The girls gasped.

"We need to talk." Tiffani said, standing.

Tiffani grabbed her coat and Veronica put her shoes back on.

"So where we going to go?" Veronica asked.

"My place." Shigure announced. Hatori seemed to have sobered up. So did Alysse. Tiffani quickly finished her drink... non alcoholic (they were scared to let her drink real alcohol because they didn't know how she would handle it) wine and they were off.

"Do you know?" Shigure asked as they entered his home.

"Do we know that you're family turns into the Chinese zodiac? Yes. Do I know which you are? No." Veronica answered, crossing her arms and sitting down at their table.

"How?" Hatori asked.

"Hm?"

"How do you girls know?" he asked.

"Don't you know the story behind your curse?" Alysse interjected.

"Vaguely." Ayame said, joining them at the table.

"Tiffani, care to explain?" Veronica said, looking over at her cousin who was leaning against the doorway.

Tiffani blushed and looked away. She was the one who knew the most out of them. She was fascinated with it when she was younger but as she got older she realized not being able to get close to anyone outside of your family and of a different sex would be horrible. So as she got older she researched even harder trying to find a way to stop the curse.

"Well it's a long story... in simple terms an ancestor of ours was in love with an ancestor of yours, so they cursed your ancestor to only be able to hold her, she accidentally cursed both our families because she was new to magic. Then... she kinda died after casting the curse and her mother took things over. So now one member of our family is destined to be with a member of the Sohma family. So when someone in your family is born who has the curse then someone in our family is born to be with them and tattooed with the animal of the one they are destined to be with..." Tiffani continued blushing... she didn't want to be forced to love someone... she didn't even want to love anyone.

The three men looked at Tiffani wide eyed, then looked at each other, then looked at the girl that they were 'destined to be with'.

"Ah!" Tiffani yelled as she was tackled in a hug by Ayame.

"It's true.." Shigure said, noticing how Ayame didn't change into a snake.

"What animals are you guys?" Veronica asked.

"Th-the dog." Shigure said, motioning to himself.

"The dragon." Hatori said, looking at Alysse.

"And I'm the snake." Ayame said, pulling away from Tiffani.

Tiffani was blushing bright red.

"I guess it sucks to be you because I don't believe in love and I never plan on believing it." she angrily said. Ayame looked sad. He was destined to be with someone who refused the existence of love. Veronica slapped Tiffani behind the head.

"Don't be such a prick!" Veronica scolded. Tiffani sighed. Alysse and Hatori seemed to be in their own world and weren't paying attention... probably because they were very drunk. Shigure felt horrible for his friend but was happy for himself.

"Veronica.. you know what I mean." Tiffani said, looking at her friend. Veronica rolled her eyes.

"I may know, but I don't care. You don't have to be so rude and blunt like that! And it's not like you couldn't give love a try for once!" Veronica said growled, her part of the curse kicking in.

"It only leads to hurt." Tiffani hissed.

"How would you know if you've never felt it!" Veronica barked. She saw Tiffani's eyes begin to turn to slits. She looked down at her hands and her nails were turning to claws.

"Because I've seen what you become! I see what happens every time you come home after being broken up with!" Tiffani spat back, her fangs elongating.

"STOP!" Alysse yelled angrily. The two looked at her with their animalistic features.