Don't steal my shit. This is my story, not yours...So don't even fucking THINK about trying to take it. You can also find this story on the Tribeworld UBB.

~Lioness

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Chapter 1-

Tai-San yawned, turning over onto her back, being careful not to disturb Lex, who was sleeping soundly beside her. She had had a long night, and she was achingly tired. But her soul was calm, and balanced. She was happy, and the prospects of the day seemed optimistically endless.

At least, that was what she called it. Anyone else would disagree with her. I mean, who would fucking say "Optimistically Endless?"

No one else in the Mall shared her views quite in the way she saw them.

Rubbing a hand across her sleepy eyes, she got up, stretching, and smiled down at the sleeping Lex. In sleep, he looked like a small, vulnerable child, with the string of drool hanging from his open mouth.

They had been together for at least a month. It was an tumultuous affair, and Tai-San felt was for the good of the tribe. It certainly kept Lex in good humour, and his attitude had changed for the better since he and Tai-San has consummated their relationship.

If things are meant to be, Tai-San thought, then they will certainly last.

She got washed, and put on her clothes. After brushing her blue hair up, she climbed down the stairs, entering the 'kitchen' to brew some herbal tea. Luckily, there was plenty left, as she was the only one who enjoyed divulging in the pleasures of various herbs.

She laid the homemade tea bag on the counter, and filled a measuring cup with water. Then she realised that pot wasn't on the counter anywhere.

Trudy entered the room, her baby Brady juggled on one arm. "Good morning, Tai-San," she said, sitting down at the table.

"Hello, Trudy. Have you seen the pot? I could have sworn I left it on the counter last night. "

"Last time I checked, it was in the cabinet under the sink," Trudy told her. She raised a bottle to Brady's lips, and the baby screamed and pushed it away.

Tai-San knelt down, opening the cabinet below and reaching in for the pot. Instead of cold steel metal, she felt something that was warm, like skin..... She jerked back, spilling the water in the measuring cup, dropping it to the floor.

"Shit!" Tai-San cursed. Mystical or not, from pain, profanity was bourne.

Trudy looked up, vaguely concerned. "Tai-San, what did you do?" she asked.

Tai-San ignored Trudy, and slowly bent down to the cabinet again. Opening the doors all the way, she blinked in surprise and sat back, hard.

"Oh my," came her comment. "Oh my, oh my."

"Tai-San, please don't tell anyone!" a voice said.

Trudy in her curiousness, stood up, the baby clinging to her arm like a leech. She looked over at the open cabinet, and did a double take.

"What were you boys doing under there?" she demanded.

The two boys- KC and Dal- shrugged their shoulders, avoiding Trudy's eyes.

"Well? I'm waiting."

KC looked at Dal. "Well-" he began.

Dal interuppted. "Actually, we were playing hide and seek." he told Trudy and Tai-San. "Patsy and Cloe wanted to play, so we decided to humour them. After all, it's probably hard for them, being the youngest two in the tribe, with no one else to play with."

"Yeah," KC put in.

Tai-San gave them an odd look. KC fumbled with the strings from his shirt and hoped desperately that Tai-San with her all-knowing ways couldn't see right through him, into what was in his mind. I wonder if she can do that, he thought. I wonder if she can read people's minds. I wonder-

"But in the bottom cabinet, together?" Trudy asked doubtfully. "Wouldn't that be rather crowded?"

"Yeah, but it was the only good hiding place where they would never find us," KC said defensively.

"But why were you playing hide and seek so early in the morning?"

"We figured this time was as good as any," Dal replied.

Tai-San didn't say a word through Trudy's questioning. She merely bent down, offering her hands to KC and Dal, pulling them out of the cabinet. As they stood up, brushing out the wrinkles in their clothes, they avoided the older girl's eyes.

Trudy shut the cabinet door with a little bang, as if to show KC and Dal she found their behaviour truly silly.

They all turned to see Patsy and Cloe coming down the stairs. The girls heels made a click-click-click-thump sound on the stairwell.

"Where were you last night?" Patsy asked the boys. "We looked and looked for you, but we never found you."

Trudy looked at the boys, her eyebrow raised. "So you were playing this morning, huh?" She asked, sarcastically.

Cloe and Patsy looked at eachother, then at Trudy.

"What are you on about, Trudy?" asked Cloe. She nervously wiped a bit of her green lipstick off her mouth, as if she thought she were about to be in trouble.

"KC and Dal said you were playing hide and seek this morning," Trudy said. She threw a scathing look at the boys.

"We weren't playing this morning." Patsy said. "We were playing last night. We never found them, so we just went to bed. Where were you guys at?"

"Yeah," Cloe said. "How come we never found you?"

"Alright boys, what's going on?" Trudy demanded, annoyed. "What trick were you up to?"

KC and Dal blushed, embarrased.

"Actually," said Dal, "the real truth is that we fell asleep in the cabinet." He looked down sheepishly.

Patsy and Cloe burst into laughter.

"You fell asleep?" Patsy laughed. "What stupid gits!"

"Shut up," KC muttered. "At least my @ss isn't getting fat from sitting around and overcomplimenting Trudy all day."

"Bas-"

"Alright. Enough. Help me make breakfast," Trudy ordered. The children sighed, but obeyed.

Dal looked up, to see Tai-San's strange, intuitive glance. He turned from it, pulling out a can of beans, along with the can opener.

The rest of the Mallrats began drifting downstairs. Lex went over to Tai-San, kissing her in front of everyone.

"You look rather tired," he grinned. "Is it because the power between these legs of mine kept you up all night?"

Tai-San smiled a secretive smile and said nothing, whereas the others looked offended to hear such crudeness. Particularly in front of the children's virgin ears. The children eyes were wide and interested in this little bit of information.

Alice, on the other hand, groaned loudly. "Power? Pffffft. I suppose Tai-San wasn't even aware you were moaning and groaning and straining over her, now was she?"

Lex shot a warning glance towards Alice. "That's not your business, Alice."

"Oh, is it?"

"No, it's not. Not at all."

"Then don't feel fit to dry-hump, grasp at eachother desperately and drop details of your sex games in front of the children. I'd be eternally grateful if you refrained from doing so in the near future." She turned to see Bray, his arms plucking fretfully at his white feminine crocheted tank top, a worried look in his eyes. His lips were suspiciously pink.

Hmm, Alice thought. Has he been borrowing my lip liner again? He had once confided in her that he was embarrassed of his thin lips.

"We need to have a little talk, everyone." he said, when he realised Alice was finished talking.

"Not in the middle of Alice and I's debate, you don't," Lex broke in.

"What debate, sweetums?" Alice said, lightly spanking Lex on the bottom. He arched his eyebrow in surprise. She continued on, grinning slightly. "There was no debate, seeing as I single-handedly outwitted you quickly with my statements."

"Wha-"

"Let me speak, please." Bray interuppted. A vein was popping on his large, slightly oily forehead.

Lex blew his breath. "Oh, Great Queen Braya has something to say. Oh Our Fearless Leader, why don't we all bend down and smother your wrinkly feet with kisses?"

Bray shot his blue eyes towards Lex. "What's the problem, Lex?" he asked, challengingly.

Danni stepped forward then, putting her hands between the two young men. "Don't start. This is not the time to get into a little petty row now. You can compare ball sizes later. Now Bray, do tell us what's the matter, dear."

Bray grimly thrusted out the object in his hand.

"This," he said.

Everyone gasped and bent forward to look.