"So do we have everything?" Jeb and I had gone around the department store looking through the paint and furniture.

I looked at all the things we got and it looked pretty good. I mentally checked off the things we needed and thought that we had everything we needed. "I think we're cool."

"I'll take the bigger cart and go to the cashier first. I need to ask about something anyways. You can look around a bit more but take the smaller cart with you." I nodded and watched him go by.

I was turning towards and aisle when suddenly, BAM! I rushed towards the front of the cart where a girl was on the floor rubbing the side of her head. The same girl we had almost hit on the road.

I pushed up her hair checking for any abnormal things around her head. She was mostly clean except for the little pink bump that would probably disappear in a few hours. I helped her stand up and brushed of her little dress. "Try to be more careful. This isn't the first time we've almost hit you."

She looked at me with curious eyes and asked in such a sweet voice, "Do I know you? Haven't I seen you before?"

I chuckled and replied, "I met you yesterday remember? I was in the car that almost hit you."

"No, no. I've seen you before some where other than that."

Just then, a tall boy came running towards us. He was the one who I felt lonely without. While his face was impassive, his eyes were clearly etched with worry. When he reached out to grab the arm of the girl that I was holding, his hand grazed mine and I felt an electric zap shit through me. Woah. I quickly pulled my hand away like the girl's arm was poison.

He averted he attention fully to the girl and almost whispered to the girl, "Are you okay, Angel? I told you not to go running off, especially in here."

Angel replied in a calm voice, "I'm fine, Fang. The girl helped me. She looks familiar."

"I h-have to go." I stuttered, "My dad's waiting. Be more careful next time...Angel." I quickly glanced at Fang but stood up hastily and pushed the cart towards the cashier quickly.

But before I was out of earshot, I heard Angel say, "Oh! Now I remember! She looks like Maxine!"

I reached the cashiers and found Jeb as fast as possible, still shaken up from what Angel had said. She recognized me. Nobody ever recognizes me. I put on this mask-like make up on and I totally change my hair. Nobody has ever even thought of the mere idea… I think… I don't tell Jeb about what happened. He's just going to make us move again to hide my identity. And I want to stay. At least until I start school, which, by the way, I'm starting in two weeks. That's the time the second semester starts. So everyone's on winter break now.

Jeb buys everything and we load everything into our car. I have no idea how it all fit. While we headed home, we drove past a girl and a boy. Both were walking and the boy was holding a bag from the department store. I recognized them imeadiately as Angel and Fang. As we drove past, I looked at them through the rear-view mirror. Don't worry, I'm not a stalker or anything. I saw Angel say something and Fang shake his head and smile. He was cute when he smiled. I liked it. What she said must have been bizzare since Fang started to laugh. God, I wanted to hear him laugh. I bet it sounded like heaven. Why am I falling for a boy I've never even met? I even have a boyfriend! I think the screaming of my fans at the concerts are driving me crazy.

We started painting what would soon be my room. We always go room by room. My walls were going to be black, green and silver with a touch of gold lining. The colors were just all over the place. No plan or drawing. Painting my room was really easy since we just did whatever. Next was Jeb's room. His would be blue and beige stripes. The stripes were up and down, but they didn't have to be straight or even, just lines. Since there were three rooms total in the house, the last room would be my music room. We found that this was the most sound-proof room in the house. I would practice all my music here for my concerts. This room, we painted pink, purple and black. We worked especially hard on this room. We first painted the walls with up and down pink and purple stripes. Then we would use the splatter effect with the black. I am going to love this room. We just finished the third room as the time was around 11:30 pm. I'm going to sleep in tomorrow. Tomorrow we are going to paint what ever is left. I fell asleep as soon as I closed my eyes.

cya!

mary p.