Hey again, Thanks for the reviews. My friend abandoned me so I've got to continue on my own. She's crazy about Sinedd so I'm sure she'll be back.

Anyways, enjoy!

D'Jok sat up in his bed as he heard a knock at the door. Micro-ice obviously hadn't heard anything seeing that he was still snoring pretty loudly.

Tia rushed into the room, a worried look plastered on her face. 'Have you seen Mei?'

'No' he replied grumpily rubbing the back of his head. 'Why would she be here?'

'I've looked everywhere else.' she frowned.

'She's probably down at the bar or doing another ad' he turned and lay on his side, facing away from Tia.

Yeah, she calmed herself. Mei was into late night ads but she would've said something.

Tia shuffled back to her bedroom. She looked at the empty bed opposite hers. Just doing another ad, she told herself, she'll be back in the morning.

Early morning training! D'Jok ran into the training room to find everyone already there. Everyone except for Mei.

'You're late' Aarch waved his hand dismissively before D'Jok could reply and said 'it doesn't matter, just get into the hollow trainer with everyone else.'

Once the match was set up, D'Jok noticed Yuki in Mei's place. For a second, anger washed over him. Then it passed like a breeze, he remembered why he broke up with her.

'Where is Mei, Micro-ice?' he asked his best friend.

'No one knows. We've sent out a search party. She couldn't have gone far. Akillian is a fairly small planet. Maybe she just needed space to think, that's what Rocket does, isn't it?'

D'Jok nodded, Mei did need space to think but it wasn't for the same thing that Micro-ice thought it was. D'Jok didn't tell anyone about what happened yesterday. He was guessing that she bolted right after their chat.

'Micro-ice, D'Jok, get into position!' came Aarch's voice.

D'Jok came face to face with the legendary striker of the Rykers. The ball shot up into the air and D'Jok passed it to Rocket who did a triple-summersault-twisty-turny and landed on his feet, then he passed to Micro-ice who back-kicked the ball into the net. Kernor now had the ball and she threw it all the way down the field to one of her team mates. Although clumsily, Yuki intercepted and D'Jok couldn't help but compare her to the ever graceful Mei. He shook his head but realised too late that the ball went right past him and off the field.

'D'Jok, keep you head in the game.' Aarch sounded angry.

D'Jok scored three more goals against Kernor with more force and frustration than usual. When the field faded bit by bit around them, D'Jok didn't wait for one of his coach's pep talks. He stormed out and went to his room. He had no idea why he was angry. There was no reason.

Someone knocked on his door, figuring it was Aarch, he shouted 'Go away, I'm not in the mood.'

The door opened anyway and Tia entered.

'Are you okay?' she was carrying a pink scrapbook by looks of it.

'Yeah hunky-dory. What's that? He pointed to the book.

'Did anything happened between you and Mei?' She looked unconvinced as he shook his head. 'I found this in her wardrobe.' She threw the book onto the bed and walked out. Tia seemed to be more afraid for Mei than the others, D'Jok thought.

He picked up the book, on the cover were the words D'Jok + Mei and a photo of her leaning on his chest while he looked nervous and somewhat uncomfortable.

Inside was chaos: ripped photos, pages torn out all sorts of memories from scoring goals to going on different planets, all of either Mei, D'Jok or both. He came to the last page where he found their first kiss in black and white as in a happy ending. At the bottom of the page where the words 'I guess fairytales were only for books.'

He waited for disappointment to overcome him, but it never did. The only thing he could feel was frustration, but not at himself.

At Mei.

Mei went strait to her house. She was spending the night there and meeting up with Sinedd tomorrow so she could get started on her new training. She felt guilty about not telling the Snow Kids where she was going and what she was doing but she didn't want to hear what they had to say. Especially Aarch. Her heart dropped when she remembered all he had done for her.

She shook her head, one thing at a time she told herself. At the moment, she can just worry about Sinedd and the fierce Artegor. One side of her was exited about what was to come but the other side was sad at what she was leaving behind. She remembered the scrapbook she had made. Normally she wasn't the type to create that sort of stuff, she was a 'live in the moment' kinda gal. it was Yuki who came up with the idea of making a book of memories and she had such fun making it.

She lay down on her bed. Still, she was moving on and was proud of herself.

Another thing that worried her was that Sinedd had said that she had to learn the smog. She was used to the breath. That feeling of warmth that came from you, that feeling that you were unstoppable and of course, the elegance of it.

The smog is powerful but dangerous. She remembered what Aarch had told them: 'the smog almost destroyed me'. In some ways, she was scared of it.

Her thoughts trailed on to Artegor. He had a rough reputation but it obviously worked seeing how far the Shadows had gotten.

Considering all of this, she still couldn't wait for tomorrow.

Sinedd had said that they train very early in the day so she went to bed before it became dark.