-Chapter 3-
The strange girl turned to her rescuer. "You should scram, too. I'm very much capable of killing dreams. Especially if they're of fatherhood. Pretty easy spot to hit." she threatened.
"You can stop acting tough, you know."
"Pft! Who's acting?" she said in, to Dairen, a cute voice.
"Hey, um... Don't mind me here! I'm just, uh... Yeah, you know?" Rei nervously said.
"You aren't scared of me either?!" The girl looked taken aback.
"Not really... Why do you want us to be scared of you?" Rei asked curiously.
The girl muttered something under her breath and turned to leave.
"W-Wait!" Darien protested. "Even after all this time... I-I still don't know your name."
"Name? Keh! Like you'd want to know!"
"If I didn't want to know, I wouldn't be asking you in the first place."
"Grrrr... Fine! I don't have a name! As you've probably heard, I get called alot of things around these lands. I have many names. But none of which I nor my parents chose." she resided.
"You have parents?" Rei entered.
"Kind of a stupid question to ask, don't you think? How else would I have been born?"
"Where are they?"
"... I... They're really far away. I guess..."
"Far away? You mean dead?!"
"Like I'd know! I've always hated my parents! Who cares about them?! NOT ME! That's for sure..." She wandered off, still rambling on about her parents that she never knew. All she knew was that they didn't take care of her. They didn't even have the heart to give her a name! So why, then, couldn't she hate them? Guess it was hard not to hate the one who gave you life...
The girl came upon a building, in which she climbed up and sat on top. It wasn't a very high building. It was around medium height.
"Dear God..." she started, "... Please. Let everyone stay away from me. I don't want to be hurt anymore... All I want is a friend. Someone I can trust and rely on. And, if possible, please... P-Please let me be fully human. Like the Sailor Scouts! Oh, how I wish with all my heart that I could become one of them! Then... Then no one will ever call me bad names again. Instead, they'll respect me and I won't ever spend another night in the rain again. No more freezing winters and no more starving or struggling to survive! That'd be such a great life... You know, God... I look around me and I see people who are loved by family and friends. I want to be loved like that, too. But when I look at myself... All I see is a freakish thing. A half-cat half-human freak of nature. But! Whatever you have planned for me, I'll follow you. I'll do whatever you want, Lord. Whatever you wish... Amen." she prayed.
Darien saw her sillhouette on top of a roof. Looked like she was getting up. Then he watched as she flipped down the building. Cat reflexes, he assumed.
The long-haired, blonde-headed girl went back to her tree, trotting right past Darien.
"Kinda rude, you know! If this is your home then I'm your guest!" he shouted up to her.
The girl was going to say something back, but then she felt a raindrop. Then two, then three, then four, then five... 'Great... Just great... Now I can't sleep in my tree tonight.' she thought. She proceeded to jump from the tree to the ground below her.
"I'm not coming down for the likes of you! I'm just coming down because I hate water so much! So you'd better not get the wrong idea, pal." she angrily said. Then she walked off.
Darien followed.
"Don't you have somewhere to be?! You're so freakin' annoying!"
"I'm going to hang with you tonight." he calmly told her.
"What makes you think I'll let you?"
"Well, there's the fact that you haven't killed me yet."
"So?"
"So can you seriously say you don't trust me?"
"I already have! But a certain someone won't listen to me!" she retorted.
"And..."
"And what?"
"And if you don't have a name... Then what do I call you?"
"Just make something up! I don't care!"
"How about... Um... C.G.? Yeah, I like it!"
"Why C.G.?"
"It stands for cat girl."
"Urf! W-Wh-What?!"
"You heard me. Cat. Girl. C.G."
"Don't call me a cat-girl! That isn't what I am!"
"Then what are you?"
"..."
"Well? Any answer?"
"I-I'm... I'm a..." She mumbled the rest of her sentence.
"You're a... What? What'd you say?"
"I said I'm a... A... Freak."
"No you aren't. I saw you jump down from that building. You looked like a superheroine."
"Ksh! Yeah, right... If only you knew..." She walked towards the dumpster near the arcade that Andrew worked at, only to find it was gone. 'Trash day...' she thought. 'And on today of all days!'
"Why are you over here? I thought you lived in that tree over there." Darien pointed to her tree.
"What is this?! Twenty Questions?!"
"You haven't answered any of my questions!"
"Then you know I won't answer any more that you might have."
"I won't leave until I know more about you!"
"Heheheh... Let's see if a regular, normal human can survive a dark and rainy night."
"Oh... It is on!"
"Better prepare yourself."
"Already am."
