After Rei had taken Zoe and her parents to his house, he got yelled at by his parents for sneaking out of the house. He explained what had happened, and just as he had said earlier, his parents were more than happy to take Them guys in. The Kons had a very nice house. Zoe had been there a lot of times, but had just noticed how beautiful the house was. There were four bedrooms, one being a guest room, two bathrooms, a huge living room, and an equally large kitchen. There were two floors, the guest bedroom and Mr. and Mrs. Kon's bedroom on the second floor and the other two on the first. Rei's mother suggested that Zoe and her parents share the guest room, but she weren't too fond of that idea, so opted to sleep on the couch in the living room instead. The couch was actually a lot comfier than a bed.

Zoe was currently lying down on the couch, staring blankly up at the shadowy ceiling. It was a couple of minutes after midnight. Raven's cage was beside the couch, the crow wide away, just like her. But, Raven was always up at night. Zoe was beginning to think that the crow was nocturnal. Zoe were only awake because of fear and because she was thinking a lot. The fear came from her nightmares. What if she had another nightmare and it came true, too? And, what if the one about her and Rei was going to come true...?
Zoe would rather not think about that.
What she was thinking about was her house, about all the things she had lost in the fire. She had lost books, pictures, drawings, poems and stories she had written, and pretty much all of her clothing.

Great...there was another issue...clothing. Besides what she currently wore, and had been wearing all day, she had no other clothes. All had been turned to ash by the fire. She sighed and shook her mind clear; she didn't want to think about anything anymore. Though, now she realized how silent it was. The silence was starting to irritate her, when...

"Can't sleep, huh?"

You were thankful that Kai's voice broke the pressing silence.Kai lives with the Kon's also as he was abandoned at a very young age by his grandfather Voltaire, for not abiding by the rules, the Kon's hapily took him in as one of their own.

Zoe sat up as he walked over and took a seat on the other end of the couch.

"Yeah...I've been thinking too much." She sighed.

"Ah, I see. Thinking too much...about me." Kai joked, grinning.

"Woah, Kai making a joke?...Sure, I was thinking about you. That's exactly right." Zoe spoke with sarcasm evident in her tired voice.

"Of course you weren't thinking of me! You were far too busy thinking about Rei to do so." Kai laughed.

Zoe was thankful for the darkness, because she could feel herself blushing.

"Whatever you say. And why are you up? Let me guess...you couldn't sleep because you were fantasizing about Max, Tyson, or Kenny? Yeah, that's it." Zoe snickered.

Kai didn't look too humored as she laughed. he punched her in your shoulder, saying coolly, "That's not very funny."

"You're right...it would be a hell of a lot funnier if it weren't true!"

"Okay, that's it!" Kai snapped.

Before she knew it, she was being hit with a series of playful punches. Neither of them realized how loud they were being. When Kai finally stopped attacking Zoe, he laughed and sat back on the other end of the couch...just to have a shoe fly out of nowhere and hit him right in the head.

"Agh, God damnit, Rei! What the fuck is with you and your obsession of throwing large objects at people's heads?!" Kai cried out.

"I don't have an obsession with it, but I have no other option when you guys are so fucking loud that you could raise the fucking dead!" Rei shouted, sounding grumpy.

When Zoe saw him, it took all she had to keep herself from laughing.
Rei looked so...cute. His eyes had tiredness within them and his hair was a total mess. He was wearing a black t-shirt that was a little too big for him and some regular black pajama pants. He wobbled slightly, proving that he was just barely awake. He looked so damn adorable.

"Okay, fine. Everything is going to be completely silent now! I'm going back to bed anyways." Kai mumbled.

Without another word, Rei turned and stumbled back into the hallway from which he had come.

"See what you did?! You made me attack you and caused a shoe to hit me in the head! It's all your fault!" Kai spat, fake anger in his voice.

"Whatever. Go to bed before Rei comes back and throws something harder." Zoe smiled. "Goodnight."

"Yeah, good-fucking-night."

Kai then got up and walked to the hallway Rei had gone into. A moment later, she heard his bedroom door close. Smiling, she lay back down on the couch. Zoe closed her eyes, no longer afraid of having any more nightmares, and the images from her nightmares not there anymore.
...They had been replaced by the irresistibly cute images of Rei...

Zoes eyes slowly fluttered open, though her vision was rather blurry at first. She blinked a couple of times until her vision cleared. Zoe then found herself staring into someone's deep Golden eyes. Zoe wasn't expecting someone to be standing over her, so she let out a soft yell and tumbled off of the couch. The floor, much unlike the couch, was hard and cold. Zoe heard an eruption of laughter as she just lay there, completely motionless for a moment or two.

"Damn you...whoever you are. I can't tell right now..." She mumbled tiredly.

"I'll give you a hint. My name has an E in it."

"Fruit cake." She said, sitting up.

"Nope, wrong! My name is Rei," he stated, his voice sounding childish.

"Rei, fruit cake, they're the same thing." You smiled, finally looking up at Rei.

her heart seemed to stop upon seeing him. His ebony colored hair looked wet, as if he had just washed it, and was straggly. He his traditional chinese outfit but today he had a change, it was black and green. For some odd reason, he looked very different to Zoe. Well, one reason could be that you had never seen him in those clothes before. But there was still this weird difference...but yShe couldn't tell what it was.

Though, this weird difference was one that she liked...a lot.

"Come on, get up and go take a shower. It's Saturday and we're going back to the mall. You, Kai, Tyson, Kenny, Max, and I." Rei announced.

"Again? We were just there yesterday. And, aren't you and I still in trouble with our parents? Oh, and besides, I have no money to spend and no clean clothes to wear." she sighed as she stood up.

"Well, our parents will just have to deal with it. And about the clothes, that's why we're going. All of us, being the nice, wonderful people we are, have decided to chip in a get you some new clothes and such. It's the least we can do." Rei smiled kindly at you.

"That's so nice of you, but-"

"I don't wanna hear you say that you can't accept it. You will, because it's something I want to do for my friend, out of my kindness of my heart. It's something we all want to do for you."

Zoe couldn't help but smile now. She began to wonder if Rei was only a dream, because she just couldn't believe that someone could be so generous and thoughtful.

"Thank you." Zoe whispered, grinning. "But, since when do you have a heart?"

Rei glared at her and took a step forward. Zoe just laughed and rushed past Rei, upstairs, and into the bathroom to take a shower before he could do anything at all.

She took a quick shower and got out, finding that the clothes she had been wearing were dirty and didn't smell too good. Zoe heard a knock on the bathroom door, quickly wrapping a towel around herself. She cracked the door open and found Rei standing there. He shoved some clothes into her arms.

"Here's a shirt and some pants. Eh, they might be a little big on you, but it's all that I could find," he said, looking down at the ground.

"That's okay. Thanks." Zoe smiled and shut the door.

Surprisingly, the clothes fit rather well. The black t-shirt fit her perfectly, actually. Rei had even thrown in a black and red striped waist tie that she liked a lot. The black jeans she was provided with were a little baggy, but she liked them. They, like the ones Rei sometimes wore, were torn at the knees. Before she left the bathroom she brushed her hair ans tied it up losley to let it flow down her back.
Zoe hurried downstairs to find Tyson and Max sitting on the couch in the living room, Max lazily flipping through the channels on the T.V., and Tyson bothering Raven. Kai and Rei were by the front door.

"Leave Raven alone, you evil person." Zoe said, bringing all attention to her.

"Finally! God, you were only in the shower for two hours!" Tyson groaned, leaving Raven alone so she could go back to sleep.

"Please, how would you know? You two just got here." Kai said in his usual manner.

"Oh, we have our ways. We see everything..." Max whispered evilly.

Tyson grinned and Zoe knew that some perverted words were about to come out of his mouth.

"Yeah, everything...like you in the shower, Zoe."

Zoe playfully slapped him, eye twitching.

"Say another perverted thing and I will make sure you NEVER have babies." She threatened in an eerily calm tone.

Tyson rubbed his cheek, where she had slapped him even though it was not even hard, still grinning.

"Hey, where's Kenny?" Zoe asked, finally noticing that her goggle-headed friend was missing.

"He said he had something to do and would meet up with us later." Max explained.

Zoe nodded. "I see."

"Okay, let's just go. We've got a whole Saturday to waste away at the mall." Rei said.

So, without another word from anyone, the five of them went outside.

"Your truck sucks ass, Max." Zoe commented, staring at the old, rusty pick-up truck in the driveway.

"Hey, don't be mean to my precious!" Max snapped.

"Okay...whatever. It's your crappy truck, after all." Zoe snickered.

Since only three people could fit in the truck, two people were going to have to ride in the back. Tyson, Max, and Kai all sprinted towards the truck, climbing inside.

"You guys fucking suck!" Zoe yelled, finally noticing that it was raining.

She mumbled things as her and Rei were forced to ride in the bed of the truck, the rain literally pouring down as Max drove down the road.

"I'm gonna kill those three when we get into the mall." Rei sighed, getting soaked by the rain.

"We would've been better off walking." Zoe mumbled.

The drive, thankfully, wasn't too long. Zoe and Rei hopped out of the bed of the truck and hurried into the mall, both of them soaked to the bone.

"I'm going to fucking KILL them." Rei repeated over and over to himself.

Tyson, Kai, and Max all came into the mall, laughing their heads off. Well, they were laughing...until they saw the beyond-pissed-off look on Rei's face.

"Shit..." Tyson muttered.

The three of them ran off in all directions as Rei and Zoe charged for them.

After Rei and Zoe were done getting revenge on their three friends, the five of them started walking around. The first place they had gone was to Hot Topic, where Zoe bought a couple of band t-shirts, pants, and so on. She only bought enough clothes to get Her through each week. After they all left Hot Topic, thy ran into Kenny. The six of them had a wonderful time getting in trouble with the security guards and also getting kicked out of stores that they hated anyways.Well, they were having fun, until they ran into her...

"Rei, Kenny! Hey, you guys!"

Zoe cringed upon hearing the voice. Zoe groaned, as did Tyson and Max.

"Emily! Hi! It's been a while." Rei said cheerfully, pulling this Emily girl into a tight embrace.

Zoe despised Emily. She had grown up with her and known her since the day she was born, since her mother and her mother were best friends. Though, Zoe never did like Emily. She was always rude to her. Max and Tyson hated her too, but for some reason Rei and Kenny loved her. She was like their best friend.

"Hey, Zoe. I heard your house burned down. Are Chris and Ann okay?" Emily asked.

"Oh, yeah. They're just fine." Zoe answered, not wanting to talk to Emily.

"Good to hear." Emily said in a I-really-don't-give-a-shit kind of tone.

"Hey, how about you walk around with us. I really want to talk." Rei offered, smiling hopefully.

Emily smiled back and shook her head, saying softly, "No thanks. But, I was actually wondering if I could talk with you privately."

"Uh, okay. Sure." Rei nodded.

Zoe stared in despair as the two walked off, disappearing in a large crowd. Then, an odd feeling washed over Zoe...

...And she suddenly knew that things were going to change for the worst pretty damn soon.

OK i realise it should be mariah and not Emily here but i used mariah as the bitch in episode 2, so i couldn't use her as a friend to Rei could i, this idea popped into my head and i wanted to use it so i am gonna use emily and not mariah sorry. R&R please bye bye xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dallas