You're a girl Gwen." Kuri said.
"Yes, that's true." Gwen laughed.
"Well...how do you prepare for your dates with Kevin?" Kuri asked.
Gwen choked on her smoothie. "We're not—"
"All you have to do is show up, do whatever he wants, and offer to pay once in a while, and don't forget to kiss Ben!" Kevin laughed.
"Ignore him." Gwen said, taking Kuri into her room. "You wear about my size. And you'd look good in...blue."
"Do I really have to kiss him? I don't know how to do that." Kuri said. "I could be bad at it."
"People aren't really bad at that." Gwen said. "Do you want to wear make up?"
"Make up?" Kuri tilted her head.
"You've never heard of make up?" Gwen said. "Well it's ok if you're a tomboy."
"There's no time for this usually. I come in and out. I wake up in pools of blood and...I-I..." Kuri wrung her hands.
"Hey calm down." Gwen said. "You are stronger than her remember. You have pure light. Besides that...Ben likes you."
"He just feels sorry for me. All of you do." Kuri sighed a little.
"Now that's just not true. For one thing Ben doesn't think like that, he's not really all that sensitive. Yes he wants to help you but it's because he likes you. He's never been around a girl who could be a hero like him. Well I mean...besides me, and I'm his cousin." Gwen said, finishing with her.
Kuri was wearing a blue sundress with little clouds on it, and she had two white clips in her long black hair on either side, and small white flip flops. The make up had been a no go because she and Gwen were so different in appearance, and Gwen didn't have any make up for her caramel colored skin. But she did loan her some cherry lip gloss and some waterproof mascara.
"So...Ben likes me...your sure..." Kuri said finally. "So that's what this feels like."
Gwen took out a pendant.
"What's this Gwen?" Kuri said. "I don't need anything else."
"Oh this? It's for your temperamental other half." Gwen said. "Is she listening?"
"Still knocked out from before." Kuri said.
Gwen put the necklace on her. "This necklace allows you to suppress your other half once, just once, and then its useless. I'm looking for stronger magic to use on her but—"
Kuri hugged her. "Thank you Gwen."