Rei's P.O.V

I raced down the blinding white hallways of the hospital. Tyson was trailing behind me as I looked around frantically for Kai. Even if I did hate Zoe for what she did...I just couldn't act like I didn't give a damn that she was in the hospital, because I did. After getting yelled at by many doctors and nurses for running, I finally spotted Kai sitting in the waiting room. I hurried over to him.

"Kai! Is she okay?" I asked, breathing hard from running so much.

Kai looked at me coldly. If looks could kill, I would've died right then and there...

"Why in the fuck would you care?" he asked slowly.

I narrowed my eyes at Kai. His attitude was starting to piss me off.

"Just tell me whether Zoe is fucking okay or not." I demanded.

"Yeah, she's just fine physically. I wish I could say the same for her emotional state." Kai replied bitterly.

"What's your fucking problem?" I shouted.

"My fucking problem is that Zoe almost killed herself because you wouldn't fucking listen to her!" Kai shouted back.

I noticed that a lot of people were staring at us, but I didn't care.

"It's not my fault, asshole! If she wouldn't of had to cheat on me like that, then none of this would've happened!"

"You claimed that you loved her." Kai said, though his words were a lot softer and kinder now. "But you couldn't have possibly loved her, Rei. Love is about trust...and you didn't trust her when she said that she wasn't cheating on you. Perhaps you'd like to go and see what she carved into her fucking arm. I may have been bought up by cold hearted bastards but you guys changed that in me. Now i am not afraid of expressing myself so go on you just see whats in her arm...forever!!"

I looked at Kai in confusion. He pointed down the hallway, to room number 45.

"Go look," he said coolly.

I turned away from Kai and walked towards room 45. I slowly opened the door, finding the room empty, save for the sleeping girl on the notorious white hospital bed at the back of the room...

Normal P.O.V

Rei was stricken with fear when he saw her. She was just sleeping, for she had been tired from the past hour of being tested and bothered by nurses and doctors. Rei slowly walked over to her, kneeling down beside the bed. He didn't know what Kai meant about Zoe carving something into her arm. He looked at her right arm, seeing nothing there. But, when he looked at her left arm, he felt shocked.

"Rei...?" she mumbled, though she were still fast asleep.

Rei shook his head. He stood quickly and turned to walk out of the room. But, he was stopped. He felt her cold hand grasp his. Rei slowly looked back at her. She was still asleep, but looked as if she were having a nightmare. Her facial expression was one of fear and sadness. Rei frowned and gently pulled her hand from his. He sighed deeply and walked out of the room, not even bothering to find Tyson as he left the hospital. He didn't even hear what she said before he left.

"I love you..."

Rei soon found that he didn't have the keys to his car. He remembered that Tyson had them. He growled to himself as he started down the sidewalk. The haunting image of his name carved into her delicate, pale arm still lingered in his mind.

"Why would she do something like that...?" he asked himself.

Just as Rei started to get lost in thought, he was snapped out of it. A black car had been following him slowly down the road. Rei sighed heavily, knowing immediately whose car it was.

"What do you want Emily?" he asked tiredly.

Rei stopped walking and looked through the open window on the passenger's side of the car, seeing Emily in the driver's seat. She looked sad and...sorry?

"Rei...I heard what happened to Zoe. I'm so sorry. I was coming to see her. Is she okay?" Emily asked, sounding very sad.

"Yeah...she's fine." Rei mumbled.

"Where are you going? You never usually leave Zoe's side. I always assumed that if something like this would happen, you wouldn't leave her side at all." Emily said.

"Zoe and I aren't together anymore." Rei said, though it pained him to speak the words.

Emily looked absolutely shocked.

"Whoa...are you serious? I was more than sure that the two of you would be together for a hell of a long time," she said, nodding her head.

"Yeah, well...we lasted five months. Good enough." Rei sighed and started to walk off, but Emily followed with her car.

Rei noticed this just as it started to pour down rain. He cursed under his breath.

"Rei, come on. I'll give you a ride to wherever you need to go. I can't just let you walk in the rain." Emily offered.

Rei sighed and looked down, thinking for a moment. He finally walked over to Emily's car and got in, saying nothing to Emily at all.

She grinned, though Rei didn't notice.

'This plan is working out better than I could have ever expected...'

Kai and Tyson stayed with Zoe at the hospital all day. They cheered her up, trying to take her mind off of everything. She was happy to have her two best friends with her to comfort her...something that Rei had always done before. Right when the two were about to leave, a doctor came in and informed Zoe that she was okay and that she could leave as well. He also said that he had contacted her parents and that they were on their way home from Hawaii right now.

"Great..." Zoe sighed, walking out of her hospital room with Kai and Tyson. "Chris and mom are gonna fucking spaz out...especially when they see this."

Zoe held up her left arm, which was bandaged up again. Zoe cringed at the thought of how badly the two were going to freak out.

"Well, don't worry about it." Kai said, he and Tyson having to help her walk a bit, since she was still pretty weak.

Zoe sighed, suddenly not wanting to go home. It was amazing...she was right back to where she started from...depressed. And, what was even more amazing was that it was Rei who was making her depressed.

"I guess Rei just walked home..." Tyson mumbled, finally realizing that he was missing.

Zoe hated hearing that name. It brought tears to her eyes and broke her heart even more than it already was. And Zoe knew that she'd have to see that name every day for the rest of her life, because it was scarred on her arm permanently...it was scarred on her heart permanently, too. Tyson was already in his car, driving off towards his house as she got into Kai's car. She sat there silently, staring out of the car door window, into the night. Kai finally got in after a moment or two, starting the car up without saying a word to her. The whole drive to her house was quiet; she didn't feel like talking, anyways. As soon as Kai pulled into her driveway, she got out of the car and hurried up to her house.

"Zoe..." Kai sighed, following her. "You can't live your life like this. You can't try to kill yourself over someone like him!"

"You're right..." Zoe mumbled, stopping right at her front door. "But there's nothing I can do to hold my fucking feelings back, Kai i am not you. I'm sorry. Just leave me alone..."

And with that, she opened the front door and went inside. Kai sighed heavily and trudged back over to his car. He knew he had to do something to make Zoe feel better. He thought about what he could do as he drove down the street. He had just parked his car in front of his house when an idea hit him. He grinned to himself and hurried inside his house. His parents weren't home, but he didn't care right now. He ran to the phone, ignoring Rei and dialed Max's number.

"Hello?" the voice of Mr. Tate was heard on the other line.

"Oh, hi Mr. Tate Is Max home?" Kai asked.

"Yeah, he just walked through the door. Hold on..." Mr. Tate said.

"What is it, Hiwatari?" Max's voice was heard.

"Max, I know what we can do to set things right with Zoe and Rei." Kai said quickly.

"...You have my attention."

"Okay then...here's the plan..."

Two weeks passed by slowly, yet surely. School was ending in one week. Zoes parents never let her leave their sight once they arrived home. It didn't really matter. She was always in her room, staring emptily up at the ceiling, wishing that a hole would just open up in the floor and swallow her whole. In the past two weeks, Zoe also hadn't said a thing to Rei. And, now, when she walked down the halls at school, she could hear people talking about her. It didn't matter to her...none of it did.

Zoe was currently in her room, lying on her stomach on her bed. She could hear the phone ringing from downstairs, before someone answered it. Then she heard someone come up stairs and her bedroom door creak open.

"Zoe, it's for you." Her mother informed softly, handing her the cordless phone.

She sighed softly and took it.

"What do you want?"

"Yeah, hello to you too, Zoe." It was Kai. "Listen, I just called to ask you something."

"I'm listening." Zoe told him, lying back down.

"You know how the senior prom is coming up, right?" he asked.

"Yeah, I know that the prep prom is coming up." She replied dully.

"Well, I think you need to get out of the house. Come with me to it." Kai offered.

"Thanks for the kind gesture, Kai, but I don't go to dances." Zoe brushed the offer away.

"Oh, come on! Are you just going to stay in that room until you rot away? Please, just come with me. I don't care if you don't dance at all, I just want you to get out of the house." Kai pleaded. "And f anyone asks i never begged"

"Sorry, I-"

"Rei and Emily are going, you know." Kai interrupted. His words made tears come to her eyes, but what he said next made them fall. "From what Kenny told me, they're back together again. Why, I don't know. Will you please just come with me?"

Zoe was silent for a long time. Kai was starting to wonder if she was even there anymore. He was about to ask, when she spoke.

"Okay...I'll go..."

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Kai let out a sigh of relief as he hung the phone up.

"Okay, Tyson, Max, Kenny. Part one of the plan if complete. It's up to you guys to get Rei to go, now," he said to Mainly to Kenny (the sensible one), who was getting up.

"Okay."

Kenny walked over to the phone, picked it up, and dialed his home number.

"Eh...hello...?" the tired voice of Rei was heard on the other line.

"Rei? Listen. I've got to ask you som-"

"Damnit, Kenny have you seen Kai. Where the hell is he ? Mom and dad are freakin' out over here. He needs to get home." Rei interrupted.

"Yeah, He will be home later. Were at Max's. But, for now, just listen to me. I want to know if you're going to the senoir prom. It's next Friday, you know."

"What...? Er, yeah...I am, actually. With Emily." Rei responded.

This took Kenny off guard, but he kept his composure.

"Okay. I was just wondering. Kai said that he and Zoe are going together." Kenny said.

Rei was silent 'Well the bastard didn't tell me!', before speaking in a cold tone, "That's wonderful for Kai. Okay, I'm going now. Just tell him to get home before he worry's mom and dad to death." !!

Right after he had spoke, Rei hung up the phone. Kenny sighed softly and hung up as well.

"Well...?" Kai asked.

"You weren't lying about him and Emily going together. They actually are. OH and you gotta go hom your parents are freaking out!"

"No...don't make me go in there...NOOOO!" Zoe whined, Kai, Kenny, Max, and Tyson all dragging her into some preppy dress shop at the mall. How they even managed to get her out of her room to go to the mall, she did't know. But, she was actually having a good time for the first time in two weeks.

"Oh, stop your whining! Lookie! Here's the perfect dress for you." Kai laughed, holding a pink, sparkly dress out in front of her.

"Fuck that," Zoe sighed. "Can't I just wear a tuxedo or something...?"

"Eh...no."

"Why the hell did I even agree to go?" Zoe muttered under her breath.

"Wait! Here it is! This is perfect for you, Zoe." Max suddenly shouted out.

Zoe looked over to where he was standing, actually smiling to see that he was being serious. Max was holding out a black, strapless dress. It was sort of feathery at the top, and at the bottom there was red layered underneath the black. It was a beautiful dress. (Don't understand my description? Just think of the dress Helena wears in the Helena music video by my chemical romance.)

Zoe walked over to Max and took the dress from him, examining it a bit closer.

"Yeah, I like it. Let's just pay for it and leave-"

"Not so fast! Go try it on to make sure it fits!" Tyson said, grinning.

Zoe narrowed her eyes at him.

"I'm sure it fits. Let's just go."

"Oh, come on! Just try it on." Kenny pleaded.

Zoe sighed, knowing that she wasn't going to be able to leave without trying it on. Zoe took the dress into a dressing room at the back of the store and put it on. Zoe looked into a mirror that was at the side of the little booth she was in. And, much to her surprise, she liked how she looked. There was a knock on the dressing room door.

"Let us seeeeee!" came Kai's wailing voice.

Zoe sighed and opened the door. All four of her friends' faces held an expression of awe.

"Whoa..." Kai muttered.

"Yeah, it fits just fine." Zoe said, shutting the door again.

As Zoe was changing back into her regular clothes, she caught a glimpse of the scar on her left arm in the mirror. Zoe stopped what she was doing and turned to fully face the mirror. The self-made scar was a constant reminder of who it was Zoe truly was and who it was that broke her heart. Zoe ran her fingers over to scar, willing it to just disappear. When Zoe realized it would never disappear, she sighed heavily and changed back into her regular clothes. She exited the dressing room with her dress in hand. She paid for it and then left the store as quickly as she could.

"And don't forget, senoirs," the voice over the intercom rambled on. "Your prom will be held at the downtown ballroom tonight. It will begin at 6:00 P.M and end at 12:00 A.M. We would also like to remind you senoirs that Monday afternoon in the Graduation party. That is all the announcements for today, students. Have a great last day of school."

Half of the senoirs weren't even at school today, since it was the last day. Zoe decided that she was going to leave school when the lunch bell rang. She was currently in her fourth period, which was art. There were only about ten students there today, including her. She waited impatiently for the bell to ring and when it did, she was the first one out the door. Zoe hurried down the hallways, not paying attention to where she was heading. Then, she ran into something and stumbled back, though she didn't fall.

"Must we always meet like this?"

Zoe felt rage build up inside of her as soon as she heard Lee's voice. She roughly pushed past him and left the school building. But, he followed her.

"Zoe...I'm so sorry for what happened before! I was drunk...I didn't know what I was doing!" Lee explained.

"That's fucking good for you." Zoe growled, almost running down the sidewalk.

"Zoe...well, before you run off, just let me ask you to go to the prom with me!"

"Sorry, I'm already going with someone." Zoe said, running off as quickly as she could, leaving Lee behind.