"You look great!" yelled Jackie.

"Should I be scared to look?" I said skeptically.

"Oh hush," she said flicking her wrist at me. She pointed to the body length mirror on the wall. "Look-it."

I turned to the mirror and smiled. Luckily, I didn't look like a whore. I was wearing a long, short-sleeved shirt that touched my waist. It was black with a picture of a white anchor on it; it was my favorite shirt. I was wearing white shorts with lacey, flowery, black tights on and my favorite black boots.

My make-up was done simply, bring out my baby-doll eyes with a thin layer of eyeliner on the top, brought out into wings and a lot of mascara making my eyes look bigger than usual.

I was surprisingly happy with the look.

"I'd fuck me." I said.

She laughed hard, "you're so weird, Rae."

I chuckled softly.

I checked my phone for the time; 1:34. Perfect timing.

I said bye to Jackie and walked out the door. I didn't have a car so while Kiki and Lin were gone on their five mouth honey-moon, they gave me theirs.

I waved at Jackie before pulling out the driveway.

"Bye! Love you! Don't die!" she yelled waving back.

I laughed, shaking my head, then off to Andy's house.

Andy's POV

"Pretty fly for a white guy." CC said smirking.

"Andy's got a date, Andy's got a date!" Ashley mocked pointing at me like a four year old.

"Shut the fuck up." I snapped. "It's not a fucking date. She's my friend."

"Yeah, friends with benefits." Jake said nudging me, winking.

I elbowed him in the ribs. He left out a loud wince and grabbed his ribcage.

"Dude, it's cool. We all know you've got the hots for Rae-Rae." Matt said casually.

I shot my glance at him, about to cuss him out, when the doorbell rang.

"I GOT IT." Ashley yelled running to the door.

I looked at the time; 1:53. She doesn't waste any time does she? I thought to myself.

"Ashy." I heard Rae yell from the front of the house.

"Hey, Rachy. C'mon in."

I heard footsteps coming towards the living room where everyone was.

I felt my heart skip beats. What the fuck is wrong with me?

"Hey And-…" she trailed off. I turned around to see her staring at me with her mouth open.

What was she staring at? Then it clicked. My hair.

"What. Is…this?" she said running her fingers through my hair softly. I chewed on the black metal that wrapped around my lip. My heart beat faster as she stroke it. It was tender and careful. Unlike Juliet who is rough as fuck.

"It's…gone." She said. I could see her holding back a laugh.

"What?" I felt my face grow hot.

She let out a soft laugh. "It's… it's nice." She said smiling from ear to ear. "Just… different." Finally, she busted into laughter.

"I'm sorry, I can't." she said waving her hand around.

I could feel my face turn bright red. "Uh…"

Soon enough everyone in the room was laughing with her.

"Shut up!" I was completely embarrassed.

"No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." She said calming down. "It's just going to take some getting used to." She gave me a reassuring smile. I calmed down and my face went back to its normal pigment.

I couldn't help but smile. She wraps her arms around my neck, bringing me into a gentle hug.

I hugged back inhaling her cent; it was soft and smelt like sweet, flowers.

"Ready to go?" she asked eagerly.

I nodded and smiled. "You know it!"

And with that we were out the door.

About thirty minutes later we arrived at a place called, 'Little Fun World'. I smiled from ear to ear.

She smiled and looked over at me as she parked the car. "What?"

I shook my head, "Me and my father use to come out here all the time when I was little."

She smiled big. "So did me and my dad." I saw and her smile disappeared.

"You okay?" I asked distressed.

She just shook her head and got out the car.

I frowned deeply and got out as well. I looked over to see a smile spread across her face. I loved her smile, it was perfect.

"Ready?" she asked shutting her door.

"Oh hell yes!" I said excitedly.

We walked up to the tick booth and retrieved our tickets.

I smiled wide, "I haven't been here in ages." I said looking around taking in my surroundings.

She smiled, "Where to first?"

"Go-cars!" I yelled.

"Okay, but be warned. I'm pretty good at it if I do say so myself." She said with a nod.

"Oh, don't be so sure of yourself."

"Oh, you're on…" she challenged looking at me intently.

"Bring it." I said smirking.

"Ohhhhh!" she yelled throwing her arms in the air. "Say it!"

I groaned and rolled my eyes, "No."

"Say it, you hoe!"

"Ugh, fine! Rachel is the all champion of Go-Cars. Happy, bitch?" I asked playfully.

She smirked, "Yes… yes I am."

By now it was at least 4'o clock. We had spent the past 2 ½ hours playing Go-Cars.

"Ready for Laser-tag?" she asks anxiously.

I smiled. "Oh hell yeah! Now I know I'm great at this." I said sure of myself.

"Mhm." She said with a smirk.

"Don't say it…" I said becoming frustrated.

"I beat your ass!" she laughed.

I rolled my eyes bring my arms to my chest, folding them.

"Awwe, ish teh Andy upset?" she said as if she was talking to a baby.

"Shut up!" I snapped trying not to smile.

"Ohhh, someone's cranky." She said.

"No, but I am hungry." I said rubbing my stomach.

I watched as she looked at her watch. "Well, it's 5:15 and the place doesn't close till 10, so we'll have plenty of time to do other stuff. Wanna get some food?"

I didn't hesitate to nod. She smiled big showing off her deep dimples.

We walked inside of the restaurant they had. It was a burger place.

"I'll have two burgers, a large fry and a bottle water." I said. I usually don't eat that much, but fuck I was hungry.

"I'll have a cheeseburger, a bottle water and a medium fry, yo dawg, homie skillet." Rae said.

I felt my face get hot, because the man behind the counter was black.

But to my surprise, he only laughed. "Girl you haven't changed a bit." He said grinning.

She smiled, "Nice to see you again, Mikey." We got our food then walked over to the table and sat down.

"How do you know him?" I asked, unwrapping my burger.

"Dude, he's been here for years."

"Not when I was here. That…uh… what's his name?"

"Doug?" she said taking a bit out of her burger.

I nodded, "Yeah him…"

"Yeah, Mikey is the new owner. Doug ran off with a younger women when I was like… seven." She chuckled.

"Wow, so I guess you and your dad came here a lot then, huh?"

She nodded, her smile disappearing again. "Yeah… we did." She said dropping her burger on the aluminum foul, reaching for her water. "We stopped coming here when I was 15." She said.

I frowned and looked at her perturbed. "What made you stop?"

She looked down at her food hesitatingly. It seemed like ages before she spoke up.

"He…uh… died." She said taking a bit of her fries.

I stopped eating and frowned more. "Shit… sorry. I shouldn't have asked…" I apologized looking down at my food. I felt awful.

"Hey," she said reassuringly. "It's fine." She smiled sweetly. I just wanted to jump up and wrap my arms around her, hugging her, holding her close. But instead of doing just that, I nodded.

After we finished our food we were completely stuffed. We sat there talking for forever. I asked her how her father died, and how she managed to get through it. She said he was sick for a really long time and knowing he wasn't suffering anymore made it easier to swallow.

We talked for what seemed to be hours. It was like I knew this girl my whole life. I felt as if I could share anything and everything with her. It was never like this with Juliet. I felt like she would judge me if she knew any flaw I had done; like I had to be perfect. But not Rae. She was different.

"Put-put?" she asked grinning.

"I dunno, I'll probably lose…" I said uneasily.

"Awe, I'll go easy on you." She said laughing.

I smiled, "Well in the case, okay."

She laughed and we headed the Put-Put coarse. It had all kinds of fake animals everywhere.

"Aha! Who's the winner now, motha fucka?" I yelled jumping around.

She was laughing so hard I thought she was going to piss herself. "Shut up, you weirdo!"

I couldn't help it. I was full of energy and adrenalin. "Baha!" I laughed.

She calmed down, smiling big. "What time is it?" she asked.

I pulled out my phone and check. "9:22."

"Ready to go home?" she asked bleakly.

"Not really, but we have no other choice." I shrugged. I was having a really good time; the most fun I've had in a long time actually. And what made it even better was that it was with Rae.

"True…" she said looking at me warmly. "Let's go."

Thirty minutes later we were in my driveway.

"Wanna come in… and like… hang out?" I asked her growing nervous.

She smiled. "Sure."

I walked inside to see the living room lights on. I figured it was Matt or something and shook it off.

I switched on the lights in the kitchen and she followed in behind me.

"I had a really fun time tonight." I told her walking into the living room.

"Well, well." A familiar, feminine voice hissed.

I stopped. I felt all the color in my body disappear. Oh no. I thought. It was Juliet.

I can't believe I forgot! I scolded myself. "Juliet… dragonfly… baby…" I said walk towards her.

She was sitting on my couch, her make-up stained on her face from crying. She was wearing her silk rose she always wore after we… well… yeah.

"Where were you?" she yelled, her voice cracking worse than usual.

Baby I…" I was interrupted.

"And whose she?" she yelled pointing to Rae. I hesitated, wishing the floor would grow a fucking mouth and swallow me whole.

"That's Rachel… she's a friend." I didn't know what else to say.

She jumped to her feat. "What the hell? You ditched the show to be with her? What is she? Are you cheating on me?" she keep questioning.

"No! Juliet! I wouldn't never-"

"Honestly, there's nothing going on." Rae reassured her.

I watched as Juliet stomped over to Rachel.

Her hand rammed into Rae's face making a loud 'smack' sound.

"You stupid, home wrecker!" she scolded.

My eyes got wide.

Rae held her face, her mouth hung open. Oh shit. If there's one thing I learned about Rachel in the past two week's we've known each other, is that she's got bad anger issues.

But I didn't get the reacted I was looking for. Instead of beating to wits out of Juliet like I thought, she just stood there in silence. But I could tell by her eyes she really wanted to.

"Get out of this house, you stupid bitch!" Juliet demanded pointing to the door.

"Hey, don't call her that." I snapped.

She shot her head towards me. "Shut up, you ass hole!" she denounced and walked over to me.

I felt the sting of a hang print on my cheek. I felt my anger increasing and it showed on my face.

"Andy?" I heard Juliet ask softly, realizing what she had done.

I sighed, my anger denigrating. I looked at her. Her eyes were filled with tears and hurts. I frowned.

"Baby… I'm so sorry." I said to her, resting my hands on her arms.

She sniffled. "But you forgot about me…"

"Baby, I-" I was interrupted.

"Hey, babe, you got anymore cigs?" I heard a deep voice asked.

I turned my glance to him. He was a much short guys and was more built too. He was in nothing but his boxers. I felt my heart sink and tears form in my eyes.

"Whose is that?" I asked softly. No answer. "Who the fuck is that?" I asked yelling now.

I looked at Juliet who was crying. "I'm so sorry."

I shook my head in disbelief.

"I'm sorry, I was upset. You were acting strange and Tony was there!"

"So that gives you the right, to cheat on me?" scolded fighting back my tears. I dropped my hands and backed away from her.

"Andy." She begged.

"Dude, stop acting like a pussy, we got ladies up in here." He said grinning, slithering his arm around Rachel's lower back. She gave him a disgusted looked and moved away.

"Awe, c'mon sexyyy." He said getting closer to her.

"Ew, dude, get the fuck away, bro." she said backing up against the wall.

"C'mon, you know you want dis." he said grinning.

Juliet was crying hysterically by now; pleading, begging, screaming my name. "Please! Andy!"

I just looked at the largely set man force himself against the tall girl, much scrawny girl.

Something snapped.

"Get the fuck off her, you cock sucking piece of shit!" I yelled slamming my fist inside his face. He fell to the ground wincing in pain. He was clearly drunk.

"Andy!" Juliet cried harder.

Anger and hatred took over. I was no longer myself.

I felt my fist slamming into the head. His head was bleeding. I didn't feel regret, nor the erg to stop.

"Andy, stop it. You're going to kill him." Rachel yelled. She knelt down beside me and cupped my face.

I stopped, breathing unevenly and turned my head to her. I saw her eyes pierce into mine.

"Andy, calm down…" she said softly. "It's okay…It's alright." She stroked my cheek gently.

"Rae…" I whined, realizing what I had done.

She shushed me, "it's okay."

"Is…is he okay? Did I kill him?" I asked, more worried about going to jail then his safty.

She nodded. "Yes, he's fine."

She looked at Juliet. "Take you and you disgusting pig, and get out…" she growled.

Juliet gasps, but never said a word. She just gathered up her drunken lover and left.

"Andy?" she asked softly.

I found myself shaking even more than earlier.

I didn't say I word. I just buried my face into her chest, sopping.

I would have never done this in front of anyone else, especially a woman. But like I said before, Rae was different than anyone I've ever known.

"It's going to be alright, I promise." She said softly, holding and stroking my head tenderly; rocking my back and forth.

I felt so pathetic. I hated it.

We stayed like this for hours until I had quit sopping and had calmed down.

I found myself overwhelmingly exhausted.

"Go to bed." She said.

I looked up at her unsure.

"C'mon…" she grabbed my hands and helped me to my feet.

We walked into the bathroom and she grabbed a washrag. She wetted it and started washing the blood off my hands.

I hadn't even realized I had blood on me until, well… now.

After the blood was removed from my hands, she started on my face.

I couldn't help but smile. She was so gentle and caring and just all around amazing.

She smiled back at me and finished.

She took my hand and we walked into my room. I got changed into my pajamas, which was nothing more than me in my boxers.

I sat at the head of the bed and watched as she sat beside me.

"Lay down, boy." She demanded.

I chuckled softly and did as she said.

I closed my eyes without hesitation. I felt something tender touch my cheek. It was Rachel kissing it. I could feel my cheeks burning red. My stomach did flips as I grew nervous.

"Goodnight Andy." She whispered as she got up and walked towards the door.

My eyes shot open, "Wait." She stopped and turned to me. I hesitated, "I mean… you can stay if you want." I offered, hoping for a yes. A saw as a smile spread across her porcelain face.

"Alright." She crawled in the bed beside me. I rolled over so I was facing her, and smiled.

Her eyes were already closed, she looked so peaceful.

Not long after that, I closed my eyes and in minutes I was in a deep sleep.