Sy: O.O Chapter 10. Already. Anyone else amazed?
Key: Considering the old one only went to Chapter 9... Yes.
Sy: Yay! So anyway, I really want to get this finished, so I'll probably write the last two chapters plus special bonus chapter tomorrow... Or maybe tonight. Depends on how I feel.
Key: There's a bonus chapter?
Sy: Yup!
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Key to my Heart
010: I Know Where You Live And I've Seen Where You Sleep!
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A week later and Key was once again sitting in the Wreck Room writing, but this time she was writing a letter to her friends.
Dear Lani and all you other fools,
I AM FREEEEEEEEE! ...Did you gasp? Did you talk amongst yourselves? Did you think I RAN AWAY? Because I didn't. They're closing the camp. And they're letting us go because we all faced such hardships. I now officially love police people.
Unfortunately, I'm not coming home because, as you probably heard, my mother died. No biggie. I'm either living with my Aunt Rena or my cousin Ouya. I don't really care which... Either way I'm not around you guys or the D-Tent guys so there's really no point.
But be happy for me, I AM FREE!
Ha ha!
Hearts, stars and horseshoes,
Koyomi Katherine "Key" A. Shinero (You do NOT need to know what the A stands for, thankyouverymuch.)
Key stopped writing and smiled to herself. She addressed the envelope and slid it into the mail box. She put her hands in her pockets and began wandering the campsite.
"Koyomi Shinero?"
Key turned around. No one here called her that. It was Mr Smith, the police man who was in charge of finding everyone homes.
"Yes, sir?"
"We found a place to send you. Your Aunt Rena said she would take you," Smith said, handing Key a letter and walking away.
"Thank you," she said as she opened the letter.
Koyomi, (or Katherine I suppose)
Hello dear, this is your Aunt Rena, your mother's sister. I'm terribly surprised you remember me, I've only seen pictures of you since you were adopted.
Anyway, I'm disappointed that you got sent to a detention camp but I'm willing to take you in, for a time anyway. I have two little children, Umi and Suna, twins, and I can't very well look after you all too well.
Sincerely,
Aunt Rena
Key frowned. 'A time?' What the Hell did 'a time' mean? Did that mean she would have to find someone else to take her in when her aunt got sick of her? Would her aunt do it for her? She frowned and walked into D-Tent where the boys were chucking tiny rocks at each other.
"Hey guys."
"What's up Key? You don't look very happy..." Squid asked.
"Uh... They found me a place to stay. I'm going to be living with my aunt..." Key mumbled.
"That's great!"
"Not really... She lives in Connecticut! Bloody Connecticut! Not in New York with my friends, or Texas with you guys, but Connecticut! And she's only taking me in for 'a time,'" Key ranted, flailing her arms and collapsing on her cot.
"It'll be okay!" Squid said, patting her arm.
"Neeeeeeeeer..." Key groaned. She stood up. "I'm going outside. I am restless! I need to MOVE!"
She got off of the cot and wandered around the near holes. She sat down at one of them and twiddled her thumbs when she heard someone walk up behind her.
"I know where you live and I've seen where you sleep," she said without turning around.
"Only at camp," Zero's small voice said.
"Too true, my fine feathered friend!"
"I'm not feathered but okay..."
"Pull up some dirt. What's happening soul brother?"
"Uh... Squid said I should talk to you... Again... About..."
Key blushed. "Did he? Little bugger... Must day, he does... Die he will my precious... Preeeeecious..."
"Uh Yomi?"
"Sorry..."
"S'okay... So I'm guessing by Squid's advice and you blushing that you like me... A little?"
"That was forward..."
"Um... Yeah... I guess... A little..." Zero was blushing now.
"Uh... Zero, how old are you?"
"That's off subject..."
"Not really... Not in my mind."
"Um..."
"Yeah... You don't wanna get in here."
"Okay... Uh... I'm 15..."
"Oh cool! I'm 14!"
"So... Do... You... Uh... Like me?"
Key nodded. Zero smiled and leaned in and kissed her. After awhile he pulled back and Key smiled.
"That was fun..."
Zero smiled and stood up, he offered her his hand. Key took it and stood up, brushing herself off.
"Leaving is so gonna suck ten times as much now," she said, making a face.
"Oh yeah."
"You suck."
"Why?"
"You're complaining and you get to live around the other guys! You get to live with Stanley!"
"Yeah... But you won't be there."
"That's... Sweet... But you still suck!"
Zero laughed and shyly grabbed her hand. Key smiled and leaned her head on his shoulder.
Ah... Young love...
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Sy: I know it's short and anti-climatic and absolutely nothing happens except for Zero and Key getting together...
Squid: Which is kind of where you were going for this entire story...
Sy: True... True...