Chapter 10

Krystal had been quiet. It had been weeks that Fox and the guys had been gone. No Falco, no slippy, no bill, and for her, the worst of all, no Fox. All of the girls were a little quiet without the guys. They missed them, it felt like years waiting on them to return. Krystal sat in class thinking about fox.

"Fox mccloud…" She said to herself a few times. She pictured his smile that could light up the whole lylat system and the thought made her smile.

"Hey krystal. What are you smiling at?" a confused Lucy asked. Krystal snapped out of her trance. "Oh uh…. Ummm…nothing really." The other girls hadn't been told abot Krystal's feelings yet, but they all figured that it was coming sooner or later. She had thought about him as much as she could while he was gone. It was the previous day that he had called her for the first time, it had been two weeks after he left that he finally made it around to it

" We don't know how much longer it will be, I hope you're doing good."

That was all he said. Krystal felt heartbroken. The first time in weeks she had heard from him, and that's all he said to her. She felt mad at him, but she just couldn't stay mad at him. A day later and Lucy is asking her what she's thinking, and the answer is the same thing that she's been thinking of for the past two weeks. As usual, she was early to the lunch table outside, and in her routine, put her books down on the table. The memory of her feelings when she heard from Fox were fresh in her mind, and she felt upset and sad as she put them down. He didn't know when they would be back, meaning she didn't know when she could finally see him again. She sighed a heavy sigh as she put down her books. Just as she looked up she saw someone walk into the lunchroom

"Slippy?" she said out loud. There's no way that could be right, just yesterday Fox said he didn't know when the guys would be back. Just before she could think anything else did she get a tap on her shoulder and as she turned around her breath was taken away. There stood the one she had missed and thought of so much for the past two weeks.

"Fox!" She yelled and leapt at him, her arms wide open for a hug. "Oof!" he said as the sudden impact surprised him. He held his arms out for a little bit and to her surprise, he peeled Krystal off of him lightly. "It's good to see you too" he said lightly. She took his paw and led him to the table exclaiming that he needed to tell her all about Katina. He took her paw off of his, and again she was surprised at this behavior. "Later, I've got some stuff I have to go take care of, but when school's over I want you to come home with me, I've got a surprise for you." He smiled slightly and walked off.

Krystal couldn't believe it, finally she had him back, but just as fast he was gone again. She felt hurt, she wanted to feel happy but she couldn't, not with how things had gone so far. She wasn't happy, and her friends could tell throughout the day. Whenever they asked what was wrong she just said she didn't want to talk about it, and they didn't hassle her further about it. The end of the day had come and she despondently walked out to the front. Once she reached the group she stood there watching as Amanda talked to slippy, Katt to falco, and Lucy to Bill. She sighed heavily as she wondered what was going on with Fox.

Just as she thought of him, did he show up and say "Are you ready to go?" She had forgotten about going with him, but she nodded and they went off. They arrived at his house and she noticed that Fox pulled out his phone and messaged someone. "Who was that?" he grinned at her, "You'll see." As he walked in his mom and dad smiled at him happily, and then they saw Krystal. The smiles faded a little, luckily for them she didn't notice.

They went straight to his room and he turned on his computer. He pulled something up and she noticed that he was video calling somebody on….Katina?

Once she call was answered she saw on the computer screen, a very attractive brown vixen.

"Hey Fox! Who is this with you?" Fox smiled and told her "This is Krystal, my best friend. Krystal, this is Fara, my girlfriend."

With those last two words, Krystal's world shattered into millions of pieces. She couldn't find a word to say. She just wanted to get away from here. She faked receiving a message from her parents and said she had to leave. "Bye Fara, it was nice meeting you." She lied. She left with her backpack and books and when she thought she was out of view of the house, she ran.

She ran all she could, as fast as she could. "Stupid Fox" She said as she cried. How could he? Just before he left he gave her his favorite scarf, she thought he thought something of her, something more than a friend. She heard him think that she was beautiful, but now, now this happened. It's as if all the feelings that seemed to exist then had vanished when he left for Katina.

She came home and threw her things on the floor and locked herself in her room. She lay on her bed crying, for hours. Her parents came home and heard some noise and noticed it was coming from her room. Krystal's mom knocked on the door

"Krystal, honey? Can you open the door?" She did, with tears all over her face. "Honey! What's wrong?!" her mother came in and they sat down. " it's 'sniff' it's….." Was all she could say before exploding in tears again and whining.

"Shhh shhh honey, just tell mommy about it." She said hugging her troubled daughter. "It's Fox mom. I thought he liked me, but when he wanted me to go to his house today 'sniff' he got on video chat and 'sniff' he introduced me to his girlfriend on Katina" This caused her to explode in tears again. Krystal's mom couldn't believe it, she herself thought fox liked Krystal. Apparently not though.

"B-but I'll be okay I guess 'sniff' you always told me not to get hung up on a boy" She lied about being okay, she knew it would be some time before she recovered from this. She decided just to be by herself for the day. The part that made her the saddest is that in two weeks was the homecoming dance, she had hoped that herself and Fox could go together. But she knew that now that was out of the question.

She woke up the next day, still feeling the tears of the previous day. 'How could he though? She lives on another planet' she sighed to herself and decided she had better get used to the way it was. Now he was out of her reach so she needed to get over it. She saw him come in to the first block class and tried not to look distressed as he talked to her.

He was wondering why she was acting a little different, but he figured that it was just that it was a bad morning for her so he thought nothing of it. Much to her huge relief, today they got a call in from James, so she got to go the day without him.

She sat down at lunch with the other girls looking sad. "Krystal what's wrong?" Amanda asked her friend. She sighed then looked up at the girls and asked them "Did you guys know that Fox has a girlfriend now?" the other 3 gasped.

"B-but you and Fox are supposed to be together!" Lucy said. She quickly covered her mouth, noticing she said what she was thinking. "Don't worry Lucy, we all think that." Katt told everyone. Krystal looked up surprised,

"Is it really that obvious that I like him?" They all nodded, "I really thought he liked you too, then he comes back and…." Lucy stopped knowing if she continued only bad things would happen.

"I really wanted to go to homecoming with him, but I guess that's out of the question now." She said. "Well don't worry about it girl! You'll be fine!" Katt told her friend. She tried to smile through it all. "Yeah you don't need him to be happy!" Amanda seconded Katt.

She believed them. She went on through the day happy, not caring a speck about Fox, he was like a distant memory to her, or was he?