Chapter 10

Me: Woo hoo! 10th chapter! And the one year anniversary of this story!

Marly: Wasn't that November 21st though?

Me: -glares- Shut up.

Marly: What?

Axel: -jumps in out of nowhere- I'll not allow you to be the first to receive her present!

Me & Marly: -jaws on floor-

Me: -shakes head- What the hell are you talking about?

Axel: -stares uncomprehending- Wait, so, you're not giving him a Birthday present?

Me: No!

Marly: It isn't even close to my Birthday!

Axel: Oh, my bad, sorry!

Okay, 10th chapter, isn't it spectacular? And with this chapter comes a contest, yay! Aren't we all excited? It's a basic contest, should be pretty exciting and fun, and I'm really hoping I get a lot of interest in it. Basically, draw, take a photo of, or write a scene you would like to happen in this story, it can be about anything. I will have a first, second, and third place. For first place your scene will become one full chapter or its own one shot provided you give me enough detail to work with. Second place your scene will become a part of a chapter. Third place your scene will be mentioned in a chapter. This also means that I want scenes that do not involve sex (NO CITRUS!), I'm not comfortable writing that kind of stuff yet, and killing people off, that would kind of ruin the plot a little. These rules will be posted at the top of my profile. Now, on with the story!

She sat on the bed flipping idly through the book in front of her, not really seeing the words. She sighed and shut the book, leaning back against the headboard. Five times she had read this page, page 128 if anyone really cared, and she still couldn't get what happened off her mind. She shuddered as images flashed through her mind, there weren't many but there were enough to freak her out a bit.

"Lex!" a singsong voice called as Zix skipped into the room.

Lex rolled her eyes, how anyone could be in good mood was beyond her at this point.

"Guess what?"

"What?" I asked, opening my book again and studying the page…again.

"Well, no need to be a grumpy-puss about it," she replied, her smile dropping.

I sighed, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be taking out my bad mood on you."

A gentler expression occupied her face and she sat down beside me.

"Don't worry about it, I've got a tough skin, I can handle anything you dish out."

I smirked, "Do I hear a challenge?"

"No, no you don't," she answered, her grin widening.

I shrugged and began to turn back to my book.

"You didn't guess yet."

"Huh?" I questioned intelligently, confusion flitting across my face.

"Um, at the beginning of this oh so helpful conversation I asked you to 'guess what?'"

"Oh right…I knew that," I said attempting an air of confidence.

"Right, anyway, you will never believe what happened."

"Try me," I said, placing my book down again.

Zix smiled, "Well, I knew that you had been feeling really down in the dumps lately so, I pulled some strings and was able to make arrangements for us to visit our home world for a while for some R and R."

My eyes widened as excitement bubbled in me chest. A visit to our home world? She had no idea how much I had been hoping to do this, I deeply missed everyone we had left behind when we had had to…move away.

"And," she continued, "I was able to get them to let us leave as soon as possible, which I thought was appropriate since I was hoping we could leave tomorrow afternoon."

I was practically jumping up and down on my bed at this point from sheer joy.

"So what do you think?" she inquired, a hopeful look on her face.

"What do I think? I think you are the best sister ever!" I shouted, leaping towards her and wrapping my arms around her. "Thank you so much."

"No problem, it took no time at all. But, I should probably mention that Roxas and Axel have invited themselves to come with us…if that's not a problem. Other wise I can find a way to get them to stay behind."

"No, it's no big deal," I replied pulling away from her.

"Good. Now, I suggest you start packing, you don't know how long we'll be staying."

I nodded and she stood, stretching her arms above her head and heading towards the door.

Before she walked out, I said, "Thank you again, you have no idea how much this means to me."

I heard her say, "I think I do," as the door closed behind her.

Me: OMG! I DIDN'T FINISH IN TIME…..AGAIN!

Marly: Big surprise there…

Me: Shut…up.

Marly: Why should I? You're not the ruler of me.

Me: That's what you think when in actuality I rule everything in this world. In fact, I could make you make out with Demyx.

Marly: -twitch twitch- You are a sick, evil person.

Me: Thank you, I try my best.

Axel: I'M HERE!

Yay! Another chapter! I'm so proud! Please R&R and enter my contest! If you have any questions about the contest you can PM me and I'll get back to you ASAP. I usually check my email for fanfiction every day at least once if not more so it shouldn't take as long for me to get back to you as it does for me to update this story.

Edit 9/11/10: Edited, thinking about removing contest information, not sure yet.