Ashlyn turned around to see Pierce standing there with a red haired guy next to him. Pierce was glaring over at him, while he smiled.

"I thought you were going to take this seriously." Pierce snarled.

The boy laughed, as Ashlyn's eyebrow twitched. She just remembered this guy from one of Pierce's memory. I think his name is Val...

"Yeah, but it was so tense! I couldn't help myself!"

Pierce rolled his eyes and turned back to Ashlyn. "We need to talk."

Ashlyn raised the twitching eyebrow. "We," she motioned to her and Pierce. "Or we?" she guestured to everybody, knowing that it would make the blonde haired bitch mad.

"Me, and you."

Ashlyn shrugged. "Talk."

"In private."

Ashlyn glared at him fiercer then she ever had before. How easily this guy could make her lose her cool! There was no way they were soulmates! How did Jez and Morgead ever deal with him, when all she wanted to do was rip that head off those shoulders?

"Too bad." Pierce's eye twitched, just as Ashlyn's had earlier.

He closed his eyes and silently counted to ten. Before opening them again. Ashlyn took this time to look at Val who seemed to be staring at Rina with a 'Oh-Mi-God!' expression as she watched the on going seen before them.

"I'm breaking up with you." Pierce said finally. Ashlyn's eyebrows raised, when had they ever been going out? "Stay away from me, I hate you. Forget about me, and anyone you've ever met, because of me." he stopped to gaze into her eyes, with pure hatred. "I hate you."

With that, he turned briskly, and walked away. Val tore his gaze from Rina to follow him.

Ashlyn felt tears well up in her eyes for absolutly no reason she could think of, and she sank to her knees.

~NWNWNWNWNW~

"Pierce, what changed?"

Pierce didn't answer. He kept his eyes on the sidewalk infront of him.

"Pierce? Pierce? PIERCE!"

Val grabbed his shoulder and whipped him around. "What happened back-are you crying?"

Pierce quickly wiped the tears from his eyes. Whether they were angry tears or sad tears, he couldn't quite tell. He shook his head. "No."

"Oh my God!" Val laughed suddenly. "You're crying! I haven't seen you cry in all the years that I've known you!" then his face became serious again. "What changed? Yesterday when you came to me, you were so certain that you hated that girl-Ashlyn, was her name? But now, you were worried about her! What happened?"

Pierce shook his head. "Nothing happened. I just accepted the fact that we were soulmates."

"Then why'd you tell her you hate her?"

Pierce smiled sadly at his red haired friend. "Why, for her saftey of course."

Val raised an eyebrow and put his hand to Pierce's head. "Are you okay? Do you feel sick?"


BeBe: Only one more chapter left! Woo hoo! Everybody! Try and guess why Val was staring at Rina! You'll never get it! I know that for a fact!
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