I know its been some time, but i'm sort of grounded off the computer and i had to sneak on to write this. I'm going to maybe try to put up another today since this will be my only time with both my parents out of the house for awhile. Okay enjoy.

Kiesha's POV

My mother and I sat on the couch that Wednesday evening watching a very sad Romance movie. Both our eyes were misty with tears.

That was one thing we had in common; we both got emotional at movies.

"Clara, you can't be serious! He's already broken your heart a million times! Please Clara, look at me instead!" The man in the movie shouted through the rain to the girl standing across the empty street with tear-streaked eyes.

"You tell her." My mom whispered as she dabbed her eyes with a handkerchief.

"I-I'm sorry!" The women cried back as she turned to run away. "I need to go…and…and get some beauty sleep!"

"Ugh!" I flung my head back in disappointment.

The man on the screen looked as if he was just going to give up and let her run off to the other guy. "Clara!"He shouted finally. The women stopped and looked back with her eyes puffy and red. "Clara."He repeated softer and the women looked at him with a yearning expression. "Clara…you don't need beauty sleep." The women inhaled, "Your already as beautiful as they come."

Well that was a corny line. I thought to myself.

The women's wall she was trying to build between them crumbled to pieces as soon as he said those words and she began to weep as she ran to him, totally leaving behind the idea of the guy she had just said she was going to marry. She leaped into his arms and their lips mashed together in a passionate kiss.

My mother clapped her hands together, "I love a happy ending." The credits rolled down the screen as we continued to watch the two lovers kiss and hug in the pouring rain.

"Yeah I guess it was okay, but there are a few things I'll never understand. Like one, how did that cheesy line about not needing beauty sleep work, and two, what now? What are they going to do? She still has to marry that creep guy she's being forced against her will to marry." Iexplained.

My mom sighed and patted my back, "Sweet heart, they are deeply in love, they will find away. Love always prevails in the end."

I rolled my eye, "Not true. If she refuses to marry the other guy, she'll be killed. So basically, love in this situation, is screwed."

My mom chuckled, "Come on Kiesha, have a little imagination. They left the ending as a cliff hanger so you could make up your own ending to the story."

I pouted, "Well that's retarded. If I wanted to use my imagination I could just go read a book, not watch a movie. Jeez, they better make a sequel or I'll be pissed."

"Sequels are never as good as the original." My mom pointed out.

"True." I nodded in agreement.

My moms eyes became dreamy again, "Love is so…great."

I groaned, "Love might be interesting to watch on TV, but real life, it's just too confusing."

My mom smirked at me, "You sound as if you talk from experience."

"I talk from inexperience."

"Oh baby, I can't wait till you fall in love. It's a great feeling."

"Yeah." I muttered.

"What ever happened to that one guy that always hung around our house…what was his name…?" She snapped her fingers impatiently as she tried to spark the name into her head.

"You mean Brian?" I asked.

She snapped her finger into my face. "Yeah, that's it. Whatever happened to him?"

"Um…we moved…remember…to Japan?" I joked and she elbowed me in the ribs.

"I mean, did you guys ever get together?"

I eyed her, "Mom, you do know that we were best friends right?"

"Yeah, but he always had this lustful look when he stared at you. He was totally smitten all the time." She explained.

I thought of Brian and his green eyes and creamy skin and perfect facial features. Oh and the hair, the curly Nick Jonas hair he was famous for. And then I remembered my last day in America at the Airport saying my last farewells to Brian. My stomach turned inside out when I remembered what he had said.

"Mom lets not talk about Brian." I suggested.

"Okay."

We sat there and watched the credits roll down the screen. It was silent until the credits finished.

"Kiesha?" My mom started.

"Hmm?" I took a swig of the Dr. Pepper jug that my mom and me had been sharing through out the sappy movie.

"I'm going to tell you the flaw to love."

"Oh god."

"Love is great, but men…well men will always be," She took a dramatic pause, "Men."

I eyed her. "Are they supposed to be female or something?" I was lost.

"Just listen." She snapped. "Men are wired, by nature, to take everything they can from you. It is their basic instinct to screw you over."

"Well I hope dad doesn't hear this conversation."

"You know those girls back home that always picked on you?" She continued.

I nodded. It was true; I didn't have very many female friends back in America. A lot of girls didn't like me, either because I was rich, because I was so close to Brian, or just because they could. I got over being disliked by girls. I just figured who needed them.

"If you think those girls hurt you, just wait. All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you."

I stared at her for a while as she stared back with a serious face she does not usually carry. "Well…" I finally said. "You really make me want to fall in love."

My mom burst into laughter, suddenly breaking the heavy atmosphere she had created. "Oh Kiesha." She patted me on the back. "Loves great! Lets watch The Titanic."

"Sure, I'll get more refreshments." I had finished off our Dr. Pepper and got up and walked towards the door.

"TV." I heard my mom say, "Please start The Titanic." She used the voice command to play the movie. Yes that's correct, we had voice commands on everything electronic. We were just that lazy.

Renji's POV

"Damn TV!" I started banging my fists down on the top.

"Whoa dude, chill." Ichigo said as he took a bite from his apple. He was sitting on my crappy couch.

"How the hell am I supposed to chill!?" I started to kick the side of the TV that was showing a blurry screen. "I can never get a damn reception on this thing!"

"I read in a magazine that you need to be calm in these kinds of situation." Ichigo stated.

I glared at him. "What the hell! Since when do you read anyway!?"

Ichigo let out a heavy sigh. "Poor, poor Renji. Still so immature."

I grabbed him by the collar, "You really want to start with me carrot top."

Ichigo yanked my hand off his collar. "I was just playing, jeez." He made his way to my kitchen, "Anything good to eat-wait, of course not."

"Oh shut up. If you want to go some where nice where there is good food and TV reception, and lights that work, and ceilings that don't leak, then just stay at home and don't come over and bother me."

"Che, like I'd actually want to come over to this dump and see you. I just want to get the hell out of my house and away from the old bastard." He pulled out a jug of milk.

"Then just go to Rukia's house."

"Hell no am I going over there. Not with her brother there, nah-uh." He took a drink from the milk jug and then suddenly spit it all out onto the floor.

"What the hell are you doing!?" I screeched.

"Ugh, the milk is sour." He coughed.

I ran over and snatched the milk from his hands. "Don't waste perfectly good milk!"

"P-Perfectly good milk? It's completely sour." Ichigo wiped his mouth.

"So what if it's sour, its still drinkable."

"Are you kidding me?" Ichigo asked seriously.

"When you're in my kind of situation you take what you can get." I put the cap on the milk and set it back into the fridge.

"Dude, your screwed."

"Screwed in what?"

"Life." Ichigo went searching through the fridge again.

"Am not! I'm totally hanging in there. The world can't bring me down." I puffed out my chest.

"Okay, what's that?" Ichigo pointed at something in the fridge. I bent down to look too.

"Umm…I'm not sure." I tilted my head to the side and analyzed it more, "Don't throw it away though, it's probably edible."

Ichigo sighed, "I rest my case."

Kiesha's POV

"Do you love Renji?" Those four words are the same words that caused my last Oreo cookie to fall out of my mouth and on to the floor.

I looked up at the two girls that stood in front of me. "Excuse me?"

It was lunch and I was waiting for Rukia and Rangiku on the staircase when these two girls showed up asking me this ridicules question.

"You heard me." The taller girl with her bleach blonde dyed hair, big lips smothered in lip-gloss, and thong that was showing asked with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Yes but did I here you correctly is the question?"

"You know what I asked." She was getting impatient. Her friend next to her was more timid and innocent. She was standing looking down at her feet quietly.

"Um, can I ask who you are?" I questioned.

"Then will you answer our question?"

"Sure."

"Were from class C. I'm Aobo and this is Tsubomi." She nodded over to the timid girl who slightly lifted her chin so I could see her better.

I stuck out my hand and gave a 'it's a pleasure to meet you' smile. "I'm Kiesha, from class B."

The girl just sneered at my out stretched hand. "We know who you are idiot."

"Well okay." I put my hand down. "So the answer to your question is no."

"No?"

"Yup."

"Yeah right, I see you with him all the time." The girl pointed out.

"Okay, may I ask you a question?"

The girl groaned, "What is it?"

"You don't have class with us, so how do you know that? Are you some sort of stalker?"

She got into my face, "I wouldn't need to stalk to notice you guys constantly stuck to each others hip."

"But you don't deny being a stalker." I pointed out.

She grabbed my collar, "You listen here twerp. Stay away from Renji. He doesn't need such a nuisance dragging around him."

I glared at her, "This shit is coming from a girl I've never even seen talk to him before."

"You little." She sneered raising her hand.

"Aobo stop!" The Tsubomi girl shouted and grabbed her wrist before she brought it down on my face, which, by the way, I was so prepared to block. "You said we weren't going to do this, just warning remembers."

Aobo pouted, "Sorry your right." Then she turned a glare back at me, but she released her grip on my collar. "If you supposedly don't like him, then do us the favor and stay away from him. Tsubomi here sort of wants to confess today so please stay out of the way."

"Confess?"

"Yeah like asking out. Is that not a term they use in America or something?"

"Oh it's not that, I'm just surprised, I didn't know you guys hang out with him."

"Huh? We don't really, were not in the same class so that's sort of hard."

"Then why are you asking him out?"

Aobo was getting annoyed I could tell, "Because she likes him."

"But if he doesn't really know her how can he return her feelings?"

"Would you just shut up!" Aobo yelled, "Your so annoying. Would you just do as we say?"

I rolled my eyes at Aobo and then looked at Tsubomi who was standing there awkwardly looking down at her feet. For some reason I didn't dislike this girl, but then the thought of her asking Renji out sort of irked me. I didn't know why.

"Well," I gave her a thumb up, "Good luck, and I wish you the best."

Aobo made a 'Che' and the Tsubomi girl shyly smiled, "Thank you."

She was actually quite cute. That made my stomach feel funnier.

What if Renji agrees because she's so adorable and then they start going out and they act all lovey-dovey and kissy-

What do I care! It's his life, why should I care who he dates.

The two girls started to walk away, "Oh!" I shouted over to them and they stopped and looked back, "I'm not going to stay away from him."

A vein popped up angrily on top of Aobo's head, "You annoying little fool, what did you say?"

"Renji and me are friends and it's not fair to ask me to stop being his friend. It's like me forcing you guys to stop being friends just because of a selfish reason." I explained. Both the girls were silent. This was sort of like the conversations I would have back in America except that time it was Brian I was supposed to stay away from.

"Hey Kiesha!" I looked over to see Rukia and Rangiku bounding over. Ichigo and Renji were trailing behind.

"Hey guys." We started walking up the stairs to the roof.

"Um…Uh…Renji." A soft voice called up. He glanced back. I didn't bother to stop and see because I already knew it was Tsubomi. "C-could I t-talk to you…after school?" I could just see her face as bright as a tomato.

Renji took a couple seconds to reply, "Sure." And then we were all on the roof where the rest of the gang resided.

"You won't believe the crazy stuff that chick was asking me out there." I said to Rukia.

"I can basically guess." She told me.

Rukia, Rangiku and me went and sat down with Momo, Orihime, and Tatsuki. There were a few other girls with them but I could never remember their names. I knew one was lesbian though.

"But what were her exact words?" Rangiku asked.

"Whose words?" Orihime questioned.

"Aobo and Tsubomi were their names." I told her.

Tatsuki made a disgusted noise, "Aobo is in the Karate class with me. She's okay at fighting and she talks big, but I beat her every time we have matches."

"Tsubomi is in my sewing class, she's a really nice girl." Orihime added.

I nodded, "She did seem really cute."

"Yeah, and she's always blushing and looking down at her feet."

I laughed, "Yeah, she seems much nicer then Aobo."

"Oh I bet she is. She has really nice hair." Orihime noted.

"Your right, she did-."

"Okay we get it!" Rangiku cut in. Orihime and me looked at her, "I just want to know what that stupid Aobo was saying."

"Do you know her Rangiku?" I asked.

"Yeah, and let me tell you, she annoys the crap out of me. How she tries to look just like me by dying her hair and unbuttoning her shirt so low. Who does she think she is?" She growled.

"She did sort of look like you." I remembered.

"No she doesn't! I'm much sexier!" She yelled.

I leaned back a bit. "Your right, I'm sorry."

"Okay, what did she say?" Rukia asked.

"Well get this, she thinks I'm in love with Renji." I started to laugh. They just stayed quiet and looked at me. I slowly stopped laughing, "Okay, why aren't we laughing?"

"Um…" Rukia scratched her head, "Well you see, you do seem that way."

My jaw dropped. "I do not."

"Yeah you do." Rangiku said and took a bite from her bread.

"How?"

"You guys talk all the time in private conversations." Rukia pointed out.

"And you always seem to have inside jokes or something with each other." Rangiku explained.

"A-And you guys get into…l-little fights…and stuff." Momo stuttered.

"Yeah, like really cute couple fights! And you guys have been caught passing notes too!" Orihime bubbled.

"And the stupid idiot sort of seems kind of protective of you. Like he'll get mad at guys when they start to talk about you." Tatsuki mumbled.

"He gets totally jealous." The lesbian girl stated. Chizuru! That was her name.

Everyone nodded in agreement. I tried to take it all in.

"First," I started. "We don't talk in private conversations, it's just because we sit next to each other and both don't like to pay attention in class. Second, we only have inside jokes because you guys weren't there at the time when the joke was formed-."

"Thus being inside joke." Rukia explained.

"Third," I ignored her. "We get in fights, yeah, but they are not cute. They're vicious fights that no couple would ever get in to. Fourth, We got caught passing notes once and that's because we were discussing the volleyball tryouts. And last but not least, number five. Renji doesn't protect me, because frankly, there is no reason too. No guys even discuss me."

"You just don't pay attention to any other guys besides Renji." Rangiku said.

"Not true."

"Then who else?"

"I talk to Ichigo and Chad and Ishida and all the other guys in our group."

Rangiku shook her head, "Never mind. You don't understand."

"Humph." I crossed my arms over my chest and pouted.

"Kiesha, we don't mean to make you upset." Rukia assured. "We just want you to understand what you have."

"And honey you have a large hunk of tattoo hotness." Rangiku said.

I couldn't help but laugh, "Tattoo hotness?"

"The point is that you should consider these feelings." Rukia explained and took a sip of her juice box.

I shook my head and took a bite from my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. "I don't even understand how that 'feeling' you keep talking about is supposed to feel."

Orihime's face lit up. "Like you could live everyday with nothing but him."

"And your stomach flips every time he gets close enough to feel his breath on you." Rangiku added.

"And…you find it hard to breath around him?" Momo suggested.

"And when you touch this person in any way you just want to eat them all up and just hold them forever." Chizuru explained as she stared dreamily at the oblivious Orihime. That earned her a punch in the shoulder by Tatsuki.

Rukia nodded along with all the advice, "I think that also when your upset and you want comfort he's the one you want to see."

"Take your own advice." I told her and she kicked me hard in the knee.

"The point is," Tatsuki intervened as Rukia and me started kicking each other in the knees. "Love makes you happy. Though I don't really know anything about it, I think maybe if he makes you smile even when you're feeling like shit, then I think that might be love."

"Kiesha!" Renji's voice suddenly called over the roof. He was on the other side eating with the guys. "Come here I have some left over candy I don't want!"

I looked at Renji and then back to the girls. They all had anticipating eyes. Then I looked back at Renji who was waiting for me with his usual big grin. I did feel something in my stomach, but it could have just been gas right?

"You want some or not?!" Renji called.

I looked back at the girls; they were all smirking. I stood up, "Just as I though," I said down to them, "I feel nothing at all." Then I turned back to Renji, "Hell yeah I want some!" I rushed across the roof toward him. I heard all the girls sigh in disappointment behind me.

This was a little iffy. Not my favorite chapter, but it will have to do. Oh! And whats up with this Brian guy. Did anyone catch how there seemed to be something awkward about the whole Brian past and how she didn't want to discuss anything about him? Well i did, maybe because i wrote it. lol. but really, i'm not quite sure whats up with this brian guy either, i just threw him in there. Will see what happens. hehe.

okey dokey. i think i need to put some more Rai in the stories and then we'll be all set. I feel like i've been neglecting him, ya know?

please review ^.^