Emi sat back feeling sorry for herself. She and Rage just had a fight...
"He'll never talk to me again." Emi thought glumly. She was wrong, but not in a way she had hoped. She saw Rage walking towards her right now.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey." She replied.
"Umm, well, I'm sorry." Rage replied.
Emi sighed with relief. "It's OK."
"But, you ARE going to tell me sooner or later right?" Rage asked. There was an uncomfortable silence. Emi tried to read his expression to see if he was serious. He was.
"If Ni-Na says it's OK." Emi replied.
"Emi..." Rage began. "Look, don't be so sensitive and uptight, just...I mean, we're together so you should be able to tell-"
Emi cut him off. "UPTIGHT and SENSITIVE?!?!?!" She yelled. "LOOK RAGE, if Ni-Na say it's OK, I'll tell ya!!! But until then-"
"THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY SECRETS IN OUR RELATIONSHIP!!!"
Emi protested, "SOME SECRETS ARE WORTH KEEPING!!!"
"Not in OUR relationship!" Rage shot back.
"FORGET IT THEN!!!" Emi yelled. "WE'RE THROUGH!!!"
They both stopped to digest what had just been said.
"DAMN YOU EMI!!!!" Rage yelled. For a split-second of madness, Rage felt like hitting her, but he knew he couldn't... he still loved her. He soon regained his composure and slammed his fist into the wall behind him. Emi winced.
Rage yelled again. "WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT NI-NA WOULD BE THE ONE TO SPLIT US UP?!?!"
Emi trembled as she ran away from Rage. Rage cursed to himself and slammed his other fist into the wall.

-~**~-
"Rage...do you think we're just some 'high school fling'?" Emi asked softly.
"No...this...this is the real thing." Rage said as he kissed her forehead lightly.
"My thoughts exactly..."
-~**~-

Emi ran into the room and cried. Again she had to release her emotion in tears.
"Why...?" She sputtered until she burst into sobs again. She knew that this time around, Rage wouldn't be here to help her out. She was alone...

Izam stared at the door that separated himself from Emi. It seemed to gleam. No doubt, Rage and Emi had broken up...he had heard the yells. There was a slight stab of guilt at the thought of Ni-Na and her words about how she liked him, but even still, he couldn't ignore what he had for Emi.
"Izam?" Ni-Na's voice asked. He ignored her and walked to the door. Slowly, he opened it. He saw Emi on her bed crying. He felt another stab of guilt. She must've liked Rage a lot to cry this much over him. Again, he ignored it...

Emi was startled when she felt the firm hand on her shoulder. She half-expected to see Rage, but when she saw Izam, her face fell a bit. Izam didn't seem to notice.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey." She replied.
"I...heard about what happened."
"Oh...that, uh, yeah...that's umm..."
"Emi, if you want, I...I can make it better." Izam whispered. He leaned over to Emi...put his hand on her face and -SLAP!- Emi slapped him hard on the face.
"How dare you! What kinda...what kinda girl do you think I am??" She sputtered.
"I'm...I'm sorry I just thought--"
"You JUST THOUGHT you could do something like...like...like that to me?!?!" Emi yelled.
"Well when you were with Rage-"
"When I was with Rage?!?! WELL I'M NOT WITH RAGE ANYMORE!!!"
Emi started to shake a bit then she collapsed onto the bed and wailed. "My...life...is...ruined." Izam knew better than to try again, yet his inner-conscious seemed to think differently. He leaned over and whispered.
"It's OK..." He propped her up on the bed and said, "Everything will be all right."
He took another chance and leaned down to kiss Emi. Emi quickly took a pillow and put it in place of her face. Izam kissed the pillow.
"YOU BASTARD!!!" She yelled. Before he could realize what was happening, Emi pushed the pillow into his face. Then, overcome by weariness, she stumbled out of the room.

Ni-Na watched as Emi stomped out of the room. She felt a pang of jealousy. "So THAT'S who Izam liked..." She thought bitterly.
"Well, now that they broke up...I can try my luck at Rage again." Her inner-mind thought. "Too bad Emi, we were just becoming friends."

Rage leaned against the wall, willing the tears to stop. It was no use. What had just happened couldn't be forgotten. He started to punch at the wall again, beating his fist rapidly. He heard a voice behind him that caused him to stop.
"Hey handsome."
Rage turned around. He saw Ni-Na standing there, smiling.
"What the hell do you want?" Rage asked with hatred in his voice.
"Look, I know...I know Emi and you are separate, but that doesn't mean you should suffer."
"Shut up and leave me alone!" Rage yelled. Ni-Na ignored him.
"In fact, you should enjoy being single." She said while walking toward him. Rage wanted to run away, but he had to admit, now that Emi was out of the picture, Ni-Na looked awfully sexy...
"You should spend your time with other people." She said while wrapping her arms around his neck. She could see Rage was starting to calm down. "Like me."
Their lips met. Ni-Na kissed Rage and Rage found himself responding to her passion. Ni-Na whispered between kisses.
"I mean...there...isn't a...reason...why we...shouldn't ..be...together." She said. They stopped.
"You're right there isn't." Rage found himself saying. Then he froze. "Wait, what am I saying?" He thought. Soon, however, that thought drowned out and he felt Ni-Na slip her hand into his. He took it and they walked back to the others together.

Zukin patted Emi on the back. "There, there." she said comfortingly.
"It's OK, Emi! You'll be fine. I mean, just apologize to Rage and-" She stopped. Emi wasn't looking at her anymore, she was looking at two approaching figures.
"Oh my..." Maid-Zukin exclaimed. There was Rage and Ni-Na...together...holding hands.
"Emi...uh..." Zukin started but Emi wasn't listening. Ni-Na and Rage walked over to her.
"What's wrong Emi?" Ni-Na sneered. "At a loss for words?"
"What's the meaning of this?!?!" Charmy shrieked.
"What's it look like. Rage and I are together." Ni-Na said maliciously.
"You...you...you...!!!!" Charmy began, but she didn't know what to say. Ni-Na snickered at Charmy. Ni-Na then took the initiative to kiss Rage right in front of Emi...and they did. Emi glared and felt tears escaping her eyes. Ni-Na and Rage broke away from the kiss.
"RAGE HOW COULD YOU?!?!?!" She yelled as she brought her knee up to Rage's groin...hard.
"WHOA!!! THAT'S GOTTA HURT!!!!" Tracy exclaimed while laughing hysterically at Rage's misfortune. Rage was kneeling down and wincing.
"Amen!!!" Boldo exclaimed. Yuni was covering her mouth with her hands, trying to avoid laughing but she couldn't help it. Emi's anger seemed to rub off on Charmy as the lunged towards Ni-Na and pulled on her hair.
"YOU BITCH!!!" Charmy yelled. Maid-Zukin was trying to calm everyone down.
"STOP EVERYONE!! STOP STOP STOP!!!" She yelled, but it was no use. Charmy was starting to slap Ni-Na's face and everyone else but Emi was laughing at Rage's ongoing pain. Emi was glaring at Rage.
"Never..." She began. "Never did I even THINK you would do something like this to me. NEVER!" She yelled as she wiped her tears away. Everyone stopped to watch.
"I had to dump Andrew for you." She began. "Then I started getting along with...with HER!" Emi yelled while pointing to Ni-Na. "And now...AND NOW I HAVE TO GO THROUGH HELL ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!"
"I...I..." Emi said trying to get the words out. "I HATE YOU!!"
Emi, fueled by a new unknown emotion, punched Rage in the stomach and then ran away from view.