I don't own most of these characters (i do own Shanna and Lolli and Kristine however) Anyways, I hope that you continue to like my story..blah blah blah blah..etc etc etc... Oh and guess what??? KAI'S NOT MAD AT ME ANYMORE!!! I wonder why...hmmmmmmmm *ponders for a while* While I'm pondering you might as well read the rest of what's going on between Shanna and Kai and maybe even a little about Lolli and Rei (probably not though).

"Where's Shanna?" Rei asked as he thumped down the stairs and entered the kitchen. Kai looked up annoyed. "Not here obviously." "Well it's been over two weeks and she hasn't come over once. What did you say to her?" "Nothing." "That's probably it then. She goes and tries to help you out when you're in a fury and you don't even say thanks to her." "That wasn't it." "No?" "No!" "Then what was it?" "Amanda said something to her that night. I don't know what she said but it disturbed Shanna deeply. Everytime I go anywhere near her she freaks out, looks away or completely ignores me." Rei sighed and poured himself and Kai a cup of tea. "I think it's a time for you and me to have a serious talk." "Why? "The fact that you had to ask that question says it all.

"Why don't you go and talk to him?" Kristine asked as she observed Shanna playing with her food. "And talk about what? The fact that his ex told me that I wouldn't have to worry about a kid. I mean what a conversation. 'By the way, your ex told me that I don't have to worry about having kids, would you mind telling me she meant'?" "Hey it's not my fault you're being a sour puss." Kristine said and picked Shanna's plate up and put it on the counter. "Well, it's just...I want to know and yet I don't. I want to go over there and spend time with him but I don't know if he would want me there." "Would you like me to phone Rei and see?" "You wouldn't." "I would. Come on, you two need to see each other. Kai's acting almost as bad as you. Please note that I did say almost." Shanna smiled and got up and went to the stove and put the kettle on. "Really?" "Yes. He is being such a prick over there, that they are actually thinking about throwing him out." "That would be quite amusing." Lolli said as she entered the dining room. "That's what you think." Kristine said and rolled her eyes. "Can you imagine. Shanna here would be driving us nuts. She'd be like 'do you think he's okay' and 'where do you think he is'?" Lolli laughed. "Yah that would be rather annoying." Shanna hit Lolli in the arm. "Hey! Watch it! I have nails of steel and I'm not afraid to use them." Kristine pretended to gasp in terror. "Run Lolli. Those things can kill." Shanna laughed and chased after Lolli as they ran around the kitchen. Through the window, Kai watched. Discouraged, he went home.

"Come on. It's just a country ho down." Kristine said and giggled. "But what if Kai goes?" "Kai's going to go to a dance of any kind?" Shanna laughed. "It is hard to imagine isn't it?" "Yah just a tad. Come on. Let's find you something to wear so that some guy finds you and makes you forget about Kai." "Ha! Like that's going to happen. All the guys around here are ick!" Kristine laughed too. "Well in that case. We'll just have to dance our heads off and find something that will take our minds of Kai until I can find out when the next dance is over in a different town." Shanna stuck her tongue out at Kristine and glared, making Kristine pretend to hide behind her hands. Which in turn caused Shanna to throw a pillow at Kristine and tada...that is how all pillow wars begin.

"I'm not going." Kai said and crossed his arms. "Come on. It'll be a good way to forget about Shanna." "No it won't. It'll be a good way to be reminded about Shanna." "Well then, why are you protesting?" "I don't dance." "Neither do I but I'm going." "That's nice. BUT I'M NOT!" "Fine then. You can just stay here, in a cold, empty, lonely house where the only thing you can think about is Shanna, Shanna and more Shanna. Come on, it won't kill you to go." "Yes it will." "I'll drag you there myself if I have to." Tyson wanders in. "What's going on?" "OUT!!" Rei and Kai scream. Tyson wanders out. "What's wrong with those two?" "I don't have anything to wear." Kai said. "I went out and bought you jeans..." "You did what?" "You heard me. They're on your bed. I expect you to be back down here, in them, in fifteen minutes." Rei pushed Kai out the door. "Now march." When Kai was gone into his room Rei shook his head. "Boy is that guy stubborn."

~get in the action...do the attraction, fall on my head, do it again~ Shanna sipped her pop. "Why did I ever agree to let you bring me here?" "Aw you love it. Besides, you can see everyone's ass in those jeans." But it's not Kai's ass Shanna thought to herself. "Wanna dance?" Shanna looked up at the young man who had approached her. "Ummmmm." Shanna said. "I don't think-" "She's would love to." Kristine said and pushed Shanna forward. Shanna glared back at Kristine and followed her new "dance partner" (or in this case next victim) out onto the dance floor. ~forward to your partners and all the way back to start again~ Shanna groaned and curtsied to her "partner" and then went back to the line again. She went through the pattern of the dance...just waiting until it was their turn to be the head couple... As they skipped down the middle, Shanna made sure that she ended up on his feet a couple million times. Then she stubbed his toe everytime they had to swing elbows, by the time the dance was over, her partner was happy to go and tend to his wounds. On her way back Shanna bumped into someone. When she looked up to say sorry, she came face to face with

Shanna! What in hell was she doing here? Kai and Shanna stood there frozen for a minute or two and then Kai finally broke the silence. "So how have you been?" "Good, how 'bout you?" Shanna asked, her voice unusually high. "Same here. Would you like to go and sit down with me?" Shanna looked up at him with a sense of confusion in her eyes. "Sure." "I haven't seen you around lately." Kai said and mentally kicked himself. of course you haven't seen her you dodo brain, kai thought to himself, she's been avoiding you. If Shanna noticed his full attention was on his arguement with himself she didn't show it. "Well, I've been rather busy lately." "Yah, me too. You know, training and stuff." "I'm sure that keeps you rather busy. I've been spending a lot of time in my mediation phrases. You know, gotta keep my mind a working." Kai smiled. "Yah. Always gotta do that." "Definetely." Kai shifted his position uncomfortably. Then both sat in an awkward silence for a minute or two before either of them could think of something to talk about. "Would you like to come over to my house for breakfast tomorrow?" Shanna looked up shocked. "Depends. What are you having?" "Actually, I have no idea but it's my turn to cook so..." "At least you're not inviting me over on a day that Tyson has to cook." Both of them shivered at that. "Yah, that is kind of scarey isn't it?" "Really scarey." Shanna agreed. Kai leaned in. "Very, very scarey-"

Shanna pushed him away. "I gotta go." Shanna rushed off, leaving Kai staring after her, confused. Shanna ran with all her might, past all fhe drunks staggering around on the road, past the beeping horns of the trucks. Into the forest, into her natural home, into her hiding spot. Shanna cried, like she had never cried before, why had she felt so guilty when Kai kissed her? Shanna remembered when she had mediated and gotten images from Kai's mind. For weeks now she had been trying to find out why that had happened. Shanna concentrated again. Finding her fox, following it. Seeing Kai, touching him and getting the images, it was the one image that she saw when she fell that made her understand everything. It was that one image she clung to as the whole world went black.

"Oh no." Kristine gasped as they found Shanna. "Oh Shanna, what did you do?"

All done....*hears you all go "WHAT! YOU CAN'T LEAVE US LIKE THAT!"* well i gotta go. You know, an authoress deserves her sleep once in a while. So I'm going to go, sleep on this story and will be back with you with more tomorrow...Merry Meet.