Whaooo! Fan Fiction is finally back in action. Isn't that great? Personally I would not have wanted the job of getting all of this put back together!

I hope that all of you enjoy this chapter. The next chapter is mostly done, so it should be out shortly.

I also have a short story, Frazzled, that goes along with this story. It goes along with Chapter Three. I shall have it posted shortly.

~Ravyn~

Disclaimer: I am so tired of this. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Chapter Four

" Are you Rei?" a voice that was a shade darker than tenor questioned.

Rei flipped her waist-length, raven-colored hair and turned. Her large violet eyes widened in surprise.

Behind her stood one of the most popular males in the senior class. Rei had seen him with Mamoru, Usagi's boyfriend, more times than she could count.

" Yes," Rei said waspishly, her eyes narrowed. She had been waiting for close to half an hour for Usagi to show up. She was supposed to be going with Rei to the temple for some down time, and right now, she was running close to missing the last bus.

Jason felt his laughter threatening to bubble forth, but he held it back. This girl was small, not as small as Usagi, but she was not much taller, either. And yet she was looking at him like she could break him in half.

It was adorable.

" Usagi sent me to ask if you would meet her at the Arcade. Mamoru surprised her with something, and she wants you to eat with us."

Rei's scowl increased in a steady matter. " Us?"

" Mamoru, Usagi, and myself," Jason recited easily.

" Great, just great," Rei snarled, stomping by him. " Here I was hoping to spend some down time with Usagi, and instead I get stuck with the perfect couple and a blond bozo. Just what I need for one evening."

Jason just shook his head, his bangs falling softly into his eyes. She was cute.

~*~

Stacey ran a brush through her thick hair and allowed it to cascade in a river of molten gold down to her shoulders. Her green eyes stood out with a little careful makeup.

Overall, she was eye catching, to say the least.

Now if she could just catch the eyes of a certain Jason White. He was hot, and best of all, he was in the perfect position to help her with her plans.

Revenge.

It was a little thing that she had planned for some time. To get back at her brother for taking away all of her perfect plans, it would be so easy, to get revenge, all she needed was Jason.

She had been in the perfect position to get not only her stepfather's money, but also her own father's. She had played the shy, innocent little girl all the way up through high school; she had done everything by the book.

But then Mark had seen what she was up to. He alone had found out that her late nights at her friends' houses had been to cover up her going to the local bar.

And he had blown the whistle, and in the process, she lost every little thing she had worked for.

Her stepfather had left his business to Mark, and her real dad had given the majority of his money to Mark and their other sibling.

She had been left with a measly two thousand-dollar trust fund. And she had decided to take revenge.

She had only found out a week or so ago that he had been married, since she had cut all contact she had with her brother off.

And that's when her little plan had manifested itself.

The fact that Mia was pregnant only added to the fun. And that fact that she was going to use Jason against his own sister…that made it a game.

Dark laughter crackled down the hall.

~*~

Rei hummed as she finished cleaning off the counter tops, lunch already having been cleared away. Minako, Ami, and Zach all sat in various positions in her living room.

Ami had her head resting on Zach's shoulder in the love seat, and Minako had Kei with her, her feet kicked over one end of the couch, her head on the end of the couch.

Kei was playing with her still knee-length hair.

"Crap," Rei muttered. Walking into the living room, she looked at the sprawled out adults. " Do you think you lazybones can watch Kei for me while I run to the story to pick some stuff up?"


" What are you going to get?" Minako questioned, tickling the grinning little boy.

" Diapers, baby food," Rei rattled off. " Thank goodness Kei is off formula. That stuff makes his diapers stink," Rei muttered. " And a few other things."

Minako laughed. " I can handle him."

Rei just nodded, grabbed her car keys, and checked to make sure her checkbook was in her purse.

Minako waited till the car pulled out of the driveway before standing and placing Kei in his playpen. After handing him his stuffed toys Minako headed back to the couch.

" I thought she was never going to leave," Ami grumbled. Turning, she disentangled herself from Zach and grabbed a pillow instead.

" Hey, I am as good as a pillow, " Zach complained as he stretched out.

Minako threw the pillow from the floor at him. " Shut up. Now do you two want to know what happened between Rei and Jason or not?"

" I thought Ami was with you guys when that happened."

" No. She was in Germany for a few months with her aunt. When she got back, Rei was in her locked down mode. Not even Usagi dared to bring it up." Minako shrugged.


" And Ami never asked." She added as an after thought.

Ami rolled her eyes." At the time, there was no reason for me to know. The damage was done, she was on the way to what looked like recovery, and it would have been rude to bring it up."

" Just sit down and be quiet so I can tell you what happened," Minako grumbled.

" Okay, we're silent," Zach said, placing his hands over Ami's mouth.

" Okay, about three weeks after you went to Germany, things got kinda quiet. And you know when things are quiet around us, it means something bad is going to happen."

" Unproven fact," Ami muttered. Minako shot her a look. Ami held up her hands and made a zipping motion with her hands over her lips.

" There was this little incident at the football field that started it all. You remember Maria Martin?" Minako questioned Ami.

" The slut who was the ringleader of that group of girls who were sure that Mamoru was theirs?" Ami questioned.

Minako nodded. " Yep. Anyway, she decided to change tactics, and she threw herself at Jason. Rei found out about it. She was not to happy about it, but you don't throw a relationship like that away because of one thing."

" Well, whenever Rei would go out on date with Jason after that, one of those little cronies would beat her to their meeting spot. She would walk up and see either him disentangling himself from them or just getting jumped."

Ami winced. Rei would only put up with that for so long.

" They had a huge fight about it. I remember Usagi leaving my house in a rush. Rei did not come to school the next day. The next thing we knew, it was over between the two. Rei went to a college as far away from him as she could get."

" Did they ever work it out?" Zach questioned.

Minako shook her head. " They are both very proud people. Rei is a walking time bomb, and Jason is very sincere in whatever he says. If he told her it was over and that he never wanted to go with her again, then trust me, it was over."

" But that was it?" Ami spluttered. " Minako, they broke it off for that?"

" It is not always so simple, Ami. Rei is a very emotional person with a sharp tongue. Jason's temper matches hers in every aspect. Sometimes words you say can never be taken back."

Ami looked at Zach, her eyes wide with shock. Her eyes narrowed with a calculating look that Zach was very aware of at that point.

" Then we have to do something about it," Ami declared.

Kei stopped playing with his toys and looked up with interest. One would almost think he had listened to the entire conversation.

Minako flashed them a grin as bright as walking sunshine. " I thought you would never say anything. This is what Mia and I have come up with."

Ami and Zach listened with interest as the plans unfolded.
~*~

Rei's eyes scanned Jason's face, and her heart sank into the bottom of her chest.

"So you HAVE kissed her," Rei said, her tone oddly defeated.

" She kissed ME Rei," Jason snapped, his temper already on edge.

" You kissed her back," Rei growled. " I am not blind Jason."

" Tell me something, Rei, how do you not kiss someone back?" Jason rumbled.

" How do you NOT KISS SOMEONE?" Rei shrieked, the control on her temper snapping. " Very simply, BY NOT KISSING HER!"

" What did you want me to do about it?" Jason shouted back. His face was flushed with anger, and his eyes sparkled with it.

Rei looked at him for a long moment before her shoulders dropped. " I can't take this anymore, Jason. Every time I look at you, it's someone else's perfume and someone else's lipstick that I see. In every place that holds something for us, you have kissed someone else."

Jason raked a hand through his thick blond hair, agitation evident on his face.

" What are you saying, Rei?"

" I think we should end this," Rei said finally. When she turned to look at him, Jason saw the hopelessness on her features. Jason saw the hopelessness that was on her features.

Jason scanned her expression, and his own face closed off. " If that's the way you want it," he said coldly.

Rei looked at him and felt something inside her shatter. He was no longer denying it and he was no longer trying to fight. Thinning her lips, Rei put up every wall he had ever broken down and nodded. " It is. Now get out."

Jason stared at her, a frown twisting his lips. Spinning on his heel, he walked off the temple grounds.

It was not until the squealing of tires reached her ears that Rei broke down. Crumpling on stairs, she allowed herself to cry.

~*~

Rei chewed on her lower lip, a habit she had formed some years ago, and studied the baby food in front of her. She mentally went over the foods that Kei would allow her to feed him.

He was as picky as she was.

Grabbing several fruit- and vegetable- flavored jars, Rei placed them in the cart. Checking off the list she had made earlier in the week, Rei moved along the aisle.

" Rei," a soft voice commented.

Looking up, she met, for the second time, Jason's crisp blue gaze. It was cool and held no apologies. Not that she expected any. He was as unyielding as she was.

Rei looked around the products around her and raised a brow. " Isn't this aisle a little young for you?" Rei questioned with a sickening sweetness.

Jason frowned and glowered. " Mia wants me to price some things for her. Not that it's any of your business."

" How is Mia? Is Mark going to be home in time for the baby?" Rei questioned, letting the last comment slide over her.

" Fine. She says her back and her feet are killing her. Mark has not called in a few days; he is traveling in a few places where telephones have not yet reached," Jason told her, the bite still in his tone.

" No need to be so snappish," Rei told him, irritated. " What's got your collar so tight?"

Stacey chose that moment to walk into the aisle. She walked over and latched herself onto Jason's arm. " And who is this, honey?"

Jason shook her off, but looking at Rei, he knew the damage had already been done. Not that his attitude was helping any.

Rei looked at him, her features twisted into a look of pure loathing. " Still have a thing for blondes, I see," Rei growled before pushing her cart forward, her face flushed.

Jason watched her go and turned to Stacey. " Keep you hands to yourself. I would hate to have to remove them. And I am not your honey."

Stacey watched Jason stomp off, a small smile on her lips. The smiled turned to a frown when she turned in the direction that Rei had gone.


Who was the brunette, and what did she mean to Jason? She refused to allow her game to be disrupted.

~*~

Mia watched Jason chew on the end of his pencil. He was looking over the plans for one of his client's houses, but his expression told her that he was thinking of something else.

Mia wondered if it was someone else.

" You want to talk about it?"

" Well, I don't think they are going to be able to add the extra bathroom without losing a closet," Jason said, turning over one of the drawings.

" No, about Rei. Stacey said something about you running into a pretty brunette, and she wanted to know about her."

Jason's head snapped up with bone-cracking force. Mia hid a smile of satisfaction. " And what did you tell her?"

" That she was a old friend. What's bothering you, Jason?"

Jason propped his head on his hands, after placing the pencil behind his ear, and looked at his sister.

" Where's Rei's husband?" Jason questioned softly.

Mia looked at him, understanding dawning on her features.

" You think…Jason, you idiot," Mia snapped.

Jason's features clouded over. " What else am I supposed to think?"

" Give the girl some credit here, Jason. You used to know her better than anyone else. Do you think she would do something like that?"

Jason glared at her. " You're right. I used to know her better."

Mia glared at him before throwing her hands over her head. Turning on her heel, she started to walk out. But not before she answered his question.

" He is dead, Jason. He died from cancer a few days after Kei was born."
Jason sat there with a stunned expression on his features. Then his eyes narrowed as an idea came into his head.

He knew he was still attracted to Rei. He would have to be stupid not to realize it. The chemistry was still there.

The pencil came down from his ear, and he began to tap it. The only reason he had not allowed himself to think about it was because she had been married.

But now, the fact that she wasn't opened up a whole new ballpark.

The only question was what to do about it.

~*~

Stacey hurled her hairbrush at her wall with a hiss. This Rei was going to be a problem. She knew it.

~*~

Mia grinned into the phone. " Everything is going to plan, Minako. I have him thinking on this end. You do your part."

" Don't worry, the plans are already in motion," Minako responded.



Hmmm…I can't figure out if I was evil in this chapter or not. But isn't Kei cute? I absolutely love the little guy.

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(Author would like the thank reviewers!)