Author's notes: Here I am with yet another chapter of my lousy fic. Already on my 8th chap and what do I get? 22 reviews? Even so, lots of thanks to sLL! By the way, I am a Filipino.

Disclaimer: It's obvious that I don't own the anime, right?

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CHAPTER 8

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FAYE'S POV

I yawned and blinked my eyes, being awoken by the luminous sunlight beaming on my face. I stretched my arms and got out of my bed, exercising as I always do every morning. I began my 500 jumping jacks when the crimson walls distracted me. If I remember right, my room was supposed to be blue. Royal blue. Then, I became conscious that I wasn't in my room at all. In fact, the atmosphere around me was practically dull. Everything around me wasn't, should I say, organized. There were magazines on the floor, sheets of paper scattered on the cabinets, briefs hanging on the electric fan…

Wait a minute…

Briefs?

Hanging on the electric fan?

This… This isn't my room…

Where the heck am I?

How the hell did I get here?

I can recall that I went to a victory party in that baka kitsune apartment.

I hurriedly ran out of the room and sought to find myself in a place where I didn't expect myself to be. I saw Rukawa lying on the long sofa, facing the TV. I raised my brow inquisitively, "Ru…kawa? Is that you?"

RUKAWA'S POV

Great, she's FINALLY awake. Then, I can FINALLY shove her off my apartment. Ouch, so I sat on the remote again. "…"

I turned my head to find her eyes locked on the TV screen. I utterly waved my hand so she could at least transfer her attention to me. Slowly, she raised her pointing finger and made an evil grin. "Nyehehehehe…"

"What?" I asked the seemingly autistic girl who was staring into the TV, engrossed.

You really are an airhead as what Faye keeps telling me. Why don't you try looking at the TV? You'd be pretty surprised at what channel and program it shows.

Shut up. Is that really what…

Just look at the TV. I assure your reactions are, surprisingly, well, surprised.

All right, all right...

I moved my eyes from the boisterously laughing Kirusawa and onto the TV, which was channeled to-

"Rukawa, you DO watch 'Days of Our Lives'! BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!" She fell on the carpeted floor, her uncontrollable laughter a reason to why her arms are wrapped around her stomach, her throat exposed.

I got the remote and moved the channel to AXN. "I do not watch 'Days of Our Lives'. Clearly, I fell asleep when I was changing the channel."

"Oh, come on, Rukawa! You don't have to lie to me! Tell me," She leaned on the sofa, her face close to mine. "what happened to Margot?"

"She'd been pinned down by Ste-" I stopped when I snapped out of my thoughts. I slapped my forehead and glared, special effects fire burning in my eyes. "Why are you here?"

FAYE'S POV

"Why are you here?"

"You tell me. Maybe you could explain why I woke up in your stinky room." I rolled my eyes and caught sight of the idiot's lips. I tilted his chin to get a better view, "Hey… What is my lip gloss doing on your icky lips?"

"You tell ME." Rukawa wiped his lips and was even surprised to find his lips shiny. He furrowed his eyebrows, "You…don't wear lip gloss… None of your kind, I suppose, wears lip gloss at least."

I slapped the back of his head, "You know, it sure is nice of you to offend me, Rukawa."

"Ow…"

"Tell me the truth, you're gay. Aren't you?"

He kicked my shin, "For the last time, I am not."

"Ok, ok." I looked at him seriously. "PLEASE…tell me why I found myself here."

"I don't know." He answered, pausing and afterwards, adding a few details. "Well, I remember a bit about what happened last night…"

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Rukawa: I fell asleep. After an hour, I woke up and found you asleep on my lap. You wore a smile I've never seen before… Anyway, if I'm not wrong, I brought you to my room so you can sleep. Then, I slept here on the sofa.

Faye: ::strangles Rukawa by the neck:: You didn't do anything perverted, did you?

Rukawa: No. ::Faye lets go of Rukawa:: I'm not that of a pervert to rape a person like you.

Faye: ::kicks Rukawa's shin with great force:: Why do you keep saying 'a person like me'?!

Rukawa: ::caresses shin:: Ouch… Anyway, I just took off your jacket and-

Faye: ::punches Rukawa as a feedback:: PERVERRRRRRRRRTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!

Rukawa: Stop it! I am not a pervert!!!

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RUKAWA'S POV

I slapped her cheek to get her attention. As I expected, she stopped making me her punching bag to rub her cheek. I placed my hands on her cheeks and I we had a sudden sort of electric shock that we let go of each other.

I looked at my hands and it seemed to me that I've done this to someone before. I faltered, "D-did you feel that?"

"Uh…no. I was freaked out when you held and looked at me that way." She gave an gauche expression.

Oh…

"Ok." I looked at her irritably, "I just want to point out that I'm not a pervert nor am I gay. Try to understand that, please."

"And I want to point out that the exam comes in a few days." Kirusawa patted my back with force, "I hope I get to see good grades, hmm? I'll come back later to tutor you one last time."

"…"

I waited anxiously for her to leave and when she already did, my mind was too busy trying to figure out why that abhorrent kappa was in my apartment…

FAYE'S POV

Ugh… Now, here I am back at home, cursing about what happened last night… I can't imagine myself sleeping with Rukawa in his apartment, which I did and which I didn't expect myself to do… ::sigh:: I need someone to take the stupid fact away from my head… I need someone to talk to… I can't talk to mom; she'd freak out… I can't talk to Ren; she's busy with her part-time job as a junior waiter… Kai? Nah, definitely not Kai; he'll just promise to keep it a secret and eventually tell it to mom and cause a chain reaction in the family which will make mom ground me, Lurren beat the heck out of Rukawa and Kai tell the entire thing to everyone from his classmates to his schoolmates until I get humiliated…

And so, I got my wallet and browsed through the phone numbers and came across, "Sendoh… He's trustworthy enough to keep a secret… No, I'm not going to call him…"

I found my cordless phone just lying there before me…unused at the moment…seeming to wait for someone to pick it up…so quiet…so cold from it's being fallow… I purposely stumbled to the phone and acted so innocent, "Oops! Well, what do you know? The phone is within my grasp because of a teensy accident! Oh, and I am dialing Sendoh's number by accident too!"

I nervously placed the receiver on my ear, hearing the loud ringing of the phone on the other line, until it stopped and I heard a cheerful tone, "Hello? May I help you?"

"Y-yeah; I-is this Sendoh Akira speaking?" Damn. It's the first time I called and I'm humiliating myself.

The voice on the other line paused for a minute or two, making me wonder whether there was somebody, "Hello?" I asked.

"Faye-chan, is that you?"

"H-hey there, Aki!" I brightened a bit. "C-can I t-talk to you about s-something?" Damn stammering.

"Yeah, shoot."

Maybe talking to him on the phone isn't such a good idea… I mean, he can't possibly understand a word I'm saying because of all my stammering… Maybe… "Hello? Faye, are you still there?" Sendoh asked.

"C-can you come here at home?" The words just came directly from my mouth without me even knowing it. I slapped my forehead once and cursed myself quietly. I can't believe this! I, myself, am inviting Sendoh here and not Lurren? It has always been Lurren who invites him; I should remember that.

"Uh, sure. What time will you expect me to be there?"

"A f-few minutes later would be good."

"Ok, see you."

" Bye." I hung up and laid on my blue-sheeted bed again… Right, so he'll be here in a few minutes time… Shall I serve him something like juice or-or biscuits or-or…something?

Try serving lemonade. He loves lemons, right?

Oh, well. Thanks for the advice. He might want that.

I began to hop away downstairs and called, "Hey, mom? Do we have lemons?"

"I think there's a few in the refrigerator. Why?" Mom asked as she chopped some cabbages for the sukiyaki she'll be serving for lunch.

"Sendoh's coming over."

"Oh, but I thought your sister was off to work? Did she invite him?"

"No, uh, I did." I pulled the small plastic of fresh lemons from the ref, "I'm just going to have a small chat with him, mom."

"Dingdong!" Our chiming doorbell rang and I rushed to get it, "Hi, Akira!"

"Good morning, Faye!" He replied back with a smile.

I walked to mom, "Could you make us some lemonade, mom?"

"Sure!"

"Come this way, to my room." I led him upstairs and pushed the blue button to open my door. I offered him to sit on the bed.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" He crossed his legs (of course, he crossed his legs the manly way) and stared anxiously at me, "It seems to be something important."

I sat beside him and toyed with my fingers, "Well, promise first that you'd keep this a secret."

He smiled and raised his right arm; "I swear not to tell Faye-chan's secret to anybody."

"Y-you see, you know that there was a victory party last night, right? It happened to take place in Rukawa's apartment. A-and the monkey Sakuragi asked for a drinking contest against me and Rukawa…"

"Did you win?"

"S-sort of… After the party, I kind of gotten drunk after drinking more than a dozen bottles of alcohol a-and I kind of kissed him, I think…"

"You kissed Rukawa?!"

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Edges' Notes: Gomen, gomen, gomenasai!!!!!!!!!!! I got my report card and I got 2 line of sevens so my parents grounded me from using the computer until the end of this school year!!!! I've been in such a drag lately because of it….