Pixie: It was SO horrible! First they made me see a therapist! Then they gagged me! THEN they wouldn't believe that you're the better writer Ami!!! And THEN they started torturing me with an AXE! AN AXE!!!

Jock: how did you tell them Ami was better when you were gagged?

Ami: okay... for those of you who don't know, this is Jock, my new muse... and Pix! You didn't allow me to say hello to everyone!

Pixie: but this is more important!!

Jock: what? To listen to you talking to about a stupid girl that thinks she writes better then Ami?

Ami: oh Jock! You DO have a heart! But I'm afraid that I'm going to have to kill you again!

Jock: Why?

Ami: because you made fun of my friend.

Pixie & Ami: *slowly start walking toward him with machetes*

Jock: *cowers is fear*

Dusk: um... my Aibou is sorry that she couldn't speak to all you... she's busy...

Vern: but we all hope you enjoy the chapter! *Dusk and Vern run off before anything goes wrong and gets blamed on them*
Problems Solved, and Problems Beginning
'Hurry up! But keep quite!'

'I can't do both at the same time!'

'Remind me and sis to help you in the sneaking category, alright?'

'That's what you guys always say!'

'I know, but we never have time!'

Riko and Shiro were running through the perimeter of the rich kid's mansion, trying to stay away from guards, being side tracked by the multiple booby traps that they saw, and of course, Shiro was lagging behind every now and then.

'Shiro! We don't have time for you to stay back there!' Riko whispered to him harshly. 'We have to get out of here before someone figures out! Most precisely, that Michael guy!'

'What's wrong with the Michael guy?' Shiro asked, catching up. 'Sure he kidnapped us, but so have a few people; and unlike those other guys, he promised not to hurt us. So what's wrong with him?'

'A lot of things,' Riko said back. 'Now let's get outta here, because frankly, I don't want you to find out...'

'Why not?' the ever so curious Shiro asked.

'Because, I made a sacrifice...' Riko said back to him.

'What type of sacrifice?'

'...That doesn't matter...'

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'I guess we could give it a chance...' those words made his heart rate break the speed limit; he had beaten Kai; he had won her heart; she was his...

'Thank you,' he said, just before he devoured her lips, taking in her peach like taste; he broke apart from her reluctantly for a short breath. 'You won't regret this...'

'I'd better not,' was all she said, before she cupped his head in her hands, pulling him closer.

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'Where do you think they went?' Oliver said to everyone. They all looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

'Don't look at me!' everyone except Kai, Johnny, and Oliver himself said.

'Then who should I look at?' Oliver asked, blinking innocently.

'Gay freak,' Johnny whispered under his breath. 'Why do I even put up with him?' he thought for a moment. 'Oh yeah, he's one of the best bladers in the world, and can actually match my strength in a battle...' he glared at the green headed boy. 'I still think he's a gay freak...'

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Voltaire was getting annoyed; Michael had hung up on him, and his henchmen STILL hadn't arrived at the place he was staying at to get him or the money; either would do.

'Idiot,' he mumbled, pacing around the small room. 'He'd better have my money; or at least a good excuse...' the phone rang, and he walked over to it. 'Who is it!?' he barked into the receiver.

'It's Billy,' the voice on the other side said; Billy was one of his henchmen. 'We have arrived at his place, but-'

'But?' Voltaire repeated. 'But nothing! I want that money now, or to have Michael withering body in front of me as I torture him with a whip!'

'But it's a mansion,' Billy said calmly to his boss. 'Not only that, but he's playing a personal butler in the mansion. They would notice if he suddenly disappeared.'

'Hmm...' Voltaire thought for a minute, before deciding what to do. 'Tell him he is to quit his job, and by the end of the two weeks that he has before he quits, he is to get my money. I want to see it in his hands before he gives it to me. Got it?'

'Got it,' was all Billy said, before hanging up.

'Idiot,' Voltaire shouted. 'Snooping too far into a business! Now I have to wait!!'

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Kai was sick of waiting, and he was getting worried about Riko. Sure, the ever so beautiful Tiamo seemed to get on his mind every couple of minutes, but it always ended up the same; she is just another girl that'll leave you heart broken. And he believed it too.

'I can't wait for then any longer,' he whispered to Johnny while standing up; at least he took to notice that he actually existed right now. 'If the others even bother to ask where I am, just tell them I went back to Enrique's house.'

'Sure thing,' was Johnny's reply. 'But would you mind if I came with you? These guys are driving me nuts.' Kai only shrugged, and Johnny stood up as well.

The two of them silently existed the building, only to see a very interesting sight indeed; one that proved Kai's suspicions. Enrique and Tiamo where standing on the stairs, lip locked.

Kai and Johnny looked at each other and rolled their eyes.

'Excuse me?' Johnny interrupted them. When they finally noticed, they where apart like a spark. 'What, pray tell, is all this about?'

'Um well, you see,' Enrique tried to explain; Tiamo didn't even bother. She just moved her hand to her lips for a moment, before dashing away. 'Wait!' Enrique called out to her, trying to run to her as well; both Johnny and Kai held him back.

'Don't,' Johnny said, pushing him onto the stairs. 'I may hate girls, but I do know that when they want to be alone, you leave them alone.'

'And Tiamo different at that,' Kai added, nodding at Johnny's statement. 'She's confused at what just happened, that's for sure. Let her figure it out, and she will decide what's best for that both of you.'

'But I love her,' was all Enrique said, surprising Johnny, Kai, and himself. He slumped back, repeating what he said, as if he didn't believe it. 'I love her...'

'Then let her have time,' Kai whispered; he was really getting worried about Riko. 'She will be fine, do not worry.' With that, he turned and left at a brisk walk, heading toward Enrique's mansion.

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'What is coming over me?' she asked herself once again. 'Sure, he's extremely cute, funny, handsome, and kind, but what if Michael finds out? He might think him a threat and eliminate him. Worse, what will happen when I have to go?' she stopped abruptly outside the fence of the mansion's perimeter. 'Well, at least Riko and Shiro will be out of there... I can just search around Rome until I find them, which should only take me a day, then get out of here...'

She sat down with her back against the fence roughly, sighing as she went.

'Will this torment ever end?' she breathed, resting her forehead in her hands.

'It could,' a voice (Pixie: guess who it is! Go on! Guess! Ami: SHUT UP PIX! *continues to torture Jock*). Tiamo snapped her head up, only to have her eyes be met with the cold orbs of Kai's.

'How could it end?' she asked him, eager to find a way out... maybe she trusted him...

'You could start by going back to Enrique,' he started, pausing only to sit down beside her; he continued. 'Admitting the love for him that I know you have, maybe going into another lip lock with him if you must, and end it all off by marring him and living happily ever after.'

'What if I don't believe in happily ever after?' she asked; the slightest bit of amusing in her eyes.

'Then your both screwed,' was his only answer; they were quiet for a few minutes.

'You don't know what happened to us,' she questioned, being careful not to meet his gaze. 'Do you?'

'What do you mean?' he questioned back, shifting to look at her. 'What happened?'

'Well,' she tried to find the words, and failed. 'Never mind, it's not important...'

'Of course it's important,' he pressured, lifting her face to look at him. 'Now tell me.'

'We-we,' it reminded Kai of how Riko spoke when he first met the little boy. 'Someone spiked both of our drinks last night, and we-we...' she broke out of the weak grasp he had on her face, and looked up at the stars. 'We spent the night together...'

'Oh,' was all he could say. How could he have forgotten? *WHY* did he let it happen in the first place? 'How?'

'Let's see,' she smirked, closing her eyes, as if remembering. 'We kissed, went to your room, most likely got under-'

'Okay!' Kai said, looking up at the stars as well. 'I get it; we've been really close without me remembering...' he gave her a look, thinking about what he had witnessed back at the restaurant; he stood up. 'But you belong with Enrique, not me. You and me; we're too alike. Enrique will open you up a bit more and, god forbid, make you more sociable. And even though I hate to admit it, it might be better if you and I open up a bit more...' then turned around, heading to the gate.

'Your right Kai,' Tiamo smiled. 'Guess you do understand...' and she stood up to, but headed in the opposite direction...

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'I just don't believe it...' he thought, looking blankly at the sky. 'Why would she leave? She said that we could give it a try...'

'So,' Johnny broke his wave of thought. 'Tell me about the 'oh so lucky' girl that has caught you attention.'

'What do you want to know?' he absentmindedly said.

'When did you first see her?' Johnny asked him; he squinted slightly for a moment, noticing that when he did so, the blackness of the night seemed almost the same colour of the tips of her hair.

'I saw her at the marina,' he closed his eyes, replaying the little scene in his head. 'She was beautiful; a simple glance at her, and the girls where long gone out my head... you could've asked me who they were, and I would have answered, "I've never seen them in my life". I swear to god I would...' Johnny laughed. 'What's so funny?'

'It's just,' Johnny choked a bit on his words he was laughing so hard. 'It's just that you're always calling me, Robert or Oliver to help you 'romanticize' some new girl, which you 'supposedly' fell in love with, up! It's kind of strange to see you here, practically bawling your eyes out, just because one girl, who is obviously as much in love with you as you are her, left you on some steps when your friends showed up! Can't you just get over it and realize that she's not revolted of you!'

'What do you mean?' he asked, still kind of startled.

'I mean!' Johnny hissed in his face, annoyed that he didn't understand. 'That YOU are being unpractical! From the moment that I saw the two of you together, I could sense that the two of you were meant to be together!'

'And how could you sense that?' Enrique smiled, slightly getting his mind back, and understanding enough of what Johnny said to think of a smart comment to corner him. 'You wouldn't really know how I felt or act like unless...' he watched how Johnny's face took on a pink hue. 'Unless you've acted that way before; but that couldn't be true, could it?'

'N-no,' Johnny stuttered, clearly lying. 'W-why would I fall in love with someone?'

'Just wondering,' he smiled a little more, looking back up at the stars...

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'Riko! I'm serious!'

'Cool it Shiro! There's NO way that those guys would be here!'

'But I HEARD them!'

'Shiro!' Riko spun around quickly, hissing dangerously at his younger twin. 'Stop playing games. We have to get out of here, now.'

'But I heard someone say Voltaire,' Shiro argued back. 'I just KNOW that I did!'

'We've never even met Voltaire,' Riko whispered soft to him. 'For all we know, Tiamo could've just been saying that to get us scared, so that we wouldn't sneak out at night.'

'I think your lying,' Shiro hissed back at him. 'I really think that this Voltaire guy is close!'

'Just please,' Riko practically pleaded. 'Don't talk about it. That guy creep out even Tiamo; I don't even want to think about how scary he'd be in person...'

'Alright,' Shiro said back to him. 'Hey look! I think there's a crack in the wall there!' and indeed there was. Just in the cement, there was a long, almost sickly looking crack, from the top to bottom, zigzagging to the side every now and then.

'Good eye Shiro,' Riko almost jumped for joy. 'We can climb over now; go on, you first.'

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Ami: okay, I can't think any more...

Pixie: oh well, let's bring Jock back alive...

Jock: *lying on floor with X's as eyes*

Ami: fine *starts chanting unknown pixyish words*

Jock: *floats in air for a second, then lands on his feet in perfect health*

Pixie: hello Jock!!

Jock: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU GUYS DO TO ME!!!!!!!

Ami: *evil grin* Pixie, I've got an idea...

Pixie: I'm all ears

Jock: *begs on knees* PLEASE DON'T TORTURE ME ANYMORE!!! PLEASE DON'T!!!

Ami: Pix, I want you to take Jock over to foreva, to see what kind of torture she and her muses can come up with...

Pixie: sure thing... but if they put me in the physiatrist chair again! I'll scream!!!

Ami: tell her that... *to (hopefully) foreva* well, you may take the story where ever you want from here! Bye for now! Oh, and at least whack Jock over the head for me... and tell Pia to watch out, he has no respect for women what so ever... besides me, Pix an' Dusk, but he's afraid of us.

Pixie: *gags Jock, slings him over her shoulder, and flies off* I SWEAR that if I end up in that chair again, I'll blow up the Land of Your Profile!!!

Ami: *shakes head* whatever you say Pix... Bye y'all!!!