Disclaimer: I would think you'd know that by now.

Oh, and I want to say that the extra cussing the kidnappers said in chapter 8 was cuz I wanted them to sound sort of stupid and not know how to say stuff. ^_^ Aren't I so nice and pleasant?

Well now, I'm feeling a little bit better than I was an hour ago (I wrote chapter 9 an hour ago. Interesting, huh?). My headaches gone, I blew the snot out of my nose (I can breathe and smell!) and the sore throats not too bad. ^_^ Um, too much info for you! On with the story!

Raven Falls In Love

Confessions

Chapter 10 (Yay!)

Melinda looked at Raven, thinking about his past life, based on what Van had told her. He had been pure evil, and she too would have been one of the people he killed too, except she had fallen and Shadow had insisted on taking her.

Raven looked at Melinda, confused on why she wasn't herself. He finally got tired of the silence and said, "Ok, what's bothering you?" in that cold tone of voice he used to have. Melinda was surprised at his tone of voice, and a little scared. Raven was surprised at his voice too. "Well?" He said, a little softer now.

"I-I met someone." Melinda stuttered.

Raven got scared a little, thinking that she had liked someone else now. "Well- Go on." Raven said, nervous.

"He told me about what you did, in the past. And he asked me out." She said. Seeing the look on Raven's face, she quickly added, "Oh, but I said no of course."

Raven's muscles relaxed a little. He breathed a sigh of relief and asked curiously, "What was his name?"

"Van."

"Van?! Van Flyheight." (Is Van's last name spelt right???) Raven asked, his curiosity turning into rage.

"I don't know. He didn't tell me." Melinda said.

"Well, what did he look like?" he asked, a little impatient.

"He had spiky black hair with the bottom part pulled back into a pony tail thing, a red shirt that had a square cut out to show off his abs-"

"Alright, it was Van Flyheight." Raven said, butting off Melinda and grabbing his coat.

"Raven, where are you going?" She asked.

"I'm going to teach Van a lesson about talking crap about me and for hitting on my girl." Melinda blushed a little at the last statement.

"Wait! I just have a question for you. Why did you kill all those people?" She asked sternly. Raven stopped in his tracks. He put a hand through his hair and muttered to himself, "This one's going to be tough to get out of."

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Van sat down on the bed, putting his chin on his hands. A theme song was heard from the next room.

"ZEKE! Really, it's only a TV set, no big whoop about it!" He yelled to the hypnotized organoid. Zeke ignored this comment and continued to watch the show.

Van glared through the wall where supposedly Zeke was sitting.

'I wonder if I did the right thing, telling Melinda about Raven.' He thought.

Van smirked a little. 'Yeah, I think I did. Raven's not good enough for her, but I'm perfect.' He thought in his own, cocky little way. 'This'll just make Melinda break up with Raven and have her come running to me.' His smirk got bigger. 'You're such a genius Van Flyheight!' He lay down on the bed, hands behind his head.

Suddenly the door burst open. "Hello! I have come home!" Moonbay yelled. Irvine, Fiona, Thomas, his girlfriend (let's call her Penny), and Nick (remember the DJ dude Fiona was hanging out with?) followed her.

"Finally! Where were you guys?" Van asked. Moonbay smirked. "Wouldn't YOU like to know?"

Everyone else smiled too.

"PLEASE TELL ME!!!" He yelled, getting that desperate look on his face. Moonbay's smirk grew bigger. "Figure it out yourself!" She walked past him and plopped down on her bed.

Everyone walked past Van, ignoring his pleads to know where they were.

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"Well?" Melinda asked.

"I-I-" Raven started.

"Quit stuttering and tell me!" She yelled.

Raven sat down next to her, and began the sad tale of his life. (I'm not going to write how Raven explains it cuz I'm not totally sure about Raven's past myself, except that he was raised by Prozen and that his parents were killed by Shadow.)

When Raven finished, Melinda had tears in her eyes. She hugged Raven and said, "I didn't know your life was so sad and horrible!"

Raven hugged back gently and answered, "I know." He had been close to tears when he told the death of his parents.

"Do you understand now?" He asked quietly.

Melinda nodded her head and wiped away the extra tear.

"Oh, you poor thing!" Melinda cried and gave Raven another hug.

"Now, I'm going to kill Van with more reason."

"You don't have to kill him." She said quietly.

"I have to." Raven said quietly.

"Why?" She asked.

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Ok, I'm gonna have to stop here, because I actually really don't know why Raven is after Van. I sort of forgot.*Grins stupidly* aren't I so smart!

Raven: Gee, wish you were my history teacher!

Me: WHAT does a history teacher have to be with me being stupid?!

Raven: Ummm. I'm not so sure..

Oh, and I have something else to say. Zodian666, I don't know what you mean by 'you suck!!!' Does that mean I suck as in your jealous, or does it mean I'm a bad writer? Please tell me!!! Your profile didn't show an email address, so I had to write it here.

PLEASE REVIEW PEOPLE!!! I HAVE A LOT OF REVIEWS AND THAT MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY AND MAKES ME WRITE STORIES QUICKER CUZ THEN I KNOW THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE READING IT!!!