Reply to reviews (because I'm bored):

Misazngrl ~~ thank you… er first to review w/o reading, very nice. He he, that is such an excuse not to do homework….

Yuko ~~ your review!!!! IT WAS SO LONG AND FUNNY!!! Ha ha. More humor… I wonder if I can…never tried. Oki something new to do hehe. ^^

Klyukaizer ~~ hrm, thanks for the encouragement…

Sn0rLaX ~~ Oh yes, romance lovin'. Not completely what I was going for but that's how it came out, Ha Ha! Demons come when they come, not completely sure just yet, but they will. You'll love the ending (but I'm not telling)!

I finally came up with a plot, if I have time I can expand it so I won't have to think so hard when I write. Haha!

+Maybe you should get more help writing, I think you need it.+

~Hey!! That's mean! Even my English teacher said I'm a good writer, beside, you shouldn't be critiquing me! You didn't read it!~

+Fine…*slumps over and walks out of the room*+

(+ My bishounen+ ~me~ durh)

OK so anyways, yes I finally have a plot to the story! I looked at it and it started to look like sailor moon so I might change it later. Tee Hee ^^ I don't really like Sailor Moon, she was not very, uh I don't know, I just didn't like it.

Chapter 5:

Friendly bonding is so nice to see and read about, don't you think? Weird stuff finally starts happening but I didn't really add much comedy like I was supposed to. Maybe it will come with the demons…

            By the time 5 long minutes passed Rini's pale cheeks were stained and streaked black by her mascara. She shivered in fragments of time and her heavy breathing was loudly unsteady. It was dumbly obvious to her distressed friends that she was crying hard about something that had only just happened a few minutes ago before Jamie and Kina showed face at the door.

            "I have no idea what happened, she is really scaring me. I haven't seen her like this since her grandma died." Kina worriedly glanced over to her friend at the window. The scene seemed odd, out the window Kina saw a beautiful cherry tree with blossoms just open and a light pink glistening in the morning sunlight, in front of the window however there was a girl so depressed and disconnected she seemed to be anti-social. "Kina, what happened when her grandma died?" Jamie, who was also worried, questioned his girlfriend.

            "Well, she responded pretty much like this, she wouldn't talk to anyone, all she would do was stare out that window and cry. She got a little better after a few days because she's emotionally strong usually. There's not much that can shake her." In her mind there was a flash from the event she'd just described. Kina looked over at Rini and realized her friend was experiencing a depression that hadn't come before. There were key differences in the look of her friend.

            'Why is Rini wearing mascara? She usually doesn't wear any makeup for any occasion, especially not school. Whoa, her hair is down. She usually has it in pigtails or a ponytail. She's really different today, something happened I need to know about.' Kina rose from her sitting position at her desk and again walked gracefully over to the sniffling girl. She stared at her friend with care and a sense that Rini had kept a secret from her for a long while.

            Kina bit her lip nervously and her cheek was dampened by a salty tear, which dropped from her chin onto her blouse. She turned her head quickly to hide the small drop from her protective boyfriend. She kneeled down to look at her friend from a different view. "Rini, you're my best friend and I can't help seeing you like this. I know you've done this before, but not with mascara on and your hair down. Please, talk to me." Now her eyes were wet with many tears and Rini looked up from her pose to see that Kina was being sincere.

            Rini nodded, still crying, and took Kina's hand in hers. She unfolded from her enclosed position and got up to walk out of the classroom. She pulled her friend to the girls' bathroom toward the bench put in there for reasons unknown. The two teenaged girls stared each other strait in the eyes sharing mixed emotions: emotions of disappointment because of the secret and emotions of security from the depression.

            Rini leaned back against the wall and began her story, "Do you remember that guy from the arcade we met a while back? The one who was flirting with me and got my phone number?"

            "Oh wow, yeah I remember him. That was really amazing, you almost never flirt with any guys, and not even with the ones you know. I didn't know you gave him your phone number." Kina smiled shyly and stared at her friend with a better intent than before. "Kina, I didn't give him my phone number. He got it from your boyfriend after we left him standing. It turns out they know each other and that guy was desperate to get to know me. He called me right after you talked for an hour about your fantasy relationship. He told me he'd be here today waiting for me in the hallway by our classroom."

            Kina gasped and looked at her friend interested to know more, "Ooo, Rini what happened?" She had almost forgotten that her friend had just spent the last 15 minutes crying. Rini's shoulders dropped and she gazed off into space. "He didn't show. He told me he'd be here before you guys, and he wasn't here."

            "But Rini, you never got your hopes up for a guy before? What changed?" Kina was confused at what her friend had just said. "After I saw how much you and Jamie hit it off I started to think about how nice it is to have someone to go to for special things. I thought that I might have a chance if this guy was right." Rini bit her lip and sank back into a timid posture. She sniffed and again began to weep. This time Kina put her arm around her shoulders and gave a squeeze to her friend.

            "Aw, Rini, why didn't you tell me earlier. I would have come and waited with you. This is so obvious, but you must feel horrible. You know I'm always here, no matter what." The two sat in the bathroom on the bench for a while as they silently bonded together as best friend would.

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~Later that day~

            RING!! RING!! Rini's phone rang as she sat in her bedroom solving the 50 assigned math problems. She reached over and put the phone to her ear, "Hello?" There was a pause as she waited for a response.

            A mysterious voice sounded from the receiver, "We have your new boyfriend here. If you really want to see him he's at the park waiting for you. He'd talk to you, but he's a little…tied up." CLICK! Rini's jaw dropped, as did her cordless phone. She began to breath deeply to calm her-self from the shock and dialed up her friend's number.

            "Hello?" Kina picked up the phone with excitement and anticipation, for she had been waiting for Jamie to call. "Kina! I just got a weird call from some weird person telling me that my new "boyfriend" was at the park tied up. I don't know what to do." Rini rambled on about what had just happened in fright.

            Kina felt it was only right to calm her friend, "Rini! Calm down! I'm coming over to your house, the day's been too long and harsh for you to handle alone." With that Kina hung up the phone and slipped on her shoes to run to the frantic girl's house.

            Right as Kina was speeding out of her room a little fire fairy appeared before her and halted her action. "Kina, you must be careful at night. Remember my warning and heed my advice, keep your friends safe and do not allow them to battle demons." Kina closed her eyes in shame, she had forgotten about her new situation. She nodded and maneuvered around the fairy to run to her friend.

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~At the entrance to the park~

            The two girls panted from their sprint from the house and walked down the path into the park. As they approached the playground they saw a dark figured slumped over the larger-than-life mushroom. The figure seemed vaguely familiar to Rini; suddenly she began another sprint toward the mushroom. "Eric!!" She screamed and reached out to the boy who she thought had stood her up this morning.

            Kina realized the precarious situation and reached to stop her friend, but she was too late. Her friend had already reached the mushroom and was gracefully bent over the tied boy. Kina spoke softly to herself, "No. Rini, why did you run? Now what do I do?" She looked up as she heard the snap of a twig and jolted in alarm. She gasped, her eyes widened and her pupils shrank.