A/N: Hey, guyz! ~Waves enthusiastically~ Thanx SO SO SO SO much 4 ur wonderful reviews! I luv them!!! ^_^ U don't know HOW much they mean 2 me, lol. Ok, I'm starting 2 babble now, so R&R and of course, ENJOY! ^,~
"AIYEE! Faye-Faye.....ED IS DYING!!!"
"Omigod....what's wrong?!," Faye demanded, freaking out as she burst into the young adolescent's room in an instant.
Edward lay sobbing on the floor with her eyes cast down to her toes, holding up her underwear for her concerned step-sister to see. "Look, Faye-Faye.....Ed is BLEEDING TO DEATH!!!"
Faye's eyes widened as it suddenly struck her as to what the problem was, a light-hearted giggle escaping her rosy lips as she returned gently, "No you're not, sweetheart. You've finally reached the point in every young girl's life when she becomes a young woman. Congratulations!"
Edward blinked. "So Faye-Faye's saying that whenever Ed gets a boo-boo she's a woman?"
"Uh, no, not exactly," Faye replied, wondering where on earth Mrs. Wong was since she was obviously needed right away. "This kind of bleeding only occurs once a month."
"And it hurts!," Edward wailed, clutching her stomach in agony. "Ed doesn't think she'll like being a woman if it involves pain!"
Faye smiled. "Believe me, Ed, growing up as a young girl sucks ass, but it still has its perks every once and a while. Take meeting hot guys, for example."
Edward blinked, cocking her head to an angle until she tumbled over onto her side, asking blithely, "Can Faye-Faye teach Ed to be sexy-fine and attract cooty-filled boys?"
Faye laughed. "Um.......maybe later, but what you do need right now is a pad for your first period. You've gotta be quick about putting it on since the bus gets here in less than 5 minutes."
"Hooray! Ed gets a pad!," the young adolescent exclaimed, beaming brightly as she got up from the floor and twirled around in a circle, falling back down in an instant due to the dizziness buzzing about in her head. "Will it stop the pain?"
"Unfortunately, no," Faye acknowledged, handing her one before turning to pack up her belongings. "Just put it on and try to stop complaining."
"Ed will stop....starting now!," the young adolescent assured her, giving her a proud salute before struggling to fit the annoying pad within her panties and get it on her to the point of comfort. "There! Ed is finished! Faye-Faye can look now!"
Before Faye could reply, however, Mrs. Wong hollered up somewhere from downstairs, "Ed....Faye....THE BUS IS HERE!!!"
"Shit!," Faye cursed under her breath, slinging her backpack over her shoulders before grabbing Edward by the arm and yanking her along with her, knowing that it was absolutely dire that they hurry since their bus driver was an impatient bitch that wouldn't wait too long.
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"Yuckies! This pad feels like a diaper, Faye-Faye!," Edward whined, squirming about within their seat on the bus with discomfort. "Can Ed take it off now? Pleeeease?! Ed will be good!!!"
"Only when it fills up with blood," Faye replied absently, currently totally engrossed within an enthralling V.C Andrews romance novel. "If not, I'm afraid that you'll be stuck with it for another hour or so."
Edward whimpered, tugging at her wild, flaming red hair as she wailed, "Nooo! Pad, bad, sad! Ed doesn't like this, Faye-Faye! When will it stop?!"
Sighing, Faye put a bookmark within the interior of her novel to mark the page, returning softly, "About 3-5 days, I suppose, but it'll come back next month."
"Then Ed will hide from the evil period bug that bit Ed this morning!," the young adolescent insisted, her defiant side kicking in. "It will NEVER find Ed again! Look at the bite it gave Ed!"
Faye smirked. "That's a mosquito bite, honey."
"But Ed's period came right after it bit Ed!," the young girl insisted, frowning as she continued to furiously scratch the bug bite. "The period bug is a biiiig meanie!!!"
"Period bug?," a deep, rich, sultry voice questioned from behind.
Blushing the color of a rose bloom, Faye turned around to see none other than Spike Spiegel smirking back at her, his eyes shimmering with amusement as he awaited her response.
"Why does everyone act like Spike's harmful to my health?," Faye wondered, swallowing with apprehension as his eyes continued to bore into hers like to mesmorizing embers of fire. "He's just a handsome, misunderstood guy......much like the others, if I do say so, myself."
"Well?," he demanded, the harsh tone of his voice tearing through her reverie like a sharp, coruscating dagger. "What the hell's a period bug?"
"Why? Did you get it, too, Spike-person?," Edward wanted to know, sending him a strange look. "Will Spike-person become a woman just like Ed and Faye-Faye?"
Spike's eyes darkened as Faye snickered, urging, "Don't mind her....she's just a little gooney this morning."
"I see that it runs in the family," Spike commented curtly, indicating her.
Faye frowned, replying stiffly, "We're not related."
"Oh, what a shame......you're both just so alike," he acknowledged dryly, folding his arms behind his head as he leaned back against his seat with contentment. "Guess that the 'fucked-up moron' gene in the Wong family was miraculously passed on to you."
Faye gasped, absolutely outraged as she shot up from her seat, shrieking, "Don't you DARE talk that way about Ed, you friggin' asshole! What'd she ever do to you to deserve being made fun of?!!"
Spike glared at her, clenching and unclenching his fists by his sides as he growled, "Don't push me, Faye.....I don't wanna hurt you, but believe me, if you piss me off enough, I will."
"So be it! I'd rather be beaten up than put up with your shit!," Faye retorted hotly, growing beat-red in the face as her breathing began to grow more ragged due to the intense irascibility bubbling about within her troubled soul. "Why are you such a big bully?! Leave me and my step-sister ALONE!!!"
"Well then-"
"Spike....Faye....ENOUGH!!!," the bus driver cut in, just then deciding to enter their heated verbal battle. "If you two don't cut it out I'm gonna hafta report you to your principal!"
At hearing this, Spike and Faye both stuck their tongues out at each other like immature children, then immediately looked away and absolutely refused to meet with one another's gaze.
"What an insensitive jerk!," Faye fumed, frowning deeply whenever she realized that Spike had started to kick their seat. "Why can't he ever just try to make new friends.......TO GET ALONG?!"
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"Hey.....um.....this isn't easy for me to say, or anything, but I think that I owe you an apology," Faye mumbled, not making eye contact with the tall, lanky young man before her as he continued to sit there and absently tap his pencil against his desk with disinterest. " I mean.....I was at fault for calling you an asshole, so I'm sorry."
Spike raised an eyebrow. "And what do you hope to accomplish by apologizing to me, exactly?"
A hurt look spread its way across Faye's features as she managed to reply weakly, "Well.....I-I was hoping that....that maybe we could be friends."
Spike let out a loud, booming laugh, shaking his head with amusement. "Yeah, right! Why would I wanna hang around with some bimbo like you?"
Faye lowered her eyes to the ground, acknowledging softly, "Oh....ok.....that's cool. I'll see you after class, then?"
"Hopefully not," Spike retorted, rolling his eyes at her in disgust. "Do me a favor and get outta my sight."
Suppressing warm, stinging tears that threatened to escape, Faye nodded, then turned to walk away, her soul heavy and depressed as she realized that Mikaya Grayson was the only true friend that she had and probably ever would.
Just as she was about to take a step forward, however, Spike urged quickly, "Oh, wait.....hang on a second."
Joyous hope leaping its way up into the depths of her shadowed heart, Faye turned around in delighted expectance, only to feel someone grab her bottom from behind.
"Thanks.....my friend Cal wanted me to distract you for him. You're a good sport," Spike replied, laughing hysterically as his friend came up to him and gave him an enthusiastic high-five.
Her bottom lip trembling, Faye felt her delicate heart break as she found herself wondering why getting to know Spike Spiegel had seemed so magnificently enthralling and filled with many benefits whenever she had first laid eyes upon him. So far in the attempt, all she had gotten out of it was severe heartache and pain.
"I guess that it's true when they say that you can't judge a book by it's cover," Faye realized, once more fighting back her tears as she laggardly took a seat just as the bell rang. "Spike is handsome and nonchalant with this incredible sense of intrigue on the outside, but he's a barbaric slimeball in the inside. How could I have been so stupid?! I should've just listened to Ed and Mikaya and stayed away from him in the first place!!!"
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"Thanks a bunch for signing up with me for our very first track meet....even though you probably hate running," Mikaya blessed enthusiastically as she got down on one knee and began to stretch out her right leg. "It's nice to have someone here besides Ace to talk to for once."
Faye nodded. "Yeah, and you have no idea how glad I am to be able to tell you about my horrors with Spike. That bastard's in three of my freakin' classes, and that doesn't even include lunch."
"Oh," Mikaya mumbled, a sudden wave of apprehension washing across her face.
Noticing this in a heartbeat, Faye demanded warily, "What is it?"
Looking away, Mikaya returned softly, "Spike's on this track team, too....as well as Vicious and Ace. It's how we all first met each other, I guess you could say."
"Grand," Faye grumbled, a deep-set hint of sarcasm flowing about within the tremors of her usually sweet voice. "Why am I constantly being punished?! Wasn't it enough whenever my mom, dad, and little brother were swiped away from my clutches?!!"
"Life's never good to those who deserve more," Mikaya observed softly, the radiance that had once been upon her face gently fading away as she talked. "I really wish that I could just wave my hand and then everything would be better in this world."
"Yeah, so that I wouldn't have to live here," Faye agreed, sighing miserably as her thoughts wandered amidst her inner troubles like a lost puppy trying to find its way home. "I don't know why, but I just have this terrible feeling like nobody wants me around. Especially-"
"Spike," Mikaya cut in, nodding sympathetically. "I think that he senses a strength in you that Julia happened to possess as well, so it angers him that any other woman could own something that she did. Don't worry....he'll get over it."
"Maybe, but I don't really appreciate being constantly compared to some blonde bimbo who I don't even know," Faye muttered, folding her arms as she cast her glistening jade gaze heavenward. "I want him to know me for me, not as Julia's goddamn evil twin, or whatever the hell he thinks I am."
Mikaya nodded in agreement, but before she could reply, an exasperated voice demanded hotly from behind, "What the hell are you doing here?!"
Both girls whirled around in surprise, an irritated frown gracing Faye's rosy lips the moment that she realized who it was.
"Back off, Spike," Mikaya warned, dusting herself off as she stood up from the ground and authoritively placed her hands on her hips. "We don't have time for your shit right now."
"What, so ever since you met this shrew you're too good for us?!," Spike demanded, growing beet-red in the face as he began to clench and unclench his fists by his sides. "You didn't show up for our gang meeting yesterday cuz Ace said that you went shopping! What the hell's up with THAT?!!"
Mikaya gave a careless shrug of her shoulders, replying tartly, "Sorry, but I don't have time for pathetic assholes who wallow about within their own self-pity. If you actually sat down with Faye and carried on a civilized conversation for a few minutes, I honestly think that you would like her......a lot."
"Yeah, as much as a hangover, I bet," Spike agreed, his voice dripping over with sarcasm. "There's no way in Hell that I would ever talk to her! As a matter of fact, I'd rather-"
"What is this, a slumber party?! Start runnin' some laps!," a deep, booming voice thundered from behind, causing them all to whirl around in astonishment, only to find themselves face-to-face with Coach Barnhardt. "You're gonna have one HELL of a time catchin' up with Ace and Vicious! They've been running since practice started, like YOU were supposed to!!!"
Grumbling apologetic excuses, Mikaya and Spike began to jog on over towards the large track, Faye following along blithely behind.
She didn't know what it was, exactly, but there was always something that she loved about running......something that freed her soul.
"Maybe Ellewood Highhas a few perks, after all," Faye decided, a small smile subconsciously forming its way across her lips as she began to jog with longer strides in order to keep up with Spike and Mikaya. "As long as I keep running, maybe I'll find that I actually have a place to belong."
A/N: Lol, don't worry, this iz NOT gonna be about Faye running! Haha, lol...I needed 2 end this chapter SUMHOW, ryte? LOL, I wrote it ALL 2nite, so hopefully it's not 2 crappy. -_-' I'm have this thingy where I'm gonna name 5 characters after 5 of my reviewers in this fic (AKA the evil gang, The Baracudas, lol). I'm gonna pick the 30th-35th reviewers since that seems about the fairest way 2 do it. ~Coughs~ ::Ahem:: That is, if I GET that many reviews, lmao. Hey, it COULD be U! ^__~ R&R PLEASE!!! I swear, it really, REALLY means SOOO much 2 me 2 know what u guyz think!!!! Luv u lots! Byez!
~Kendra Luehr 3
"AIYEE! Faye-Faye.....ED IS DYING!!!"
"Omigod....what's wrong?!," Faye demanded, freaking out as she burst into the young adolescent's room in an instant.
Edward lay sobbing on the floor with her eyes cast down to her toes, holding up her underwear for her concerned step-sister to see. "Look, Faye-Faye.....Ed is BLEEDING TO DEATH!!!"
Faye's eyes widened as it suddenly struck her as to what the problem was, a light-hearted giggle escaping her rosy lips as she returned gently, "No you're not, sweetheart. You've finally reached the point in every young girl's life when she becomes a young woman. Congratulations!"
Edward blinked. "So Faye-Faye's saying that whenever Ed gets a boo-boo she's a woman?"
"Uh, no, not exactly," Faye replied, wondering where on earth Mrs. Wong was since she was obviously needed right away. "This kind of bleeding only occurs once a month."
"And it hurts!," Edward wailed, clutching her stomach in agony. "Ed doesn't think she'll like being a woman if it involves pain!"
Faye smiled. "Believe me, Ed, growing up as a young girl sucks ass, but it still has its perks every once and a while. Take meeting hot guys, for example."
Edward blinked, cocking her head to an angle until she tumbled over onto her side, asking blithely, "Can Faye-Faye teach Ed to be sexy-fine and attract cooty-filled boys?"
Faye laughed. "Um.......maybe later, but what you do need right now is a pad for your first period. You've gotta be quick about putting it on since the bus gets here in less than 5 minutes."
"Hooray! Ed gets a pad!," the young adolescent exclaimed, beaming brightly as she got up from the floor and twirled around in a circle, falling back down in an instant due to the dizziness buzzing about in her head. "Will it stop the pain?"
"Unfortunately, no," Faye acknowledged, handing her one before turning to pack up her belongings. "Just put it on and try to stop complaining."
"Ed will stop....starting now!," the young adolescent assured her, giving her a proud salute before struggling to fit the annoying pad within her panties and get it on her to the point of comfort. "There! Ed is finished! Faye-Faye can look now!"
Before Faye could reply, however, Mrs. Wong hollered up somewhere from downstairs, "Ed....Faye....THE BUS IS HERE!!!"
"Shit!," Faye cursed under her breath, slinging her backpack over her shoulders before grabbing Edward by the arm and yanking her along with her, knowing that it was absolutely dire that they hurry since their bus driver was an impatient bitch that wouldn't wait too long.
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"Yuckies! This pad feels like a diaper, Faye-Faye!," Edward whined, squirming about within their seat on the bus with discomfort. "Can Ed take it off now? Pleeeease?! Ed will be good!!!"
"Only when it fills up with blood," Faye replied absently, currently totally engrossed within an enthralling V.C Andrews romance novel. "If not, I'm afraid that you'll be stuck with it for another hour or so."
Edward whimpered, tugging at her wild, flaming red hair as she wailed, "Nooo! Pad, bad, sad! Ed doesn't like this, Faye-Faye! When will it stop?!"
Sighing, Faye put a bookmark within the interior of her novel to mark the page, returning softly, "About 3-5 days, I suppose, but it'll come back next month."
"Then Ed will hide from the evil period bug that bit Ed this morning!," the young adolescent insisted, her defiant side kicking in. "It will NEVER find Ed again! Look at the bite it gave Ed!"
Faye smirked. "That's a mosquito bite, honey."
"But Ed's period came right after it bit Ed!," the young girl insisted, frowning as she continued to furiously scratch the bug bite. "The period bug is a biiiig meanie!!!"
"Period bug?," a deep, rich, sultry voice questioned from behind.
Blushing the color of a rose bloom, Faye turned around to see none other than Spike Spiegel smirking back at her, his eyes shimmering with amusement as he awaited her response.
"Why does everyone act like Spike's harmful to my health?," Faye wondered, swallowing with apprehension as his eyes continued to bore into hers like to mesmorizing embers of fire. "He's just a handsome, misunderstood guy......much like the others, if I do say so, myself."
"Well?," he demanded, the harsh tone of his voice tearing through her reverie like a sharp, coruscating dagger. "What the hell's a period bug?"
"Why? Did you get it, too, Spike-person?," Edward wanted to know, sending him a strange look. "Will Spike-person become a woman just like Ed and Faye-Faye?"
Spike's eyes darkened as Faye snickered, urging, "Don't mind her....she's just a little gooney this morning."
"I see that it runs in the family," Spike commented curtly, indicating her.
Faye frowned, replying stiffly, "We're not related."
"Oh, what a shame......you're both just so alike," he acknowledged dryly, folding his arms behind his head as he leaned back against his seat with contentment. "Guess that the 'fucked-up moron' gene in the Wong family was miraculously passed on to you."
Faye gasped, absolutely outraged as she shot up from her seat, shrieking, "Don't you DARE talk that way about Ed, you friggin' asshole! What'd she ever do to you to deserve being made fun of?!!"
Spike glared at her, clenching and unclenching his fists by his sides as he growled, "Don't push me, Faye.....I don't wanna hurt you, but believe me, if you piss me off enough, I will."
"So be it! I'd rather be beaten up than put up with your shit!," Faye retorted hotly, growing beat-red in the face as her breathing began to grow more ragged due to the intense irascibility bubbling about within her troubled soul. "Why are you such a big bully?! Leave me and my step-sister ALONE!!!"
"Well then-"
"Spike....Faye....ENOUGH!!!," the bus driver cut in, just then deciding to enter their heated verbal battle. "If you two don't cut it out I'm gonna hafta report you to your principal!"
At hearing this, Spike and Faye both stuck their tongues out at each other like immature children, then immediately looked away and absolutely refused to meet with one another's gaze.
"What an insensitive jerk!," Faye fumed, frowning deeply whenever she realized that Spike had started to kick their seat. "Why can't he ever just try to make new friends.......TO GET ALONG?!"
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"Hey.....um.....this isn't easy for me to say, or anything, but I think that I owe you an apology," Faye mumbled, not making eye contact with the tall, lanky young man before her as he continued to sit there and absently tap his pencil against his desk with disinterest. " I mean.....I was at fault for calling you an asshole, so I'm sorry."
Spike raised an eyebrow. "And what do you hope to accomplish by apologizing to me, exactly?"
A hurt look spread its way across Faye's features as she managed to reply weakly, "Well.....I-I was hoping that....that maybe we could be friends."
Spike let out a loud, booming laugh, shaking his head with amusement. "Yeah, right! Why would I wanna hang around with some bimbo like you?"
Faye lowered her eyes to the ground, acknowledging softly, "Oh....ok.....that's cool. I'll see you after class, then?"
"Hopefully not," Spike retorted, rolling his eyes at her in disgust. "Do me a favor and get outta my sight."
Suppressing warm, stinging tears that threatened to escape, Faye nodded, then turned to walk away, her soul heavy and depressed as she realized that Mikaya Grayson was the only true friend that she had and probably ever would.
Just as she was about to take a step forward, however, Spike urged quickly, "Oh, wait.....hang on a second."
Joyous hope leaping its way up into the depths of her shadowed heart, Faye turned around in delighted expectance, only to feel someone grab her bottom from behind.
"Thanks.....my friend Cal wanted me to distract you for him. You're a good sport," Spike replied, laughing hysterically as his friend came up to him and gave him an enthusiastic high-five.
Her bottom lip trembling, Faye felt her delicate heart break as she found herself wondering why getting to know Spike Spiegel had seemed so magnificently enthralling and filled with many benefits whenever she had first laid eyes upon him. So far in the attempt, all she had gotten out of it was severe heartache and pain.
"I guess that it's true when they say that you can't judge a book by it's cover," Faye realized, once more fighting back her tears as she laggardly took a seat just as the bell rang. "Spike is handsome and nonchalant with this incredible sense of intrigue on the outside, but he's a barbaric slimeball in the inside. How could I have been so stupid?! I should've just listened to Ed and Mikaya and stayed away from him in the first place!!!"
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"Thanks a bunch for signing up with me for our very first track meet....even though you probably hate running," Mikaya blessed enthusiastically as she got down on one knee and began to stretch out her right leg. "It's nice to have someone here besides Ace to talk to for once."
Faye nodded. "Yeah, and you have no idea how glad I am to be able to tell you about my horrors with Spike. That bastard's in three of my freakin' classes, and that doesn't even include lunch."
"Oh," Mikaya mumbled, a sudden wave of apprehension washing across her face.
Noticing this in a heartbeat, Faye demanded warily, "What is it?"
Looking away, Mikaya returned softly, "Spike's on this track team, too....as well as Vicious and Ace. It's how we all first met each other, I guess you could say."
"Grand," Faye grumbled, a deep-set hint of sarcasm flowing about within the tremors of her usually sweet voice. "Why am I constantly being punished?! Wasn't it enough whenever my mom, dad, and little brother were swiped away from my clutches?!!"
"Life's never good to those who deserve more," Mikaya observed softly, the radiance that had once been upon her face gently fading away as she talked. "I really wish that I could just wave my hand and then everything would be better in this world."
"Yeah, so that I wouldn't have to live here," Faye agreed, sighing miserably as her thoughts wandered amidst her inner troubles like a lost puppy trying to find its way home. "I don't know why, but I just have this terrible feeling like nobody wants me around. Especially-"
"Spike," Mikaya cut in, nodding sympathetically. "I think that he senses a strength in you that Julia happened to possess as well, so it angers him that any other woman could own something that she did. Don't worry....he'll get over it."
"Maybe, but I don't really appreciate being constantly compared to some blonde bimbo who I don't even know," Faye muttered, folding her arms as she cast her glistening jade gaze heavenward. "I want him to know me for me, not as Julia's goddamn evil twin, or whatever the hell he thinks I am."
Mikaya nodded in agreement, but before she could reply, an exasperated voice demanded hotly from behind, "What the hell are you doing here?!"
Both girls whirled around in surprise, an irritated frown gracing Faye's rosy lips the moment that she realized who it was.
"Back off, Spike," Mikaya warned, dusting herself off as she stood up from the ground and authoritively placed her hands on her hips. "We don't have time for your shit right now."
"What, so ever since you met this shrew you're too good for us?!," Spike demanded, growing beet-red in the face as he began to clench and unclench his fists by his sides. "You didn't show up for our gang meeting yesterday cuz Ace said that you went shopping! What the hell's up with THAT?!!"
Mikaya gave a careless shrug of her shoulders, replying tartly, "Sorry, but I don't have time for pathetic assholes who wallow about within their own self-pity. If you actually sat down with Faye and carried on a civilized conversation for a few minutes, I honestly think that you would like her......a lot."
"Yeah, as much as a hangover, I bet," Spike agreed, his voice dripping over with sarcasm. "There's no way in Hell that I would ever talk to her! As a matter of fact, I'd rather-"
"What is this, a slumber party?! Start runnin' some laps!," a deep, booming voice thundered from behind, causing them all to whirl around in astonishment, only to find themselves face-to-face with Coach Barnhardt. "You're gonna have one HELL of a time catchin' up with Ace and Vicious! They've been running since practice started, like YOU were supposed to!!!"
Grumbling apologetic excuses, Mikaya and Spike began to jog on over towards the large track, Faye following along blithely behind.
She didn't know what it was, exactly, but there was always something that she loved about running......something that freed her soul.
"Maybe Ellewood Highhas a few perks, after all," Faye decided, a small smile subconsciously forming its way across her lips as she began to jog with longer strides in order to keep up with Spike and Mikaya. "As long as I keep running, maybe I'll find that I actually have a place to belong."
A/N: Lol, don't worry, this iz NOT gonna be about Faye running! Haha, lol...I needed 2 end this chapter SUMHOW, ryte? LOL, I wrote it ALL 2nite, so hopefully it's not 2 crappy. -_-' I'm have this thingy where I'm gonna name 5 characters after 5 of my reviewers in this fic (AKA the evil gang, The Baracudas, lol). I'm gonna pick the 30th-35th reviewers since that seems about the fairest way 2 do it. ~Coughs~ ::Ahem:: That is, if I GET that many reviews, lmao. Hey, it COULD be U! ^__~ R&R PLEASE!!! I swear, it really, REALLY means SOOO much 2 me 2 know what u guyz think!!!! Luv u lots! Byez!
~Kendra Luehr 3