DISCLAIMER: Still don't own it. curses loudly

Chapter 12

"So, who was your 'date', Kai?" Tyson asked as we were leaving.

"Her name was Mya Evansworth. Apparently, Becca and she went to middle school together," he replied with a small (and I mean small) smile on his face.

"And yours?" Tyson asked Max.

"Oh, my friend that I've known for years. Her name's Rachel," he replied and went back to his conversation with Rachel about Beanie Babies. {hee...}

"How do you know these people?" Tyson asked, waving his hands in the air.

"Max usually lives here, and I have been living here for the past three years," Becca stated.

"So this is where you've been living since the place shut down," I thought aloud.

"What place?" Max asked, coming out of his Beanie Baby world. In case you didn't figure it out, we, as in Kai, Becca, Tala, and I, didn't tell them that she went to Balcov Abbey, only that she was a Hiwatari.

"My old orphanage. It shut down a few years ago. I finally found a job here in NYC as a scientist after I finished my final years of college," she explained to a shocked Tyson and a bewildered Max.

"You finished college? But you're only seventeen," Kenny said in an impressed voice.

"Yeah, and she graduated THREE years ago, before she came here. She was fourteen," Mya (who popped out of nowhere) said.

"I've never heard of someone who graduated at my age before," Kenny said.

"They try to shush it when it does happen, even if it would bring in some major funding," Tala butted in.

"Are you done with college, too?" Rachel asked (another one that came from nowhere).

"No, I'm only in my second year. I haven't rocketed through my classes like Becca has," Tala told Max's girlfriend. {Ha! And once more, I say HA!}

"You know, I'm the only one who doesn't have a girlfriend," Tyson realized.

"I don't have a girlfriend," Becca said.

"Well, I mean girlfriend or boyfriend," Tyson said.

Becca and I looked at each other. "I don't have a boyfriend," Becca said.

"I don't have a girlfriend," I said.

Everyone stared at us in disbelief.

"But you two are a couple, and you can't deny it. You were gone at the party for a full hour!" Max said.

"I...uh..." Becca stammered, racking her brain for an excuse.

"Busted!" Tyson yelled.

Mya – 17 Rachel – 15