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It was pitch dark when I got home and I knew my mom would freak. I slowly walked home, knowing I wasn't helping my self by doing so. Eventually I got to my house.

I took a deep breath and opened the door.

"Mom? Dad? I am home!" I yelled out. I knew they were still awake. My dad, Rei Kashino stayed up late always, so I expected him.

"Ski? Is that you?" I herd my mom, Kira Kashino ask.

I walked into the living room and I saw my mom and dad sitting by each other, watching the T.V.

"Yes mom it's me." I said sweetly, hoping that they wouldn't be so mad.

"You're late. You were supposed to be home an hour or so before. Do you know how much your mother and I worried about you?" My father said sternly.

"I am sorry..." I said lowering my head; I knew that it was all down hill from here.

My father got up, "Of course you're sorry! You're always sorry! Your grounded Missy!" my father exclaimed.

"But dad! I am 17! I am about to turn 18! Stop treating my as if I was 12!! You are so unfair! You don't even let me explain myself!" I yelled back at him.

"Then start acting like a 17-18 year old Seijuu Soika Kashino! Get up to your room and think about how mature you really are!" My father said finally. I hated being yelled at and I hated even more, when my father says my full name *a/n: Seijuu means Purity and Soika mean Sacred Flame in Japanese*

"Go to hell!" I screamed at my father and ran up stairs.

Go to hell! All of them need to go to hell! They don't know me! I hate them!

*DOWNSTAIRS*

Rei Kashino flopped on the couch by his beautiful wife. He wiped his face with his hands and sighed. He looked over to Kira and asked, "Do you think I treat her like a baby? Or I don't listen to her?"

Kira was silent for a couple of seconds and said, "I don't know if you treat her like a baby always...but you don't really listen to her..."

Rei sighed again, "Do you think I should go up and talk to her?"

Kira replied, "You might want to, or she might just run off. She got those genes from you, you know?"

The laughed a little bit, and then Rei got up and went up stairs.

*IN SKI'S ROOM*

I packed my bags, I was leaving...I was so mad at my parents, I needed to get out of this house for a little bit. I did this sometimes...I'd get into a fight with my parents, pack some things up, and go to Ryou's for the night. No guys, we didn't "do-it" as some would expect. We'd talk, I'd say I'd never go back, Ryou would talk me out of it, and I'd go back next day. Some may think of it as stupid but Ryou and I thought of it as a ritual. *lol*

I opened my window and when I was half way out, the door opened and my father came into my room. He looked around and saw me in the window. "What the hell are you doing?" He exclaimed.

I quickly got outside, climbed down the ladder that was sort of permanently in the outside of my window.

As I ran off, I turned my head. My dad's head was out of the window yelling for me to get back.

I just waved him bye and said, "Be back soon! Bye!"

I ran and ran to Ryou's house. I took the other passage to his house that way my dad wouldn't think I was going there.

I was in the woods and was out of breath. I could see Ryou's white and black house from here. I was very close...

I pictured my fathers face; I knew he wasn't going to be happy when I got back. I don't think he has ever gotten that mad. It was scary.

I came up to the house and rang the doorbell.

There were a lot of shuffling in there and then Ryou opened the door.

He looked at me, I had on a black t-shirt that was way to big on me, so it came down the entire way down till past my butt, mid way of my thighs and I had short shorts on.

He looked at me and laughed, "Can't you and your dad ever get along?"

"If he wasn't such an ass I wouldn't have to come here. Let me in Ryou." I told him, it was getting cold.

He opened the screen door and let me in. I followed him to the kitchen were his parents sat drinking something.

"Hello Ski. Who are you doing? Another fight with your parents?" asked Ms. Harumi.

Ryou's parents understood about the fights and how I sleep over at their house. They knew Ryou and I wouldn't "do it". They trusted me, unlike some parents I knew, thinking of my own.

"Yah...I was an hour late and my dad chewed me out and we fought. How are you doing?" I asked sweetly.

"Fine. Want some toast?" she asked offering me a plate of toast that she and Mr. Tatsuya shared.

"No thanks." I declined, "Come on Ryou." I said and Ryou and I went upstairs.

We sat in his room and talked. We did the ritual but this one lasted a bit longer.

"But you should have seen his face! He seemed so mad, madder than he normally gets." I explained, "You know? Mom told me so many stories about them and how they had a great, romantic past and how they came over things to find true love. Mom said that dad was so carefree back then. So nice, but now he is "Mr. Defenceo"." I told him.

He just looked at me and flatly said, "Don't know what to do. You just can't stay here day after day. Do you want to be a coward?"

We were sitting on the extra bed, next to each other, just talking. Ryou had bought an extra mattress for when the fights occurred. I got a little tired, so I put my head onto his lap.

"Just...don't know...what to do..." I said once more." And with that I fell asleep. _--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------_

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