Out of the goodness of my heart (and fear for my safety o_o eep Jessie…) I have decided to work on the next chapter!

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Cooper looked around the small yet cozy restaurant she had just entered. The Alamo, that's what it was called. She looked around spotting several familiar faces from school, although none close enough to remember their names. She kept close to Ray as he headed over to a both where a few people were already eating and greeted them happily.

"Hey guys! Oh, hope you don't mind that I brought a friend." He said gesturing to the dirty blond. She gave a weak smile, not really sure what she should do at the instant.

A pink-haired girl, about her own age, smiled back at Cooper warmly. Although Cooper could've sworn she saw something flash in her golden eyes, that reminded her so much of Ray's. Next to her sat a pure blond and blue-eyed boy, his boyish grin shown in his twinkling eyes. Across from him sat a dark blue-haired boy with a baseball cap on backwards. His dark grayish eyes, which were dancing with laughter, lit up his tanned face.

"Guys this is Cooper, Cooper this is Mariah," He pointed to the pink haired girl, "Max," to the blond, "And Tyson." Last, but not least, he gestured to the baseball cap guy.

"Hey………" She said uncertainly. She was uncomfortable being the center of attention like this.

"Hello!" Max chorused brightly with a warm, inviting smile.

"Hiya there." Tyson greeted. He sort of slung his hand behind the booth and tipped his hat upwards in a western style, and at this Cooper had to grin.

"Hi." Mariah chirped, "Ray where did you meet her? I know everyone you know and I don't think I've seen her before."

"Oh right now" He answered smiling back at her; Cooper could sense there was something going on between the two………just not exactly what. "She was in a bike accident."

Mariah gasped. "Ray! You didn't crash into her did you! That would explain the cut across her cheek." She glared at Ray, who seemed to recoil a bit.

"No! No! For once I didn't do it! She was riding her bike, then crashed into a tree! I went to see if she was okay, then told me she was looking for a place to eat, so I offered to bring her here." He explained.

"Okay, buddy. Now lets get something to eat! I'm starving!" Tyson whined, and as if to emphasize his point, his stomach rumbled in a low tone. Everyone around the table laughed merrily, including Ray. Although Cooper just sort of stood there with her eyebrow raised slightly and a small smirk present on her face, not really trying to offend her new companions by laughing at the boy.

Ray sat down next to Tyson, scooting him over a bit, then turned to Cooper.

"Hey c'mon, sit down. So what d'ya want?" He asked. She looked at him skeptically before sitting down.

"Whatever you guys are having I guess." She shrugged and looked around the restaurant. Although she wasn't paying attention to the dining house, more like she was trying to escape the awkward stares she was getting. Soon afterwards they gave their orders and returned to the booth to wait in awkward silence.

In an attempt to start up a conversation, Max turned to her. "What school do you go to?"

"Ontario high." She answered shrugging. School was not one of her strong points.

"Hey that's cool so do we!" Ray piped up from beside her. And she gave her first, non-stressed, non-awkward smile ever since she entered the restaurant doors.

Then Max chose to speak out again. "Hey, are you new here? I've never seen you before, and I've lived here my entire life."

Cooper gave a weak grin, "Yeah I'm new. Come here from the east coast, just moved here about four days ago."

That got Tyson livelier. "You came from the east coast? My cousin lives there! In Boston! Maybe you know him!"

"Huh? Well I did live in Boston, tho Boston's a pretty damn big town. Way bigger than this one. What's his name then?"

"Kane. Kane Kinomiya" He said, the enthusiasm that was present just a second ago was muffled when he discovered that she was right, Boston IS a damn big town.

"Hrm………" She thought. She popped the newly arrived French fry into her mouth and continued to look at the ceiling in a thoughtful expression.

"Well the name rings a bell………mighta seen him around school or something. I wasn't necessarily all………chummy-chummy with the kids at school. Fuck, I'm still not chummy-chummy with them." She stated truthfully, her voice played around with her native Boston accent, cutting the r's short and making everyone a bit more interested in her.

He smiled, "So you might know him? That's cool. Tell us about your old home huh?"

She furrowed her eyebrows, "Well there's really nothing to tell………honestly Boston is a really dull town………altho', unlike here, they welcome differences. But it'll be more fun for me. More conflict." She smirked deviously, earning a laugh from Max.

"Yeah so I guess you noticed the dress code, TV code, magazine code, life code, and every other code there is huh?"

She nodded. "Hey tell me, was this place always so uptight?" Max shook his golden blond head of hair.

"Nop'. Actually it was really cool, then the new mayor moved in. Mr. Voltaire Hiwitari. Hey, his grandson goes to our school, Ontario High. His name's Kai." Ray's slang-laced voice added.

She looked at him and gave him a quick size up, and even though she hadn't noticed before, Ray was dressing and acting almost like her. He was wearing a gray Nirvana band tee that loosely framed his muscular and athletic body. Black skater shorts with around at least five pockets on each legging mostly covered his boxers, although there was a bit of the offending item sticking out because of his lack of belts. A red headband with a ying-yang symbol on it confirmed her suspicions of him being Asian.

 Then she thought about what he had just stated and her eyes widened slightly with understanding. So –that's- why Kai strutted around like he owned the place.

Cooper snorted and averted her gaze to the floor tiles. 'I bet he could imprison anyone he wants………and get away with it too.' She thought hastily. But still, he didn't seem all to bad, not to her at least. And he certainly was better then Tala.

It was Aya who had the grudge against Kai………Cooper sat silently gazing at Kai while she digested this new information, along with her fried food. She then made up her mind that she'd ask Aya exactly –why- she hated Hiwitari so much.

'Tomorrow morning.' She thought finally, 'No use in ruining such a good day with her yelling.' She knew there would be yelling. Especially since she was going to ask about him.

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Oh yes being evil is so…..fun…..so ….rewarding )

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