FASH: Here is the next installment of Dark Love, what'll Cho's friends do once they find out what almost happened? Read and find out!

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The group of concerned friends headed down the street and stopped outside of Cho's house, Kohana gathered all the courage she could and boldly knocked on the door. It opened with a long creak and Mrs. Cere stepped out into the sunlight, it looked like she had had a rough night.

"Mrs. Cere, is Cho home?" Kohana asked after the initial shock of seeing the usually so refined woman looking like the living dead, even more then Cenotaph, if you'll excuse the pun.

"Why yes dear, but she's asleep, of course, the only reason she went back to sleep was because Sanquinex forced her to." The woman chuckled and a light came into her eyes. "What a responsible young man."

The group was gapping at Mrs. Cere, most likely thinking something along he lines of who are you and what have you done with the real Mrs. Cere? after all, had it not been only yesterday Mrs. Cere had been trying to spy out her window at her little girl and Sanquinex to make sure they didn't do anything irresponsible.

"Well little dears I'm going out for a while, I'll be back later." Mrs. Cere said, already walking off in the distance, the members of the group tossed suspicious looks at one another, what was going on here? Had they been thrown into an alternate universe while they weren't looking? What could have made Sanquinex act more reserved than usual, and get Cho's mom to like Sanquinex?

The group cautiously made their way up to Cho's room and opened the door to find a lightly napping Cho, sunlight spilling through the window and giving Cho an enthrall appearance.

Kohana walked over and started lightly shaking Cho's shoulder's, when that didn't work; she shook them rather viscously while yelling. "CHO WAKE UP!" Cho sat up quickly, smashing her head against Kohana's.

"OUCH!" The two girls screamed in unison as they clutched at their aching skulls.

"Can't you even find a normal way to wake up?" Cho asked after she finished cradling her head, but Kohana didn't answer, she just stared at her, or more precisely, her cheek.

"Cho, what the hell happened?" Kohana asked as she immediately pushed Cho back on the bed so she could examine Cho's bruised cheek.

Cho looked at the concerned eyes of her friends, their gazes comforting her. "I ran into some trouble last night." She wouldn't say what the trouble actually had been unless they asked her directly.

"No wonder Sanquinex was so uptight this morning! Poor Cho!" Kohana, Sky and Blaze all gave Cho a little group hug.

"Now, what exactly happened?" Cenotaph asked, Cho looked down at her hands in uncomfortable ness.

"Well...." Cho's eyes watered up as she narrated her tale, the five others listened in apt fascination. After Cho had retold her tale the girls immediately gave her comforting embraces and consoling words, and the guys looked at her with encouragement, it was at times like this Cho was thankful for her friends. (That sounded do corny.)

"We should get Sanquinex over here; he's really depressed without you." Lupenex said.

"Yep, he made me go back to bed." Cho pouted playfully as she got up and stretched her weary limbs as she made her way to the kitchen, and the phone.

She picked the phone up and went to dial, when she seemed to notice something. "What exactly is your phone number?" She asked the Dark Bladers, the group sweatdropped.

"It's 905-555-2788." Cenotaph replied slowly and Cho quickly dialed said number.

Cho waited, and waited, and started tapping her foot in slight annoyance, when finally the phone was finally picked up.

"Hello, Sanquinex?"

"Hi. yawn"

"Sounds like you were the one who needed more sleep." Cho muttered wryly.

"Speaking of which, shouldn't you still be in bed?" Sanquinex asked with concern.

"The others came over, and Kohana woke me up in a cruel, cruel way." Kohana pouted and Cho stuck her tongue out at her.

"Well, I'll have to have a little talk with them now won't I?" Sanquinex asked sarcastically, but Cho knew that on the other end of the line he was smiling.

"Of course. Now then, are you coming over or not, I'm all rested up, I don't need to sleep for day."

"Oh, you'll sleep if I have anything to do with it." Sanquinex growled playfully and hung up. Cho stared at the phone for a moment. "I guess that means he's coming over."

Five minutes at the most later there was a knock on the door, Cho rushed over and opened it up, quickly embracing Sanquinex.

"Do you greet all house guests with such zeal?" Sanquinex asked as Cho gave him a butterfly kiss.

"Nope, only you." Cho said happily. "Come on in." Cho grabbed Sanquinex's arm and dragged him in.

"You know, you'd expect a girl who had nearly gotten raped the other day to be, oh, I don't know, depressed." Sanquinex said as he eyed Cho suspiciously, Cho just smiled.

"Yes, but you saved me." She wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "You are my knight in shining armor."

"That's nice to know." Sanquinex said as he looked over Cho's head to the others in the room, who either laughing or cooing at the sight in front of them. (Guess which is which.)

"So now that I'm here, what exactly are we doing?" Sanquinex asked Cho, who smiled sweetly, too sweetly.

"Oh, you know, the usual." Sanquinex raised his eyebrows and looked at the other couples who seemed to be laughing behind their hands.

"And the usual is?" Sanquinex prodded Cho in the gut with his elbow softly.

"Female body parts." Sanquinex's face went pale, before a blush stood out boldly on his cheeks.

"...I was joking Sanquinex." Cho said, she herself blushing as the people behind them howled in laughter.

"Good." Sanquinex said, after all, what guy can stand around and listen to girls talking about girl stuff, like periods and the tissue in the uterus decaying and coming out and all that other stuff that disturbs even me?

FASH: That was an... Interesting ending eh?