Jeanette is forcing me to write more right now (:P), so here goes.

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"Hey!!" Jeanette called as she walked over to the two. Kylie and Whitney both stared in awe of the faerie Lupe, who gracefully trotted along beside his owner. "I didn't know you guys had been in Neopia!" she exclaimed.

"Just got here..uh, Jeanette, is my Lupe gonna look like..like that?!" Whitney questioned.

"Er, well, not on it's own. Kronk was painted with a paint brush." Jeanette said as she looked at Aeru. "Don't you already know that thanks to um..have we met?" she asked Kylie, who shook her head in response.

"Whitney's obviously not in the mood to introduce.." Kylie said, smirking.

"Gah, sorry." Whitney muttered as she turned her attention away from Kronk. "Kylie, this is Jeanette, I've told you about her..Jeanette, Kylie."

"Nice to meet you." Jeanette said, smiling. "As I was saying..don't you know how paint brushes work? That Tonu's painted."

"He is?" Kylie questioned. "Is that good?"

"For most people, yeah. Paint brushes are expensive."

"Like how much?" Whitney asked. "I have three hundred fifty neopoints, that enough?"

"Er..not by a long shot." Jeanette said, trying not to laugh. "Cheapest one is like..a hundred thousand or so, and some of them go for over a million."

"WHAT?! Oh, wonderful. That'll never happen. How do you earn more neopoints?" Kylie asked.

"Playing games is the best way." Jeanette said. Whitney raised an eyebrow.

"Playing games gets you money? Man, if we had that back home, Whitney'd be a millionaire!" Kylie said, laughing. Whitney stuck her tongue out at her.

"Yeah, it gets you neopoints."

"That is so cool." Whitney said happily. "Where are the games?"

"The arecade." Jeanette answered. The two gave her clueless looks. "Uh, it's over there, by the marketplace." she continued. More clueless looks. "Come on, I'll show ya."

The trio and their pets spent a good hour walking around, and finally collapsed into tables in the marketplace to get something to eat.

"What kind of food do they have here?" Whitney asked, looking over a rather large menu.

"Just about anything." Jeanette said with a grin.

"Spaghetti?" Kylie asked hopefully.

"Shrimp?" Whitney asked in the same tone.

"Yep!" Jeanette said as she gave her order, a sub sandwich, to the waitress, who was a Neopet called a 'Flotsam', according to Jeanette. Kylie and Whitney did the same, and they all ordered some extra for the pets.

"Next we should go to some of the other worlds." Jeanette suggested.

"Worlds?" Kylie questioned. "There's other worlds?"

"Mmhmm. Let's see, there's the Haunted Woods, Lost Desert, Faerieland, Meridell, Tyrannia, the Space Station, Krawk Island, Mystery Island, Terror Mountain..I think that's it. There was Maraqua, but it got destroyed by a whirlpool, and then there's Roo Island and Kiko Lake, those are mini-worlds.." Jeanette stopped. Kylie and Whitney's eyes were widened. "What?"

"Is this place for real?" Whitney asked. Jeanette nodded.

"It's for real, alright."

"And you never told me?!"

"You're not supposed to tell, or I would've." Jeanette said, shrugging. "Something about people needing to find it on their own."

"What happens to your pets when you go through that arch?" Kylie asked.

"They stay in your Neohome." Jeanette answered simply. "..You two do have a house, right?"

"Er..no." Whitney answered.

"Hmm. You can stay at mine until you get enough Neopoints for one."

"Awesome!" Kylie and Whitney exclaimed in unison.

"I'll show you around some of the worlds after lunch. We should go to the Haunted Woods first, it's not safe to go there after dark." Jeanette said, grinning a little. Kylie and Whitney exchanged glances as their food was brought to them.

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I'll try and get a new chapter up ASAP..