Yukai: Yay! The not-so-long awaited sequel to Key to my Heart is here! Yay!

Dancing Hoboes I Stole From Mr. J: doing the mashed potato

Choir of Hoboes Stolen From Mr. J: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Yukai: Well that was interesting... Anyway, here it is...

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Friends are Forever

Chapter 1: Introduction to Kat, Again

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"Katherine! Pay attention!"

Katherine Shinero's head snapped up. For a minute she couldn't remember where she was. Then she remembered... School.

"Sorry Ms. Bates," Katherine apologized.

Katherine, or Kat, was a short girl with long black hair. She was Japanese/Spanish. She lived in a small Texas town with her aunt and two little cousins Suna and Umi.

For the last couple of months she had been in Camp Green Lake, a correctional facility for juvenile delinquent boys. Yes boys. She had been the only girl there, not a good thing.

The bell rang and Kat, once again, snapped from her day dreamy state. She grabbed her bag and left the class room.

Outside, Kat hopped on her bike and rode to her house. She parked her bike and went inside.

"Hey Suna!" she greeted her little cousin.

"Hi Machi!" Suna replied.

Kat winced at the name. Her aunt insisted on calling her by her first name. Her Japanese name. Machigai. Luckily for her, her little cousins thought up nicknames for her.

"Suna! Umi! Machigai!" their aunt called from the front.

"Okaa-san!" Suna cried, running to greet her mom.

"Hi Obasan," Kat called.

"Where's Umi?" Obasan asked.

"He had soccer after school," Suna answered.

Umi and Suna were twins, they knew everything, or so it seemed.

"Iie! That's Thursdays," Obasan said.

"A game Obasan," Kat said. "I'm going upstairs to my room."

Kat ran up to her room. Her room was painted black and she had a navy blue blanket with black pillows on her bed. In one corner she had 4 blue bean bag chairs. Against one wall was her desk, black, and computer. She went to her computer and turned it on.

Kat logged into IM and went into D-tent Chat.

## Convo ##

CoOkEyKey: Hey all!

Squidly: Hey Key!

CoOkEyKey: Anyone else here?

Magnetic: Jola!

TheStench: Hiya!

X-RayVision: Yo!

CoOkEyKey: Where's Caveman and Zero?

Magnetic: Who knows.

Twitchy: Sorry! I was doing homework.

CoOkEyKey: I miss you guys! My aunt's calling me my real name!

X-RayVision: Katherine?

CoOkEyKey: No.

Squidly: But I thought that's what your name was...

CoOkEyKey: Nah. My middle name's Katherine. My real name's Machigai.

TheStench: Machigai?

CoOkEyKey: Yeah. It's Japanese.

Twitchy: Will you tell us what it means?

CoOkEyKey: Nooooooooo...

-Ziggy has logged on-

Ziggy: Hey!

CoOkEyKey: Yo! Anyways, I won't.

Squidly: C'mon! It can't be that bad.

CoOkEyKey: It can, and is!

X-RayVision: Who would name their kid something horrible?

CoOkEyKey: Remember my life story?

X-RayVision: Oh yeah... So what's it mean?

CoOkEyKey: ...Mistake...

Ziggy: What ARE you talking about.

CoOkEyKey: My name.

Ziggy: I thought your name was Katherine.

CoOkEyKey: It's not. Anyway.

Magnetic: That's horrible! Why does your aunt call you Machigai?

CoOkEyKey: She's my moms sister making her Japanese, there fore she calls me by my Japanese name.

Magnetic: Ah.

CoOkEyKey: Well... It's almost Summer!

Ziggy: Yeah!

CoOkEyKey: Okay... Well I have to go, Suna wants me to play with her.

## End Convo ##

Kat logged off and went to find something to do. Suna didn't really wasn't to play with Kat, Kat just couldn't talk to D-tent for a long time without missing them more.

=Ring Ring=

"I'll get it!" Kat called.

She picked up the phone.

"Moshi moshi!"

"Hi is Katherine there?" a male voice on the other end asked.

"Speaking," Kat said.

"Key? It's Zero,"

"Zero? But- Why are you calling me?"

"I missed you and I was wondering how you were," Zero answered.

Kat and Zero talked for a long time before Kat's aunt called her. Kat said good bye and went to see what her aunt wanted.

"Machigai, come join us," Obasan said.

Kat went and sat between Suna and Umi.

"Machigai, Umi, Suna. I hate to tell you this. But I've decided to move."

"Why?" Suna demanded.

"Because of Machigai. People know her past and will shun or hate her," Obasan answered.

"Don't move because of me!" Kat cried.

"I took you in to help you! Not to have you be hated!" Obasana said sharply. "We're moving and that's final!"

Kat nodded her head and left the table. She went up to her room and lied on her bed. She didn't mind being shunned. While she was living with her mom her friends lived in the next town over, like now, except they lived on the other side of the state.

$% A couple Weeks Later %$

"Machigai! Are you ready? We're leaving?"

Kat glanced once more around her room and walked down the stairs. They were moving today, and she was so not happy about it.

A couple hours later they pulled into their new house.

"Welcome to Hicktown Texas, Population: Me," she muttered as she gathered her stuff.

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Yukai: Well I got rid of the dancing hoboes but look who's here!

Squid: Good to see you too!

Zero: ...

Yukai: mutters