Chapter 8: Hidden feelings and vengeance

The bottle spun. It started stopping slowly. Kira opened her eyes just to see it stop on Rei.

"Well Rei, guess it's your turn then," Kira said and smirked evilly. "Kiss Kitty or tell where you were on the night of our first day at school."

Veronica blushed at this point, but nobody was looking at her because Rei was blushing as furiously as you could possibly imagine.

"Dare," he replied and turned to Veronica, who was sitting next to him.

They leaned closer and closer to each other. (A/N: Notice that they are BOTH leaning.) The room was completely silent.

Finally Veronica felt their lips touch. The feeling that went through her was amazing. She started responding more to the kiss. Suddenly she was awakened from the trance she was in and she realized where she was. Her face was once again red as she blushed.

"Okay Rei. Your turn," Kira announced.

The bottle was spinning once again. This time it stopped on Veronica.

"Tell me, do you have feelings for someone in this room or go knock on Stacy's door and hug her," Rei whispered to Veronica.

"The truth," Veronica answered and looked Rei straight in the eyes. "The answer is yes."

Veronica spun the bottle. This time it was Kai's turn.

"Okay Kai. Kiss Anya or..." Veronica thought hard what would make Kai kiss Anya. Then it came to her. "Or tell me why you wouldn't let Hilary change the sheets to your bed during the clean-up."

This earned Veronica a glare from Kai and an admiring smile from the girls.

"Dare," Kai growled. He leaned over to Anya. Their lips touched and they were both immediately pulled into a trance. Anya felt Kai trying to fight it off but eventually he gave in. Soon they had to break away due to the lack of air.

"Just as good as I remembered," Anya stated out loud, making Kai blush a little and making the others giggle and smirk.


Just then they heard a sound from the front door. It was like something had smashed against it. Kira got first to the door and opened it, just to get hit by a raw egg.

"Okay, someone obviously thinks this is funny," she said her anger jumping quickly to the boiling point. She rushed out of the door. Hilary, Max and Tyson went after her. Kira and Hilary got back soon and both of them had a huge smirk on their faces.

"What?" Anya and Veronica asked in unison.

"This time the bitch went too far," Kira stated.

"This means war," Hilary announced.

Tyson and Max appeared behind them soon and they went inside and closed the door.

The bottle was broken so they couldn't continue the game, which was good for Kira and Hilary since they had some planning to do.


Next day, at school:

Anya, Kira and Kai had Russian classes in the morning. Unfortunately for Anya, Stacy was there too, although it was obvious she had chosen the subject only because Kai was there. It was also obvious she hated the language.

Kira and Kai managed to stay calm throughout the class, but Anya was boiling from anger as she watched Stacy giggle with one of her friends and glance at her every once in a while. It was Anya's luck that the class ended just as she was about to jump up from her chair and do something to Stacy.

The whole day went practically the same way until they were leaving school. Anya walked out of the school closely after Stacy. Then it happened. Stacy tripped and took a dive into a puddle of mud, making it splash all around her. Just as Anya thought her luck had changed, she noticed that she had also gotten her share of the mud in the splash.

She ran off quickly, trying to avoid being seen by anyone. She was relieved when she got inside again. She stormed upstairs and into Kira's room, where she found Kira and Hilary at work.

"Kira, what the hell were you thinking!" she shouted out.

This got her some attention from the two girls.

"I'm sorry Anya, it wasn't meant for you," Kira apologized.

"I know that, but you could've been caught," Anya said.

"Yeah, but no risk, no fun. Right?" Kira responded.

"I guess so," Anya replied.

She walked closer to the computer and her eyes widened as she looked at the monitor. There was a whole bunch of pictures and all of them had Stacy in them. It was clear that if Stacy was to decide about the photos they would be burned.

"You two sure know what you're doing," Anya stated and smirked.

"Of course. You don't screw with us without consequences!" Hilary exclaimed.

"Dancing Cat, Halo Angel, Midnight Mistress, Digital Darkness, Shadow?" Anya read from the monitor with a questioning look.

"Pen names for the magazine," Kira stated. "We can't write with our own names. It's too risky if the magazine ends up to one of the teachers. Some of them are already suspicious and some even a little on our tracks."

"Anyone up there?" Anya asked, knocking on Kira's head.

"Very funny," Kira retorted. "This is fun. Stacy knows it's me who writes this but she doesn't have proof and without that she can't do anything. I'm certainly not going to give it to her."

"So what do you write about?" Anya questioned.

"Well, Digital Darkness designs the appearance, Midnight Mistress does the practical jokes section and other stuff like that, Shadow criticizes stuff that he thinks is wrong, Halo Angel writes about the latest rumors at school and Dancing Cat is responsible for the advice column," Hilary explained.

"Actually, now that this was brought up, I have something to ask you," Kira said to Anya.

"What?" Anya responded.

"Would you care to start writing?" Kira asked. "We have one open place for a writer who would help the rest of us sometimes. Work usually starts to pile up when you have homework too."

"Will I get a pen name?" Anya asked and smiled.

Kira smirked back at her. "I suppose you would have to get one."

"Then it's a deal," Anya stated and hugged Kira.

"Now we have to figure out a pen name for you," Hilary said.

"That will be a tough one. You are such a complex personality," Kira continued.

"What does my personality have to do with this?" Anya asked.

"The names are given by the person's personality or something like that, so that it will resemble you," Hilary explained.

Anya wanted to make a sarcastic comment but decided not to.

"You have any suggestions?" Kira asked.

"Nope," Anya replied, thinking.

"How about Misty Lightning?" Kira suggested.

"That's great!" Anya exclaimed.

"I'm glad you like it," Kira said.

"By the way, what is the name of the magazine?" Anya asked.

"Code Red," Hilary stated.

"One more thing. Don't ever use those pen names when you talk to us," Kira warned. "It might lead to really nasty consequences."

"Sure," Anya agreed.

There was a knock heard from the door.

"Come in!" Kira yelled.

The door opened and Rei walked in.

"Anya, wanna help me out with the cooking?" he asked.

"Okay, I'll come," she said and left the two other girls.


Later in the kitchen:

Anya was setting the table. There was an awkward silence. She had the urge to ask Rei about something but was hesitating.

'You shouldn't be asking him this. It's none of your business,' a voice said to her. Another voice came to her head encouraging her. 'You have to know, you have to find out.'

Suddenly she spoke. "Rei, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure," he replied, thinking what she was going to ask.

"Umm... how do you feel towards Kitty?" she asked.

The question made Rei turn bright red which gave her the answer.

Rei was thinking of an answer for her when she continued...

"You don't have to answer that. Your face tells me the answer," Anya stated and left to get the others for dinner.

After dinner in Kira's room:

"Hey Kira! Help me out with this," Anya pleaded.

"Anya, you know that you have to do your own homework," Kira stated.

"Yeah, but this is hard! How do you figure out this?" Anya complained.

Finally Kira decided to help her friend. 'It wouldn't be right to leave her in trouble,' she thought.

A little while later they were finished with their homework and decided to have a little fun. Kira put a CD into the CD-player and Anya went to get Hilary and Veronica. The song started soon after Anya was back and they sang along with it. It was This Is How We Party.


The song ended and Kira turned the music off. They heard some snickering and turned to face the door which was closing. Kira rushed to it and pulled it open. Max and Tyson were on each side of the door and Rei almost in the middle. Kai was once again in his usual position, leaning against the wall in the background.

"I swear that door was closed," Kira started. You could see that she was about to have someone's head on the plate. "Doors don't open by themselves."

She walked closer to the boys, glaring at them, making them freeze from fear.

"Which one of you opened the door?" she asked, her voice deadly quiet.

There was a silence.

"I said, which one of you opened the door!" she snapped. "If you aren't telling me I'm just going to have to beat the answer out of you."

Rei pointed at Tyson.

"Tyson, you idiot!" Kira shouted with fury.

Tyson made a run for it and disappeared with Kira on his tail.

They could hear Kira swearing and threatening in Russian.

"What is she saying?" the girls asked Anya.

"Just that Tyson will be in so much trouble when she catches him that he will cry for his mommy," Anya translated.

Soon they could hear Tyson yelling for his mommy, just like Kira had said. They rushed downstairs and found Kira pushing Tyson out of the front door. She succeeded and closed the door, locking it.

"You aren't going to leave him there?" Rei asked.

"Oh yes," Kira replied.

"When are you letting him in?" Max asked.

"When I feel like it," Kira stated. "He will stay outside for the time being and if anyone of you helps him in... he or she will make him company."

Kira walked away, leaving the others in shock.

"Kai, can't you let him in?" Max asked in a while when it seemed that Kira was not about to change her mind about Tyson.

"Are you crazy?" Kai snorted. "I'm not going to get in her way."

"Why? You could handle her," Rei responded.

"I don't like the thought of beating the crap out of my only sister," Kai stated. "That's what it would come to."

"But..." Max tried.

"No!" Kai snapped. 'I'm not even sure if I could do it,' he thought silently.

Rei walked away and Max followed him.

Kira let Tyson finally in when Hilary pointed out that it was 10 pm.