Chapter 12: Addicted to you

It was Saturday. The next week would be the last week of November. Veronica was let out of hospital on Friday evening. She still had bruises and her ankle wasn't completely alright. They were all very happy to have her back though. It was official at the school that Veronica Meridian and Rei Kon were a couple. Of course they got the usual teasing about it. Right now Veronica was sitting on her bed and having a girl talk with Kira, Anya and Hilary.

"So what was it like, your first kiss?" Kira questioned, the others sweatdropped.

Veronica blushed. "I think I'll pass that question..."

"What's the thing between you two now?" Hilary asked.

"Well... he has told me he loves me and I've told him the same," Veronica said.

"Aww, how sweet," Anya responded.

Veronica blushed again. "I hope you and Kai get together too, soon."

"Yeah, I hope so too," Anya sighed. "I miss him, even though I see him every day."

"Hey Anya. Have you done anything to get closer to Kai?" Hilary asked.

"No, I've had other things to worry about lately..." Anya replied.

"Oh, what are you planning to do?" Kira questioned.

"I'm not sure yet. I'll see if I get any good chances," Anya said and smiled.

"Umm, as much as I like you I have things to do now that I'm finally out of the hospital," Veronica said suddenly.

"Doesn't need a genius to know what you're planning," Kira said and smirked.

Veronica blushed. 'Am I really that obvious?'

"Come on. Let's not bother her anymore. Her thoughts are obviously on something else," Anya stated.

They left the room and it was only 20 minutes later that the door opened and someone came into Veronica's room. She heard it but didn't turn around. She could guess who it was and smiled to herself. She felt a pair of hands on her shoulders. Her head was being turned around. She closed her eyes and felt soon a pair of lips on her own. She let the powerful feeling flow right through her and overwhelm her. She had never felt anything as wonderful as this. She was addicted to it, had been since the very first time. They parted from the kiss.

"And you say that you're shy..." Rei said.

"Not when it comes us," Veronica replied and gave Rei a smile.

It wasn't just any kind of smile, he was the only one that she smiled to like that.

"So you are a wild cat?" Rei assumed.

"A vigorous Kitty. You bring that side of me out," Veronica replied.

"I think I liked the shy side of you much better," Rei stated jokingly.

Veronica stuck out her tongue at him.

"You should show this side of you more often," Rei commented.

"If I have the confidence to show it to other people someday," Veronica responded.

"Who said anything about other people?" Rei replied and smirked.

"Well, we aren't exactly alone very often..." Veronica pointed out.

"So? We should have more of that so called 'we-time'," Rei stated.

"Maybe..." Veronica said and smiled teasingly as she stood up to get a diskette.

"Why maybe?" Rei asked.

"School and my advice column take a lot of time," she replied as she came back.

She was walking past him when a pair of arms went across her waist and pulled her backwards. She let out a small yelp as she lost her balance and fell on to Rei's lap.

"What are you doing?" she asked as she blushed at her thoughts and the situation.

"Spending some quality-time with my girlfriend," Rei answered and smirked.

"Umm... I have things to do." Veronica said, trying to get up. She was trying to hide her blushing.

"Can't they wait?" Rei asked, holding her firmly.

"You think we could do something more fun?" Veronica replied with a question.

"That depends what you consider to be fun..." Rei stated.

"Try me," Veronica urged and turned around to look at him.

Rei leaned in for a kiss. Veronica responded to it passionately. He was so good she almost wanted to eat him alive. She didn't want to let go, she was afraid if she did he would be gone when she opened her eyes. Nevertheless, eventually the kiss ended.

"You're very dangerous, you know," Rei stated.

"What do you mean by that?" Veronica asked.

"You're such a sweet little thing. I'm getting addicted to you," Rei said.

They both blushed, Veronica a little more then Rei.

"Well, you're not the only one getting addicted," Veronica retorted and smiled.

It was Rei's turn to blush furiously.

"You said we would do something fun. What did you have in mind?" Veronica asked.

"And this wasn't fun?" Rei responded.

"It was but surely we can't keep doing this all the time..." Veronica replied.

"Well, I actually did have something in mind," Rei said, smiling mischievously.

"What?" Veronica asked eagerly.

"Something concerning the pool," Rei whispered to her.

"Let's go," Veronica answered.


Veronica and Rei were sneaked out of the house. They didn't want the others to know where they went.

They had the urge to go to the same dressing room but decided to obey the rules and went separate ways. Veronica came out of the dressing room. The poolroom was dimly lit with only one light. Veronica automatically headed towards the source of the light. She came to the hot tub and found Rei in it, his eyes closed.

She walked without a sound to him. She looked at him. 'He is so cute.' She couldn't resist the temptation. She planted a kiss on his lips. His eyes snapped open but closed again as he started responding to the kiss. Soon Veronica pulled away.

"I recall you talking about the pool..." she said as she sat next to Rei into the hot tub.

"Well...umm..." Rei stammered.

Veronica put a finger on his lips. "I understand," she stated and gave him a special smile.

She cuddled against him. It just felt so good. Rei put an arm around her shoulders.

They leaned against each other. It didn't take them long before they were lost in each other again. Veronica moaned from pleasure as Rei first kissed her on the lips deeply and passionately and continued down her neck, sending shivers up and down her spine.

A giggle escaped her lips. Rei looked her into the eyes, trying to read them. She looked away to hide her smile and the shameful thoughts in her mind.

"Where did that come from?" Rei asked, meaning her giggle.

"Nowhere," Veronica said, smiling innocently.

"I'm not buying that," Rei said.

"I mean it," Veronica tried again.

"You're a bad liar," Rei stated. "Either you tell me or else..."

"Or else what?" Veronica replied.

"You asked for it," Rei responded and quickly lifted Veronica up in his arms.

"What are you doing!" Veronica squealed in surprise.

"The 'or else'," Rei replied shortly.

Veronica noticed she was being carried to the pool. It suddenly hit her what was about to happen. She started to panic right away. Soon she was out of Rei's arms, flying through the air. After that there was a splash in the pool as Veronica landed in it. Another splash followed the first one when Rei went in after Veronica. There was something he had forgotten though. Veronica was good at disappearing under water. It came to him as he couldn't spot her anywhere.

Veronica was right under him. She wanted to laugh.

'He asked for it!' she thought as she closed up on him.

She came to the surface right behind him, putting her arms around him. Next they were both under water again. Veronica circled in front of him and stole a kiss before heading up. Rei surfaced soon after her, gasping for air.

"What did you think of my under water kiss?" Veronica asked and smiled.

"Hmm... it was a little lame," Rei joked.

"Why you..." Veronica started.

Rei got a splash of the water in his face. Veronica smiled teasingly at him.

Soon the once so serene surface of the pool was anything else but that as Rei and Veronica splashed furiously water at each other and laughed hysterically at the same time like 5-year-olds.

Rei was winning before Veronica decided to try a new approach to the situation. She started diving and splashing water whenever she came to the surface. This hardly gave Rei a chance. Soon they decided to stop and agreed that it was a tie.


They dressed up and met outside. To their surprise it had been snowing while they were swimming. The ground was covered in snow. Veronica and Rei were holding hands while walking.

Unexpectedly a snowball hit Veronica in her back. She and Rei turned around. Rei got a snowball in his face. They looked around but couldn't see anyone. It was quiet but then they heard a sound of giggling. Looking at the direction of the sound they couldn't see anyone.

Suddenly a laughing Hilary fell down from the tree in front of them. Even after hitting the ground she couldn't stop laughing.

"Come down Kira," Rei called out. "I know you're in that tree."

Kira dropped smoothly down from the tree.

"Hilary!" she exclaimed in frustration.

"I'm sorry," Hilary apologized between her giggles. "It was just so hilarious."

"I can see that," Kira responded icily. "You missed your target. You weren't supposed to hit her in the back."

"Where was she supposed to hit Kitty?" Rei asked.

"That's classified information," Kira replied. "Let's go Hils. We have stuff to do."

"Yeah," Hilary answered, getting control over her laughter finally.

"Excuse me. Where do you think you're going? You owe us an apology," Rei said.

Kira and Hilary looked back at the couple. Rei and Veronica were holding snowballs.

"Run," Kira said shortly and disappeared from the scene.

Hilary followed her but unfortunately she wasn't nearly as fast as Kira.

Kira had soon shook them of her tail. Poor Hilary wasn't able to do that though. She got hit twice by the snowballs and got a whole pile of snow dropped on her. After that Veronica came to her and apologized for the whole thing.

"Aww, it's not your fault. Me and Kira started it." Hilary replied and went inside to dry out her clothes.

"Care to go for a walk?" Veronica asked. "There's something I need to talk to you about."

"Sure," Rei replied.


They were walking outside the city. Snow was falling from the sky, making the scene look enchanted.

"It's so beautiful," Veronica said and sighed.

"Yeah," Rei agreed.

He could sense something was really bothering her.

There was a silence. Rei put his right arm around her shoulders, while holding her hand with his left hand.

"What did you want to talk about?" he asked.

Veronica was searching for the right words to say what she wanted to say.

"You can tell me anything. You know that, don't you?" Rei said.

"Of course, it's just that I don't know how to say this," Veronica responded quickly.

"Well, what is it about?" Rei asked.

"It's about Kira. You know that the month is almost over and the new Code Red will come out soon. Kira is going to pull one of her pranks on Stacy again," Veronica started.

"Yeah, what about it?" Rei asked.

"Kira is a nice person. I'm not trying to say anything else. She has helped me many times and other people too. It's just that when you get her upset by doing something wrong she usually wants revenge. She can usually control her anger so nothing serious happens but this time I think things are different," Veronica explained.

"You think she might do something to Stacy?" Rei responded.

"I know she will do something. I'm afraid that this time she might go over the edge. Stacy has never actually hurt me before like this. Sure she has talked things about me and other stuff but never hurt me. You know how Kira is. She can't stand people who hurt others like that. She wants to do the right thing but I'm afraid she is going to go too far this time," Veronica continued.

"I understand," Rei said. "But I don't know what we can do about it."

"You're right. Kira has usually had it her way in the end," Veronica replied. "I'm just so worried about her. What if she gets caught?"

Rei didn't know what to say.

The thought of Kira getting caught on one of her pranks was horrible. She would be kicked out of the school for sure and Stacy would sue her for the things she had done to her.

And what about when Kira would be pushed against the wall? There was no telling what she would do. The consequences would be huge.

"We have to stop her," Rei said finally.

Rei and Veronica walked back, both of them thinking ways to stop her. In the end they came to the conclusion that it wasn't possible.

When they got to the house they dragged Anya and Kai away from the others to help find a solution to the situation. Anya noticed how cold Kai was being towards her. What had happened? Anya felt so lost. What was she supposed to do?

'I need you Kai. I'm addicted to you,' she thought.