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Author's Note: I had weird dream last night, I was doing it with Jack Sparrow :) and then Sophie walked on and started saying "me next! me next!" over and over again... of course I woke up before Sophie got her turn with the Captain, because he's mine! Mwhahaha!

~Wendy~

I left Rory's room quietly but inside I was still bubbling with fury, the only thing I had ever wanted in life was Ace and she had to have him. She couldn't stand the thought of me having something that she didn't have, so she just stole him from me.

Well, he never really was mine...but that's not the point, he should be mine, not hers. I love him more. I need him more.

I stormed into my room with heavy footsteps and slammed the door behind me, momentarily forgetting that Ace was following me. Great way to show your love for someone, slam a door in their face.

I heard an 'oof' noise as Ace's body connected with the door, or what was left of my door. I turned around and opened it to see him holding his head in pain, I grinned sheepishly, "sorry."

"It's okay," he mumbled as he stepped into my room. I closed the door behind him and sat down on the edge of my bed. Ace quickly joined me.

"Do you want me to stay?" He question echoed in my ears. Being very unaware and unskilled in the whole dating, boys and relationship department meant I didn't have a clue what he was really asking me.

Did he want to stay and protect me? Stay and have sex, again? Stay so he can sneak into Rory's room while I sleep? Or just stay for another hour? I looked into his eyes, hoping they would reveal what he wanted to know, they didn't.

"No, its okay, I can take care of myself." I turned away, it was uncomfortable being this close to him and not knowing how he felt about me.

"I love you." His hand clasped mine as he said that and I froze in response. My mind went blank and then filled with so many thoughts that it hurt. He loved me? He couldn't.

"Come again?" I asked, slowly turning towards him. My eyes widened in shock or happiness, maybe both.

"I. Love. You." He said the words slowly as if talking to a small child. Should I tell him that I love him? I felt dizzy with emotions, things were going too quickly. I released my hand from his grasp and pulled away, standing up against the door.

I looked at him for a few moments with a confused stare; he looked at me nervously and began to fidget on the bed. I heard Rory begin to sob at the other end of the hall, loud footsteps were going down the stairs.

As I realized that Eyeball had just left Rory alone to cry, I immediately felt ashamed for attacking her, I didn't think things were that bad for her. She always walked around with confidence like she didn't have a care in the world.

I turned back to Ace; I suddenly felt tired, sick and wanted to be alone. "Ace, maybe you should go...with everything that's happened, I think it'd be best if you'd leave."

He stood up and looked hurt as he made his way to me and the door. As he stood in front of me, I looked into his eyes, my arms around his neck and kissed him passionately.

Although this wasn't mine and Ace's first kiss...I was still slightly clumsy and awkward in my movements. As he began to kiss me back I smiled into his mouth and enjoyed the new feeling of being loved.

When he finally pulled away, both of us breathless, I told him what I wanted to say to him for years, "I love you too." I cannot describe the utter feeling I had when he leaned in to kiss me again.

But I was tired and I didn't feel entirely normal, well, would you if you'd just been in a catfight with your twin sister? I didn't think so. I rested my hands gently on his chest. "I really think you should go."

"I don't want to leave you yet." Christ, he had to stop saying nice things like that to me, my heart was about to burst out from my chest.

"You should, because I don't know what to do if I pounce on you because I'm very inexperienced," when had I become so blunt? I blushed up to my hairline after the words slipped out, the suggestive look on Ace's face didn't make me feel any better.

I quickly opened the door and moved aside, letting Ace go through, he didn't seem too pleased, but left after another kiss goodbye.

I lay back on my bed as I heard his car drive away; it wasn't soon till I fell asleep.

A rustling noise awakened me and my blurry eyes focused on a figure hovering above me. As my eyes began to focus I recognised Rory's dishevelled frame, make-up was smudged around her face and blood was smeared on her left cheek.

Her eyes fixed on my face, yet her pupils seemed to be darting about the room maniacally. "Rory...what are you...?" I asked sleepily, my voice seemed far and distant and had an echoed quality to it, like I wasn't really there.

"Its okay, Wendy, everything's going to be okay." Her voice also had an eerie sound, somehow surrounding the whole room.

"Rory?" I asked looking at her worriedly.

"Ssh, just close your eye's, it'll be okay in a minute." She lifted a pillow from the side of my body.

"Rory?" I squeaked, my blood began to run cold, she wouldn't.

"Ssh." She lifted the pillow over my head and brought it down on my panicked face.

I leapt from my bed in a cold sweat and looked about my room, Rory wasn't there trying to kill me with a pillow. It had all been a dream. My breath came heavily and I felt like I actually had been suffocated, I decided to get some coffee. I didn't want to go back to sleep just yet.

As I tip-toed barefoot down the stairs, I noticed a light coming from the door to the kitchen. I approached the door quietly and stepped in to see Rory shovelling through the medicine cabinet above the sink.

She hadn't noticed me yet, but I guessed that she would eventually. Her face was bruised and her knuckles looked sore, yet I hardly had any wounds or bruises from the fight at all. I stood there nervously and cleared my throat, hoping that Rory wouldn't be up for round two because I wasn't in the mood after that nightmare.

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Author's Note: Ha! Bet a lot of you thought that Rory had gone crazy! Although I think she probably did a few chapters ago...anywho, review! (I rhymed! Woo!)

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