Chapter Three – Rex's Place

Well how do you like it so far? Are you at this chapter because you like it? Or because you want to see what happens and hope that it's bad so you can make fun of me? I hope it's the first one. Disclaimer – Ditto on the first and second combined

Chapter Three – Rex's Place

Kriss and Rex walked up the two flights of stairs that were separating them from his room. When the door of Rex's apartment opened, a gray fuzz ball flew out of the room and started rubbing Rex's legs with its body.

"Hey, Jayvee," Rex greeted.

Kriss bent down to greet the cat. He was gray with a periwinkle bandana around his neck, it reminded Kriss of Thorn's, who as we speak was lightly growling.

"I didn't know you had a cat!" Kriss exclaimed.

"You never asked," Rex shrugged.

They stepped in.

"Well want do you want me to say, 'Hey Rex, do you have a cat? I have no clue where I got the idea that you might but then again, I was just wondering.' Huh? Ya like that?" Kriss asked.

"You have a point there…" Rex admitted.

Kriss looked around the apartment. It had a cool layout. The living room was right in front of her. To her left was a storage area to hang up your coat, beyond that was a door that was closed. To the other side was the bathroom, the door stood a jar, and beyond that with no door was the kitchen. Rex had a tan couch which sat facing the plasma T.V. while there was a small coffee table in between.

"Wow!" Kriss exclaimed.

"It's not much…" Rex said modestly.

"Rex, I've been living in an alley for four years to me this is a mansion!" Kriss said.

"True," Rex agreed.

Thorn meanwhile was still growling, progressively getting louder. Jayvee shot him a nasty look and hissed then growled back.

"Thorn be nice!" Kriss scolded.

Thorn whined and approached Jayvee cautiously so as not to get his head bitten off. Jayvee also settled down and allowed himself to be greeted by Thorn. The two exchanged glances and sat.

"That's weird; Thorn isn't trying to mutilate him…." Kriss observed.

"All for the better…." Rex said.

"True," Kriss agreed.

The pair just stood there.

"So, what now?" Asked Kriss.

"I dunno…" Rex replied.

"Well it is kinda late, do you just want to watch a movie?" Rex offered.

"Uh… sure…"Kriss responded.

Kriss continued to gaze around the apartment as Rex went and sat down on the couch and turned on the T.V.

"We can see what's on first," Rex suggested.

"Um, okay?" Kriss said, sitting down next to him.

Rex flipped through the channels and found a dueling match.

"This okay?" He asked.

"I don't care," Kriss replied.

The match was in between some duelists that Kriss had never heard of, probably because she didn't follow it. One of the duelists summoned Silver Fang.

"Hey, my cark looks like that one!" Kriss exclaimed.

"I though that you didn't have any cards," Rex said.

"No, you asked if I had a deck, I have a card, but not a deck," Kriss said, pulling the card form her pocket.

"Can I see it?" Rex inquired.

"Sure," Kriss replied, handing it to him.

"Whoa, I've never heard of this card, but it's really strong!" Rex exclaimed.

"6,000 is strong?" Kriss asked.

"Yeah!" Rex told her, "Where'd you get it?" He then asked.

"I found it on the street when I first ran away," Kriss explained.

"You found this on the street?" Rex asked, dumbfounded.

"Yeah, why?" Kriss asked.

"This is the most powerful card I've ever seen!" Rex exclaimed.

"The really weird part is that it looks just like Thorn!" Kriss told him.

Thorn's ears perked up at the mention of his name.

"Yeah, it does. Hey, tomorrow we could show it to Weevil and see if he recognizes it," Rex suggested.

Kriss shrugged, "Okay."

They continued watching the duel. About twenty minutes later, Rex looked over at Kriss to see that she was asleep. She was also shivering.

'Is it really that cold in here?' Rex asked himself, 'Or is it just her?' Nevertheless, Rex decided to be nice and took off his jacket and draped it around her.

Kriss woke when the jacket had first hit her shoulders. She silently watched as Rex in his yellow shirt that was barely visible earlier under his jacket, turn off the T.V. and get up and walk through the door that was closed before.

'I guess he's not completely mean all the time,' Kriss thought.

The next morning

Rex awoke around eight in the morning. He slowly aroused and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. He was startled when he realized that he didn't have his jacket, but then he remembered that he gave to Kriss last night.

He quietly opened the door, in case she was still asleep. But when walked out into the living room he saw that she wasn't there. There was a note on the coffee table Rex picked it up and read it.

'Went to check on things. Be back later, don't know when, thanks for the jacket last night,

Kriss'

The green jacket was lying on the couch, Rex grabbed it and put it on. The front door was still locked. 'How did she get out?' Rex asked himself. He assumed that she went back to the alley. Rex grabbed a key and went to meet her.