Raye: I'm back! Sorry that I've not updated sooner, but I had to do a lot of stuff with my other stories: "The Outsiders" and its sequel "The OS2Sq". Sorry about that, here we go!

Mariah awoke to bright light in her eyes. She was at home again. She looked beside her on the bed and saw Aliana. On the floor, Kaiyana and Miana were curled up near her heater.

Mariah sighed. She had to wake up the girls, they had school today. "Hey, Kaiyana, wake up," Mariah shook her friends until they finally woke. "Why are you so mean?" Miana groaned. She looked at the clock. "Oh my gosh, we're going to be late!" she screamed. This caused Aliana to wake up.

"Ah! Stupid sun," she muttered pulling the covers over her head to keep the rays from hitting her un-human form.

"Sorry Aliana, if I had known someone was going to scream and it was going to wake you up, I would've closed the window shades.

It had been four days since Rei had captured her and she'd brought Aliana home. As long as Aliana wore a sweatshirt and cap with gloves, she could go to school with them as well. She'd made quite a lot of friends and all the boys thought she was cute which of course made other girls jealous and some liked her even more!

"Aliana, would you like to share your poem to the rest of the class?" Mrs. Walker asked in English. Unlike Mariah, Kaiyana and Miana, who happened to be Aliana's best friends, Aliana loved English and all of the assignments she got in it.

"Sure," Aliana answered surely and sweetly.

"The old day has passed,

The new day has come.

I come to my senses,

I realize, what's done is done.

I look over the water,

I look through the trees.

I see a friend and a brother,

But they only stare back at me.

I'm a new being,

Not human nor other,

I have a way of seeing,

I am my own creature."

Aliana smiled sadly and sat down next too Mariah again.

"Very nice Aliana, I loved it. If you type it up, I'll hang it on my wall," Mrs. Walker smiled. Aliana grinned back. "Of course, I'd be honored to have my work in such a high place of gratitude."

After school, Aliana and Mariah headed off to the candy shop. Mariah had promised Aliana that she could try a Peanut butter cup because she'd wanted to for three days now.

They entered the store. There, they saw a teenage boy and his friend looking around. Mariah noticed that she'd seen him before.

'Amber eyes, where have I seen amber eyes like his before?' She wasn't paying attention to the other boy, only the one with the eyes of honey. Neither had seen her nor Aliana yet.

"Hey, have you seen them before?" Mariah pulled Aliana aside and pointed at the two boys. Aliana's face soon showed terror and her eyes filled with fear and hate and something else that Aliana could not read for the boy with eyes of crimson (the one WITHOUT amber eyes).

"Of course…" she whispered. "It's Kai and Rei, they're looking for me. I bet I'm putting them through hell, I know Rei loves me, I know Kai is worried about me, possibly more than Rei, and they need to find me before I turn completely human which is in seven days."

Mariah's eyes widened. "Why don't you go back to them? What did they do that is so horrible that you can't be with them anymore?" she inquired.

"Rei did nothing, I'm not under his control; I'm just his cousin. I'm under Kai's control. Kai was my best friend in the whole wide world. They day you were captured, I decided that I wanted to help Kai rule and so he agreed with me. I found out a task that I could do but he wouldn't let me do it. I tried to figure out why because, being the person he was, he wouldn't tell me. Finally, he was fed up and snapped at me! I was only trying to be a good friend, but you know what? He deserves it!"

Neither noticed, but the boys had seen them. Rei was now trying to get to his cousin and Kai was holding him back while watching and listening intently to what they were saying.

"This is between her and me, not her and you," Kai told his friend calmly. "She's mad at me and I need to apologize to her and hope that she forgives me. I know I did something wrong, I am ashamed for it."

Rei rolled his eyes at Kai. "Don't tell me, idiot, tell her," he replied.

Mariah sighed. "If he was really your best friend, I think you should forgive him," she stated. "I'm sure he didn't mean to snap at you, I bet he was just worried that you were going to guess the right answer, being the smart little vampire that you are," she added.

"She's right," a voice stated from behind them. The voice sent chills up Mariah's spine. 'So cold,' she thought to herself. 'Why is he so cold?'

"Did you read the stupid note I sent you?" Aliana glared up at her former friend.

"I got it, I read it, I nearly got sick, I spent three whole days morning and night looking for you, I found you and now you're mad at me all over again," Kai retorted.

"And you helped her escape," Rei added pointing at Mariah.

"Of course I did," Aliana replied coolly. "I'm tired of the way we're fighting. I HATE it! Why can't they just leave us alone and why do we need to kill them? If we leave them alone, they'll leave us alone, right Mariah?" Aliana asked her friend.

Mariah shuffled nervously. "Well, except on one night… but I bet I can stop them from doing it," she growled the second part mostly to herself.

"Which night?" Rei asked.

"The anniversary of the war between Vampires and Humans. On that night, all the hunters go out and kill all the vampires, crows and bats that they find. It's sickening and I wish they wouldn't do it," Mariah was wincing painfully now.

"Can you stop it?" Rei asked another question.

"I don't know. I'll need help. Kaiyana and Miana can help me. You guys can help me, if you want. I'll bet Kane and Salima can help out too! Oh, and Kyle. I'll ask him too!" she smiled.

"Wasn't Kyle that kid who showed me too my locker?" Aliana asked randomly.

"Yeah, isn't he sweet?" Mariah giggled.

"Yeah, I guess so. He's kind of… strange," Aliana wrinkled her nose.

"I think it's because he thought you were kind of cute. He thinks a lot of girls are cute, but he's still a nice guy and he hates the war and the Hunting Night so I'll bet he'll help us stop it," Mariah continued on.

"Alright," said Rei finally. " We'll help you, but Aliana needs to come home with us now, because I need to talk with her and I'll bet Kai needs to talk to her too," he added.

"Just one more thing," Aliana replied with a smile. She quickly purchased a Peanut Butter Cup and headed back to where Kai, Rei and Mariah still stood in an awkward silence.

"Mariah, could you give this to Mrs. Walker and type it up for me? Tell everyone that I'll miss them and hopefully I'll see them again someday. As for you, Kai and I will pay you a visit tonight."

Rei glared at her. "What about me?" he growled. Kai smirked. "Someone needs to watch the kingdom. I'll come back halfway through and you can take my place, ok?" he chuckled at his friend's disappointment. 'He must dig this pink girl because he seems to like to be near her,' he thought to himself.

"Ok, that works. See you later!" Mariah called after Aliana.

"Five hours tops!" Aliana yelled back to her.

Raye: Ok, done. I have NO IDEA how long it will take me to type the next chapter, so sit tight!