Part 2

Disclaimer: I didn't say that I owned Jenny or Thomas. If you want Jenny your more than welcome to take her, I don't want you to like the woman, and if you do then I'm not writing this fic right. You should hate her and want her dead.

Oh and Fancy Face if you want what you told me to happen you need to leave it for me in a review, sorry got to be fair to other people too.

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Jenny hit Rowen a coupe of more times before she yelped in pain. Drawing her hand to herself she saw she had split one of her knuckles open. "How dare you? Look what you did!" she screamed at him.

"I'm sorry Jenny." Rowen said softly.

"You should be." The girl told him. "Go clean yourself up, and then get me ice for my hand.

"Of course." Rowen said, and after unlocking the door and checking to make sure that Jenny's roommates weren't there, he ran into the bathroom.

Rowen glanced at his face in the mirror. She had given him a black eye again. She had also split one of his lips. Gently touching his noise he found that even though it was bleeding she hadn't broken it.yet. For the 100th time since he had come to America Rowen wished Sage or one of the other Ronins was there, at least with them behind him he could tell her he didn't want to date her anymore. But here he was all alone.

Washing the blood out of the sink, he glanced once more at his now ruined face then left the safety of the room. Quickly grabbing the ice and telling one of Jenny's friends he was fine, he went back into her room.

"What took you so long?" she demanded. "Oh never mind." She said and grabbed the ice out of his hands. "You just better be gland I'm so forgiving."

Rowen didn't say anything.

"You know sometimes I even wonder why I bother with you." Jenny told him and motioned for him to get his stuff so she could sign him out.

"Now you go back to your room. I'm going to a party with a couple of my friends. And I know you'd either embarrass me or flirt with someone so I just want you to stay in your room. Understand?" she asked before she opened her room door.

"I understand." Rowen told her.

She led him downstairs where she signed him out. After getting back their IDs they walked out of the building and into the night. Watching as cars drove past them they waited for the traffic to let up for a second, and then made a mad dash across Broad street.

Once they where past the parking deck Jenny finished her instructions.

"I will be calling you to make sure you are in the room. Be sure to pick up."

"I will." Rowen heard himself say.

"Good, go back to your room now." Jenny said and walked off to talk to a coupe of her friends.

Rowen watched her walk off then continued the walk to Johnson Hall. Had he continued to watch her he would have seen one of the males in the group lean down to Jenny and kiss her on the lips, but he didn't look back. After scanning his card and showing it to security he made his way up to the 9th floor. Noting the fact that the door to his room was partly opened, he began to enter the room and was faced with his roommate.

"Man what happened to you?" Thomas asked, even before he was fully in the room.

"Nothing." Rowen muttered.

"You sure you didn't get in a fight?" Tom asked.

"I'm sure." Rowen said and sat down at his computer to check his e-mail.

"Well there's gonna be a block party tonight, you going?"

"No, I'm going to stay in my room and study." Rowen said, never glancing from his screen.

Thomas shrugged, "Your loss then, catch you later Ro." He said and left the room, closing the door as he left.

Rowen sighed and scrolled down his e-mail list. Most of it was just about study groups, and the stuff that wasn't about school was spam. Then just as he was about to exit he noticed an e-mail from Mia. Hesitating only a second he opened the e-mail then began to read.

: Hey Ro, this is Sage. What's going on? You haven't contacted us since you got there and we're starting to worry about you. Ryo's been having some strange dreams about you and a girl. Rowen e-mail or call us as soon as you get this. We need to know your ok. Sage Date :

Rowen went to write a response to Sage then paused. He had no idea what to say to his best friends. He debated with himself for a few moments then hit 'reply' and prepared to tell Sage and the others everything that had happened thus far. Holding his fingers over the keyboard he lowered them to type.

Then the phone rang. Sighing once he stood and walked across the room to answer the phone. Even before he picked it up he knew who it was.

"Hello?"

"Hey Ro, this is Jenny you feeling better hon?" Jenny asked trying to keep up the front that they had a normal relationship.

"Yeah I'm fine."

"Ok, bye then." She said and hung up on him.

He stared at the phone for a few seconds then remembered to hang it up. Walking back across the room to his computer and stared at it. He couldn't tell them, not now. He shut the window to his e-mail box and walked back to his bed. Collapsing on his stomach he buried his face in his pillows and began to cry. Silent sobs racked his body as he gave into the depression, never once did he realize the symbol of 'life' was glowing on his forehead.

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(In Japan, {at 11 am, time in America: 9 pm})

Ryo was taking a morning nap, unlike him, but after all of his recent Rowen nightmares he needed the rest. A sudden feeling of loss and hopelessness washed over him. "No Rowen." He started to mutter. White Blaze got up from his place on the balcony and came to Ryo's side. "Rowen!" Ryo screamed and sat up.

Sage ran into his room and at the same time both teens realized their virtues where glowing.

"What's going on?" Cye asked a couple of seconds later as he and Kento arrived in Ryo's room, 'trust' glowing on his forehead.

"Something's wrong with Rowen." Sage said softly, the blond haired teen walked to the phone sitting on Ryo's night stand.

"Mia's going to hate the charges." Kento muttered as Sage dialed Rowen's number.

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The sound of the ringing phone came to Rowen's ears and after a couple more rings what the sound was registered in his fuzzy mind. Forcing himself to move across the room he picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

"Rowen this is Sage." Sage told him in English.

"Oh hey Sage." Rowen said trying to keep his voice even.

"{Everything ok there?}" Sage asked switching to Japanese.

"{Yeah, I'm fine.}" Rowen told him. A sudden noise in the door attracted his attention and he looked up. Jenny was there, anger burning in her eyes.

"I need to go." He said in English and hung up.

Jenny walked across the room after slamming the door and locking it.

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Sage stared at the phone in his hand. "He hung up on me."

"What?" Cye asked, unable to believe what he was hearing.

"Rowen hung up on me." Sage said and hung up the phone.

"We need to get to Rowen." Ryo said as he looked at everyone. Their virtues had stopped glowing.

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A/N: Do you hate Jenny yet?