In case some of you were confused about last chappie...maybe this will help...

Dawn Hiwatari – The person who wrote the diary entries. Voltaire is her father. She is believed to be Laynie's twin. Her whereabouts are unknown.

Alaina (aka. Laynie in the diary entries) – is who Zarine believes is her mom. Possibly Dawn's twin.

Okay, and just to let you know, Zarine's mom is dead, and this is for sure. She's not going to jump out of her grave and come back alive. Zarine's full name is Zarine Alaina Star. Her middle name is her mother's first name.

There had been no confirmation yet about whether Dawn and Laynie are twins...and also Zarine thinks the Laynie that Dawn was talking about is her mother, no confirmation either, just a theory. Yes, and I know I'm just full of surprises. Lol! On with it...
Chapter 7 – The Green-Eyed Monster

Kai's POV

I stared at the girl sobbing her heart out in front of me in disbelief. Jewels was crying in front of me. I had never seen her tears before. She had always seemed so strong and confident. In all my years, I had never known that she would love someone so much to cry over them, especially a dog.

"She's barely nine months old! Mom, Dad and Carrie would kill me for this!" she cried.

"Maybe she had run home," I said, wanting to comfort her.

"Maybe," she said miserably.

"I'm sorry," I blurted out. I blinked in surprise, what the hell was I apologizing for?

Her violet eyes locked onto mine. "No, it was all my fault. I'm going." She turned around and walked away.

I called, "Jewels! Where are you going?"

She turned around and snapped, "Hiwatari, it's none of your business."

What the hell was her problem? I was trying to be nice and she bites my head off.

Suddenly, there was a bark. Waffles ran joyfully to her owner. Jewels picked her puppy up and murmured, "I was so worried! Honey, never run off again, you hear?" Before she left with Waffles in her arms, she turned to me and said stiffly, "Good night."

Seriously, what was wrong with her? She was nice one minute, and then cold the next. That wasn't the most important thing. Jewels had changed. She had never been so warm to someone. What was so special about her dog anyways?

I slowly began to walk home, still thinking about Jewels. I couldn't forget about her tearstained face. When I saw how sad she was, I wanted to comfort her. I had never wanted to comfort anyone, except for Zarine.

At first when I met Zarine, I thought she was some kind of weakling that needed protection 24/7. However, she had proven me wrong. Somehow, with all the problems in her life, which had been almost as bad as mine, she managed to hold on. I had been interested in her. It was only natural, she was pretty, but she's not my type. Ray would skin me alive if he found out that I had ever thought of liking her. He was so possessive of his girlfriend.

I supposed it was only reasonable for Jewels to treat me like a stranger. I did leave her a year ago. I grimaced at the memory, still feeling ashamed of it.
Normal POV

Ray slammed the door of his locker shut. His heart filled with the feeling of jealousy. He didn't care about how other people had stared at him. All he could think about was the conversation he had with that guy in English.

Flashback

He sat down in his seat in his English class at the back after he had finished introducing himself. Sitting beside me was a guy with dirty blonde hair and gray eyes.

"Hey," he said, "I'm Gavin."

"Hi," Ray said.

The teacher had assigned them some comprehension work to do. Gavin suddenly questioned, "Is Kai Zarine's boyfriend?"

Ray was startled. "No, where did you hear that?"

"Yesterday, you should've seen Kai. He was acting like he owned her or something. At lunch, when I was just talking to the girl, he came and demanded that I stop," the gray eyed boy explained. "Rumors are everywhere about them being a couple, you know. I'm surprised you haven't heard it already."

Ray glared at Kai and Zarine, who were sitting together in the second row. They were talking and after a while, Zarine smiled at Kai before turning her attention to her work.

End of Flashback

"Ray!" Zarine called. She ran up to him, and asked, "Ready to go to gym?"

"Why aren't you with Kai?" he asked sourly.

"Why would I be with him? Just because we left together don't mean we have to go to the next class together," she said.

"You guys left together?" Ray demanded, feeling even more jealous now.

"Well, you didn't wait for us. You were rushing out the door when the bell rang. I didn't have a chance to catch up with you," she said. "Let's go before we're late."

She grabbed his hand and led him off to class. Ray wanted to get some answers out of Kai as soon as possible, but when he went into the change room, Kai was already gone. In class, the teacher split the class into half for a game of soccer. Kenny, Tyson, Max, Kai, Zarine, Jewels, Hilary and some other people were on one team and Ray was all alone on the other.

When the game was being set up, a group of girls were looking at Ray with interest.

"Oh man, he's hot," a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes said dreamily to her friends.

"If you're that interested in him, just go and talk to him," her friend said.

"I will," the blonde hair girl said, walking up to the Chinese boy.

"Hey, I'm Shea," she said, sticking her hand out.

"Oh hi, I'm Ray," Ray said, taking her hand to shake it.

Soon, they strike up a conversation. Occasionally, Ray laughed at some of Shea's jokes. Zarine looked from the other side of the gym with dislike. Why couldn't she make Ray laugh like that?

Then, the teacher blew his whistle, signaling for the game to start. The two teams were evenly matched. Zarine, Kenny, and Max were on defense. Jewels was the goalie and saved every goal. Once, a guy came close to the goal with the ball, but Zarine managed to take the ball away and kicked it hard to the other side of the field. Harder than she intended...The ball flew high into the air. Shea looked up just in time to see the ball coming, landing smack on her face. The blondie cried out in pain, and held her nose. Blood was coming out rapidly.

Zarine gasped, and ran over to Shea. "I'm so sorry!" She felt bad for hitting the blue eyed girl, even though Shea should've kept an eye on the ball.

"Sir, I'll take Shea to the nurse," Ray offered. The teacher nodded, and they slowly walked back to the school.

Zarine scowled at their retreating figures. The guilt of injuring the girl was replaced with jealousy. Why the hell was Ray being so nice to Shea anyway? They've met for less than an hour. The game continued for no more than ten minutes before the bell rang.

The students all made their way back into the school to get changed out of their sweaty clothes. Zarine hurried out of the change room, hoping to catch Ray alone. She arrived just in time to see Ray bidding Shea good bye at his locker.

Carefully hiding her feeling of envy, she made her way to her boyfriend asked, "Is Shea okay now?"

"Yeah," he answered absently as he got his lunch. "Maybe you should've watched where you were kicking the ball."

Zarine felt anger and resentment filling her when he said that. "Maybe she should've kept her eyes on the game instead of gawking at you like an idiot!" she snapped before walking away, leaving him to stand alone in the hallway.

Ray watched her leave in surprise. Why was she so mad all of a sudden? He was the one who should be angry. After all, whatever she let Kai do yesterday had led to rumors about them being a couple.

When he spotted his friends in the cafeteria, he marched right in front of the blue haired boy. "Kai, we need to talk," he said firmly. Kai nodded and followed Ray outside.

"Wonder what they could be talking about?" Tyson mused. "Zarine, do you know what they're talking about?"

"How should I know? Ray doesn't tell me everything, you know," Zarine said, irritated. She turned her eyes on the back of the room, not really seeing anything at all. She tried to convince herself that Ray wouldn't leave her for someone else and that she was just being paranoid about the whole thing.

Suddenly, someone hissed in her ear, "Zarine! Snap out of it!"

The girl with the silver hair jumped slightly. "What??" She turned her attention to Carrie.

The red head nudged her with an elbow and stared pointedly at someone standing beside her.

Zarine turned around and saw Leo there. "Oh, hi!"

"I was wondering if I did anything to offend you. You were just staring at me with an angry expression for five minutes," Leo said.

"What? I was? Sorry, it's not you. It's something else..." she assured him with a smile.

"All right then. Catch you later!" he said and gave her a wink.

In the courtyard...

Ray glared at Kai. "Would you mind explaining the rumors about you and Zarine?"

"What would you want me to say? I didn't start them," Kai said.

"You must have done something to make people think that you are!" Ray said heatedly. "Gavin said that you acted like you owned Zarine or something and at lunch when he was talking to her, you told him to stop.

Kai snorted. "Well, Gavin is known for making himself look innocent when he's not. In the morning, he asked Zarine if he would go out with him. Zarine told him that she wasn't available. He didn't just 'talk' to her at lunch. He was hitting on your girlfriend when he knew that she's not single. Jewels was telling them to stop, but they ignored her. I had to step in. I won't stand for people disobeying Jewels, you got that? If word gets out that someone actually succeeds in getting away with going against her, then her reputation is ruined. Now who do you believe? Me or that desperate creep? If you don't believe me, just ask Zarine. She is your girlfriend, and I bet she would blow up in your face if you ever tell her that you think she's lying." (This is like the longest speech that Kai had ever said to people!! He had changed....)

"Fine, I believe you," Ray said. "Let's go back in and eat." They arrived just in time to hear Carrie squeal, "Oh my gosh! One of the hottest guy in the school just winked at you! Aren't you excited?? Maybe you two will go out or something."

"Well, I already have a boyfriend," Zarine said.

"You never said you had one!" Carrie said. "Who is it?"

"Ray," she replied, eating the last bit of her Fruit by the Foot. "I don't intend to leave him for anyone."

[But who knows about him? Maybe he would want Shea instead of me.] she thought.

Carrie looked at Zarine, then at Ray, and then back at Zarine again. "You never told me that you and Ray are going out! But I think you two would look cute together. Why don't you sit beside each other so I can see if I'm right or not?"

Zarine met Ray's gaze uncertainly. Ray looked just as hesitant as she. He wondered if she was still upset about whatever it was that bothered her. He stood up and walked around the table to sit down in the empty spot beside her, never taking his eyes off hers. Slowly, he put his arm around her shoulder, not sure how she would react. She didn't brush him away, but she felt tense to Ray.

"I was right! You look so cute!" Carrie exclaimed.

Zarine gave her red haired friend a small smile and swiftly changed the subject, "Why doesn't Jewels eat lunch with us?"

"She used to, but she doesn't anymore. I don't know why though," Max said, puzzled. "Why doesn't she?"

Carrie's gaze flickered to Kai before answering carefully, "She said she doesn't want to." It was partly true, since Jewels doesn't want to be with Kai unless he makes peace with her first.

Kai was just opening his mouth to say something, but Hilary's yell cut him short. "TYSON! YOU CREEP!" Everyone turned to look at the source of the commotion.

The object of her anger was laughing hysterically, rolling on the floor, tears running down his face. "Haha, you should have seen your face!"

"What has he done now?" Carrie asked exasperatedly.

"He put a spider in my hair!" Hilary practically screamed at her friend.

Kenny chided, "Tyson, that wasn't very nice."

"Aw, come on! It was just a joke!" Tyson said.

"A very humorless one if you ask me," Hilary said furiously, lowering her voice low enough for people within five meters of her could hear.

"You –" He began to say, but someone in the cafeteria yelled, "Stop arguing so we can actually get some peace and quiet for once!" Everyone nodded simultaneously in agreement.

Tyson shut his mouth and glared at Hilary. The brunette returned the glare and wondered why the heck she liked such a jerk in the first place.
Okay, I'm really sorry if this chapter is bad. I'm running out of ideas, so if you have any, email me please!!!