Here's the next chapter, from the reviews I got I thougt I better put it up before I was jumped (smile). I want to say thanks to Rissy-Riss and meeohmai for my first reviews, thanks bunches! I'm glad you like my story so much and I hope this next chapter doesn't disappoint. Enjoy.

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Kai

I think I jumped so hard I sprained something. I opened and closed my mouth a few times completely unable to think of anything to say and then he had the nerve to laugh. Yes, that's right, laugh. He was laughing so hard he had to lean against the side of the school so he wouldn't fall over.

"What are you laughing about?" I finally asked, my curiosity getting the better of me. I mean he doesn't actually look like the type to be doing any laughing period. He just shook his head and laughed harder, this time making me mad. "If you don't tell me I'm going to…"

"Please, don't." He choked out. He turned away and then after a few seconds he turned back with his normal demeanor. "I apologize, but you have got to be one of the weirdest kids I have ever met." He said this all with a small smirk on his face. How dare he! Before I could rip off his head he raised a hand and said, "One second you're blushing because someone has noticed you and the next you jump some poor unsuspecting girl and kick her ass."

"Hm, well I don't know what you're talking about and that 'poor unsuspecting girl' had it coming. She poured her lunch down my front on purpose, and what I don't understand is why you stopped me." I was quite shocked when he looked at me thoughtfully and then answered.

"I wanted to know how you could go into a blood rage so quickly." I stared up at him for moment in complete shock and then brushed him off with a,

"I don't know what you're talking about." I turned to leave but found myself trapped between the wall and Kai. I don't know how he did it but he had me by both arms and he was pressed so close that I couldn't retaliate. I struggled of course, but I don't think my body even moved.

"I think you do," he whispered right in my ear. "And I'm going to find out whether you tell me now or not." I almost fell over when he pulled away abruptly and finally heard Matt's voice calling me. I turned around as he came outside with Lily in tow.

"There you are we've been looking for you everywhere! I must say that was quite an exit you two made, you should have see Veronica's face. Not only do you beat her upbut you were practically stolen away by the guy she says she claimed. I swear if I died right now I would die with a smile. Take that Veronica!" With that she pumped her arm up in the air twice narrowly avoiding hitting Matt in the face.

I frowned slightly and looked at my watch; everyone was looking at me expectantly. I looked up, slightly dazed and then out of nowhere I wailed.

"Oh no, the bell has already rung! I'm going to be so late!" With that I ran back into the school past some very surprised teens. I really didn't want to talk to anyone right now and I was really late.

"Well, that was a little weird," Lily finally said to break the uncomfortable silence.

"Yah, what did you say to her Kai? I have never seen her so worked up in such a long time!" Matt was standing off to the side and seemed to almost be talking to himself even though he had addressed his question to Kai.

"What I find weird is that Kat wasn't blushing and stammering at all. You must have said something to break through that shell of hers to get her to open up like that. I know, I know, it doesn't look like she was opening up at all but I haven't known her since forever for nothing. I know her better then I know myself, what did you say?" She was staring at Kai with such intensity that you would have thought he would be a little put off… well if he was he wasn't showing it.

"I have no idea," was all he would say before walking into the school, trying very hard to ignore the pair of green eyes that stared at his back thoughtfully.

I sighed with relief as the school bell rang for the final time that day. I don't think I could stand any more of the stares and whispering I was getting. So maybe punching out Veronica had not been a good idea if I wanted to continue my imitation of a ghost but I couldn't help myself. Adding to that was the fact that Kai knew. What he knew I wasn't sure, but he did know something. Great, I thought, now I just have to avoid him for the rest of life, it shouldn't be that hard.

"Hey." I shrieked and whipped around, tripping right into someone and knocking them over. We hit the ground with a thump and just laid there for a moment trying to breath. With a groan I rolled of the person letting them get up before I decided I had better get up to. I looked up and found Kai glaring down at me. I mentally cringed but decided not to show that he was the last person I wanted to see right now.

"Don't you think you should try to be more careful?" He asked as he reached out his hand to help me up. I ignored it and struggled up on my own practically hissing.

"If you wouldn't sneak up behind me and grab my shoulder I wouldn't have knocked you over in the first place." Okay, so maybe the whole 'not showing him he was the last person I wanted to see right now' thing wasn't going to work.

"You know I have this friend, Ray, who is very similar to you in some ways."

"Really?" I asked sarcastically, "and you would know this after having met me only this morning?"

"The main similarity is that he can go into blood rages too. The only difference between his blood rage and yours is that it takes a lot for him to go into one while if you aren't concentrating you go into it at the smallest things." He talked in a companionable kind of way and when we reached my locker he leant against the one beside mine.

"Why don't I give you a lift and we could talk a little more?" He asked, giving me a small smile. Now that was unnerving, he was trying very hard to be nice when you could tell he just wanted to bite my head off. I sighed in frustration and ran a hand through my hair. It was now almost completely out of my braid now and sticking out all over the place.

"I think that's a great idea!" I winced and turned around where Lily and Matt were coming up behind us, they had probably been eavesdropping the whole time!

"But Lily, we were supposed to do something tonight." I gave her the puppy dog eyes but being her usually heartless, cruel self she chose to ignore me. I turned the look on Matt and he started to sweat, struggling with himself. Lily must have seen this because she instantly grabbed his arm and waved to us as she dragged him away. "Bye Kiwi, bye Kai, we'll see you around. Oh and I'll call you later!"

That was it, they were gone. Today had not been a fun day, all together to much attention had been brought to me and I didn't like. I think my face was going to be in a permanent blush for the rest of my life. I sighed; grabbing my stuff I quickly shut my locker and followed Kai out into the parking lot. It seemed that Kai had over talked today and was now making up for it with silence. Not that I minded that much.

"No way." I stopped dead in my tracks as I saw where Kai was heading. Nothing and I mean nothing could get me on the back of, of that thing. He just gave me a look and threw me a helmet as he swung his leg over his motorcycle. Yep, you heard me correctly, a motorcycle. What kind you might ask and I would answer if I do not like motorcycles do you think I can tell the difference between all of the black monsters?I think not.

"Get on." I frowned then made some unintelligent noises and shoved the helmet on my head, struggling with the straps. He reached over and snapped them shut. I then started to fix my bag so it would hang comfortably on my back as he started the thing. I reluctantly swung my leg over it and then had to grab onto his waist tight as he instantly shot out of the parking lot.

"What do you think your doing," I shouted over the noise of the bike, "I could have fallen off." I think at that point he was getting tired of me and muttered something under his breath like 'we could only hope' so after that I decided to keep my lips shut.

After a while I started to relax and I leant my head against his back. NOT in a cuddly sort of way but in an 'I'm really tired it been that kind of day' way. I jerked up as we slowed down and came to a stop in one of our gangs hang out spots.

"What are we doing here; I thought you were driving me home!" He just sighed and gave me another look. He has definitely talked too much today, now all he can resort to doing is looking. "Yah yah, 'how could we talk on a motorcycle,' let's just go in and get this over with." I rolled my eyes and made a face at his back.

As we entered the cool interior of The Maximum I visibly relaxed, I mean usually I'm really tense around strangers but Kai's aloofness has thrown me off balance and I can't seem to figure out why I'm okay with him. Oh well, some thoughts for another day.

"What did you really want to talk about anyway?" Even though I knew,I waited a moment to make sure he wasn't going toanswer before trying a different tactic. "I refuse to tell you anything." Well, it was worth a try.

We headed towards a table in the back and I continued babbling about useless stuff like how Lily and Matt know I went with him and that if I wasn't home by a certain time people would come looking for me. As we sat down he gave me another look.

"A small vanilla milkshake." I realized there was a waiter standing over the table looking at me with raised eyebrows as I started to blush and stammer so finally Kai just told him to get me the same thing.

Out of nowhere he quietly asked, "Why do they call you Kiwi?" I glanced at him in surprise; I honestly hadn't thought he noticed.

"Well, it's actually really embarrassing… okay you win. It was my sixth birthday and my mom and dad decided to get me a 'kiwi tree.' Not a real one, Idon't evewn know if you get kiwis form trees,but they bought a whole bunch of them and tied them to one. They had put it outside and so when Lily and Matt got there we went out and I was showing it off. I was six okay! Besides, I really liked kiwis. Anyway Matt and Lily thought it would be funny to open some of them and cover my hair in them. I ended up with kiwi juice covering me from head to toe. Lily was the one that started calling me Kiwi all the time, Matt hasn't called me that in a while but he started up again a while ago."

I smiled fondly at the memory and then realized that our shakes had arrived. I slowly reached out a grabbed mine taking a small sip. Kai just seemed to be staring off into space; he hasn't even had any of his milkshake yet!

"So, what did you really want to talk about?" He snapped out of it and looked at me as if wondering if he should talk to me or not. I started getting frustrated at his silence, when I don't want to talk to him he always is and now that I want to he won't talk! "If you're not going to talk I'm leaving." As I stood up to leave he grabbed my wrist.

"Where are you going, I was the one that drove you here." Oops, I forgot about that. As I was trying to think of something to say to cover up my embarrassment he gently pushed me back into my seat. "I just wanted to talk about… stuff. You don't have to tell me anything you don't want to. Think of this as a date."

I think I was doing fish imitations for about a whole minute before I smiled,pretending to ignore the date comment. "Okay, stuff huh? What kind of stuff? There's school, or friends or home…" I stopped as he nodded.

"Well let's see. I live with my mom and dad and I also have a little sister. She actually entered high school this year but she doesn't like it when we talk because she thinks it will ruin her image," at this I made a face before continuing. "She doesn't really look like me, she has short lavender coloured hair that she spikes and our body shapes are completely different, she always jokes about how I'm an alien from another planet." I laughed at this, remembering how we used to play 'alien attack' and how she would always make me the alien.

"What about your parents?" I was so caught up in the telling that I didn't notice Lily and Matt were sneaking up behind.

"Oh they aren't the typical parents, my dad's an artist and my mom runs a business. Don't ask what it is 'cause I don't know. I like to paint like my dad though, he used to always let me paint a little something on some of his works when I was little and… EEK!"

I actually fell out of my chair but not before grabbing the person behind me and dragging them with me. "Lily!" I instantly laughed and we rolled around on the floor like we were three again and rough housing.

As we sat up I noticed everyone was looking at us, I couldn't help it. I started blushing and stuttering like mad again before rushing to the washroom. Lily, who was laughing, followed with a wave towards the guys. "We'll be back in a minute."

"If you hurt her you do realized that we will have to hurt you." Kai turned to look at Matt who was now occupied Kat's seat.

"I wasn't planning to." Was all Kai said before standing up as the girls returned. "Come on Kat, I'll drive you home now."

Now this is a little strange, Matt stood up too and I could see there was some tension between them.

"As long as we understand each other then," Matt said seriously and Kai just gave him a little smile as he took my arm and steered me out the door. Lily and Matt followed and got into Lily's car and I waved goodbye to them as they exited the parking lot. Like I said before, strange… wait a minute, what were they doing here in the first place!

"They followed us!" I exclaimed, "I can't believe it!" I turned as Kai threw the extra helmet at me again.

"They were taking pictures too." Was all he said as he started up the bike.

"What! And you didn't tell me!" I whacked his shoulder and made him do up the stupid helmet before getting on behind him. We drove through town and I pointed out my street for him to turn into. Now that I think about it motorcycles aren't all that bad…

He stopped in front of my house when I tapped him on the shoulder. As I got off I said, "Thanks for the milkshake and the ride home, it was nice talking to you. See you tomorrow at school?"

Kai nodded at took off at about a million kilometers an hour and as I turned to go inside I stopped. "Oops! I forgot to give him back his helmet, oh well, I guess I'll give it back tomorrow." As I looked inside the helmet I noticed there was a piece of paper. I took it out and read out loud.

"I'll pick you up at 8:20 tomorrow." I smiled as I enteredthe house.

There you go, tell me what you think and any suggestions you have when you review (though I'll try to put in some of your suggestions I might not be able to put them all in if they don't fit with the plot).