Chapter 4

With Taiki tucked in his bed, Talis went to her own room. She closed the door and leaned against it. It was a regular old room, spacious, but not big, had a double sized bed with blue covers, a few dressers here and there, a closet, white walls with a few posters of bands and a desk with a computer on it. Talis sighed and hugged herself.

'Maybe...maybe I should give dating a second chance...' Talis thought, then shook her head, 'No, I will not get hurt again.'

Talis leaned her head back and closed her eyes.

-Dream-

A girl of fifteen strugged as her boyfriend tried to give her a forced kiss. It was Talis.

"Greg! Let me go!" Talis yelled at him as he held her wrists firmly. She cried as he tightened his grip.

"Never," He said as he began to kiss her neck.

"LET ME GO YOU BASTARD!" Talis shouted in the dark alley.

"Tsk, tsk, Talis. You shouldn't have done that, now I'll have to hurt you," Greg said with an evil grin and a evil gleam in his grey eyes as he pulled out a knife from his pocket. Talis screamed, kicking her legs.

"Greg! What are you doing?" Greg turned around and saw a tall man.

"Father! I was just...teaching this girl a lesson," Greg answered. Talis turned to her savior and paled. Only one thought ran through her mind.

'What does he mean his father! That's my father...unless...' Her eyes widened as she screamed.

-End of Dream-

Talis awoke with a jolt and looked at the clock on one of her dressers. It read 12:03. Talis groaned and walked over to her bed.

'Stupid nightmare...won't leave me alone...' Talis went in her bed, and tucked her knees underneath her chin.

'It was a stupid nightmare...it won't happen again...please, don't let there be any bastards here...' Talis sighed as she put her head on her pillow and went to sleep.

Kashia panted as she reached her room and slammed the door. Immediately, she began to cry. She sniffed and walked over to her desk where a book laid. She opened it and was faced with writing, her writing, it was her diary.

Kashia flipped a few pages and finally stopped to a page where there was a five-year-old, blonde hair girl with her arm around a four-year-old, blonde boy. Kashia stroked the picture, then turned to a new page. She took a pen and began to write.

Dear Diary,

Another event in hell. I hate my life...why couldn't anything good happen for once! Everything was normal, Tomeko was trying to get me to do her homework and that's when I saw Jas...oh gosh! If only he knew! I could tell him anything...and I would actually have a friend! If only everything was good for me, if only I was normal...well...to everybody, this is normal...but I want a normal life where I am accepted!

I wish everything happened in the past never happened! I wish that I had friends again, good ones. I wish I had my brother back. I wish mom was alive. I wish that day never happened...but it did, and I can't change the past. If only my 'dad' was never a drunk, maybe life would be good, I would have my little bro, and he would understand me. I would have mom hugging me everyday and asking, 'how was your day?' even if it was crummy. But I don't have them. I only have a title that I hate and that is one of the school sluts.

"Kashia! Time for dinner!" Kashia heard her foster father yell. Kashia wrote one more thing, then left for dinner, the picture on her diary.

-Next day-

"Out of my way, slut," A girl said, as Kashia walked through the crowd.

"Watch out, slut!" A guy yelled. Kashia's pace became faster. From the wall near the bathrooms, Talis saw Kashia practically run away.

"Hey...aren't sluts suppose to be popular?" Talis asked. She recongized the girl as one of the girls that hung out with Tomeko. She had dirty brown hair and pink eyes.

"Ordinarily, but there are actually a lot of decent guys here who don't go for sluts like her, but they still feel up their own girlfriends," Jas said as he also watched Tomeko.

"Not just with the guys..but doesn't she have any friends either?" Talis asked. Jas shook his head.

"Not one!"

"Nope, Tomeko doesn't count since she only uses her for 'helping' with her homework."

"What's her story?" Talis asked. Jas was about the reply, but stopped.

"Actually, I don't know her story..never bothered to ask."

"She lost her virginity before she came to this school," Mokuba answered, as he exited the guy's bathroom, "She moved here during 10th grade and met a friend, Orisia Kistikten, who is really popular. The story I heard was that Kashia told her something, and being the blabber mouth Orisia is, she told everyone, and the secret was that she lost her virginity. That's why she is one of the 'School Sluts', though she isn't a big one like Tomeko, but she is still declared one because of that."

"Holy crap! And what happened to Orisia?" Talis asked.

"She's still here, still sort of high and mighty. She tells everyone that Kashia was a threat to her and had to ruin her as fast as she could." Mokuba answered, "Kashia was held back a year because of Orisia's torments, eventually, they died down and Kashia is doing a bit better, since she's making it though. She was suppose to be a senior this year and graduate."

Talis griminced, "Orisia sounds really cruel."

"You should see her around Mokuba, even though Mokuba is a year younger, she gives him the flirty eye ever since he was in 10th grade." Jas said.

"I am here you know," Mokuba said, with a angry vein.

"Oh yeah.." Jas put an arm around Talis' shoulder, "Come, Talis, let's talk about Mokuba in private." Talis smirked as she and Jas started walking.

"Get back here you two!" Mokuba ran to catch up.

"So, what do you guys have?" Talis laughed as Mokuba walked beside her.

"Japanese." Mokuba answered.

"Language." Jas answered.

"You guys stink!" Talis yelled, "I have math."

"Nothing bad about math..." Jas said.

"Because you're a stinkin' genius!" Mokuba yelled.

"Well...true..." Jas smiled. Talis grabbed Jas' collar.

"Help me!"

"I will...after classes, since I'm not in your class," Jas answered.

"Great.." Talis grumbled as she walked into her math class. She looked around for a seat and found Kashia at the back, near the window.

'I thought she went the other way...' Talis thought. She walked over to the seat next to her and sat down.

"Hi! I'm Talis, I'm in your gym class." Talis said to Kashia. Kashia slowly turned around and looked at the girl beside her. She looked side to side and looked back at Talis.

"Are you talking to me?" Kashia asked. Talis nodded.

"I'm Kashia..." She replied, unsure of herself.

"Cool! Hey, do you know anyone else in this class that's in our gym class?" Talis asked, looking around. Kashia shook her head.

"Darn! Thought there might be...anyway, want to hang out with me at lunch? We can go get some smoothies!" Talis asked. Kashia looked at her, and smiled.

"Sure, that would be...great." Kashia answered.

"Awesome!" Talis said as the teacher entered. The class started off with introductions then they started their first unit: angles.

"I always spell 'angles' angels." Talis said as she erased her title. Kashia looked over at her and smiled.

'Wow...she's so...nice...that's so...nice for once...'

"Kashia?" Talis tried to snap Kashia out of her trance. Kashia grinned sheepishly.

"Sorry, I tend to daydream a lot.."

"No prob! I'm a dreamer myself! I do it to think of a happy world," Talis explained.

"I thought you had a happy world, I mean, you seem really happy right now, and you probably have loads of friends! At least you don't have a reputition like me..." Kashia said.

"I don't judge people by their reputation, I would usually get to know them first before judging them unless they did something rude to me first, then I tend to judge them by their actions," Talis explained.

"Would you ladies like to talk about your conversation in front of the class?" Sensei Umigan asked, tapping her foot impatiently.

"Uh...no thank you Sensei Umigan, I was just explaining to Talis how to measure a reflex angle." Kashia said smoothly, surprising Talis. Class was over and done with. Talis bid her new friend goodbye.

"Meet me at the big cherry blossom tree at lunch time, OK?" Talis asked. Kashia agreed and they said goodbye until lunch. Talis walked to her buisness class and spotted Jas and Mokuba saving a seat for her.

"Hey guys!" Talis greeted as she sat in front of Mokuba.

"Yo yo, Tally! What's up?" Jas asked. Talis raised her eyebrows.

"Nothing, just invited a new friend to lunch," Talis answered, turning to face Mokuba and Jas who was next to him. Mokuba leaned against his desk.

"Who?" He asked.

"Kashia," Talis answered simply. She saw the look on their faces, "Before you say anything, Kashia is really nice, and I want her to get some real friends that doesn't use her for homework."

"Tomeko is going to hate you for taking her homework 'helper'," Jas said.

"I know, I don't care," Talis said as she turned around to face the front. Lunch finally came and Talis, Mokuba and Jas walked to the cherry blossom tree. Mokuba and Jas sat down while Talis looked around for Kashia.

"Where is she?" Talis whispered.

"Talis!" Talis turned around and saw Kashia running up to them, "Hey, sorry about that, I tried to get away from Tomeko as fast as I could."

"No prob! You might already know Mokuba and Jas, right?" Kashia turned to them, but her eyes widened at the sight of Jas.

"H..hi!" Kashia stuttered.

"Hey there, you know, you look really farmilliar, and not because I've seen you at school," Jas said. Kashia shook her head.

"People said I have a farmilliar face sometimes," Kashia said as she sat down right next to him. Talis sat down to Mokuba and they all had some conversation.

"Oh no!" Kashia whispered. Talis turned to her.

"What's the matter?" Talis asked. Kashia pointed forward with her nose and they saw Tomeko and the rest of her posse coming.

"Hey Jas.." Tomeko said as she sat on his lap, glaring at Kashia and Talis, "Rumor has it, you're free on the market...and I'm interested in buying."

"What...?" Jas questioned, looking quite uncomfortable.

"You're not gay..so..."

"Mokuba!" Talis glared at the raven haired boy beside her.

"Like I said, Orisia has a big mouth," Mokuba whispered.

"You have an even bigger one!" Talis told him. She turned back to Jas and saw that Tomeko was pulling at his collar.

"Well..." Jas trailed off.

'Think Jas! Think! What to do to get rid of her?' Jas thought, 'I got it!'

"Mokuba, can you come here for a moment?" Jas asked. Mokuba nodded and got up and sat on the other side of Jas where it was free. Jas pushed Tomeko off his lap.

"...those rumors are wrong," Jas smirked and kissed Mokuba.

ABF: Well, I'll just leave it at that XD I was rather surprised with this ending too...so R&R