SiscoKid: Sorry this took me so long but studying for finals got in my way. I just thought you guys should know all the characters are now sixteen. I'm really sorry for not tellingeveryone earlier.

Disclaimer: As I wrote before none of these characters are mine.

Chapter 2

A FEW HOURS EARLIER

"Ungh." Rika groan as she woke up and rubbed her throbbing head. "What the hell happened last night." She asked herself as she sat up and noticed where she was and what she was wearing."What the hell am I wearing and why do these close reek so heavily of beer." Rika asked herself completely clueless.

"I could ask the same. This morning I found you in the backyard after a odd presence came and left in about a second." Renomon said making herself known in the corner of the room. "Oh and that big bump on your head might explain your lose of memory." Renomon replied answering some of Rika's questions. In return Rika checked the top of her head for the bump and found it from the pain she felt once she touched it. "Hmm well aren't you smart." Rika said as she raised herself out of her futon and stripped out of the close she was wearing then went over to her closet to get a robe. "I need to take a shower so can you dispose of these close before my mother has a heart attack from seeing beer scented boys close in my room." Rika asked before she left the room.

Rika walked across the hall to the bathroom and shed off the little articles of closing she still had on. Then Rika turned on the shower and stepped in. Knowing she was alone she decided to use the time to think. 'Okay so the last I can remember from last night is being over at Jeri's. I, I was helping her remember her lines for our schools up coming play 1949 Radio station. Then we, we I think we ate dinner. Ya that's what we did we ate then I left to go home and.'- "OWWWW!" Rika thoughts were stopped by a sharp pain from her head. "I guess that's all I can remember." Rika confirmed out loud as she turn the shower off and reached for a towel.

Rika emerged out of the bathroom after drying herself and brushing her teeth. She walked back into her room to find the close and Renomon nowhere to be found. "Wonder where she went off to" Rika asked herself as she slowly got dressed. First she put her hair in a ponytail then she put on a long sleeve white T shirt with a logo of a full blue heart in the center and a pair of tight dark blue jeans. She looked her self up and down in the mirror and smiled.

'I wonder if he will notice me today.' She mused to herself happily but quickly turned bitter. "Like I care." Rika said as she walked out of her room and down the hall to the dinning room. Where she found Renomon her mother and grandmother all sitting around the table.

Once she was spotted her mother leap out of her seat dramatically and met Rika with a tight embrace "We were so worried about you." She confessed as she let her go then led her to sit down at the table. "Last night that maniac killer struck again" Her grandmother said with a bit of anger. Rika looked at her confused and questioned"Yeah and what does this have to do with me?" Rikas mother who had finally recovered answered for her mother.

"Well your cloths were found at the crime scene. Plus the fact that you were missing over nearly all last night raises the question where were you." Every one at the table look at her except for Renomon who already knew there would be little of a answer. Rika looked back than slowly answered "I don't remember anything after about a block from Jeri's house." Rika eagerly wanting to changed the subject asked "So who got killed last night."

It seemed the previous conversation was forgotten as Rika's mother said "Oh its was horrible! This time it was about a dozen people and they were no older than eighteen."

"I think they might have been from your old school" Her grand mother added then listed a few names. Rika immediately recognized them to be a bunch of boys who idolized over her at her old school but she heard and saw little of them after transferring over to her new school but she wasn't going to release this information to her family. It would just raise more questions and make them worry more for her. "I never met any of them." Rika lied while munching on a piece of buttered toast.

"KNOCK" "KNOCK"

"I'll get it. Its probably Jeri anyway." Rika shouted already out of the tension filled room.

'Don't they realize I have no clue what happened last night. Do they not believe me or something.' Rika thought to herself as she opened the door.

"WHUMP!"

"Auuugh." Rika groaned with her eyes shut. She opened them to see a mass of red hair in her face as she lied on the ground with Jeri hugging her onto. The sweet red headed girl began to sob into Rika's shirt babbling a lot of stuff Rika couldn't understand. Somebarrier in Rika's heart crumbled and her eyes soften as she rubbed Jeri's head saying consoling words like I'm fine and nothing happened to me. It only took a little to cheer her up as she got off Rika and sat down next to her.

"Are you sure there's nothing wrong Rika?" she asked

Rika sat up and nodded. "I'm fine I only got a bump on my head."

Jeri whipped her eyes and questioned." What happened last night after you left my house and why were your close found at the crime scene."

"I don't remember." Rika simply said.

Jeri looked at her bug eyed. Sensing her friend confusion Rika added. "I think I got knock out on my way home from your house"

"uh huh." was Jeri's answer.

Rika rolled her eyes and said. "Lets hurry up and get to school, I'm sure the guys are just so worried about me"

Rika and Jeri walked side by side onto the school campus. Rika was listening to Jeri tell her about last night.

"So around three in the morning I called for the forty third time and your mother said you were home but asleep. After that I went to sleep peacefully knowing you were alright" Jeri finish her story just as they enter the school threw the lunch room entrance.

"How sweet." Rika said sarcastically as she spotted the group at their traditional table. The closer they got the more Rika could see one person in the group. Henry wong , the boy Rika had developed a crush onover the years. But she always messed up talking to him. It seem everything she said to him came out wrong or mean.

Today she was looking at him for a different reason.

"He looks like shit"Rika quietly told Jeri.

Jeri looked at her confused. "Who? Oh Henry, yeah Takato says he been studying hard lately."

The two girls said nothing else as they arrived at the table.

"Where's Rika?" Henry asked.

"Right here" Rika answer from behind him.

SiscoKid: Well what did you guys think. To tell you the truth I didn't really like this chapter. I mean at first I started it thinking it was cool but about half way threw I discovered it was a stupid idea. So this will be the last chapter like this. Anyway the next chapter will be up in the next day or two so keep an eye out for it.