Hello my reading monkey slaves. -Laughs maniacally until smacked upside the head- Sorry about that…uh…here's a new chapter! -Laughs some more-

For those keeping score at home, we're on Chapter Six…and mental health professionals are on their way to take you to the Happy Place

Carly sat patiently with Raimundo clinging to her jacket crying. Clay and Scotty sat on Raimundo's other side, both already had soaked shoulders. "Raimundo," Carly eventually said, "What are you crying about again? I forgot." This was met with a wail and louder sobbing. She sighed and patted the boy on the back. "We have to do something," she mouthed over to the others who nodded.

"Don't worry, Rai," Clay pried his friend off of Carly and patted him hard on the back, "We'll find you another lil lady," he gave Rai a big smile. "Plenty of cows in the herd,"

"None with sky blue eyes like Kimiko," he fell onto his Texan friend and began crying again.

Carly's neutral sympathetic look hardened into a determined scowl. She stood, yanked Raimundo onto his feet and whirled him around to face her. "What is your problem?" she shouted in his tear streaked face. Before he could answer, she drill-sergeant brigade went on, "Do you know what a girl does when her heart gets shattered?" there was a twang of pain in her voice, almost as if she spoke from personal experience, "A girl sits around for days crying and sobbing about their ex. She calls her best friend at two in the morning sobbing uncontrollably because 'their song' came on the radio. That best friend is then forced through the nine levels of hell until the dumped find another 'soul mate' then there's a while of happiness and peace for the friend, until the inevitable break up rears its ugly head and the whole thing starts all over again." She stopped and there was an angry fire in her amber eyes. Through pure guess, she was 'the friend'. "Do you know what a guy does?" she returned to her original subject, "After being dumped and disrespected, he'll be sad for a while, sure, she was a nice girl, but it wasn't meant to be. And they're over it, like that." she snapped her fingers, "They pick themselves up and go out into the world and find somebody else. So, Rai," Her eyes drilled holes into his. "Are you a girl? Or a guy? 'Cause you're really girling out on us right now." She crossed her arms over her chest and waited for his reply.

Raimundo stood and ran her rant through his head. Just like she'd said, he was acting like a total girl. He could find someone else. Hell, he'd find someone better than Kim. "You're right, Carly!" he said smiling. "I'll find a better girl. This place is full of eligible ladies,"

"Okay, you go out there and get 'em, tiger!" She pushed him off like a baby bird from it's nest. They all watched as the confident Brazilian boy trudged away and turned the corner. "I think my motivational speech worked too well," Carly said a little bit worried.

"Yeah," Scotty said, "He's gonna come back with slap marks all over his face," All three had a good laugh at her words.

XxX Hey, let's check up on Raimundo's "Girl Search" XxX

"So you like soccer, too?" he was talking to the dragon of steel, a girl of medium height and weight, nothing really special, except her hair which was black streaked with silver and gray, she had similar eyes.

"Yep," she replied, "Not my favorite sport though, my favorite is curling, eh." She was from Canada. AN: Curling is like the national sport of Canada, it's the one with the ice and the brooms.

"Interesting," Rai said beginning to lose interest, "Well, it was nice talking to you." He got up, "We'll have to do it again sometime," He quickly walked away. Tori found him.

"She's really pretty, you know,"

"Who?"

"Kimiko," Tori said. "I can see why you like her so much."

"Yeah…" They both kept walking, taking no care in their destination.

"You don't like me, do you?" Tori said after a while of silence.

"What? No, I like you,"

"But not in the way I like you. That's the only reason I've been hanging around with Steve, I want Kimiko to be jealous of me so she'll go to you. I wish you only the best,"

"So you're trying to hook Kim up with me?" he asked. She nodded glumly. "That's really nice." He put a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm trying, but I don't think it's working," she sat on a bench and Rai sat beside her, "She's too interested in Steve. I can't get her mad enough to leave him alone."

"Hey, I've got an idea," Rai leaned over and began to whisper his plan in the Grecian's ear.

XxX Later…. XxX

"Okay," Raimundo said. He and Tori stood in the doorway of the grand hall looking at their friends eating dinner and sitting at their usual table. "You ready?" She nodded and he picked her up newlywed style. She put her arms around his neck. "This had better work," he muttered. They both put on big fake smiles and Rai walked into the hall laughing as loud as he could. Everyone looked at them, perfect. He strode right up to the table and put the girl down. "I can't believe that!" he faked having heard some unbelievable story. "That is hilarious." He sat down beside her and put an arm around his shoulder. He glanced at the others at the table. Omi and Nisha were exchanging light kisses and giggling, doing their own thing basically. Carly and Clay looked at Rai and Tori in puzzlement. Scotty seemed to have figured it out and was looking at Kimiko and Steve. Kimiko had a bit of an angry look on her, still pissed at Rai clearly, but there was a bit of relief. Probably that Rai was leaving her alone. Steve had a look of disbelief and shock that he was desperately trying to hide. Damn, the opposite of what he wanted. "So Kimiko," he hissed, "How was your day?"

"Fine," she snapped, "Except for you trying to molest me," she glared at him. He back away. The rest of the meal passed in awkward silence. At some point, Nisha and Omi disappeared. Carly muttered something about studying for a chemistry test and skipped away. Scotty yawned and wandered away; Clay soon followed. Tori pulled Steve outside to talk with him and Rai was left alone with Kimiko again. Just before she got up, Rai grabbed her arm.

"Can I talk to you, Kim?" he asked pulling her back down. She glared at him for a second, but then softened her expression a bit and nodded. He sighed. "I'm really sorry about earlier. I just…"-there was an awkward pause for a whole minute-"…like you, a lot, like you more than just friendship." He put his hand on her shoulder. She shrugged him off and turned away a bit.

"I don't know what to say to that," she whispered. "I need sometime to think." She got up and quickly walked away before Raimundo could stop her.

Clay lay on his bed staring at the ceiling. He was tired, but he couldn't sleep. Carly had her stereo blasting on across the hall. If it were anybody else, he would've got over and given them a piece of his mind, but it was Carly. He got up and walked across the hall. "You're so nineteen-ninety! And it's nineteen-ninety-four! Leave this world behind me 'cause you don't want me anymore." The slightly muffled music sang. He pounded on the door. There was shuffling of papers for a second then the soft patter of feet, and Carly opened the door. The music flowed out into the hall like a poisonous gas, even louder than before. "Can you turn that down?" Clay shouted. She nodded and disappeared for a second, the music was now almost too soft to hear. But that didn't matter anymore; she pulled him onto the room and shut the door with a snap. She turned to face him. One of the straps of her camisole had slid down her arm; Clay reached forward and pushed it back onto her shoulder. Carly threw her arms around his neck and pulled his body up against hers. Their lips met suddenly. She swept her tongue across his lips begging entrance, which he gladly granted. Their kiss deepened. Both tongues wandered and tasted new mouths. She moaned softly as he put his arms around her. Clay left her lips and left a trail of soft delicate kisses down Carly's neck and across her collarbone. He stopped completely and looked his love in her eyes. She looked puzzled as to why he'd stopped. Clay took a deep breath and asked, "Can I sleep with you tonight?" Carly detangled her body from his and took a step away, her face was bright red. "What's wrong?" he put his arms around her waist from behind. "We've slept together before, don't ya remember?"

"Well yeah," she removed Clay's arms like a belt and turned to face him. "But, we were six years old; this is a little bit different."

"I won't do anything if you don't want it, I promise," he took her hands in his. "So?" She was quiet for a moment but answered with a small kiss.

"Just for tonight," She swiftly crossed the room and cleared the bed of the binders, text books and papers. "Can you believe my dad still wants me to learn a standard high school curriculum?" She climbed into bed with Clay and snapped off the light. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders. She nuzzled his neck and her finger followed random patterns across his bare chest. Her breath slowed and her hand rested. Clay stared at the ceiling again, but now with his girlfriend by his side. Clay'd never thought he'd call Carly his girlfriend. The radio was still on, but very, very faint. "Forever love, say you'll love, Dígame, Dígame. Tell me so; I can hold you in my soul. If I go, I'll know…" He drifted off into a deep dreamless sleep.

Okay, those songs were Shoebox by none other than Barenaked Ladies, and Forever Love (Dígame) by Anna Nalick, it's a really slow pretty song so I wanted to use it. I hope that make out scene didn't totally suck because I'm not great at that stuff. It took me like three days to write this chapter, I kept getting distracted by the visualizations on my Windows Media Player. Unlike the lie I told last chapter, updates will now REALLY be more frequent. Now if you will excuse me, I really need some sleep. R&R

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