A/N: Sorry it took so long to update and sorry this chapter is gonna be short, but I really can't write a long story at the moment for my life's sake. . .unless you guys just don't care about me and just want my stories. . .which you probably don't.

means questions and answer time. . .

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Chapter One

The sun formed a stream of light across the floor and bed as the rays danced across the closed eyes of the man that laid on the large bed. Brown eyes slowly opened to the bright morning light and snapped back shut as those eyes began to sting.

Slowly, the arms of the delicate person that rested there pushed his heavy body up so he was sitting and once more those brown eyes opened.

Doors to the quiet room opened with a bang as they hit the walls on each side, causing the man to cringe slightly.

"Preator, you must get up. It is already way past your normal waking hour." a small girl squeaked out as she quickly went into a graceful bow before Baralai.

"I'm sorry I slept to late." came Baralai's soft reply as he stood from the soft bed and walked quickly over to the closet on the opposite side of the large room.

Soft hands seemed to float up to the handle on the door and swiftly open them with a few steps back to keep from hitting himself. Those brown eyes quickly scanned the clothes that filled the closet as the girl that had come into the room walked out with her head slightly bowed. With a quick sigh he reached in and pulled out a pair of pants and a shirt that looked almost identical to the ones he wore when working and sometimes when with his friends.

Baralai walked into the bathroom connected to his room and quickly stripped down to nothing, placing the clothes he wore the day before in the basket near the door. Turning the metal faucet on the wall, he stepped into the shower and let the warm water run down his slender body as he placed both hands on the wall before him and let his head droop down.

Thoughts poured into his now filled mind as the water rushed out of the shower head and beat down on the young preator.

'Are they really my friends? Must I push them away? What about Gippal? What is he going to think of me if I tell him?' a sigh escaped his damp lips as he was crushed under the weight of his own thoughts.

Baralai reached for the shampoo and poured some in his hand before thoroughly massaged his hair and head with his hands. Slowly he placed his head under the still warm water and let the soap run down his body and down the drain. Quickly he did the same with the conditioner and then the body wash before he stepped out of the shower, the water turning cooler then before, and grabbed his towel that rested on the sink.

A knock sounded off the bathroom door, the preator still drying himself off, Baralai sighed and pulled on the tan pants before he slightly opened the white, oak door and waited for the person to speak.

"Baralai, may I talk to you?" the slightly manly, feminine voice asked the shirtless man with a look of sadness or hatred in her eyes, one could never tell with Paine.

Baralai nodded before he grabbed the shirt from the sink that matched the pants he now wore and pulled it on. Baralai walked out of the room and sat on the silk bed beside the platinum haired girl that seemed to have something 'important' on her mind, though he didn't think anything could be that important to interrupt someone from their thoughts, no matter how annoying those thoughts were, at the moment.

So why, you may ask, is he even going to listen to the woman that was annoying him at the moment even though she has done absolutely nothing to the man?

For the sake of not having to listen to the thoughts that were bugging him worse then Paine could ever.

So why, you may ask again, was he even annoyed with her in the first place?

Well the answer to that would only lead us into a never ending circle of nothings that would become so boring even I do not wish to say.

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"You should tell him." was the first thing that blurted from Paine's mouth as she quietly scanned the room in search of something to look at other then Baralai.