Eric stepped out of the Cyberspace Café slightly stunned. He never thought that he could have messed up his brother's life this bad. Yet he did and he knew he'd never be forgiven.
As Eric started to walk to his car he saw a big black dog running blindly toward him.
"Hey slow down big guy." Eric cooed as the big dog slowed down.
"Woof." The dog whimpered, blood dripping down it's face.
"Ouch what happened?" Eric asked, patting the dog.
"Woof." The dog, answered, staring fearfully at Eric.
"I'm not going to hurt you." Eric soothed, grabbing his water bottle to try to clean the wound.
"Arf." The black dog jerked back at the sensation of the cold water.
"Shhh. There all better. Since your owner was dumb enough to not put tags on you I guess we'll go door to door. Come on someone must know who you belong too." Eric said replacing the water bottle and grabbing an extra belt that he carried along (he never knew why…he just did). Eric made a loop that was easy enough for the dog to take his head out of just incase he didn't like it and slowly slipped if over the dogs head.
The dog easily accepted the handmade collar and leash and followed Eric out of the parking lot, going door to door as promised.
Conner sighed, he was at the one place that could calm his nerves. He stood in a small forest, a canopy of leaves and branches over his head. Within his sight stood a old house, probably 100 or so. The old house had a lot of work to put into it but Conner had slowly been making progress. Now he stood looking at looking at it and thinking about the dreams that he had had for the future including this old house.
"What can I do now? Eric recked the rest of my life." Conner groaned before he went to start working on the house.
Kira slowly opened her eyes. After sleeping for an hour she felt rested and ready to take on whatever came her way. Until she saw the broken picture frame containing a picture of Conner and her at one of his jock parties. Seeing how happy they used to be together made Kira sick. Tipping the picture over on her way out Kira went downstairs to see Trent and Ethan quietly talking.
"Hey guys." Kira said, a small grin on her face.
"Hey Kira." Ethan said.
"How ya feeling?" Trent asked, taking a sip of his soda.
"Good, kind of hungry. But good." Kira sighed.
"We were just thinking the same thing. Why don't we order some pizza?" Ethan asked, happy to see Kira somewhat better.
"Sounds good." Kira said, feeling like her self except for one part of her…
Eric sat down on the sidewalk. So far he and the dog, which he named pearl, had had no luck.
"So what next?" Eric asked the tired dog next to him.
"Woof!" 'Pearl' barked pulling on his belt leash.
"Okay I'll follow you." Eric said walking behind the dog up to a house.
"I really don't trust you dog." Eric said knocking on the door.
"Hey the pizza is here already!" Ethan exclaimed as the group heard someone at the door.
"I haven't ordered it yet." Trent said shaking his head while Kira went to open the door.
"Hello?" Kira asked, opening the door to see Eric and 'Pearl'.
"Um…hi. I just found this dog…is it yours?" Eric asked sheepishly, realizing who's house this was. For some reason Kira didn't recognize him.
"Hey your not pizza…hey what are you doing with Tommy!" Ethan called as he walked to the front door.
"Tommy?" Kira and Eric asked in unision.
Tommy was growing steadily confused at this point pulled out of his collar and took off.
"Tommy! Get back here!" Ethan called out.
"We've got to go get him!" Trent said, "Come on!"
Conner stiffened, was it just him or did he just hear a dog?
"Woof! Woof! Woof!" barked Tommy, running away from Eric, Trent, Ethan, and Kira.
"Hey there Tommy! What happened to you?" Conner asked patting the big scared dog.
"Tommy get back…Conner?" Eric asked, skidding to a halt, the others right behind him.
"Eric leave…now." Conner ordered, still petting Tommy.
"Wait, that's Eric?" Trent said starting to catch on but not wanting to.
"Yes, the twin brother that ruined my life." Conner said crossely.
"Ruined your life? How?" Ethan asked.
Eric blushed, he knew he had to be the one to explain, "Well you see, I came back from ninja school for the week and I convinced Conner to play a joke…when he ran into the bathroom we switched, me leaving and him staying there. Then we switched back. I never knew you guys were his best friends. I'm really sorry."
"You're the one you disrespected Kira?" Trent burst out.
"Yes." Eric said waiting to get punched.
"Can you guys bring Tommy back to Dr. O please?" Kira interrupted.
"Oh yeah sure." Ethan said grabbing Tommy and leaving.
"Can I still beat him up?" Trent asked Conner.
"Be my guest." Conner said, still mad.
"Come on buddy." Trent said dragging Eric with him.
Kira watched the group leave, thinking of what to say.
"Conner…" Kira started.
"No, I'm a arrogant, know-it-all, jock. Don't say it Kira I know." Conner said, walking inside the house.
"Conner no you're not. And I'm sooo sorry for not listening to you. I should've known better. I can't tell you in words how much I love you." Kira said, following Conner through the house till he stopped at his favorite place, a window that overlooked a small pond.
Kira stared at Conner, his back turned from her. Slowly she walked up and placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Conner you mean to much to me to loose you. Please forgive me." Kira whispered.
"I'd never hurt you Kira." Conner said silently, giving in.
Sensing this Kira lightly kissed Conner on the cheek.
"So why do you like this place so much?" Kira asked playfully.
"Because of this!" Conner said whisking Kira off her feet and running outside then throwing her in the pond.
"CONNER!" Kira screamed happily.
Author's Note: It's over! It's finished! The second book in the Cora series is done! Remember to review and I be sure to start/finish my third book!