Amaya smiled as she looked around at all of them "Alright, so maybe I am over reacting…" She began.

"You think?" Kiyomi asked "Look at us…."

"We all turned out just fine" The twins answered.

"Fine, fine But I still want to meet this kid that has my sister thinking she likes him" Amaya said with a laugh.

"That is understandable" Kiyomi agreed. "So then who's up for the park?" The girl asked.

"Let's go!" Amaya said standing up.

"Go where?" Kirara asked she came in.

"To the park!" Kiyomi said smiling. Amaya nearly laughed as her little sister looked at her worriedly before nodding.

"Okay! Can we bring Antoinette?" She asked cutely.

Amaya grinned as Tamaki nodded enthusiastically, knowing the male was already wrapped around her sister's pinkie.

"So then what are we waiting for? To the park!" Amaya cheered getting up. "Hey Kiyomi, all this talk reminds me… When is Gabriel getting married?" She asked.

~~~
Amaya's question threw me a little off-guard. "I have no idea. I haven't had much time to talk to him," I answered as Kirara tried to jump onto my back. I knelt down so she could get on.

"Gabe's getting married?" Kirara asked excitedly. "Can I be a flower girl?"

Amaya and I laughed. "You'd have to talk to him about that, but I think I can put in a good word for you," I told the eight year old. I watched as Kyoya placed his arm around Amaya and how she leaned into him. It was amazing how if she hadn't lost feelings for my brother then that wouldn't have been possible.

Kirara slid off my slid off my shoulders as the park came into view. Apparently I had been spaced out longer than I thought I had. "I'll race you to the swings Kiyomi!" She shouted.

I groaned, "But it's running! Couldn't we skip or crawl?" She pulled my hand and started running. As she let go, I ran for myself and made it so she beat me to the swings. I sat on one and started to pump my legs.

~~~
Amaya laughed as she watched her friend and sister race enjoying taking her time as she walked over to them. "So where's this Koishi you were talking about earlier?" Amaya asked smiling.

Kirara grinned "He's coming!" She said her attention turned behind her to see a cute eight year walking toward them.

Kyoya smirked slightly and leaned into "Still going to hurt him?" He asked, making Amaya elbow him.

"I don't know, maybe I'll just marry him myself" Amaya teased lightly, watching him roll his eyes at her.

"Then maybe I'll have to hurt him" Kyoya taunted.

Amaya laughed softly as she elbowed him again. "Kiyomi, do you remember…."

"Our secret hideout?" Kiyomi finished making both girls laugh and nod.

"Should we show them?" Amaya asked.

"I don't know… It is girls only" Kiyomi said pretending to hesitate.

Amaya laughed at the looks on all their faces "Alright come on," She muttered, knowing Tamaki, Haruhi, Honey, and Mori would keep an eye on her little sister, and this way Kirara didn't have to worry about them.

~~~
Along the side of the park was a small mass of trees and that was where Amaya and I led them. "Your secret hideout is in there?" Hikaru asked.

"Well, we had to find somewhere secret and where not many people went, so…"

"Actually, we found this on accident," Amaya said. She pulled Kyoya by his hand straight to the tree that held our hideout. We let the three boys stare at the tree as we looked at each other and giggle. "Try looking up."

Sitting in the tree, hidden away by leaves, was our old hideout. And it really was old. We had no idea how long it had been there, but there was a lot of lost things up there when we first found it. "How are we supposed to get up there?" Kaoru asked. I smiled at Amaya and we stood in front of the tree. I bent down so she could get on my shoulders.

"You're a lot heavier than you used to be," I said as I strained to stand back up. I couldn't see her, but I knew she was sticking her tongue out at me.

"Stop complaining, I'm not that heavy."

I stood up all the way. "I know," I said. I felt her reach up for the rope ladder that was attached to the floor. It came tumbling down as it unrolled to show the way to the place Amaya and I spent most of our childhood. She started climbing up from where she sat on my shoulders until she made it to the top.

"Hope you boys aren't afraid of heights," She said as she leaned out of the opening that made the door.

~~~
Amaya watched Kiyomi climb up next, then Hikaru and Kaoru and then Kyoya. She laughed as she looked around the sturdy and rather large tree house. "Hey! I thought I lost these!" Amaya shouted as she grabbed two stuffed animals, that were in surprisingly good condition.

"Buttercup the bunny and Lila the mouse!" Kiyomi shouted as she took them off of Amaya. "I had forgotten about them!" The girl added as she hugged them to her chest.

Amaya smiled as she looked around. "We spent a lot of our childhood up here" She remembered grinning as Kyoya came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, resting his head on her shoulder.

"It doesn't look like you did anything to tree house itself," He said, looking around and noticing it was still its original wood and didn't look as though they had added much.

"We didn't. It took us a full weekend to sort through what had been left behind and get rid of the trash," Kiyomi explained.

"But after that we didn't want to change it much. Instead we brought a couple of pillows and stuffed animals and met here whenever we could," Amaya said smiling fondly.

"Yeah…Man I remember doing our homework up here" Kiyomi added smiling.

"So why did you guys stop coming here?" Kaoru asked.

"We grew up" Amaya said shrugging.

"It was after my incident with Seth" Kiyomi added.

"We stopped truly believing in fairy tale endings, and imagining that fairies surrounded us as we worked. It was our loss of innocence, and it just wasn't the same for us anymore" Amaya explained

Kyoya pulled her closer as if to comfort her. Amaya smiled as she saw the twins do the same to Kiyomi. "I don't know though" She began smiling "My faith in fairy tales may just have been restored" She added.

Kiyomi nodded, and Amaya was glad her friend could smile lovingly at both boys like that, "Maybe we will start coming back here" The girl added.

"Or maybe we'll just continue staying with the host club" Amaya murmured, leaning into Kyoya as she kissed his cheek gently.

~~~
Kyoya held the girl close to himself, smiling at her. She was an odd one, both her and Kiyomi were. But she always seemed to know what to say comfort someone when they were down, and she fiercely overprotective. She was also completely and totally crazy.

And yet, she was more fragile then she let on. She was a lot like Tamaki actually, overdramatic, and always worried about others. Though she wasn't exactly like his friend, she had her own troubles, and he determined to figure them out. He wanted to protect her from anything else ever hurting her.

He had seen the way she reacted when Kiyomi was upset, she had been just as sad, but she managed to make Kiyomi feel better. And he was sure that Kiyomi had done the same for Amaya. He kissed Amaya's neck softly as he smirked.

"You two have been through a lot together haven't you?" Kyoya asked, though he of course already knew the answer. He knew everything about these girls. He knew Kiyomi ran away from home when she was four and took her stuffed monkey with her. He knew that Amaya had talked Kiyomi into ditching school two weeks ago to go to the museum to see the monkey exhibit.

"We have" Kiyomi answered smiling, making him smile faintly as well.

Amaya laughed "though I'm sure you already know just about everything" she said, making him smirk at her.

"I'm always up to hearing stories from you two" Kyoya told them both.

~~~
Amaya smiled "Alright, but what story from our past should it be?" Amaya asked.

Kiyomi though for a moment, "What about the time we went to the zoo..."

"The one where we-"

"Yeah!" Kiyomi said smirking.

"What happened?" Kaoru asked lightly smiling.

"It's a secret" Amaya told him as she smiled "The pillows are still okay, so let's all get comfy. It's a pretty long story" Amaya cautioned, as she sat down, Kyoya sitting next to her and pulling her into his lap.

Hikaru smiled as he pulled Kiyomi into his lap as well, Kaoru laying his head in Kiyomi's lap. Amaya watched Kiyomi play with Kaoru's hair before she began to talk.

"It was a pleasant Saturday afternoon, and Kiyomi and I were bored. Kiyomi was officially a teenager as of three weeks ago. I was still only twelve."

"I wanted to do something, and we were both able to go places by ourselves. So we decided we wanted to go to the zoo"

"Why the zoo?" Kyoya asked making Amaya laugh.

"Because it was the middle of the afternoon and we couldn't think of anything else to do" Amaya told him. "Anyway so Kiyomi and I got into the limo and told the driver where we wanted to go" Amaya said dragging it out.

"I remember we had been arguing about the music, I wanted to listen to show tunes, and Amaya insisted on Aaron Carter," Kiyomi said making all three boys groan.

"Is this all that happened?" Hikaru asked.

"Not at all, but you wanted to hear the story, so you'll hear from beginning to end or not at all" Amaya told them laughing.

"Fine, continue" Kyoya said rolling his eyes.

Amaya laughed "Well let's see. So we got to the zoo and everything was just fine" She told him. "It was actually starting to get late and we really wanted to the monkeys!"

"So we went to the monkey house and were taking pictures and walking around. And we missed the announcement the zoo was closing" Kiyomi said smiling.

"And I dragged her to go see the Panda's with me one last time" Amaya added. "As we were saying goodbye we realized there were no more visitors. And the employee was feeding the Panda. He looked surprised to see us so he came out of the pen and asked us what we were still doing there."

"We had no idea what he meant and said we simply wanted to say goodbye to Cheiko and Carlos," Kiyomi said smiling. "He laughed and told us that the park was closed, and said that he'd take us out once he finished feeding them…"

"Of course we both begged him to help feed them" Amaya added laughing as Kyoya rolled his eyes at her. "He actually let us. It was sweet of him" She said trailing off smirking at Kyoya as she kissed his cheek. "I think he though Kiyomi was cute…" She added.

Kiyomi laughed "I don't think so. He was like five years older than us" She reminded.

"So?" Amaya asked with a grin "It's possible…" she added watching as the twins pulled Kiyomi even closer to them.

"There" Amaya added, "You got your story" She teased.

~~~
I let out a laugh. "How come whenever there is a guy involved, you always assume it's because he thinks I'm cute?" She rolled her eyes at me and I leaned closer to Hikaru.

"Because it's true. Do you hear the things guys at school say? I do. It's kinda like the things you hear about Haruhi from girls…" she said almost thoughtfully. I shuddered at that thought.

"That is scary."

Hikaru wrapped his arms around my waist and held on tightly as he whispered, "They can't have you," into my ear. I placed my cheek against his and moved my hand so it was on the side of his neck.

"I don't want them," I said. "Well, okay. I want them to stop saying creepy things, but other than that nothing."

I heard Amaya sigh. "That was such a sweet moment and then you had to ruin it." I laughed at her and she knew exactly what I was thinking. "Yeah, yeah; my love of sappy romance movies has altered my views on the definition of a sweet moment."

"Couldn't have said it better myself," I said. Kyoya suggested that we should probably go back to the others since we did kind of leave them in charge of an eight year old that wasn't theirs. Everyone climbed down the ladder and pulled it up behind them to reroll it.

"Can you still jump from there?" Amaya called to me.

"Jump, that's funny." I reached over to the closest branch and got a good grip on it as I wrapped my legs around it so I was hanging upside down. I put my feet on the branch just below me and crouched down until I was in the same position I had been in before. And this time I was only a few feet off the ground when I let go.

Instead of landing on the ground, I was caught bridal style by Kaoru. I wrapped my arms around his neck and kicked my foot out slightly as I repositioned myself. "Comfortable?" He asked in a teasing tone. I nodded and rested my head on his shoulder. "Can you carry me to my classes this way? I asked Amaya once, but she said no." He kissed my cheek and when he pulled away I nuzzled my face into his neck.

"If you want," he replied. I giggled and I could have sworn I heard Amaya say something along the lines of, "That is much better."

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PRECIOUS DAUGHTER?" I heard Tamaki shout as we approached him and the others. I laughed and picked my head up. Quickly I whispered to Kaoru to pretend that I was hurt.

"She fell out of a tree," Kaoru said.

Hikaru seemed to have caught on quickly. "We think her leg is broken," he said as he placed his hand lightly on my jean covered leg and I let out a gasp of pain. The look on Tamaki's face was priceless.

"WHAT WAS SHE DOING IN A TREE?"

"You know she's lying, right?" Kirara said from behind him. I looked at her and giggled as Kaoru put me down. "At least about the broken leg."

"How did you know?" Haruhi asked the young girl. Kirara smiled.

"'Cause I know my Kiyomi! That and she couldn't even break something when she tried," she said. I glanced at Amaya at the same time as she glanced at me.

"Why do you remember that? You were like three when she did that…" Amaya said to her sister.

"Your sister is some sort of genius. I swear it," I said to Amaya.

"Seriously. Looks like I owe you fifty bucks," she said. I smiled and laughed as I received strange looks. "We made a bet on whether or not Kirara would be a genius or just slightly smarter than most. Kiyomi won."

"Yep, all because I jokingly said that she was going to be a genius to make up for Amaya's… Amaya-ness." I went to her and gave her a hug. "So what happened with Kioshi?"

She looked down at her shoes and scuffed one of the toes on the ground. She put her hands on either side of my face and looked me directly in the eye. "What did you think of him?"

"Um… Well I don't know him. He's pretty cute, but you can't judge on looks. What do you think of him?" She blushed and looked back down at her feet, but didn't let go of my face.

"I think he's fun and funny and nice… and cute." She looked over my shoulder at a (I'm assuming) furious Amaya. "And you have no say in this," she said sternly.

"What!" Amaya shouted. "Why you little, I'm beating you when we get home…"

"Excuse me?" An older lady pushing a stroller asked Amaya. "You had better not lay a hand on that poor girl." Kirara was in a fit of giggles the entire time the lady lectured Amaya on the evils of child abuse. Amaya stayed silent until the lady walked away and all the way until we got back to her house.

"I got lectured twice today for things I've never done!" She shouted as she flopped down on the couch with her arms crossed over her chest. I sat next to her and put my arm over her shoulders.

"Come on, that was pretty funny though. I mean, Kirara sure got a kick out of it." Amaya looked at her little sister as she hid behind Hikaru and Kaoru.

"I love you Amaya," she said shyly. Amaya opened her arms for her sister and Kirara ran toward her as she accepted the hug.

"You're such a brat," Amaya said as she rested her chin on the girl's head. "But I guess you're my brat."

Kirara laughed and wiggled her way out of Amaya's tight grasp. "So what do you think?"

"So I do have a say in this?" Kirara shook her head. "Then why?"

"'Cause you're my sister! But you can't control who I'm friends with." Amaya smiled.

"Well, you really want to know what I think?" She nodded

~~~
Amaya laughed softly "I think that's a very cute boy, and that if he ever, ever, ever hurts you, I will personally make sure that child abuse has something to actually lecture me for" Amaya said as she grabbed her sister once more into an even tighter hug, before letting the girl go.

"So what now?" Kaoru asked looking at the clock.

"Yeah we still have a large part of the day ahead of us" Hikaru added.

Amaya shrugged "We… I actually have no idea" She answered looking over at Kiyomi for help.

"We could watch another scary movie" She suggested making Amaya frown at her.

"I'll pass" The girl answered. "Why don't we…Go to the zoo?" Amaya asked.

~~~
"I love the zoo~!" I said as I stood up and clapped my hands together. She stared at me and I didn't know why. "What?"

"I think that was the girliest thing you have ever done in your life," she stated as if she almost didn't believe it herself. I took her hands and pulled her to her feet.

"Believe it or not, but I used to play with dolls too." She clapped her hands over her mouth in fake shock and I rolled my eyes at her. "Can we go now?" Amaya smiled and called to Kirara asking if she wanted to go and she shouted back no.

Amaya stood by Kyoya and he put his arm around her waist as she gently leaned into his side. "Let's go!"

~~~
Kyoya smirked slightly as he walked with Amaya into the limo, getting in and sitting next to her and pulling her close, watching Hikaru and Kaoru do the same to Kiyomi. Tamaki sat next to Haruhi, looking timid still as he took her hand, and Haruhi looked just as shy, but he was sure they'd get through it.

The male chuckled as Amaya sighed rolling her eyes at Kiyomi "It's your turn to pick the music" She conceded. Kyoya rolled his eyes slightly as Kiyomi shouted excitedly and put in the C.D. kissing Amaya's neck.

"That was sweet of you" He complemented, chuckling as she elbowed him once more. He merely wrapped his arms around her tighter, kissing her cheek as he listened to Kiyomi explain to Hikaru and Kaoru that she was positive she didn't want them beating up any of the guys talked about her.

"You guys are ridiculous," I said to my twins as they repeatedly asked if they could at least beat up one guy for me. Kaoru lightly stroke the side of my face and Hikaru pulled me closer to his side.

"Are you sure?" He asked. I couldn't find my words as I stared dumbly into his eyes.

I heard Amaya laugh. "I think you broke her…" she said. That made me come out of whatever trance I had been in from Kaoru. I wrapped my arms around Kaoru's neck and pulled him closer until our foreheads nearly touched.

"I didn't break. I was simply… entranced," I replied without looking away from him.

"That sounded like a line straight out of one of my sappy romance movies," she joked. I kissed Kaoru lightly on his lips before turning to look at my best friend.

"Actually, it was straight out of one of my sappy romance books," I said with a giggle. She raised an eyebrow at me.

"You don't read sappy romance books…" Kyoya pulled her closer to him.

"Actually she does," he said. "She puts fake covers on them so you won't overreact."

She pouted. "Overreact about what?"

That made me laugh to the point where my stomach actually started to hurt. "Overreact about me liking something that is actually sappy and not gory or violent in anyway."

~~~
Amaya sighed at herself "I can't believe I didn't know this about you Kiyomi! I'm such a bad friend" The girl shouted over dramatically.

"Would you stop?" Kyoya asked rolling his eyes at the girl making Amaya pout. "You're starting to remind me of Tamaki."

"But I am. I should know everything about her!" Amaya whined "I'm not a good friend if I don't know this. How am I going to live with myself?" Amaya asked.

Kiyomi rolled her eyes, throwing a bottle of water at Amaya. "Shut up would you. This is exactly why I don't tell you things. You always overreact!" Kiyomi said shaking her head.

"I'm sorry okay! That's just how I am!" She added.

"…That would explain why she had been crying in History class a while ago…" Hikaru said smirking.

"Amaya" Kiyomi began questioningly.

"We were watching a movie and they killed a monkey" The girl said defensively making Kyoya roll his eyes at her.

"Amaya, sweetie, it was a movie…" The male said as he kissed her cheek.

"They… killed… a monkey?" I asked almost not believing what I had just heard. "How could anyone kill a precious monkey?" I hid my face in Kaoru's chest as I felt tears welling up in my eyes.

"More hormones," Kyoya said. I started crying as I wanted to say that I knew this wasn't hormones, but Amaya beat me to it.

I could practically picture Amaya as she shook her head before saying, "That's not it at all. Monkeys are her favorite animals." Kaoru placed his hand on the back of my head and ran his hand over my hair.

"It was a movie Kiyomi," he said softly into my ear. I nodded, but didn't lift my head up.

"But now the picture is in my head," I said though my voice was muffled by his chest. "And I keep seeing the little monkeys…" I cut myself off and lifted my head up slightly as I looked over to Kyoya. "Okay, maybe it has a little to do with hormones." He smirked and I assumed it was because I admitted that he was right.

I put my head back down and was no longer crying. "I'm so glad I am not in your guys' class then. I would have been a wreck; in the fetal position, crying, screaming why."

"That's right Kaoru, we're dating an older woman," Hikaru said, his voice very close to my ear.

I sat up and looked back and forth between them for a moment. "You guys make me sound like a cougar." I heard Amaya giggle. A smirk played on Hikaru's lips and he gave me a wink.

"There's nothing wrong with being a cougar," he said into my ear with a husky voice.

Kaoru, however, seemed to blush as he took my chin lightly in his hand. "I've always thought that older women were sexy." I could feel my cheeks turn bright red as a blush washed over me. My heart was racing as if it would just beat right out of my chest.

I pulled my chin out of his hand and covered my face with my hands. "Kiyomi!" Amaya shouted. "You gotta stop hiding your face every time you blush." I shook my head without moving my hands from my face. Hikaru gently took hold of my wrists and turned me so I would have been facing him if I was looking. I let him pull my hands away from my face.

"Why do you keep pulling away from us?" He asked. I just kind of stared at him. I didn't want to look away, but I didn't want to be under his gaze.

I did look away though; I turned my head so it was resting against my shoulder. "I'm scared. Put me in front of a movie that has every scary thing imaginable and I can find little things to make it a comedy in my mind. Stick me in a dentist's chair and I know it'll be over soon enough if I think of something else. Ask me to trust in someone that's not my brother or Amaya and it scares me."

"Which is why I subtly suggested we visit the Host Club," Amaya said.

I looked at her and laughed. "That was not subtle. We were sitting at lunch and she nearly hopped up on the table to announce it to everyone."

"But I didn't, so it was subtle."

"You need to check the definition of subtle…" She rolled her eyes at me and laughed. "Wait, what do you mean that's why?"

She shrugged. "It's really not important. Fine, I'll tell you later." I shook my head and stood up from where I sat between Hikaru and Kaoru and sat on Amaya's lap.

"I think it's "explain your evil plan to Kiyomi" time," I sing-songed. "Actually it should have been a while ago, but now works just fine because thankfully, your house is very far from the zoo." She rolled her eyes at me and situated herself so I wasn't also half-sitting on Kyoya.

"Do you have to sit on my lap?" She asked. I nodded and laughed.

"It is necessary for the sharing of evil plans. You should know this by now!"

"But it's not fair; you never come up with them! I don't like being the brains in this relationship," she complained. I placed my arms around her neck.

"But you're so good at it. I couldn't come up with half of the things you have; I am simply here to carry out those dastardly deeds!" I said with a slight giggle that kind of ruined the effect I was going for.

"Dastardly?" Kyoya asked with a semi-surprised look.

I stuck my tongue out at him. "Yes, I know a few big words. Don't look so surprised, I'm not a complete idiot."

"Stop, do you want to know what my plan was or not?" I looked at her and nodded enthusiastically. "And you won't get mad?"

I scoffed at her. "When do I ever get mad about anything?"

"One of your best qualities in my opinion… Anyway, as I was saying, when I suggested that we visit the Host club, it was for your benefit. I knew you didn't really care, but I also know you well enough to know that you were curious." I scoffed at her again. "Are you saying you regret going?" She challenged.

I looked over my shoulder at Hikaru and Kaoru and smiled. "Of course not."

She snapped in front of my face. "This is not the time to be making googly eyes-"

"At a gay man," I interrupted with a smirk. She gave me a stern look. "Sorry, I'll be good."

"It took you forever to open up to me the way you have, Kiyomi. When we met, you told me some things while others you kept to yourself. It's just the way you are. I guess when you realized I wasn't that easy to get rid of, is when you started trusting me more."

"But I don't understand how that ties in wi-" She put her hand over my mouth. "You did not just do that." I said through her hand.

"Do you even know how to shut up?" I shook my head and she sighed. "Like you said, you only really trust Gabriel and me; you can't go through life only trusting two people. So, I devised a plan to get you to the Host Club, then after having talked to a few girls that had gone I knew what to expect when we showed up, but thankfully you didn't. "

"So you're saying you've been planning absolutely everything from the beginning…" I stated in an even tone. "And you didn't tell me." I dropped my arms from around her neck and placed them in my lap. "The laptop, the breaking of everything, the bathing suits… the beach trip?"

"Kiyomi," Amaya said and tried to pull me into a hug. I got off of her lap and sat next to Haruhi as I pulled my knees up to my chin and hugged them. "Kiyomi, you've planned stuff without telling me before. Take Kyoya for example."

I tilted my head to look at her. "But I didn't plan it weeks before, it was a spur of the moment type thing and you knew, technically." I stretched my legs back out and laughed, "But I guess it really doesn't matter now, right?" It did matter, to me at least, but I guess not enough for her to question it anymore. I sat next to Haruhi for the rest of the way to the zoo.

~~~
Kyoya shook his head slightly as he pulled Amaya back to him. He could see that both Amaya and Kiyomi were more upset than they let on. He stroked Amaya's hair gently, knowing that to both girls, their friendship meant everything to them. He knew Amaya had only been trying to do what was best for her friend, he also knew that Kiyomi's trust issues were what was bothering her.

He wanted to be able to do something, but it was something that the two of them would have to work out. And as they walked through the zoo, both of them talking and laughing they seemed okay. Amaya's feigned smile became real half-way throughout the day, and Kiyomi was walking in between the twins, running over to Amaya and hugging her, or jumping on her to point out silly things.

Both of them had even started whispering conspiratorially, looking at Tamaki and Haruhi and nodding every so often. Soon the two girls had managed to get the awkward couple to feel a little less awkward around each other. He was hesitant about leaving both Kiyomi and Amaya alone that night, knowing that if their earlier mistrust wasn't fixed, Kiyomi would probably say something that would hurt Amaya, and vice a versa, but with school tomorrow, there was nothing either he, or any of the hosts could do. He bid Amaya goodbye, as well as Kiyomi, before the host club left the two at Amaya's house.

How he would regret doing that for a long time afterward.

~~~
Amaya and I decided to watch a movie as we settled into bed to go to sleep. We put in Easy A and as we lay in her bed, I couldn't help but think back to what happened in the limo. "Amaya, did you know that I would like Hikaru and Kaoru?" That had honestly been the one thing that had been haunting my mind the entire time we were at the zoo. She didn't answer right away, didn't answer at all. "Did you say something to them to make them act like they liked me?"

"Kiyomi, just go to sleep. We have school in the morning." I sat up and propped myself upright with my arm.

"Amaya! This isn't a joke!"

She sat up and looked at me. "Who's joking? We do have school tomorrow." I didn't answer her and neither of us laid back down. We just kind of sat there staring at each other. "What's your problem lately?" She asked in a tone I was not expecting. She didn't sound like the concerned, over-protective Amaya that I knew.

"I don't have a problem!" I accidentally shouted. I thought over what I had just said. "Actually, I do have a problem. You, you're my problem."

~~~
Amaya blinked "Kiyomi, you…I can't believe…I'm so…" Amaya's words were all jumbled. "You know what, forget it. Have fun with Hikaru and Kaoru, who, no I didn't say anything too. I thought they'd be the ones you liked, yes, but I'd never…" Amaya cut herself off again as tears welled up in her eyes. "I can't believe you don't trust me! When have I ever…" She trailed off as a pained sobbed raked her frame getting up.

"Amaya how was I supposed-"

"Just shut up Kiyomi! I can't look at you right now. I thought you could trust me. I thought you did trust me. Obviously I've been dead wrong. Here you can have this" Amaya added ripping her friendship necklace off and tossing it carelessly at her so called friend.

"Amaya stop being so overdramatic!" Kiyomi shouted, making Amaya pause and turn around, her eyes suddenly dry.

"Don't even try and bring up my character flaws right now. I'm not being overdramatic. Overdramatic would be completely destroying our friendship. Overdramatic would be telling Hikaru and Kaoru every single thing you've done since you moved here. No I'm being real. A friendship is built on trust. And I never-" Amaya closed her eyes and clenched her fists, trying to keep back the tears "Never once have I ever betrayed your trust. Tell me fucking one Goddamn time where I hurt you, or put you in a position where you'd get hurt. Goddamn it I was trying to fucking help you." Amaya shouted as she stormed out of the room slamming her door and moving to one of the guest bedrooms.

As soon as she shut the door she slid down it, sobs wrenching her frame as she cried wholeheartedly in disbelief. What had she done? No it wasn't her fault. Kiyomi still didn't trust her. Even after everything they had done for each other. As much as Amaya had poured her heart and soul into her best friend. Amaya had told Kiyomi everything, she rarely ever kept anything from her, and when she did, it was normally because she couldn't tell her right then. Amaya would always tell Kiyomi everything in the end. And Kiyomi had still kept things from her. Sure to most, hiding a romance novel wasn't something big. But if Kiyomi was hiding that, then what else was she keeping from Amaya.

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I could hear her crying on the other side of the door as I shoved all of my things into my bag and zipped it up. I slipped on my shoes, slung my bag over my shoulder, and opened up the window that had the trellis under it. I hoisted myself up and threw my legs out of the window. "See ya Amaya," I mumbled as I hooked my foot onto the trellis. When I was close enough to the ground, I jumped and landed with a soft thud. I pulled out my cell phone and called my driver and told him to pick me up at the park by Amaya's house.

As I made my way to the now empty park, the tears that I had been holding in fell. I sat down on a swing and gently rocked back and forth without moving my feet from the ground. I did trust her, I did still hide some things from her, but it was because of me, not because I didn't trust her. "I can go on just fine without her," I said to the silent playground around me. "I made through most of my life without her already."

The limo pulled up and I stood up from the swing. Not caring that I was in my pajamas and that I looked like a terrible wreck, I walked with my head held high to the limo as the driver held the door open for me. I wiped my tears away on the bottom of my shirt as I sat down and placed my bag on the seat beside me. "Where to, Miss Kiyomi?" The driver asked from the front seat.

I looked out the window. "Home please." He nodded and we were off to practically the other side of the world from Amaya. When we pulled up to the house, I didn't even wait for him to open the door for me; I hopped out and ran through the house up to my room.

I fell onto my bed and hugged my pillow to my chest as I let all of my feelings come out through my tears. It was a mystery to me as to how long I had been crying before someone came into my room and flipped on the light. "Kiyomi?" My brother's voice asked. "What's wrong?" I felt my bed move as he sat down next to me. I lifted myself up and practically threw myself into his arms.

He held onto my tightly and ran his hand through my hair. "I can trust you, right Gabe?" I asked through my sobs. It felt like a stupid question to me. My brother it the only person in the world that has always been by my side, always comforted me when I was sad, always defended me, and always believed in me.

"You know you can Kiyomi," he said gently. For some reason, hearing that confirmed from him out-loud made me cry harder and he held me tighter. I clutched onto his arm as I cried onto his shirt.

"I love you, Gabe," I said.

He let out a comforting, "Ssshh," and replied with, "I love you too, Kiyomi. I'll always be here for you."

Okay so it's Meghan here, I'm on update duty this time =P. So um, yeah sorry about the really super long chapters, but we keep getting carried away. Oh, and both of us cried while writing the ending...So...Yeah. Um we loves you? We sadly enjoy making our characters hurt though...Anyway! Reviews are loved, but not needed, hope you don't hate us as much as Amaya and Kiyomi probably do...I'm done now... BYE! ^.^