Chapter Two

Krystal sighed. After what had happened earlier, she hadn't been able to catch a wink of sleep, Fox's words kept rolling around in her head. 'You can tell me anything' she sighed again ' but what if I Can't?' was all she could ask herself. To keep herself busy in the meantime, she had spent about five hours and she had been able to clean the ENTIRE kitchen,including dishes (which was a backbreaking task in itself), made three pots of coffee ( she drank one and made two for the others) and managed to take a shower and get dressed in a pair of low riding jeans that flared over her bare feet comforatably and a white T-shirt.. well, it was white until she discovered a very large anthill that Slippy had put under the dishes to see how many would live without light and much oxygen. Apparently a lot of them did because the hill was huge and when she grabbed a pile of dishes next to it it Exploded onto her shirt, so now it was more of a anthill brown. She thought about how long it had been there and laughed lightly to herself.

"Now,see Falco?" she heard the familiar voice of Peppy hare speak up as he made an entrance with a grumbling Falco and tired looking Slippy behind him " It is possible to be happy in the morning, Krystal here is living proof" He finished with a grin as he took a seat

"Ya, well, she didn't sleep on the wall!" he grumbled as he rubbed the back of his neck, glaring at Peppy, who was living up to his name at the moment

"well, I can't help that you fell asleep" Peppy said, holding his hands up and shrugging

"Mornin guys, Mornin Krystal" A yawning Fox said, coming into the kitchen and grbbing a cup of coffee "Kitchen looks nice Krys" Fox said looking around "I'm probably never gonna know how you managed to get all those dishes done"

"well, over half of them where disposable, so it wasn't as hard as you would think" She said with a grin, it would figure that Fox would be the first one to compliment her on her work, she liked that about him.

"How'd you know it was Krystalthat cleaned the kitchen?" Peppy asked him

" I took a guess" he said gesturing towards the other two, Falco was complaining that his neck and back hurt and Slippy was trying to tell Peppy how that with the chilly atmosphere in the hallway and with no blankets they could have gotten sick and that with no pillows they could get minor neck injury.

" Well, Slippy, seeing as you didn't catch a cold, and you only suffered minor neck injury, i'd say that you're fine" Peppy said as he took a sip from his mug of coffee

" Minor my--!"

"thats enough Falco, we get it" Falco was cut off by Fox

"whats that on you're wrist Krystal?" Slippy asked out of nowhere, noticing a thin scar without any fur over it on her left wrist

" It's nothing Slippy" she said quickly " You know, it's getting kinda chilly in here, i'm gonna go get dressed in something warmer" she said as she hurried out the door and down the hall. Fox watched her go with a confuseed expression and wondered what exactly was going on.

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END OF CHAPTER TWO!!!!!!

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