Hey peeps, long time no see! Read, whatever. But I've been absolutely BOMBARDED with school work, and the finals and regents and such are coming up soon, so don't expect to be hearing a lot from me! Also PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE help me out! I want a beta to love and cherish that will give me ideas for this story! Also, please drop reviews and give suggestions! I totally wish I could write this as an M fic, but I don't have the balls to go through with it, so, if I get a beta that can help me WRITE smexy, you will GET the smexy! Please people!

Also, just a note, Kyoko has gotten really OOC. She's like, a total badass. Also, Ren is a BIT, just a little bit more, gentler, maybe, towards her in the beginning b/c of her harsher past.

Thanks to all who reviewed, this chapter's for you! ^^

My Own Happy Ending

Chapter 4: Awakening

I opened my eyes only to abruptly shut them again.

'Ugh, my head is pounding. I wonder how high my fever has gotten…'

I snuggled back into the fuzzy warmth of the blanket and roomy clothes…

'Blanket…? Roomy…clothes…?'

'What the hell? These are NOT the clothes I went to sleep in! Wait…this isn't my apartment…not my bed or my blanket…. Where the hell am I?'

'I remember…Sho-baka…and then I left…where did I go? That's right, after going home, I ended up in the park where it started raining…"

As these thoughts passed through my head, I lay still on the couch, my eyes squeezed tight against my pounding fever. I began to feel nervous and adrenaline was pumping through my veins as I sat up gingerly and opening my eyes again. I glanced around at my surroundings, trying to notice something familiar about the strange apartment I had woken up in.I threw off the blanket, and stood up, trying not to collapse.

I identified myself as being in the living room of the swanky, upscale apartment. I prayed to god, that I had not been raped, kidnapped, or about to be cooked for breakfast, or about to be sold as a sex slave, or anything of that fashion. I began to feel terrified, my own paranoid thoughts making me jittery, pounding with adrenaline on top of the fever that was making me sway with every weak step.

I made another sweep of the room and this time, my eyes alighted upon the lamp that sat on the corner table, at the head of the couch. It had a thin metal rod attached to a heavy, metal, round base. The shade, also made of metal, had small holes in it, that when the lamp was on, I supposed, would create a starry effect. It seemed very posh, like it belonged in a wealthy, modern apartment, such as this. Right now, I was grateful for the frivolous decoration that would serve as a weapon to me. I grabbed the black, metal rod of the lamp tightly, holding it like a baseball bat.

I was hoping to make a swift escape, no one ever finding out I had left until they noticed the couch, empty. Fate, however, decided it didn't feel like playing on my side.

As I slowly inched my way towards the door, lamp in hand, I froze as I heard clinking coming from the kitchen. I had to make my way around the kitchen to get to the front door, and my adrenaline was pumping through my veins at a nonstop pace. There were two swinging doors on either side of a large window that overlooked the living room. The window in the center was currently shuttered, but anyone could come out of the doors in a heartbeat.

Kyoko unfroze as she heard footsteps coming towards the door to her right. She ran and ducked under the shuttered window that had a ledge jutting

out from it, creating a mini-counter.

She wrung her sweating palms around the bar of the lamp and waited as the person pushed through the swinging door to jump up and clock him as hard as she could, directly on his head.

…

The tray with the two mugs crashed to the floor as I dropped them to fight back on the person who just crashed a metal…thing on my head.

I heard the lamp drop to the floor with a loud clatter accompanied by an, "OH SHIT!"

I opened my eyes and looked at the back of the girl who I had found as pretty much dead meat in the park yesterday.

My head hurt, but, I was pretty sure I hadn't suffered from any concussions or the like. I was sure she was probably in much more of a horrible place, waking up in a stranger's apartment, in different clothes, after who knows what hell she went through ending up in that park with a nasty fever. Ever the gentleman, I called out to her gently and said, "Hey are you alright?"

She turned to me and stalked over, and cried out, "No! No, I'm not alright because I just clocked Japan's number one favorite actor right, ON. HIS. HEAD!"

With each step she had reached a little more closer to him until she was finally holding his head between her hands. She looked at him, square in the eyes, and he, down at her as their eyes connected.

'I…I can't believe it…Oh god, it's really her…It's'

"Kyoko," he breathed cupping her cheeks with his own hands, moving her face closer, his eyes closing.

Her eyes widened in shock as…

…

TO BE CONTINUED!

I KNOW you guys hate me right now for leaving you at a cliff, but it's time for me to hit the hay, and I just might decide not to continue until I get a beta! Preferably one who can help me write SMEX! Because people, be honest. In the deepest, darkest, absolute depths of your heart, it's what you loooove~~!

Anyways, being serious, please continue to put up with me, and I hope to get out new chaps soon. Also, I lose motvation pretty quickly because I think of new and like, better ideas so yea…

I think I'm gonna wait till I reach 30 reviews to write the next one. I just wanna know that people actually READ my shit, ya know?

So, even if u have nothing to say just copy and post:

Hey mE-chan!

I've been reading this story and I hope you get a beta that will help you write smexy, because smexy is what I truly DO desire from the deepest, darkest, absolute depths of my heart!

Thanks! I can't wait for more!

Please? 30 Reviews guys! I promise that that day I'll post a new chapter!

Love (the ever greedy),

mE-chan ^U^