Chapter Three

Dren came to see me again about fifteen times the next day, usually for a quick visit to check up on me, or calm me down, or even just to stop by the window of my class and say "Hi Zoey!" really happily. Since when did the Cyniclons get so much time to visit anyway? And all those visits really did was make my cat ears pop, and make me blush. I wonder why I was blushing, and my cat ears used to only popped up when Mark was around, so…

"Zoey, put two and two together," said Renee. "You obviously like whoever it is you're mumbling about."

WHAT! Renee says that I like Dren! But… but… whenever Renee says you like someone, she's almost always right. So that means, I'm in love with an evil Cyniclon (okay, a very nice, sweet, kind, funny, generous…

"Zoey, is this list of the good qualities in Dren going to go on forever?" Corina barked at me. "Wait… Dren! The Cyniclon? You're in LOVE with a CYNICLON? Renee, please tell me this isn't true!"

"Too late. It's true." I wish Renee wasn't so good at this. But then again… Dren is really nice and sweet and funny and hot and…

"And this list would go on for all eternity if I didn't stop you." Uh-oh. The Attitude King (aka Elliot), had chosen to butt in at that moment. "Come on girls. It's obvious what's going on here. The Cyniclons have hypnotized her into believing that she loves Dren. Have any of you been visited by a Cyniclon recently?"

"Well, Tar-Tar came to visit me, but he just wanted more candy drops! He's such a good friend!" Obviously Kiki. Who else calls Tarb Tar-Tar?

"I have not been hypnotized! Wait… did you hear that sound right after Kiki called Tarb her friend?"

"No, because it never happened. This only proves you've been hypnotized Zoey. You're going delusional." Oh, the things I would do to Elliot if I could just get my hands on him!

"NO I AM NOT! LET GO OF ME! COME ON! Wesley, you believe me, right?"

And that's when I saw Dren looking through one window, and Tarb looking through another.

Zoey saw me eavesdropping on her. Oh great! Wait, why am I worried about that? Oh yeah. They think I hypnotized Zoey and are taking her for testing! I did not! If I did anything to influence her into liking me (YAY! She finally likes me!), it was not anything that would make her like me against her will! That's just wrong! I'd better stop them before they do something drastic and make her a human robot!

"Make who a human robot? Oh wait, I know who. Zoey!" said Tarb. Wait a second, Tarb? What was he doing here?

"Tarb! What the heck are you doing here? And was I thinking out loud again?"

"Getting more candy drops from Kiki. And yes, you were. Why are you here?"

"Um… well… I was… uh…. um… visiting Zoey."

"Dude! Do you want to get killed by Deep Blue?"

"He doesn't know I'm here. And unless you want to get killed by me, you won't tell, small fry."

"I won't tell," Tarb said quickly.

"Great. Bye!"

"Hey you. Get back here!" Tarb screamed in the distance, but I was already going to save Zoey.

When I got to her, she was screaming her head off, and that stupid blond guy with the bad attitude was pointing a ray at her while the somewhat nice guy with the brown ponytail was telling him to test her before trying to erase her memories. Of course, I had to stop them before they did anything to my precious Zoey.

"Hey! Stupid blond guy! She hasn't been hypnotized!"

"And what makes you think I should believe you?"

"Because I have sais and you don't."

"Fine then, take her if she's so important to you."

"Okay, I will then. And if you try this again, I will know."

"Fine!" he exclaimed, grumbling something under his breath about how he couldn't believe Zoey would betray Earth like this. Thank God Zoey didn't hear that. I just can't believe he didn't see I was bluffing. Well… unless he didn't take me seriously. Then I just might've attacked him. So I took Zoey away from the café and to our base on Earth (which was, thankfully, empty) to talk.

"Dren… thank you for saving me."

"I couldn't let you live like that. Without any memories, you live life in an empty shell. Sardon was like that once. We've gotten about half of his memories back, but he still barely remembers anything about his past, except that he's my older brother."

"You guys are related?"

"Yeah. Tarb is our younger brother. Why is it so much of a shock?" I asked, more out of curiosity than anything else. I really didn't see what the big deal was, but she laughed when I asked.

"Sorry for laughing, but it's just that… well… you guys don't look anything alike!"

"Well… you've got me there. Say, how is Mark doing?" I already knew the answer, but I was curious to see her point of view on things.

"Mark moved away about two weeks ago. He kept turning into Deep Blue, and he said he didn't want to hurt me anymore."

"That explains why Deep Blue returned to the Cyniclon planet," I thought out loud, wheels turning in my head as Deep Blue's sudden arrival back made more and more sense.

"He did? B…h…d…s…w…" Zoey fainted, in pure and utter shock.

I decided it was time to take her home now that she had fainted. So I picked her up and prepared to fly her home when she did something I really didn't expect. She woke up and kissed me.