Author´s note:

HI! So today was my big test, I studied and I hope I did well, so fingers crossed. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter, and thanks to everyone and I am so glad to know that you are enjoying the story!

Here it is…

Chapter 8- Ashes and Reasons

After 2 days, Tigress was doing her usual morning routine before going to Po´s house. She picked her outfit and brushed her hair. Then she went to eat breakfast. This time, she wanted to try if she could do some omelets like Mr. Ping did the other day. She cracked some eggs and put them over the pan. She took spatula and started flipping it around. She was having difficulty with it. She turned around to get a plate and when she was back in the kitchen, her omelet was burning.

"Uh oh, that´s not good!" Tigress said, she started flipping it around, part of her omelet stating catching on fire. Tigress´s eyes widen at this, she started blowing on it like crazy. When it finally went out, she set it on her plate, she looked at it disgusted. It was all burned and it looked as if it was melting. She sighed and went over to the trash can and dumped it. It was something no one could eat, or mostly, no one should eat. She sighed, her clothes were kind of covered with little ashes and she smell like burnt things. She checked her watch and notice it was time to go. She sighed and decided that next time she would stick to her cereal, cereal never disappoint her.

She took her back-pack and put on her necklace with a smile on her face. She started to head down the stairs. She was enjoying the weather, it was cold, and it was that time of the year where it was going to start to rain. She was lucky though, because it wasn´t raining and she had forgotten to buy an umbrella.

As she was walking down, her hands were getting cold.

When she got to Po´s house, she knocked the door with her frozen hands. She starting rubbing them together so they would get warm. After waiting for a couple of seconds, she heard footsteps getting closer to the door, until someone finally opened it.

"Hi, Mr. Ping" Tigress said. Her hands shivering. Mr. Ping saw how windy and cold it was outside, so he let her in immediately.

"Come in Tigress. Do you want some breakfast, Po was just about to eat." Mr. Ping kindly asked her, as she was taking off her coat.

"Oh, Thank you very much, but I don´t want to bother you sir" She replied even though she would have loved to.

"Oh, non-sense. Come on, take a seat" Mr. Ping said leading her to the kitchen and Tigress following him.

"Thank you" She replied warmly. She sat down and saw what seemed to be some pancakes. After a couple of minutes, Po came down, apparently he was still taking a shower.

"Hey dad, can I have some pancakes for lunch as well?" He said, drying his hair with a small towel, when he looked up, Tigress was staring at him with her sparkling eyes, she was trying really hard not to laugh.

"Oh, Hi Ti" He said, embarrassed that she heard him. She laughed gently and then stood up and went to give him a kiss.

"Your dad invite me for breakfast" She explained. Po smiled and reached for her hand, when he did, he felt how cold it was,

"Man, your hands are cold" Po said, holding onto them tighter trying to transfer his heat to her icy fingers.

"And why do you have ashes in your clothes?" Po asked her. Tigress blushed and was embarrassed,

"I tried to… you know, cook" She said. Po started laughing,

"Next time, wait for me so I can teach you and you don´t set the kitchen on fire" Po said. She smiled and then took her seat again. Mr. Ping served them some pancakes and poured some syrup into them, even the smell of it made Tigress´s imagination get carried away.

She took a bite out of it.

Gosh, this tastes like heaven. I think I will start having breakfast here. She thought. After 10 minutes, they both finished and took their back-packs. Tigress put on her coat and opened the door. Po caught up with her and grabbed her hand, before they closed the door and started going on their way to school, Tigress thanked Mr. Ping for his delectable breakfast.

Tigress is a very bright young girl, I think my son was very lucky to find her. And she enjoys my food! Mr. Ping was thinking as he closed the door.

With Po and Tigress…

They were both walking as always. Po now knew why Tigress was cold, because it was freezing outside! He didn´t know how Tigress could even stand to walk to his house and then to the school. He was telling Tigress how his phone might not be working correctly because it said that it was going to be sunny, and this was the opposite of sunny.

"Well, you can see the sun, it´s just cold" Tigress said in a teasing voice. Po laughed sarcastically. They kept walking all the way to school. Once they were there, they finally started to warm up.

"This is better" Po mentioned, as he put his jacket inside his locker.

"Yeah, I completely agree". Tigress said, now just waiting for Po to take out his binder.

"Hi!" Tigress turned around, and it was Nyuk.

"Oh, Hi Nyuk" Tigress responded, at the sound of his name, Po immediately shut his locker and turned around, remembering how he wanted to steal Tigress. As Nyuk came closer, Po went closer to Tigress. Tigress was caught in the middle of them. She looked at Po, who seemed protective of her, and then at Nyuk, who seemed to be looking at her with a smile on his face.

Po was glaring at Nyuk with suspicious eyes. Nyuk ignored that and turned to Tigress.

"How are you?" He asked her.

Liar, you pretend to be a nice guy with her, sure. Sooner or later she will find out what I already knew. That you are a jerk! Po thought to himself, rolling his eyes.

"I´m good." Tigress answered.

"Hope you don´t mind, but Po and I have to go now. I will see you later" Tigress said. She leaned closer to Po and took his hand. Then started to walk away, with Po. He smiled and then looked back at Nyuk, he smirk at him and wrapped his arm around her waist.

Nyuk could just watch angrily. Seeing how Tigress let Po touch her, made him mad. HE was supposed to be the one putting his arm around her. He took a deep breath and stomped away, thinking how he was going to have a talk with Po the next day.

With Tigress and Po…

Tigress kept walking and after they got to an almost empty place, she let go of his hand. Po was surprised by this, she seemed upset. She stood in front of him and crossed her arms across her chest, then looked at him straight in the eye, that´s when Po knew she definitely was upset.

"Ok, tell me Po. What´s bothering you? And I know it involves Nyuk so don´t lie." She said. Po didn´t know what to do, he couldn´t lie but he didn´t wanted to tell her, it would just make him sound jealous, which he was but he didn´t wanted Tigress to know that.

"He… he likes you!" Po yelled. Tigress wasn´t shocked at this. She formed a small smile.

"Hold on, why are you smiling?" Po asked confused.

"First of all, I suspected he liked me, but I just want him as a friend. And second, you are jealous over nothing, did you think I would cheat on you, or date him!? If I wanted, I would have already done it. So don´t worry." She explained him. Po was surprised, Tigress seemed to be a Wikipedia.

"Besides, on that date I told you that as long as I wear this necklace, I´m yours remember?" She said pointing to the necklace hanging on her neck. He smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, I remember." Po replied.

"Yeah, see. Don´t worry about it. And I mean it" Tigress said, putting a serious emphasis at the end.

"I ´ll try" Po replied honestly, "After all, I can see why he likes you, you are amazing" He added. Tigress laughed softly and leaned in, she gave Po a soft and warm kiss. The bell rang and she broke the kiss.

"Thanks, that helped me" Po whispered to her ear. She chuckled.

"I will see you soon" Tigress said, then went over to her first period classroom.

Po was standing there, walking slowly to his next classroom. Still thinking about Nyuk, but less worried.

In the other hand, Nyuk knew exactly what he was going to do the next day and he knew that Tigress would be his, or at least he would get Po out of the way.

Hi, so this chapter is kind of short, but this was mostly to show you what was going on between Tigress and Nyuk and Po. On the next chapter there is going to be more… well, action. Anyway, I hoped you like it and I promise next chapter is going to be more…uh, I don´t know how to say this, interesting, or more what you been waiting for. Ok, thanks for everything and don´t forget to review!

-Peace out