As you can clearly see, this chapter is entitled: The Chapter Where Stuff Happens. It is because stuff happens in this chapter. Also, I have the next couple of chapters already written, but I'm angry with you all. Not ONE SINGLE REVIEW for the last chapter. And it had EdXKairi fluffiness in it!!! What's wrong with you people??? D: I also have a lot of the next part of the story laid out, so they should be quicker to write. I'm still mad at all of you, though. Grrrr.

They reached the house when the moon was setting. She knew this house so well; she could already see which room was where, who stayed in which room. The house was a two-story. It was painted a shade of dark, deep green with white around the windows, but it was fading and chipping off. The roof was pointed, and the highest window was broken in half, but the missing half was covered with duct tape. The front lawn wasn't mown and there was a small garden lining the broken cobblestone path, but the flowers were brown and dead. It's a beautiful house. Just that no one takes care of it.

"Everyone's asleep," Kayle whispered. "Do you know where your room is?"

"I remember that now," she mumbled back. Kayle and Travis had shared a bedroom right next to Serina's, which was next to Audrey and Kairi's and across from Suki, who was the last door on the right next to the the bathroom. Carson's was under the stairs. There were two empty rooms in the house: the guest room, and Carson's parents' room.

She tried to be as quiet as she possible could as she followed Kayle up the stairs. There were thirty-two of them. She'd once had a habit of counting each step when she walked up them. He whispered, "G'night." After he'd stepped into his room, she continued down the hall until she reached the room she had once shared with Audrey. She only hesitated for a moment; after closing the door quietly behind her, she stumbled into bed, Her feet ached and she was completely exhausted. She was asleep before her head hit the pillow.

The next day...

Kairi's eyes fluttered open at noon the next day. She stretched, rolled over, and landed on her knees. Rubbing the sight back into her eyes, she walked to Audrey's dresser. When she looked in the drawer, she discovered it was full of black eyeliners identical to the one she'd had when Teacher found her. While she brushed her hair, she made a mental note to get her bangs cut a little shorter. She hated them getting in her eyes. After applying her eyeliner, she though, Audrey's so girly. She actually has a drawer full of eyeliner. I wonder where Lee is. She had just remembered Audrey's pet ferret, Lee. Audrey and Kayle had gone into town and they came home with him. She smiled to herself.

Kairi turned and exited the room. The second the door shut behind her, something crashed into her side. She let out a strangled scream and her body made a light thud as she hit the ground.

"Kairi!" Suki shrieked, her arms encasing Kairi and her eyes lit with delight. "Kairi! Kairi! Kairi!"

"Uhm- Suki?" She stared up at the ecastic Japanese girl's face.

Suki gasped. "You remember me!"

"I remember you guys now. But not everything."

"Yay!" Suki was so bubbly and happy. "Come see everyone!" When they stood up, she saw that Suki was exactly the same height as her, give or take a few millimeters, but she weighed a bit more.

She let Suki drag her down the stairs, around the corner, and into the kitchen. The first thing she saw was the board that always stuck up, because she was staring at the floor. (Suki had nicknamed it Charlie.) She had always tripped on the dumb thing. It was near the counter. Everyone was gathered at the table, talking, but they were silent, and they turned and stared at her.

Audrey and Serina jumped up first. Thier arms wrapped around her, and she had to choke out, "I can't breathe" before they let her go. Carson came more slowly, and he gave her a one-armed hug. No one was paying Travis any mind, but he seemed bent on ignoring her. She sighed inwardly, her eyes averting him.

"We're going swimming. We were waiting for you to wake up," Audrey pushed her toward the stairs. "Everyone's going to get changed!" She yelled it to everyone else, who obediantly got up and ran passed them up the stairs. "I shall teach you to swim!"

"I don't-" She was interrupted when a furry rodent ran up her leg and clung to her neck. "Oh, hi, Lee." She reached up and touched the tattoo on her arm.

"You'll get it soon enough." Audrey threw a black two-piece bathing suit at her. "Change."

"I don't want to go," Kairi mumbled, picking it up off the floor.

"Deal with it," she smiled, then said, "I told you not to come back."

"I don't remember any of that."

"It was because Travis was hurting you. Don't get alone with him."

"I know."

"You know that much," she rolled her brown eyes. "I'm changing in the bathroom." She walked out of the room, her brown and pink bathing suit in her hand. Kairi sighed and started to change.

25 minutes later...

Audrey made everyone run the quarter of a mile, making comments about how slow they were going from ten feet ahead of them. She's always been the energy of us. Kairi had almost drowned here so many times. It wasn't even really a lake. It was a bowl about fifty feet across made of rock that was hollowed out by the waterfall at the far end. The waterfall itself was twenty feet high, but there was a steep path that they'd always climbed up and jumped off. The water was fifteen feet deep where they usually landed after they jumped.

"Get in the water. I'm going to teach you to swim," Audrey announced.

"It won't work. It never does." It wasn't that Kairi didn't want to learn to swim- she really did. She just never really learned how.

"Yes it will, because you're going to jump off the waterfall at least once before we leave. I'm certain you would want to know how to swim then."

"You're so mean." She knew there really wasn't a point in arguing after Audrey made up her mind. Audrey had that effect on people; Kairi had always guessed that she learned from her dad how to be so manipulative.

"Just come in the water," Audrey pushed her toward the water. Serina and Suki were already in, and Carson and Travis were climbing up the trail to the waterfall. She wasn't afraid of heights, she just didn't like the idea of climbing up there at all.

Kairi touched a toe into the water. It wasn't that cold, but it wasn't exactly warm. She stepped in slowly, trying to get used to it, then sat down. She hated it here. "Audrey? Is there any chance I can convince you to let me walk back?"

"Absolutely not." Audrey had already gone under, but her hair still seemed in place. She is the most gorgeous girl I've ever seen in my life. "Now come on." Her fingers wrapped around Kairi's upper arm, and she dragged her into water where she couldn't touch, but Audrey could. "Now kick your legs and use your arms." Ugh, I hate this so much! She'd always tormented Kairi like this.

"I'm going back to the house," Kairi mumbled, trying to work herself free of Audrey's grip.

"No! I'm teaching you to swim,"

"I don't wanna learn," Kairi finally managed to fight her way free of Audrey, but she was out of reach of the ground, so she sort of moon-walked until she could touch. You know, that thing where you go under and moon-walk underwater? I love doing that XD except I can swim. She "ran" as fast as she could through the water, away from Audrey, and threw over her shoulder, "I'm going back!" She ran the rest of the way to the house.

"Hey, Kayle," Travis turned to his friend as they reached the trail, planning on jumping off the fall again.

"What's up?"

"I'm going to talk to Kairi. See you later?"

"Yeah, okay," Kayle replied. Travis turned and walked down the trail.

Meanwhile...

Kairi had been running, so she reached the house in just a few minutes. She walked up the stairs and changed into her black shorts and black tanktop; after drying and brushing her hair, she reapplied her eyeliner and left the room. She could see Lee scuttle under the door to Kayle and Travis's room. She tried to ignore the door's existence. She wouldn't be caught dead in that bedroom, with its walls painted a lime green, and the window that viewed the trail to the Lake.

Shaking her head, she walked down the stairs and into the kitch. She picked up a glass cup and filled it with water, taking a sip of it, when she heard the front door. It startled her, and she'd always been clumsy, combined with the water that had splashed on the outside of the cup, and it slipped out of hand and shattered to pieces on the floor.

"Kairi?" She knew his voice so well.

She walked to the kitchen doorway, then called, "I'm in here, Travis."

And as soon as she turned around, her bare foot caught Charlie's edge, and she landed on top of the glass pieces. Gasping, she rolled off, trying to get off the fragments. Sticky, red blood was oozing onto the floor, and her arm was cut from about an inch below her wrist to about six inches below it. She was on her back and she started trying to pull pieces of the cup out of her arm.

"Great," Travis commented gruffly, gripping her upper arm- not at all gently- he pulled her to her feet. "Kairi, you haven't changed at all." He led her up the stairs and into the bathroom, trying to pick out the glass along the way.

"Augh, it hurts," she closed her eyes as he ran water over it.

"Well, then stop falling down, Blondie."

She opened one eye and studied his face. His brows were creased as he pulled glass from her arm, water still running from his hair. She could hardly stand being so close to him. He meant well, but he was hurting her, and at the time it was like it was all he'd ever done.

"Augh." He dried her arm with a towel and opened a drawer full of bandages so he could wrap her arm up.

"You were always falling down," he broke their long, awkward silence. His body was practically pressed to her's. "Constantly. Like, twice a day."

She didn't reply.

At the Lake...

"Kayle!" Audrey called over the rushing water.

"What?" He replied. They were on top of the cliff, getting ready for their seventh jump down together.

"Where's Travis at?"

"He went to the house to talk to Kairi."

"Alone?"

"Yeah."

Her eyes widened slightly.

"Something wrong?" He asked.

"Nothing," she smiled. "Let's jump." They sailed down the waterfall, hands clasped together.

Anywhooo...

"I'll finish it," she didn't mean to sound so gruff, it just came out that way. She jerked her hand out of his grasp and walked quickly out of the room, attempting to get away from his body, his smell. She used to love that smell. Like when you put an apple in water and let it soak, and then you sniff it. But it made her sick to her stomach now.

"I'm just trying to help you," he replied defensively, following her out of the room.

"I don't need your help," she spat the word, and he grabbed her by the arm, spinning her around to face him.

"Why are you being so difficult?"

"Because I don't want you to hurt me anymore!" She finished taping up the bandage and pried his fingers from her arm. They left a red outline, but they wouldn't bruise.

"I don't want to hurt you anymore!"

"Oh, not anymore," she scoffed. "Then why the hell did you in the first place?"

"Because you always find a way to make me that angry! You did everything you could to get under my skin!"

She laughed bitterly, taking a step back. "Wow. That's right. It's all my fault. I'm so sorry. I totally deserve every scar you ever gave me."

"Sometimes you did!"

In the bushes? Wtf?...

"Brother, they look angry," Al's voice was nervous. "Should we go inside?"

"Not unless he hurts her. We don't want them to know we're here without a reason." He smiled bitterly. "Besides. If we wait and he does hit her, I'll have an excuse to send the bastard through a wall."

"But-"

"Believe me, Al, I want to go in there as much as you do." He stared hard through the window. He and Al were sitting on their knees in the bushes. "Just wait."

And as that was going on...

"That's a bunch of crap and you know it!"

"How do you know? You don't even remember any of it, right?"

"Augh!" She covered her face with her hands. "I remember enough."

He stomped around her and walked down the stairs and out of the house, slamming the door. She took a deep, shuddering breath and started to walk down the stairs, picking up pieces of glass that had fallen out of her arm on the way. She wished Ed was there.

Gasp!! JK lol. Mkayy; so if I get enough votes on my profile poll and anonymous answers I will gladly reward you with a peak at a future chapter and a speedy update! But please review this time, 'kay? I worked hard on the last chapter, and ya'll hurt mah feelings! D: Haha, first reviewer for next chap gets a dedication. Anyway, here's the tiniest bit of a hint at the future chapter: the song Your Face, by Taylor Swift. =] Review! I can update within a day! The next chapters are written!! =D Go go go!!