S.C: I know that it has been a very, VERY long time since I've updated. First off, I lost all progress that I had with this story and then decided to procrastinate and take forever before I started back to writing. It's summer vacation, I finally have time to do things sooooo... yeah. I have already started on the next chapter and I DO plan to get myself on track and stop neglecting this story and start writing. This isn't a very long chapter but if I wouldn't have lost all my hard work from before it would have be twice as long as this. However, what's done has been done. Well, enjoy the chapter.

"So, why were you upset with Araki so early in the morning?" asked Utau as I came into my room.

"He wanted me to apologize to that gold digging slut." I said as I sat on my bed beside Utau, who was currently painting her toe nails. Rima was sitting at my computer desk playing on my MacBook. Yaya was lying on the floor surrounded by recent issues of the most popular magazines.

"Did you?" Yaya asked.

"Yes I did." I said with sarcasm. However, it seemed as if Yaya missed it. She looked up from the magazine that was previously occupying her attention to give me a bewildered look.

"No way!"

"Yaya, she was being sarcastic," said Rima who did not even spare a glance up from my MacBook.

"Oh," was the only response Yaya could give as she shyly put her head back down to flip through the magazine in hand.

"So, moving on to the next subject, who was at the door," Utau asked looking up from her now finished nails and blowing on them to quicken their drying.

"Oh, just the Shooting Stars," I said with nonchalance. Immediately following, I hear screams coming from two of my best friends.

"The Shooting Stars!?" Utau and Yaya yelled.

"Yea..."

"What did they want," Rima asked. Even though she wasn't overreacting and screaming like the other two, you could see the excitement, interest, and curiosity in her eyes.

"Nothing really. Their manager came to ask me to be a part of their group," I said as if it wasn't a big deal, which it wasn't.

"What!?" Utau yelled as she abruptly stood up from my bed slightly shaking the bed. I looked up at her as she walked around my specially imported California King bed to get right in my face. "What did you say? You said yes, right?"

"I said nothing. She just gave me a contract and that was the end of that conversation. Now get out of my personal space!"

"Are you going to join," Rima asked. She had swiveled the chair completely around towards us.

"Probably not."

"Hmmm... Figured," she stated, turning around and giving her attention back to my MacBook already bored with the conversation.

"Why won't you Amu," Yaya asked sitting up to look at me better.

"You know why," I replied giving her my 'don't play dumb' look.

"Amu..." Utau said looking at me with a solemn expression. She was aware of why but she didn't want to accept it. I could tell from the unsaid words and the look in her eyes.

"So," I started, looking away from Utau I got up, walked over to Rima, took my Mac away from her and went back to sit on my bed, "shall we get to planning this Halloween party?"

"No, first we need to find costumes since we did not do it the other day due to our espada at the amusement park," replied Rima as she plopped down onto my bed with Yaya following suit.

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I was clad in a lightweight, flowy, white dress running through a beautiful rainforest. There were beautiful parrots flying above my head with vibrant feathers. To my left, I saw hundreds of toucans sitting among the trees staring at me with their small, beady eyes. As I looked around taking in the beautiful scenery, I hear a low growl. I turn around to come face to face with a large tiger. However, instead of being terrified like most people would, I gave the tiger a gentle smile. I reached out my hand to touch it's fur. Instead of meeting fur, I met something liquidy and sticky.
I look at my hand to see blood. I then look to the side of the tiger's face to see blood that I did not see before. Before I could try to aid the animal, everything went black.

When things started to become light again, I found myself standing in the middle of a meadow. Around the outskirts of the meadow I could see the grass and leaves on the tree move as if the wind was blowing. However, I felt nothing.

The sky was this beautiful blue. No clouds nor sun were in sight. It was just the endless sky. This place was just so peaceful. As I started turning back around, I came face to face with Shiki. He had this look on his face of one that was utterly in love and he was giving it to me! He said nothing as he sat down in the meadow and patted the spot beside him for me to sit. I sat beside him and rested my head against his shoulder.

We sat there peacefully until Shiki moved from up under me to turn his body towards mine. He looked deep into my eyes as I did to him. Ever so slowly, he started to lean in, and my eyes started to flutter close...

I woke up abruptly for no apparent reason. I looked around to see Yaya, Utau, and Rima still asleep. I looked over at my clock on the wall and it read 3:08 A.M. I laid my head back down and closed my eyes deciding to get more sleep. I couldn't seem to go back to sleep, so I decided to go get a warm glass of milk.

I slowly got out of my California King sized bed, careful not to wake the other three. I walked over to my door and slowly opened it. I tiptoed towards the stairs because I did not want to make a ruckus so late at night and wake everyone else up.

I immediately heard a hushed voice coming from downstairs. I cautiously made my way down the stairs so I wouldn't make any noise. Downstairs, I saw my brother's gold digging slut on the phone.

"I know, I know baby. I'll get the money from the sucker," she said in a whisper.

I stood frozen.

'I knew it!' was the only thing I could think as I stood behind the wall out of her sight.

"I'm having a problem because of his little bratty ass sister."

'Bitch!' I thought wanting to walk out and beat her to a pulp.

"Just give me until tomorrow. We're going shopping. I'll try to keep him out until dark then you and the guys can jump him and take his cards. I know the pins to most of them. We'll go to the nearest ATM and take all the money out of his accounts."

Anger started to boil up inside of me as I listened to her plans to hurt and steal from my older brother.

"Goodnight, baby. I love you."

I ran quickly up the stairs, skipping every other step, without making even the slightest noise. I slipped into my room and quietly closed my door. I stood by the door as I listened to her go back into my brother's room.

I did not know what to do. I eased back into my bed and stared through the surrounding darkness. I was wondering how I could manage to convince Araki that I was telling the truth. As I continued to think, I felt my eyes grow heavy and soon sleep took over and I was once again in the land of dreams.

S.C: Well I hope that that's a good way to start off back into the habit of writing. I promise that the next chapter will be longer but will be out before this month is over with.

XOXO,