~Chapter Twenty-Eight~

   Everything seems to be going alright. Leeann and Jill were happy to hear the news about Katrina finally being home and part of the chosen ones. Sadly, Katrina was sick now and couldn't even go back to school. She had to stay home and rest. Being outside in the cold caused her the get sick.

   Vikki was worried about Katrina but was forced to attend school. Dean also was worried but had to go to school. Paul had to go to work and Katrina was home alone. She wasn't actually alone because Moa was keeping a close eye on her, as Vikki asked him to.

   Katrina was lying in bed. "I don't understand. What just happened... Now I am home. I feel so stupid for running off. But... Lancer... He saved me and didn't let anything bad happen to me. But I feel worried for him... Would he be...okay? Is he okay?" Katrina thought to herself. Moa appears in her bedroom Katrina glares at him.

   "Why don't you knock?" Katrina asks angrily with Moa.

   "Leeann said the same thing to me." Moa laughed.

   "Leeann knows about you?"

   "Yup and Jill."

   "They probably was annoyed with you too." Katrina turned her head and didn't stare at Moa. "I am not a chosen one. I don't care about whatever you are fighting for. I don't want to fight." Katrina said.

   "You were like this in your past life too. Didn't want to fight. The Sea God is our ultimate enemy and we need your healing powers. They will be a good advantage for the team so don't worry about fighting. You don't actully fight."

   "I don't care!" Katrina sat up. "I don't-" Katrina starts to cough.

   "You shouldn't try to strain yourself if you're sick." Moa tells her.

   "Why can't I heal myself if I have this so-called healing power?" Katrina asks.

   "It is a good question, but your healing is for your allies, not you, I think. You cannot use it on yourself. I believe so as I remember in the past?"

   "How very lame." Katrina laid back down and turned away from Moa. "Why are you here?"

   "Vikki asked me to look after you, I mean Dean also did soon after but Vikki first suggested to me." Moa replied. Katrina blushes.

   "Vikki... Is he worried about me?" Katrina thought to herself. Katrina began to blush more.

   At school, Dean was in one of his classes. Everyone was working on a worksheet that even Dean thought to be boring. He was busy wondering where Katrina was all this time that she had been gone. He didn't know that she was staying with Lancer because she never told him. The only one that knew was Vikki because he witnessed it. He actually spied on them through a window. Katrina wouldn't tell anyone exactly where she was for the past days that they were worried about her. Paul even asked her but all she could tell them was with a friend and that was that. Katrina felt like she should protect Lancer as he protected her.

   The teacher kept on staring at some guy in the class. "I have to ask this." Mrs. Layden said interrupting her class. Everyone stared at the teacher. "Who are you and why are in my class?" Mrs. Layden asked. Dean and Vikki both glanced and realized Brandonlee was sitting in class at Leeann's desk. "Where is Leeann Xavier?"

   "Leeann told me that she wanted to ditch class because she said she didn't want to stare at you. Told me you were so stupid that you probably won't notice that I am not her and that your clothes were totally last fashion." Brandonlee answered honestly. "I was paid to do this."

   "WHAT?! That girl! How dare she tell me my clothes are last fashion! When I find her, I will have a word with her!" Mrs. Layden ran out of the classroom.

   "She's more worried about her fashion tastes than being called stupid?" Vikki asks. Some of the students were chuckling in the classroom.

   "I don't understand why Leeann would say things like that, Mrs. Layden is really pretty." Dean said. Vikki stares at him confused.

   "What? Do you got the hots for her?" Vikki smiles devilishly. Some students got up from their desks and came surrounding Dean's desk.

   "Really? You got the hots for Mrs. Layden?" A guy asked.

   "Your hot for the teacher?" Another guy asks.

   "Dude! You like like older girls?" Yet another guy asked Dean.

   "You do realize she is too old for you, right? Not to mention, married." A girl says to Dean.

   "W-What?" Dean was confused on why everyone was surrounding his desk.

   "I heard Mrs. Layden is married." Another girl tells them.

   "What do you all mean got the hots? I am not hot." Dean acted confused.

   Mrs. Layden found Leeann and took her to the principal office. She also sent Brandonlee back to the high school. Leeann was sitting in a chair in the principal's office. Not even staring at the principal. It was Damien.

   "Mrs. Layden tells me that you ditched class and got your brother to attend class for you and to top it off you made fun of her fashion. Is this correct?" Damien asks.

   "Darn right I did! Do you think I really want to sit in class staring at her when she wears just about the ugliest fashion ever?! Not only that her boobs..."

   "You do make a point." Damien said admiring his nails. He had on glued fingernails. It hardly didn't fit his fingers.

   "Can I just go?" Leeann asked.

   "I can see that there was nothing done wrong. You may go back to class." Damien replied. Leeann got up and was about to leave. "Just remember, next time don't look too much at Mrs. Layden's ugly clothes. Yuck!" Damien said. Leeann just left the principal's office.

   "I don't remember the principal ever looking like that?" Leeann thought to herself. She decided to just brush it off and just return to class.

   At lunch, Dean began to have a conversation with two other guys that were talking about music they liked. Vikki was talking to Delton.

   "Did you ever find that Katrina girl?" Delton asks.

   "Yes, she is back. Safe and sound." Vikki replies.

   "That's good." Delton said.

   Dean felt like he just made good friends. One guy was named 'Fred'. He liked rap and hip-hop music and dreamed of being a rapper one day. The other was his good friend 'Dusty' that Dean happened to meet both at the same time.

   "I sing just the best music, I rap the best I can!" Fred tells Dean.

   "Cool! I wanna hear!" Dean said with a smile.

   "A paper bag please?" Fred asks Dusty. He hands it to him. It was really his lunch bag he brought to school but he already threw his food out of it. Fred stuck the paper bag onto his head and stood up on his chair. He began to rap.

   "I am the one, the sexy one. I like to kiss and play with some toes. I like the hottest chic." Fred sung. Dean wasn't sure what he meant by what he was saying and was laughing.

   It was now time for everyone to get home. Dean didn't get off the bus with Vikki as he was going over Fred's house to hang with him and Dusty. Vikki went straight home off the bus and when he got home, he threw his backpack on his bed along with his coat and gloves. He ran to Katrina's bedroom to find her asleep. Moa was in the bedroom.

   "Is she okay?" Vikki whispers to Moa.

   "She's fine. She mostly slept." Moa replied quietly. "I think you should let her sleep."

   "Will she get better?" Vikki asked. He looked like he was worried.

   "I think she just has a cold. Is sickness really bad here as in the past it was too?" Moa asked.

   "I don't know. I worry about her." Vikki admits. "I am going to go make her some soup." Vikki left the bedroom to go downstairs to make Katrina some soup to eat.

   "He really does like her." Moa thought to himself. "But I wonder if Katrina likes him?"

   Vikki finished making the soup. "I don't understand why I want to be so nice to her." Vikki thought to himself and went upstairs. He was holding a tray that had a bowl of soup for Katrina on it. When he came into the bedroom, Katrina had woken up. She sat up and stared at him confused when he sat the tray down on her lap. He was blushing.

   "What's this?" Katrina asked.

   "It's soup." Vikki responded.

   "Did you make this?" She asks.

   "N-No!" Vikki started to feel embarrassed. "Dean made it before he uh... left to his new friends' home." Vikki lies. He felt too embarrassed to admit that he made soup for her. "I gotta go." Vikki ran out of the bedroom. Katrina turned and noticed that Moa was still in her bedroom.

   "You're still here?" She asked glaring at him.

   "I did promise to keep an eye on you until you get better." Moa answers. "You do realize that Vikki really made that soup for you right?"

"H-He did?" Katrina blushes a little. Moa nods. "He really made this for me?" Katrina couldn't believe that Vikki would make food for her. She then started to remember when they were in the woods. When he told her that he loved her. Her heart began to pound.