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mop of curls around her baby-doll face. "Tell me it's not true, Ced-Pooh."
    Ced-Pooh . Why she insists in calling me that will forever make me wonder. Did I look like a bear? I looked up at the orange sky, a sign that the sun was already beginning to set and the day was at an end. I wondered what Kaito was doing. Was he waiting for me? I've been gone far longer than I intended to be.
    "Helloooooooo," Kara's voice broke through my reverie. "Yo, Mr. Day Dreamer, will you snap out of it and tell us who she is already?"
    "Who?"
    "Yeah, the chick you've been ditching us for."
    Chick? Ah, she means Kaito. I lifted an amused brow at that. Kaito, a female? I wonder what he'd think about that. He probably wouldn't find it amusing, he hadn't even taken my compliment that he was beautiful well. Hmm...what should I get him for Christmas?
    "Ced," Mimi tugged at my arm. "Will you introduce us to her?"
    Introduce them to Kai? I wasn't opposed to the idea of introducing my friends to my special someone but I didn't think he'd have the same opinion. He probably doesn't want to let my brother know about us or anyone else for that matter.
    "You know," I hear Kara grumble, "it's amazing that we can carry a proper conversation with you at all! You're always spaced-out."
    Spaced out? I suppose I have the habit of thinking too much which made people assume that I'm a 'space' case. Funny, I had no problem talking normally with Kaito. If you call any of our conversations 'normal'.
    Speaking of conversations...I took out my smart phone from my pants pocket and stared thoughtfully at it. Maybe I should call him and ask what he's doing.
    "What are you doing?"
    "Mm?" I shot Kara a brief glance. "Did you say something?"
    "You're staring at your phone like you're having a battle of wits with it," Kara said with a scowl.
    "I'm debating whether I should call my lover or not."
    "So you really do have a lover?" Mimi's already wide eyes went wider. " Really ?"
    "Yes," I answered honestly. "Why do you sound unconvinced?"
    "Cause," Kara began, fixing me with a dry look. "We both thought you were using an imaginary girlfriend to ditch us."
    Mimi released her hold and stepped in front of me. "Ced-Pooh, let us meet her. I want to know the girl who's taking you from me."
    I studied the girl before me, cute little Mimi in a pink skirt and top. How very opposite my two "friends" are. One cute and preppy and the other dark and edgy. I couldn't help wonder what Kai's opinion of them would be.
    I glanced at my cell phone. Maybe I should call him now. I had left while he had been in the shower and at the time he seemed distracted. Was he tired of me yet? I admit that I've been insatiable in bed, always craving to be with him but I couldn't help that.
    Like Eve with the fruit of Knowledge, one taste of Kai and I couldn't seem to get enough. The one person whom I had thought was out of my reach was finally within my grasp and I refuse to let him slip away, even to my own brother.
    "That's it." Kara snatched my phone from my hand, taking her stance beside Mimi. Once again the difference between the two girls struck me. Kara is noticeably a few inches taller than Mimi, her red hair matching her fiery temper.
    She shook my phone at me in exasperation. "You are going to introduce us to this girl. Today. Like NOW."
    I stuffed my hands in my coat pocket. "It's a bit complicated."
    "What? Is she married or something?"
    "No."
    "An older woman?" Mimi asked, eyes wide at the idea.
    "Well...he is older."
    "An older woman, huh?" Kara crossed her arms, oblivious to my reference to 'he' and not 'she.' "How much older?"
    "About seven years."
    Mimi gasped. "Middle aged!?"
    "A total cougar," Kara added.
    I believe the term for it would be Silver-Fox seeing as Kai is a man...but he wasn't really that much older than me though I knew that was one of the many things he worries about.
    "Well?" Kara rapped her boot impatiently on the ground. "Are you going to take us to meet her? We're your best