I know, I know, I said I wouldn't post for a while...but my friend Fallon needs it.

Her sister Megan ran away and I'm spending the night with Fallon. She needs cheering up so I'm putting this up in hopes that it will bring a smile to her face!!!!!

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*Conrad*

I fought the barrier all throughout their duel. I knew Kat couldn’t make it through the fight. The Waldorgians would cheat or kill her as soon as she was done with Cropen. I could see the Waldorgians that hadn’t died yet getting up. They were going to converge on her when they were done.

The last I saw of Kat was her standing up against the swords that had been aimed for her head a moment before. I swung my swords at their heads to make sure they stay down. I knocked down about 20 men within two minutes with that method.

I turned to see how Kat was doing and found that she was holding his hands above her head and she had her sword through his stomach. I turned to survey the crowd of remaining Waldorgians and found one aiming a knife at Kat. I ran to the man and he threw it before I could reach him.

He got the same treatment as the others I had dealt with before I ran to go help Kat. The knife had entered her side in what looked like the exact spot she had been wounded earlier. It gave me an idea, but I had to get her away from Cropen first.

Kat pulled the knife out and she started to glow.

“Erasmus! Close your eyes!” Again the light penetrated my eyelids. The light faded and there, on the wall, stood Guardian Kat. She put her sword back into her sheath and surveyed the field of, what I just noticed, Waldorgian free warriors.

Her dress was being stained with the blood of the knife wound.

“You, brave warriors have just won your battle. The Guardians may return while I have a private word with Prince Conradio.”

“Kat.”

“In this form my name is Princess Ulei.”

“You need to be bandaged.”

“I will be fine. I need to talk to you about what you are going to do with Kat. She is unconscious right now. When I leave she will need you.”

“Great. I want to protect her now.”

“Conrad. The Elders have given me a proposition for you.”

*Kat*

I awoke to a bright light in a tiled ceiling.

“Where am I?”

“Kat!” I heard the familiar shriek of my little sister, Donna next to the bed I was in. How did I get back on earth? “You were mugged at school. The bad man stabbed your stomach. You lost so much blood you were in a coma for a week!”

Was it all a dream?

“Some guy came and rescued you. His name was Conrad.” I jerked my head up as my Dad said his name. “He was walking down the hall and saw everything.”

“Is he here?”

“Yes, he’s outside the door. He wants to make sure you are okay.”

“Okay.” As my Dad went to the door I felt my heart flutter.

“Come on Donna. Let’s leave them alone.”

“Thanks. I don’t want this little gremlin to be mocking me while a guy is in here.” I could hear a muffled ‘go on in’ from my dad and a louder, but still muffled, ‘Kat and Conrad sitting in a tree’ from my sister.

“Hello. I’m glad to see you’re awake. I brought you your homework.”

“Thanks?” I was confused. His eyes didn’t light up like they always did when he saw me on Shif. “Did I dream it all?”

“Dream what?”

“About you, me, Shif?”

“What Shift?”

“You really don’t know.” I felt my heart break and it was all I could do not to cry in front of Conrad, who in a split second went from my boyfriend, to a stranger.

“Um thanks for bringing my homework.” I heard my voice crack and was even more ashamed.

“I’m sorry if I brought up the memory of the mugging.”

“It’s not the mugging. And It’s not your fault, without you I would be dead they tell me.”

“Well it was a good thing my dad was late picking me up that day I guess.”

“Yeah, um, I’m kind of tired do you mind telling my dad to come back tomorrow?”

“No problem.” A Conrad walked out I thought I saw his face change to an emotion I couldn’t peg, could that all have been an act? As soon as the emotion came it went though so I’m wondering if I imagined it even. My door opened and in walked my Dad as my sister ran in, jumping onto the end of the bed. “Goodbye Sissy!” she said crawling up the bed to get to me. When she did she threw her arms around me, squeezing tightly.

“Bye Donna…I’ll be home soon so you won’t have to deal with Dad’s cooking long.”

“Hey I haven’t burnt anything this week.”

“Daddy…that’s because you’ve been under cooking it, that’s worse than burning.” My Dad turned beet red but still came over to give me a hug goodbye.

“You sure you don’t want us to stay longer?”

“Yeah, I want to take a nap and absorb the fact that I was mugged, alone.”

“Okay. Call me tomorrow when you are ready for us to visit.”

“Okay. And Dad?”

“Yeah?”

“Buy pizza tonight, someone should have good food in celebration of me waking up!”

“Yay Pizza! Let’s get Hawaiian!”

“Calm down or I’ll make Dad cook!” That shut her up instantly.

“I will and I’ll bring a small chocolate malt from Golden Spoon with me tomorrow.”

“Oh god, I have been craving that, can you also bring a three musketeer’s?”

“Sure sicky.” I stuck my tongue out childishly at he remark.

“Bye you two!”

“Bye Sissy!”

“Bye Kat.”

They closed the door and I felt my heartbreak spreading. It all felt so real. How could it have only been a dream? The nurses all came in making me take pills but they respected my privacy when I asked them too. They all but went away and I cried myself to sleep for the first time since my mom died.

When I woke up in the morning a nurse was there putting a tray on the roll away table and handed me my pills in a small cup. They were big and I needed water to swallow them all. I looked at the nurse finally and gasped in astonishment.

“Anne?”

“Yes?”

“What are you doing here?”

“I’m your nurse Silly!”

“Are you related to a Conrad?”

“No I’m an only child.”

“That’s weird. You look like somebody from a dream. The dream felt so real though.”

“Well, many people in coma’s mention that they are aware of their surroundings, I was your nurse for your first day here.”

“That must be it. But I fell in love with a guy from my dream. If it was just a dream, then why do I feel like my heart is broken?”

“I don’t know dear. I have to go check on my other patients press the nurses button if you need me.”

“Okay.” I ate the gross pancakes and then dug into my homework. I would rather be busy to try and ignore my pain.

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I have changed the cattergories from Teen and Science Fiction to just Teen Fiction so I can have the other cattegory be the Watty Awards.......wish me luck in this years Watty Awards!!!!! I need all of your votes to help me win this!!!!!!!!! I will have lots of time before I have to finish the story and I'm sure to finish about a month before I have too!!!!

After the Watty Awards are done I'm gonna switch the cattegories back though.....THIS SHOULD BE SOOOOOOOOO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!