• I sat at the dinning table moving my eggs around with my fork. I watched the orange cat lay in the window's sun light purring. Normally the drapes would block the sun, but i had requested that they be pulled back just for the cat.
    I was thinking about last night when I woke up, Young Sir was gone and pail gray dress was laid out for me along with a gray ribbon I used to tie my hair back into a high pony tail.
    I was a little mad that this morning. Young Sir told me his name, but I had forgotten it. The idiot told me just as I was falling asleep! He knew that I would forget.
    I stabbed an egg piece and popped into my mouth and chewed angry. The food here really was great. I should be happy that the Young Sir took me off the streets. Anyone else would have just left me to die. I felt so confused about it all. I felt grateful that he saved me. But last night he got on my nerves.
    I folded my arms and lay my head on them sighing. I was only nine years old; I had spent two years living on the streets after my parents were killed by a bad vampire. I was left all alone; no one even looked at me. If I had spent any more time on the streets, I would have died.
    "Lady Ritsuka? Would you like to help me out in the garden?" some one said pilling me from my thoughts. I turned to see Ai standing there smiling at me. She looked happy, but I could tell that she was sad. Her strawberry blonde hair fell around her waist and her green eyes shimmered with tears.
    "Yes, I will meet you out there" I said glancing at the orange cat. She nodded and hurried off. i wondered why she looked so sad? Why did she fake a smile? I slid off my chair and made my way over to the orange cat. "Okay kitty, let’s go play in the garden" I said kneeling down by her. She stretched in the sun and yawned, not moving. I frowned. "It’s not your choice, you have to come" her ear twitched and she looked at me. I smiled and picked her up and carried her to the garden with me.
    When we got to the garden, I ser the cat down and she took off into the garden. It was full of brightly colored flowers. I really didn't know much about them though, but I assumed that Ai would know a lot.
    Ai was watering the flowers with a silver watering can. She set it down as I came up to her. She put on that same fake smile as before and said, "Hello Lady Ritsuka, I noticed that you brought the cat with you."
    I glanced over to a flower with longer blades of grass around it. The orange cat laid on its back pawing at it. Ai pointed to a red flower with thorns. It grew up a white wooden grid, its leaves and vines curling and twisting around it. "That’s my favorite flower." she stepped toward it and gently cupped one in her hand. She started to tear up. "It’s called a 'rose'."
    I stepped beside her and placed my hand on her arm. "Are you okay Miss Ai?" I asked. She smiled and whipped the tears away.
    "I’m leaving soon Lady Ritsuka" she said sadly. i cocked my head "leaving? Where? With whom?" I wondered what brought this up. Why did she think she was leaving? I barley knew her, yet I felt sad, and for some reason, scared for her. What was going to happen to her that I would be scared of?
    Ai suddenly fell to her knees and started to cry. "The Sir is taking me away" she shook her hear. "He gave me a rose when we first meet, said that I was like the flower of love, a rose. He told me that I was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. He asked me to live with him. He would take me away from my harsh home and keep me safe forever. He kissed me so gently, held me so tenderly..." her voice wavered her body was trembling. "Now look what he is doing!" she shouted.
    I stood there wide eyed, not sure what to do. I was shocked. I truly did not believe that the Young Sir would be so cruel.
    "I loved him...I loved him so much, I thought he loved me too. That’s the reason I did so much around the mansion." she slowly curled into a ball and rocked back and forth.
    "Ai, how could the Young Sir say such things? You surly must have imagined it." to my amassment she started to laugh. "Oh, my Lady Ritsuka...I know better, I have lived for over a hundred years." she shook her head and made a half laugh half sobbing noise.
    i felt someone lay their hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Yoji with his cool blue eye filled with sympathy. His expression was soft and looked just as sad as Ai did earlier. "Ai needs time alone right now" he gently took my hand and led me away. As we walked, I kept my gaze on Ai, still sobbing and laughing.
    ...
    I sat on a comfy chair in the library. Yoji leaned agents one of the many book cases looking out a window with an open drape. His arms were folded, the sympathetic face replaced with his old, hard one. I was still in shock. Young Sir seemed too nice to kick out Ai like that.
    "Are you suppressed 'little kitten'?" Yoji said with venom dripping from his voice. I looked to see him glaring at me. "I thought that only Young Sir could call me that" I said in a shaky voice. He suddenly looked very angry at what I said. "You think I care? You’re just another one of his little pets to him! No more special then Ai was. Soon, he'll find some one more 'cuter' and 'interesting'. He’ll sell you, or worse."
    i looked at the floor trembling. Young sir would never sell anyone, I knew that for sure. I would not believe any of this. Young Sir saved my life! I was eternally grateful to him for that. I would not betray him by thinking wrongly of him.
    "You don’t even know him!" I shouted, standing now. My fists clenched into tight balls.
    Yoji gave a forceful laugh, "I don’t know him? Ha! You don’t even know his name!" he yelled right back. My heart gave a lurch. It was true, I didn't his name. I really didn't know much of anything about him. But I did know that he was a good person, or he would have let me die.
    "Your wrong for thinking that about him Yoji!" tears pushed there way to my eyes. Yoji froze for a moment, not saying a thing. His eyes were wide. He laughed quietly, relaxing, "I get it now..." he trailed off.”You love him don’t you?" he smiled slyly at me.
    Love? This time I froze. Do I love the Young Sir? "N-no, I don’t. No. he saved my life..." I trailed off. The tears spilled over, rolling down my face blushing.
    "You love him! You ******** love him" he said throwing his hands in the air. "It all makes since now!" he started to laugh. My face was burning with heat.
    Angry I said with out thinking, "you love him too!" he stopped laughing abruptly and glared at me. He walked over to me, meeting my gaze. His face was really close to mine. "Let’s get this straight, 'little kitten' i hate that man with all my being. He may be the reason I’m living, but my goal is to kill him and everyone like him, go that?" he looked furious, as if he was going to strike me right there. But he turned around and stormed out nearly stepping on my orange cat.
    she rubbed against my legs, purring, trying to comfort me. She looked up at me cocking her head and meowed. I could no longer hold it in; I let out a pain filled scream. I ran off toward my room, the cat fallowing me, right on my heels. I ran to my room and slammed the door. The cat got in nearly being crushed by the door. I jumped on my bed crying.
    The cat sat at the end of my bed staring at me curiously. Everyone in this place was crazy. Ai must have lost her mind, how could anyone live for a hundred years? She looked only twenty at the most. And Yoji was unbearable. How could he say that? How could you kill someone as kind as the Young Sir?
    My eyes widened, I really did love the Young Sir. I remembered last night and hoe close we ere. I blushed sniffing. I sat up and jumped off my bed and walked over to my privet bath room. I blew my nose and whipped the tears away. Then I walked back to my bed and sat down trying to calm my breath. I heard a knock at the door and a head of wet blonde hair pocked in. it was the Young Sir.
    "i heard you scream, are you okay Ritsuka?" he asked walking in with only a towel on. I blushed and evaded my eyes. "My, my, you are just as cute sad as you are happy." he smiled as walked over to me and laid his forehead upon mine. My blush deepened. "I’m fine, only a little upset" I said trying not to look at him.
    "You know what feel great when you’re sad?" he asked untying my pony tail. "What?" I said like the child I was. I felt embarrassed.
    "a nice hot bath with me" he held the ribbon against his lips smiling. My eyes widened for what felt like the hundredth time that day. My face flushed all over. "What!" I shouted and jumped back.
    He laughed, "I was only joking, besides, I just had one" he turned around and started to walk away then stopped. "But we could have one together if you really wanted one" he looked at me and winked and walked out of the room leaving me there feeling stupid.
    Everything that had happened earlier was no longer my concern; Young Sir had whipped that away.