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"Ah, o-oh my..." Clone had stood up as well as she watched the...odd, scene. How on earth...? The ducks had taken her sandwich as well, but she still held her soda in her hand. She watched as the ducks waddled away with their lunch, an eyebrow raised. She then giggled, "Looks like they were really hungry." She said between giggling.

Clayton looked over at Clone, who was so happy, and he blushed a little, laughing with her. "I guess. Something like that never happens! I just hope my mom and dad's friends will forgive me for losin' their picnic basket." He sat back up and said, "Well... If yer still hungry, how 'bout we head to yer cafe for a small bite?"

They arrived at the house, and it was almost like a mansion. It was a big house by a stream, and the lights were on, ad warm and inviting. By this time it was pretty dark and Luca yawned again, tears forming out the corners of his eyes. "The lights are still on, Nathan must be up."

"I can give you the tour tomorrow morning. The guest bedroom is next to Nathan's room, maybe it'll give you two time to talk!" Luca said with an innocent smile. He unlocked the door, and the first thig that could be seen was Nathan in the kitchen, sipping a hot tea. He looked Luca's way softly, but it instantly hardened at Jin's appearance. "Luca... Why is he with you?"

"He doesn't have another place to sleep, he's going to sleep in the guest room next to you."

Nathan's eyebrow twitched. "I see... Luca, can I talk to you privately?"

Luca looked at Jin, almost as if for permission, giving him a look that seemed to say 'it's going to be okay.'

"Oh, the shower is down the hallway to the right." Luca said, pointing the way. "Trust me, you can't miss it." He giggled.

As soon as athan thought they were alone he looked at Luca, more hurt than usual. "You were so moved you made the clothing for charity?"

"Well yes, of course! Don't you remember?"

"I remember reading that story and getting teared up about a young girl following her dream while you grew bored with the story, and then I read aloud the trouble with clothing part and you jumped on that, talking about profit and publicity."

"AND, and the goodness of my heart!" Luca cried.

"That's a LIE and you KNOW it. You took ALL the credit, didn't even mention me. You always do that, I slave for you and all you do in return is take my moments and flirt with strangers!"

"Jin is not a stranger! He gives me more affection than you do."

"That's because I'm not your BOYFRIEND, despite what you keep saying to everyone who walks in the door, like parading me around as your gay lover when you KNOW I'm straight."

Luca laughed. "You aren't straight, that's just what your trying to be because your idiot father wants you to be."

"Don't call him an idiot!"

"Why don't you just accept who you are, Nathan?!"

"Because what I am isn't good enough!" He shouted suddenly, and they were both quiet. Nathan lowered his eyes, like he was about to cry, and turned and ran for his room. Luca tried to stop him, but was too late. "Nathan, wait-..." Luca cried out at first but died down, then whispered, "I'm sorry..." Luca felt the tears coming again, and decided to get ready for bed himself. If he kept busy, he wouldn't cry.

"Hm?" Luca looked up at Jin and smiled lightly. "Yes, I'm fine. But I think... I think I made a mistake." He admitted. "I hurt Nathan really bad. But I don't know how to fix it. I can't let him go to sleep mad at me. I don't want him to be upset like this." He sighed. "Hey," he then said, having an idea. "Jin, you're really good at making people happy. do you think you can try and make him not mad at me? It would make me so happy if he just doesn't go to bed so upset with me."

When she closed the notebook, he blinked. The pain seemed to have stopped, but he looked confused. He looked at Phoebe. "Who're you?" He asked, sitting up and staying on the floor, looking around, trying to let some memory come to him... but nothing came up.

"My head?" He asked, taking the notebook which, according to this woman Phoebe, was his. "Sure, it's fine. why? What was wrong with it?" He opened the notebook i curiosity, and his eyes widened, and he hit his forehead with his palm. "Oh no! It happened again! Short-term memory loss, caused by an unknown magical being. No cure. I'll never regain the memories of my past before I got this book." He sighed. "Jeremy gave me this book. I'd be lost without him."