Ben nearly fell off the bed, "What!?"
     "Yeah," Willow said quite innocently, "Look!"
     Ben was now quite alert and walked over to her cautiously, as if he touched her she would shatter into bits, "Oh lord Willow.."
     She couldn't hold it back anymore, she broke into a fit of laughter.
     Ben was still severally confused, "What's so funny!?"
     "Your face sweetheart.." She said wiping away a few tears.
     "Well what did you expect?" He took a deep breath, "So are you?"
     She laughed again and pointed to the computer screen again.
     He finally read the screen, "So you aren't then?"
     She continued laughing, "Of corse not! I said apparently. It's a rumour going around.."
     Ben gave her a look, "You have some nerve you know!"
     "It was just a joke!"
     "I don't care, it scared the bloody shit out of me!"
     Willow looked at him briefly before looking away again shaking her head, "I'm sorry.. I thought it was funny.."
     "Well it wasn't. I'm too tired for this.."
     Willow stood up and walked him over to the bed, "Then go and sleep it off.."
     She returned to Darren's lap top, and decided to confirm the rumours as false on her own site.

     Nicole looked up as Willow joined her in a large empty entertainment room, "Where's Ben?"
     Willow shrugged as she sat down with a huge sigh.
     "Willow?"
     She looked over at Nicole and studied her face for a brief few seconds and then shrugged again, "Sleeping I think.."
     "You think?"
     "Yeah, I think, he may have woken up by now. I don't really care. Last time I saw him he was sleeping peacefully.."
     Nicole forced a laugh to lighten the mood up a bit, "You didn't kill him did you?"
     Willow raised an eye, "No..but.."
     "So what all happened then?"
     "I don't know, he got quite upset at me over a silly little comment?"
     "What'd you say.."
     "I told him apparently I was pregnant.."
     Nicole's jaw dropped, "Are you?!"
     Willow laughed coldly, "No! Gawd, you people.."
     "Well, come on Willow. I can kind of understand why he got so upset.."
     "I said 'apparently'! I was just kidding! It's a rumour going around about me.."
     "A rumour about you?"
     "Yeah.."
     "You're kidding? I don't even think there's even any going around about me!"
     "There is, was, you and Dan..then there was the Darren thing.."
     Nicole looked at Willow quite shocked, "Me the and guys?"
     "Yeah," Willow said nodding, "Though that's kind of expected. Two females travelling around with a 5 piece male band.."
     "So you did tell Ben you were just kidding right?"
     "After I stopped laughing, yes I did.."
     Nicole waved her hand, "He'll get over it. He's just being a grump.."
     Darren walked in as Nicole said that, "Who's being a grump?"
     Both looked at Darren. Nicole then looked to Willow, she wasn't sure if Willow wanted to share her problems with Darren.
     Willow shrugged, "Your lovely guitarist.."
     "Daniel, yeah I know.."
     "Um, no I was referring to your OTHER guitarist. What's wrong with Dan?"
     It was Darren's turn to shrug, "I don't know.."
     Willow sighed and lay down on her back and closed her eyes as Nicole and Darren started talking.

     Her dream was weird.
     Looking around, she soon noticed she was pretty much dreaming in all black and white, the only color there was, was a emerald necklace, which seemed to glow, that sat loosely around her neck. Willow sat alone under a large tree, a willow tree she noted. She was curled up naked sitting there reading a book. There was nothing around her, it was deserted, it was almost as if she was in the desert, well except for the fact of the large willow tree she was sitting against and the small body of water off to her side. She looked toward the dark sky, there was a storm, and she was in the middle of it. She looked up again as a bolt of lightning hit down, she finally took notice to the large white circle that spotted the sky. Just the moon was out, she couldn't find one single star. She shivered as another bolt of lightning hit down, she looked back at the book she was reading, some trashy romance novel. She made a face, yet was compelled to read a few more pages. She finally put the book down and walked over to the small lake. The lake was rough, on account of the powerful winds of the storm, yet as she approached it, it seemed to calm a bit. The heavy wind stared to annoy her, she had to keep brushing her hair out of her face. When she finally made it to the lake, she waded into the water up to her waist. Tearing the necklace from her neck she tossed it into the water infront of her, everything disappeared. She was surround by nothing. Nothing but whiteness surrounded her. She soon heard someone approaching her from behind. She turned around and saw no one, when she turned back around she gasped. Ben stood there looking at her. He was shaking his head as if he was disappointed in her, "You shouldn't have done that Willow.."

     Willow came awake with a start and nearly screamed when she saw Ben sitting by her side.
     "Shh, shh, shh.." Ben said trying to calm her. He ran his hand over her forehead, "It's ok, it's ok. It's just me.."
     Willow sat up breathing deeply. She looked around, she was still in the room she had been earlier when she was talking to Nicole.
     Ben carefully took her into his arms and rested her head against his chest. He stroked her hair, "Are you ok? Bad dream?"
     She decided on not answering his question, she just closed her eyes tight trying to clear her mind.

     After Willow had finally convinced Ben she was fine she went to track down Daniel.
     She peaked into his open door and knocked quietly on his door, "Dan?"
     He looked up from a note book and smiled briefly at Willow.
     "May I come in?"
     Daniel looked down to the paper he was writing on then nodded, "Yeah, sure. Make yourself comfortable," He said patting the empty space beside him.
     Willow walked in and sat beside him. She looked over and noticed he was writing. "What are you writing?"
     "Just, um," He looked down at the book again then back to Willow, "Music, I guess.."
     "Oh! I'm sorry! Do you want me to leave you alone?"
     "Naw, don't worry about it. I've been doing this for the better part of the day, I need a break anyway.."
     "Can I read it?"
     Daniel laughed and shook his head, "Not a chance. No one sees any of my stuff until I'm happy with it..and quite frankly, I'm not happy with this piece.. So, what's up?"
     "Nothings up.."
     "Shouldn't you be doing something? Out with the girls.. Spending time with Benny?"
     Willow nodded, "I COULD be doing that..yes.. But I'm not..in the mood I guess.."
     "So what drove you to come pester me then?" Daniel asked with a smile.
     "I will leave if you want. Just say the words."
     "No, I don't mind, really. But, why are you here? Why me?"
     "Well, Darren mentioned you being in a 'mood'.."
     Daniel finally nodded, understanding what was going on, "Ah, and he sent you to give me a little probe, see what's wrong with me?"
     "No! No.. I came because I wanted to. Darren didn't mention much. I was telling Nicole about a certain someone who was kind of in a bad mood, and Darren walked in and asked if it was you.. So I was kind of wondering what's up?"
     "It's nothing, I just want to go home.."
     "Well you'll be heading home," Willow stopped briefly as she let what she was saying sink in, "Heading home tomorrow.."
     "I know. But just the whole thing.. I don't want to be travelling around the world like this all the time. I just want to be home.. In the studio, maybe even making the occasional video, but not this.."
     "It's part of the package Daniel.. I mean, there are bands out there who haven't been home in like a year! It's just three days, you can handle it. I'm sure you were aware of this when you got into the whole thing."
     "Yes, I was quite aware that I wouldn't see home much, but it's different to actually deal with it.."
     Willow sat with Daniel for the next hour just talking.

     Willow finally wandered back to her room to find Ben on the computer slowly typing out something.
     "Wow, look at you type!"
     Ben jumped slightly and smiled back at Willow, "Yeah, I know I can't type. I never liked computers much really. But I don't know, I've been trying to use them recently.."
     "So what are you doing?"
     "Writing an email to a friend back home, I'll be done in a few..well maybe longer than a few with the way I'm typing.."
     Willow laughed and sat on the bed waiting for Ben to finish his typing.
     He finally sent his email off and turned to Willow, "Want to go out for dinner or order in?"
     "Um, up for ordering in? I don't really want to go out.. Kind of tired really.."
     "Sounds good to me, what do you want?"
     "Whatever you want.."
     "Um, ok.. Chinese sound good?"
     "Yeah"
     The phone rang and both of them jumped, Willow finally picked it up, "Hullo?"
     "Hi, Willow? Can I get my laptop back?"
     Willow laughed, "Lazy ass. You couldn't have just walked down the hallway Darren?"
     "Well, I COULD have, but I'm trying to get the full use out of all these appliances. So are you finished with it?"
     "Yeah, I'll get it back to you.. Bye!"
     "Ok, so you go and bring Darren his laptop back, and I'll get our food."
     "Oh, or you could hold on a few minutes and I'll come with you.."
     "No, it's ok," He kissed her briefly, "I'll be back in a few."
     Willow watched him leave and then unplugged the laptop.

     Willow knocked on Darren's door and smiled at him when he answered the door, "Here we are, door to door service!"
     Darren grinned, "How much do I owe you?"
     "Well.. Hey, actually, you're supposed to be the kind of, well, um, odd one out of the bunch.."
     Darren laughed, "Why thank you, I think.."
     "Well maybe not odd to say. But kind of into the new age stuff, you know.."
     "Ok, but anyway? What is it?"
     "Do you have like a dream book or something?"
     "Not with me, but I do have one at home! Why? Do you want some dream translated?"
     "Yeah, I had this odd dream, and I KNOW it means something, just because of how kind of, 'weird' it was.."
     Willow hesitantly started telling him about her dream after Darren asked about it.
     She went bright red when he asked her what she was wearing, he said that was also a big factor, that and the color of it.
     "I was, um, well, to put it bluntly, nude.."
     Darren stopped for a second and looked down himself, "Oh, well. That, uh, like stands for like innocence and freedom and, uh, stuff.."
     She finally started telling him more about her dream.
     "Well, what kind of book?"
     She sighed, "It was a book..no biggie.."
     Darren laughed, "Well it is a biggie, well possibly..it all the depends on the book."
     "A romance.. Some trashy romance novel!"
     Darren pretended to act shocked, "A trashy romance! Willow! I, I never knew!"
     "Yeah, shut up, you know I don't read that.. So, what does that mean?"
     "Well, I don't know.."
     Willow finally finished telling him her dream and watched him as he stood there thinking.
     "So? What does it mean then?"
     "I don't know.. I'm not THAT good you know.."
     "Darren! Geeze, thanks for wasting some of my valuable time.."
     Darren peaked past her, "No, I used up your empty time. Look, there's Ben," He laughed, "Interesting dream though! Hope you figure out what it means.."
     "Yeah, thanks.."

     Willow sat with Ben as she nibbled a bit on an eggroll. They were watching some reruns of the X-Treme sports.
     "Aren't you full yet?" Ben commented with a touch of sarcasm in his voice, as he watched Willow grab another spoonful of rice.
     She stuck her tongue out at him, "Well if you hadn't of bought so much I wouldn't bother. I just, uh, don't want to see this stuff go to waste.."
     Ben gave her a kiss, "Yeah, sure. Just don't come complaining to me when you start putting on the weight!"
     Willow elbowed him in the side, "Hey!!"
     He laughed and rubbed his side, "What?"
     "A tad un-called for don't you think?"
     "No, not really," Trying to change the subject quick, he asked if he could light up some of her candles.
     Willow nodded, "Sounds good to me, they're in the third drawer over there, in the grey bag."
     Ben started lighting a few and placing them in various places around the room. He went to light a large white when Willow jumped up and told him not to.
     "What? Why not, smells nice!"
     "Yeah, that it does. But don't you remember the candle I bought, the 'special' one?"
     "The spe - Oh yes, your 'special' one. The one that could get you thrown in jail right?"
     "Yeah, yeah. It's cool though," She said looking at the green specs mixed amoungst the vanilla candle.
     "So are you ever going to light that thing?" Ben asked placing the rest of the candles away.
     "Yeah, sooner or later," Willow laughed, "Actually, I want to use this one on Darren.."
     Ben looked at her, "What!? On Darren?"
     She nodded laughing, "Yeah, I'd LOVE to see him stoned.. But, um, yeah.." She put the candle back and curled up with Ben on the couch.
     "Hey, I've done that!" Ben commented as he watched the guys who were riding bikes down the snowcovered mountain.
     Willow laughed, "Oh yeah, I'm sure you have.. I mean with all that pesky snow you get down there.."
     "Yep, damn right. Tons of that white crap.. And then, there's El Nino.." Ben watched Willow laughing a bit at his lame tries at humour, "Will.."
     She looked up at him briefly before returning to the tv, "Mmhmm?"
     "I'm sorry about earlier.."
     She stopped and turned to look at him, "No, it's not your falt. I was talking to Nicole about it.. It was something dumb on my behalf.."
     Ben just shook his head, "Well sorry anyway.. I still can't believe there's actually rumours going around about you, us! I mean, they've become bored enough to pour into our eventless lives.."
     "Speak for yourself! Eventless, not really. Maybe you, I mean, with all the chicks you get. I mean, I must be no big deal. But you do realize it's not everyday that a big fan of a band meets them and falls in," Willow quickly bit her lip, "Over her head for one of the members.."
     "Yeah, I can see what you mean," Ben commented with a laugh, "Yeah, all those damn chicks I get.."
     Willow rested her head in Ben's lap and watched some more telly. She finally looked at the floor, "Tomorrow.." she said quietly.
     "Tomorrow? What luv?" Ben asked brushing some of her hair out of the way so he could see the side of her face.
     "You'll be gone again.. Where will you be off to?"
     "We're going home for a few days then off to Japan I think."
     "Sounds like fun.."
     Ben nodded silently, then looked up at the ceiling, "We'll figure something out.."
     "I hope so.."
     "So do I.."
     The two were asleep before midnight.