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When I Needed You
By Darks Light

Kai sat silently on the floor huddled in a corner of his darkened room; the hotels phone sitting silent and untouched beside him like it had many times before. He sighed softly as he sat there, uncertain eyes staring at the phone, he had been sitting there like this since the afternoon, and it was now 11:30pm. However, he still sat there, tears silently slipping down his cheeks; he needed help.

He needed someone to tell him everything was going to be alright but all he had now was his team, no friends, nothing, just his team-mates, none of which could match his talent, however that didn't matter now; nor did they. He never talked to them and they never talked to him, it was like some unspoken agreement, though now the only person he did talk to wanted nothing more to do with him; he was so lost so confused.

Kai slowly reached for the phone, his hand shaking slightly as it strayed above it. He quickly picked it up and hesitantly keyed in the first few digits of the number. The call was ended quickly, he had lost confidents once more like all the times he had tried before. Things had been going down hill for Kai ever since he switched teams 4 days ago and every day he had distanced himself from the others more and more.

They didn't bother him, they probably didn't even notice he was gone or just assumed he was training, though he now spent more and more time sitting in the darkness of his corner by the window crying as he tried to bring himself to make that call. Kai had continuously tried to call him though he knew that is wasn't likely he would listen, he hadn't even seen him the morning he had left their team.

He had ran out of the kitchen after Kai had told him the news, choosing to lock himself in the darkness of own his room leaving Kai out side banging on the door begging for him to come out but he never got a reply, not one, not once. That was the first time Kai had cried, he didn't want to leave him but he knew he had to get away. However, the pain, the guilt, the loneliness he felt now was far worse then any pain he could have imagined. Now he was left fading away into the background, into the darkness of the night and it hurt him to admit it but he knew, he knew the cold hard truth; no one cared.

He was a ghost, and when he was gone no one would miss him, he would just be gone, a memory if he was lucky though the fact was no one cared. It had been 4 days, no calls, nothing. Kai picked up the phone once more, fresh tears running down his cheeks as he dialled the number he had dialled so many time before; he couldn't take it anymore. The phone rang one, twice, three times. Kai waited, hoping that he would pick up, but it kept ringing. Sighing in defeat Kai lent back against the wall listening to the on going sound of the phone; hope fading away into the background.

"Hn" came a cold yet slightly annoyed voice from the other end of the phone, "Tala?" Kai whispered quietly through the phone,
"Kai?" Tala asked sounding both surprised and happy to hear from him but then realisation of what Kai had done to him brought him back to the cruel reality of life.
"Kai what do you want?" Tala snapped and Kai shrunk back into his corner as the coldness in Tala's voice ripped through his heart,
"Tala please listen in need to talk to you" Kai cried out.

"Kai I don't have time for this, I have better things to do!" Tala retorted though he flinched at the harshness in his own voice. Sure four days was a long time to hold a grudge but Kai had hurt him and hurt him bad, Tala wanted Kai to know the pain he felt the only way he knew how; to hurt him. Tala sighed as he heard Kai whimper softly on the other end before ending the call and slumping down on his bed in defeat, it was a lie all a lie, he didn't have anything else to do, he hadn't done much beside train since Kai had deserted him however that had even stopped now.

Kai sat there listening to the beeping of the phone as it cut through the silence before throwing it across the room and burring his head in his hands, "Tala I need you" Kai whispered curling up further into the corner hoping the darkness would engulf him and take him away from this world. However, things are never that simple and now that Tala didn't have time for him, didn't want him, he had nothing left, nothing to hold him back this time. Kai cried picking up a discarded object from the fall watching as it glistened in the moonlight that flooded in through the window.