Hey guys, I am literally the worst. I am too aware of me not updating even though I have gotten many messages about continuing. I'm so sorry, high school is just very demanding and so is mental illnesses. I promise I will try to write more because Kaider has been in my head nonstop. Well at least I have too many ideas now for this AU. I Have decided to write a bunch of ways they will have their first kiss together rather than a full story, so first kiss one-shots
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I sit and wait. He was supposed to be here ten minutes ago, but of course he's late, he's always late. I shift my computer on my legs, trying to write an essay that isn't working out. I lean my head back against the wall and take a deep breath, I close
/my eyes. It's just Kai, it's just tutoring, it's not like you are going to a ball. I slowly exhale, a knock on my door wakes me from my trance. I move my computer and get up to open the door. My hand meets the cold metal of the door knob and
/I twist it open, my heart racing for no reason. There he is, his eyes looking worried as his hand moves to rub the back of his neck.

"Hey, sorry I'm late. I was out and lost track of time. Were still on for tonight though, right?" He asks a sheepish grin on his face. I roll my eyes at him and smile.

"Yes, I'm going to have to buy you a watch, then maybe you'll show up on time." I hold my door open for him and he enters and shrugs off his bag.

"I already own one..." He flashes his wrist at me, which is adorned with a expensive looking watch. "I just kind of neglect to use it." He flashes another sheepish grin at me. His eyes dart to the empty bed across mine, "roommate still a no show?" He
/says changing the subject from his obvious tardiness.

"Yeah, I'm starting to believe they forgot to assign me a new roommate, but don't tell anyone, the silence and privacy is a blessing." He lets out a bark of laughter. "Okay so let's get started on some math!" I shout with glee, Kai answers with a groan.
/I shut my computer and make room for Kai on my bed, I pat the space next to me. "Come on, I have a paper to write and you are going to need a lot of help." He falls down onto my bed and opens up his bag to reveal his math textbook, I sigh and
/we begin.

"Kai, it really isn't that hard. Just carry the seven, subtract a, then find the root, and then divide the whole problem." I push the tendrils of hair that have fallen from my pony tail out of my face. Kai screws up his face and makes another attempt
/at the math problem. After another painstaking ten minutes, he finally has the problem solved. "Okay, do you think you understand how to do this now?" I mock him. He sticks his tongue out at me. "Very mature, now you try to do the next problem and
/I'm going to write this damn essay." I turn back to my computer and begin to type.

"Cinderrrr." Kai draws out. I turn to face him.

"What now?" I ask, frustration creeping into my voice.

"I need help again..." I sigh and explain how to do the problem again. By the time I finish explaining I start to get bored of hearing my own voice.

"Okay, do you get it now." I turn to face Kai, and his sleeping face is staring right at me. I sigh and shake his shoulder. "Kai, get up. Kai you need to get up now..." Apparently, Kai is immune to any sort of noise once he's asleep. "Oh my stars! Kai,
/wake up!" I yell directly into his ear, but still, nothing. Suddenly I have the most brilliant idea. I shut my computer and stand up, slipping on a pair of flats and grabbing a clean mug. I shoot a wicked grin at Kai's sleeping body before
/opening the door and stepping out into the hallway. I quietly shut my door, more for the sake of my neighbors than Kai. I walk to the empty bathroom and go to the sink. I flip the faucet on and make sure the water is ice cold before filling up my
/cup.

When I get back to my room, I swear Kai is deeper asleep than a bear would be during hibernation. I make sure that no phones, computers, or any valuables will be harmed in the process of waking Kai up before picking up the cup again. I can't keep my face
/from smiling as I slowly turn the cup downwards. Like a scene in an action movie, the water hits his face like it's in slow motion. Kai's eyes tear open and he lets out a high pitched shriek. I lose it. I can't even stand, I fall onto the extra bed,
/my hand covering my mouth to spare the neighbors of absolute screaming. My fatal mistake was not putting the cup down, and the remainder of the ice cold water falls onto by shirt and soaks through it. Kai's shocked face turns to pure joy when he realizes
/that I just dumped water all over myself as well. Even though the cold is terrible, I somehow end up laughing with him, over his drenched face and my utter stupidity.

"Why did you dump water on me?" Kai asks, after he recovered from a ten minute laughing fit, a smile still present on his face. I throw a towel at his face as I grab one for myself out of one of my drawers.

"You fell asleep, and could not be woken up by any humane means." I tell him, I explain my failed attempts to wake him up, before resorting to the water.

"I have been told that I am a rather heavy sleeper." He admits. I punch him in the arm.

"Heavy? I was worried that you were in some sort of math coma, I'm surprised water worked!" I laugh. I check my watch, 10:30PM. "Okay we have half an hour until I kick you out so I can finish my essay, now let's finish this math." Kai groans,
/I glare at him. "What would you rather do?" I retort.

"Anything else. Can't we just hang out before you have to write your paper? I promise you I have this math thing down, for now..." Kai begs.

"Hang out and do what? Don't have many options in my dorm. We could play a riveting game of pass with a pillow, or you could watch me fix my broken lamp, that one is especially exciting because you never know if I'm going to get electrocuted or not."
/I say, sarcasm dripping from my voice.

"Why can't we watch a movie or something?" Kai adds.

"A half hour of a movie?" I give Kai a look.

"Well, I don't know. Can't we just like, talk?"

"About what?"

"Anything! Please don't torture me with more math." He gives me the puppy dog eyes, and at this point I'll do anything to avoid writing that paper.

"Fine, go ahead ask me anything, I am to tired to care at this point." I sigh. Kai's facial expression was happier than a kid that was just put in a room full of candy. I adjust myself to be lying against the wall next to my bed like Kai and let my legs
/dangle off the side of my bed.

"Favorite television show?"

"Easy, The Office." I reply.

"Really? I would have pegged you as more of a Top Gear kind of girl."

"Is it because I'm a mechanic?" Kai looks sheepishly down.

"Maybe..."

"Jerk." I joke. "My turn."

"You get a turn?"

"Of course I do! I'm not missing the chance to pick you apart!"

"Fine..." Kai grumbles, I smile in triumph.

"Okay," I rub my hands together, "Favorite animal?" Kai lets out a bark of laughter.

"Really? Is this how you are going to find my weakness? What are we, first graders?" Kai jeers. I push him.

"This is a serious question, now answer!" I yell, barely able to contain my laughter. Kai begins to stroke his imaginary beard, even though it is extremely lame, somehow it makes me laugh harder.

"Hmmm, dog."

"That makes sense." We continue to ask each other stupid meaningless questions well past eleven, and before we know it, our voices become less coherent.

"Cinder?"

"Hmm?"

"I like you, like a lot."

"Cool."

"I don't mean as a friend." I register what he says, my eyes resist as I open them to look at Kai.

"Kai, you don't mean this. You're just tired."

"I mean it." He replies, his voice turning deadly serious.

"Kai, you shouldn't, you can't. I am not right for you, you deserve better." My voice slowly gets quieter. I turn to look at Kai who has gotten closer and closer to me over the night, his shoulder is touching mine at this point. I look up to his face
/and see him staring back, his eyes staring at me without really looking at me, he is taking every part of me in with just a glance. Our hands begin to move and snake around each others bodies, binding us together, our eyes meet for a split second
/before our faces are pulled together from another force all together. Our lips meet, gentle and soft as a rose petal, then as fiery and dangerous as the thorns. We move like we are in sync, like we have both planned out every detail of this kiss and
/how it would happen a million times before. I pull back, part of my brain has come back to it's senses, but it is soon devoured by lust and pure want.

"I mean it." He whispers. I rest my head against his chest for just a second. Soon I'm fast asleep, without a second thought about my paper or the consequences of the kiss.

I hear my alarm blaring, my hand finds my phone and shuts it off. I nestle deeper into my pillow, which is stiffer than I remember. I shut my eyes for what seems like a minute, but when I open them, the sun is streaming through a crack in my window and
/I know I am positively screwed. My eyes shoot open only to be staring at what definitely isn't my pillow. No, what I have been using as my pillow all night, just so happens to be Kai, who isn't a pillow, nor should he have slept with me in my room
/all night.

Shit, shit, shit. I wrestle out of Kai's arm that has ended up wrapped around me during some point in the night and check my clock. 7:45AM, okay, your not that screwed, class starts in 45 minutes, your fine, everything is fine. I sigh and suddenly
/memories of a kiss come rushing back to me. Another wave of sheer panic rush over me. Tell him it was a dream, there is no way he can remember if it was or wasn't, unless he does. No, he can't know that he kissed me or that I even remember, he deserves a chance with a better girl, a higher status one. I
/push my hair out of my face and move to wake up Kai. I leave him no mercy, I shake him harder than I would shake Iko.

"Kai! Get up! We fell asleep and we're going to be late to class!" I yell. He slowly blinks open his eyes.

"What?"

"It's almost eight in the morning! Get up!"

"What?!" He is fully alert now. "What happened? How did we fall asleep?"

"Well I assume, you game of questions went on longer than it was supposed to."

"Shit, I'm so sorry Cinder."

"It's fine. Now get up, I need to get ready for class, I bet you do too. 8:30AM Humanity Studies is a pain."

"Crap you're right." He grabs his bag and throws his textbook in and slings it over his shoulder. "Thanks for helping me with math, by the way. You're a life saver." I shrug and open the door for him.

"Go, I'd rather not be late to class." He gives me a lopsided grin before turning and walking out of my dorm. I close my door and slide down, my heart racing. He doesn't remember, no need to worry. I let out a sigh of relief. I look at my room,
/everything from my bed is askew and my computer is barely hanging onto the edge of my bed. My brain finally decides to turn on and I remember my paper. Fuck, I am so fucked.

"Looks like someone isn't going to Humanity Studies this morning." I whisper. I quickly make my bed and open up my laptop. I shoot a email to my professor telling her why I can't make it to class this morning and how sorry I am. Once it's sent I collapse
/on my pillows. Well at least you don't have to deal with Kai realizing he kissed you today. I sigh and pull up my paper and begin writing.

What do you guys think? I like this story line and might actually take this and make a whole story, but let's wait until Spring Break to write that sucker. If you have any prompt ideas, go ahead and tell me and I'll try to write them! Thanks for reading!