The next day Kai arrived at school in his limo. He heard someone screaming down the road. "Saphire! I'm going to tell mum!" A girl dressed in black was holding one end of a skipping rope whilst Lilly held the other. Now he understood why Lilly wore all that protective equipment. Saphire was going down a hill on the road nearby very fast indeed. She only slowed down when they reached the bottom of it.
Lilly looked far from happy. "I'm telling!" Saphire shrugged. "Go ahead." Lilly spotted Kai and dragged Saphire towards him. "Thanks for yesterday."
"Do you always repeat yourself?" He said flatly. Lilly tugged on Saphire's coat and whispered 'go on'. Saphire rolled her eyes and sighed. "Yeah, thanks." She said without much care and skated towards the girl's school. "Oh no." Lilly sighed. "Hmm?" Kai looked curious. "You'll see." Lilly sighed and went towards the school.
The girl's watched Saphire go in. "She's not going to?"
"Oh yes she is!" Some girl's exclaimed.
Kai had no idea as to what was going on. The boy's started to climb up the wall to watch the something. He sighed and climbed up a tree to see what was going on.
Saphire was skating along the wall and a middle-aged man came running after her. The crowd suddenly started shouting and laughing. Saphire dodged him and picked up speed every time he came close to catching her. There was a fabric rain guard at one end of the playground and it was bulging with rain from the night before. She went under it and punched it. The water ran down the blanket giving the man a very cold shower. He yelled in rage with some very bad language coming out of his mouth.
The chase continued only to end when the headmistress came out. She told off the man and told him to change in to some dry clothes. Then she walked to the entrance. Saphire could be seen skating down the paths around the grass mounds. She grinded down some rails before coming out.
Kai watched the headmistress looking far from pleased. "What are you doing here Saphire?" She said sternly. "Is there a law saying I can't take my little sister to school?"
"No but you cannot enter these grounds once you're expelled." No one could see how Saphire was looking at the headmistress because of her hat. "I'll take that in to account." Saphire said in a formal sort of way. She looked up to see the man looking murderous from a window high above their heads. She waved at him and smiled. "I mean it Saphire, don't do this anymore or I shall have to call the police." Saphire nodded and skated out the entrance.
Once she was far enough she turned round and skated backwards. She removed her hat and put it on her chest before bowing down low. The crowd applauded and whistled. Saphire turned round and skated away. The headmistress looked very disappointed and shook her head.
A boy on the wall near Kai laughed. "Who's that?" He asked the kid who was so shocked he nearly fell off the wall. "Are you talking to me?" Kai sighed and nodded. "That's Saphire. She's really smart for someone her age. But that man was giving her a hard time there and tried to find a way to get her expelled. He did and she decided to leave in a big way."
"Hmm?" Kai looked curious so the kid continued. "She blew up some frogs in his science lab a week ago. Rumor has it they're still scraping dead frogs off the ceiling."
Lilly looked sad but didn't seem to be surprised.
At the end of the day Lilly was waiting for Saphire again. Kai was waiting for his limo and noticed her there. Then he heard a clanging sound and saw Saphire knocking her launcher on some bars on a nearby fence. Lilly hopped on her board and held the skipping rope not looking happy at all. She chucked Saphire one end and was pulled away at great speed. They went around the school with Lilly yelling in fear.
Kai got in to his limo not looking forward to going home. But tomorrow was Saturday and he would be free of any responsibilities for a week because next week was a holiday.
Saphire had the same thought; Lilly would be away for the week so she didn't need to pick her up. "Hey Amanda." Lilly said when they got home. Amanda was they're housekeeper and was always the cheerful one. 'More like high on sugar.' Saphire thought sometimes. But she too liked Amanda; she was there for the hard part of Saphire's life.
The next day there were tears from May as her daughter went with her school friends to a school trip. Saphire didn't come to see her off and went somewhere on her own. She found a warehouse no one was using with a storage room on top. No one wanted it so she bought it with her savings. There was a whole line of them with storage rooms on top. She used the warehouse to train but the storage room she made up as a place where she could get away. May didn't know about this and neither did Lilly.
She found a way to get up there without being noticed. This meant passing the other storage rooms and one of them belonged to Kai. But she didn't know this and walked past it completely oblivious she was being watched. She went in to her room and lay on her sofa. It looked just like an ordinary room. Sometimes she would come here at night and spend the night away form her house.
There was a sofa, sink with running water, some paintings on the wall of things dotted around her room. Most were painted in dark colours with unicorns, dragons and other various things running around the room. She still hadn't finished one of them. It was a painting of her bit beast but still she hadn't finished it. Black drapes hung from her ceiling covering a part of the room from view. Some spare clothes were put in a black chest of draws. Behind the drapes was a mattress on the floor covered in black sheets and a blanket. A small sound system was near the sofa and she put it on. She drifted off in to her heavy metal and felt free. Her window was covered in a black blind so hardly any light crept in to her room. The toilet and shower were in the room at the back behind her bed.
A shadow appeared under the gap from her door. She turned off her heavy metal and looked over to it. She was surprised to hear a knock at the door. She was suspicious and got up to answer it. She opened the door to find Kai standing outside. He was in his usual clothes with the blue triangles painted on his face again. "Yes?" She sounded annoyed at being disturbed.
"Just came to check in on the new neighbor." Saphire rolled her eyes. "I'd hate to reign on your parade but I've been here for the last few months. So I'm anything but new."
"You're new to me." Saphire sighed. "What do you want?" Kai looked at her with his expressionless face. "To see if it was you." Saphire raised an eyebrow. "So you've seen, is there anything else?" Kai nodded. "Can I come in to tell you?" Saphire looked very confused and rubbed her eyes. "Sure." She sighed and opened the door.
Kai looked around and scoped out her room. "Don't you let any light in? Someone could break their neck in here." He went over to the window and pulled up the blind. He could now see the paintings clearly and was impressed. "You've seen, now what was it that you wanted to tell me?" Kai smirked. "Who said I had anything to say?" Saphire growled. "I just wanted to see who I was next door to and now I have."
"It's your turn now." He looked at her. "Hmm?"
"You've seen my place, now it's my turn to see yours." Kai's smirk increased and he nodded. She followed him three warehouses down and he opened the door to his room. She saw posters and a few seats. There was also a bed in a corner with a sink beside it. There was a glass cabinet holding trophies and pictures. It was simple and a bit bare for her tastes but it was a nice room.
She turned and made her way out. "You don't like it?" Saphire stopped. "I've seen, I've heard and now I'm off." She went back to her place and put her blind back down. She put her headphones on again and blasted her eardrums. 'Next door to Kai Hiwatari, is that guy annoying or what?' It grew dark and she decided to stay the night. Some of her friends were coming round and they were her most trusted friends. Even though she never said they knew she liked them.
Saphire wondered about something. She went over to Kai's room and knocked on the door. "I thought you already taken a look at my place and didn't want to come back."
"Don't get smart with me Kai." She growled wiping the smirk off his face. "I came here to tell you some people I know are coming over tonight. Do you want to come or not?" He looked thoughtful. "Is it a party?" Saphire shook her head. "No, but there will be drinks, food and music." Kai was still looking thoughtful. "I'll take that as a no." She walked back to hers and waited for her friends to arrive.
Two hours after sunset they arrived. A total of eight came over, all dressed in black. Their clothes were extreme in comparison to Saphire's but she was the only one who wasn't very sociable. She found it strange how they all found her fascinating to be with. She didn't even protest when they began hanging around with her. Friends came to mind, but they still didn't manage to change her ways.
Her room was soundproof. This meant if she turned her music up to the max then all you could hear outside was a little bass. But you would have to be a couple of feet away to hear that.
The first hour of their little get together was full of loud heavy metal. Saphire was drinking a beer bottle and watching her friends having a good time. There was two couples dancing in a sexy way, the others were drinking, laughing and just generally having a good time. Saphire sat on her own on the floor watching them.
There was a knock at the door and Saphire went over to answer it. The others didn't invite anyone else so Saphire went to take a look. She told them to turn the music down and they did as she asked. "Saphire?"
"It's ok guys, I know who it is." She opened the door and Kai came in. "Changed your mind?" He nodded. She heard some noise coming from his room and looked over. Some men in suits were tearing it apart. "Someone's really angry at you." He shrugged. "You'd better come in then."
Her friends didn't blade and they never knew Saphire had one. So they didn't really pay attention to Kai. He seemed to like that and just sat in a corner drinking a beer.
A few hours later the music was turned down and mellow tunes were being played. Saphire and some of her friends went outside to sit on the roof. The door was left open so the music could still be heard. Kai came out to see they were smoking, but it didn't smell anything like tobacco. Some of them were acting weird and Saphire was looking more relaxed than before. He shook his head when he realized they were smoking weed.
"What's his problem?" Saphire looked over to Kai who looked a bit angry. "Don't mind him. He's too high strung for his own good." They laughed and some were giggling uncontrollably. The men had left Kai's room but he didn't want to go back just yet.
Saphire's friends started to leave and she was going to go to bed. She saw Kai still on the roof looking over to his room. She saw things had been thrown out the window torn or in pieces. "Hey Saphire, can I crash here tonight?" She looked over to her friend and back to Kai. "Nah mate, I think he needs it more." Her friend looked over to Kai. "Good point." Then they left and Kai was still standing there.
She gave him an hour before she was too tired to stay up and came over to him. "Look, as a neighborly gesture or whatever it is I'm doing. You can sleep on the sofa in my place." He looked at her and nodded. Saphire cleared away most of the rubbish and tidied up the sofa.
It was one of those you could lay flat. She chucked one of the her blankets and pillows on it from her chest of draws. "Thank you." Saphire shrugged and got in to her bed. She was tripping and tired from today so she fell asleep without any trouble.