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Okay, on with the next chapter.
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Tyson, Max and Ray stayed up late into the night watching recorded moments in Kai's life. The pain he went through at such a young age upset them all greatly. Even Ray had almost been in tears at one point when Kai had been brutally beaten and left in the cold abbey hallway, for someone to find. Luckily Tala and Bryan had been looking for him and came across his bruised and blooded young body.
They hadn't realised how late it had become until they heard one of the clocks upstairs chime three o'clock.
"We should go and get some sleep guys," said Ray standing from the box he had acquired as a seat.
Max and Tyson nodded. They all knew they wouldn't be able to get much sleep but they had to go and try. Kai would start asking questions if the three of them were tired in the morning. Also they didn't know what time Kai woke up, as he was always the first one up, they didn't want to get caught down there.
The three of them walked back up the basement stairs.
"What're we going to do about the handle?" Asked Tyson as he picked it up from the floor.
"Can you not put it back on?" Asked Max.
Tyson attempted to put the handle back, but had no luck. In the end Ray had managed to balance the handle off it's hook in the door. As long as no one touched it, it wouldn't fall off.
They made their way through the halls in silence until they reached their own rooms.
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The sun shone through the kitchen window. Kai sat on a chair at the kitchen unit, reading the newspaper when the rest of his team walked in. Kenny walked straight in and got a bowl from the cupboard to pour some cereal into. Tyson, Max and Ray were a little more hesitant.
"What's the matter with you three?" Asked Kai as he looked up from his newspaper.
"Nothing," said Ray as he copied Kenny's actions.
Max and Tyson just smiled and went to sit at the unit. Kai raised an eyebrow at Tyson.
"You're quiet this morning, you haven't complained about how you're starving yet."
Tyson half smiled and went to get a bowl, Max followed him. Kai shook his head, then noticed the bags under the boy's eyes.
The team sat in silence for a while eating their cereal. Kai wasn't complaining about the peace in the room, he just found it a bit strange
'They must be up to something,' he thought.
He closed the newspaper and placed it on the granite surface of the unit.
"Okay," he said. "What's going on?"
"What do you mean?" Asked Tyson.
"For one, why haven't you insulted me yet - or complained about something. Two, why are you all so quiet and three, what's with the bags under your eyes. You better not of stayed up to late last night, you might be on a break but I'll still be training you every day."
He wasn't really going to train them this weekend, but he wanted to see if he would get the usual reaction from Tyson.
"That's okay, we're not to tired to train," said Tyson, emptying his bowl of uneaten cereal in the bin.
'Okay, now I know something's going on. Tyson didn't complain about training… and did he just throw food away?!'
"Excuse me," said Tyson as he left the room.
Kai narrowed his eyes at the other three boys in the room. "What's going on?" He asked slowly.
"Nothing," laughed Max as he waved his hands in front of himself.
"Yeah," said Ray. "We just didn't get much sleep last night because we're not used to sleeping in such big beds."
"Hn." Kai picked his newspaper back up. He didn't believe them, but he knew he wasn't going to get it out of them.
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Max, Ray and Tyson sat in Tyson's room talking. They felt uncomfortable sitting around Kai and had to get away.
Max sat on the bed with his knee's up to his chest and leaning his back on the wall. Ray at on the windowsill and Tyson hung upside down off his bed.
"This is just to weird," said Tyson.
"He should of told us what had happened to him," said Ray, looking out the window.
"Would you of told anyone if that had happened to you Ray?" Asked Tyson.
"No I guess not."
Ray looked down at the pond in the garden, then he saw Kai walk out of the mansion.
"Hey guys, look."
Max and Tyson got up and walked over to the window. Kai had started to walk alongside the pond, then sat down next to it, looking down into the water.
"What's he doing?" Asked Max, pressing his hands against the window. "He's going to catch a cold if he goes in that water."
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Kai sat beside the pond, he sighed to himself and ran a hand across the surface of the shimmering water. He absentmindedly hummed a song to himself, a lullaby. One someone had sung to him once before, but he couldn't remember who or when. All he knew was that he would hum it every time he felt down.
"Come on Kai, kick your legs. That's it."
'That was a year before I was sent to that place,' thought Kai as he took his shoes and socks off. He just wanted to dip his feet in the pond, he wanted to feel how he felt that day.
The water floated around his feet, ripples washed away from him. He looked down at his reflection, the scars weren't visible, but they were there.
"That's my big boy!"
He smiled and looked out over the pond, he remembered how proud his father was when he was first able to swim. He hadn't swam in the pond since, after that day it had started to get too cold to swimming outside.
Without thinking he stood up and took his trousers off, then pulled his shirt up over his head.
He looked down at the water for a second, before diving in. He surfaced and shook the water from his eyes before swimming to the centre of the pond.
"Come on Kai, kick your legs. That's it."
His fathers words echoed through his mind as he began to slowly swim lengths of the pond. He reached the end and stopped for a second.
"Bet you couldn't do it again,"
"Bet I could," he whispered to himself.
He then kicked off and started to swim the length of the pond again. Images of his Mum and Dad flashed through his mind, he started swimming faster. He swam faster and faster, from one end of the pond to the other. He Didn't even notice how out of breath he was becoming. He just swam as fast as he could to each end, almost as if he expected his Father to be there, ready to catch and praise him like he was before. He wanted his Dad to be proud of him - he wanted to show what he was made of.
After a few more lengths Kai was completely out of breath He went to push off for one more, but realised he was to exhausted to make it to the other end again. He leant his back against the muddy wall in the water and tried to steady his breath.
He smiled to himself and shut his eyes. "I. Did. It. Daddy," he whispered to himself through gulps of air. "I.Did.It."
The voice of his father still rang through his mind. "You did, that's my big boy."
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"He's just training Max," said Tyson. "I guess even when he's not training us, he's still training himself."
They left the window as Kai swam lengths below them.
"So what are we gonna do tonight? Did you want to go back down to the basement?" Asked Tyson.
"I don't really want to see anymore," said Ray.
Max nodded. "I think we've seen enough."
Tyson nodded as well. "Okay, so we don't go back down there, agreed?"
"Agreed," said Ray and Max as one.
"Where's Kenny?" Asked Tyson.
"Dunno," shrugged Max.
"I think he said something about fixing up our blades," said Ray.
"Oh, Okay."
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Okay, I know. Not a very good chapter. It's not as long as the others but I'm gonna write more in the next one.
Poor Kai, I feel his pain I was once made to swim a lap of our school pool 0.o XD lol.
Nyway, I have a great idea for the next chapter. So the more you people review, the quicker you get it. The story has been viewed almost 300 times but only 11 people have reviewed. You can do better than that lol.
I love reading my reviews, I check every morning to see if I have anymore. When I do I'm like woo XD Reviews are better than sex… well… I probably wouldn't go that far, but they're a close second :D lol
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