By the time that Kai's date with Mary came around, Kai was pleasantly surprised that Popuri wasn't bothering him. It may have had something to do with either Rick or her own choice. Either way, he wasn't complaining about it. He looked at his watch. In a few minutes, his date was going to arrive. They were having dinner at the hotel since his restaurant was being worked on. Hopefully Rick wouldn't show up and ruin everything. He doubted Popuri would show up to the hotel. In all the years he stayed in Mineral Town, the hotel was the one place Popuri never came. Rick would occasionally be there with Karen or by himself, but never Popuri.
He went downstairs after getting dressed and stopped by Maria's house. Anna, her mother, informed him that Maria was still in the library. Kai went inside and found Mary at her bookshelf. "Hey, Mary."
"Kai!" Mary turned around. "You scared me!"
"Sorry."
"It's alright. You didn't mean to. It's almost time for our date, right?" Kai nodded. "I thought so. I'll get ready now!"
Kai went outside to wait for Maria. When she came out, she had taken off her glasses, she had on red lipstick, mascara, black eye shadow, she was wearing a short white dress that went down to her knees, her hair was done into a bun, and she was wearing black high heels. Well this was surprising. Mary had gotten all dressed up for their dinner date and she looked like a completely different person.
"Wow, you look amazing." said Kai. "And a little different."
"Yeah, my mother wanted me to dress up like this." she blushed. "Thanks. I don't normally dress like this though."
"I think you'd look amazing anyways." said Kai making her blush even harder. "Come on."
The two headed off towards the inn together hand in hand. On their way there, he saw Rick heading the same way. He hoped that he would keep going and head somewhere else. Sadly Rick headed inside. Kai started to ask his date if they could go elsewhere, but he shook his head. No he wasn't going anywhere just because of Rick. As long as that four eyed idiot didn't say anything to him, he'd ignore him.
Once inside, Mary and Kai were given their menus by Ann. "Good evening. Who's your date here Kai? A pretty girl you picked up from a different town?"
"Hey, Ann." blushed Mary.
"What? Is that you Mary?" Ann looked shocked. "You look so different than before! I'm not trying to be rude or anything. It's just wow! You look like a movie star! I wish I could look like you."
"T-thank you." she blushed even harder than before. "My mom helped me out."
"Well it's a good look for you. Oh right, here are your menus!" she handed them their menus.
The date went by okay without Rick coming in and saying anything. Rick kept to himself, however Kai attributed this to Katen being with him and Popuri not being there. Speaking of the devil, Popuri came in. He ignored the woman and continued talking with the woman in front of her. He was having a good time and the walking cotton candy had better not bother them. Popuri had walked over to her older brother and began chatting with him and Karen. Kai was curious to know what they were talking about, but they were too far away from the three of them.
"I-I'm really having a good time with you." said Mary smiling shyly. "Its been a while since I've been asked out. I haven't been asked out since before I moved here."
"For real? That's surprising." said Kai and it really was surprising.
Mary was a pretty young lady and she was really nice too. Then again, it was pretty rare that he had seen anybody come to the inn for a date or hear about someone going out on one. Maybe it was just him. Kai leaned in for a kiss. Before the two of them could kiss, he was yanked away from his date and hit the floor. He rubbed his head and then noticed that Popuri had grabbed the younger woman by the hair and was beating the shit out of her! Mary tried fighting back by using her soup to splash it in her face. Popuri backed up, wiping her face. She recovered fast and grabbed the girl's hair that had come loose while Mary was trying to running away and yanked her back. She broke the wine bottle to try and cut up Mary. Kai scrambled up and grabbed the chair. He swung the chair at Popuri, slamming the chair into the back of her skull.
Popuri fell down onto the floor and at least she wasn't the only one on the floor. While he was getting over the headache and shock of being knocked onto the floor, apparently Karen had been trying to help out and ended up on the floor. She had a bloody nose, a red mark on her cheek and was rubbing it. He helped her up after helping up Mary. "Are you two okay? You're not hurt too badly are you?"
"One thing's for sure, Popuri packs one hell of a punch and she slapped the taste out of me!" said Karen touching her nose. "Damn it, I think I'm going to need surgery on my nose! I think the crazy bitch broke it."
"Where's Rick?"
"He left before Popuri went over to you two." said Karen as she used a napkin to clean her nose.
"How are you, Mary?" asked Kai turning to the raven.
"I-I'm fine." Mary's makeup was smeared and her dress was ripped up and barely clothing her. Even the area around her chest was barely covered up and was barely holding up. She had to use her hands to hold up her dress so her chest wouldn't show. She had bruises there every here and there and a lot of scratches on her.
"Come on, I'll..."
"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Popuri had jumped up and grabbed Mary.
"Aaaah!" she screamed as Popuri grabbed her. "Don't kill me, please!"
"Put her down!" said Doug who had entered the scene with Harris.
"Calm down Popuri we can..." Harris recieved a punch in the face when he tried coming close to her.
"POPURI!" It was Lillia. She had shown up on the scene with Rick. "Come here right now!"
"But..." Lillia just grabbed the young woman by the ear.
"We need to have a long talk young lady!" said Lillia dragging her daughter behind her.
"See what you've done now!" snapped the older brother of the pink haired menace.
"ME?! ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?" asked the resturant owner. "What the hell did I do?"
"I don't know what the hell you did to make my sister act like that, but whatever it is quit it!" yelled Rick. "If you're drugging her or something or you're doing something illegal to her..."
"RICK GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE I KICK YOUR ASS!" Kai shoved her out of the way. "Come on, Mary. Let's get you home."
Kai had walked the woman home with Harris coming with him. Mary had quickly went upstairs while her parents heard about what had happened at the inn. Neither parent blamed Kai, but they couldn't believe that sweet Popuri had done what she did. Just as Kai turned to leave, Anna asked for a quick chat with Kai.
"You know if she acted like this because she likes you then...then...then you'd probably be better off not dating my daughter." said Anna.
"But...!"
"I'm not trying to offend you or say that I don't like you or anything. I mean I do like you and everything, but if Popuri's going to attack every girl she sees near you that comes off as a threat to her..."
"...I-I understand, but isn't she going to be locked up?"
"I doubt it." She shook her head. "We don't have a jail around here. You know unless the mayor's house is one. Even then she can break out."
"I guess...good night." Kai went back to the inn. Everyone there was talking about the events of the night. Kai was embarassed and furious. Damn Popuri. She ruined his date and the bitch probably ruined his chance of getting a date with another woman ever again. Once upstairs he saw Gray in the room. "Hey Gray."
"Hey. I heard about what happened." said the blonde man. "Is she okay?"
"Somewhat. Nobody could stop her. Karen tried to stop her, but she either broke it or came close to breaking it." explained Kai as he starting taked off his shoes. "She knocked me over and punched Harris in the face."
"You mean she punched a cop?"
"Yeah, although to be honest he's kind of a shitty cop." admitted Kai as he laid in bed. "She only stopped when her mom took her away."
"What are they gonna do to her?"
"Probably nothing and even worse I can't see Mary at all! Her mom thinks Popuri's gonna attack her again."
"She probably is and most likely still is." said Gray as he got into bed too. "That's pretty shitty crappy."
"Yep. What's almost just as bad is that Rick thought the whole thing was my fault."
"Don't mind him, he's just jealous of you." said Gray. "You'll find someone."
"Maybe." he sighed. "Goodnight Gray."
"Night Kai."
