Ugh, I'm feeling super lazy yet I'm reposting... what a drag...

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Bold Italics-Rei dreaming

Rei could still taste the vile, horrid light pink medicine Tala had given him. He sat lazily on the couch in his room and listened to the rain pouring outside. Spencer had built him a fire in the fireplace and Ian kept asking if Rei was interested in playing cards, but the Chinese declined almost instantly. After telling them both politely to go downstairs and not to worry over him -it was only a cold- he fell into a deep sleep.

Now he noticed, waking up, there was no clock in the guest room and he had no clue what time it was or how long he had slept. But hunger led him downstairs, where he made himself at home by eating almost everything he could find.

"It's not like they can't afford more food," He said to himself before going into a coughing fit. He didn't realize how sore his throat was until then and he grimaced, clutching at his neck as if to stop the pain. He looked around the empty kitchen, his eyelids half open.

The clock read 3:30

AM or PM? He wondered.

Pulling back the thick maroon curtains in the living room, he saw only black with the exception of a street lamp by the driveway. Definitely AM. He figured everyone was asleep in bed, so he decided to do the same. As he headed down the hall, he stopped by the door he knew was his and looked down the long hallway, wondering which room was Kai's.

He forced himself to resign in his room before he did something he would regret. The large four poster, beautiful, wooden canopy bed greeted him from the back of the large room. He sighed and laid back on the couch. As uncomfortable the hideous tan couch was, he couldn't lay in the bed. It felt to him like an omen that he couldn't push away. For it was the exact same bed he always imagined he would be with Kai in. The bed was evil yet it was the most beautiful and comforting thing he could ever want. But he fell alseep once again on the flat, tan couch before he was tempted give in and sleep in the bed.

Rei woke to see Kai looking down at him, a thoughtful expression on his face. Rei sat up slowly, uncomfortably and gave the Russian a confused look. "W-what are you d-doing, Kai?"

"Just looking at you." He stated simply, not taking his eyes from Rei's.

"Well...s-stop it. Now." Rei didn't like the fact that he loved that Kai was staring at him.

"Rei," Kai held a hand out and brushed his fingertips along Rei's jaw from his cheek to his chin. "I know you came here for me, Rei. And I'm glad. I missed you so much."

The Neko-jin shook his head. "No, Kai. I mean it. Not for you."

"Rei, I..I love you." He searched Rei's face for any sign of agreement. "I thought you felt the same."

Rei didn't say anything, taken by surprise the seriousness in Kai's voice.

Rei gasped awake, opening his eyes to see someone above him gazing at him. He bolted up, screaming, "I said no, Kai, damn it!!" And he tripped over the coffee table, landing on his ass. He looked up to the emotionless face of Kai who looked down at him without any awareness of the sudden outburst.

"Tala told me to come check on you. To see if you were awake." Kai stood there looking exactly like he didn't want to be there. "Are you feeling any better?"

"Mmmm... not really." Rei held his pounding head in his hands, embarrassed about the way he woke up. He really wanted to ask him if the last question was from him or Tala, but he wasn't sure if that was a great idea at the moment.Kai walked slowly out the door and down the hall and Rei let out a huff of breath in relief.

The kitchen was a lively place: Bryan and Tala were somehow cooking two different things at the same time, without giving the other notice or running into the other. They worked fluidly and perfect together, though Rei never imagined either of them to be in the kitchen cooking. It just didn't seem like them.

Ian and Spencer were nowhere to be seen. Rei sat at the table and looked around. Kai wasn't in the kitchen, probably somewhere being someone Rei would never understand.

"Oh, you're awake. Great!" Tala's face lit up and Rei noticed a glare coming his way from Bryan.

OH JOY. It's going to be one of those days.

Okay, I fixed the cock problem. XD still feeling lazy...