Clay drug Omi into a separate room, one where the two of them could get some privacy away from the other monks. His hair looked like he had just come out of an explosion and his eyes were distant, Clay seemed like he had been having a rather hard time sleeping since the new guy came. Omi didn't bother commenting though he just stared at the door making sure Kimiko didn't come in.
"I'm worried about her," Clay said shoving his hands in his pockets.
Omi just nodded, they all were, and all had been, when she finally seemed back to normal he had to come and ruin her mood.
"I am worried as well," Omi said with a sigh.
"Well what should we do!?" Clay asked pursing his lips.
Omi shrugged, "I just don't know anymore," he said hanging his head.
Clay kneeled down to his height and rested a hand on his shoulder, "Do you trust this guy?"
Omi blinked and then nodded, "What's not to trust about him?"
Clay stood up back to his original height and shrugged, "Theirs just something fishy about that kid,"
Omi bit his bottom lip, was he the only one that was to blind their was something wrong with this kid.
"Haven't you noticed how alert he is, and he's everywhere on top of that, there's no more privacy in the world!" Clay cried pacing the room at a slow and steady pace.
Omi nodded, "But, it's nice having four instead of three, don't you think?
Clay shook his head, "It was nice having four, but not anymore, unless Raimundo is number four!"
Omi's eyes at that moment got really big, he had always managed to push that to the back of his mind but Clay was making this really hard for him, he didn't know what to say to thatso all he did was shrug his shoulders and glance around the room.
"I'm sorry Omi," Clay said resting a hand on Omi's shoulder, "This guy could be good, and I think it's great that you're trying to be nice to him!"
Omi cracked a smile, "Thanks,"
Clay nodded and stared down at the male, he smiled back but that smile quickly faded, "I'm hungry,"
Omi grabbed his wrist and drug him out of the room to go grab something to eat. Auster was pacing around an apple tree outside trying desperately to grab one that was a perfect crimson color. Clay walked up and grabbed it and handing it to the boy then threw another to Omi and got one for himself.
"Thanks," the smaller blonde boy said wiping the apple on his shirt and taking a bite.
"No problem," Clay said staring at Omi who gave him a quick thumbs up before taking a bite of his own apple.
"So," Auster said trying to make this a little less awkward.
Before either of the other two could answer, a raven haired girl with pure white skin walked up and tapped the blonde boy on the shoulder. He spun around on his right foot and smirked upon seeing who it was. She clenched her fists together and tried to put on a smile as she saw Omi.
"Chance," she kept repeating in her head trying to contain her anger.
"Well hi Kimiko," he said taking another bite of the juicy fruit and then chucking the core off to the side.
"Hi... Auster..." she said through clenched teeth, "I just wanted to," she bite her bottom lip until a tiny drop of blood spilled from it, "To apologize for anything I said earlier," her eyes were stinging now with every word, "I think, we should be friends,"
He smirked at her, "Friends, really?"
"Don't make me go back on what I just said," she snapped holding up an accusing finger.
He put his hands up in defense, "Friends sound great," he smiled, "I'm glad that you want too,"
Clay and Omi glanced at each other and then ran off, not wanting to get involved into the two's conversation.
"Oh yeah, glad," she said scrunching up her nose and avoiding his glossy brown eyes.
"Really I am, I know I've probably ruined a lot for you, and I'm sorry about that, but I really just wanted to be on your good side and friends means I am so," he said shrugging.
She smiled weakly, "You haven't ruined anything, you weren't the one that," her voice turned from loud into a grumble that you'd have to listen carefully to hear, "left, never came back, stole all the self control I had," she kept going but he just tuned it out until everything feel silent except for the light wind brushing the tree branches together.
"You have no idea how much I've actually ruined for you," he said to himself.
She giggled at his expression, it was a demonic outtake on confused which looked funny with his big brown eyes and his thin lips.
"What?" he said turning it back into a blank expression.
"Oh nothing," she said cocking her head to the side.
"What?" he asked again putting both hands on his hips.
"I'm not telling you!" she said starting to walk off but he ran after her.
As she ran away she kept looking back smirking at his challenging yet playful expression. The jogging turned into a high speed chase until he finally caught up to her and tackled her from behind. She fell to the ground on her knees, him gently resting on her back as she peered over her shoulder at his smiling face.
She pushed him off smiling and blushing just a little bit. He pulled her down with him so she was lying over his stomach. She moved into a sitting position squishing him making him fake cough to motion that she was heavy.
"Mean," she said crossing her arms and shooting a glare his way.
He put his hands up in defense and then motioned to her, "You're the one who choose to sit on my stomach!"
She smiled and got up patting down the boy's golden locks and turning away to hide her cherry stained cheeks. He stood up as well brushing himself off in the back and sliding coolly past her. She blinked as she watched him walk back to the temple and fell back into the grass. She nestled herself into it enjoying the cold pieces that were touching her bare legs and stretching out as she watched the clouds swirl around in the light blue sky.
"Raimundo!" a whiny voice snapped as the blonde boy passed the temple and tried to find a deserted area.
"What?" he asked turning around to face Jack.
"What was that?" Jack said throwing his hands in the air.
"I don't know!" Raimundo cried knowing exactly what had just happened.
"Don't get involved with her like that, befriend her, not boyfriend her!" Jack said tapping his foot and crossing his arms.
Rai rolled his eyes, "Jack, I can do whatever I want, it's my task not yours,"
Jacks bottom lip curled and trembled, "You think you're so special, well I Jack Spi-,"
"Er, evil boy genius will not be talked to like this; I'm a superior member of so- blah blah blah!" Raimundo mocked shaking his head in a very annoyed way.
"Exactly," Jack said smoothing out his jacket with his ghost like hands.
"Anyways, what do you need," Raimundo asked.
"I came here to check up on you, and from the looks of it, you'll need to be watched closely…" Jack said tapping his fingers together.
"Oh because I was playfully flirting with her," Raimundo stated, "Do you even know what flirting is Spicer?"
Jack put on his best offended look, "How dare you say something so.. so..," Jack said his eyes wandering around as he thought. When nothing came to him he shot Raimundo one last glare and stormed off into the distance.
Rai latched a hand on his stomach and started laughing silently well walking back to the temple; he always knew how to make Jack angry.
Jack was more then angry, he was furious; he had never been so agitated with everyone that crossed his path nor had he ever dreamt of it. Raimundo with his thick muscles and his perfect chocolate hair and his emerald eyes, Jack couldn't even begin to compare. He hung his head slowly, red hair flopping around in his eyes making them turn red and bloodshot and form a glaze of water around them.
"Stop," a voice called from Jack's couch.
Jack looked up and stared at the yellow eyed figure sitting on his couch, "Chase!" Jack said rolling his eyes and crossing his arms.
Chase grabbed Jack's chin and yanked it up so they were staring each other in the eyes, "Did you do as you were told?"
Jack nodded quickly, the more he cooperated, the sooner Chase would leave him to be alone.
"Good," Chase finally said, a blank stare hanging over his eyes.
"He's good, he's got the plan in play and he's almost down with it," Jack said waving his hand around in a circle.
Chase released his grip from Jack and pushed him back a ways so they were about a foot apart. After mildly stumbling around Jack caught his balance and backed up a little bit more.
"Are you good?" Jack asked, flopping his hand in a way where he could stare at his nails.
Chase nodded; boredom struck him at the weirdest times because right now all he wanted to do was watch Jack, be Jack. But he knew that, that would just be to weird for even for someone weird as Jack himself so he turned to the front door, Jack following quickly behind him. With a simple nod he walked out Jack gazing at him with big eyes and a weak smile.
"Soon enough," he mumbled under his breath.
Underneath the apple tree outside, Clay was gorging himself with apple after apple. He just couldn't contain himself from the juicy red fruit hanging from the sparkling cinnamon colored leaves. He just loved this time of year and if he could would spend every minute of it outside. Another blonde walked up beside him though, and ruined his thought process.
"Hey don't choke there Clay!" the blonde cried with a very stiff smile as well as posture.
Clay smiled at him, juice dripping down his rounded chin and pearly whites shining in the sunlight.
"So what brings you out to this tree," the boy asked leaning up against it and staring throughout the ceiling of it.
Clay ran his fingers through his hair, "I just, I come here when I'm thinking,"
"What you thinking about?" he asked.
Clay dropped the core to the fruit in his hands and fell back against the tree, "If only I could take back time,"
"What for?" the boy asked crouching down next to him.
"You see Auster, everyone hates you cause of that Raimundo kid that was here before," Clay started.
"Don't remind me," he mumbled cupping his chin into his right palm and leaning forward to catch some fresh hair from underneath the leaves.
"But, I like you and I really wanna be on your good side!" the Texan said standing to his feet.
"Why? You don't even know me," the boy stated standing up as well so he could glance into Clay's eyes.
"Well Raimundo and I got in this little fight before I left, and I always have this little pang of guilt, and I just, he was my buddy y'know!" Clay said staring out into the distance watching the rolling hills and whatever else he could see.
"Yeah, I'm sure he's over it though, I bet he knows you didn't mean it," the blonde boy said staring up at the taller blonde only wishing he knew the half of it.
"I'll always have that feeling of guilt until Rai comes back and tells me himself that he's over it, I didn't ever expect he'd leave, I thought he liked it here, but Raimundo was always like that," he said shoving his hands in his pockets and playing old memories in his mind.
"Yeah," Auster said staring up at the clouds, "If only you really knew where he was at,"
"Yeah," Clay said, the strength in his voice failing him towards the end.
Clay didn't know how guilty Raimundo felt; he was putting a nice innocent guy through a series of guilt for his decisions. He never meant to, he had always liked Clay and thinking back on it, that wasn't even the reason he left, he left for adventure, excitement something new, and now he had all that. In a strange way though, he missed everything, everybody, not having the goal of stealing, just having the goal of getting out of her alive at the normal age, and falling in love like most teenagers, he never expected any of this to interfere with all that. Clay had begun walking off and Rai was not about to follow, the way the guy looked with his big eyes and his light skin, he looked so innocent that it just made you wonder how anyone could ever hurt the guy. He was like a gigantic teddy bear, Raimundo missed the days when that's what Clay was used as, a support system, something that he could spill everything too. Shaking his head, the wig tilting just a bit he ran into the bathroom and fixed it all up, his eyes flaming red and all his regrets pushed to the back, he knew he could never live on regrets.
A/N: Well here it is, sorry it took me so long, I had three quarters of it done but had no extra time to finish it until tonight, I'm not to pleased with it's outcome, the only thing I'm pleased it's pretty good sized, longest chapter so far! :) So tell me what you think, and thank you to all that read, and an even bigger thanks to those who reviewed!