Cookie: Woot! People reviewed!!! –prances around like a maniac- Uhmm… anyhow, here's the next chapter, exams are finally over so I may or may not update more.
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Kai got off the bed and walked towards her, he pulled up a chair, she could feel his warmth through the silky material of the dress and she could smell his cologne, today it was Hugo Boss… her thoughts drifted away from algebra and to the last time she had kissed a guy… SNAP OUT OF IT CORINNE! YOU DISLIKE HIM REMEMBER?!
"You're invading my bubble," said Corinne.
"Excuse me?" asked Kai, uncertain as to what she was talking about.
"My bubble… you know, personal space. You're too close." She explained hastily, feeling slightly childish.
"Oh," Kai pushed his seat a few centimeters away, slightly confused as girls usually wanted to get closer to him.
A few minutes later…
"That's why X equals 25.87, do you get it now?" said Kai after explaining a long and incredibly pointless question about library carpets to Corinne.
"Uh huh…" she replied in a daze, after the first two words her mind had sort of zoned out, out of its own accord of course.
"You have no idea what I'm talking about do you?" Kai accused.
The girl smiled at him sheepishly and packed away her algebra work instead deciding to focus on English essays.
"I can do English, unless you just want to sit there invading the bubble," grinned the Chinese girl.
Kai just got up and left, returning to the bed and his book. Apparently this guy was okay with having a girl he barely knew dressed in a cocktail dress and heels doing homework in his room while he read, in complete silence. Actually, it was rather awkward for Cori, it was so quiet she was scared of breathing too loudly and ended up trying to emit the sound waves of a mouse instead of doing a good job on her homework.
"I'm done," whispered Corinne, testing to see if he could hear her even when she tried to make as tiny a sound as possible.
No reply.
"Can you hear me Kai?" she continued whispering in the same tone.
"Yeah, you're acting like a child," replied the slate haired boy without looking up from his book, "we'll go to dinner then, get up."
Suddenly thinking that it would be best to do as told without questioning, the brunette hopped out of her chair and picked up her bag trying with all her might to not crease the dress. Strong hands took it from her, she looked at Kai in amusement…
"No idea you understood the concept of chivalry," remarked Corinne.
"That's a Versace dress," replied Kai.
"And an Armani suit," countered the girl, she had saw the label on the blazer beforehand and was really quite amazed at him for wearing such an expensive suit for a dinner date, which she later found out wasn't as casual as originally expected.
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"Kai, what are we doing here?" Corinne glared at the Russian boy for taking her to the Town hall for a dinner, a dinner in the town hall, yeah… that's something most people do. Goddammit, I feel so out of place here, what is this anyway? It feels like someone's reception.
Before Kai could answer a certain raven-haired Chinese boy came up to the pair and grinned from ear to ear, a row of perfectly straight teeth were only complimented by the slightly fanged canines.
"Hey Kai, how's it going?" said Rei, he extended a hand to Corinne, "I don't think we were properly introduced before, I'm Rei Kon."
"Corinne Ling," she smiled politely giving his hand a firm shake, not noticing the look of mischief in his eyes.
The boy wrapped an arm around Corinne, "I'm going to take your date for a dance, sorry Kai, you snooze you loose!"
With that he steered her away onto the dance floor where a soft melody was being hummed out by a string quartet.
"I never agreed to no dancing!" hissed Corinne trying to keep in beat with the waltz and doing a surprisingly good job considering the last time she danced waltz was when she was 8 and that was standing on her dad's feet to do so.
"Yeah, but I wanted to steal you away from Kai and see how he would react," replied Rei, "besides, we're having fun aren't we?"
"Uh huh, the time of my life," replied the brunette sarcastically, "dude, these heels are killing me… I don't usually wear heels, you don't need them for driving!"
Rei sighed, "I don't see what Kai likes in you at all, apart from the obvious fact that you're a girl physically there's nothing that really separates you from me. Well, except for maybe the pink dress."
"Are you calling me a boy?" glared Corinne, her eye twitched.
"No, not at all," laughed Rei innocently.
"The two of you are so impossibly annoying," she continued to glare at him, in the corner of her eye she noticed that Kai was looking at the pair while they danced.
"So you finally noticed he cares that I've stolen his girl," commented the boy, his rhythm was perfect as he twirled her around in his Dior suit.
"Okay, for one I am not his girl, and two, he's just staring because I'm making an idiot of myself on the dancefloor hobbling around like an old lady," shot the girl, obviously hinting that she wanted to sit down. Rei took the hint and released her with a kiss on the cheek which she returned with a thanks and darted back off to her seat.
Kai looked at her for a moment before returning back to his champagne.
"Are you legally allowed to drink?" questioned Corinne suspiciously.
"No," replied Kai, a glare of light teased with him for a moment while he sought out the source which turned out to be a girl two tables across, her diamante earrings catching the light.
She caught Kai's glance and smiled at him, un-naturally red locks of hair framed a pale but very well set face, she wore an emerald green dress that brought out her features even more.
The girl got up and walked towards their table, obviously ignoring the fact Kai was with a date.
"Hi, I'm Portia," she introduced, smiling through cherry lips, "I was wondering if you'd like to dance?"
Kai stood gracefully without glancing at Corinne leading the red-haired girl into a four beat dance.
Corinne sat sipping her mock-tail and watched her date dance with someone who was about fifteen centimeters taller than her and probably a lot thinner, she felt a pang of possessiveness but shrugged it off as she reasoned that in fact she herself had danced with another person. Besides which, she didn't even like Kai.
The song finished on a vibrato (I have no idea what means what in music so forgive me if that's completely wrong), the Russian boy kissed her on the hand before returning her to her seat and then coming black to claim his own.
The Chinese girl who was supposed to be his date smiled at him politely, and tried to make some light conversation, "you dance well."
"Confidence fools everyone," replied Kai, it surprised her that he being modest about this.
"Haha… yeah, wish I could fool people like that," muttered Corinne to herself, wincing at how badly (she thought) she had messed up the waltz with Rei.
They just sat without talking, listening to the music and Cori hoping like hell that Kai would decide he'd gotten sick of her and took her home.
"I need air," she excused her self and headed towards the bathrooms.
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The Chinese girl looked at her reflection in the mirror, apart from her usual coat of lipgloss there was no makeup adorning her face and suddenly she felt incredibly naked remember the elegant ensemble Portia had. Oh well… at least I'm not here to impress anyone, and hopefully I can leave soon.
She splashed some water on her face and dried herself off with a paper towel, soft giggling caught her attention. The brunette turned on her heels (literally) to come face to face with Portia and she was right about being 15cm shorter than the beauty, even with heels on.
"Oh, you're Kai's date…" she commented distastefully, "I suppose he was too nice to turn you down."
"I think that's the case for you," replied Corinne calmly, she scrunched up the paper towel and shot it into the bin before heading out of the bathrooms. I just cannot, will not stand people who think they are better than me.
Corinne reached their table, Rei had taken over her seat and smiled patting the seat beside him.
"No thank you, can we please leave? The atmosphere here is quite, suffocating," said the girl wanting to get as far away from the made-up prima donnas that strutted around eyeing up guys, there were a few who looked like honestly nice people but she wasn't ready to take the risk of finding out.
"I'll take her home if you want," offered Rei, he received a glare from Kai for a split second before adding that he was just kidding and that he had to take care of Mariah anyway.
Kai grabbed his blazer and they left through one of the sets of the double glass doors, he absentmindedly coated her with the blazer as it was chilly outside and she was wearing a spaghetti strapped concoction.
"Thanks," smiled Corinne, once again reminded of the soft sweet scent of men's perfume.
They hopped into the blue convertible, thinking she was being taken home Corinne was very much mistaken when they headed towards one of her favourite places…
