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Sorry I haven't updated in a while, just been dealing with a hell of lot of personal stuff.
If there is anything you would like to see in the story let me know, please let me know if there are any ideas you might have for my story, I'd really love to hear them =) (and yes Ben and Tory will have a moment, or too, later on in the story = O ) also this is now at the start of the holidays.
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... mad world
Enlarging your world
Mad world
Unbelievable. That was the only word for it. He knew that he had seen them flare, had seen a demonstration of Ben's power but it was still unbelievable.
Tory touched his hand gently. "Kit are you ok?" she asked, worried about her father.
He just shook his head and looked at her in shock. "This is a lot to take in Tory."
She smiled sadly and looked at Hi, Shelton and Ben. "Trust us you don't need to tell us that. They boys had a hard time with me telling someone."
Kit looked sharply at the boys then. "Don't you trust me boys?"
"It's not that. It's the fact we don't know how people will react and we refuse to be lab rats for anyone. Karsten and the gamemaker already tried that," Hi spoke up, looking at Kit, pulling his ear nervously.
"We need to be sure that we were safe," Ben added.
Kit looked at the four of them. He was beginning to understand better just how strong the bond between the four of them really was. He had always played it down to leaving in such close proximity to each other and he knew that's what the other parents did to but now there was so much more to it.
"What can I do to help?" he asked eventually, noticing how all of them, but Ben, had started to fiddle around, Shelton and Hi more than Tory who was just twisting her hands.
"We need help getting into a usb we found of Karsten's. We were hoping you could help us with this," Tory said, smiling a small smile at her father.
Kit nodded. "Of course. I have some old files of his that you might want to have a look through. I've never had a chance to do that myself yet."
"Thanks Kit and would we be able to access lab 6? We want to see if we can found anything else of his there."
Kit nodded again.
Tory kissed his check. "Thanks again Kit."
Kit shook his head at the four retreating backs. This was such a mad world.
"So when do we get a crack at Karsten's files?" Hi asked rubbing his hands together, eager to get started.
"Kit will tell us when he's got them ready for us but I think we need to have a good search of that lab first and we should go tomorrow. It's Saturday so no one is going to be there, except Kit and Shelton's parents anyway."
The boys nodded in agreement and Tory took off, having to go to some debutant thing with Whitney.
"So what's the deal with Lavender?" Hi asked Ben, the moment he thought Tory was out of hearing range. "We thought you had a thing for Tor."
"She won't leave me alone," Ben growled. "No matter how much I try to shake her she's stuck to me like glue. You know I still have thing for Tor."
"Why don't you just talk to Tor?" Shelton suggested, earning a glare from Ben.
"Last time I did she didn't talk to me for three months. I'm not going through that again. The first time was bad enough."
"Ok why don't you tell Lavender you have a girlfriend?" Hi proposed, now shifting Ben's glare onto him.
"I tried that the day we meet up for coffee and you saw how much she the deterred her."
"I seriously thought Tor was gonna flare right then and there. She wasn't happy about that."
Ben shrugged at that, his face emotionless. "Properly because mad at me for not being able to shake her. You know how she gets when her plans don't go right."
Shelton and Hi shared at look, in disbelief about their friend's obliviousness to the situation between him and Tory.
"Maybe that's not the whole reason Ben," Hi said slowly, unsure if Ben was going to hit him.
Ben snorted. "I ruined whatever chance I had with Tor three and a half months ago."
Hi and Shelton shook their heads in defeat knowing that they wouldn't be able to get through to Ben when he was being stubborn like this, the only one who could was Tory and even then it as a 50/50 chance of success.
Unknown to the boys someone had overheard their entire conversation. Lost in thought she made her way home, her red hair blowing behind her in the wind.
